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I've been studying this phenomena and find it more applicable in so-called "law enforcement" employees and related agents of a corporate STATE. Examples are;
id - sometimes pronounce incorrectly as eye-dee, is defined as the unconcious impulses that seek satisfaction with the pleasure principle, or simply defined as declaring the cause of actions. Anyone asking for "id" is actually asking for self-incrimination.
I-dentification - pronounced with a strong EYE, phonetically in this way it assembles the elements of facial imagery, yet the bias for the purposes of such assembly is construed from statute to statute.
I-dentify - pronounced with a strong EYE, dimorphically opposed to Identication, as to compel or command the assembly of the elements of facial imagery (action with the suffixed "y").
identification - phonetically pronounced with a short and near-silent EYE, but id, prefixed or interjected with other words, to express or satisfy an request for unknown action, and set it apart or in duplicate. In the Uniform Commercial Code, is references that such "identification" is for purposes of curing a form or Title unto goods to sell those goods. Similar, but dimorphic to identify, where this declaration is free-form and eminent (domain?) unto a subjected property; not voluntary, but coerced; varies from statute to statute for purposes of incrimation as well.
resident - defined as a thing(res) known(id) out of(ent) a claim or dispute etc.. On court casefile headers, it tends to be those things in dispute, such as GUN vs SWORD, et al. It appears that a "resident" supposes that people in a dispute are things subject to jurisdiction of superiors; that is a misconception, because a matter of intellect, whereas the names are fixtures in the dispute to be settled as prize or endorsement to whomever prevails from the action. Consider such disputes where seizure of property by United States is the action being tried; those such cases exist in admiralty proceedings from a district court. I distinctly remember one or two cases on the face of a court docket as UNITED STATES vs. ONE 1954 PICKUP TRUCK (or this, and this), and UNITED STATES vs. 4 BARRELS OF LIQUID PURPOTING TO BE WHISKY, or UNITED STATES vs. FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY DOLLARS -- "UNITED STATES" is a thing disputing other things. In this regard, for fraud it seems, because it is misprison to challeng a property (organized theft) instead of whomever owns that property, but the world never seems to operate the way it was thought or intended...

Many more words I have found to be misplaced or misapplied. Arrest is one of them, notice is another; all abused to commit fraud on others.

You definitely have NO sense of humor. Too much soda pop, perhaps? Maybe an "undigested bit of beef"? Sorry about the mis-quote...

So... What's next outta you?

The proper word is "out of".

"I love to laugh..." HA HA HA HA...

Well said, neighbor. There is only one element of your post that I hope to emphasize others against; and that is to look at neighbors as "cultures" as though genetic entropy subject to a foreign will. All citizens of the United States could learn to The Amish are verry much self-sufficient in every regard, if you consider sacrifice to be the limiting factor of your livelihood. When I mean sacrifice, I think of when the only recourse to someone stealing your horse is to just move on. Yet, even though the Amish exist outside the jurisdiction of the United States, they interact peacefully to help citizens. It was last year in Pennsylvania, in the fifth Month in the Year of Our Lord two-thousand and four, that an hundred or more Amish peacfully assembled at the supreme Court building at Pennsylvania to protest. The story is lady was hired to perform in assisting an Amish woman move a child from the womb, and resulted in the child dying from natural complications inherint in the woman that had been so blessed with such fruit. The Amish woman and man, respectively, forgave the hired-servant and were thankful despite the outcome. In returning to a post in person as a citizen of the United States, the woman began to endure a voracious prosecution for mal-practice. Thereafter, hundreds of the Amish people were arriving and encircled that Court completly in joined hands to protest the prosecution of their friend. We can all learn this from the Amish: sacrifice, forgiveness, love thy neighbor to the end. The fewer applications of the United States processes the better; yet, I don't see people rescinding their SIGN and signatures to their certifications and birth certificates/corporate soles just yet, because it seems as though people have less faith in someone without such certifications despite being qualified if an honest attempt is made in any servitude. Confounded by Google, an article pointing to the incident is dated "June 02, 2004, an old header in Google is shown as "... 2004 Last Sunday, on the 25th of July, Malteser Emergency ... Clients, even Amish, supporting midwife charged in baby's death Jun 02, 2004 -based Citizens ..." mis-alligned to a cache that is offset by an entire year. I saved a newspaper clipping from southern California, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, and I'll post a deranged form (averting copyright) as soon as it is found in the filing cabinet.

