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http://www.flickr.com/photos/vibrant/1800753876/in/set-72157602788247909/

There were parties in Paris and Lyon, with reasonably good turnout. The party in Lyon profited from having some good organizers who knew each other. They had a Duke Nukem release party :-)

Lyon party photos from Zopeuse and more from the pterjan, and the Logiciel Libre crowd.

In Paris we attempted all the typical "geek" or "nerd" activities; drank Guinness, played wii games, ate a good meal, compared our DSLR cameras, had a DSW over who had been using computers the longest, and finally took some photos. Those are just mine, either I'll grab the other people's photos and add them, or let them post a link in a followup posting.

the AC

There were parties in Paris and Lyon, with reasonably good turnout. The party in Lyon profited from having some good organizers who knew each other. They had a Duke Nukem release party :-)

Lyon party photos from Zopeuse and more from the pterjan, and the Logiciel Libre crowd.

In Paris we attempted all the typical "geek" or "nerd" activities; drank Guinness, played wii games, ate a good meal, compared our DSLR cameras, had a DSW over who had been using computers the longest, and finally took some photos. Those are just mine, either I'll grab the other people's photos and add them, or let them post a link in a followup posting.

the AC

There were parties in Paris and Lyon, with reasonably good turnout. The party in Lyon profited from having some good organizers who knew each other. They had a Duke Nukem release party :-)

Lyon party photos from Zopeuse and more from the pterjan, and the Logiciel Libre crowd.

In Paris we attempted all the typical "geek" or "nerd" activities; drank Guinness, played wii games, ate a good meal, compared our DSLR cameras, had a DSW over who had been using computers the longest, and finally took some photos. Those are just mine, either I'll grab the other people's photos and add them, or let them post a link in a followup posting.

the AC

I think the pictures in that set are GIMP'd. Look at this one for example:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vibrant/1799913933/in/set-72157602788247909/

I think I could salvage some of that hardware. It still looks useable and I bet I could install Linux on it.

I'm imagining a beowulf cluster already...

Thanks to Vinz, we had a reasonably good party. Drinking Guinness in an Irish pub, a few attempts at video gaming with a wii, a nice dinner in a good restaurant, then attempts to get some classy photos of Paris with the slashdot logo. Much comparing of geekiness, what techie universes we travel in, a DSW of who has used computers the longest, and generally a good time had by all.

Only 8 of the 18 who signed up managed to make it. There was a serious transport strike during the first attempt at a party, as well as competing with crowds of drunken Rugby fans for space in an Irish pub. So the Paris party was delayed one week which cost us in participation. But I also know several /.ers who just didn't want to be photographed in the crowd of geeks.

A few of my photos I've put up on Flickr, and I'll try to get more of them processed and up later when time permits.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16904799@N05/

A quick request for everyone posting photos to sharing sites that support tags, can you add the tag "slashdot" or "slashdotparty" so we can find them later.

the AC

Thanks to Vinz, we had a reasonably good party. Drinking Guinness in an Irish pub, a few attempts at video gaming with a wii, a nice dinner in a good restaurant, then attempts to get some classy photos of Paris with the slashdot logo. Much comparing of geekiness, what techie universes we travel in, a DSW of who has used computers the longest, and generally a good time had by all.

Only 8 of the 18 who signed up managed to make it. There was a serious transport strike during the first attempt at a party, as well as competing with crowds of drunken Rugby fans for space in an Irish pub. So the Paris party was delayed one week which cost us in participation. But I also know several /.ers who just didn't want to be photographed in the crowd of geeks.

A few of my photos I've put up on Flickr, and I'll try to get more of them processed and up later when time permits.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16904799@N05/

A quick request for everyone posting photos to sharing sites that support tags, can you add the tag "slashdot" or "slashdotparty" so we can find them later.

the AC

Here are the pictures from the Toronto bash. iPhone quality (i.e. 'meh'). Around 40 showed up. Great time.

Last time I checked we were supposedly going to have the second biggest gathering outside North America, with 31 acceptances.

