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PS why can't you download public domain music and video for free? And where do you get your free interenet access from?

Here is your free public domain library, and you can get free internet access via wi-fi at a lot of places; bars, McDonalds, Laundromats, etc. Often there are private persons who deliberately leave their systems open as well.

Good point. Or, ten or twenty trillion US$ in paper wealth disappeared as an externality of banking risk that some bankers made billions from and caused suffering for tens of millions of people:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/18/the-parable-of-the-frogs/
"What does it take to produce large-scale social change? Most historians, if you catch them in an honest moment, will admit that the popular levers of social change, such as education or legislation, are bogus; they don't really amount to very much. What does make a difference -- and then only potentially -- is massive systemic breakdown, such as occurred in the United States in the fall of 2008. It was the greatest market crash since 1929, leading to widespread unemployment (something like 18% of the population, in real -- as opposed to official -- statistics*) and the loss of billions of dollars in retirement savings. In fact, the crash wiped out $11.1 trillion in household wealth, and this is not counting the several trillion lost in stock market investments. It had been many decades since the middle class found itself in soup kitchens, and yet there they were. In the face of all this, however, very little seems to have changed. Americans are still committed to the dream of unlimited abundance as a "reasonable" goal, when in reality it is (and always has been) the dream of an addict. President Obama's upwards of $19 trillion bailout and stimulus plan funneled money into the very banking establishment that gave us the disaster; it rescued the wealthy, not those who really needed the money. And while he could have appointed economic advisers such as Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz (both Nobel laureates), who would have attempted to put the nation on a different economic path, he chose instead two traditional neoliberal ideologues, Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers, who believe in the very policies that led to the crash. "Change we can believe in" never sounded more hollow."

No doubt some of this is spin, but there is some truth in here:
http://www.infowars.com/100-million-poor-people-in-america-and-39-other-facts-about-poverty-that-will-blow-your-mind/

One of the links there goes to:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/12/15/9461848-dismal-prospects-1-in-2-americans-are-now-poor-or-low-income
"Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans -- nearly 1 in 2 -- have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income."

I'm not saying the average US citizen is as bad off as most people in North Korea in material ways -- just that there remains a lot of unnecessary suffering in the USA which is being justified by a crazy ideological bubble. For example, if the USA redistributed half of the US GDP equally as a "basic income", then every citizen would have US$2000 a month, and the other half could be competed over. It's only a cultural mythological bubble that keeps most of the USA from seeing this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120102011454/http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/?q=node/402
"That rationalization came in the form of a brand new science known as economics, which included a brand new mythology."

Despite books like this by Moshe Adler:
"Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal"
http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Rest-Us-Debunking-Science/dp/B007F7WKV8
"Why do contemporary economists consider food subsidies in starving countries, rent control in rich cities, and health insurance every

You're completely missing the point. Swartz' actions weren't about getting access for himself but for the rest of us, all of us. He indeed had access but was against the exclusivity.

Read http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt

the corrupt and manipulative management that (until the internet) was able to silence all former member/critics.

Not quite all, in fact they've never really stopped the entheta, before the internet they were just able to stop people in one part of the globe from seeing entheta in another part.
Now people can not only see it all, they can see it all gathered on one webpage.

Link from TFA to the NRA web site:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110718225409/http://www.nraila.org/issues/FirearmsGlossary/

“CLIP: A device for holding a group of cartridges. Semantic wars have been fought over the word, with some insisting it is not a synonym for “detachable magazine.” For 80 years, however, it has been so used by manufacturers and the military. There is no argument that it can also mean a separate device for holding and transferring a group of cartridges to a fixed or detachable magazine or as a device inserted with cartridges into the mechanism of a firearm becoming, in effect, part of that mechanism.”

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/09/02/2229200/android-tricorder-killed-by-cbs

http://web.archive.org/web/20120518031844/http://code.google.com/p/moonblink/wiki/Tricorder

Jobs never said that iPhone ran OS X.

