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The previous EWG was my effort and yes I believe it it failed because of a lack of interest by Mozilla.

The old information is here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Old

And yeah, it is sad that the blog came down with the meeting notes.

It looks like the wayback machine caught my back though

http://web.archive.org/web/20080608175739/http://e2pt0.blogspot.com/2007/08/firefox-ewg-meeting-2.html

At least for some posts.

Why not both?

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

Perhaps this goes without saying, but the title is misleading. The Grand Jury did not indict Mr. Swartz on any copyright infringement or acts of piracy on the high seas. There are really only four indictments: wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information form a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer.

You can read the whole indictment here: http://ia700504.us.archive.org/29/items/gov.uscourts.mad.137971/gov.uscourts.mad.137971.2.0.pdf

Criminal copyright infringement is not one of the charges.

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With Cursed GTK. Archive.org doesn't seem to have the screenshots, so here's a screenshot found on a random site.

Some are viewable here (order by date, oldest-newest, for best result).

In http://www.1729.com/blog/PossiblePriorArtForKootolPatentDated2001.html I examine the relationship between the Kootol patent, Twitter, and my unimplemented Miski system which is (or could have been) similar in many ways to how Twitter actually works. http://web.archive.org/web/20010223204516/miski.sourceforge.net/miski-white-paper.html is a copy of the description of Miski captured 23 Feb 2001 on Wayback.

All I do is follow the guidelines I set down here, to the letter (& not just myself, or my friends or family either... but others that have applied this guide in the link next below (some of their testimonials are quoted below in fact or they use the same type of techniques in part I illustrated)):

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

And, a decade++ before it, here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml

(In part of its "original prototype" I started working on while adminning "the official Windows help channel" on DALNET IRC in #Windows, circa 1994-2000)

Which NeoWin picked up on & rated pretty highly circa 2001, here:

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

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That guide?

It's ALL ABOUT the best thing we have currently going: "Layered Security" & User Education really (the latter IS the "main problem" along with the botnet/malware-in-general makers imo!).

* And, yes - it works... proofs thereof (small sampling, I can produce many others upon request):

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

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"Ever since I've installed a host file (http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm) to redirect advertisers to my loopback, I haven't had any malware, spyware, or adware issues. I first started using the host file 5 years ago." - by TestedDoughnut (1324447) on Monday December 13, @12:18AM (#34532122)

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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. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

The US federal government has awful, awful branding. It's just terrible. How could half of social program recipients believe that they have "not used a government social program"?

In Canada, the federal and provincial governments make sure you know what they're doing. Every advertisement/public service announcement from the feds has the Canada wordmark, a simple "logo" with the word "Canada" and a Canadian flag above the last "a" (on TV and radio ads someone always says "A message from the Government of Canada"). But it's not just media advertising -- movies and tv shows that get tax credits from the government show it, correspondence (taxes, welfare, etc.), worksites partially paid for by government funding, and it goes on and on.

That's not to say that the branding gets to politicians' heads: our stimulus had a massive amount of advertising that many thought was flagrant self-promotion of the current government's policy, as opposed to ads which are usually along the lines of "Don't bring things across the border you shouldn't" or "Here's how young people can get help finding a job" or "Come visit our national parks". The current government even made it such that anyone who accepted stimulus money had to purchase a sign at their own cost extolling the benefits of the stimulus and the plan, post it on-site and send two pictures (one wide shot, one close-up) back to the feds before getting the money.

But when I look south, I'm at a loss to figure out who's responsible. Is the national guard a state or federal program? Is the FDIC run by the banks, or is that freecreditreport.com site run by the government? Who funded that study I read online? And the US government's websites all look completely different, so you don't know if it's the government or some independent agency or someone else (.gov notwithstanding -- who looks at URLs anymore besides /. readers?). Maybe if people knew all the services provided by government they wouldn't hate it as much (or maybe they would hate it more, but at least they would better understand everything they want to cut). It also lets you judge information more easily based on its source (your choice whether that improves your opinion of the information or the opposite).

Up north, I see this great anti-speeding ad and the Quebec flag at the end of the word Quebec and I know where it's coming from. Or this anti-fraud ad. France has their wordmark/logo too.

