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While you may have to pay licensing costs to use any version of H.264, as I said, you are free to implement your own version (there is an open source version called x264).

Yes, and the licencing is the problem. Due to its licencing, H.264 is incompatible with the design goals of the web. See the W3C's patent policy:

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Licensing

Until H.264 can meet the W3C's licencing requirements for web standards, it will remain a poor technology choice for the web.

Apple's website used to have a page endorsing the W3C's patent policy at http://www.apple.com/about/w3c/. However, it appears to have been either moved or removed. Fortunately, it has been archived:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050407171053/www.apple.com/about/w3c/

I encourage Apple to stay true to that expressed commitment and support open, royalty-free media formats to contribute to building an open web.

Their network. Their rules.

I'm with you on being surprised that personal equipment is allowed to connect to a hospital internal network, even more so if it's carrying patient info. Many hospitals, however, do provide public wifi networks for their patient's and guest's convenience (as well as secure wifi for portable equipment).

As someone who both wrote hospital apps as well as ran the hospital IT department, I'll say that people employed for longer than 10 years in the hybrid of healthcare and IT will tell you that way back in the dark ages of the mid-90s, before HIPAA: the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act, there was HIPPA: Health Information Privacy Protection Act. HIPPA was finally discussed in House hearings in 1996. The transcript is online. It was the subject of much discussion in '93 - '95 among the Medical Records and Hospital IT groups.

HIPPA (PL 104-191) was an umbrella act to amend the IRS code "to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use of medical savings accounts, to improve access to long-term care services and coverage, to simplify the administration of health insurance, and for other purposes." Some, but not all of the privacy protections in HIPPA made their way into HIPAA.

EPIC has a good Bibliography on the Confidentiality of Health Information.

I thought Gopher was okay, but not near as exciting as my first exposure to Amiga Mosaic web browser. After all, it had teh 4000-color pron. ;-) Plus exciting sites like this one: http://web.archive.org/web/19961114151757/http://scifi.com/ - I mean how cool is that? It's animated and colorful. :-)

Aside -

Looking at that schedule reminds me how cool Sci-Fi Channel used to be. Weekend Anime. Inside Space reports. Sci-Fi Trader. Sci-Fi Buzz. FTL Newsfeed. It was like a geek paradise for fandom. Today's channel is more akin to watching the TNT channel - ordinary and nothing special.

I have the 60 GB model from Jan of 2008 and it is in my manual. This was a very widely publicized feature and it was the deal breaker for me. I was going to buy a Wii, but paid the extra $300 for the PS3 because of Linux. If you read the Lawsuit PDF it gives very concrete examples of how and when Sony and it's executives promoted about this feature. Balls in your court dumb-ass

here:
http://ia331218.us.archive.org/2/items/gov.uscourts.cand.226894/gov.uscourts.cand.226894.1.0.pdf

Too bad that in practice, I've seen a skeleton header maybe once. And anything optional is guaranteed to be missing in many cases. Thus to demux a new codec you still have to find the codec spec, find the ogg mapping, write the granule demangler, write a parser for the codec headers, etc. instead of adding a single entry to a table like you would for sane containers.

I think this speaks to your own inexperience more than anything else. Here's an ogg video with a Skeleton stream:

http://videos.videoonwikipedia.org/video/275/cell-phone-engineerguyogv

You can find many more with Skeleton streams at http://videos.videoonwikipedia.org or http://openvideo.dailymotion.com or http://www.archive.org or many other sites. I can only conclude that you are not very knowledgeable about ogg usage in practice.

Have you tried it with MPlayer? I just tried it with an OGV from archive.org. Seeking was instantaneous.

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

The two industries start from different premises, so that's why software can be free whereas media cannot.

Your opinion is belied by the fact that there is plenty of free media out there.

Do you remember the title? It's likely you can find it right now on the Internet Archive.

Hey there! I'm sorry about the broken link. It was something similar to the Geek Code (http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html) Except it was more IT-related than the more general GeekCode. It was a nice idea. It's gone now ... I was never involved in the hackerkey project, but I've been thinking about bringing it back to life for a few years ... except I haven't found the time.

The wayback machine is your friend:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://hackerkey.com

cough

"It undoubtedly helps that I am not using Windows (just why that helps is a separate debate). That to me is basic common sense combined with a few minutes of Googling." - by causality (777677) on Friday April 23, @11:45AM (#31956250)

Windows can be secured, & here's how, for "bulletproof & bugfree operation", especially over "the long haul" & I've tried to promote that which you speak of, by creating guides for end-user security (which network techs can use on LANS/WANS endpoints such as PC workstation nodes & yes, even servers to an extent), per this guide below:

----

HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):

http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662

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Fact is, what you're saying?

