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The shuttle uses the K/S band links a lot more, the station is almost exclusively TDRS.

50 Mbps analog satellite modem

steve milano

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And "favoring different kinds of abstractions" is mostly BS. I've written object-oriented code in assembler! It's just a paradigm, and the only thing a language can help you with is syntactic sugar.

I strongly disagree. There are many abstractions commonly used in other languages that are rarely, if ever, used in Java. For instance, Lisp programmers commonly write macros to transform the structure of their code, whilst in Java, it is extremely rare for a library or framework to delve into bytecode manipulation.

Similarly, a common abstraction in Haskell is the monad. To my knowledge, there are no libraries or frameworks that use this abstraction in Java. Again, this may lead one to ask why is such a common and presumably useful abstraction missing from everyone's Java code.

The problem is that Java doesn't handle these abstractions particularly well. In Lisp, code is defined in terms of lists within lists, and this basic syntax makes it very easy to manipulate. Java's syntax is obviously far more complex, and the compiled bytecode bears little resemblance to the original Java, making byte manipulation a very complex operation.

Likewise, Java's primitive type system makes monads a difficult concept to implement at best. A single line of Haskell loses much of it's clarity when reduced to a page of anonymous classes and interfaces, heaped together in a morbid parody of Church's lambda calculus.

I haven't found any complete implementations of monads in Java, so I can only speculate at what the eventual monstrosity would look like. For comparison, we can refer to a simpler construct, the Y-combinator. In Haskell, it can be defined in one line:

y f = f (y f)

In Java, it's... well, it's just a few more lines.

Now, I'm not claiming that it always takes a page of Java and the google-collections library to implement the equivalent functionality of 13 bytes of Haskell. This is obviously an extreme example. However, hopefully it demonstrates my point that there are some forms of abstraction that Java does not take at all kindly to. In this case, lazy evaluation and first class functions.

This is all fine and good, but what about their celebrity contraction? Like Branjelina, like Bennifer. What'll it be for America's hottest out-of-wedlock celeb twosome? Some ideas, and some conclusions on http://reallyoldman.livejournal.com/27910.html

That's useless, if there are 5 distros you want to support, and each one has 3 versions in common use (pretty conservative estimate) then that's 15 different builds of your program you need to produce, test and distribute. This is completely absurd and is one of the major reasons only the truly dedicated try to distribute binary software on Linux.

15 different builds? That is, indeed, completely absurd... if it were actually the case in practice.

Those who are not "truly dedicated", as you put it, generally target only the two most recent releases of the "big two" enterprise distros, and simply require their customers to upgrade (or pay for the process to certify the product against a different target, should those customers be disinclined and have the cash). Since that's where all the business customers are -- and thus where the money is -- it works out just fine. Perhaps folks will start targeting Ubuntu LTS releases as well for commercial software; what all these distributions have in common is that they're supported for long periods and have relatively slow release cycles (as opposed to consumer-desktop distributions), so the work involved in QAing a target platform is significantly less.

Moreover, distributions have made a practice of offering -compat packages implementing the ABIs of widespread enterprise distro releases; as such, packages built against an enterprise distribution (itself with long-term support) can additionally be used on future versions of that distribution or derivatives offering such packages. Even further, LSB standardization on things like init script behavior and return codes allows still more compatibility between distributions and releases. It's really not the problem that you make it out to be.

To illustrate my point -- Oracle and JRockit's binary packages run perfectly well on Gentoo; I repackaged both for my last employer. (Using Gentoo was a massive mistake, but let's not go into that here). Both of these are massive, binary-only packages which -- particularly in Oracle's case -- interact closely with the OS they run on. They're portable.[*] When I say this problem is much ado about relatively minor issues, I say this with significant experience (my job before last was with a Linux distributor), and with quite a bit of certainty in my conclusions. To be sure, that kind of compatibility isn't something that comes free -- it requires work on the parts of both the distributor and the ISV -- but that work is being done, and the result is such that Enterprise Linux distributions, by and large, tend to be binary compatible with each other, such that only minor efforts are needed to smooth over the differences.

If you're in the Austin area, drop me an email -- I'd rather argue this one over a beer (or some nuclear tacos).

[*] - Oracle RAC is kind of a PITA anywhere it isn't certified for due to issues with the OCFS kernel module -- but then, RAC is a PITA in places it is certified for, too.

The blogger Interdictor, Michael Barnett, has a detailed blog of what they had to do and deal with to keep their datacenter operational despite being located in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. His blog was a very good read during the hurricane and its aftermath as it happened in August/September 2005.

Blog: http://interdictor.livejournal.com/?skip=300 Start reading from this link and go forward through the posts.
Pictures: http://sigmund.biz/kat/

You are missing a few things in there....

