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It'd be nice to see them take on Apple and their bullshit use of the DMCA to shut down people trying to get iTunes to work on Linux.

There's some truth in what you say, but there's also truth that some of the trouble was inflicted on Linux users by those actively breaking FairPlay. Not everyone in LinuxLand sees it as a conspiracy to keep Linux users out. From an older Linux HOW-TO - http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:ls5Os0LmengJ:www.linux.com/feature/114269+itunes+linux+drm&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari

When the iTunes Store was exclusively selling encrypted content, permitting only the officially sanctioned client to interface with the store was imperative -- the client was responsible for encrypting the track with a unique user key after the raw, unencrypted version was downloaded. For unencrypted content, that is no longer necessary. Were Apple to let non-iTunes clients interface to the store it would still collect the revenue, and arguably more of it courtesy of more customers. Apple's bean-counters are certainly wise to that business opportunity, but cannot move on it so long as part of the store's inventory still requires encryption.

In support of what you're getting at (and, what I'm saying):

Projects like JHymn and QTFairUse periodically found a way to decrypt M4P files into vanilla AAC, but rarely was it a convenient solution. Often the decryption could only be done at real-time playback speeds or only on a platform with an official iTunes client. On top of that was the "arms race" factor -- Apple's periodic updates to the iTunes application or the store would break the decryption solution du jour.

But the real issue isn't iTunes - even if that's many people's hot button. iTunes is essentially an xml browser on top of QuickTime, btw.)

The real issue - if it does exist or if it will be uncovered - is that Apple supports Windows OS w/ QT+iTunes, but not Linux. Insofar as Apple (and a great many of its users) see OS X as a flavor of *nix, then Linux is a *nix competitor to OS X. Note the subtle difference - not an OS competitor, but a *nix competitor.

Bottom line is that 1) IANAL, 2) were this to go to court (Apple non-support of Linux) then Apple would likely also show that it doesn't support FreeBSD or HP-UX or a host of other Unices, and 3) I wouldn't be surprised if they got off the hook by presenting an analogy to the jury - like VHS tapes didn't play in a Betamax, because 4) they're already "supporting" their biggest competitor.

Besides - you'll need an advocacy group to bring your plight to the DOJ - sorry, good luck with that.

Perhaps a positive approach will help - you never know - http://www.petitiononline.com/itmslin/petition.html

The Playstation 3 runs on the Cell CPU, which an extremely powerful multiprocessing chip. It's also extremely high yield in manufacturing, because defective chips usually just lose one or more of the parallel DSPs, but otherwise work just great.

O RLY? The real story is that the PS3's Cell processor has 7/8 of its theoretical performance, because the only way they could get yields up into the acceptable range was by disabling one PPE. This was not part of the original plan.

Mobile Cell chips could be simply the lower-grade chips with just one or a few DSPs working, but otherwise superfast (3.2GHz PPC, wicked fast bus, etc).

O RLY? Why this link? Because Cell TDP is 60-80 watts. Put that in a handheld and burn your fingers.

And Linux already runs great on the Cell (as in Linux on Playstation), with the main OS on the PPC and multimedia offloaded to the DSPs.

O RLY? No, Linux runs on the PPC and one of the SPEs, reducing the total number of usable SPEs to six. In your mythical cell-based handheld with less SPEs, there would be even less available.

Finally, the SPEs are not DSPs, they are vector processors.

In other words, sorry man, but your comment is 100% incorrect.

You mean Firefox Download links like this one?

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:q6uTxKUV5qQJ:membercenter.office.microsoft.com/+download+firefox.com+site:microsoft.com&cd=19&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

It was created in response to complaints received by utility program managers about the performance of certain Energy Star lighting products being promoted within their service territories and the lack of a self- policing mechanism within the lighting industry that would ensure the reliability of these products and their compliance with ENERGY STAR specifications.

In other words, anyone can slap an Energy Star cert on a CFL - it's "self-policing". We all know how well that worked with the banks.

The ENERGY STAR labeling program for residential lighting products merely requires data submission and certification by the product manufacturers. Product samples tested are "self-picked" by the manufacturer. No follow-up testing on actual products purchased from retail is required by ENERGY STAR. In addition, no centralized data review or challenge process exists within the lighting industry relative to the performance of residential ENERGY STAR lighting products

In other words, cherry-pick the best bulbs from a cherry-picked batch (the creme de la creme) and slap a sticker on it. The Energy Star lighting program is full of shit.

