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I'm not a man, I'm a woman.

I'm glad you are healthy. But not all vegetarians/vegans are healthy on their chosen diet; going veg*n is not "one-size-fits-all". Lierre Keith is one such individual; her health was destroyed by being vegan for 20 years.
Here's the experiences of a couple other women:
http://crunchychewymama.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-im-not-vegetarian-anymore.html
http://voraciouseats.com/2010/11/19/a-vegan-no-more/

I'm not against vegetarian diets, I eat a good number of vegetarian meals myself, I just cook meals that (a) taste good, and (b) are healthy. I believe people can be healthy on a vegetarian or omnivorous diet. However, I don't find the vegan diet to be "healthy".

By reading your posts, it seems you think perhaps you are the only one on slashdot that grew up on a farm. And I grew up on a farm too. My background is very rooted in agrculture. My family grew crops (primarily wheat and milo), raised livestock (primarily cattle and sheep), and ran a grain elavator. My family also hunts. I know very well where my food comes from.

I like meat. It's natural to eat meat. It's not natural to eat grains; and the eating of grains has allowed the human population to explode.

Most pasture land is unfit for crops. Too sandy, rocky, hilly, etc. It would be impossible to get a tractor or combine around this land. A diet that includes some meat is actually a more efficient use of land. http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/534100

As far as feeding the world's hungry, Western societies sending grain to them actually worsens the problem. It ends up hurting the local economy of an already ailing country even more, and makes the farmers there unneeded so there's even more people in need.

Meat is a fetish? Um... whatever floats your boat! I guess Lady Gaga did wear that meat outfit...

I'm curious, what do you eat if you don't eat meat and don't eat monocrops? Do you grow all of your own food?

I'm not a man, I'm a woman.

I'm glad you are healthy. But not all vegetarians/vegans are healthy on their chosen diet; going veg*n is not "one-size-fits-all". Lierre Keith is one such individual; her health was destroyed by being vegan for 20 years.
Here's the experiences of a couple other women:
http://crunchychewymama.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-im-not-vegetarian-anymore.html
http://voraciouseats.com/2010/11/19/a-vegan-no-more/

I'm not against vegetarian diets, I eat a good number of vegetarian meals myself, I just cook meals that (a) taste good, and (b) are healthy. I believe people can be healthy on a vegetarian or omnivorous diet. However, I don't find the vegan diet to be "healthy".

By reading your posts, it seems you think perhaps you are the only one on slashdot that grew up on a farm. And I grew up on a farm too. My background is very rooted in agrculture. My family grew crops (primarily wheat and milo), raised livestock (primarily cattle and sheep), and ran a grain elavator. My family also hunts. I know very well where my food comes from.

I like meat. It's natural to eat meat. It's not natural to eat grains; and the eating of grains has allowed the human population to explode.

Most pasture land is unfit for crops. Too sandy, rocky, hilly, etc. It would be impossible to get a tractor or combine around this land. A diet that includes some meat is actually a more efficient use of land. http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/534100

As far as feeding the world's hungry, Western societies sending grain to them actually worsens the problem. It ends up hurting the local economy of an already ailing country even more, and makes the farmers there unneeded so there's even more people in need.

Meat is a fetish? Um... whatever floats your boat! I guess Lady Gaga did wear that meat outfit...

I'm curious, what do you eat if you don't eat meat and don't eat monocrops? Do you grow all of your own food?

"I'd be interested in seeing how Google would react if someone drove into their parking lot, hauled out a camera and started photographing their campus"

What? you mean like this... http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/2007/02/my-trip-to-google-with-photos.html

More: http://www.bing.com/search?q=my+photos+of+google+campus

haha! you used bing!

Actually, I'm curious: why did you use bing? Plugging your bing search into google yields much better results -- the google search actually turns up mostly photos of google campuses (with your first link as the first hit!), whereas the bing results seem to all be just photos of various college campuses that happen to be hosted on google sites....

"I'd be interested in seeing how Google would react if someone drove into their parking lot, hauled out a camera and started photographing their campus"

What? you mean like this...
http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/2007/02/my-trip-to-google-with-photos.html

More: http://www.bing.com/search?q=my+photos+of+google+campus

I remember, last time this guy said he had something in 2008, it was refuted pretty strongly. He also made a claim in the 70s that turned out to be bogus.

