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Bruce Raisley

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:33:18 GMT

I was raised in southern Indiana. Attended high school in Charlestown, and Charles Allen Prosser Technical School in New Albany. I had a 4.0 grade point average at Prosser and earned a gold certificate on completion. I entered the military in 1981 where I was sent to Ft. Leonard Wood for basic training then to Lowery AFB in Colorado for A.I.T. The course there was about a year long with 75% drop out rate. To earn honor graduate you had to complete the (PMEL) course in less than 70% of the allotted amount of time or have a 96% grade average. My course time was 68% and grade average was 99%. I learned basic computer programming in high school in the 70s, and furthered my computer abilities on my own during the 80s. After I left the military the Marble Hill Nuclear power plant shut down along with every other nuclear power plant in the country, leaving me with an almost useless career. My training in electronics landed me a job at a TV and radio repair shop based in Louisville Kentucky. I moved up to manager of the parts department where I once discovered an over payment for parts to a Sharp distributor, after my investigation the company was refunded about $6,000.00 in over payment and I got a $600 bonus. I then went into computer science.

Orange Sky

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:26:56 GMT

I have created a new template for the blog software. I call it Orange Sky. It is less menacing than the one you are viewing. After I get about 10 different templates together I will release the software to the public domain. You can see a demo of this template here http://blog.bruceraisley.com

A Google search on your site

Fri, 7 Mar 2008 04:36:22 GMT

Many sites have a search bar on them. Did you know they normaly select another engine to do it for them? The following code will create a search bar on your own site, that will allow using google's search engine. Search this site: Just copy and paste the code above into your web page.

Text over text in HTML

Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:08:24 GMT

If you are viewing the Green Machine template you may notice the title contains a shadow effect. I placed the title over the top of an image and used what is called “absolute” and “relative” positioning in the text placement. To repeat what I have done insert the following code into your HTML page. Some Text Some Text The code above will display Some Text Some Text in the proceeding fashion.

America Lost a President

Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:09:20 GMT
From a user in Michigan the comment was posted. “Mike Huckabee didn’t lose tonight. America lost tonight.” Mr. Huckabee put up a good fight, but the liberals won out. Outside of his radical idea in changing our current tax system Huckabee was the best man for the job. But the moral majority no “Mike Huckabee didn’t lose tonight. America lost tonight.” longer exists in America. I am now part of the “moral minority” I was born in to this world part of a breed that held on to control of the world. It is now looked down on to be a Christian. If you are married to your first spouse and live an honest life you are not wanted in this world. It would be interesting to see what God has in store for the United States in the near future. Perhaps the END!

Returning a users location

Mon, 3 Mar 2008 04:56:58 GMT
Some neet HTML stuff You can add this to give users their Location: , ,

