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Do it in parcels. What are your most common files? databases? PDFs? JPGs? spreadsheets? Whatever they are, de-dup all the common file extensions one at a time. Do the pictures, then the documents, then the PDFs, then the MP3s, ... If this is a porn collection, you need to log out and never come back to slashdot ever again. Anyways, then start working on *.*, but break that up into chunks. De-dup from 0K size to 1Meg, then from1Meg to 10Meg, from 10Meg to 50Meg, etc. This is the tool I use: http://archive.org/details/tucows_373411_Duplicate_File_Finder I have thrown some real hairballs at it and it works fine.

I'm not an MBA either, but I don't know where you find that the Köhler effect doesn't apply to cognitive tasks.

Here:
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ fachbereiche-einrichtungen/fb16/absozpsy/eaesp_koehler_05.pdf

I did some trawling of the Wayback Machine and this seems to be the study that the GP is referring to: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/83383916/4873_PickupSurveyReport.pdf

Found at http://web.archive.org/web/20070713221433/http://www.edf.org/documents/4873_PickupSurveyReport.pdf

The stats are what he claims, and I don't have a spin on them. Decide for yourself.

You forgot to mention Köhler's effect:
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereiche-einrichtungen/fb16/absozpsy/HAFOS-40.pdf

It's a motivational effect, which encourages the lowest performer to surpass himself.

Köhler's effect is the opposite of Ringelmann's effect.

Apple are currently not getting along well with Amazon or Google and as far as I know have yet to officially acknowledge the existence of Linux.

http://web.archive.org/web/19990427014529/http://www.mklinux.apple.com/

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/ipad/#documentation/Porting/Conceptual/PortingUnix/intro/intro.html

The 1st real guide for that & it really works -> http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&qs=ns&form=QBLH

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.

(I HAVEN'T FOUND AN OLDER (or better) ONE YET ONLINE TO DATE EITHER...)

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

Perhaps it happens, but it must be quite rare.

Rare enough to trigger a global recall campaign.

As much as you can (to a point as needed only of course for certain use-cases)!

Face it, I use ALL of this - I wrote it:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=y6UxUMf5CY_g6wHT04C4Dg

& practically wrote the book on "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" on PC's per that guide... sound cocky? Read on...

(Nice part is the above, one day getting sick of seeing malware run rampage on many folks systems, knowing I was never "hit" since 1995-1996 doing that guide? Well, turned out nice & got me paid a tiny fee on 1 spot it did well in)

It began way, Way, WAY back in 1996 or so... proof here:

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

Just fine - I've done a number of posts on the source site already, posting portions of what I have here a ton of times (mind you, which my "skeptic naysayers" here haven't disproven a single shred of to date)... I'm just waiting for the page to update for responses I gave others there (takes time on some boards, part of what I LIKE about /. is "instant on" with posts).

It's not a "demise" by the by - MS Sec Essentials is the KEY "workaround"... so you know. There's another I posted but it hasn't come up yet there (databasepath parm in tcp/ip parms in registry & redirecting it).

You obviously also aren't aware of some of my posts over time here. I've been "into" a LOT more than hosts my man... a LOT more. I'll post some for YOUR reference after this post as an "addendum"... fair enough? Good.

Anyways:

Do I *like* what I saw on Win8 there? Heck no... especially NOT on hosts files!

However/Then again??

MS "fanboy" extraordinaire here or not??

I don't think much of Win8, due to "METRO"! Man, I've said it before - MS has to get rid of Mr. Ballmer & his crew responsible for it... too far, too fast, not enough market on PC's yet for touch screen (tablets, & phones, yes... PC OS? No!)

Not that he's some evil guy, in fact, I hear he's a hell of a NICE guy who's great @ grooming mgt. talent (& that's also from an MS mgt. man named Foredecker who posts here or did). I've said this many times here before in fact.

However - He's not a "King Billy" calibre man, who was a computer coder/technologist AND business man... that's what MS needs.

Fact is - of ALL the MS guys I am aware of, personally or otherwise?

I hope Russinovich, former "co-worker" of mine thru Sunbelt where we sold wares together takes over 1 day. We've had diff.'s over time, but he'd get MY vote.

Anyways - Pity is, Win8 "under-the-covers" is BETTER than Win7 even in a LOT of ways, such as "self-terminating services"!