For the 340 CFL samples (34 models, 10 samples for each model) used for photometric testing, two failed before reaching 100 hours, and two more failed before 1000 hours. The remaining CFL samples were aged to 1000 hours of life, and 1000-hour Lumen Maintenance test was performed at that time. 29% of the 34 CFL models failed to meet the 1000-hour Lumen Maintenance requirement.

In other words, almost 1 in 3 Energy Star CFLs couldn't even keep their rated output make it to 1,000 hours, as required.

After 1000-hour Lumen Maintenance test, the CFL samples were aged to 40% of their rated lives. 13 more lamp samples failed before reaching their 40% rated lives and the Lumen Maintenance at 40% Rated Life was based on the remaining samples of each model. 21% of the 34 CFL models failed to meet the Lumen Maintenance at 40% Rated Life requirement.

In other words, of those that hadn't just croaked by the 40% of expected lifetime, 21% would probably be tossed by the consumer because they weren't bright enough any more.

Ain't self-regulation grand!

Your answers, as detailed from myself as is necessary have been answered. See here:

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379 [slashdot.org]

Learn to read!

I covered SeLinux's MAC vs. ACL & how it is implemented via kernel hooks (well enough per your quoted questions there) + throughout this thread I have shown you in error about HOSTS files, DNS Servers, login scripts useability in migrating security settings alongside Group Policy tools in Windows, & now SeLinux kernel hooking anyone, as regards Windows NT-based OS' having what Linux didn't (not without the kernel hook SeLinux distros)).

(w/ out my 'writing a book' like the url next which has much about kernel hooking & how it works (since SeLinux is shown to use the methods I noted in kernel hooking EXACTLY with trace debug dump proof no less on that page of it), here -> http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:dmPDdpPh_Q0J:research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/wdcui/papers/hookmap-raid08.pdf+%22SeLinux%22+and+%22kernel+hook%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us because I am NOT going to rewrite that much info)

Again - Want more? Talk to the NSA on SeLinux, or, read that url above...

APK

P.S.=> Go away troll, lol... apk

Your answers, as detailed from myself as is necessary have been answered. See here:

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379 [slashdot.org]

Learn to read!

I covered SeLinux's MAC vs. ACL & how it is implemented via kernel hooks (well enough per your quoted questions there) + throughout this thread I have shown you in error about HOSTS files, DNS Servers, login scripts useability in migrating security settings alongside Group Policy tools in Windows, & now SeLinux kernel hooking anyone, as regards Windows NT-based OS' having what Linux didn't (not without the kernel hook SeLinux distros)).

(w/ out my 'writing a book' like the url next which has much about kernel hooking & how it works (since SeLinux is shown to use the methods I noted in kernel hooking EXACTLY with trace debug dump proof no less on that page of it), here -> http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:dmPDdpPh_Q0J:research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/wdcui/papers/hookmap-raid08.pdf+%22SeLinux%22+and+%22kernel+hook%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us because I am NOT going to rewrite that much info)

Again - Want more? Talk to the NSA on SeLinux, or, read that url above...

APK

P.S.=> Go away, little troll, lol... & "maintain your dignity", accept your defeat you brought on yourself here in trying to attack me, gracefully @ least! apk

Your answers, as detailed from myself as is necessary have been answered. See here:

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379 [slashdot.org]

Learn to read!

I covered SeLinux's MAC vs. ACL & how it is implemented via kernel hooks (well enough per your quoted questions there) + throughout this thread I have shown you in error about HOSTS files, DNS Servers, login scripts useability in migrating security settings alongside Group Policy tools in Windows, & now SeLinux kernel hooking anyone, as regards Windows NT-based OS' having what Linux didn't (not without the kernel hook SeLinux distros)).

(w/ out my 'writing a book' like the url next which has much about kernel hooking & how it works (since SeLinux is shown to use the methods I noted in kernel hooking EXACTLY with trace debug dump proof no less on that page of it), here -> http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:dmPDdpPh_Q0J:research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/wdcui/papers/hookmap-raid08.pdf+%22SeLinux%22+and+%22kernel+hook%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us because I am NOT going to rewrite that much info)

Again - Want more? Talk to the NSA on SeLinux, or, read that url above...