Japan Looks Forward to a Robot Future

Mon, 3 Mar 2008 03:33:46 GMT
TOKYO, Japan - At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. Hooked up to a database of words clustered by association, the robot - dubbed Kansei, or "sensibility" - responds to the word "war" by quivering in what looks like disgust and fear. It hears "love," and its pink lips smile. "To live among people, robots need to handle complex social tasks," said project leader Junichi Takeno of Meiji University. "Robots will need to work with emotions, to understand and eventually feel them. While robots are a long way from matching human emotional complexity, the country is perhaps the closest to a future - once the stuff of science fiction - where humans and intelligent robots routinely live side by side and interact socially. Robots are already taken for granted in Japanese factories, so much so that they are sometimes welcomed on their first day at work with Shinto religious ceremonies. Robots make sushi. Robots plant rice and tend paddies. There are robots serving as receptionists, vacuuming office corridors, spoon-feeding the elderly. They serve tea, greet company guests and chatter away at public technology displays. Now startups are marching out robotic home helpers.They aren't all humanoid. The Paro is a furry robot seal fitted with sensors beneath its fur and whiskers, designed to comfort the lonely, opening and closing its eyes and moving its flippers. For Japan, the robotics revolution is an imperative. With more than a fifth of the population 65 or older, the country is banking on robots to replenish the work force and care for the elderly. In the past several years, the government has funded a plethora of robotics-related efforts, including some $42 million for the first phase of a humanoid robotics project, and $10 million a year between 2006 and 2010 to develop key robot technologies. The government estimates the industry could surge from about $5.2 billion in 2006 to $26 billion in 2010 and nearly $70 billion by 2025. Besides financial and technological power, the robot wave is favored by the Japanese mind-set as well. Robots have long been portrayed as friendly helpers in Japanese popular culture, a far cry from the often rebellious and violent machines that often inhabit Western science fiction. This is, after all, the country that invented Tamagotchi, the hand-held mechanical pets that captivated the children of the world. Japanese are also more accepting of robots because the native Shinto religion often blurs boundaries between the animate and inanimate, experts say. To the Japanese psyche, the idea of a humanoid robot with feelings doesn't feel as creepy - or as threatening - as it might do in other cultures. Still, Japan faces a vast challenge in making the leap - commercially and culturally - from toys, gimmicks and the experimental robots churned out by labs like Takeno's to full-blown human replacements that ordinary people can afford and use safely. "People are still asking whether people really want robots running around their homes, and folding their clothes," said Damian Thong, senior technology analyst at Macquarie Bank in Tokyo. "But then again, Japan's the only country in the world where everyone has an electric toilet," he said. "We could be looking at a robotics revolution." That revolution has been going on quietly for some time. Japan is already an industrial robot powerhouse. Over 370,000 robots worked at factories across Japan in 2005, about 40 percent of the global total and 32 robots for every 1,000 Japanese manufacturing employees, according to a recent report by Macquarie, which had no numbers from subsequent years. And they won't be claiming overtime or drawing pensions when they're retired. "The cost of machinery is going down, while labor costs are rising," said Eimei Onaga, CEO of Innovation Matrix Inc., a company that distributes Japanese robotics technology in the U.S. "Soon, robots could even replace low-cost workers at small firms, greatly boosting productivity." That's just what the Japanese government has been counting on. A 2007 national technology roadmap by the Trade Ministry calls for 1 million industrial robots to be installed throughout the country by 2025. A single robot can replace about 10 employees, the roadmap assumes - meaning Japan's future million-robot army of workers could take the place of 10 million humans. That's about 15 percent of the current work force. "Robots are the cornerstone of Japan's international