It is the "WHY" of why I wrote the VERY FIRST/OLDEST security guide for Windows NT-based OS, which NEOWIN picked up on in 2001 & rated it extremely well too, no less, here -> http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text and it had its "dim early beginnings" back in 1997-1998 @ NTCompatible.com as their "Article #1" here http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml (it started out on how to speed up a Windows NT based PC, & grew into a "SPEED & SECURITY GUIDE" there over the next few years 1998-2002 or so).

(Which however, is now as of late 2007 to present, has become far, Far, FAR MORE EFFECTIVE in its latest iteration shown below, w/ evidences thereof to that effect (solid, uninfested uptime for YEARS & how/why too))

It works, & is based on the concept of what many computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...

PROOFS/EXAMPLES OF ITS EFFICACY? Ok, below:

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http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?s=80bbbffc22d358de6b01b8450d596746&showtopic=89123&st=60&start=60

"the use of the hosts file has worked for me in many ways. for one it stops ad banners, it helps speed up your computer as well. if you need more proof i am writing to you on a 400 hertz computer and i run with ease. i do not get 200++ viruses and spy ware a month as i use to. now i am lucky if i get 1 or 2 viruses a month. if you want my opinion if you stick to what APK says in his article about securing your computer then you will be safe and should not get any viruses or spy ware, but if you do get hit with viruses and spy ware then it will your own fault. keep up the good fight APK." - Kings Joker, user of my guide @ THE PLANET

AND

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

"Our extensive online searches have failed"...are you kidding me? Dump the current URL into archive.org and you'll find V1.2 of the agreement, from June of 2008. Here is the old text for section 3:

Without limitation, services may include the provision of the latest update or download of new release that may include security patches, and new or revised settings and features which may prevent access to pirated games, or use of unauthorized hardware or software in connection with the PS3 system. Some services may change your current settings, cause a loss of data or content, or cause some loss of functionality.

And here's the current one:

Without limitation, services may include the provision of the latest update or download of new release that may include security patches, new technology or revised settings and features which may prevent access to unauthorized or pirated content, or use of unauthorized hardware or software in connection with the PS3 system. Some services may change your current settings, cause a loss of data or content, or cause some loss of functionality.

The main change made since the version they had years ago was expanding "pirated games" into "unauthorized or pirated content"; everything has been minor wording adjustment.

If you purchase a system with a set feature list you should be confident that it is accurate and you receive exactly what you paid for.
In the case of the original PS3, customer received a machine that had the Install Other OS feature, access to the PSN etc. etc.
However, I couldn't find any guarantee over the longevity of the features. From the looks of it, they could switch off the PSN tomorrow, or perhaps release the PS4 and make your PS3 obsolete, or maybe just stop making compatible games completely.

There seems to be very little appreciation for the fact that they offer a service whereby you have free access to updates to the software, where they continue to offer the free service of the PSN and when new games are continually released for a system that is now several years old.

And if you don't agree to the changes that Sony are offering, you can simply not agree to them. It's well within your right. BUT you will still have exactly what you paid for originally. You can continue to use the Install Other OS feature, you can play all the games you could before and that were stated as being compatible with your system (or more appropriately, the version of system), and you also had access to the PSN for as long as your system was compatible with it - nowhere (that I can see) does it state that you have a right to continued and interrupted access to the PSN for an unlimited amount of time. On the back of every game I own, it clearly states that the PSN is subject to terms and conditions and may not be available.

The reason that these changes are being made is clearly related at least in part to the actions of Geohot. I have no problem with what he has done and he is free to do whatever he pleases. But the issue it raises for Sony and its game developers is whether you want to invest in a multi-million pound/dollar project knowing full well that once your game is released it will be freely available to those that have implemented Geohot's patch or a derivative of that. And the ease to which pirated software can be accessed and the temptation for the customer in terms of money saved (and money lost by them, however true that may be) makes this more of a problem. The removal of the Other OS feature is an attempt to guarantee that future releases will not be affected. And so again we have this element of time and ensuring those that continue to invest in the PS3 are protected, and those that wish to continue to be supported by Sony also do not miss out on future developments.