The eight of us who actually turned up on the right night had an enjoyable evening, albeit with far too much cake.

The obligatory photographic record was already linked from my rarely used journal.

Hello We had a party in Lyon, France and we took a lot of pictures !!! Btw Duke Nukem Forever was released during our party. I am sure you can't stay without the link, now ... So where are we supposed to send it to qualify for the Party Grand Prize ?
Our Party
DVD cover
Duke Nukem
Some of us we didn't have any /. t-shirt but we even enjoyed our party : http://cielissime.free.fr/slashdot-party/

Hello We had a party in Lyon, France and we took a lot of pictures !!! Btw Duke Nukem Forever was released during our party. I am sure you can't stay without the link, now ... So where are we supposed to send it to qualify for the Party Grand Prize ?
Our Party
DVD cover
Duke Nukem
Some of us we didn't have any /. t-shirt but we even enjoyed our party : http://cielissime.free.fr/slashdot-party/

Hello We had a party in Lyon, France and we took a lot of pictures !!! Btw Duke Nukem Forever was released during our party. I am sure you can't stay without the link, now ... So where are we supposed to send it to qualify for the Party Grand Prize ?
Our Party
DVD cover
Duke Nukem
Some of us we didn't have any /. t-shirt but we even enjoyed our party : http://cielissime.free.fr/slashdot-party/

Hello We had a party in Lyon, France and we took a lot of pictures !!! Btw Duke Nukem Forever was released during our party. I am sure you can't stay without the link, now ... So where are we supposed to send it to qualify for the Party Grand Prize ?
Our Party
DVD cover
Duke Nukem
Some of us we didn't have any /. t-shirt but we even enjoyed our party : http://cielissime.free.fr/slashdot-party/

From all the pictures I've seen of it (and I've been spending far too much time looking at them cos I'm waiting for my real one to arrive in a couple of weeks), it has a matte finish to the screen - for example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eeeuser/1769360555/in/set-72157602733827163/

See, this is where I disagree with you. What we don't need more of are these clean, simple sites that you long for. Clean cut is great, but clean a shave is far better, as demonstrated on this flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14815126@N03/show/ (NSFW) What's not to like?

Eh . . . I've talked to three people recently, who, without prompting from me (not a Mac partisan, but vocally anti-Windows and pro-anything-else, i.e. Mac, Ubuntu, RedHat . . . vintage Minix . . . *grin*) purchased Macs rather than Vista-preloaded PCs as their next computer upgrade. No, those with hardware investment may not switch en masse, but the short upgrade cycle of Windows PCs makes for ample opportunity to move on to other hardware. And besides, Leopard kills Vista. Heck, Leopard eats Vista! http://www.flickr.com/photos/16424953@N04/1762035991/

*snerk* That reminds me of the old "How many Microsoft programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?" answer: "None. They just declare darkness to be the standard." Well, for this and many other reasons, Leopard kills Vista. Heck, Leopard eats Vista! http://www.flickr.com/photos/16424953@N04/1762035991/

No, it's the people who realize that the server OS is the only Windows available that even has a smattering of real security. Face it, Leopard kills Vista, in security, as well as every other department. Heck, Leopard eats Vista! http://www.flickr.com/photos/16424953@N04/1762035991/

Different OS vendors "working together" on security isn't feasible even in concept. There are relatively few advances in security pioneered by OS vendors. Rather, what is already known about security must be implemented. "Security" isn't a service offered by an OS, and so is impossible to fully abstract. While vendors can work together on things such as communications protocols and interoperability, security is a matter of putting locks on doors. The locks and doors are known (and as new doors in need of locking become known, information is generally freely-available): but there's nothing, short of writing Microsoft's code for them, that Apple can do to help with Windows security. And besides, Leopard kills Vista on more fronts than just security. Heck, Leopard eats Vista! http://www.flickr.com/photos/16424953@N04/1762035991/

*snerk* Yeah, especially when Microsoft customers want to downgrade back to XP, Leopard kills Vista. Heck, Leopard eats Vista for lunch! http://www.flickr.com/photos/16424953@N04/1762035991/

Started out in junior high selling electronics. His label SST was originally the name of his product, Solid State Transmitters (Tuners? Transistors).

