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Stories · 4

  1. Isn't It Ironic?

    Humor · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the don't-you-think dept. · 683 comments
    gessel writes "Have you ever used the word "ironic?" Do you know what it really means? If not, is that ironic? Was Seinfeld's "irony" really the cause of the utter collapse of civil society as we knew it? How ironic was it for the CEO of MTV to declare irony a victim of 9/11? The Guardian is running a brilliant article that clears the confusion around a culturally critical and chronically misused word."

  2. California Looking For Spam Samples

    Yro · Spam · · posted by timothy · from the forward-your-junk-to-where-it-belongs dept. · 29 comments
    gessel writes "The California Attorney General's Office is looking for examples of spam e-mails being sent to consumers in violation of California anti-spam law, particularly from spammers operating in California. Send 'em to caspam@cadoj.samspade.org as well as to uce@ftc.org."

  3. How Italian Police Shut Down U.S. Web Servers

    Yro · Censorship · · posted by timothy · from the old-fashioned-way dept. · 476 comments
    gessel writes: "CNN has an article describing Italian police shutting down a U.S. hosted website deemed in Italy to be illegally blasphemous. The article goes on to describe the ramifications and U.S. efforts along the same lines."

  4. OpenBSD Explained, #4

    Bsd · Themedia · · posted by Nik · from the the-hardest-part-is-thinking-of-a-dept dept. · 1 comment
    bifrost writes "OpenBSD Explained article Four is now out. This is a new e-zine dedicated to OpenBSD and happenings within that. This issue covers routing, running a Lan on $0 a day, and using CVSup. "