(Which tuners/tweakers like myself have been into for decades, ala my guides for it from 1997 onwards, & I'd be as bold to say they WERE the 1st of their kind, as I have yet to find older ones).

Proofs: 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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Anyhow/anyways, all that aside?

My std. post on hosts, of course...

For those of you that run Microsoft Windows 32 or 64 bit? An automated hosts file creation & mgt. program:

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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:

Sc

This is my response, I just sent this back to the CEO.

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I am understandably upset by this particular turn of events, since the terms that I signed up for stated that this service would be available for "as long as we exist" http://web.archive.org/web/20060203030930/http://www.textdrive.com/mixedgrill. That's pretty cut and dried as far as I'm concerned.

I'm not usually someone to make waves, but is my single little shared server with 2-3 domains pointed to it (that receive a few hundred hits a month) really impacting your bottom line enough to justify breaching the deal that we agreed to way back in the beginning?? If anything it costs you significantly less to maintain that service for my one account now than it did in 2006.

The goodwill that offers like the Mixed Grill and your excellent service and customer support have earned you have been reciprocated by me (and other Mixed Grill customers) over the years in the glowing reviews that we have given you, increasing your customer base. If the other Mixed Grill users have been anything like me, they have recommended you to friends, coworkers, and business associates. They have probably enjoyed watching your company become the leading company to use Solaris and OpenSolaris technologies and they have probably been in awe of your advances with ZFS (as Strongspace), zones (with Shared Accelerators and now SmartOS), and they have been your biggest fans. I will bet that you have made a lot more money off of the Mixed Grill users than we have cost you. If the experience of Oracle with OpenSolaris has taught you anything, keeping the goodwill of your long-term fans and supporters is the most important resource that you have. Oracle learned the hard way that alienating your die-hard fans for short-term profit will probably hurt you in the long run.

I urge you to rethink this decision, and approach the original Mixed Grill customers as fans and supporters, and let us keep our little Shared Accelerators, or just migrate us to SmartOS instances without charge and let us continue to enjoy the great service that you are known for, all under the spirit of the original agreement.

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>> the official torrent contains a single gigantic zip file

This is nearly as bad as using RAR in Torrents
http://web.archive.org/web/20080724050712/http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3559946/Why_RAR_archives_do_not_belong_in_torrents
https://torrentfreak.com/unpack-rar-archives-before-you-release-a-torrent/

It is a shame that people continue to do this and unfortunate that the torrent programs do not make more effort to guide users to the right thing.

> No matter how good it is, no torrent client will allow you to choose the files inside a zip file inside the torrent.

No Torrent program I know if is good enough yet but some archive programs are very clever and it wouldn't be impossible to make a torrent file that did more with ZIP files. I'll explain...
Technically ZIP is more than just a file format it is also a file system. ZIP unlike RAR is not one big single *solid* file, and it is possible with ZIP files to extract individual files from an archive without needing to unpack the entire archive. In practice this is more complicated when you do not have a full and complete archive but at least in theory torrent programs could be made more ZIP aware and proiritize the file index and other essentials from within the ZIP.

"TextDrive, Strongspace and Joyent

One-time payment of $499

We're pleased to announce a special offer that combines three great products in our family â" TextDrive, Strongspace and Joyent â" available for a one-time payment of just $499. "

Too bad their TOS has you waive your right to sue.

Doesn't matter. These folks made sure they had a "get out of jail free" card. Starting and certainly not ending with a waiving of right to sue in favor of arbitration, and an attempt to get out of any legal encumberments pursuant to the "Interstate Commerce Clause".

From their terms of service at the time of the offer, remedies are limited to refund of the amount paid and disputes over $250 must be arbitrated. "Lifetime" is not defined but their offer clearly says "as long as we exist" and they do still exist. If it were me, I would go for the refund and be thankful for 6 years of free use.

Link is here

Agreed, nothing in the TOS talks about cancellation, and given the boilerplate nature of such things, me thinks they can cancel it if they want. Besides, how much money are you going to spend to fight them in court? Me thinks, not much.

And more importantly, how many other people are in your situation? Me thinks not many.