Last time, the network of blogs that brought up skepticism got a lot of comments about how Israelis are smarter by genetic disposition. It was really weird.

For example, this, but I can't find the others I remember reading.

So, probably shouldn't give this guy too much attention, he's not a very good scientist it seems.

Why is it always brought up "how much grain cows eat"? Buy from local farmers that keep their cows on pasture. Cows are not meant to eat grain!

I just took a few pictures last weekend when I was back visiting my parents: http://abby-eats.blogspot.com/2010/11/northwestern-kansas-pictures-part-i.html
Note that the pasture land would be impossible to farm. And the cattle you find on flat land are just moved onto it to eat crop stubble. And the "wasted land used to feed cattle"? Check out the haybale in the ditch, farmers can sign up for stretches of ditch to bale for animal feed.

As far as soybeans go, they really are not fit for human consumption. The only soy humans should eat is fermented soy (tempeh, miso, etc.). Unfermented soy acts as anti-nutrient. Not to mention the estrogen-like properties it has, and the fact it also contains substances that block the parts of the brain responsible for memory and decision making. A study in Hawaii showed correlation between eating tofu 2+ times a week and increased Alzheimer's risk.
Soy is on my "avoid" list.

As a Vegan, I'm always interested when these issues come up on my usual websites. I, like many of the other Animal Rights people here visit Slashdot, Ars, Engadget, Gizmodo etc daily, we dont cause any fuss, but when these "stories" arise, "ohhhhh, they're hypocrites", or "I'm gonna have me a big steak, yummy mc yum yums!!!111!!!" are the usual posts.

I'm also quite against PETA, they have a New Welfarist approach, I despise how they have Women pose and RE promoting Veganism, "screw the principle" http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/ingrid-newkirk-on-principled-veganism-screw-the-principle/

"PETA can't rightfully preach about animal rights while euthanizing tens of thousands of unwanted pets every year. Hypocrisy at its finest.".

They can "preach" Animal Rights while also practising euthanasia you realise? Just as I love being alive, but were I to have Cancer such as others in my family, I could well imagine rather being dead, than to die slowly over the months. Now, I much prefer the idea of No Kill shelters, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-kill_shelter , I dont know how practical they are in real life. I've had family members who've volunteered with the SPCA etc, I myself have no hands on experience of this kind.

I agree with practically NOTHING coming from PETA, I think it must obviously be wrong that they "put to sleep" so many animals each year.

However, please dont write off Animal Rights because of PETA's actions.

http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/ and these shows http://bit.ly/veganpodcastinfo were useful for me.

I also promote Veganism through videos of my Chicken Friends (such as "A Day in the Life..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj8gL8lj-Yg ), and through my show http://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/

some tofu brisket then

> The Economist said it recently and they were correct:

I'm glad that they're so much more interesting to believe than, for example, William Patry. The "control" versus "economic incentive" debate is still going strong, and it seems silly to unilaterally name one side as the winner. (In my eyes, it's very similar to debates on religion, BTW.)

See the following links for debate / discussion on this issue:

• Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars (don't miss the archives for 2009).
• The Ethical Visions of Copyright Law (read the PDF which reviews US legal decisions and comes to the conclusion that they view the economic side as more important)

Could you possibly post a link to the Founder's texts on which you (or the Economist) base your argument? The wording in the Constitution itself would seem to be on the "economic incentive" side of the argument, no?

You might be on to something here...

In addition google gets yet another metric (a click) making a measurable event that they may find a way to charge for. (Hey even negative feed back to the advertiser is worth something).

Google has also announced they have a way to filter out BAD advertisers in their search result: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/being-bad-to-your-customers-is-bad-for.html

So that's two wins for google in the same week.

For those of who didn't RTFA, it looks like it tracks faces and adjusts the projected images accordingly. Let's hope Apple has a slightly better debut than HP's face-tracking software.

P.S. Come on, /. Why the heck did I have to type out the whole link. No paste for Apple computers?

1. Clippy: Misunderstood animated pedagogical agent or spawn of Satan? - Invokes Sun Tzu

2. Why People Hate the Paperclip: Labels, Appearance, Behavior, and Social Responses to User Interface Agents. Impressive 65 Page PDF available from this abstract page.

