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In a debate on the matter, I once posted an image featuring not just a naked woman, but provocative posing and implied bestiality with a swan. Draw that today, it'd be called porn. But this painting was drawn by no less than Leonado da Vinci, and obviously someone so famous would never draw porn.

Leda and the Swan could be considered mildly risque by senile nuns, I suppose. Leonardo could also be explicit in his medical drawings of human coitus. You'd need to be living in a herd of retards and zealots to get that sort of stuff classed as porn, of course.

And as for your sig... you think that those that hold a different view from you should be "BANNED"? Kinda goes against the whole "free exchange of ideas" thing doesn't it? How many tyrannical dictators gained power by people who felt the same way you do about people they disagreed with?

I think it's related to this...

Ugh! Not that tired argument again. OK, here we go.

The case in reference was about 2 reporters refusing to do a story because they didn't like the edits. They were fired. They took the FOX AFFILIATE that fired them to court. (Note: Affiliate, not FoxNews. Fox shows the Simpsons and Family Guy. FoxNews shows Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly. They are two separate entities.)

Next, the the court never ruled that the news story was false. The closest they came was the original jury said “a false, distorted or slanted story” (from your second link). Notice the "OR" in the jury's statement. As for "distorted or slanted", shouldn't every media outlet be sued, including those links your provided? Strange. You don't seem to mind their slant. Here is a story about a recent CBS Poll about public opinion of public sector unions. The title is "Report: New York Times/CBS News Poll Slanted". Notice the last word... "Slanted"? Or are you going to tell me that Ed Shultz, Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann don't have a slant? As for "false", didn't Dan Rather run a story a while back using obviously fake documents to claim that GWB was negligent in his National Guard duties? Are saying that Rather and his producer Mapes should go to jail? Should CBS lose their broadcasting license? That is what these two reporters were suing for in their case; they wanted the local Fox affiliate to lose their license. Shouldn't CBS suffer the same fate?

As for the appeal where the jury's ruling was overturned, your second link has this:

“that the FCC’s policy against the intentional falsification of the news — which the FCC has called its “news distortion policy” — does not qualify as the required “law, rule, or regulation” under section 448.102.[...] Because the FCC’s news distortion policy is not a “law, rule, or regulation” under section 448.102, Akre has failed to state a claim under the whistle-blower’s statute.”

Again, it never says that the story was false. It claims that the reporters may not be afforded whistle-blower protection because the “news distortion policy” is not “law, rule, or regulation”. Basically, the reporters claimed that they should not have been fired because they were whistle-blowers. They claimed whistle-blower status saying that airing a false story is against the law, per the FCC regulations. The court said they were not whistle-blowers according to the law, because there is no LAW against airing a false story. The court never made a judgment on the story itself because there was no point since these two were not protected under whistle-blower laws in the first place, meaning they could be fired.

However, I can't hammer you on the misunderstanding. First, your whole point is moot because it was not FoxNews on trial here, but a local Fox affiliate (again, Simpsons vs O'Reilly). But in doing a little research on this, I found the first five or six pages Google returned were all from sites like, purefood.org, organicconsumers.org, HuffingtonPost and so on. Of course, all of these sights are slanted toward their cause, just as a story on Redstate.com would be slanted. It is difficult, if not impossible to find a non-slanted version of this story. The irony of it all is that they are all claiming FoxNews is bad f

I'm not sure what happened to Ray, I haven't seen or heard from him for a while either. He's still updating his blog, so hopefully he's just busy doing the good work that has earned him so much respect.

I thought optical discs suffered from bit rot?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
http://www.pcmech.com/article/how-to-avoid-bit-rot/
http://martik-scorp.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-is-bit-rot.html
(I'm not affiliated with any of these sites, they're just what showed up on Google.)

I'd trust data written to magnetic media more than I would that written to a DVD or CD, and the larger capacity is just a bonus.

This was best said by Victor Tsoy, leader of rock band Kino. Despite being insanely popular, his music was never published by the Soviet Union state-controlled music industry. He died in a car accident at age 28, under suspicious circumstances.

Victor Tsoy (leader of the rock band Kino), Peaceful Night

Let me explain: at the moment US copyright laws demand that you register your work with some federal agency (or similar),

WRONG. Under US law, copyright inherently exists on all works at the point of original creation/publishing and belongs to the original author unless transfered. Copyright registration is an optional service so that copyright holders can have reliable proof of their copyright. Your copyrights exist and are enforceable whether you register or not.

The way the law seems to work I cannot get this particular individual to either stop using my image or pay me for its use. (I have contacted Apple, who seem to own the server the offending webpage is located on, with little result).