Jobs said exactly this at the original iPhone keynote, to tech journalists and Apple customers (the only people who watched that sort of thing in those days). Not just developers. Developers weren't even allowed on iPhone back then, so I don't know how you remember that it was specifically targeted toward developers. From the keynote:

iPhone runs OS X! Why would we want to run such a sophisticated OS on a mobile device? It's got everything we need. Multitasking, networking, power management, graphics, security, video, audio, core animation... It let us create desktop class applications and networking, not the crippled stuff you find on most phones. These are real desktop applications.

Emphasis mine. He unequivocally stated iPhone runs OSX. This was further emphasized on Apple's website under the original iPhone product page, which I think you will agree is targeting consumers, not developers:

iPhone uses OS X, the world’s most advanced operating system. Which means you have access to the best-ever software on a handheld device, including rich HTML email, full-featured web browsing, and favorite applications including Address Book and Calendar. iPhone is also fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background. This software completely redefines what you can do with a mobile phone

Emphasis mine. So again, from the start, Apple was saying iPhone OS = OSX. Then they went back and changed a single letter, calling it iOS. My girlfriend still gets confused about the difference. So I'm not saying Windows 8 vs. Windows RT isn't confusing, but I think it's a leap to say iOS vs. OSX is crystal clear.

The US Justice System is there to enforce the law. I don't know what relevance this has or what you hoped to achieve with your parroted statistics but I don't find it very helpful here. He was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud among other things and when someone alerts the authorities that this may have taken place, they investigate it. If I bypassed your home's security and installed a laptop in your home that connected to your network and took all your files, would you want there to be laws against that? That's what they were investigating -- is there any evidence of undue or unjust actions in this investigation? I think that's what MIT wants to find out here.

And Bush,Cheney, and their associated ilk were charged with war crimes (http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicted-of-war-crimes-in-absentia/). Where's the enforcement there, huh? Fuck you. AmeriKKKa is a thugocracy, established by albino slaveholders.

You know, that almost sounds like an endorsement for suicide which is probably one of the most disgusting and vehement posts I've read here so far. There is nothing rational nor sane about taking one's own life. When I was 16 one of my friends committed suicide and more recently a roommate's girlfriend came over while my roommate was gone and committed suicide. As someone who has witnessed the aftermath both to someone who meant so much to me and someone I barely knew, I will tell you right now that it is a terrible act that impacts everyone -- and most often in a profoundly negative way. To call it 'rational' or 'sane' in any case reveals that you do not know anything about suicide.

There is plenty rational and sane about committing suicide when you're facing 30+ years of prison! I would do it in a second. Probably after killing dumbfucks like yourself first, though.

3% of Americans are under the correctional supervision of their justice system. There are seven times more people in prison in the US as a percentage of the population as there are in Europe.

There is no evidence that this policy is any more effective than things like removing Lead in Gas for reducing overall crime. The rest of the world looks on in horror at prison camp America which locks up slightly more people than the Russians. Ever tried looking in the mirror?

The US Justice System is there to enforce the law. I don't know what relevance this has or what you hoped to achieve with your parroted statistics but I don't find it very helpful here. He was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud among other things and when someone alerts the authorities that this may have taken place, they investigate it. If I bypassed your home's security and installed a laptop in your home that connected to your network and took all your files, would you want there to be laws against that? That's what they were investigating -- is there any evidence of undue or unjust actions in this investigation? I think that's what MIT wants to find out here.

I'm not surprised this guy looked at the options and chose the one he did, it was probably the most rational sane thing to do.

You know, that almost sounds like an endorsement for suicide which is probably one of the most disgusting and vehement posts I've read here so far. There is nothing rational nor sane about taking one's own life. When I was 16 one of my friends committed suicide and more recently a roommate's girlfriend came over while my roommate was gone and committed suicide. As someone who has witnessed the aftermath both to someone who meant so much to me and someone I barely knew, I will tell you right now that it is a terrible act that impacts everyone -- and most often in a profoundly negative way. To call it 'rational' or 'sane' in any case reveals that you do not know anything about suicide.