So, in conclusion, I don't believe Sony is forcing its customers to do anything. Everyone received and has exactly what they paid for originally (all the same games still work, all the features are still there, and Sony continue to offer the PSN to those that accept the agreement), but if you want to be supported by them, use their free services and wish to continue to receive the benefits of future developments and investments in the PS3, then you should do it by the company's terms.
Plus, as a few have said above, the linked article's claims do appear completely false as the quoted lines can be found in the original EULA: http://web.archive.org/web/20061210231357/http://www.scei.co.jp/ps3-eula/ps3_eula_en.html

Well, then maybe we all already agreed to it. That was in EULA v1.0. Check it out http://web.archive.org/web/20061206023303/http://www.scei.co.jp/ps3-eula/ps3_eula_en.html

Most of this segment of the EULA's been there since the first EULA.

see: http://web.archive.org/web/20061210231357/http://www.scei.co.jp/ps3-eula/ps3_eula_en.html

(Someone at TFA pointed this out.)

except this bit:

Additionally, you may not be able to view your own content if it includes or displays content that is protected by authentication technology. Some services may change your current settings, cause a loss of data or content, or cause some loss of functionality. It is recommended that you regularly back up any data on the hard disk that is of a type that can be backed up.

Basically, if you buy something off of another music, movie or other digital download site, it may not work on the PS3. Also, back up your shit incase it crashes.

That section of the EULA has not changed. Here it is from December 2006 with identical language: http://web.archive.org/web/20061206023303/http://www.scei.co.jp/ps3-eula/ps3_eula_en.html. You can debate the pros and cons of such language, but this is not some new sneak totalitarian attack.

Curiously, the decision was sent rather obscurely... OFFICIAL NOTICE -AYBABTU.

[T]he final 'reference trajectory' ... now includes 56 passes over Titan, 155 orbits of Saturn in different inclinations, 12 flybys of Enceladus, 5 flybys of other large moons — and final destruction."

So the CD with 616,420 signatures on it is not going to out last us all after all.

When the signature drive began in 1996 an implied promise was made that Cassini, and the disk would remain in orbit around Saturn forever. See, for example this remark: "Indeed, some of us may even experience a small taste of immortality as we envision our signatures outliving our bodies." http://web.archive.org/web/19990428132214/www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/MoreInfo/dvd.html.

Objectively, gaining additional science by crashing it into Saturn is a more worthwhile endeavor than using it as an eternal postcard to the planets, but to those of us with our signatures on it (and who remember people who signed but have passed on, and cannot now add their signature to a outer solar system probe) it is a disappointment. Maybe they could launch a copy on a new deep space probe.

It's pity that they used Python while Haskell has more formal semantics and an implementation that already used in financial sphere.

There is a free implementation of Composing Contracts code.

*poke* ohai! =)

If you take "male" and "female" to be descriptions of gender identity whereas "male-bodied" and "female-bodied" to be descriptions of physical sex, I'm a male-bodied female. There are at least a few of us (transwomen) here on slashdot (e.g., the-online-me hudson runs a php-slashcode-style site called transboutique), and a handful of others in the spectrum outside of the nominal cis-gendered folk.
If you're curious, there's plenty of reading (broken link atm, try wayback) material out there.
-- email: rot13<<<"revakfdhvqypnbjmlwun"|sed 'y/achjlowyz/mgoc@ai.l/'

That number of 185,000 is VERY SUSPICIOUS. Tucows says that they only have 40,000 software listings. In 2007, Freshmeat.net only listed just over 43,000 projects. Even SourceForge only claims to have 230,000 projects.

I find it very hard to believe that there are 185,000 apps in the App Store. Oh, wait, where did that number from the Wikipedia article actually come from? MacRumors.com. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Now I see why it sounds like bullshit.

It's trivial to embed. Here's the link to the high quality version: http://ia331209.us.archive.org/0/items/Patent_Absurdity/Patent_Absurdity_HQ_768kbit.ogv. Stick that in a video tag, include a fallback to Cortado (the Java based player) and you're ready to go. Or use Kaltura's HTML5 Media Library if you want to. It does the same thing in a nice package.