Send a DMCA takedown notice both to Apple as well as the contact info for the offending website owner. It doesn't cost anything, and it will go further than where you seem to have gotten so far.
 

I think It would be better to use mailbox instead .pst files or any other mbox mail storage. http://ignoresysprereqs.blogspot.com/2011/03/backup-de-tu-cuenta-gmail-backuping-up.html

Actually, in many ways we have stronger copyright laws in Canada than the US does, according to copyright expert Harold Knopf. The US media companies are just pushing for ever more draconian laws.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html . Now if would only rip off other cool things from Google like the Froogle merchant feeds to allow online resellers submit their catalogs for free, they would be even more popular.

You mean this Rosette? I'm pretty sure she's not the type to sleep around.

I hear all photos come out like this!

Bill Gates doesn't work at Microsoft anymore

That's not Bill Gates, that's Woody Allen. But you're right, he never worked there.

Stop complaining, download SL4A, and build your own tea-timer in 2 lines of the scripting language of your choice. One of the examples is a two-line script that scans a barcode and looks it up on Amazon - did your 433MHz Celeron do that?

Seriously, there will of course be many things your phone cannot do relative to your PC (lack of keyboard, small screen blah blah) and conversely many things your phone can that your PC hasn't a hope of (mobility, GPS, camera blah blah). People write phone apps based on what they think people will use the platform for, and there are thousands of apps that do stuff that is totally impractical on PCs.

Yes, you can install ffmpeg to recode video with if you want, or busybox and go further. The kernel is Linux, so you can get the NDK, cross-compile gcc for it, and start writing or porting whatever you like. If you don't mind using vi on a 3.7" touchscreen.

Except that, having one of the largest economies, and half the worlds military, means being pretty invested in this game.

Ever heard Bill Hick's old rant about how "life is a ride"?

The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly colored, and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they've begun to question, 'Is this real, or is this just a ride?', and other people have remembered, and they've come back to us and they say 'Hey, don't worry. Don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.' and we KILL THOSE PEOPLE.

"Shut him up! We have alot invested in this ride! SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real."

It's just a ride.

(More of it is here: http://anti-union.blogspot.com/2008/10/bill-hicks-life-is-but-ride.html )

How to clear your disk cache:
echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

By default, bonnie++ will test using file sizes that are twice your RAM, to make sure that disk caches get overrun.

You'll really want to use bonnie++ or iozone instead of hdparm if you're comparing HDs and SSDs, since SSDs really only shine with lots of small files. The hdparm results would be rather meaningless.

For my part, I'd rather drop $100 on a RAM upgrade than $200 on an SSD. Once you have all your files read into disk cache in RAM, HDs and SSDs perform pretty much identically. If you use the readahead utility to proactively preload all your small files into disk cache, HDs (esp. with RAID10 or RAID5) can perform just as well as SSDs.

http://trumblings.blogspot.com/2010/11/using-readahead-to-speed-up-disk.html

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it sounds like you're probably already well aware of this since email is such a big part of what you do, but have you tried enabling "nested labels" in gmail? i cant remember if its a lab or a real setting yet, but i've been using it for quite awhile. It's mildly confusing as to how it works but once you get the hang of it, its actually pretty awesome. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-in-labs-nested-labels-and-message.html

I'm really scared about all this. I live in California, will I be in any danger from Iran? I wonder if I would be safer in Canada, although I do have a bunker under my weather lab.
Kevin Martin, Meteorologist SCWXA

Oh for the love of god... I came to that conclusion by myself after a few months using slackware. I think ubuntu is a fine distro, it's just a bit slow. And I'm not just saying that, take a look at 3D performance comparisons. That I happened to express my opinion shortly after a similar article was posted was a total coincidence, I didn't need the groupthink of slashdot to tell me what I've known for years. And that is, use ubuntu if you want an easier desktop for a performance sacrifice.

Oh for the love of god... I came to that conclusion by myself after a few months using slackware. I think ubuntu is a fine distro, it's just a bit slow. And I'm not just saying that, take a look at 3D performance comparisons. That I happened to express my opinion shortly after a similar article was posted was a total coincidence, I didn't need the groupthink of slashdot to tell me what I've known for years. And that is, use ubuntu if you want an easier desktop for a performance sacrifice.

Oh for the love of god... I came to that conclusion by myself after a few months using slackware. I think ubuntu is a fine distro, it's just a bit slow. And I'm not just saying that, take a look at 3D performance comparisons. That I happened to express my opinion shortly after a similar article was posted was a total coincidence, I didn't need the groupthink of slashdot to tell me what I've known for years. And that is, use ubuntu if you want an easier desktop for a performance sacrifice.