3. People Who Hate Clippy, the Stupid Paper Clip from Microsoft Word (Wartburg Chapter). Emergency outreach

4. Meme:Clippy. Fanpic uploads @ end.

5. On Youtube.

6. How I Made Clippy Lovable. Stanford again. What is it with these guys? You know their mascot is a tree?

7. DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS. I think my nose just started bleeding.

8. Et tu DARPA?.

9. Senor Pedaso Molesto de Matal NPR transcript.

10. Back At'chya. Remember before they became inertia?

11. Hark the Herald.. Wait, DIE DIE DIE. Just sayin'.

12. Reflection.

Happy Clippymas! Hope the leaks result in a zillion times the cogitation invested in Clippy..

"I would set up a War Crimes Tribunal for my own crimes, because if I take on that position [I would need] to deal with the institutional structure and the culture, the intellectual culture. The culture has to be cured."

That's from here towards the bottom.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Oe7ul3c8tYc/SicX8rVT_YI/AAAAAAAAAg8/APvQB3vZW2U/s1600-h/roadside-pv-6.jpg

Or perhaps that at least one threat to democracy is a pseudo-religious racist international political party. We all know which one we're talking about. (just like the last 2 from the 20th century were, well maybe not all that religious, but you have to admit that for "nationalists" neither the nazis nor the communists were all that interested in any one nation).

Of course, for this reason, actual people got fired, and worse. While Assange, if you're right should have been dead and buried 2 releases ago.

But we all know the leftist conspiracy theorists, and if anyone gets hurt for offending THEIR side ... well that doesn't count. The plain and blatant fact that Che Guevara is a genocidal maniak and mass-murderer (and Chavez almost certainly is, too), for example, does not prevent these people from "proudly" wearing those moronic T-shirts. It might as well be Hitler, or Stalin on there (and some of them actually do that too).

You see, journalists are, like everyone seems today, first and foremost cowards. Cowards, as even a short visit in any public school teaches like nothing else, don't attack the strong, anyone with any real or perceived power to hurt others.

Cowards, like today's journalists, attack the weak, the defenseless (mostly because they refuse to hit back, not for lack of means. Of course, that won't last), the unpopular.

Just like Assange.

Don't forget about the most excellent SysAdvent calendar: http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/

So we can start to hope a third party will show up on the scene? One can only hope.

One that uses reasonableness? The whole WikiLeaks problem could be resolved with a simple change to copyright law. If WikiLeaks were posting a bunch of Britnet Spears songs, they'd be shut down by now.

http://carbertscurrentevents.blogspot.com/

"Or better yet, WTF are host files? Non-techs can sort of understand ABP, as it is an add-on that stops bad or all ads. Host files, no way an average computer user would understand them or utilize them." - by stonewallred (1465497) on Wednesday December 01, @10:40AM (#34404550)

Take a GOOD solid read (and if still in doubt? Refer to this mvps.org link -> http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm (it has a great writeup that's EASILY UNDERSTOOD & very detailed, on HOSTS)) - this will show you how/why HOSTS files are superior to AdBlock or even DNS servers on MANY accounts (and why you ought to use them in combination for the "best in 'layered security'" practices online!

14 ADVANTAGES OF HOSTS FILES OVER DNS SERVERS &/or ADBLOCK:

1.) Adblock blocks ads in only 1 browser family (Disclaimer: Opera now has an AdBlock addon (now that Opera has addons above widgets), but I am not certain the same people make it as they do for FF...).

2.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc. (any webbound program).

3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF, Hosts files do.

4.) Adblock won't get you to your favorite sites if a DNS server goes down or is DNS-poisoned, hosts will (this leads to points 4-7 next below).

5.) Adblock doesn't allow you to hardcode in your favorite websites into it so you don't make DNS server calls and so you can avoid tracking by DNS request logs, hosts do (DNS servers are also being abused by the Chinese lately and by the Kaminsky flaw -> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/082908-kaminsky-flaw-prompts-dns-server.html for years now). Hosts protect against those problems via hardcodes of your fav sites (you should verify against the TLD that does nothing but cache IPAddress-to-domainname/hostname resolutions via PINGS &/or WHOIS though, regularly, so you have the correct IP & it's current)).