'Not Much' + 'Not Many' = you get to find another solution. And of course rightfully bitch about them publicly :)

"Ahem, the entire line was that group policy makes booting slower." - by UnknowingFool (672806) on Friday August 17, @08:06AM (#41022259)

No, I said disabling SERVICES via policies, or other means like a .reg file merge in a logon script (you DO know what those are, right? GpEdit allows for that, as it does parsing autoexec.bat even!) can speed up booting!

Which, of course? It does!

AND

As a bonus, it saves CPU cycles, RAM, & other forms of I/O - as well as electricity too (bonus)...

Again - YOUR READING? Needs work!

It works to speed up booting - Just as it does in Win8 with its "self-terminating services", & it's JUST LIKE what "tweakers/tuners" like myself, having written the FIRST GUIDE ON IT in existence for Windows NT-based OS knows better than just about anyone does:

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.

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You responded by telling them to disable rights which does not apply to most workers. So your entire point was meaningless.." - by UnknowingFool (672806) on Friday August 17, @08:06AM (#41022259)

Wrong - not RIGHTS, I said SERVICES, not rights...

Thus?

* Well - You must "eat your words" again, since your so-called 'point', as-per-your-usual, is in ERROR... due to your reading being faulty!

APK

P.S.=>

"Again, are you ever right?" - by UnknowingFool (672806) on Friday August 17, @08:06AM (#41022259)

Sure - see above (& learn to read, lol)... and of course, our "history lesson review" from OUR mutual past, below too (lol):

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"Your history seems to say no." - by UnknowingFool (672806) on Friday August 17, @08:06AM (#41022259)

Hmmm, HISTORY (you vs. me) SHOWS CLEARLY OTHERWISE, here today now, & of course, this in the past as well (again to 'refresh your memory', lol):

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Unknowing FOOL burned by the fact NASDAQ's system DOES BOOK TRADES:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1836934&cid=34046188

Unknowing FOOL goes down on LSE + Linux, just like Linux did:

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1995760&cid=35231420

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Now, WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT "HISTORY", Unknowing Fool? See history, above... you vs. me!

Yes - I'd think "twice", per the above (if not this as a 3rd time, lol) before YOU even think about *trying* me again, since so far over time? Your results haven't been very good... lol, see above!

... apk

Sure - see above (

there is a site called the internet archive. they archive 20 gb of data a month or so, or roughly one bd-r disc they use different tech though. http://archive.org/

And it definitely has nothing to do with having sex with a sleeping person (in violation of the terms set when they were awake, not like that matters), pinning down another and trying to force her legs open to have sex without a condom, etc. It's all about Assange. It's always all about Assange. After all, he's God. Actually, that's not my favorite of Assange's diary entries; that has to be the one where he says that there will be no great breakthroughs by women in the field of mathematics because " they need a male type brain to thrive in the existing mathematical world..", but he hopes that a (presumably male) neuroscientist will create a new "female" mathematics for them to help them out.

This. This right fucking here.

The downright worship of this attention seeking, egotistical and (possibly) rapist here and on other websites is just mind blowing. He didn't do a damned thing for the good of humanity and he never has. It has always been about attention for Julian Assange. People on here act like he's such a brave guy. Never mind all the people who may have been killed, directly or indirectly, by wikileaks blasting diplomatic cables all over the place. Never mind that he/they have only "over turned power and exposed secrets" when it negatively impacted the West and/or the US. Unless, of course we're supposed to believe that he/they were never handed any embarrassing information or secrets about China/Iran/Russia/whoever. Nope, just the US and the West. No agenda there, is there?

As Rei here said too, this isn't about making an example out of the douchebag. This is about him having been accused of a pretty serious crime, which many around here just want to say is no big deal, and him trying to dodge his day in court. Like a douchebag.

If the US, being the "super evil country" it is, wanted him gone they would have done it far more quietly than all this crap. Odd that never occurs to people...

And it definitely has nothing to do with having sex with a sleeping person (in violation of the terms set when they were awake, not like that matters), pinning down another and trying to force her legs open to have sex without a condom, etc. It's all about Assange. It's always all about Assange. After all, he's God. Actually, that's not my favorite of Assange's diary entries; that has to be the one where he says that there will be no great breakthroughs by women in the field of mathematics because " they need a male type brain to thrive in the existing mathematical world..", but he hopes that a (presumably male) neuroscientist will create a new "female" mathematics for them to help them out.

Challenge accepted.