D'oh! Forgot the pedantry link!
This should be mandatory reading for all /. ers:

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:--1TWxSjyGsJ: www.langston.com/English/+%22champing+at+the+bit%2 2&hl=en

Well, it's worth a try, but you won't have to pay for such a solution, at least not if you made your laptop reasonably safe by using passwords.
I found The Beacon on the Internet (Google Cache, PDF version is on Rufy.com), that's something every moderatley talented programmer can do to secure his laptop... (using cron and scripts).

...I only shot him to see what would happen...

Hee hee

The easier, more exotic, load delivery mechanisms can be used only if the load is little. I thought no less than someone spreading all their value over many small successive launches than risk one heavy/expensive launch. It also appears that the cost of launching heavier objects into space will increase exponentially by weight! There is much development on laser-launch systems. I was looking for the earlier Slashdot article on laser technology, yet this webpage is just an independent collection of information regarding alternatives and does show some URLs for laser content.I don't see any shark stickers, so its troll safe.

Lightcraft Technologies, Inc. is a commercial venture.
Adrew V. Pakhomov appears to profess on the subject, and a host of a symposium.

I don't know of any major corporation which has made significant donations back to the BSD core.

When you wrote your diatribe, did you leave out Apple because of ignorance or on purpose?
You can read about Apple code filtering back to FreeBSD here.

but: It has been my observation that the BSD source base has been relatively stagnant over more than a decade.

OK, now we know for a fact that you're a troll.

Would you care to rephrase it as "It has been my observation that the design of Unix has not changed in any fundamental way (etc.)"? It would make you look smarter...

On the set, the actors use props composed of handles that have aluminum rods attached to them, and these rods are the length of the lightsaber "blade." The handles are plastic models and the aluminum rods are painted red or green or blue. The actors use these props as though they were lightsabers./blockquote The sources claim they are both real and fake, whereby the truth in the matter is a "lightsaber," with contrast to the action used in combat, is built of aluminum. I believe this radioactive aluminum is remeniscent of Scotty's "transparent aluminum", but I can't say because it is verry exclusive technology not often encountered. In what part of the Historical Documets, there is claim that "lightsabers" are false, but then there is described the physical elements that compose a "lightsaber" and I found them to be quite existent and non-fiction. You be the judge.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later, the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind [which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,] the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments, occasionally, riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

How many technically-oriented people are motivated by the idea of receiving a doll? It goes like this: 1) Give Intel marketing your company's address and phone number and email address, so that they can spam you in the future. 2) Sit through boring marketing-speak, written by people who don't know or care about Intel products, or any technical product. 3) Take a test. 4) Get a doll?

"No State shall ... make any post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, ..."

You all wonder why all those people in foreign countries entreat U.S. Army as though illegal aliens... What do you call an illegal alien that bombs buildings to separate you into a foreign politic; but Freedom that isn't free? For every bomb sent to Iraq is someone else's freedom held ransom to a war debt that was not waged or CONTRACTED by them. The protesters are an awfully large minority. Even so, a country-wide fighting spirit is a greater military obstacle; most "strategists" thought a disarmed people would ward off attacks and redirect to centralized military. I have a Tiger Rock too, but I can't throw it any effective distance when forced to wear such heavy anti-arm burdens. If Sadam Hussein didn't perform to expectations, then U.S. simply returned to depose him; Iraq was never free while Sadam Hussein was granted "power" from United States. I suppose one can learn from the strategies developed by Freemasons puppeting Liberia, to predict the conclusion to freedom. The stock in Cuba is maturing today; that's the next crop to harvest, according to banking policy. Agents of "United States" funded Fidel Castro with "power" without a

From the Urban Dictionary:

1. scrilla

Money, One who spends a lot of money
"Yo, shes got mad scrilla, we're gonna rock the mall later."