Fed-Soc.org - Patents: Legitimate Rights or Grubstakes that Obstruct Progress? - Winter 2000

This history shows the patent / free competition balance to be dialectical, not static. In this country, since the turn of the century, the pendulum has cycled twice between the patent right and free competition poles. The last free-competition era occurred between 1930-1950. Perhaps the zenith (or nadir, depending on point of view) was Mercoid Corp. v. Mid-Continent Inv. Co., 320 U.S. 661 (1944) where the Supreme Court held that tying sales of a non-patented product to a patented product constituted an impermissible extension of the patent monopoly and therefore patent misuse. Ironically, Mercoid facts today could support loss of profits damages under Rite-Hite Corp. v. Kelley Co., 56 F.3d 1538 (Fed. Cir. 1995). Partially as a reaction to certain court decisions (including the need to overturn Mercoid), the 1952 Patent Act slowly turned the pendulum back in a pro-patent direction. That movement accelerated full-bore with creation in 1983 of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to hear all appeals from trial court patent infringement decisions.

As I said before The 2000-2010 "Intellectual Property" boom is about to go the way of the "Subprime" Mortgage, Dot-Com vapor startup, Junk bond and Dutch Tulip futures. The Patent Troll Business Model is inherently flawed, and just like the aforementioned others, add nothing to a nations REAL economy.

The LoC isn't archiving URL shortener targets (yet, anyway), but the Internet Archive is on it, which at least ups the likelihood that some future researcher will be able to decode what those links pointed to.

What a Bunch Of FUD....

If you're going to throw crap out there, you might want to trying providing links that back up your claims.

It was the same with airbags. Aside from unbelted passengers, airbags didn't improve safety. But Ralph Nader, knowing this, got up in front of Congress and lied in order to get airbags passed that would kill infants, while also working to prevent warning labels on them initially so that people wouldn't be scared of them. So we've had presidential candidates who worked very hard to pass regulations that killed babies by ejecting their heads out of the back of car windows while their bodies were still strapped into their car seats. Safety doesn't matter nearly as much as the appearance of safety. .

Study after Study after Study have shown quite the opposite. In fact, there have even been papers that conclude that the media have skewed their reporting on the subject to basically fall in line with what you were spouting about above.

The point of an airbag is to cushion and slow the upper torso and head from striking hard objects that cause rapid deceleration of the body and head in collisions (super high G forces) which leads to injury and death. While the initial airbags had their faults, and have caused deaths when used both properly and improperly, they have saved far more lives than they have claimed.

"His OS is used 90% of US computers, including military ones. And it security holes you could sail an aircraft carrier through. " - by peter303 (12292) on Wednesday April 07, @11:56AM (#31762284)

It CAN BE SECURITY-HARDENED though, with about 1-2 hours of effort (mostly automated too), see below: but, as you note? MS also ship a security hardened model to the US gov't. &/or military + have done so a couple times over the years (iirc, last year & in 2002 too). They ought to to everyone else too! However, you CAN do it yourself, fairly easily too...

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"MicroSoft has been more diligent about security lately. But the damage has already been done." - by peter303 (12292) on Wednesday April 07, @11:56AM (#31762284)

Again - They have been, but, they also ship a security hardened model to the US gov't. &/or military + have done so a couple times over the years (iirc, last year & in 2002 too).

In fact? Your point's the "WHY" of why I wrote the VERY FIRST/OLDEST security guide for Windows NT-based OS, which NEOWIN picked up on in 2001 & rated it extremely well too, no less, here -> http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text and it had its "dim early beginnings" back in 1997-1998 @ NTCompatible.com as their "Article #1" here http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml (it started out on how to speed up a Windows NT based PC, & grew into a "SPEED & SECURITY GUIDE" there over the next few years 1998-2002 or so).

(Which however, is now as of late 2007 to present, has become far, Far, FAR MORE EFFECTIVE in its latest iteration shown below, w/ evidences thereof to that effect (solid, uninfested uptime for YEARS & how/why too))

I've tried to promote that which you speak of, by creating guides for end-user security (which network techs can use on LANS/WANS endpoints such as PC workstation nodes & yes, even servers to an extent), per this guide below:

----

HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):

http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662

----

It works, & is based on the concept of what many computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...