APK

P.S.=> Go away, little troll, & anybody is free to read this exchange, end-to-end, & to determine whom got the better of whom thru it... apk

Your answers, as detailed from myself as is necessary have been answered. See here:

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379

(Learn to read!)

I covered SeLinux's MAC vs. ACL & how it is implemented via kernel hooks (well enough per your quoted questions there) + throughout this thread I have shown you in error about HOSTS files, DNS servers, Windows NT-based OS' having what Linux didn't (not without the kernel hook SeLinux distros)).

(w/ out my 'writing a book' like the url next which has much about kernel hooking & how it works (since SeLinux is shown to use the methods I noted in kernel hooking EXACTLY with trace debug dump proof no less on that page of it), here -> http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:dmPDdpPh_Q0J:research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/wdcui/papers/hookmap-raid08.pdf+%22SeLinux%22+and+%22kernel+hook%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us because I am NOT going to rewrite that much info)

Again - Want more? Talk to the NSA on SeLinux, or, read that url above...

APK

P.S.=> Go away, little troll, lol... apk

Q.)

"How do current implementations of SELinux interface with the Linux kernel? Be specific. Cite only from credible, verifiable sources. Descriptions of grsecurity's interface to the Linux kernel will be accepted in lieu of information about SELinux." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @04:08AM (#27804393)

A.) http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:dmPDdpPh_Q0J:research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/wdcui/papers/hookmap-raid08.pdf+%22SeLinux%22+and+%22kernel+hook%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Search the term "SeLinux" there... you'll see the tracing dump I speak of next below:

(There, YOU can see that MS themselves step-trace debugged SeLinux & the Kernel hooking methods I stated are indeed, in effect, in SeLinux)

I'm always specific, & I provide backing links that back my points (HOSTS files, DNS Servers, login scripts useability in migrating security settings alongside Group Policy tools in Windows, & now SeLinux kernel hooking anyone? There are more in this exchange I have caught you in, in errors, by far, but... those'll do, for now!)

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Q.)

"How does your opinion on these two things compare with the high-level design of current implementations computerized authorization and resource control schemes?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @04:08AM (#27804393)

?

A.) NT ACL = SeLinux MAC

(I said that before, please: Take your alheimers/dementia/senility meds...)

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Q.)

"Why do I have a secure and performant Windows system, when all I had to do was apply offical Microsoft patches?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @04:08AM (#27804393)

A.) Not sure - However? Did I ever say it was "out of the question" in that happening for users either?

(ESPECIALLY if you only visit a small number of websites (that are trustworthy, & have decent owners/mods/webmasters policing them for malware) plus, actually do practice points I made in my security guide (such as email in text form only, not downloading every little app there is, or clicking on a "YOU HAVE A VIRUS: CLICK OK TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL 'SuperDuper AntiSpyware/AntiVirus' now", because not once have I stated that good use practices/patterns do NOT matter here, not once... & in my guide I say that in essence on many topics for safety online, today... especially today & for around 6++ yrs. now)

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Q.)

"Why do you spray copypasta across forums rather than host it in a central location that's easy to manage and update?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @04:08AM (#27804393)

A.) Why not, first of all... Secondly, the people that NEED the stuff in my guide, are "amateur forums users" as you put them down in calling them that (especially considering how many errors I have caught you in here in yourself, 2 you admitted to, & about another 10 by now I had corrected you on (to which you tried to 'amend your questions to' later, in trying to 'save face' here with doing that (as well as your asking questions that are silly 1/2 the time, off topic for sure like this one is, & just obviously stalls for time OR to try 'bury this post').

You're tactics don't fool anyone... you have a PATTERN of this, & I saw it in your post history (the downside of being an 'almighty registered user' here is that - I.E.-> You're VERY easily tracked!)

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Q.)

"How do current implementations of NTFS's ACL interface with the Windows NT kernel? Be specific. Cite only from credible, verifiable sources.