See http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathancharles/1659893909/ for a picture

Here's a picture of the Lick-a-chick eatery: Flickr. At the Tim Horton's across the street, there was a claim that an old light bulb was projecting the virgin Mary on a wall. Fun area.

I think the point was that, in fact, pretty much all of the stuff can be done if so desired on a linux box. Not easy, not elegant, not intuitive...

http://www.linux-backup.net/Full_Inc/ talks about using .tar files for incremental backups. Is it Time Machine? No. Does it do incremental backups? Yes. Is it "fun"? ... (seriously, if you find backups fun you should be using a mac, you sick, twisted bastard.)

Back to your Mac can be accomplished in several ways as far as I can tell. First, according to apple.com it's for the .Mac users only, so you could use something like dyndns or you could have a private https page that gets pinged from a cron job... and then use FTP, NFS, whatever.

As for Core Graphics, what is that? http://www.flickr.com/photos/isriya/430290826/

This diagram found on Flickr shows that it's basically just a GUI/graphics backend? All of that (compiz, ffmpeg, etc) exists for linux in various strengths and integrations. Is the ``Core'' stuffs gonna be better integrated? Yep.

So to reiterate about what Apple's OSX seems to hinge on is pure integration issues. And that's always been their selling point. You stick your finger in an Apple(tm) electrical socket and you will be happier than a ECT patient on a Thorazine drip. It's for people with the money and wont to say 'get out of my way computer.'

Most desktop linux users seem to appreciate some amount of their computers getting in their way. They like to solve problems and to learn how things work. I think that's the main difference. That and the money.

Please let me know if I'm wrong. My first computer was a mac back when it was OS 4.1 and I was a very young kid. My mom didn't like some game it had saying "geez, you suck" to a little kid. Since then my only other real encounter with a mac was a few years ago when I was doing temp work at a local bi-weekly paper. The mac they had me using acted a lot more like windows than a mac but it, alas, was also pre-OSX.

Everything I've heard about OSX has been pretty good. Now if Apple could learn to embrace hobbyists that want to hack their [iphones ipods imacs ilives] I might finally find it in my heart to shell out for one of their computers again.

I just looked at the skyhound link and I don't see any speculation about it being visible for just one day (the last time it brightened, it was for weeks). I've seen it both yesterday and today and if anything, it looks like it has gotten a tad brighter. By the way, I'm tired of everyone claiming how mag 2/3 isn't that bright and that you won't be able to see it with the full Moon - wrong! From the Portland Suburbs with city lights, full moon, haze, it is clearly visible naked eye and rivals the brightest stars next to it. I just got in from viewing it through a 12" scope on our deck - nice star-like point at the center surrounded by a bright white,inner hood with a fainter, outer golden colored hood. I took a few photos with a Nikon D70 through the scope which give a pretty good idea of what it looks like visually through a small scope: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2076/1753913176_6fbd38b28d_o.jpg

here. There was no visible tail, just a fuzzy circle.

Though, I could not ignore the rotting animal underneath my house. That was a miserable 5 weeks. I'm glad it was summer or I would have had to set up another television and another bed in another room.

I own my home (with no homeowners' association, by choice). If I bought cigarettes and was a regular smoker, I would not invite non-smoking couples over for dinner if they insisted I not smoke. I would simply make new friends that are compatible with my lifestyle choices.

I still don't want incindental damage, though. Those people might not be invited back.

Pictures? HERE

With the related P-A post

It's sticky on the back and has /. on the front: photo

http://flickr.com/search/?w=33752399%40N00&q=clouds+storm&m=text I thought they were pretty cool when I saw this as well. Had to race like hell to get my camera and get out in front of the storm far enough to get some shots.

I don't think this is inconsistent with what the GP said in response to the official position of major religions. However, your reinforce a frightening fact about our country. I've visited the Creation Museum and it isn't simply a homage to religion or ID, but an outright attack on evolution and science in general.