PROOFS/EXAMPLES OF ITS EFFICACY? Ok, below:

----

http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?s=80bbbffc22d358de6b01b8450d596746&showtopic=89123&st=60&start=60

"the use of the hosts file has worked for me in many ways. for one it stops ad banners, it helps speed up your computer as well. if you need more proof i am writing to you on a 400 hertz computer and i run with ease. i do not get 200++ viruses and spy ware a month as i use to. now i am lucky if i get 1 or 2 viruses a month. if you want my opinion if you stick to what APK says in his article about securing your computer then you will be safe and should not get any viruses or spy ware, but if you do get hit with viruses and spy ware then it will your own fault. keep up the good fight APK." - Kings Joker, user of my guide @ THE PLANET

AND

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 th

"Virus and malware attacks provoke some immune response, but if we are to become strong something must weed out the weak." - by couchslug (175151) on Wednesday April 07, @12:08PM (#31762428)

110% agreed, I agree, wholeheartedly, which is the "WHY" of why I wrote the VERY FIRST/OLDEST security guide for Windows NT-based OS, which NEOWIN picked up on in 2001 & rated it extremely well too, no less, here -> http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text and it had its "dim early beginnings" back in 1997-1998 @ NTCompatible.com as their "Article #1" here http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml (it started out on how to speed up a Windows NT based PC, & grew into a "SPEED & SECURITY GUIDE" there over the next few years 1998-2002 or so).

(Which however, is now as of late 2007 to present, has become far, Far, FAR MORE EFFECTIVE in its latest iteration shown below, w/ evidences thereof to that effect (solid, uninfested uptime for YEARS & how/why too))

I've tried to promote that which you speak of, by creating guides for end-user security (which network techs can use on LANS/WANS endpoints such as PC workstation nodes & yes, even servers to an extent), per this guide below:

----

HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA/Windows 7 (+ make it "fun-to-do" via CIS Tool Guidance & beyond):

http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=568d95985ad83ef4add94de09f6026d3&showtopic=2662

----

It works, & is based on the concept of what many computer security folks the past few years have been calling "LAYERED SECURITY"...

PROOFS/EXAMPLES OF ITS EFFICACY? Ok, below:

----

http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?s=80bbbffc22d358de6b01b8450d596746&showtopic=89123&st=60&start=60

"the use of the hosts file has worked for me in many ways. for one it stops ad banners, it helps speed up your computer as well. if you need more proof i am writing to you on a 400 hertz computer and i run with ease. i do not get 200++ viruses and spy ware a month as i use to. now i am lucky if i get 1 or 2 viruses a month. if you want my opinion if you stick to what APK says in his article about securing your computer then you will be safe and should not get any viruses or spy ware, but if you do get hit with viruses and spy ware then it will your own fault. keep up the good fight APK." - Kings Joker, user of my guide @ THE PLANET

AND

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 tro

And blindness too, despite Gnome having improved on usability and disabled people assistance.

Here's one thing I think we can agree on: You might think GNOME 2.x was a big improvement over 1.x- if you're BLIND .

The other >99.5% of us who don't need a screen reader haven't seen (sorry about the pun) a lot of improvement. Pango is nice and all if you want your fonts blurred for you or if you only read Sinhalese; I think you're misremembering the situation with respect to i18n/l10n in 1.x- not really that bad.

Sure they did

http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html

Note though, that the feature is gone (read the red part at the top).

And, let's look at the original version of the page

http://web.archive.org/web/20061118073923/http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html

We may soon need similar lessons here in the UK when we want to access those filtered sites suspected of potentially hosting copyrighted material. Damn, that sounds sad.

Hate to break it to you but most web sites you could ever even think of accessing will be hosting copyrighted material. That's right not just potentially hosting copyrighted material but actually hanging up copyrighted material for anyone to download.

To avoid getting copyrighted material, you'd have to find a country that did not sign the Berne Convention treaty, but even then the material might be under copyright. Alternately, even the countries in the Berne Convention treaty might have material online that has been made Public Domain either because the copyright expire or the rights holder (not the creator) put it into the public domain. Even then you'll have to download (and read) pages of copyrighted information to get at the PD stuff.

Alternately you can just download as much copyrighted material as you want. Try starting from these sites:

• SourceForge
• CreativeCommons
• Linux Kernel Archives
• arXiv
• Ubuntu
• Fedora
• NetBSD
• Oracle
• Sun
• Haiku
• Internet Archive
• and so on

And remember, there's more where that came from.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070207104840/http://info.fysik.dtu.dk/~tbohr/papers/Nonlinearitycover.pdf

Did you even read the articles you linked? Theses are exactly the cases that I was talking about. Those are about school sponsorship of prayer, student-lead prayer at school events, the moment of silence in class, and use of school property for religious purposes. So snide remarks aside, you aren't exactly showing me anything I didn't already refer to.