77% of people interviewed in a 1999 survey reported seeing the Canada wordmark, 60% in the previous 12 months. Over 85% of them reporting seeing the wordmark made them have more confidence in the information and make them "feel proud to be Canadian". And they almost unanimously agreed that the wordmark should be on websites, publications, advertisements, worksites and buildings. The key is that this doesn't happen overnight; the FIP started in 1970, and this is what they were running 10 years later.

If you want people to know that the government does important things besides building roads and national defence, make sure that when you spend tons of money on an ad buy, people know who's spending it. Get some cohesion going, US government; it's in your interest.

http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtis_TheCenturyOfTheSelf

@ the root - Disable BlueTooth oriented functionality, temporarily only if needed, until patch is issued

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Disable+bluetooth&btnG=Google+Search

Yes... really simple, & that's how good things are made/done imo (the "KISS" principle, doing more with less etc.)

What I liked seeing while reading thru this, is it's good to see that others here are sensible enough to do that themselves now, without guidance too!

Personally, I've been doing things like that & from as far back as 1997 & putting them out "onto the wire' for "public consumption" too, ala my 1st speed & security guide for Windows -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml

Just as a "pay-it-forward" type of thing, & a "contribution back to society"...

Hey - It was done for myself by others in this art & science of computing before me, & they too, "stood on the shoulders of giants" before they also...

Yes - imo, it's just how it works (I once saw Madonna say how she "turned her life around", & she DID, by being of service to others... so, I took from her & others' example. Why not? It's the right thing to do, & there IS a "joy in giving" as well!)

That 1st guide of mine on security/speedup for Windows NT-based OS LATER evolved into this in 2008 "layered security" model (much better, & far, Far, FAR more comprehensive & adjusted for today's more modern Windows NT-based OS too):

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

Yes - @ first I did guides like that circa 1997-2000 so folks got the "most" out of their rigs as I was... & yes, initially @ least?

Just to save CPU cycles, RAM ops, & other forms of I/O wasted on services + features in Operating Systems that run by default, that I actually don't use...

(Dumb to do, like leaving your lights on in your home, during the daylight hours really!)

HOWEVER - Later, when I figured the "malware explosion" was about to "hit" (circa 2004 it really did, & my HOSTS file population programs can prove that much for me)?

I realized that there's security benefits (around 2000) to doing the same as well ("Double-Bonus", yea!, right?)

* In any event - ONE THING MICROSOFT'S BEEN really, Really, REALLY GOOD ABOUT, is when things like this occur? They issue an "emergency-out-of-band" fix...

(So - Expect it shortly is my guess here, IF it's really needed/necessary, that is...)

APK

P.S.=> Well - time to go fix my lawnmower & snowblower (yes, bit early, but a "stitch-in-time, saves 9" on the latter)

... apk

"Read 'em & weep" & from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml

(In fact, I was one of, IF NOT *THE* FIRST PERSON DOING IT OUT THERE + telling others to do so, for speed AND SECURITY GAINS, & have documented PROOF of it right there from "the wayback machine")

And, You're trying to "preach to me" on how/why it's done?

LMAO - UTTERLY Hilarious!

"I'll tell you: Having programs or services running that are not necessary, have no function, and are not used." - by cbiltcliffe (186293) on Thursday July 14, @06:43AM (#36760610) Homepage

You're "preaching to the choir" boy... &, I mean *THE* choir on THAT ACCOUNT (the original, here).

* Unbelievable...

(You are really messed up and cannot read properly, & say things that are such TOTAL bullshit, without thinking WHO IT IS YOU'RE SPEAKING TO, that it's unreal!)

MOST especially In THAT area?

I am probably THE ORIGINAL LITERAL AUTHORITY & can show it from way, Way, WAY BACK in time no less as I have now!

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"While you've been reading this post, 43 new malware domains have been registered that you missed putting in your hosts file, because you were reading this post, instead. You're vulnerable. OH NOES!!!!" - by cbiltcliffe (186293) on Thursday July 14, @06:43AM (#36760610) Homepage

I don't miss any from 17 reputable & reliable sources for HOSTS &/or DNSBL data, and I don't even have to raise a finger anymore since I wrote the Python program automator of it for myself...