6.) HOSTS files protect you vs. DNS-poisoning &/or the Kaminsky flaw in DNS servers, and allow you to get to sites reliably vs. things like the Chinese are doing to DNS -> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/29/1755230/Chinese-DNS-Tampering-a-Real-Threat-To-Outsiders

7.) AdBlock doesn't let you block out known bad sites or servers that are known to be maliciously scripted, hosts can and many reputable lists for this exist:

GOOD INFORMATION ON MALWARE BEHAVIOR LISTING BOTNET C&C SERVERS + MORE (AS WELL AS REMOVAL LISTS FOR HOSTS):

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml
http://www.stopbadware.org/
http://blog.fireeye.com/
http://mtc.sri.com/
http://news.netcraft.com/
http://www.shadowserver.org/
http://www.stopbadware.org/home

REGULARLY UPDATED HOSTS FILES SITES (reputable/reliable sources):

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [mvps.org]
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ [someonewhocares.org]
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html [hostsfile.org]
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/ [hostsfile.mine.nu]

Can't you just download your bn.com-purchased books from the "My NOOK Library" section of their site? I don't have a Nook, but I do purchase eBooks from Barnes&Noble, and that is how I retrieve them.

Of course, then I have to decrypt their files (I use a pair of python scripts), load them into Calibre (or any epub reader), and then convert them to the format I want. It would be much simpler if they came without DRM.

1.) Adblock blocks ads in only 1 browser family (Disclaimer: Opera now has an AdBlock addon (now that Opera has addons above widgets), but I am not certain the same people make it as they do for FF...).

2.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc. (any webbound program).

3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF, Hosts files do.

4.) Adblock won't get you to your favorite sites if a DNS server goes down or is DNS-poisoned, hosts will (this leads to points 4-7 next below).

4.) Adblock doesn't allow you to hardcode in your favorite websites into it so you don't make DNS server calls and so you can avoid tracking by DNS request logs, hosts do (DNS servers are also being abused by the Chinese lately and by the Kaminsky flaw -> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/082908-kaminsky-flaw-prompts-dns-server.html for years now). Hosts protect against those problems via hardcodes of your fav sites (you should verify against the TLD that does nothing but cache IPAddress-to-domainname/hostname resolutions via PINGS &/or WHOIS though, regularly, so you have the correct IP & it's current)).

5.) HOSTS files protect you vs. DNS-poisoning &/or the Kaminsky flaw in DNS servers, and allow you to get to sites reliably vs. things like the Chinese are doing to DNS -> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/29/1755230/Chinese-DNS-Tampering-a-Real-Threat-To-Outsiders

6.) AdBlock doesn't let you block out known bad sites or servers that are known to be maliciously scripted, hosts can and many reputable lists for this exist:

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online
http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml
http://www.stopbadware.org/
http://blog.fireeye.com/
http://mtc.sri.com/
http://news.netcraft.com/
http://www.shadowserver.org/
http://www.mvps.org/
http://someonewhocares.org/
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/hosts0
http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
http://www.stopbadware.org/home

7.) HOSTS files will allow you to get to sites you like, via hardcoding your favs into a HOSTS file, FAR faster than DNS servers can by FAR (by saving the roundtrip inquiry time to a DNS server & back to you).

8.) AdBlock is a program, and subject to bugs programs can get. Hosts files are merely a filter and not a program, thus not subject to bugs of the nature just discussed.

9.) Hosts files don't eat up CPU cycles like AdBlock does while it parses a webpages' content.

10.) HOSTS files are EASILY user controlled, obtained (for reliable ones -> http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm ) & edited too, via texteditors like Windows notepad.exe or Linux nano (etc.)

11.) You don't have the sourcecode to Adblock. With hosts you don't even need source to control it (edit, update, delete, insert of new entries via a text editor).

12.) Hosts files are easily secured via using MAC/ACL &/or Read-Only attributes applied.

13.) AND, LASTLY? SINCE MALWARE GENERALLY HAS TO OPERATE ON WHAT YOU YOURSELF

1.) Adblock blocks ads in only 1 browser family (Disclaimer: Opera now has an AdBlock addon (now that Opera has addons above widgets), but I am not certain the same people make it as they do for FF...).