Google Cache still has the old data.

http://209.85.173.132/search?hl=en&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A//graffiti.cs.brown.edu/

C&P of page text (in case the cache updates quickly):

Graffiti Networks
A Subversive, Internet-Scale Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Model

Abstract:
The proliferation of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocols is due to their efficient and scalable methods for data dissemination to numerous users. But many of these networks have no provisions to provide users with long term access to filesafter the initial interest has diminished, nor are they able to protect users from malicious clients that wish to implicate them in incriminating activities. We present a new file sharing paradigm that harnesses the potentially unlimited storageof the Internet as a third-party intermediary for peers to indirectly transfer data with each other. We base our decentralized architecture on the premise that users trust file sharing coordinators, but do not trust any other user. Our key contributions in this paper include an overview of the design for a P2P system that implements our new model and a discussion ofthe challenges that such a system will likely encounter.

People:

        * Andrew Pavlo - Brown University
        * Ning Shi - Brown University

Um, 3500 Owls were killed by the CA windmills.

Cats dont kill a lot of Owls.

If you would bother to look at California actuall study instead of this anexcdotal experience; which reeks of a lie, BTW.

"Point being, winds farms have effectively NO impact on birds! Thanks"
Lie.
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:XpWzAF-VYAYJ:www.fws.gov/midwest/Eco_Serv/wind/references/ManvilleBirdMortality.pdf+california+windmill+bird+study+site:.gov&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

"Howell and Noone (1992) estimated U.S. avian mortality at 0.0 to 0.117 birds/turbine/yr.,
while in Europe, Winkelman (1992) estimated mortality at 0.1 to 37 birds/turbine/yr.
Erickson and others (2001) reassessed U.S. turbine impact, based on extrapolations from
12 wind facilities predominately in the West and Midwest, and estimated mortality in the
range of 10,000 to 40,000 (mean = 33,000), with an average of 2.19 avian
fatalities/turbine/yr. and 0.033 raptor fatalities/turbine/yr. As previously mentioned, this
may be a considerable underestimate."

There ahve been many, many very good studies done that show the amount of bird death that occurs.

Extrapolate that out to enough windmills to power the country.

Yes you can minimize impacts with site selection; however there isn't enough non migratory places to put windmills.

first some context. i architect data warehouses for a living. i also live in a world of building fairly specialized frameworks to deal with data warehouses architected as star and snowflake schemas. i tend spend quite a lot of time in pseudo-relational databases that don't fully implement codd's rules.

for fun, i like to spend some time toying with couchdb, using it for loose data warehousing, extending it, and generally enjoying the application development freedom it gives me.

that said, let me respond to some of your points:

Slacker DBs like CouchDB and SimpleDB, have taken off for the simple reason that most developers have absolutely mediocre database knowledge or skills, and rather than learning it's just as easy to just wave it all off as obsolete.

map/reduce solves a specific problem in data warehousing - column based lookups given specific rules, able to be broken down into atomics and performed in massive parallel. this allows for very cheap horizontal scaling over a large dataset.

It's no surprise that the creator of CouchDB, for instance, hadn't a clue about databases when he began his project.

this just shows ignorance. even just a cursory scan of damien's resume says otherwise.

http://209.85.173.132/search?hl=en&q=cache:kingofgng.com/eng/2009/03/16/conficker-worm-asks-for-instructions-and-gets-an-update/&btnG=Search

however google cache works.

The amount of money MS gives the community is far less than 11 million dollars.

[citation needed]

Or, to put it another way, you are making shit up so STFU now.

I did a couple quick google searches. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, Microsoft had about $60 billion in revenue. Based on the Washington state B&O tax rate, I calculate that Microsoft must have paid over $290 million in B&O tax alone. Now, that's paid to the state, not directly to Redmond, but Redmond gets some portion of that, and Redmond gets to collect property tax on microsoft's fucking huge corporate campus, which is prime commercial real estate with lots of improvements (buildings, parking garages, etc).

In August 2007, Redmond's property tax rate was $1.18 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. Currently, Redmond's property tax rate is $1.33 per $1,000. In the 2008 Microsoft annual report, Microsoft said it has over $6 trillion in "property and equipment". If we suppose that only $3 trillion of that is real estate in Redmond, and use the lower $1.18 rate, then Redmond is collecting $3.5 billion in property tax per year. At that rate, $11 million is a little over ONE FUCKING DAY'S WORTH OF TAX.

Then there is the fact that Microsoft employees spend money in Redmond, which means the city collects sales tax and restaurant tax. And the fact that many Microsoft employees live in expensive houses in Redmond, which means more property tax for the city... the city would collect that property tax whether or not the employees lived there, but if Microsoft were not there, the property values would be much lower and the tax revenues much lower as well.