See - in case you haven't noticed and I doubtless doubt you have, since you've shown your reading comprehension sucks?

Since we've been in this debate for a few days now??

I've added like 4,000++ new known bad sites/servers/hosts-domains (and IP addresses to my firewall rules tables in software (Windows native one)) to my HOSTS file & I tend to post the # of blockages each time I post it...

It happens here, completely "AutoMagically" too, since I automated it years ago (Delphi first) & then into Python code (multiplatform too) months back!

(Yes - U FAIL AGAIN, per your usual, on ALL accounts noted, & with proofs showing, like below in my p.s. as well!)

APK

P.S.=> Still, You putting words in others mouth they never said, as you did to myself, which you ran from proving them? Bogus & lame...

That, as well as YOU screwing up after admitting I use RC tools vs. Ring 0/RPL 0/kernel mode portions of this threat in its ROOTKIT portion which you admitted works, & then saying I use ProcessExplorer to kill the rootkit later when I don't @ all (ProcessExplorer's used for malware it hauls in that runs the botnet portion in Ring 3/RPL 3/Usermode)

Please... lol!

It's as bad as when YOU said I use TcpView &/or ProcessExplorer to DETECT ROOTKITS, which you cannot produce a quote of my saying THAT either!

Man... U FAIL there and YET AGAIN HERE TOO, & that's all here in my last post to you with backing quotes from yourself & sources of my words too:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2282088&cid=36758338

... apk

Actually, you can watch the whole series from the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/computerchronicles

using tanks would be too hard

http://web.archive.org/web/20070605061132/http://www.caes.net/mcintosh.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_energy_storage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minebw.jpg

Ahh, I see you're not good at reading, let me help you out.

You mean Conroy, not the Labor party.

Completely wrong. The beginnings of these policies started with Kim Beazley. Additionally, if it's not a Labor party policy, then you need to tell the Prime Minister that, and you might ask them to update their pages. While you can say the most recent ones are crafted and pushed by Conroy, it does have the support of "the party", where its leader and strategists speak for what the party supports.

Deputy comms minister Kate Lundy has been an outspoken critic of filtering

Partially wrong. She's been an outspoken critic of... THIS type of filter. She wants it to be an opt-out filter. She was however an outspoken critic of ISP level filtering... when LIBERAL was in power.

The contract was to buy that.

This is where the reading comprehension comes in. Even with the single line you quoted, in no way, can it be taken to mean 'they were paid to censor the internet'. Please re-read it. What it says is 'They censored the internet, at the same time as they were awarded a contract', not a contract for censoring the internet, but a contract for buying the infrastructure.

Please, keep up.

This is because they own 0% of the pits and ducts (or copper) that make up the last mile which is where the NBN is operating.

Now this is reasonably true, except that Agile (Internodes infrastructure company) does supply last mile connections for many rural communities. On top of this, they own a significant amount of interstate fiber, which is something the NBN also had in its deal, though to a lesser extent at this stage.

You dont actually understand what's going on here and should never have been modded up.

The thing I like about your post, is the arrogance it has, while being exceptionally wrong. It's almost like you're trolling me. Not sure if you're retarded, or trolling. I'm erring on the former.

That's the norm.

This is from several years back - and the author doesn't even host the page anymore because it's outdated, but other than exact figure details, very much still applies:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090501014507/http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe.html

See also the excuses Adobe uses for the price differentiation:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090504203050/http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe_spin.html

This applies to practically all of the larger software companies. E.g. Adobe, Microsoft, Autodesk, Apple

That's the norm.

This is from several years back - and the author doesn't even host the page anymore because it's outdated, but other than exact figure details, very much still applies:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090501014507/http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe.html

See also the excuses Adobe uses for the price differentiation:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090504203050/http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe_spin.html

This applies to practically all of the larger software companies. E.g. Adobe, Microsoft, Autodesk, Apple

How else are you going to clean the cat?

With a roll of carpet, a bag, and a vacuum cleaner, of course.

At 1997 John Deere developed Plusjack in a venture Plustech.

Unfortunately, it was too slow compared to wheeled counterpart even if it made very little damage to forest floor. But for very sensitive environments a man and a horse are more efficient considering the cost of the harvester. Only 3 units were build, one is at display at Lusto forest museum.

