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Google seems to be openly blocking anyone from Iran accessing the GSOC sites for some time

2 years ago:
http://jadi.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2007/5/1/2917242.html

Today:
http://i41.tinypic.com/20gy3j4.jpg

The ACLU produced a briefing on this a while back, in pdf. I converted it to html. Here it is:

http://thewall.civiblog.org/rsf/aclu_matrix_report.html

It's part of a downloadable collection of documents relating to Warrantless Domestic Surveillance I put together.

May You Find It Useful.
    -dcm

The ACLU produced a briefing on this a while back, in pdf. I converted it to html. Here it is:

http://thewall.civiblog.org/rsf/aclu_matrix_report.html

It's part of a downloadable collection of documents relating to Warrantless Domestic Surveillance I put together.

May You Find It Useful.
    -dcm

Fuck Metallica. They want it both ways. And Fuck Lars, in particular. "Tattoo the world" my ass.

After their behavior in the Napster and RIAA jihad, I can firmly state that I will never buy another item by ANY of this band. I will never permit their music to be played on any device over which I have control.

And I will ALWAYS discourage anyone from playing, or especially buying their product.

Actions speak louder than words, Guys. Why not go get some real jobs, and leave the Music making to real musicians?

-dcm

The entire debate relies on the idea that the government can be "trusted" with the practice of data mining and electronics surveillance and phone/networking tapping. A wide net traps many fishes and you have to insure the motives are always pure. Unfortunately, some of the "targets" for surveillance under the "patriot act" included a group of Quakers. See: http://thewall.civiblog.org/rsf/house_nsabrief_docs_012006.html For the record, Quakers are against all war and violence. There hasn't been any answers as to what "threat" they presented.

Just look at what Ed Bernays did with his "Middle American News Bureau" when he
faked all the phony news reports about Guatemala. The Father of Spin indeed :-=

With US-Opinion that accessible to the elites, I must saz America has indeed the
freest press in the world... ... especially today.

FYI:

http://gsn.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2006/10/2/2 379575.html

Hey, it's the microsoft groupies who've been saying for years that anything MS do is the de-facto standard. You can't complain if we occasionally try to be standards-compliant in our adulation.

Even so, MS remain the clear leaders in marketing innovation, and for good reason. Consider this interview with Eben Moglen. If you read that, you'll find a debate where the interviewer holds a different opinion to the interviewee on a number of counts. If the FSF were serious about competing with Microsoft, they'd have created an arse-licking department and had them ask the questions. Then Moglen too could have been asked "Think of a really hard question for yourself, and then answer it. If that's all right. Sir."

The open source community just doesn't have the infrastructure for that sort of thing. Thus, the world has to wait for MS to show us the way once again. And the rosy pink cleanliness of Balmer's behind stands as eloquent testimony to the one field where microsoft's dominance remains unchallenged.