Here's Ardin's thesis, titled "The Cuban Multi-Party System: Is The Democratic alternative really democratic and an alternative after the Castro regime?" The word rape does not appear in it.

Oh, really, it's time to look at *everything a person has ever written on the internet*, really? Like you've never written anything that others could use to discredit you online, ever? Really? First off, the "seven steps to revenge" 1) was a repost, 2) begins with, basically, "don't", and is 3) in general about how, if you do, how to cause an ex boyfriend's new girlfriend to break up with him.

Secondly, if you want to take the "anything you've ever written", let's see what Assange thinks about women.

I was exactly what she secretly longed for; a man willing to openly disagree with her father. All along she had needed a man to devote herself to. All along she had failed to find a man worthy of being called a man, failed to find a man who would not bow to gods, so she had chosen a god unworthy of being called a god, but who would not bow to a man.

Wow, really Julian? You're a freaking God to women? And do we even need to get into his dating profile, Mr. I AM DANGER, ACHTUNG?

See how this "dig up anything a person has ever written" game works?

Wow, what the frick is up with your "one bullet point on a website" link? It's not a reference to anything - nothing is backed up in any way, shape or form - but man, what a stalker site that is.

You need to work on your reading comprehension on the Mundo article you linked. It says she worked as the head of the Swedish group connected to the party, a party based on peaceful civil disobedience. "Somehow" funding it? It says right there - she funded it "minimally" with the magazine Consenso. Nowhere does it say she was deported. That's only said in the counterpunch article, which the article you linked to describes as riddled with errors. And furthermore, in what f-ed up world does supporting democracy in Cuba mean "CIA agent"? I mean, for crying out loud!

The interrogation does not at all say what you nor the person who posted it claim it says. The part about Wilen hearing the news reads as follows:

Sofia and I were notified during the interrogation that Julian Assange had been arrested in absentia. Sofia had difficulty concentrating after that news, whereby I made the judgement it was best to terminate the interrogation. But Sofia had time anyway to explain that Assange was angry with her. I didn't have time to get any further details about why he was angry with her or how this manifested itself. And we didn't have time to get into what else happened afterwards. The interrogation was neither read back to Sofia nor reviewed for approval by her but Sofia was told she had the opportunity to do this later.

Amazing how "difficulty concentrating" and concerned that "Assange was angry with her" transforms into "horrified" that they brought charges. I also noted (to put it another way, it made me sick to read) how the person who posted the article tried to spin the following passage as "consent":

They fell asleep and she woke by feeling him penetrate her. She immediately asked 'are you wearing anything' and he answered 'you'. She told him 'you better not have HIV' and he replied 'of course not'. She felt it was too late. He was already inside her and she let him continue. She couldn't be bothered telling him again. She'd been nagging about condoms all night lo

That's a good question; I described the difference between climate and weather at the beginning of my article. I later updated it with a better analogy from NOAA: One way to distinguish between weather and climate is that the climate of your hometown will determine how many sweaters you have in your closet. The weather will determine if you should be wearing a sweater right now.

Many times the climate being discussed is global, so an average is taken over the entire Earth. For global temperatures, Santer et al. 2011 shows that one needs to average over ~17 years of data to obtain statistically significant climate trends. Here's another explanation by Tamino. Also, the Skeptical Science trend calculator helps visualize statistical significance.

If you still have doubt on the savagery of the regime that has controlled Malaysia for the past 55 years, read the following:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040712015617/http://www.waseda-coe-cas.jp/jcas/images/shinozaki_jocas.pdf

This is the point http://web.archive.org/web/20110519051938/http://msversus.org/

Okay, first off, downloading copyrighted material isn't stealing.

That doesn't make it OK.

Second, while a lot of piracy happens using bittorrent, a LOT of legal businesses use it also. For example, The Internet Archive is now online via Bit Torrent. http://bt1.archive.org/hotlist.php

Of course there's a lot of legal use. But is that really what most uTorrent users use it for?

Interesting business model.

Okay, first off, downloading copyrighted material isn't stealing.