2.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc. (any webbound program).

3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF, Hosts files do.

4.) Adblock won't get you to your favorite sites if a DNS server goes down or is DNS-poisoned, hosts will (this leads to points 4-7 next below).

4.) Adblock doesn't allow you to hardcode in your favorite websites into it so you don't make DNS server calls and so you can avoid tracking by DNS request logs, hosts do (DNS servers are also being abused by the Chinese lately and by the Kaminsky flaw for years now - hosts protect against that via hardcodes of your fav sites (you should verify against the TLD that does nothing but cache IPAddress-to-domainname/hostname resolutions via PINGS &/or WHOIS though, regularly, so you have the correct IP & it's current)).

5.) HOSTS files protect you vs. DNS-poisoning &/or the Kaminsky flaw in DNS servers, and allow you to get to sites reliably vs. things like the Chinese are doing to DNS -> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/29/1755230/Chinese-DNS-Tampering-a-Real-Threat-To-Outsiders

6.) AdBlock doesn't let you block out known bad sites or servers that are known to be maliciously scripted, hosts can and many reputable lists for this exist:

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online
http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml
http://www.stopbadware.org/
http://blog.fireeye.com/
http://mtc.sri.com/
http://news.netcraft.com/
http://www.shadowserver.org/
http://www.mvps.org/
http://someonewhocares.org/
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/hosts0
http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
http://www.stopbadware.org/home

7.) HOSTS files will allow you to get to sites you like, via hardcoding your favs into a HOSTS file, FAR faster than DNS servers can by FAR (by saving the roundtrip inquiry time to a DNS server & back to you).

8.) AdBlock is a program, and subject to bugs programs can get. Hosts files are merely a filter and not a program, thus not subject to bugs of the nature just discussed.

9.) Hosts files don't eat up CPU cycles like AdBlock does while it parses a webpages' content.

10.) HOSTS files are EASILY user controlled, obtained (for reliable ones -> http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm ) & edited too, via texteditors like Windows notepad.exe or Linux nano (etc.)

11.) You don't have the sourcecode to Adblock. With hosts you don't even need source to control it (edit, update, delete, insert of new entries via a text editor).

12.) Hosts files are easily secured via using MAC/ACL &/or Read-Only attributes applied.

13.) AND, LASTLY? SINCE MALWARE GENERALLY HAS TO OPERATE ON WHAT YOU YOURSELF CAN DO (running as limited class/least privlege user, hopefully, OR even as ADMIN/ROOT/SUPERUSER)? HOSTS "LOCK IN" malware too, vs. communicating "back to mama" for orders (provided they have name

I buy specifically from Barnes and Noble because of an existing method to remove the DRM, allowing me to read the e-books I buy on my Onyx Boox e-reader.

Hitler was NOT a supporter of business! He was a supporter of party members who owned businesses! Don't believe me? Find me one Jewish owned company in Germany that survived WWII.

And yes, I have read Marx. He was sadly mistaken in his divvying up of people into two classes. A blog posting I read a while back covers this concept quite well: http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2010/07/debtors-and-savers.html

What if you're a low-ranking Japanese mafioso who has screwed up a few times and are missing a digit or two. Or a fisherman who's had a harsh life at sea, or a particularly clumsy ex-chef. There are a lot of people missing digits (I know two, one boat accident and one animal-related). http://goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/2010/11/psp2-reverse-touchpad-to-annoy-stumpy.html

"How about if - rather than an FBI warning or whatever - the site is replaced by a clone that sniffs your info or installs trojans?" - by phorm (591458) on Friday November 26, @01:29PM (#34351528) Homepage

HOSTS can also be used to block KNOWN bad websites that serve up malware:

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
http://www.malwareurl.com/listing-urls.php?page=1&urls=off&rp=
http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/alerts.aspx
http://www.stopbadware.org/
http://blog.fireeye.com/
http://mtc.sri.com/
http://www.scansafe.com/threat_center/threat_alerts
http://news.netcraft.com/
http://www.shadowserver.org/
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online

Many of those sites have "removal lists" IF a site cleans itself up, or if it just "drops out of site"!