I didn't know Aaron Swartz although I've been following this case with interest. What I suspect happened was that Swartz wanted to make a statement about opening up journals to the public and he wagered that it would be hard to pin any fallout on himself if he did all of this covertly. And he tried. But at the end of the day they figured out who was taking these articles of information. Did you know he was a Fellow at Harvard University's Center for Ethics? What do you think this meant for his career to be indicted on such charges? How would you, as a student, listen to a lecture on ethics from someone who had broken laws and evaded police? I think that Swartz saw this as a sort of "civil disobedience" but when his peers did not agree, he took the coward's route instead of letting society decide his fate for his actions -- and I think the case was still open!

Let's assume Swartz was completely in the right on all of his actions. What, precisely, would you have MIT and the US Government do differently to prevent this suicide? What actions of theirs do you find culpable for forcing Aaron Swartz into no other choice than to take his own life?

Justice is a nice meaningless (or with a real meaning that have no relation with what people think it means) word by now.

Justice can only be defined as a negative - the lack of injustice. Check out Bastiat's The Law for a very clear exposition of what is Justice and Injustice. Free audiobook version: Part 1 Part 2 (under two hours).

Justice is a nice meaningless (or with a real meaning that have no relation with what people think it means) word by now.

Justice can only be defined as a negative - the lack of injustice. Check out Bastiat's The Law for a very clear exposition of what is Justice and Injustice. Free audiobook version: Part 1 Part 2 (under two hours).

Word of the day: vomitorium.

Soon to lose it's myth status?

I read a bit of the indictment and I find it hard to believe the charges are 'trumped up' because they are so easy to disprove.

Did he or did he not buy the laptop?

Did he or did he not access an MIT wiring closet?

Did he or did he not program the above purchased laptop to retrieve a massive number of documents in a manner inconsistent with their terms of use?

Personally I think his passion for his political/legal positions drove him to commit crimes, crimes for which the penalty was so great it may have driven him to suicide, but as the previous poster mentioned - we don't know why he did it. (was there a note?)

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among his age group (after accidental death), there are likely causes outside his achievements that drove him to take his own life, like the other 5-6,000 suicide victims in his age group each year.

but but ... googel cannot do evil! Seriously speaking while google is untrustworthy, Micro$oft is at least as much so because of their horrible track record. http://wayback.archive.org/web/20120605103241/http://www.msversus.org/

But the good thing is you don't have to trust neither of those. Nor apple or amazon. Do not surrender your freedom!

HAARP had that very website 5 years before you were telling people about HARP you idiot. Well OK they've made a few minor updates in the meantine.

http://web.archive.org/web/19970401121448/http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/

In 1940, Robert A. Heinlein (writing under the pseudonym of Lyle Monroe) published a story called "Let There Be Light" where the firefly's bioluminosity whas studied leading to the development of "light panels", kinda-sorta predicting LEDs. It's a nice development that now the firefly is being studied to improve those LEDs. Though the mechanism is totally different of course.

The story is apparently in the public domain now, available here.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

"* E.G.-> It'd be a LOT simpler for say, a home user all the way up to a network administrator on a HUGE corporate WAN to setup a list of PROVEN & fully vetted/code reviewed allowed apps to run (& all the rest would be disallowed...)" - by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07, @12:17PM (#42506533)

See subject-line, & that quote of myself, vs your misinterpretation of what I wrote (or perhaps you just missed it)...

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"Except the problem with your whole premise is that you forget the user." - by iamgnat (1015755) on Monday January 07, @12:36PM (#42506753)

Once more - See above...

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"The problem comes down to who does the vetting and testing of an application to add it to a whitelist? If it is the user, they've proven they can't be trusted because they'll "vet" any new screensaver/antivirus/cursor application that comes along." - by iamgnat (1015755) on Monday January 07, @12:36PM (#42506753)

See above again - in corporate environs, where THE MACHINE IS NOT THE USERS but the companies? That'd be the network admins doing the testing (hopefully).