Second, while a lot of piracy happens using bittorrent, a LOT of legal businesses use it also. For example, The Internet Archive is now online via Bit Torrent. http://bt1.archive.org/hotlist.php

"Can you think of an effective way for non-government affiliated denizens of the Internet to respond to such emerging scenarios where geo-politically driven cyber-conflicts have the potential to harm non-participants?" - by Doubting Sapien (2448658) on Thursday August 09, @04:21PM (#40937259)

PROTECTING YOURSELF IS "JOB #1", & if you want to do a job right? Do it yourself... & learn how to during that time, with a little help/guidance!

Read, & apply what's in the link below, to-the-letter, IF you use a Windows-based system!

(CIS tool for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 = FREE, & CIS Tool for Windows 7 has a 30 day trial: Trust me, you won't need it for THAT long! It makes it fun, almost like running a system performance benchmark for speed/efficiency tuning, albeit, this is for security-hardening your system instead).

This is a guide I'd written since 1997-2007 that actually works:

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:

---

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

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"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

registration doesn't matter... it only counts when calculating damages.

the earliest reference in archive.org for the site with that logo was jan 23, 2002. also found this post who says it was created in 2001:
http://lists.openhardware.org/pipermail/legal/2011-September/000004.html

Interestingly, opensource.org did not use the logo until June 2002:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020725154922/http://opensource.org/

In fact, that page has an announcement in the sidebar:

*June 2002, Open Source & OSI-Certified marks launched! HTML & Print (color) instructions. Read about our Certification Program.

I would be interested in hearing what OSIs response is.

Oops the link in that article is dead.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070316025237/http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/06/21/990621opmetcalfe.html

Trademarks are supposed to uniquely identify something.

Really, is that why the OSI logo looks like a pallet-swapped version of this logo from before OSI existed?

Maybe OSHW should ask that logo's owner for terms, they might be more favorable.

Someone must figure that analogy is as complicated as the average Republican RedNeck can understand. Unfortunatly Shelley the Republican is no longer with us :)

Read it.

I haven't read it, but if you feel it is plausible, maybe that Wiki page needs to be substantially rewritten.

You actually have to read it. The author makes a good case for male mammalian sexuality being a specialized - and normally interrupted - form of predation. The fact that there are so many psychopaths in real life who murder for sexual gratification - practically all of them male - lends just enough credibility to the thesis to make it decidedly unnerving.

Fortunately, it's available online for free (legally): http://web.archive.org/web/20080702231205/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/sheldon/sheldon1.html.

... for instance, here are audio recordings of Asimov's Foundation Trilogy:
http://archive.org/details/IsaacAsimov-TheFoundationTrilogy

_This_ is what the civilian Internet was intended for: spreading information and culture.

[Citation needed]

The Family Research Council. Not based in Uganda, but they supported the Ugandan bill. Right now, they are back-pedaling on their earlier statements which intentionally misrepresented what the Ugandan bill did, and they have deleted the evidence of those statements from the Family Research Council website after public backlash. They have changed their tune and now say that they are in favor of the bill with the death penalty for being gay removed. Fortunately, the Wayback machine never forgets:

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=CM10B11

Geezer Butler tells a completely different story.

It had nothing to do with me. In fact, I was the one who thought it was really corny. We had Sharon Osbourne's dad, Don Arden, managing us. He came up with the idea of having the stage set be Stonehenge. He wrote the dimensions down and gave it to our tour manager. He wrote it down in meters but he meant to write it down in feet. The people who made it saw fifteen meters in stead of fifteen feet. It was 45 feet high and it wouldn't fit on any stage anywhere so we just had to leave it the storage area. It cost a fortune to make but there was not a building on earth that you could fit it into.

Looks like the AC forgot one:

Baylor University: Runs their domain on Windows -> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.baylor.edu .

Because it's a horrible company. Try reading this http://web.archive.org/web/20110519051938/http://msversus.org/

And that archive doesn't contain newer crimes such as ooxml and uefi. You can read about those here, respectively http://www.noooxml.org/ and http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/

FUCK MICRO$OFT!

Gee, cosmologists like this one have been using those very words to describe stellar creation and destruction for 75 years or more.

But they're just scientists, so what the heck do they know, anyway?

More correct history time! ;-)

From an ancient blog:

What came first, the chicken or the egg? What is Half-Life built on, Quake 1 or Quake 2? These questions pop up pretty frequently, and neither seems to have an accepted answer. In an effort to extinguish the argument, I've asked the people who know best. About Half-Life, that is. We're not touching the question about the chicken.