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From http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2010/06/artificial-scarcity-drm.html :
"Fair use rights
DRM is often used unintentionally or intentionally to take away fair use rights and sometimes sell them back, assisted by anti-circumvention provisions in laws like the DMCA that applies regardless of things like fair use rights."
In this case it is of course first sale, but the point is still the same.

have they moved to Android then? 'cos you cannot mean Microsoft - the company famous for infighting between teams. The Kin was shut down because it was in competition with Windows Phone team, and really - if you want a good laugh, read this blog piece about putting the shutdown menu into Vista.

Now, when you consider that one of the options available to Nokia in taking Windows Phone 7 was that their teams get to work on the WP7 code and customise or improve it you begin to understand just what a total, epic, unmitigated, colossal fail WP7 is soon to be (not that its been a roaring success so far!)

The trouble is that they're the same questions that they've been answering for a decade. When the novel challenges to the concensus are things like the sun is made of iron, there's probably some pathological scepticism going on.

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Ever hear of Hans Peterson?

http://drdavidcornbleet.blogspot.com/

Watson’s avatar, which viewers will see behind a standard Jeopardy! podium, is designer Joshua Davis’ artistic representation of the machine. It does not provide eyes or ears for Watson. Instead, Watson depends on text messaging, sent over TCP/IP, in order to receive the clue. At exactly the moment that the clue is revealed on the game board, a text is sent electronically to Watson’s POWER7 chips. So, Watson receives the clue text at the same time it hits Brad Rutter’s and Ken Jennings’ retinas.

Source: http://ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-watson-sees-hears-and-speaks-to.html

I'd argue the block to running Linux in this case is from lack of knowing what to research and not from lack of trying.

I will point out that any search for help on label printing is all made horribly difficult by the fact there is another language called ZPL which has nothing to do with printers or printing.

From the manufacturer's site, that Zebra label printer supports:

Core programming languages
ZPL, ZPL II, EPL, EPL-Page Mode, EPL2, Line Mode

The ZPL language? It's just ASCII with special coding for things like labels. Has nothing at all to do with the University of Washington's dead 'better than C/C++' language.

ZPL II gets you much more. I'd hate to say it, but a little Java or Perl and you could be in business mail merging labels in Cyrillic, Javanese, Hindi or what have you.

Could be a good Google Summer of Code project if you couldn't scare up support yourself.

I'm guessing all the windows printer drivers were EPL drivers. Bleh.

Yes, but you have to realise that the British never like to give any credit to the Dutch for anything...

  - The world's largest radiotelescope is based in the Netherlands.
  - The world's highest rate of cycling is in the Netherlands.
  - The Dutch crime rate is so low that they're having to import prisoners from other countries to avoid making prison officers redundant.
  - The Dutch manage to be the world's second largest agricultural exporter despite having just 0.03% of the world's land.
  - Dutch roads are the safest in the world.
  - Dutch obesity rates are amongst the world's lowest.
  - Teenage pregnancy rate is amongst the world's lowest.
  - Drug abuse rates are amongst the world's lowest...
  - Dutch children are the happiest in the world.

However, Britain prefers to defer to the US for advice on all these things...

Yes, but you have to realise that the British never like to give any credit to the Dutch for anything...

  - The world's largest radiotelescope is based in the Netherlands.
  - The world's highest rate of cycling is in the Netherlands.
  - The Dutch crime rate is so low that they're having to import prisoners from other countries to avoid making prison officers redundant.
  - The Dutch manage to be the world's second largest agricultural exporter despite having just 0.03% of the world's land.
  - Dutch roads are the safest in the world.
  - Dutch obesity rates are amongst the world's lowest.
  - Teenage pregnancy rate is amongst the world's lowest.
  - Drug abuse rates are amongst the world's lowest...
  - Dutch children are the happiest in the world.

However, Britain prefers to defer to the US for advice on all these things...

contributions from upstream projects.

According to some comments on the mini microsoft blog, between 50% and 80% of what few WP7 phones are being bought end up being returned, so take a number, and get in line ...

Oh well anecdotal evidence in an anonymous comment on a website, must be factual then. Are you seriously that retarded? You're probably the one that posted it.

According to some comments on the mini microsoft blog, between 50% and 80% of what few WP7 phones are being bought end up being returned, so take a number, and get in line ...

So, it's just like the xbox360 then

the update had bricked his Samsung Omnia 7. 'We're very sorry for the inconvenience,' Microsoft responded on Twitter. 'For this issue we would suggest taking it to a store.'"