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"There is no simple single solution to the problem of security. A real solution by nature needs to be multilayered which means there is some complexity and ultimately users have to take responsibility for their actions." - by iamgnat (1015755) on Monday January 07, @12:36PM (#42506753)

You're "preaching to the choir" here man... seriously, take a look below

(I.E.-> I've been doing security guides based on "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth", especially geared to 'end users' @ home with single systems, since 1997 online & doing pretty well @ it):

To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

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1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

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Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

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SOME QUOTED TESTIMONIALS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE I AUTHORED:

I speak from a user perspective and second hand information from developers of games I love.

Sources: the now defunct http://web.archive.org/web/20110224114004/http://happypenguin.org/
Tarn Adams,
Many youtube video's

And lots of blogs because I have done allot of research on what to use to make my own game under linux or across platforms. Personally I would recommend SDL over most libraries because its really fully featured.

Almost every programming library has its quirks, I remember having to deal with bitmaps on windows and the nightmare that was when we ran into an issue with a certain function that was broke because the graphics driver didn't support it. The graphics card company said its the OS problem, microsoft said it was the graphics card problem.

I definately wouldn't say the SDL is immature or bad. Its just as good as any others and I would say better documented since its open source ;p

The biggest thing about this article is it shows how quickly something taught in science textbooks for decades like the notion of "absolute zero" is slowly realized to be, if not 100% false, then at least a gross oversimplification. We may someday say the same about things like LENR (Cold Fusion) or even deep issues like consciousness and spirituality (Charles Tart's work, for example). Examples:
http://www.disciplined-minds.com/
http://pesn.com/2013/01/03/9602259_LENR-to-Market_Weekly_January3/
http://web.archive.org/web/20090308132014/http://suppressedscience.net/physics.html
http://www.pdfernhout.net/to-james-randi-on-skepticism-about-mainstream-science.html#Some_quotes_on_social_problems_in_science

Elaborating on my previous posts, as I wrote about in a term paper project for a 1980s college undergraduate course run by Prof. Steve Slaby, called "The Technological Imperative of the Arms Race", technology is an amplifier -- the question is, what sorts of things do we want to amplify?

The book "Descartes' Error" makes the point that we can't "reason" without emotions. This seems obvious to me now, but back in college it did not seem so in a philosophical sense. Modern psychology can show us how our emotions drive our reasoning process (even as reasoning can provide feedback that may affect our emotions and again our reasoning etc.). And our emotions are generally first determined by our values (including psycho-physiologically values, like perhaps a instinctive reaction to a snake or a bad smell). And those values in turn are generally determined by our personal biology, our family upbringing, our friends and neighbors, our personal history, and our culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes'_Error

Albert Einstein talks about aspects of that in an essay at this link where he says that science can perhaps tell us something about what seems to be, but science can never tell us what should be. And our thoughts on what should be are the basis of our actions (including how we direct our thoughts). The essay:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/einstein/einsci.htm

I haven't finished reading it yet, but there is a recent New Yorker article (still available as full text) about a scientist and his feelings about the ethics about his past research on weapons of mass confusion derived from nerve gas:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/17/121217fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=all

One discussion of it here:
http://incunabula.org/2012/12/the-doctor-behind-the-armys-psychedelic-manhattan-project-has-some-regrets-weed-isnt-one-of-them/

I was thinking as I read the New Yorker article (around the part I stopped at), that these scientists, or at least the scientific enterprise in general, had other choices than to make the next weapon or the next defense for a theoretical attack. They could have focused on using science to make the world work better for everyone (or at least most people) and thus reduce conflicts, like Bucky Fuller did with his focus on "Livingry". They also could have researched the social and organizational issues behind war and other conflicts, like Morton Deutsch did or Alfie Kohn did. Thus this essay by me mentioning such people:

Found this gem on wayback machine http://web.archive.org/web/20090422041121/http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto_today/2009/biotech_crop_safety.asp

"Millions of farm animals have consumed nutritious feed rations made with grain from biotech crops and people have consumed hundreds of millions of meals containing foods derived from biotech crops—all without a single substantiated instance of illness or harm due to the GM ingredient."