A competitor, owner of Ponsse, Einari Vidgren was claimed to say: "If they make walking harvester, we make a running one".

>>Wrong. (I stopped reading there.)

Awesome. Glad to see the spirit of inquiry so alive in our modern times.

You're also wrong about the Nazism thing. National Socialism was called that to differentiate itself and oppose International Socialism, which is what the USSR was running with COMINTERN - an attempt to unify the world under soviet communism. You can read pamphlets from the Communist Party of the USA called the Soviet America series (Race Relations in Soviet America, the Life of Workers in Soviet America, Towards a Soviet America, and so forth), such as: http://ia600202.us.archive.org/4/items/towardsovietamer00fostrich/towardsovietamer00fostrich.pdf

Hitler hated Slavic people as well as Jews, and hated Soviet communism. The Soviet leadership after the Russian Revolution was predominantly Jewish, so there was a fair bit of overlap there. He also hated capitalism with a fervor, so the notion that he was a far-right exemplar is only true as a tautology (in that people have defined far-right policies as being Nazism/fascism, even though there's little in common with normal right-wing agendas other than a strong military).

If you had to run down a list of Nazisms varied and often horrid philosophies, you'd see they agree more often with what we'd call left-wing beliefs than right-wing (support for gun control, for example), but, let's face it, the left-wing and right wing labels aren't very good and don't apply particularly well one way or the other to Nazism or fascism. By contrast, communism is a reasonable match for what we'd call "far left" policies these days.

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

What's really funny is that the first page for the Mac mini showed a bunch of them in a stack next to a PC (animated .gif that grows and shrinks) but the instructions that came with the Mini said "do not put things on top of the Mini" so they quickly took down that graphic.

See here. The page (the article only shows a bit of it in the screenshot) said "iPod shuffle: Smaller than a pack of gum and much more fun.* ". The "warning" was a joke.

* actually, it was a [2] footnote, but Slashdot doesn't allow <sup> tags.

There were very definitely PPC builds of Firefox 2 for mac available around that time.
This was last week, not years ago.

Ahem, Firefox 0.8 for OSX (Jun 2004), Firebird 0.6 for OSX (Jun 2003), ...

It has a lot to say about the technical proficiency of the user, that unix OS has no real useful tools installed. Even locate was missing. Worse yet, there is no official way to get them, maybe the app store fixes that.

No locate ? OSX manpages online says you're wrong. And Macports (formerly Darwinports) has been around since at least 2003 delivering all other goodies you can think of.

No offense but I think time and frustration may have warped your memory.

There were very definitely PPC builds of Firefox 2 for mac available around that time.
This was last week, not years ago.

Ahem, Firefox 0.8 for OSX (Jun 2004), Firebird 0.6 for OSX (Jun 2003), ...

It has a lot to say about the technical proficiency of the user, that unix OS has no real useful tools installed. Even locate was missing. Worse yet, there is no official way to get them, maybe the app store fixes that.

No locate ? OSX manpages online says you're wrong. And Macports (formerly Darwinports) has been around since at least 2003 delivering all other goodies you can think of.

No offense but I think time and frustration may have warped your memory.

There were very definitely PPC builds of Firefox 2 for mac available around that time.
This was last week, not years ago.

Ahem, Firefox 0.8 for OSX (Jun 2004), Firebird 0.6 for OSX (Jun 2003), ...

It has a lot to say about the technical proficiency of the user, that unix OS has no real useful tools installed. Even locate was missing. Worse yet, there is no official way to get them, maybe the app store fixes that.

No locate ? OSX manpages online says you're wrong. And Macports (formerly Darwinports) has been around since at least 2003 delivering all other goodies you can think of.

No offense but I think time and frustration may have warped your memory.

I was looking at my 2TB drive wondering where to start with that mess, let alone my 1TB with just Live Dead and Phish shows..

Why would you need to worry about the Dead and Phish stuff? It's all legally tradeable unless you were dl'ing ripped Dick's Pick and stuff from Phish Dry Goods!