So it looks to me like Washington state and the city of Redmond are getting lots of tax money from Microsoft. And you are making shit up.

http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY08/earn_rel_q4_08.mspx

http://dor.wa.gov/Content/FindTaxesAndRates/BAndOTax/BandOrates.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/ar08/10k_fr_bal.html

http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/contests/measureinfo.aspx?cid=23329&eid=1219

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:O_VYWHm8NLAJ:https://redmond.gov/insidecityhall/finance/budget/0910AdoptedPDFs/MiscellaneousStatistics.pdf+city+of+redmond+property+tax+1.18&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

(Warning: link contains strong language and vivid imagery.)

Oh god, a 500 error! MY EYES! THEY BURN!

Here you go, ya' big baby!

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:X9gxL2vZ5soJ:smari.yaxic.org/blag/2009/03/06/microsoft-skull-fucks-icelands-economy-contracts-syphilis/+http://smari.yaxic.org/blag/2009/03/06/microsoft-skull-fucks-icelands-economy-contracts-syphilis/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=au

Here's a response from 2005 that was NOT cut and pasted:

The original URL was https://forums.symantec.com/syment/board/message?board.id=103&message.id=17080, but they removed it. However, Google cache reveals all:

(Post from was Bob Sanford)

Attached is the final email received from the Backline Support Engineer from Symantec. For all interested in purchasing this product... think twice.

Our problem was scheduled reports fail and no email attachment is generated.

The software performs correctly in demo mode but does not work once we enter the serial number.

I guess buyer beware!

Here is the message:

Chris / Bob,

I left voicemail for each of you explaining the present status of this case?s issues. This email will give further details. The first issue where scheduled report jobs could not be run with SBS licensing will be addressed in an upcoming HotFix. I do not know the exact release date of the HotFix. The Second issue regarding Report Job email notification not attaching a report when configured will not be addressed at this time. This was looked at by engineering and was determined to be in a different area of code from the scheduled job issue and since yours is the only case we have received related to this particular issue, the priority is not sufficient for developing an immediate patch. Since this case was opened through Dell, I have notified our internal Dell representative about the issue and status. From a Tech Support, we have done all we can do. Bob, since this issue is obviously of great importance to you, I would recommend working through Dell to engage engineering or sales to raise the priority / visibility of this issue. If you have any questions, please let me know. The link below is for the TechNote released to cover the issue:

http://support.veritas.com/docs/281743

Regards,

Russ Perry

Backline Support Engineer

Symantec Corporation

www.symantec.com

Office: 407-357-7237

russell_perry@symantec.com

Since it's already /.'ed, here's the Google Cache so you can at least read the text.

This doesn't hold water. If they were really a hardware company, then, like every hardware company in existence, they would put the focus on their hardware. But the reality is that they are pushing their software, not their hardware. Their actions speak louder than their words: they're a software company who is trying to abuse copyright law to force you to do what they want with their product.

Actually, this totally holds water. Other than it being your opinion that they are pushing their software over the hardware, your so called argument has no weight.

You can see a breakdown of their most recent quarter here.

The numbers bear out the assertion that they are a hardware company. Software sales account for ~10% of their total revenue in a quarter.

So, if a software company makes ~90% of their revenue from hardware sales...

You have a fundamental problem with the way they do business. Fine. Don't buy their product. They aren't forcing you to. If the terms of use of their product is so odious to, don't use it. They don't want someone reselling generic OS X boxes. Fine. You can install it on a generic PC yourself. No one is stopping you and they won't litigate against you if you do. They could care less. This is a case of two companies battling it out over business issues not whether or not an individual can put OS X on a generic PC.

And pull your head out and don't call them a software company when the vast majority of their sales and profits come from the manufacture and sales of hardware.

You can see a breakdown of their most recent quarter here.

Almost $7 billion in hardware sales, 2.5b from laptops and 3.5b from iPod sales. Total software sales clocked in at just over $600 million.

I think they're a hardware company. If they're not and are actually a software company, they should really think about taking the hardware side of things seriously since it outpaces their software sales 10 to 1.

Anonymoose Coward strikes again! =^ )

I have a feeling that you'll be seeing another slashdot story about Belkin tomorrow...

Here's some more detective work. The plot thickens!