competitiveness," Shunichi Uchiyama, the Trade Ministry's chief of manufacturing industry policy, said at a recent seminar. "We expect robotics technology to enter even more sectors going forward." Meanwhile, localities looking to boost regional industry clusters have seized on robotics technology as a way to spur advances in other fields. Robotic technology is used to build more complex cars, for instance, and surgical equipment. The logical next step is robots in everyday life. At a hospital in Aizu Wakamatsu, 190 miles north of Tokyo, a child-sized white and blue robot wheels across the floor, guiding patients to and from the outpatients' surgery area. The robot, made by startup Tmsk, sports perky catlike ears, recites simple greetings, and uses sensors to detect and warn people in the way. It helpfully prints out maps of the hospital, and even checks the state of patients' arteries. The Aizu Chuo Hospital spent about some $557,000 installing three of the robots in its waiting rooms to test patients' reactions. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, said spokesman Naoya Narita. "We feel this is a good division of labor. Robots won't ever become doctors, but they can be guides and receptionists," Narita said. Still, the wheeled machines hadn't won over all seniors crowding the hospital waiting room on a weekday morning. "It just told us to get out of the way!" huffed wheelchair-bound Hiroshi Asami, 81. "It's a robot. It's the one who should get out my way." "I prefer dealing with real people," he said. Another roadblock is money. For all its research, Japan has yet to come up with a commercially successful consumer robot. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. failed to sell even one of its pricey toddler-sized Wakamaru robots, launched in 2003 as domestic helpers. Though initially popular, Sony Corp. pulled the plug on its robot dog, Aibo, in 2006, just seven years after its launch. With a price tag of a whopping $2,000, Aibo never managed to break into the mass market. One of the only commercially successful consumer robots so far is made by an American company, iRobot Corp. The Roomba vacuum cleaner robot is self-propelled and can clean rooms without supervision. "We can pretty much make anything, but we have to ask, what are people actually going to buy?" said iRobot CEO Helen Greiner. The company has sold 2.5 million Roombas - which retail for as little as $120 - since the line was launched in 2002. Still, with the correct approach, robots could provide a wealth of consumer goods, Greiner stressed at a recent convention. Sure enough, Japanese makers are catching on, launching low-cost robots like Tomy's $300 i-Sobot, a toy-like hobby robot that comes with 17 motors, can recognize spoken words and can be remote-controlled. Sony is also trying to learn from past mistakes, launching a much cheaper $350 rolling speaker robot last year that built on its robotics technology. "What we need now isn't the ultimate humanoid robot," said Kyoji Takenaka, the head of the industry-wide Robot Business Promotion Council. "Engineers need to remember that the key to developing robots isn't in the lab, but in everyday life." Still, some of the most eye-catching developments in robotics are coming out of Japan's labs. Researchers at Osaka University, for instance, are developing a robot to better understand child development. The "Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body" is designed to mimic the motions of a toddler. It responds to sounds, and sensors in its eyes can see and react to people. It wiggles, changes facial expressions, and makes gurgling sounds. The team leader, Minoru Asada, is working on artificial intelligence software that would allow the child to "learn" as it progresses. "Right now, it only goes, 'Ah, ah.' But as we develop its learning function, we hope it can start saying more complex sentences and moving on its own will," Asada said. "Next-generation robots need to be able to learn and develop themselves." For Hiroshi Ishiguro, also at Osaka University, the key is to make robots that look like human beings. His Geminoid robot looks uncannily like himself - down to the black, wiry hair and slight tan. "In the end, we don't want to interact with machines or computers. We want to interact with technology in a human way so it's natural and valid to try to make robots look like us," he said. "One day, they will live among us," Ishiguro said. "Then you'd have to ask me: 'Are you human? Or a robot?'"