The place is inexplicably creepy in the way it tries to slowly work you into questioning evolution and then using your growing skepticism to launch a volley of illogical arguments against science. One thing you'll hear a lot during the linear exhibit is how unreliable science is because "it makes a lot of assumptions" in order to arrive at its data. The argument made to refute carbon dating is the logical equivalent to "nuh-uh!" The museum also makes it very clear that you can not in fact really be a Christian unless you believe in 6-day creation as it paints scientists as bumbling idiots and non-believers as empty husks of sin. My only guess is that the place is designed for fundamentalist parents to take their rebellious children to in order to straighten them out.

It was a harrowing experience as well as an afront to my beliefs in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

So...you mean the iTunes WiFi Store.

It exists already, works great, and syncs and tracks perfectly with the desktop iTunes.

And, apparently, works only, as the name suggests, over Wi-FI, not over EDGE, which means that the "celltowers" part of

That being said, a real killer feature would be to provide an app where (over wifi/celltowers) you can search or browse for specific applications and download them through the wifi/celltowers.

wouldn't work.

(The picture is linked to from a Daring Fireball item.)

it's been done
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thevoyagers/518750492/

About Brazil: Someone ought to stop the iggerunt comments with some facts:

1) Do you have billboards in your city? Sao Paulo, Brazil, one of the biggest cities in the world does not. Sao Paulo is more advanced than most cities in that way.

2) Officials from New York City visited Curitiba, Brazil to learn how to run a city.

3) Brazilians seem much happier than people in the U.S., even though people in the U.S., on average, have more money.

4) It is not correct to call Brazil part of "Latin America". Brazilians are part of a very different culture than the Spanish-speaking countries. (Brazilians speak Portuguese.)

5) I know this will seem strange to men in the U.S., but women in Brazil generally like men and generally treat them well.

6) At least 50% of the men from the U.S. I have known who have visited Brazil have very quickly found a woman they wanted to marry. Don't do that. Take your time and do the work. It takes a long time and a lot of effort to build a marriage-quality relationship, even with a very nice woman.

7) Brazilians like jokes. Often a Brazilian takes advantage of, or begins to laugh about, a humorous situation in less than 500 milliseconds.

8) The Brazilian government is far from perfect, but is much less corrupt than the U.S. government. How many Iraqi civilians has the president of each country killed? George W. Bush: 1,000,000. Lula: 0. How many countries has each country invaded or bombed for oil or weapons or other profits since the end of the 2nd World War: United States: 24. Brazil: 0.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1047/1444802676_65cf065336.jpg?v=0

This article is a dupe. Here's what I said about Shawn last time:
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/212243
  Low-tech Inventions That Help Change Lives
arbitraryaardvark (845916) on Thursday October 11, @07:41PM (#20947701)
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http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/10/65276 [wired.com]
A MacGyver for the Third World
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidg/612856202/in/set-72157600466239024/ [flickr.com]
flickr
http://instapundit.com/archives2/010388.php [instapundit.com]
instapundit is blogging the conference
http://www.aidg.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,34/p,33/ [aidg.org]
some blog
Shawn Frayne is the founder of Haddock Invention LLC and its recent spin-off company, Humdinger Wind Energy, LLC. The mission of these companies is two-fold. First, to create technologies that can address long-standing problems in developing countries; and second, to leverage the novel aspects of those inventions through licensing deals in capital-rich nations such as the U.S., thereby generating a self-supporting revenue stream for the projects.

His work has so far focused in the fields of solar water disinfection, inflatable packaging, food preservation, charcoal-production, and wind power generation, with several products successfully licensed or sold. It was during his time as a student in MIT's D-Lab that Shawn first became convinced that the key inventions of the next century won't necessarily be born in wealthy countries. Rather, the new industries of the coming years will be founded on breakthrough technologies invented in Haiti or Zambia or Guatemala, where the hardest problems in the world will yield the greatest inventions.
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ever been to India & seen the most popular activity for young boys? - kite flying.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharat/778528134/

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/10/65276
A MacGyver for the Third World
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidg/612856202/in/set-72157600466239024/
flickr
http://instapundit.com/archives2/010388.php
instapundit is blogging the conference
http://www.aidg.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,34/p,33/
some blog
Shawn Frayne is the founder of Haddock Invention LLC and its recent spin-off company, Humdinger Wind Energy, LLC. The mission of these companies is two-fold. First, to create technologies that can address long-standing problems in developing countries; and second, to leverage the novel aspects of those inventions through licensing deals in capital-rich nations such as the U.S., thereby generating a self-supporting revenue stream for the projects.