(The latter I don't trust though, because malware makers "recycle" domainname/hostnames they own, & the RBN (russian business network) though thought 'dead'? Has had it's domain/host names reused by ANOTHER botnet recently!)...

Thus, I add those sites that are known as serving up malware exploits as BLOCKED in my HOSTS file, and I can't get to them, until they're proven clean (I don't remove ones that just "drop" because they've been shown to get "recycled/reused").

APK

P.S.=>

"And when the server gets bushwhacked instead of the domain, and they move to a new host - but you're still getting the old IP from your hosts file - then what?" - by phorm (591458) on Friday November 26, @01:29PM (#34351528) Homepage

I again confronted you today on this, as to HOW you were "modded up" here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1887878&cid=34387450 because I already covered the other part in my initial reply with this statement (as to sites changing IP addresses) requoted, again, below next:

"& if they change it again? Re-Ping (with a double verifying WHOIS) said site & the TLD that does NOTHING but resolve hosts/domains to their correct IP will give you a correct IP address (provided you're NOT being "man-in-the-middle" attacked) to reinsert into your hosts file to update it..." - by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 26, @12:36PM (#34351132)

As to verifying IP addresses changing on sites.

So, if a site also is proven to harbor malware exploits?? A custom HOSTS file is also used to block those out until they are proven CLEAN... get it??

I don't see HOW/WHY you were modded up, because I cover the 1st point & anyone that knows how to use a HOSTS file knows it can be used to BLOCK OUT BAD SITES/SERVERS THAT SERVE UP EXPLOITS TOO, per the above... apk

So, you root for the biggest patentwhore ever?

[citation needed]

Aside from some rumblings about Linux (mostly via SCO), and one or two FAT-related suits, MSFT has been very quiet with their patent portfolio.

If anything MSFT has been one of the biggest players fighting against software patents (not out of any kind of philanthropy, mind you, mostly because they want to use the tech without sharing the licensing fees).

Over the past five years, Microsoft has been a defendant in 96 patent cases. In most of those cases, Microsoft describes the plaintiffs as "patent trolls." Over the same time period, Microsoft was a plaintiff in 11 cases.
source
actual source (reg required)

This is not an attack on America, or "the international community", it is even bigger than that: it is a declaration of war on the nation-state itself. What we’re really watching here is the life and death struggle of the nation state vs. “the Matrix”. The war is heating up, and so far the Matrix seems to be winning pretty easily. If the Matrix can weather the global collapse of nation states, the world should look very different in a few decades. I’m imagining technologies like desktop manufacturing, “metacurrencies”, vertical farming, off-grid solar power and social networks allowing entirely new forms of human social organization to emerge. I'm sure the tech-savvy, "open source" readership of Slashdot can grasp the implications of all this, and will choose the winning side. The last piece of the puzzle that is still missing is an “open source religion”, which is a progressive, spiritual vision of where this is all taking us. I like to call my vision the “Eco-Matrix”, which I see as a more constructive alternative to the al Qaeda model. Maybe I’m a dreamer, but if enough people dream something it has a way of becoming a reality. I've written more about the Eco-Matrix here: http://thesingularitarian.blogspot.com/2010/11/imagining-eco-matrix.html

True. 24 Hours of LeMons and Chump Car are two different American racing series that are very low-budget. Auto racing doesn't have to be exorbitantly expensive. Both series enforce this by limiting the car cost to $500, including purchase and repair (but excluding safety equipment).

I recently had the most fun of my life when I participated in the Rod Blagojevich Never-Say-Die 500 (read about my team's experience here). My total cost: ~$1600 + time. It's sort of a goofy event (costumes, car themes), but the racing is serious, and it's real wheel-to-wheel road racing. If you live in the USA, and you want to get into racing but just don't have a rich man's budget, I strongly recommend getting on a LeMons team.

And we let the our own government get away with irradiating our bodies at no benefit to the traveler.

Thanks, terrorists, for buttering up an incompetent bureaucracy to give itself a reason to take a power trip.

I use a "hard-coded" HOSTS file entry for my "fav" websites (like this one for example) that allows me to reach what ping'd off as "legit" @ the start of the year here, and remains so today (which is how I validate it, against the TLD that does nothing but resolve IP addresses to their correct domainname/hostname).