Did you read them? Perhaps you weren't clear when you replied to my statement or I didn't understand what you were asking. You do realize that there has been a tirade of constitutional court cases surrounding this very issue where schools banned all references to a religion including bibles and students praying on their own. And after you read them, you will know that students were refused the ability to start a religious club on school grounds and had to go to court to force them, others were refused the ability to publish a magazine/news paper and did the same, some were about parents praying in the cafeteria which is allowed and so on.

I see one article that refers to graduation ceremonies, and it's the one that the school agreed to ban proselytizing and prayer in the ceremonies. Are you sure you read these?

Well, it looks like the articles linked to from Virginia.edu have been removed. In fact, the entire religious freedom site seems to be missing. Here are the archives to them in case you couldn't get them to pull up.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080420110627/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/widm_v_vinc.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080313042901/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/boar_v_merg.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080420110521/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/rose_v_rege.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080222222124/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/lamb_v_cent.html

This last one is one where the judge allowed (refused to stop) student prayer at a graduation ceremony. However, the issue is explained throughout the articles. The issue arises only when the school has control over the activity or opens it up to outside forces. If the school retains control, then it's school sponsored. If it doesn't then it isn't government sponsored and the establishment clause doesn't come into play. You will also see where if the school of government organization opens itself up to outside entities, then it cannot deny access to a religious group based on being religious.

If you write God with the capital G, it's a proper noun. So you're referring to a specific person, place or thing. In this case, a specific god. You do understand what a proper noun is don't you?

And your missing the point. Well, that or taking the opportunity to preach your religion. Mentioning the word God, whether it is a proper noun or not, does not amount to preaching or praying. You have done this exact thing over the last several posts and I do not for one minute believe you were preaching or praying. If I'm wrong on that, please let me know because your claim does seem to be that simply using the proper nound God means you are.

As I said, the court's ruling was simply an appeal to tradition and a refusal to review it. The dissenting opinion by Stephen Reinhardt clearly shows, through their own statements, that the congressmen supporting the bill were doing it for religious reasons. From

Did you even read the articles you linked? Theses are exactly the cases that I was talking about. Those are about school sponsorship of prayer, student-lead prayer at school events, the moment of silence in class, and use of school property for religious purposes. So snide remarks aside, you aren't exactly showing me anything I didn't already refer to.

Did you read them? Perhaps you weren't clear when you replied to my statement or I didn't understand what you were asking. You do realize that there has been a tirade of constitutional court cases surrounding this very issue where schools banned all references to a religion including bibles and students praying on their own. And after you read them, you will know that students were refused the ability to start a religious club on school grounds and had to go to court to force them, others were refused the ability to publish a magazine/news paper and did the same, some were about parents praying in the cafeteria which is allowed and so on.

I see one article that refers to graduation ceremonies, and it's the one that the school agreed to ban proselytizing and prayer in the ceremonies. Are you sure you read these?

Well, it looks like the articles linked to from Virginia.edu have been removed. In fact, the entire religious freedom site seems to be missing. Here are the archives to them in case you couldn't get them to pull up.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080420110627/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/widm_v_vinc.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080313042901/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/boar_v_merg.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080420110521/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/rose_v_rege.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080222222124/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/lamb_v_cent.html

This last one is one where the judge allowed (refused to stop) student prayer at a graduation ceremony. However, the issue is explained throughout the articles. The issue arises only when the school has control over the activity or opens it up to outside forces. If the school retains control, then it's school sponsored. If it doesn't then it isn't government sponsored and the establishment clause doesn't come into play. You will also see where if the school of government organization opens itself up to outside entities, then it cannot deny access to a religious group based on being religious.

If you write God with the capital G, it's a proper noun. So you're referring to a specific person, place or thing. In this case, a specific god. You do understand what a proper noun is don't you?

And your missing the point. Well, that or taking the opportunity to preach your religion. Mentioning the word God, whether it is a proper noun or not, does not amount to preaching or praying. You have done this exact thing over the last several posts and I do not for one minute believe you were preaching or praying. If I'm wrong on that, please let me know because your claim does seem to be that simply using the proper nound God means you are.

As I said, the court's ruling was simply an appeal to tradition and a refusal to review it. The dissenting opinion by Stephen Reinhardt clearly shows, through their own statements, that the congressmen supporting the bill were doing it for religious reasons. From

Did you even read the articles you linked? Theses are exactly the cases that I was talking about. Those are about school sponsorship of prayer, student-lead prayer at school events, the moment of silence in class, and use of school property for religious purposes. So snide remarks aside, you aren't exactly showing me anything I didn't already refer to.