We all are lab rats

I just checked the wayback machine and the SDK terms haven't changed much in years. Here's a link to the 2010 terms for the SDK:

  http://web.archive.org/web/20100724144708/http://developer.android.com/sdk/terms.html

Pretty much the same as the current SDK agreement. The parts under proprietary license you can't mess with, the parts under open source licenses you can do what you want with. I can't see that anything has changed with the latest version of the agreement.

How has nobody else on this entire thread noticed this?

The only new part I saw under that section was the bit about fragmentation. Good research!

I just checked the wayback machine and the SDK terms haven't changed much in years. Here's a link to the 2010 terms for the SDK:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100724144708/http://developer.android.com/sdk/terms.html

Pretty much the same as the current SDK agreement. The parts under proprietary license you can't mess with, the parts under open source licenses you can do what you want with. I can't see that anything has changed with the latest version of the agreement.

Hi,

I think you need to reexamine the history here. Based on historical writings, as well as years of SCOTUS rulings it was very much the intent of the founding fathers that gun ownership, above all else is to prevent the tyranny of the government over the populous.

Here's a great read on the subject:

http://ia601204.us.archive.org/14/items/Pre-revolutionaryOriginsOfTheSecondAmendment/Pre-revolutionaryOriginsOfTheSecondAmendment.pdf

So that was the intent. BFD.

Has it ever actually worked?

I can name you several times a populace has tried to resist the US government. The South lost the Civil War. After Reconstruction those same Southerners seized control of their state governments (in one case by actual coup de etat), and local blacks fought back. They lost. The Whiskey Rebellion was crushed by George Washington himself.

Hi,

I think you need to reexamine the history here. Based on historical writings, as well as years of SCOTUS rulings it was very much the intent of the founding fathers that gun ownership, above all else is to prevent the tyranny of the government over the populous.

Here's a great read on the subject:

http://ia601204.us.archive.org/14/items/Pre-revolutionaryOriginsOfTheSecondAmendment/Pre-revolutionaryOriginsOfTheSecondAmendment.pdf

Does anyone know if scanners from 1996 were able to scan in a document, launch an e-mail application, and attach said document to the e-mail?

Yes, Paperport from Visoneer was one. The Mac version was AppleScriptable and people regularly did things like transfer scanned images into e-mails, Filemaker databases, etc.

aside: the term TFS is looking for is "Legal Plunder". Bastiat coined it in 1850 in The Law, and it was then an existing problem, so don't expect a quick resolution so long as the same power structures remain in place (people hate to admit that they're the ones with the role of being fleeced).

No free books and music
No free games

Wtf is wrong with the world

Free books you say? How about here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ and here: http://www.baen.com/library/

Free music? Probably plenty here: http://archive.org/ and here: http://www.youtube.com/ (I'm sure there are plenty of worthwhile indy artists that put there music up there on YouTube to be freely downloaded and enjoyed. As for games, I don't know. Perhaps someone else can post a site with games that are freely downloadable.

You really have no idea how sinister Scientology is.
Your reading list sir.

if anything, Roland has contributed greatly to the /. community by submitting a ton of excellent stories--even after he stopped earning ad revenue from submissions--and starting many interesting discussions. so he clearly cared more about /. as a thriving community with a rich online culture than just another business to be monetized. and if you're more worried about Slashdot's value as a business than its usefulness to its users (which is primarily from the discussions that follow each submission), then you clearly don't understand /. as well as Roland did.

your blatant hyperboles and baseless accusations are more dishonest than Roland has ever been. and i doubt you will ever make as great of a contribution to the /. community as he has.

To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble. Judging by Mr. Greenspan's remarkably cheerful recent testimony, he still thinks he can pull that off. But the Fed chairman's crystal ball has been cloudy lately; remember how he urged Congress to cut taxes to head off the risk of excessive budget surpluses? And a sober look at recent data is not encouraging.

- NYTimes, 2002

By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

Red herring.com (1998)

If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus.