Berkeley moonbats attacking police

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:25:00 GMT
UPDATE: From Blackfive, a video of Debbie Lee standing up for our troops in Berkeley. Ms. Lee is the mother of Mark Allen Lee, the first Navy SEAL killed in Iraq, as well as the mother of a Marine, Christopher. She stood before the Berkeley City Council and admonished them for their despicable handling of this situation. She was passionate, brave, moving, and determined. She spares no venom for the Berkeley City Council, and bravo to her. (With all the bad publicity, and Jim DeMint trying to block their federal funding, I'm shocked that Berkeley isn't running for cover yet!) Here's the video. Bored with attacking and intimidating a USMC recruitment office in Berkeley, hysterical moonbats laid seige to a police office after one of their own was arrested for fighting. Zombie, one of the best photojournalists in the biz, was there and captured the entire incident. As the teenager was walked to the police station, the moonbats (many sporting kaffiyehs, coincidentally, I'm sure) started hyperventilating over the [non-existent] "police brutality". So what did they feel was the best course of action? Why, to start screaming at them about their police brutality. Another argument then apparently broke out, leading to another fight, and another teenage moonbat was arrested, which was just simply too much for the Code Pinkos and World Can't Wait moonbats to bear. These police obviously didn't know that these people are simply innocent victims, and as these moonbats are the moral authority in our country, are above having the follow the law. The police marched the two boys to the police station, and the crowd of moonbats followed, backing the police right up to the doors of the station. A Marine supporter told them to calm down, causing the crowd to only get more upset. Medea Benjamin, that wise leader of the Code Pink crazies, told them to participate in a "sit-down protest". Because, you know, when the policemen and women of our country enforce our laws, surely it's time to protest! How dare they make these pioneers and leaders follow the law?! As the mob grew larger and larger, and more and more unruly, the police were forced to call reinforcements to literally defend the perimeter of the police station. Thankfully (for the moonbats, anyway) the mob saw that the police weren't backing down, and dispersed as the day went on. Here are just a few of Zombie's pictures from the event (visit Zombie's website to view the whole sorry affair): How pathetic are these people? Protesting, rioting, and attacking the two groups who are sworn to protect them, who put their lives on the line to ensure their safety, despite these idiots' animosity towards them and absolute lack of any modicum of gratitude -- the military and the police. How do these people not get it? They are attacking the very people who give them the right to protest, the right to wear kaffiyehs and act like moonbattery-filled, kool-aid drinking fools who slander them left and right -- our military. Our soldiers are the ones who fight and die to ensure the very rights that these asshats so giddily take advantage of, protesting our military and yet somehow never seeing that the ones they are protesting are the ones that ensure that they will forever have the right to protest. It's sickening. And on top of that, they put the Berkeley Police Department in a near-impossible situation; always ready to scream police brutality, constantly trying to provoke them into making any small mistake, so that they can then try to crucify the police as well. Had the Berkeley Police Department been anything besides absolute professionals, I have no doubt that Medea Benjamin would be on CNN right now, screeching about their victimhood, and claiming that the police deliberately targeted them. Yet again, they seem to miss that the people they attacked are people who are sworn to do whatever needed to keep these idiots safe. I simply cannot understand how it is that these people feel they need to go after our military and our police, who need and deserve our support. I will never understand it.

Software Button Maker

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:48:02 GMT
Button Maker: Button Maker is a small program that can help you quickly put together buttons for the web. The down load buttons on this page where created by Button Maker. The user interface is extremely easy to use and can quickly create buttons for your web page in JPEG, GIF or Bitmap format. I have recently made changes to the software fixing a few bugs such as a ring was around the buttons when setting transparent for any color other than white Sample code: Here is a sample Image created by Button Maker You can download the software here

A Life Lost

Mon, 4 Feb 2008 05:22:28 GMT
There are those who think she was just a druggy, a slut, a girl who partied and wasted her life. Why do people always assume the worst of the victim? I try to see both sides of the story but can't help but see only one story. Here it is; Natalee was just your average teenager. Daddies little girl fresh out of high school with her whole life ahead of her. The first time she had a vacation without mom and dad on the beautiful island of Aruba. Natalee stepped off the plane full of energy and excitement. Her intent was to enjoy the beach and have a little fun with friends. Little did she know about the predator that waited for her. She spent time on the beach during the day and chatted with friends in the evening at a local night club. Then came Van Der Sloot. A selfish young man who cared about no one but himself, his intentions where different. Natalee was nothing to him, just a toilet to make a deposit in, his intent was to take what he wanted, what he felt he deserved, and pay nothing for it. He had no intension of winning anything, he had everything he needed in a few small pills. Fool well knowing liquor and drugs don't mix he dropped them into her drink. Feeling woozy Natalee trusted the person she was with. A nice young man taking her back to her room where she can sleep it off without fear of anyone taking advantage of her. That may have been the last good thoughts she had before the horror that waited. He guided her to the beach, she may have resisted but she was almost powerless under the influence of that drug. He laid her down on the beach and began stripping her of her dignity. Inside she cried. Praying that he would stop. Dizzy and half conscious she knew what was happening to her but was powerless to stop it. Joran thrust him self inside her without a thought of respect, no respect for her virtue not even her life. Desperately she struggled but her muscles would not move. Horrified she used up every bit of physical energy and was only able to shake as she lost consciousness and fell into a drug induced comma. Joran had stolen everything she had. He stole her virtue, robbed her of her virginity, and then her life. Everything she had he robbed, then discarded what was left to even rob her family of a decent funeral. Dumping her body in the sea he took those last shallow breaths so small only a doctor could detect. This man (who by his own words) placed a human life below that of a worthless dog. Van Susteren gave him too much respect when she only called him a "Cocky Nasty Kid" I have one word for him. A MURDERER!