"Scrilla in Manila, shlong in Hong Kong"
Source: studtaco, Feb 25, 2003

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No kidding. Crooks put an 'out of order' sign on the night deposit door at a bank. They provided an old style metallic milk box - used for door to door milk deliveries once upon a time - with a slot in the top and an industrial strength padlock and chain attached. Yes I know...but it worked(popup)...at least for a while. They got caught, but some people actually used the milk box. A similar con was related by Frank Abagnale, subject of the movie "Catch Me If You Can" on "The Tonight Show"{popup}. People have an endless capacity for stupidity, especially when you consider an Internet sized sample. Hell, lots of folks still use A.O.L.

billy - who has to go now...Ed McMahon is at the front door

google cache of the pdf http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:TWK7qyxXeYIJ: www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling .pdf+&hl=en

Whether he had to or not, the article stated it as his best decision. I don't know if it's accurate or not. I'm simply using what was put out. I'm simply working within the context of the posted blurb. When something is stated in that fashion, some could(not so wrongly) take it as a suggestion. I wouldn't, but that's just me. And I'm only raggin' on you because you responded rather harshly.

So, what. Instead of writing "democracy" could they simply type "(censored)" . That works

5150?
Sorry...

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I went ahead and took my legit winxp pro and used nLite on it.

Talk about customization. It slipstreams SP2, removes crap like windows movie maker, etc etc etc.

Their site seems to be down right now, so here's the google cache
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:www.nliteos.c om

Its worth the effort to make an up to date & tweaked install disc.

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:rkpOJtkoNZsJ: www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3675.txt+&hl=en&client=netscap e-pp

For those who haven't seen it, here's the Google cache.

Google Chace Already a little sluggish.

Here's the Google cache link.

It is one of those commodity items that becomes cheaper to run on a per-customer basis the more customers you have.

Not exactly, because of the revenue-sharing contracts:

Vertical revenue-sharing contracts allow manufacturers and retailers, or rental companies, the ability to better manage their "coordination of inventory decisions where both firms separately maximize profits. Historically, the use of simple, linear pricing rules between manufacturers and retailers may lead to suboptimal supply of the good in that market. "Vertical" contracts, signed between an upstream manufacturer and a downstream retailer, offer more flexibility for coordinating supply decisions. Specifically, revenue-sharing contracts, in which the retailer pays the manufacturer a fee per unit of inventory as well as a percentage of the revenue generated from the inventory, allow firms greater flexibility than simple linear pricing (that is, a wholesale price per unit of inventory only)." It has been found that "firm profits decrease with the elimination of inventory restrictions, but consumers are generally better off. Eliminating both the inventory restrictions and the linear-pricing contracts generally improves consumer surplus and increases the upstream firm's profits for this set of retailers; however, it lowers downstream firms' profits.". Online video rental companies like Netflix determine profit on a per-subscriber basis. To be responsive to their customer's needs while competing on price and implementing a growth strategy they have to offer a compelling selection of products that are not readily available offline. Therefore, per Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, "So we might make slightly less per subscriber because people watch more movies, but they're happier with the service, and they tell their friends about it. Marketing is our biggest cost, so we look at it as a straight-ahead win, because doing that helps us to grow faster".

Most of this info is from here and here, respectively.

The only safeguard to this country, America, from being ussurped by its inferiors was common-law sense. Why do you entrust your law in the hands of those bankers devoid and bankrupt to morality?

This ussurpation on those arab countries is all justified. This video is your proof.