At first I dismissed the R. Wood account as a sock puppet for Bayard. But digging deeper, I found that R. Wood is a real person, and he's not Mike Bayard. R. Wood's real name is Rudy Magna. He's a National Account Manager for Belkin.

My first suspicion was the fact that the B. Ekim Amazon account had his location correctly defined as California. The R. Wood account location was Denver.

The more compelling evidence is the wish lists that were associated with these accounts. The wish lists for B. Ekim and R. Wood appeared to be actual personal wish lists, and they were distinctly different. Mr. Bayard already wiped his wish list. But Google cache didn't:

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:amkRP7Q27REJ:www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/AC5CHSQTK8O9Z

It's a long list of kid toys.

The wish list for R. Wood is 3 very different items, also from Google cache:

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:pvx-pvzUk5sJ:72.21.203.1/gp/pdp/profile/A3U7TFAPHTIHZM

A woman's cap, a book about football, and a DVD of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (ouch.) Also note that the cached page includes 1 of the 3 reviews that this user submitted.

When I was looking at Mike Bayard's cached wish list page, I happened to click on the "see all 25 items" link. It goes to the Amazon wish list page, which displays the person's full name. (!!)

As soon as I noticed this, I went back to the R. Wood account, clicked on his wish list, and it went straight to the Amazon wish list for someone named Rudolph Magna.

So then I did a Google search for Rudolph Magna Belkin, and I get this site:

http://www.spoke.com/info/index-person/ma-ma-478

Which includes a link for Rudy Magna, National Account Manager of Belkin Logistics:

http://www.spoke.com/info/p5msepL/RudyMagna

This suggests there may be a pattern of Belkin sales reps tampering with the reviews of their products.

If he was not such a retard he'd just sign up with bogus accounts and write the reviews himself, from a public library terminal.

Actually, he did. Check out this link from Google cache.

I did a google search for Belkin Bayard, and it returned that link. He had an Amazon account under M. Bayard, and he was reviewing Belkin products. His Amazon account has been renamed to B. Ekim "BE" presumably to avoid detection. (Mike spelled backwards. This guy is a master of disguise.) If you click on his profile, you'll see his nickname is listed as "mikebayard". He only reviews Belkin products, and he only gives 5 star reviews. His listmania is a series of Belkin products.

The Help Israel Win site is down. But Google's cache of the site is available, so that seems to be the site mentioned.

From the cached page, this sounds like just another attempt to install malware. "How can you help? You download and install the file from our site. The file is harmless to your computer and could be immediately removed. There is no need for identification of any kind - anonymity guaranteed!" There's no indication of who's behind this, and the only contact point is a GMail address.

The domain is registered anonymously through some Register.com front organization in Portugal. It's currently not resolving at all. DNS is on a Register.com server.

Probably had nothing to do with Israel at all.

I find it laughable that Slashdot would tolerate posters moderating their own comments positive. Isn't there a rule that the same IP may not participate in a dispute while moderating the discussion for leverage in opinion? That wiley "Funny" post was moderated-up using an obvious QBASIC script, no-doubt compiled in Windows Vista. Wait -- wait, I don't need to hear evidence that it was "Funny", I just need bias to know that I should laugh.I am laughing at you, Anonymous Coward. I am laughing at you because I am providing evidence as follows*

Google Cache delivers a New York Times article, in your face ... http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:3NHs2ALaBWQJ:query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html%3Fsec%3Dhealth%26res%3D9801E1D9123FF930A35751C0A9669C8B63+Sudan+HIV+immune+hookers&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

Killtown's "Was AIDS engineered" article, in your face summary that AIDS is synthetic breakdown of Immune System... http://killtown.911review.org/aids.html

Finalcall.com's "AIDS is man-made" and Dr. Boyd Graves... http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/printer_1597.shtml

SM: When you say affinity to people of color, how is it directed?

BG: What the science and medical evidence concludes is that the HIV enzyme seeks out a receptor site in the blood of the Black genome. The receptor site is the CCR5 Delta 32+ (positive) gene that all people of color have. In the same sense, on the other end of the spectrum, is the 15 percent Caucasian population of the world, which is CCR5 Delta 32-(negative) gene. That means that under no circumstances, whether HIV came through the air, intravenous drug usage or any form of the sexual activity, would the virus be transferable in this sector of the world's population, which is basically of northern European descent.