Paul Krugman: Fake Alien Invasion

In July 2008 Nobel laureate Paul Krugman wrote that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) "didn't do any subprime lending, because they can't: the definition of a subprime loan is precisely a loan that doesn't meet the requirement, imposed by law, that Fannie and Freddie buy only mortgages issued to borrowers who made substantial down payments and carefully documented their income." (New York Times, July 18, 2008)
How did Krugman get it so wrong?

And they accept Bitcoin. They've received 800btc so far. Not bad, that's USD$10,500 according to BTC-E (up 112btc/$1470 in ~48h).

(this is merely a linkified+updated version of the parent comment, with currency exchange)

Note, I am not sure if this triggers the 3x matching.

No... in fact, I stated it COSTS, big http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3339513&cid=42390907 AND, I pointed out the companies (huge money makers) doing it successfully!

There's probably others, those are my 2 "prime examples thereof" is all... AND?

NOTE - I also posted OTHER METHODS too (for Windows users though)...

Methods that do NOT require 'huge bandwidth' & OC12 pipes to do it (ala the registry hack settings mitigations recommend by Microsoft for TCP/IP stack hardening).

Your point??

I appreciate your information, but - I find your tone to be one that's attempting to "condescend" to me, while you overlook ALL/EACH of my points!

Ok, but... I am WELL aware of how it works - since I have been fighting vs. crooks online for more than a decade now, actively (unlike MOST others, mere "armchair QB's" & critics galore but not much on being 'chefs') - see below.

So, yes - I KNOW HOW IT ALL WORKS & how the pricks that abuse people, companies, & nations work...

Plus - I am out there DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT - actively now, & for YEARS before it, just like my parent post here was intended to be, because the methods work... see below too, I don't like stating things without some proof of my words (unlike the trolls I have smoked here today).

APK

P.S.=> Buddy, listen: As far as protecting vs. malware & other threats online? I am RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT with security firms:

http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

and doing the FIRST security guide for Windows users, EVER 1997 onwards to 2008:

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To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

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1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

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Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered secu

Actually the Regulations are the formal definitions as to how the training and operating procedures are to be conducted; for example, Army Regulation 380-5 is the Department of the Army Information Security Program. In the begining it was just Baron Von Steuben's Drill Manual, Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States.

I use this website networkforgood.org to give to charities annually. It's functional and every charity I looked for was there. I split my donations up because I don't have a lot of money, and hope that diversified charitable donation is as effective as diversified financial investment. So I give around $20 to 10 organizations (now 11, just added Internet Archive to the list) every year (and hope to do so indefinitely, and to increase the amounts and add some other orgs if I have more money in the future).

You can control your preferences as to how much you give each, how often, designating the donation, what information they receive about you, etc.

Are there other similar non-profit donation systems like this I should consider instead?

http://archive.org/details/Decay2012-TheLhcZombieFilmfullFilm
(if you follow the links through to the films website, there are the torrent download options and streaming)

Here's the link to donate just in case the editor's oversite would be enough to disuade you.

It was an oversight?

Here's the link to donate just in case the editor's oversite would be enough to disuade you.

How does this project compare with the Internet Archive?

commoncrawl.org will be available on archive.org a lot longer than it will be available on commoncrawl.org

How does this project compare with the Internet Archive?

Actually, Mac users know that the world will end sometime in the year 29,940.

To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

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1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

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Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

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SOME QUOTED TESTIMONIALS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE I AUTHORED:

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=2

"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=3

"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getti

"I don't disagree with you." - by cmdr_tofu (826352) on Sunday December 16, @10:00AM (#42306999) Homepage

It'd be hard not to! Per my subject-line above? You have a sensible outlook @ least. That's the "thing" that has bugged me on THIS particular website to NO END: "FUD"...

I don't "hate Linux" either!

In fact - I rather LIKE it, especially KDE bearing distros, like KUbuntu...

I just didn't like how Mr. Shuttleworth & Canonical are "running" from RMS' statement regarding LOCAL DISK-BOUND QUERIES GOING OUT TO REMOTE SERVERS OF THEIRS!

That's like putting a surveillance camera into our homes essentially & I see RMS' point...