Ken Birdwell explains it like this:

"It is fundamentally just a heavily modified Quake 1 engine. There are about 50 lines of code from the Quake 2 engine, mostly bugs fixes to hard problems that Carmack found and fixed before we ran into them."

At its core, it's a Quake 1 engine. You can tell this by comparing Half-life's map compiling tools with those shipped with Quake1. You'll find very minor differences -- none of them are fundamental. The core rendering is architecturally identical to Quake1, the only "significant" change is removing the fixed palette, making map lighting RGB instead of 8 bit, and converting software rendering to be 16 bit color instead of 8 bit color, which was pretty easy and only required minor code changes. Our skeletal animation system is new, though it was heavily influenced by the existing model rendering code, as were a lot of our updated particle effects, though less so with our beam system. Decals are totally new, our audio system has some major additions to what already existed, and at ship time our networking was almost totally Quake1 / QuakeWorld networking but about a year later Yahn rewrote most of all of it to be very different in design. The most highly changed sections are the game logic; ours being written in C++ and Quake's being in written interpreted "Quake C". Our AI system is very very different from anything in Quake, and there's a lot of other significant architectural changes in the whole server and client implementations, though if you look hard enough you can find a few remnants of some nearly unmodified Quake1 era entities buried in places.

Jay Stelly adds, "We also took PAS from QW and/or Q2 and a couple of other minor routines I can remember (no more than 100-200 lines of code there). There was some feature overlap (as Ken mentions) like game code DLLs and colored lighting, but we developed our own solutions to those independent of Q2."

So there it is. This should put some arguments to rest. Half-Life is based on Quake 1, although it has a very small amount of Quake 2 code. Yahn notes that "we did use some of the winsock functions from Q2, that's about it. Probably more than 50 lines, but nothing too interesting."

So GoldSrc and thus Half-lIfe was actually based on Quake 1, not 2.

No, seriously, the landings were faked, but they were filmed on the moon. We've had a base up there since 1958.

Research has been uncovered that dates back to 1953

http://archive.org/details/Cat_Women_of_the_Moon

this experiment is derived from one flown on the Shuttle a few times already

In particular, goldfish and newts flew on STS-65 (1994). Not sure if complete life-cycle experiments have been done before. Some quick searching turns up this speculation (Google Books preview) as of 2003 that fish will soon become the first vertebrate to live a complete life cycle in space.

It'a a rotten company http://web.archive.org/web/20110519051938/http://msversus.org/

GNAA is far superior to GNOME3, as far as trolling of the public with least amount of real harm is concerned. And LMOS default user interface looks better than anything done with GNOME3.

Because now Apple is getting virii and they want to start expanding their recruitment to actually replace their "security through obscurity" model by implementing *real* security measures.

It's probably more about image damage-control after having a reasonable-sized botnet stroll in through the wide open door of complacency on one of their platforms.

Up until less than a year ago, there was no security division that external parties could even contact to tell Apple about vulnerabilities.

Apple's Product Security page, complete with contact information for reporting security issues, has publicly existed in its current location since at least November 2001.

It seems that almost every year, some "approved" medical treatment is recalled.

Out of how many that are not? And what alternative would you like, testing them so thoroughly people call them a failed institution for never allowing anything through (which I've heard people say)? You are dealing with substances that are biologically active in humans and given to thousands of people, and you expect the law of large numbers to never crop up? Medical science is not perfect, and nothing the FDA does is going to make it so. It sounds a bit callous to say that, but it is the truth.

Meanwhile - other "drugs" such as quinine, which have been in use worldwide for millenia are suddenly regulated, and taken off the market, so that some bunch of freaks can properly "research", then market quinine.

And why should they get a free pass, if they're going to be sold as medicine? And it isn't like they did it at random (23 people died it seems...hey, weren't you just complaining about drugs that hurt people?)

How 'bout all that food on the market, full of growth hormones, antibiotics, pink slime, and genetically engineered crap?

Antibiotics I'll give you. The other three just creep you out. FDA shouldn't be there to 'protect' you from fears and creepiness.