Did you read them? Perhaps you weren't clear when you replied to my statement or I didn't understand what you were asking. You do realize that there has been a tirade of constitutional court cases surrounding this very issue where schools banned all references to a religion including bibles and students praying on their own. And after you read them, you will know that students were refused the ability to start a religious club on school grounds and had to go to court to force them, others were refused the ability to publish a magazine/news paper and did the same, some were about parents praying in the cafeteria which is allowed and so on.

I see one article that refers to graduation ceremonies, and it's the one that the school agreed to ban proselytizing and prayer in the ceremonies. Are you sure you read these?

Well, it looks like the articles linked to from Virginia.edu have been removed. In fact, the entire religious freedom site seems to be missing. Here are the archives to them in case you couldn't get them to pull up.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080420110627/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/widm_v_vinc.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080313042901/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/boar_v_merg.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080420110521/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/rose_v_rege.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080222222124/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/lamb_v_cent.html

This last one is one where the judge allowed (refused to stop) student prayer at a graduation ceremony. However, the issue is explained throughout the articles. The issue arises only when the school has control over the activity or opens it up to outside forces. If the school retains control, then it's school sponsored. If it doesn't then it isn't government sponsored and the establishment clause doesn't come into play. You will also see where if the school of government organization opens itself up to outside entities, then it cannot deny access to a religious group based on being religious.

If you write God with the capital G, it's a proper noun. So you're referring to a specific person, place or thing. In this case, a specific god. You do understand what a proper noun is don't you?

And your missing the point. Well, that or taking the opportunity to preach your religion. Mentioning the word God, whether it is a proper noun or not, does not amount to preaching or praying. You have done this exact thing over the last several posts and I do not for one minute believe you were preaching or praying. If I'm wrong on that, please let me know because your claim does seem to be that simply using the proper nound God means you are.

As I said, the court's ruling was simply an appeal to tradition and a refusal to review it. The dissenting opinion by Stephen Reinhardt clearly shows, through their own statements, that the congressmen supporting the bill were doing it for religious reasons. From

Did you even read the articles you linked? Theses are exactly the cases that I was talking about. Those are about school sponsorship of prayer, student-lead prayer at school events, the moment of silence in class, and use of school property for religious purposes. So snide remarks aside, you aren't exactly showing me anything I didn't already refer to.

Did you read them? Perhaps you weren't clear when you replied to my statement or I didn't understand what you were asking. You do realize that there has been a tirade of constitutional court cases surrounding this very issue where schools banned all references to a religion including bibles and students praying on their own. And after you read them, you will know that students were refused the ability to start a religious club on school grounds and had to go to court to force them, others were refused the ability to publish a magazine/news paper and did the same, some were about parents praying in the cafeteria which is allowed and so on.

I see one article that refers to graduation ceremonies, and it's the one that the school agreed to ban proselytizing and prayer in the ceremonies. Are you sure you read these?

Well, it looks like the articles linked to from Virginia.edu have been removed. In fact, the entire religious freedom site seems to be missing. Here are the archives to them in case you couldn't get them to pull up.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080420110627/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/widm_v_vinc.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080313042901/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/boar_v_merg.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080420110521/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/rose_v_rege.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080222222124/http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/lamb_v_cent.html

This last one is one where the judge allowed (refused to stop) student prayer at a graduation ceremony. However, the issue is explained throughout the articles. The issue arises only when the school has control over the activity or opens it up to outside forces. If the school retains control, then it's school sponsored. If it doesn't then it isn't government sponsored and the establishment clause doesn't come into play. You will also see where if the school of government organization opens itself up to outside entities, then it cannot deny access to a religious group based on being religious.

If you write God with the capital G, it's a proper noun. So you're referring to a specific person, place or thing. In this case, a specific god. You do understand what a proper noun is don't you?

And your missing the point. Well, that or taking the opportunity to preach your religion. Mentioning the word God, whether it is a proper noun or not, does not amount to preaching or praying. You have done this exact thing over the last several posts and I do not for one minute believe you were preaching or praying. If I'm wrong on that, please let me know because your claim does seem to be that simply using the proper nound God means you are.