I'm swamped to read any other works of art and science outside the realm of common-law, energy, and networked computer software system administration; yet Sun Tzu does come to mind to have a few shadows of quotes impress upon my soul in the midst of War. I quote Sun Tzu, to wit; "All warfare is based on deception" as well "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

There you have it. United States of America, being subservient and inferior to "America" because it is of America; is not to be trusted in any reports. I remember reading a couple military reports for the alleged Vietnam War in which a number of towns were massacred by the misplaced artillery; the deception erected along the basis of "area has been cleansed of opposition" no less.

And I think the anti-war people are no different than the the proponents to war. DON'T TRUST ANYTHING ANY MILITARY SAYS. ALL MILITARY PRODUCES ENOUGH TRUTH TO GAIN TRUST TO COVER A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF LIES. Whoever said the oxymoron "Civil War" has ever concluded; did not the proponents to war not constitutionally declare peace?

To take away the ability to make war will only tempt the wicked to hide the war under another premise. One day, a man killing a man will be re-written to mean a farmer cutting grass; as equate in the Holy Bible.

Was United States ever at peace?

How can a "Federal" corporation known as "United States" make war without the state it was chartered within Columbia? Easy explanation; read the commercial codes; the adversary is redefined as a festering bottle of milk or spoiled bread, and the cost to pay a "person" to move the expired goods is about the same cost to fund that person aka "U.S. Army."

Most posts on Slashdot are yet to discern between "United States" and "United States of America" for fucking crying-out-loud.

Can someone respond, mod me up, or check my posting history for all the goods I have presented to this God-damned forum of vipers and asps?

Joe Barr just got his ham radio license!

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There are a number of well-known trojans/mallicous code that have integated code to circumvent host-based antivirus programs and firewalls. Some of them disable the firewalls. Some of them replace well known services like crss.exe that the firewall likely has a rule preconfigured for to allow it to alow connections on.

Others may initiate connections via other programs like Internet Explorer, which you have likely configured your firewall to allow outbound connections on anyway.

But honestly, if you are running one of the handful of common firewalls, and you run some arbitrary program as adminitraror, if it wants to be really stealthy and polite about it, it can just add a rule to your firewall software to always allow all outbound connections from it.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't think that host based firewalls are not important. It's just that I don't think that they can not be circumvented.

And the answer to your question would be: Yes, I know something more; and apparently you didn't take my advice to google for Geratherm or Galinstan...

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:YP4EjsayVjQJ: imartinez.etsin.upm.es/lab1/Thermometry/Mercury%25 20problems%2520and%2520alternatives.doc+eutectic+g alinstan+geratherm&hl=en&client=firefox-a
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:llknBUqBdLgJ: hydrogen.physik.uni-wuppertal.de/publications/rsi7 3031564.pdf+eutectic+galinstan+cooling&hl=en&clien t=firefox-a
http://www.geratherm.com/en/technologie_galinstan

Those were what was pulled up from a Google query of "galinstan cooling". Had you used the suggested search topics that I gave, you'd have found the same things I did. It solidifies at -4 deg F. Don't you think that it would work rather well in place of mercury in a cooling capacity?

And the answer to your question would be: Yes, I know something more; and apparently you didn't take my advice to google for Geratherm or Galinstan...

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:YP4EjsayVjQJ: imartinez.etsin.upm.es/lab1/Thermometry/Mercury%25 20problems%2520and%2520alternatives.doc+eutectic+g alinstan+geratherm&hl=en&client=firefox-a
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http://www.geratherm.com/en/technologie_galinstan

Those were what was pulled up from a Google query of "galinstan cooling". Had you used the suggested search topics that I gave, you'd have found the same things I did. It solidifies at -4 deg F. Don't you think that it would work rather well in place of mercury in a cooling capacity?

This is wierd. It is the 19th hit (on the second page) of a google search for "trustrank" It requires a login from google's results page, but a google's cache reveals a directory including the paper linked to by /.

I guess we weren't supposed to read this. And you shouldn't have read *this*!

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:gBFfSbPB4CEJ: blogs.rice.edu/nanotube+&hl=en&client=firefox-a

The site appears to be down, but here's a Google cache of the article.