Unflip That House

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:27:52 GMT
I guess every one has seen those shows "Flip This House" or "Flip That House" I have wondered how many idiots have fell for the scam. Well about 90% of them. I am going to tell you how to make money off those who have made a big mistake in getting into a business they don't belong. First before you jump in evaluate your self on how well you know the market. If your not a real estate agent, appraiser, carpenter or closing agent stay out of the business you will only lose your A$$ like his guy. When purchasing or selling a home you're going to lose about %5 to %6 of the home in closing cost. So do the math, if you purchase and sell a $200,000 home on the same day you will have to cough up $20,000, That means to break even you will have to purchase a home for %80 of its value and unload it at %100 the same day. That's impossible unless you are a wholesaler and have no vested interest in the home. Purchasing a home at %60 of its value then increasing its value and unloading it in about 30 days is what the TV shows claim to do. This is also impossible because there are too many idiots ready to out bid you on the home. So how do you do it? First you will need some type of training in the business, either as a realtor, closer, appraiser or carpenter. To get that training go back to collage. I am not kidding you will need to learn something about the trade before you ever get into it. Stay away from the "get rich quick" seminars that's just another way to unload your pockets from a conman who has found telling you about something makes more money than doing it. Take a few adult night classes, they are the same thing everyone else is taking but cost about %10 of the day class and does not earn credits. If you are a realtor you save up to %7 on the sale of the home and up to %3 on the purchase. If you learn how to evaluate the actual appraisal value of a home you can save your career by keeping a distance from dead beat property. Now that you have a foot hold into the industry you can apply your abilities toward profiting turning over real estate. Now, put my idea into effect. Many of those individuals who have gotten into the flipping business are in over their heads and ready to unload several mistakes. You may want to create a web site or business to pull in the flippers to acquire information about the homes they have possession of. After contacting the home owner gather as much information about the home you can, including the finance company, a contact and the underwriter for the title. Appraise the home, and compare its value to the neighborhood. A home can not sell for any higher than the average value of a home in its neighborhood. Offer the home owner %60 or less of its value. If the home owner accepts the deal, stop go back to school or have the house inspected. Your intent is not to purchase the home from the owner but the lender. After the owner has turned down your offer contact the lender. It is very likely the home is in foreclosure if the flipper has contacted you in the first place. The lender is more likely to sale the home to you at %60 than the owner. Use the same underwriter and demand the reissue rate for the title. In many states they have to give you that rate by law (bet you did not know that) the reissue rate can save you an additional $800 or more on closing cost. After taking possession of the home immediately have your remodeling team complete the repairs on the home. If you don't have a contractor you are unprepared and in the wrong business. Bring the home to a live in condition; any more is a waste of money and a loss on your end. Price the house to sell, that means less than %95 of the appraised value. Attempt to roll over your appraisal, and title into the sale of the home. If you are a certified realtor you recover most of the realtor fees even if some one else sells it. Remember this, Donald Trump owns his own closing company, the realtors are under his higher, he is the underwriter and he owns the appraisal company. The contractors are also full time employed by him. He makes a profit both coming and going on any real estate deal he does. If your not part of the business your part of the problem.