The way to verify the shows would be: checking that the show folders and files conform to Etree naming standards, the presence of the info text file and MD5 checksum file or searching the Etree database or Archive.org for that show source. To date, the only downloads that I have seen that don't meet those criteria are the Grateful Dead complete SBD download torrents by year. If it was a case of getting stuff that was ripped from someone's collection, you can do individual file comparisons against known sources to determine which source a show probably came from, track times are usually a giveaway since it's rare that different sources get cut at the same place...

The most efficient model for consistent music distribution has been the one used by Etree.org/Archive.org. Each live show source was transferred, encoded and seeded with the MD5's generated at the time of encoding, earliest shows were done in SHN and later it was shifted to FLAC. A new show source was considered the equivalent of a Gold Master Disc and it was entered in a database at Etree.org. All subsequent copies of the SHN's and FLAC's were expected to check against those MD5's and if they failed they were considered bad and discarded so that they wouldn't get seeded in the future. It didn't matter what transport method was used for transferring the files, all that counted was that the files were bit perfect copies of the originals.

For example, here is a show I transferred and seeded in 2000

If you were to obtain a copy of those SHN files today, and you verified the MD5's, you know you have an exact copy of the files as they were encoded A DECADE AGO. Now if I were to transfer the master cd's again and encode it, the MD5's would not match, no matter how paranoid an attempt at DAE was made (this was proven back then for all digital transfers INCLUDING DAT>WAV) If you looked across the different formats available, even after 10 years there are still only 4 unique variants in the wild in spite of the show being copied by more than 5000 people. Those 4 variants are only a single format conversion removed from the initial transfer in 2000.

But this was a system that was conceived to preserve the audit trail and file integrity. The issue of legality was not a problem since the bands have given permission to allow for taping and trading of their shows.

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

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

I was wondering if either the government or someone (like Anonymous) has or is thinking about deploying a 'shadow internet'

That's one of the goals of Anonet - but their public site seems to be down.

Reading this article I was strongly reminded of a Star Wars fan film I came across some years ago. To Know a Jedi follows a bunch of Star Wars fans who decide to try to make their own light sabre. Somewhat to their surprise they succeed, which gets them wondering; how much else of the Jedi mysticism is true?

The film is a full length movie and takes the unusual step of giving Star Wars a serious treatment in a real life setting (as opposed to "long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away"). It's made by a bunch of film students on a low budget, but is put together pretty well. Definitely worth a look.

... but do they have a cast iron defence?

That's your problem right there. Chromium metal has hardness of 8.5 Mohs, smack dab between topaz and corundum. It's harder than most tool steel, which makes it resistant to filing.

This article doesn't scratch the surface, and looks more like an advertisement for Windows 7 and 8.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100101033213/http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html

There's history for ya.

Wayback Machine mirror so as to not nuke the poor guy's site.

--
BMO

How about at the Macworld keynote? Not consumer facing enough? Try the original iPhone website.

Recognise THIS, motherfuckers!

Hogwash. There's no scarcity of creativity or artistry whatever. Hell, there are dozens of local bands here in my city of 100,000 who have CDs of original content, most of which is far superior to the dreck that comes from the RIAA. Have a listen to some of my friends' music. Those are live shows, they have studio CDs as well.

There's no shortage whatever. The "shortage" has always been because of the fact that recording and filming were incredibly expensive. Today recording is dirt cheap, and the price of making a movie is coming down fast -- Star Wreck only cost a few thousand bucks and is better than 90% of the multimillion dollar dreck that comes from Hollywood (it's also hilarious, every Star Trek and Babylon Five fan should see that movie).

I don't know about whales, but certainly dolphins

I found a picture of her.

I don't remember the predictions requiring a certain percentage marketshare increase. They simply predicted that Unix(-like) platforms were gaining users and thus malware would be all over them.

The underlying premise for such predictions was always market share.

Though, frankly, I don't recall any predictions specifying hard terms. What I do recall are predictions such as "if Linux becomes popular, then it will have a lot of malware". If people were saying that it would be in 10 years, then either they had a very optimistic outlook of how Linux would develop, or did not understand the issue.

How much users have Unix(-like) platforms gained since 10 years ago?