The only problem is that while you are logged in, the home directory is open - encrypted or not - but it is a good idea. I would prefer a system where each individual file is separately encrypted, so that only open files are truly open.
I started using encryption after my notebook PC was stolen and I got a US $8000 charge on a credit card...
Anyhoo, here is a Google cache copy of a howto guide for others who may be interested: Cryptoloop howto

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The article states:

Q: Is PureEdge going to be available on the Macintosh and Linux platforms soon?

A: We hope that over the next nine months to a year, we will be able to serve the Macintosh and Linux users. It is currently supporting both Netscape and Explorer.

Some of the PureEdge products say they support Linux / Unix / Windows - so the reader might already support it. It's hard to tell though, since their website kind of sucks.

But at least they are found and fixed

Which I did point out. If you're really bored, you can look at my posting history and see that I'm a dedicated open source user and have been so for quite a while. But I chafe at absolutist statements that make the open source community look like the stereotype put forth by the article in question.

you think that is better to wait until some evil dude with time on his hands to decompile your program and discover the problems

Decompiling some little program is one thing, decompiling and understanding IE, IIS, or the Windows Kernel is a non-trivial task. Most of the attacks on IE have been created by using a little brain power to think of where buffers were used and attacking them. Recall the testing on Mozilla/Firefox where intentionally garbage HTML was thrown at them to see if it would break it. It found plenty of problems with no disassembly needed.

Do you really think that something like this or this could easily be found by decompiling?

The more secrets you have in your design, more points of failure in your security system.

Um... no. Openness only benefits security if there's substantial improvement from disclosing it and the implications of what black hats can create using it doesn't outway the benefits.

I use an algorithm to produce pseudo-random but rememberable passwords. I could disclose that to the general public, who could point out potential problems with it (it is pseudo-random, so obviously there are flaws), but that would greatly increase the chances that someone could use that knowledge to greatly speed up forcing my passwords. As it happens, I'm a smart enough guy to know that my passwords are "good enough" for my purposes. Secrecy enhances my security in this case.

My car has one out of X possible Ford key sets. Which one it uses is a secret, because it's kept secure by the fact that it's impractical to try each of the possibilities to break into my car. If I got rid of the secret and published which specific key it was, it would greatly ease the difficulty of stealing my car.

The NSA has encryption algorithms that are very much secrets. I'd put good money on them being harder to crack than the published algorithms. Shall I go on?

As for staying on top of the patches MS is no diferent, an unpatched windows cannot survive much in the wild.

True. But there's been relatively few MS kernel patches released to fix security issues. Most of what they patch are things on top of the kernel layer. Linux has many little fixes in each kernel release. Here in the real world, we have pressures from the management to have X% uptime. We have applications that are only certified against specific kernels from vendors that will refuse to support us if we upgrade the kernel. We have systems that are owned by people who won't upgrade every time a new kernel comes out. Not to mention the fact that you run the risk of encountering problems if you're running bleeding edge kernel releases. So you have to straddle the line between reliability and knowing that there's a couple potential escalation of priviledge issues lurking in it.

Neither approach is absolutely the best. Choose the one with the consequences you can handle. But I guarantee that you would have a harder time finding flaws in well written, complex software without the source than you would with it.

But at least they are found and fixed

Which I did point out. If you're really bored, you can look at my posting history and see that I'm a dedicated open source user and have been so for quite a while. But I chafe at absolutist statements that make the open source community look like the stereotype put forth by the article in question.

you think that is better to wait until some evil dude with time on his hands to decompile your program and discover the problems

Decompiling some little program is one thing, decompiling and understanding IE, IIS, or the Windows Kernel is a non-trivial task. Most of the attacks on IE have been created by using a little brain power to think of where buffers were used and attacking them. Recall the testing on Mozilla/Firefox where intentionally garbage HTML was thrown at them to see if it would break it. It found plenty of problems with no disassembly needed.

Do you really think that something like this or this could easily be found by decompiling?