It is speculated by some experts that, in a worse case scenario, 85 percent of the world's population could potentially perish under these designer viruses and designer synthetic biological agents. What we're looking at here--because of this identified gene of the Black genome, this CCR5 Delta32+ (positive)--we are potentially looking at the eradication of all people of color.

SM: Your statement reminds me of the year 1932, when Mr. Prescott Bush, the grandfather of the current president, convened the first international eugenics conference here in America. I understand this year was significant for other reasons. Could you explain?

BG: Many of us are aware that the Tuskegee experiment, where Black sharecroppers were injected intentionally with syphilis for the purposes of infiltrating syphilis into the Black genome. Some 60 years later, we could then say that Black people are scurrilous; syphilis runs rampant throughout Black people and, therefore, they are someone to be placed in a secondary capacity. That is particularly in line with the eugenics program where White births are encouraged and Black births are discouraged.

In 1932, the infectious agent of HIV was first tested on sheep in Iceland. That agent is called Visna. In 1932, in conjunction with the Tuskegee syphilis program, they were testing the infectious agent of HIV on an island nation. We have Visna as 30 percent of the sequences of the HIV here today. So, 1932 not only is significant for the start of a push for eugenics, i.e. a White birth order, but also the start of the testing of the infectious agent of HIV in AIDS.

It seems that the poor blog has been Slashdotted, so here's the Google cache entry for it complete with graphics.

Ok, I've found what appears to be the human rating regulations. In addition to what I already mentioned, the EELVs would need to have higher structural safety factors and some additional redundancy in critical systems. As well as a bit of testing and paperwork. It still sounds a lot cheaper and more feasible than developing a new launch vehicle from scratch.

Instead, look at fairsoftware.net (hey, if I invented it, I can brag about it). You won't earn immediate cash, instead you'll be getting equity into whatever fun software project you find. Or start your own and get more geeks to join you, also for revenue share, not upfront cash.

This is very, very cool.

Do you have any plans to support existing legal entities using FairSoftware? This would provide us with a low-friction approach to collaboration, allowing trust and more permanent relationships to form organically between independent contractors and our organization.

Also, do you have any thoughts on models where external billing is required, such as the iPhone App Store? Serving as a publisher could be one option here (and would be a fairly significant advantage given the difficulties individuals often have dealing with the app store). That's something I'd definitely be interested in collaborating on.

Lastly, a related project -- have you seen One-click Organizations? The information was here, but the the webhost has gone kaput today, so here's the Google Cache version

Looks like at least some content is still in Google's cache, those looking to salvage their journals should act quickly.

You can limit google's search results to a particular site by using the "site:domainname.com" search term (example) and then click the "Cached" links of each result to see Google's copy.

There's also a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that can automatically add Google Cache links next to page links, so you can navigate from one cached page to another easier.

Your way of thinking is unclear and employs the untenable American dichotomy of less taxes = better government.

While I'm moving to Socialist Europe (those commies in Denmark will LOVE me), you move to the low-tax-rate Mexico. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Income_Taxes_By_Country.svg Hmmm. It seems Mexico's a bad place to do business. http://www.doingbusiness.org/EconomyRankings/

While I'm in Denmark where the Socialists have one of most business friendly climates in the world. Shocking isn't it.

NY has one of the largest education budgets on a per student level in the nation (over 20,000 per student in my area), and the education our children get has not justified the cost.

So, cut the budget in half. Go ahead. Will students be MORE qualified after the budget cut? Maybe you'd like to fund schools as little as they do in Tennessee? http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:Z89OYuyGr5cJ:www.jobseducationwis.org/263A%2520Education%2520Week%2520Quality%2520Counts%25202005.doc+educational+achievement+ranking+by+state&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Whining about taxes and big budgets and doing nothing about it is is a favored pastime of the well-off and stable countries worldwide.

Move your bottom-of-the-barrel magical thinking to Mexico. I'd be happy to hear how that works out for you... Oh, wait. It won't.

How about building an argument on facts first?

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Greenpeace lost its way a long time ago. Even one of its founders couldn't stomach its new direction.

There is no "Great Bear Rain-Forest". I live where it is supposed to be and they just made that up for publicity. There is a rain forest, and it has bears, but no one outside of Greenpeace calls it that.

They used to do good. Now they are just fear mongers.