Emily White violated the copyrights on the music she acquired ("I've swapped hundreds of mix CDs with friends. My senior prom date took my iPod home once and returned it to me with 15 gigs of Big Star, The Velvet Underground and Yo La Tengo"). You'd think RMS would be against that, since the GPL expresses (admirable IMO) restrictions on what you can do with it under those same copyright laws. His arguments why Emily "did nothing wrong" are mostly the lame tired shit piracy apologists have trotted out for decades now

After all, how can we support musicians? Buying recordings from record companies won't do it. For nearly all records, the musicians get none of that money; the record companies keep it. See this article and this article.

Untrue. Artist royalties are often ~20% of the sales price; this chart says $.09 for an iTunes download, and artists self-releasing through CD Baby keep 75%. The meme that artists don't get money seems to be a deliberate misunderstanding of the money record companies advance against royalties so artists can make a quality record (The Trichordist explains this well). Regardless of the percentage it is not the consumer's right or job to decide if that's a reasonable or obscene deal from the record company and online store. FFS, if you don't like a song enough to pay $0.99 for an unprotected DRM-free legal copy of it so the artist gets some money in exchange for your enjoyment of her creative endeavor:

1. Skip it and enjoy the zillions of free songs out there — under CC share licenses, out-of-copyright, in the public domain, live performances from trade-friendly artists on Internet Archive, etc.! As RMS knows from software, there are great free alternatives to restricted paid works, so go support those!

2. If you whine "Waahhh, this song I want ought to be free like all those others" so you pirate it anyway, your parents raised you badly.

RMS goes on

Practically speaking, the only effective and ethical way you could support musicians was through concerts.

Not true. Paying for the copyrighted recordings you want and love works great and delivers money to artists so they can make more! It's insulting to suggest artists should instead try to collect money for something completely different — "touring and T-shirts&quot. (No Sgt. Pepper for you, John Paul George and Ringo are going deaf on another tour that only their teenybopper fans attend.) The idea that artists should not charge for a quality studio recording has been immensely damaging to "the Progress of Science and useful Arts" in the area of recorded music, it's a big reason why today's songs are made on laptops instead of with crack session musicians. And as RMS later acknowledges, touring doesn't even work for those bands that do perform live, because they can't afford to travel to all their fans, then on any night only a fraction of fans in an area make it to the show.

RMS is on better ground with the first of his two ways to support artists

Put a tax on Internet connectivity, and divide the money among artists.

Great idea, let's hope it happens. But his second is a fantasy:

Give each player device a button to send 50 cents anonymously to the artists.

It's been tried, the Fairtunes service during Napster's golden era. I ponied up money for a song I shared, but in several y

Like the people who had their money in Lehman Brothers? Sorry, but there's a difference between a regular bank account and an investment account. Icesave was a program predominantly for retirement funds and municipal investment funds. It wasn't a checking account program.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080225152959/http://icesave.co.uk/legal.html: "Deposits made with Icesave are protected under the Icelandic Deposit Guarantees and Investor-Compensation Scheme (details of this scheme may be obtained from www.landsbanki.com/legislation). Payments under this scheme are limited to the first €20,887 (or the sterling equivalent) of your total deposits held with us. You have further protection from the UK Financial Services Compensation Scheme (www.fscs.org.uk). Payments under this scheme are limited to 100% of the first £35,000 of all your deposits with us, less any payments made under the Icelandic scheme. This means that the maximum claim amount as at October 2007 is £35,000. The total financial protection given to you under both schemes is no less than you would receive if your deposit was only protected by the UK scheme. Further details about both schemes can be obtained from our web site or by post, on request."

Following the Icelandic side's link for the fund that backed the deposits: Hmm, nowhere in here do I see anything about government backing. Do you?

The fund went bankrupt. The British tried to force the government to pick up the bill. Which is frankly BS. The accounts were never guaranteed by the government, you can't make the government suddenly start guaranteeing them *after* a crash.

Well, until MS explains what the NSAKey does, I'll just assume the worst.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000520001558/http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/backdoor.asp

You could have stopped assuming the worst over a decade ago. If you really think that the NSA would allow its back door to carry such an obvious name, then you need to get your head checked. Here is the sort of back door I might be willing to attribute to the NSA, but even this seems a little too obvious:

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/11/securitymatters_1115

Check this shit out: a bunch of trans-humanists who think artificial intelligence is the biggest threat ever, so they want to slow it down by working out plans in detail to sabotage Intel. You gotta keep in mind that nerds are nuts, and engineers are terrorists alot more than other people.