(Like the test condition, the what to do if we don't meet the test condition, etc)

And I think some of the other things got chopped out as it does absolutely nothing except immediately quit.

The ECODE tag can help a lot in cases like this (I wanted PRE, but it isn't in the allowed HTML list anymore)

(OK, I pulled this from http://community.livejournal.com/perl/150523.html and while I haven't run it, it seems like it should work, as it has the missing parts. (Searched on Google for the "use overload q" thing and found this)

#!/usr/bin/perl
use overload q(<) => sub {};
my %h;
for (my $i=0; $i<50000; $i++) {
$h{$i} = bless [ ] => 'main';
print STDERR '.' if $i % 1000 == 0;
}

stuff into file, then time ./filename
)

For the first time ever, I bothered to even write some comments about a negative game. That's how awful it was. Short version:
1) The camera *is* a deal breaker. It has no redeeming qualities. One interview mentioned people need to "stop fighting it". I don't need to "stop fighting it", I need "one that isn't actively counterproductive and vomit-inducing".
2) Co-op. Stop claiming it has "co-op", and start specifying it as "co-op only over xbox live". I bought the game to play with my SO, and I can't, because we sit in the same room to play games together. Too Human isn't the only guilty party here, but they're sure as hell a big contender.
3) Mediocre story. You have a whole universe of potential awesome there, and you churned out something seriously devoid of depth or breadth, that doesn't really hold much real reference to the actual mythology it's based on
4) Crappy combat. Look, I know they love to claim it's good, but it's not. It's massively limited. Your core attack is "hold the thumbstick in the direction of the enemy", and your character sits there and just does it. The "advanced attacks" screen contains six pieces of information. Even using all of them, the combat is still limited and dull.

There was a bunch of other stuff, but that was the core of my complaints - abysmal camera, dull story, crappy combat, and couldn't play co-op. Three of those were the reasons I bought the game, and the other was just something that made a crappy game worse.

Gary (-;

Maybe you kid, but it is interesting that APT seems to be able to handle more complex dependency graphs than RPM. What I've never understood is why it needs to.

DPKG == RPM, APT/DPKG == APT/RPM == YUM == SMART == ZYPP.

Note that APT/RPM can't solve the rpm sudoku game. Worth noting is that the above pseudo-code is pretty close to high level way explanation of how YUM solves deps. (without --skip-broken).

Emphasis added. Note that dpkg doesn't solve the dependency puzzle, but apt-get, aptitude and other package managers do

But they do it using the sudoku game based on dpkg data, the rpm game is different. So it's a fir title, IMO.

... the Sunday Herald understands that a hacker from India - new to the world of cyber-crime - succeeded in bypassing the system's security software and placing a Trojan virus on one of the Best Western Hotel machines used for reservations. The next time a member of staff logged in, her username and password were collected and stored.

"Large corporate companies rely on anti-virus products to protect their infrastructure, but the problem with this approach is that these products only detect around 60% of threats out there. In the right hands, viruses can easily bypass these programs, as was the case here," explained Erasmus.

Those Large corporate companies rely on anti-virus products to protect Microsoft OS desktops. There is no equivalent Linux plague of viruses in the wild to be concerned about. Even the threat to MacOSX based desktops systems is minute in comparison to the Millions of Microsoft-targeting virus out in the wild.

Microsoft's most widely deployed platform and applications have not been secured. The XP platform has still has 30 unpatched vulnerabilities, the latest version of Internet Explorer still has 10 unpatched vulnerabilities, and Outlook 2003 ( the most widely deployed business version of Outlook ) still has one vulnerability outstanding from . Microsoft Office 2003, still the most widely deployed version of Office, has four outstanding vulnerabilities which put the desktop at high risk of being infected. These are all unpatched widely known vulnerabilities, and are only the ones in Microsoft's own product, not to mention all the third party vulnerabilities, in downloadable codecs for example, that the design of Microsoft's platforms makes it so easy for crackers to exploit.

In comparison, all of the major Linux based distros have an excellent record of closing known vulnerabilities within days if not hours, before the holes get a chance to be exploited. Also SELinux is becoming more widely deployed to secure applications against such threats.

Fact: Using a Microsoft based desktop put you a far high risk of being hack than either a Linux or Mac based desktop.

Frankly, I was thinking more along the lines of West Virginia.

I stumbled upon brackup not too long ago, trying to solve a similar problem.