Additionally: This allows me to also reach them faster by not making DNS requests for them, which involves turn around response times from DNS servers, which this technique avoids said "lag"...

(Especially since 200 of my favs. are done thus in my HOSTS file, and I block out KNOWN bad sites/servers in it as well to avoid "sucking in" malscripted or other types of exploits via malevolent people)

This practice also allows me to be less "trackable" (sure, I'm still trackable by ISP/BSP, but not as easily) since I am NOT showing up on DNS request logs for my favs (where I spend a GOOD 95% of my time online each day anyhow).

Lastly, this practice also allows me to reach said sites IF my DNS servers I do use "go down" or are "misdirected" via the Kaminsky 'hack' (since they're hardcoded)... I do so, because I can't do the entire net in my HOSTS file as "hard-codes"!

Now, IF a site I like & hardcode "turns up bad" or "infected"? I get notification via the sources listed below ... and it gets blocked, even if temporarily only (& if they clean themselves up, it shows in the removal lists those sources provide too, & those sources also have "validation" screens where you can check if a site is currently "a plague ship" too - can't beat that!).

As far as DNS servers though?

Well, I use either ScrubIT DNS or OpenDNS (both are good & fast + per many DNS flaws, OpenDNS is KNOWN to "patch right away" if possible + they DO pay attention to blocking out various forms of "questionable" or "threatening" material). I also "alternate them", periodically, between those 2 (for avoiding tracking a BIT better, yes, & even from they, via DNS requests logs).

APK

P.S.=> What I do know though, is that it makes me FASTER online & SAFER TOO, by far!

My friends + family & even customers, plus others in forums I have "turned on" to this very old technique (that nowadays seems forgotten) also note it!

E.G.-> My best pal says "my online speed has DOUBLED using HOSTS files" & he used to get 200++ infestations a month (no joke) & he's down to MAYBE 2 a yr. now using HOSTS alone! We even setup his system for 8++ months without a firewall, on older Windows 2000 unpatched, & no firewall... he still had a much lower infection rate!

I also block out adbanners (sorry webmasters - I pay for my online time out of my own pocket)

I want ALL the speed I pay for, & I get a "no commercials/HBO internet" this way, much faster & safer too (since adbanners have been found w/ malicious script content in them many times the past 4-5 yrs. now no less),

This also protects myself vs. the "Kaminsky security crack" in DNS, noted above!

I also protect users & myself via HOSTS files, vs. KNOWN bad sites, via these reputable sources (others too, but here are the "bulk" of them I use to populate my HOSTS file for these purposes):

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
http://www.malwareurl.com/listing-urls.php?page=1&urls=off&rp=
http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/alerts.aspx
http://www.stopbadware.org/
http://blog.fireeye.com/
http://mtc.sri.com/
http://www.scansafe.com/threat_center/threat_alerts

Good to see some feedback confirming my suspicions coming from someone who actually lives in Ireland!

It seems that this bailout is not a done deal yet until the 7th of December, so you can still fight against it. I just read this article and thought it was interesting:

http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2010/11/if-ireland-doesnt-take-bailout.html#more

Best of luck fighting this, I know other countries will be next if Ireland falls to the global bankers.

So what part of that list of woes is due to "free markets"?

What part? Deregulated "too big to fail" banks gambling literally trillions on debt backed by obviously worthless assets, losing it all, then turning to productive taxpayers and industries for a massive bailout.

Definitely not that part. Those trillions of dollars of bad debt were created by loose fed policy and special treatment of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Then the bailout most certainly was not free market.

But hey, the CEO's made off with billions - who cares if the rest of the economy is a smoldering wreck as a result. Bozillo at Countrywide cashed in to the tune of over $500 million in a single year. Now it turns out many of those mortgages Countrywide originated don't even have legitimate paperwork behind them - Countrywide was too cheap to pay employees to do it properly. B of A bought Countrywide, and the lack of legitimate documentation could mean that billions of dollars worth of mortgages they were counting on for income and as assets don't actually exist. It could easily destroy the company, assuming taxpayers aren't forced to hack up another $100 billion bailout hairball.

This is what bankruptcy court is for.