Sasquatch is on MARS

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:27:52 GMT
That's the news. The infamous BIG FOOT who has been sighted everywhere from Canada to Mount Everest was recently seen in Pennsylvania last summer and now on Mars. In the left side of this photo on the NASA site you can see a small image of what looks like a humanoid, it looks as though he is traveling down hill and in perhaps a hurry to get somewhere. Where is he going? How did he get there? Are there more like him on Mars? So many questions have been placed on the NET about this guy. After careful observation by MIT scientists the questions have all been answered. It is a male Martian, and the only one of its kind. If you look directly right in the photo you can see (another malformed rock) err female Martian at pixel 8430x1850 on the same photograph, the last or first male and female of a species discovered on our red neighbor? He is in a hurry to meet her to copulate and populate the planet with intelligent beings just like our own. LIFE ON MARS! Well almost, moments after this photo was taken the little sassy fellow was squashed by a giant alien craft known as the mars rover. Earth attacks, and it is all over.

Romney Steals Airtime

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:45:00 GMT
Mike Huckabee pressed the issue that he was out spent by the other candidates and did better than expected. Within moments after he finished his speech. The following took place. On January 15th at 9:15pm Senator John McCain started his speech to supporters in South Carolina. Within seconds Mitt Romney stepped up to the podium to give his victory speech. All the networks without delay switched to Mitt Romney. Clearly this was a silent way of rubbing the win into McCain's face and saying "You may have taken New Hampshire but I have taken Michigan and your airtime." Romney may be the come back kid at Mid-January but it is obvious to me his timing was cold, calculated and rude. Romney you may be the winner, but no congratulations from me.

Spoofing the MAC address

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:15:18 GMT
Everyone has a fear of criminal hackers. They are every where and looking to invade your PC. They can park a block away from your home, break into your wireless network and gain access to your PC. What you don't know is they can access your PC twenty four hours a day, even when it is off. What the hacker does is send a unique wake-up call to your wireless network that contains the MAC address of your PC. The MAC(Media Access Control) address is the hardware address located within the Ethernet adapter in your PC. This unique hexadecimal code allows your PC to communicate to other hardware on the network without an IP(Internet Protocol Address) . When your PC first connects to a router's DHCP and queries it for a new IP only the MAC address is used to communicate with that system. When ever you logon to a wireless network your PC transmits your MAC address and the name of your PC on that network. At an airport, in a restaurant, wherever you access the internet, personal information about your machine is transmitted over the air waves. To increase your privacy I recommend you change your computer's name periodically and spoof the MAC address to mask th e hardware address and prevent criminals from turning your PC on remotely. You may change your computer's name by right clicking on My-Computer and selecting properties. You will see the computer name tab on that dialog. I recommend giving your PC a generic name such as Anonymous, DELPC or something generic that can not easily be tracked. Change this value at least once every six months for any laptop you own. Spoofing the MAC address is not as easy but I highly recommend you do this to every PC you own. Once the MAC address has been spoofed the permanent hardware MAC will be hidden from hackers. The spoofed address can not be used to turn your PC on. To spoof your PC's MAC address do the following: Right click on the icon "My Network Places" and select Properties. A dialog will open showing one or more of your network connections. If you are using a laptop you may see two connections labeled "Local Area Connection" and "Wireless Network Connection". These names may very from PC to PC but they are similar in how they work. Right click on the network connection you use most and select "Properties" on that dialog select "Configure" The configuration dialog for that hardware will then be displayed. Select the Advanced tab and click on "Network Address" If the "Not Present" radio button is selected this means your default hardware address has been exposed to any network you have connected to. You can spoof this value by selecting the Value radio button and entering a random number in the edit box. This value must start with two zeros and be twelve digits long. You may use any digit from 0-9 and the letters A-F in this field. After you have made the changes select OK then reboot your PC. You may download a program to do this for you at the following link http://www.bruceraisley.com/MacSpoof.zip .

Hillary wins by 43% 56% of the vote

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:12:30 GMT
I predict that Hillary Clinton will be our next president of the United States. And she will win by 43% 56% of the vote. I show two percentages because I predict the exit polls will show her losing. She will do it just like Kennedy did it. Nixon should have won but the machines where fixed. They are fixed today and will stay fixed er.. [broken] for the general election.