At the most fundimental level, popularity was a point. But there wasn't a prediction of X% market share being a tipping point. It was always simple increased popularity drawing the attention of malware authors. And indeed, there WAS additional malware. It just didn't bloom in to the predicted plague.

As for increased number of Unix/Unix-like users... good question. Linux has always been hard to track. But Apple posts numbers sales numbers. In May 2010, it was estimated that Mac OS X had a 7.83% market share. Forrester claimed a count of 1.2 billion personal computers in that time period so the Mac user population was about 93.96 million. Those numbers have increased over the last year.

The question is still the same: why would you target those machines, even if they are significant, if you can target 10x as much for the same money spent?

The only counterargument is that there is currently a lack of competition for botnets and such on OS X and Linux, so that raises the ROI somewhat. I don't know how it all stakes up, but I'm pretty sure that, given the current ratio, targeting Windows desktops is still way more profitable, and will likely remain so for years to come.

Why does it have to be either or? Sure - Windows is a nice big target. It's also a well-known target full of other players, anti-malware, dedicated support, etc. If the Unix install base is so ripe for the plucking, a big chunk of a smaller pie would fit nicely in to one's botnet along with all the usual victims.

The recent OS X malware story has been, frankly, blown out of proportion. This is largely because of a a stark contrast between it and Apple's rosy marketing materials (which strongly imply that there is no threat of malware on OS X, period), so most people focus on that, and there's a lot of downright gloating. But, rationally speaking, the threat of malware on OS X, while non-zero, is still minuscule. A clueless person is much more likely to get infected running Windows than OS X. So, yes, I stand by my assertion that OS X is "too small to worry about".

Too small to worry about yet still being targeted - I stll find that an interesting dichotomy. I do agree that the threat is blown out of proportions and so are the continued predictions of doom. Indeed - complacency would help bring about said doom. We should watch carefully. But I don't see any evidence to support that this is any sort of tipping point.

Except Xerox is a unique word, that was uniquely created by Xerox for the express purpose of their machines.

App dates back *AT LEAST* to 1989 and even then it wasn't trademarked by Apple and was considered a generic term for an "application" or "program". Nobody called a "Killer Prog".
http://books.google.com/books?id=uTAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT83#v=onepage&q=app&f=false

Not the generic--non Apple implication usage of "Killer App". In reference to OS/2 no-less.

Apple has never defended the word "App" as a trademark. It's been used extensively in print and by corporations the world over. "Killer App" "Mobile App" "Web App". It's been in use for well over 2 decades.

So if we can conclude that the word "App" is generic and indefensible then combining it with a descriptor for the place where one buys apps as a store-- it's no less generic.

App (Generic) + Store (Generic) == Generic.

If however Apple had decided to name its iPhone apps something new and unique as a term for an app like... "Dot" then they could trademark it. "Dot, a trademarked term to name Applications for the iOS." They could then call it a Dot Store and limit its usage to computer software and be safe.

Apple chose the word "App" because that's what everybody already called Apps. We called them apps when they were on windows ce, palmOS, Windows, Linux, OS9, the web... the world over when you said "App" to someone who used a computer knew what you were talking about. And they weren't thinking of something that only ran on a Mac or was trademarked by Apple.

Here is a webpage that in 2003 thought Windows CE appplications were called "Apps"
http://web.archive.org/web/20030409022106/http://www.freefunfiles.com/software/pda/windowsceapplications/index.html

Just to beat your head with the obvious some more, here is a webpage updated in September 1999 talking about Windows CE "Apps"
http://www.angelfire.com/bc/bcox/windowsdna.html

It could be a single-user app running under Windows CE on a 3Com Palm Pilot.

1 - That's an excuse, not a reason.
2 - Ever heard of CompuServe? How about QuantumLink? Lucasfilm's Habitat? Not only were they "online", but there were also basic "MMO" entertainment programs.
3 - Maybe that explains why nobody used version numbers on programs back then. Wait.. they did? Oh, I guess they must have cared after all.
4 - You could (and still can) buy replacement chips for the computer and drive, and an optional replacement cable, to make the drive much faster. Even the original hardware could be improved with plain software "speed loaders".

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

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

Your link is dead, and the website says:
Handhelds.org is undergoing renovations - The site should be active on the week of March 1st, 2011!

Try this instead.