The funny thing is that developed countries with properly regulated banking systems are able to afford extensive social programs, retirement pensions and their military obligations. Germany seems in little danger of defaulting on their loans - in fact they're running around bailing everybody else out. The US once had similar systems, and curiously went about 70 years between economic meltdowns. Why, it's almost like there's a correlation between strict regulation and financial stability and growth . . .

Germany got hit as well. I don't consider their position all that stable especially with the string of EU countries that are tipping over.

The US has had several meltdowns in the 80 years since the stock market crash of 1929. As I recall, there was similar bubble/burst activity in 1958 (which allegedly suffered from overbuilding following the Second World War), a mild recession in 1969-70, a serious one in 1973-1974, and a Savings and Loan mess in the late 80s through early 90s.

Funny, because 4.0 was released as being usable.

No, it wasn't. The following article was distributed via KDE's info channels: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/01/talking-bluntly.html

All major distributors except Fedora stayed with KDE 3.5 for that reason.

Apple's implementation of Objective-C also offers vtable dispatching as an optimization since Mac OS X 10.6, and benchmarks indicate little chance that either approach gives you much improvement on modern hardware.

(Don't mean to keep posting but I did some more reading this morning and I found it interesting.)

Agree totally. Since most people didn't know of the availability of this $20 package it's great that more know of it now. I think it should go a step further. I would love to see the guy (with the help of donations if need be) run a full page ad in USA Today so it spreads all over. They'll of course be follow ups on TV and other newspapers, etc.

Gee, maybe he could start his own blog, like this guy

Anger-laden post aside, he's right. Unless it's a huge fuck-up (and Todd doesn't pick up his phone), you'll never see a retraction on the front page or anywhere easily noticeable.

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Thank you admin :)

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Thank you admin :)

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Hey it passed the spell checker, I think you're expecting a bit much from slashdot editors ;}

I mean at least he linked to the original source instead of some blog... oh wait.

Well, at least they didn't attribute credit for the idea to Apple, while claiming Microsoft was granted a patent on it! That's gotta count for something right?

</sarcastic>

RDFa is still around, there are a few sites that still use it, but my Firefox add-ons that would pull semantic data .from RDFa statements embedded in HTML are obsolete and gathering dust. Instead a lot of people put microformats into their HTML, especially hCard, because it's more HTML-like and less verbose. Google's Rich Snippets (starred reviews, etc.) will parse either form of structured data markup, but supposedly 94% of the info they parse is in microformat not RDFa. HTML5/WHATWG has a concept called microdata that seems to allow indicating the scope of microformat information, AIUI using new itemscope and itemprop attributes rather than overloading class attributes. But that seems to have no support for RDFa.

Google could parse a lot more structured data so we could tell them what the hell our web pages are about. I'm convinced the reason they don't do this is the most diligent users of ANY and ALL such techniques will be spammers and SEO bastards. This comment is really is about person:Angelina Jolie body_part:breasts last_updated:today!, despite all its links to cheap inkjet cartridges and online betting.

You can export your waves right now.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html

Read this.

Opt-outers (presumably of any TSA procedure on any mode of transport) are tagged "domestic extremists" whose data will be referred to the Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division.

Your source is a blog of a blog of an un-named source that doesn't show anyone the putative memo. No pdf of the thing at all. For all we know, it's a bunch of electrons made up by somebody with an axe to grind.

A few seconds wandering around the Internet will yield hundreds if not thousands of similar posts about similar horrible things with about the same degree of provenance.

Tape the foil on tighter if you like, I'm going for the turkey.

Read this.

Opt-outers (presumably of any TSA procedure on any mode of transport) are tagged "domestic extremists" whose data will be referred to the Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division.

Hey guys. I thought I would make this blog post to make a point: GNUstep is not OpenStep. GNUstep is a Cocoa implementation and has been for quite some time.

It's Blakley's Law:

"Every public alert system's status indicator rises until it reaches its disaster imminent setting and remains at that setting until it is retired from service."

I guess I should have searched before I posted, as I see that there's recently been a blog post on the former matter: http://heronsperch.blogspot.com/2010/11/gnustep-is-not-openstep.html
But the latter?

The summary is (surprise!) wrong. GNUstep has been following Cocoa for a while. So says this guy.