Additionally - I wasn't 'crazy about' how the "pr flaks" from Canonical are using "std. pr flak technique #101" of *trying* to "cut down" RMS rather than disprove his points:

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PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Instead of addressing the queries raised by Stallman http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/12/07/1527225/rms-speaks-out-against-ubuntu [slashdot.org] and the EFF, Canonical is now pushing for making Ubuntu a shopping cart"

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(Sure - Many folks consider RMS a bit odd by THEIR standards, but then again, who isn't? We're all "weird" to one another - we're NOT THE SAME in all things is why, thank goodness... however, his personal habits etc./et al are NOT in question here. His findings are... & we SEE the results!))

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"Hosting applications on Linux does not make them ecure." - by cmdr_tofu (826352) on Sunday December 16, @10:00AM (#42306999) Homepage

True, and you're correct below also... it's the SAME on any given platform in computing really!

These companies... were I they? (MS, Apple, Linux distros galore)?

I'd send out MY OS totally "secured"/"security-hardened" & I MEAN any & ALL ways in or out, shutoff...

(Then, I'd tell the user - "You open this, this can happen, but you assume responsibility doing so").

Yes, it IS doable (SeLinux, Windows multiple methods & layers for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" etc./et al). Just takes time, & effort, as you stated. Worth it? Yes. Absolutely.

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"It takes a lot of time and energy." - by cmdr_tofu (826352) on Sunday December 16, @10:00AM (#42306999) Homepage

It does, & that's ONLY OS SIDE ALONE (which I've been doing since, oh, 1996 or thereabouts, for Windows users online).

E.G. -> To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

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1.) An E

I just went to the wayback machine, and my memory was right: http://web.archive.org/web/19991001203950/http://slashdot.org/articles/98/11/11/1212234.shtml

Also, wayback'd for you.

I would love to have an app on my phone and my xbox for Archive.org. I love watching some of the old movies there, as well as a lot of the cheesy old "coronet" films (the 40's and 50's videos like Lunchroom Manners). They're unbelievably entertaining for me, I don't know why.

I'm honestly surprised that it held on this long.

Intel EOLed even their embedded 386s sufficiently long ago that I had to go to archive.org to find the discontinuation notice. The last 386 rolled out the door in 2007.

There still seem to be some other outfits I've never heard of making x86s for embedded applications, but the specs on those boards are sufficiently primitive that they generally seem to be aiming for DOS, not the leading edge of the 3.X kernel tree.

IOW, [citation needed]

His pornographic website was seized by Iranian legal authorities in march 2009, but Archive.org , a US-based Internet archiving has snapshots of the original website. I don't like to link directly to the slut website. You can access it by going to Internet Archive Wayback Machine , input the name of his website (A-v-i-z-o-o-n- dot com, remove -) and see archives before 15 Mar 2009. You will clearly see Powered by MT at the bottom of the pages, which is linked to MovableType software website .

So, the claims that he was a programmer and is being punished because of writing a computer program for the website is clearly wrong.

During the Cold War, factual reports of typical American life did seem like propaganda to the Soviets. The gap in what American society provided versus what Soviet society provided, even to the fairly privileged, and at least into the mid 1970s, was rather startling. A Mig-25 pilot by the name of Victor Belenko defected to the United States in 1975 by flying his plane to Japan. His story is told in the book, "Mig Pilot.*" Reading of his experiences encountering American society is eye opening. His ultimate evaluation of American society then was that it had basically achieved in terms of economics and social services what the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had been promising would arrive under "true Communism" that was always 5-10 years away. His encounter with an ordinary supermarket is instructive. He thought it was a special showplace to fool visitors about the wealth of American society, a Potemkin village, as it were. You can read the an account of it in this selection from Mig Pilot, or the more muted account from an interview:

Belenko: First of all American super-market, my first visit was under CIA supervision, and I thought it was set-up; I did not believe super-market was real one. I thought well I was unusual guest; they probably kicked everyone out. It's such a nice, big place with incredible amount of produce, and no long lines! You're accustomed to long lines in Russia. But later, when I discovered super-market was real one, I had real fun exploring new products. I would buy, everyday, a new thing and try to figure out its function. In Russia at that time (and even today) it's hard to find canned food, good one. But everyday I would buy new cans with different food. Once I bought a can which said "dinner." I cooked it with potatoes, onions, and garlic-it was delicious. Next morning my friends ask me, "Viktor, did you buy a cat?" It was a can of chicken-based cat food. But it was delicious! It was better than canned food for people in Russia today. And I did test it. Last year I brought four people from Russia for commercial project, and I set them up. I bought nibble sized human food. I installed a pâté, and it was cat food. I put it on crackers. And they did consume it, and they liked it. So the taste has not changed. By the way, for those who are not familiar with American cat food. It's very safe; it's delicious, and sometimes it's better than human food, because of the Humane Society. -- Viktor BELENKO

The Communist party made a concerted effort at internal propaganda to shape the thoughts and behaviors of the Soviet people. They often distorted or outright lied about conditions in the US and the West, as well as exaggerated the accomplishments and performance of Soviet society, including the economy. It was these very exaggerations that prompted cynicism among the people. But even with that cynicism, the natural reaction for many of them was to act in accordance to some degree with the information they were given in propaganda.

Propaganda in the Soviet Union

Communist propaganda in the Soviet Union was extensively based on the Marxism-Leninism ideology to promote the Communist Party line. In societies with pervasive censorship, the propaganda was omnipresent and very efficient. It penetrated even social

During the Cold War, factual reports of typical American life did seem like propaganda to the Soviets. The gap in what American society provided versus what Soviet society provided, even to the fairly privileged, and at least into the mid 1970s, was rather startling. A Mig-25 pilot by the name of Victor Belenko defected to the United States in 1975 by flying his plane to Japan. His story is told in the book, "Mig Pilot.*" Reading of his experiences encountering American society is eye opening. His ultimate evaluation of American society then was that it had basically achieved in terms of economics and social services what the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had been promising would arrive under "true Communism" that was always 5-10 years away. His encounter with an ordinary supermarket is instructive. He thought it was a special showplace to fool visitors about the wealth of American society, a Potemkin village, as it were. You can read the an account of it in this selection from Mig Pilot, or the more muted account from an interview:

Belenko: First of all American super-market, my first visit was under CIA supervision, and I thought it was set-up; I did not believe super-market was real one. I thought well I was unusual guest; they probably kicked everyone out. It's such a nice, big place with incredible amount of produce, and no long lines! You're accustomed to long lines in Russia. But later, when I discovered super-market was real one, I had real fun exploring new products. I would buy, everyday, a new thing and try to figure out its function. In Russia at that time (and even today) it's hard to find canned food, good one. But everyday I would buy new cans with different food. Once I bought a can which said "dinner." I cooked it with potatoes, onions, and garlic-it was delicious. Next morning my friends ask me, "Viktor, did you buy a cat?" It was a can of chicken-based cat food. But it was delicious! It was better than canned food for people in Russia today. And I did test it. Last year I brought four people from Russia for commercial project, and I set them up. I bought nibble sized human food. I installed a pâté, and it was cat food. I put it on crackers. And they did consume it, and they liked it. So the taste has not changed. By the way, for those who are not familiar with American cat food. It's very safe; it's delicious, and sometimes it's better than human food, because of the Humane Society. -- Viktor BELENKO

The Communist party made a concerted effort at internal propaganda to shape the thoughts and behaviors of the Soviet people. They often distorted or outright lied about conditions in the US and the West, as well as exaggerated the accomplishments and performance of Soviet society, including the economy. It was these very exaggerations that prompted cynicism among the people. But even with that cynicism, the natural reaction for many of them was to act in accordance to some degree with the information they were given in propaganda.

Propaganda in the Soviet Union

Communist propaganda in the Soviet Union was extensively based on the Marxism-Leninism ideology to promote the Communist Party line. In societies with pervasive censorship, the propaganda was omnipresent and very efficient. It penetrated even social

From that page, this one is also very nice.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000914162415/http://www.synicon.com.au/sw/mf/mm-mf.jpg