As I said, the court's ruling was simply an appeal to tradition and a refusal to review it. The dissenting opinion by Stephen Reinhardt clearly shows, through their own statements, that the congressmen supporting the bill were doing it for religious reasons. From

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

All houses there are crooked

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

Yes, the headlines used to be a lot closer to reality.

Yeah, the 'moral dilemma' is kinda silly. But why stop at curing colourblindness? When can I get my IR and UV vision?

Here is a tale from one of the great Now-It-Can-Told memoirs of World War I:

Of Spies &
Stratagems by Stanley P. Lovell

Lovell was the director of R&D for the OSS. The man who became Bill Donovan's Professor Moriarty. You'll find no better introduction to the real world of spy tech than here.

A most important field of deception and concealment concerned the landing of spies and saboteurs on enemy occupied coastlines, and at the exact spot where he or she would be met by friendly personnel from the underground organizations. This proved to be a most difficult problem for us to solve. Such landings had to be made on nights with no moon.

Early in the war fixed lights and blinkers were used on the shore to mark the rendezvous, but enemy airplanes and sur face vessels often spotted them. Many an agent and his reception committee of resistance fighters were surrounded, picked up and summarily shot.

The ideal shore signal to guide the O.S.S. agent to the selected place was an ultra-violet beacon. A small UV bulb, powered by a single dry-cell battery, would flash intermittently for almost a year. The difficulty arose when we found that even a person with superior eyesight could pick out the ultra-violet signal in the blackness of night only from a distressingly short range. I could not detect it at all beyond one hundred feet. I was about to abandon the UV system of landing signal as worthless, when a surgeon specializing in cataract
removals told me by chance that patients who had undergone that operation had extraordinary sensitivity to ultra-violet light. We asked for volunteers and tested several people whose cataracts had been removed. To our astonishment we found that they could see and pinpoint the little, flashing ultra
violet light from over a mile away, whereas the rest of us could
see nothing but inky blackness.

Brave, elderly people, so selected, guided our operators
infallibly to these normally invisible rendezvous. I am certain
the Germans and the Japanese never had the faintest idea of
how it was done.

And World Wind existed before Google Earth...
As one bonus, World Wind does not limit the size of your local imagery cache; you can assign as many gigabytes as you want. World Wind (Windows version) and a selection of cache packs (Landsat and SRTM) can be downloaded from http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22world%20wind%22, while the Java version can be downloaded from http://builds.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.asp

Interesting, I was unaware that anyone was working on a Facebook filesystem. Now the only question is if the investigator was using the original FSN or the open source alternative.

(I'm rather curious as to whether that was an intentional reference to real-life technology that people think only existed in movies, or if it was just an amazing guess.)

There is a well done documentary on archive.org

The guy interviewed Vinton Cerf and Philip J. Kaplan for it, amongst others you will likely recognize.

http://www.archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary

iirc, part 5 was all about the ascii art scene.

Not a native speaker, but from alt.usage.english FAQ:

Not all Latin words ending in "-us" had plurals in "-i". "Apparatus", "cantus", "coitus", "hiatus", "impetus", "Jesus", "nexus", "plexus", "prospectus", and "status" were 4th declension in Latin, and had plurals in "-us" with a long "u". "Corpus", "genus", and "opus" were 3rd declension, with plurals "corpora", "genera", and "opera". "Virus" is not attested in the plural in Latin, and is of a rare form (2nd declension neuter in -us) that makes it debatable what the Latin plural would have been; the only plural in English is "viruses". "Omnibus" and "rebus" were not nominative nouns in Latin. "Ignoramus" was not a noun in Latin.

Emphasis mine.

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

Here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060713211614/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/03/panda_software_linked_to_church/

The French are scandalised by the idea that an estimated six to nine per cent of the revenues paid by its police ministry for Panda's Global Virus Insurance might have gone into the coffers of the Church, which was founded by L Ron Hubbard.

In french:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010512221513/http://www.lexpress.fr/Express/Info/Societe/Dossier/scientologie/dossier.asp?nom=place

The french article also mentions Diskeeper...

Here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060713211614/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/03/panda_software_linked_to_church/

The French are scandalised by the idea that an estimated six to nine per cent of the revenues paid by its police ministry for Panda's Global Virus Insurance might have gone into the coffers of the Church, which was founded by L Ron Hubbard.

In french:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010512221513/http://www.lexpress.fr/Express/Info/Societe/Dossier/scientologie/dossier.asp?nom=place

The french article also mentions Diskeeper...

See the following link: http://web.archive.org/web/20040208152350/www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html