His work has so far focused in the fields of solar water disinfection, inflatable packaging, food preservation, charcoal-production, and wind power generation, with several products successfully licensed or sold. It was during his time as a student in MIT's D-Lab that Shawn first became convinced that the key inventions of the next century won't necessarily be born in wealthy countries. Rather, the new industries of the coming years will be founded on breakthrough technologies invented in Haiti or Zambia or Guatemala, where the hardest problems in the world will yield the greatest inventions.

The same thing happened to dodgeball when they were bought. Google buys companies for the people, not the product.

Anyone remember Dodgeball.com? Google bought 'em when they were hot, everyone expected great things, check out their founder's resignation letter.

Google is competitive, outside and inside. If a product doesn't have a strong voice, strong support, it'll get starved. There are lots of examples of this, where Google (or Yahoo or any other company) buys a smaller company and it's products just kinda evaporate.

Sometimes it is truly a mismatch in cultures. Other times the folks coming in get sucked into 'more interesting' projects and their original ones languish. Once in a while the goal of buying the company was to shut it down, or at least to deny it's benefits to a competitor.

Whatever the case whenever a buyout happens smart folks immediately put together transition plans, if only contingency ones.

In my career I've had CA buy and rape/pillage/burn (not always in that order!) any number of products we've depended upon. Yahoo! also has a record of ingesting, partially digesting, then eventually burping up a barely recognizable (and rarely for the better) version of the original service. Same for Amazon - anyone else recall Firefly, PlanetAll, A9 with street-views, etc.?

Urchin is just one more example of why committing to a product or service that isn't it's owner's primary interest is a risky gamble. Never assume the status quo; companies & priorities change and that's how inattentive customers get caught out.

Wasn't that car a prize from a contest several years ago?

I found a picture.

1. It's not a good idea to make available images of currency - especially high resolution images - which this campaign is doing with their pictures of the penny. The Mint/Bank of Canada have a number of tools to control what images are distributed and copyright/trademark infringement is just the first tool. This is just the penny after all, not Toonies or not 50$ bills.

2. Everybody wants a piece of the GST, it's an ugly issue. The municipalities didn't properly cover their asterisks when they launched this campaign, despite have communication with the mint before the launch. It's no surprise that the gov swings the hammer left too them. Hitting the campaign in the pocketbook, while dirty, is still part of the game.

3. The Canadian Mint is actually a business. They make currency for other countries, and until recently had an edge of the world in the technology used to mint coins. Now they are losing business to upgraded mints in Europe and elsewhere, but that doesn't make them any less concerned with profits and intellectual property.

I suspect this case is politically motivated, but I don't mind the mint cracking down on the use of Canadian Currency IP. Money/Currency is too important to allow random muddying of it's image and IP. There's a reason you don't photocopy money, or scan it, or draw Mr. Spock on 5$ bills - it's not some random meme but an Instrument of Trade. Even the littlest penny.

_If_ the notebook was really $100 then maybe I wouldn't be so cynical.

The only way to get one of these in the US is to participate in the Give One Get One program, where you buy 2 and give one away to help a child that would otherwise not receive an XO. It's a noble cause, but now you've upped the price for one (to the general public) from $100 to $400. We're still very far away from the realization of a $100 notebook, in my opinion.

See one of these XO notebooks next to a common Dell laptop. They are extremely smaller in size:

http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/1101266148/

You never realize how small these machines are until you see one next to an everyday-kind-of-laptop:

http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/1101266148/

The keyboard reminds me of the first computer my dad and I soldered together

They were apparently the first band to tour with this kit. I saw them back in January. My, the guitar was a sweet matt silver colour.