The more secrets you have in your design, more points of failure in your security system.

Um... no. Openness only benefits security if there's substantial improvement from disclosing it and the implications of what black hats can create using it doesn't outway the benefits.

I use an algorithm to produce pseudo-random but rememberable passwords. I could disclose that to the general public, who could point out potential problems with it (it is pseudo-random, so obviously there are flaws), but that would greatly increase the chances that someone could use that knowledge to greatly speed up forcing my passwords. As it happens, I'm a smart enough guy to know that my passwords are "good enough" for my purposes. Secrecy enhances my security in this case.

My car has one out of X possible Ford key sets. Which one it uses is a secret, because it's kept secure by the fact that it's impractical to try each of the possibilities to break into my car. If I got rid of the secret and published which specific key it was, it would greatly ease the difficulty of stealing my car.

The NSA has encryption algorithms that are very much secrets. I'd put good money on them being harder to crack than the published algorithms. Shall I go on?

As for staying on top of the patches MS is no diferent, an unpatched windows cannot survive much in the wild.

True. But there's been relatively few MS kernel patches released to fix security issues. Most of what they patch are things on top of the kernel layer. Linux has many little fixes in each kernel release. Here in the real world, we have pressures from the management to have X% uptime. We have applications that are only certified against specific kernels from vendors that will refuse to support us if we upgrade the kernel. We have systems that are owned by people who won't upgrade every time a new kernel comes out. Not to mention the fact that you run the risk of encountering problems if you're running bleeding edge kernel releases. So you have to straddle the line between reliability and knowing that there's a couple potential escalation of priviledge issues lurking in it.

Neither approach is absolutely the best. Choose the one with the consequences you can handle. But I guarantee that you would have a harder time finding flaws in well written, complex software without the source than you would with it.

AirScooter.com google cache.

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Google's cache of said site.

Interestingly enough here's a quote: If you're on a budget, buy an already put together LCD monitor from the store. It's going to be a lot cheaper.

JIM [interviewer]: Did you have to go into isolation prior to the splashdown? If so how long beforehand? Was this done to minimize your exposure to viruses and germs that might have caused alarm if you and/or others in isolation became ill?

JOHN: Dr. Bill Carpentier and I were placed into isolation within the MQF about the same time as the launch of Apollo 11. The reason for our biological isolation was for the reason that you indicated... At the LRL, on our side of the biological barrier, I recall that the Public Affairs Officer joined the five of us to assist in post-flight debriefings and interviews with the news media. Also during our stay in the LRL, we had two laboratory technicians join us at different intervals because of accidental breeches of biological isolation while they were handling lunar samples on their side of the LRL. The LRL itself is a fascinating story that deserves to be told.

JIM: You personally retrieved the Apollo 11 lunar sample containers from Columbia shortly after the Command Module was brought on board the Hornet. Do you have specific memories of entering the spacecraft? Did the boxes look "dusty" or smudged?

JOHN: The first unusual item that I noticed upon entering the Apollo 11 Command Module was a unique scent that reminded me of smell of exploded firecrackers or the scent that you notice when you strike flint together. I had not noticed this scent when I opened other Command Modules following their flights.

The lunar sample return containers were slightly smudged with dust from the surface of the moon but this dust was especially prevalent on the surface of the suits worn by Armstrong and Aldrin. These suits were stored in the Command Module below the crew couches. Traces of the dust appeared on many surfaces since the fine powder like nature of the moon dust inadvertently allowed it to be transferred to other surfaces.

I cannot say that the aroma was a direct result of the "moon dust" being present in the cabin even though that was what I surmised. There could be other explanations for the aroma that are not related to the presence of the dust. After reviewing the post-flight notes from the Apollo 11 mission, there was a comment made during crew debriefing that a "strong odor of burnt material" was noticed following the S-IVB stage separation when the crew opened the CSM tunnel.

It's the network effect of many people using a common resource. Split that resource up into disjoint sites, and the value is diminished.