After all, that's where the Returns counter is, right?

According to some comments on the mini microsoft blog, between 50% and 80% of what few WP7 phones are being bought end up being returned, so take a number, and get in line ...

It's somewhat more of just a ploy:
http://alchemistar.blogspot.com/2010/12/htc-vision-g2-custom-rom-list.html

Punchscan and Scantegrity both fulfill your requirements. The key is that each ballot is printed with a unique correspondence between the symbol marked and the candidate chosen, and the checksums for that mapping (and the ballot serial number) are published before any of the ballots are marked.

I have written up a description of how punchscan works here, if you are interested: http://seedsofgenerality.blogspot.com/

The only piece of cryptography you need to understand is what a hash function is, and how hard it is to reverse a hash. Everything else is about as hard to understand as, say, the quicksort algorithm is the first time you see it.

Now, that means that most people won't bother learning it in detail, but that doesn't mean the average voter should not trust such a system anymore than the fact that most people who use ssh don't understand the RSA algorithm in any depth should mean that they should not have any confidence in ssh.

It only takes a small minority of interested technical people to vet such a system.

goddamit, [citation needed]

The minute the locked tubs leave your sight, you are relying on an army of other people to make sure they aren't unlocked while you aren't looking and the ballots switched, so no, you can't verify the paper trail when you vote.

With an end-to-end verifiable paper ballot protocol like punchscan and integrity, however, you (individually, without relying on an army of eyeballs to preserve chain-of-custody) can verify that the vote count is accurate because throughout the election (from the printing of the ballots to the scanning of the ballots to the final vote tallies) enough information is made public about the ballots and how they are marked that it is impossible for the election authority to steal more than a few votes without being caught. The probability of one vote being stolen without being detected is 1/2, 2 votes 1/4, 3 votes 1/8, and so on. At the same time, the information revealed is not enough to determine how any individual person voted, so anonymity is preserved.

At the heart of such protocols is the concept of a cryptographic commitment. Suppose you and I want to flip a coin fairly via an email exchange. If we were face-to-face, you would call heads or tails, I would then flip the coin, and we would see who won the toss.

How do you prevent cheating in a similar exchange over email?

The key is that I flip the coin first, generate a commitment and email it to you, then you call heads or tails, and then I reveal the key that unlocks the commitment, whereupon we both know who won the toss.

How do I generate a commitment that I can't modify later? Suppose I flip the coin and it comes up heads. I then generate a 128-bit random number, concatenate "heads" to it, and calculate the SHA256 hash of that string. I send you the hash. You call heads or tails. I then send you the 128 bit random number I used, and tell you it was heads. To check me, you take the random number, concatenate heads to it, and calculate the SHA256 hash. If it matches what I originally sent you, then you know I didn't cheat. If it doesn't, then you know I tried to pull a fast one.

How do you build a paper ballot election protocol out of that? That's a longer story. If you are interested, I wrote up my explanation of it here: http://seedsofgenerality.blogspot.com/2010/09/secure-voting-protocols.html

Now I grant you that not very many people will take the time to understand how a complicated protocol like that works. But it would only take a small minority of people to vet such a scheme so that the wider population would have confidence in it. Just as it only takes a small minority of people to understand how RSA works for the rest of us to use ssh with confidence.

Geohot says he's got enough money for now, so he pulled the link: http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/

I think the submitter had that point in mind. The author of the TFA happened to have a Kindle, so that's what he showed off. I imagine that any charity organization that would send e-readers would be sending an open format.

You might think so, but you'd be wrong, as often as not.

International Development is a pretty corrupt game, often dominated long-time civil servants positioning themselves to become high-paid consultants in the field. It's hardly unknown for donors to recommend 'solutions' that don't reflect the recipients' priorities nearly as well as their own.

Considering the uphill struggle we've faced over the last five years to get very basic things like the OLPC into the common dialogue (too much resistance from vested interests) or to properly liberalise the telecoms market (competing strategic interests - nobody wants China invested in the infrastructure, for example), I'd say if something like this were to be proposed, the odds are better than even that a proprietary, inefficient and sub-par solution would be the result. locking the people (and more importantly, the donors and the consultants) into long-term commitment to something that will make a lot of money for the vendor.

This development blog may be a satire, but it's bitterly bitterly true.

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Apparently they are about to roll this out to Google Apps users. Maybe they will push it to GMail in due course.

The Donate button can be found on the top of GeoHot's webpage http://geohot.com
and also at the top of his new blog http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com
(both linked in the article)

if you are feeling grateful now, donate to the legal defense