The announcement on the Therion site is here:
http://www.megatherion.com/News/Kliffoth/33.xhtml

Pictures of Christofer Johnsson's guitar with this tech are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjforster/370188703/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjforster/370187179/

They were apparently the first band to tour with this kit. I saw them back in January. My, the guitar was a sweet matt silver colour.

The announcement on the Therion site is here:
http://www.megatherion.com/News/Kliffoth/33.xhtml

Pictures of Christofer Johnsson's guitar with this tech are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjforster/370188703/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjforster/370187179/

Wacom support, I don't know but as far as photography is concerned I don't think there is much use for one of those.

For many photographers using a tablet is much easier and natural than using a mouse. And like a trackball, which also have the above advantages, it offers more precise control.

Some pictures from me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gomox/ (all processed in Gimp)

Some nice shots.

As an "open source" photographer, I can attest that:

The killer differences are: 16 bits, layer groups and color management.

A really nice tool from PS that I would love to see added to the Gimp is the liquify tool.

There is a lens blur filter somewhere for the Gimp, but it's not included in the pack.

Vanishing point is nice but not too big of a deal IMO, it's a specialty tool.

Gimp has adjustment layers, it just doesn't have as many different types as PS does. Those would indeed be welcome additions.

Save for web is a useless overrated gimmick, Gimp has save compression preview since 1.x, but it has the decency of keeping the EXIF, unlike the dreaded PS tool.

Wacom support, I don't know but as far as photography is concerned I don't think there is much use for one of those.

As far as stuff better in Gimp than in PS, I for one like the perspective correction tool in the Gimp much better than PS's.

Some pictures from me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gomox/ (all processed in Gimp)

My neighborhood has no streetlights. We don't have a problem with break-ins because;

-It's too dark to find our neighborhood. Unless you know it's here, the blazingly bright apartment complexes a mile down the road look like way better targets.

-It's too dark to see what you're doing. Are you breaking in to a pinto, or a lexus? If there's no moon, it's tough to tell.

Seriously though, just *having* a light on doesn't do anything more than give a thief a well lit work environment. I took this picture http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1400894628&size=l on the way home from a trip to New Jersey. You're looking at SE Michigan, in the metro Detroit area. There are hundreds of thousands of lights in that picture that are shining straight up, wasting energy and brightening the night sky.

These people are doing something I've never been forced to consider. The Myanmar regime has been a very rich, very powerful military ditatorship for some years and we have stood by in blissful ignorance of terrible things happening in a part of the world we dont live in and don't have to think about. Myanmar's biggest customer is China - It supplies most of China's oil and gas. China is Myanmar's biggest supplier of arms and luxuries. China is unlikely to intervene unless it looks like it could affect the Olympics.

They have made one of the most peaceful Buddhist countries in South East Asia into one of the most terrifying. You could try googling for the history. Here are some links to some stuff that has been got out before the internet was shutdown. Real bodies, real blood of unarmed victims. We do nothing!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/racoles/1437348927/in/photostream/
http://bp1.blogger.com/_5lDKnFpM4T4/RvlasEw2cGI/AAAAAAAAAPg/1YnNaWBd-wo/s1600-h/denied_-1.JPG
http://moemaka.blogspot.com/2007/09/blood-shed-in-ngwe-kyar-yan-monestery.html

The Burmese government webpage is still available with the oficial version http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=481 This is a small part of the $40 million wedding for the daughter of the dictator general for contrast. This wedding was one of the tipping points. I'd say it might have cost him that much to marry her off. At 4:00m+ it might be a bit long for /.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHRWToNhkCo ,BR>
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22516505-601,00.html

This one is brutal, not up to the standard of CSI, but a real person whose weapon was prayer
http://soneseayar.blogspot.com/2007/09/blog-post_2316.html

All these corporations are happy to deal with a brutal military dictatorship. Recognise any, they aren't fussy about ethics

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