The value is not necessarily diminished. One of the disjoint sites (del.irio.us) is likely to be highly populated by members who assign open source principles a high value. Consequently, the data they provide to their fellow collaborators will (it is reasonable to think) be biased toward open source, Creative Commons, and other freedom-valuing content. Arguably this increases the value of both sets, since freedom lovers and freedom fairweather friends will not trip over each others' inappropriate recommendations.

See (the Google cache of) Mark Pilgrim's essay Freedom 0 for other arguments supporting a policy of prefering free solutions in advance of necessity.

here's a link to the google *text cache* of the blog (www.nanocrew.net/blog/ ). Yeah even the normal google cache is slow.

'You also go with the "nyeh, we need protection for those who do not want or ask for it". If someone wanted to restrict the ability of a company to release their code, they would release it under a license

The GPL is a "Share and enjoy" style of license and persons who release code under it know what they are doing (or shouldn't be releasing code) while BSD is simply a "give credit where credit is due" style of license.'

I certainly see you point. I will come back to one possible thought at the end.

If it wasn't for the way too long and constantly extending duration of copytights and the constantly worsening deal to the public in other areas as well as duration [like :

1. default goes from no copyright to all rights reserved.

2. default goes from prove damages to hugh statutory damages.

3. non-commercial goes from not (making money) to not (trading in kind) with no money involved.

4. moves from being a civil offence to a criminal offence.

4b. hey and as a bonus it is a federal crime and you could lose your right to vote in those who would change things back to something more sensible.

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then I would be quite happy to BSD a good amount of my work instead of putting it under the GPL. The public domain would be a fine choice. Or I would put it under a non-copyleft creative commons license instead of a share-alike one.

So, while you may not want or feel the need to protect yourself with the GPL and are happy to BSD your code, if you are a person of good will, how do you feel about providing free code and support to entities that are corrupting the copyright bargain and, I might add, patent bargain and abusing your fellow man in the manner that they do? Perhaps this is what the person was driving at. (I am not sure I agree with the point I just expressed, but I thought it might be useful to discuss it.)

That link above contains this quote:

"I'm just a kid. I don't have anything to take. Go ahead! Sue me! You can't do anything to me! Nyah!!!
You're right in one aspect. Because you are young, there is very little someone could, or would want to, take from you. What can be done is a conviction of a federal crime.
Have you ever gone into fill out a job application? Remember that line that asked if you had ever been convicted of a federal crime? You'll be checking YES for the remainder of your life. Try and get a job even related to computers with a conviction for copyright infringement. No way."

This made me think of something. Can we pass a law requiring all corporations convicted of federal crimes to include a notice to that effect in all advertising?

all the best,

drew

( zotz )

Well, looks like their university hosting wasnt up to a good /.'ng :D

Google cache of the webpage at - http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:QuFjhiYyVvQJ: www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~jknoblo2/LnL/Downloa ds/downloads.html+&hl=en

maybe they should get one of these

the ad industry itself.

That's right... you see, I've been happily surfing with Firefox for quite some time now, with NO ad blocking other than Firefox's built-in popup blocker. I've been not too upset about seeing ads - they enable the content I want to read to become available. Heck I've even clicked on a few ads if the product looked interesting. (yes, you read that right)

Now that my preferences have been circumvented, my threshhold for annoyance has been crossed. I've installed Adblock and the latest definition file (thank you Google cache).

So I've gone from no popups to no ads at all. If more people do what I've done (and I'm sure I'm not the only one), the legitimate ad industry as a whole will be less effective.

The rogue advertisers that employ these methods are destroying the fair and legitimate advertisers that make money without abusing the system.

There is simply too much at stake for the online ad industry as a whole for this to continue.

California, 1999 emission 362.8 million tons CO2 (link). Land area is 155,959 sq.m. (403,932 sq.km.). Population (2000) 33,8 M. (link).

Picking European country with similar population... Spain, 40.3 million people, 499.542 sq km (2004) 247.2 million tons CO2 (1998, link),