I believe brackup solves (1) I believe they want to support windows, and test on it, You can put the script + cygwin on a usb drive (2) (Dunno if it has an ftp plugin, but you can snag a perl dev to add that; it supports amazon s3, and sftp at least), (3) supports incremental updates, (4) does that too.

http://search.cpan.org/~bradfitz/Brackup/

Svn trunk and his release here:

http://brad.livejournal.com/2205967.html

iffy ACPI support on a number of systems,

Because vendors like Foxconn locking us out and killing any OS other than windows is our problem?

Matthew Garrett is the kernel ACPI guru

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/94998.html
Summary: Almost all problems caused by bugs in Linux, one problem caused by BIOS vendors interpreting the ACPI specification differently to the Linux implementation and trivially worked around. No sabotage.

Later on he got mailbombed by Ryan Farmer, the guy that originally screamed Foxconn conspiracy

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/97151.html
Things I have learned in the past 24 hours

Websites that claim you'll never be able to get them taken down are quite easy to get taken down
Legal threats are an excellent way of obtaining information
The IP address used to subscribe me (and several others) to a vast number of mailing lists was 68.57.223.4. Which seems to belong to Ryan Farmer. "Fucking hero", my arse.

iffy ACPI support on a number of systems,

Because vendors like Foxconn locking us out and killing any OS other than windows is our problem?

Matthew Garrett is the kernel ACPI guru

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/94998.html
Summary: Almost all problems caused by bugs in Linux, one problem caused by BIOS vendors interpreting the ACPI specification differently to the Linux implementation and trivially worked around. No sabotage.

Later on he got mailbombed by Ryan Farmer, the guy that originally screamed Foxconn conspiracy

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/97151.html
Things I have learned in the past 24 hours

Websites that claim you'll never be able to get them taken down are quite easy to get taken down
Legal threats are an excellent way of obtaining information
The IP address used to subscribe me (and several others) to a vast number of mailing lists was 68.57.223.4. Which seems to belong to Ryan Farmer. "Fucking hero", my arse.

Firefox 3.1 is going to add Theora video and Vorbis music support for video and music HTML5 tags. The picture quality will probably be better than FLV (but worse than H264 in the short term, although work is being done to improve this.

Flash does dramatically more than video mind...

Damnit, I forgot this awesome link

"Stay still, ball sack!"
http://jwz.livejournal.com/913754.html

because the pictures are also staged.

Having spent some time bringing old computers to Africa, I can say it's a very complex issue. Seems like most unsolved problems are, unfortunately. It is certainly true that sending old computers over there is pretty much useless, and from the article, possibly outright bad.

I'll just say this: in the project I worked with, it wasn't so much that then needed computers as it was they needed the infrastructure to support them. I mean "infrastruture" on many levels: security to keep them from being stolen, the power grid staying up enough to use them consistently, the teachers in the schools being taught (one-on-one, hands on) how to use them in classrooms, support staff for repairs and usage issues, etc.

There is such a need and desire, and good people, yet progress is stymied by disfunction on so many levels. Trying to accomplish things in Africa reminds one just how lucky we are in a relatively clockwork society. So much that we take for granted is nearly impossible without the social mechanics in place. Doesn't matter how smart you are, if the world around you is dysfunctional, good luck.

The project I was part of has been amazingly successful, mainly because it's relatively small in scope, and there is a huge focus on follow-through. We would routinely have to push aside much more advanced equipment that failed because of lack of follow through. I don't know for sure, but I imagine this is true in other domains too: sending over "stuff", be it computers or food, is not nearly as valuable as sending over people who can plant the seeds of a more functional society.

That's my quick brain dump on this topic.

No, it's everywhere on Russian blogs. We have some first-hand accounts from people in Osetia: http://scrolllock.livejournal.com/62364.html

Moreover, Saakhasvili himself declared that '1500 Osetinian bandints were destroyed'.

You didn't address my questions, but I will respond nonetheless.


First, there's a reason he chose something like bdsm sex and not something innocuous like "Free USB mouse"
Yes there is, but there is no reason to discuss Jason's motives, as they are very transparant.

Second, the case would be extremely different merely by dint of what society considers normal
This is the crux of the biscuit right here. I am aware of the puritanical view our society has towards sex, but I am not aware of other areas of law where emotion comes into play. In other words, I can't sue you for hurting my feelings, or offending me; I can only sue if you have caused me (provable) damage. Jason is/was a jerk for pulling this stunt and he certainly has issues he needs to deal with, but I still don't see why we as taxpayers need to pay to have him sorted out and punished. This shouldn't be a federal issue. It's barely news, and only qualified because it had the word sex in the subject line.

Finally, the "victim" here isn't claiming that he "didn't do anything wrong", [...]He makes no bones about what he did
I assume you are quoting me in which I was referencing Jerry, one of the more vocal victims (see here). I should note that we cannot currently judge the attitude of "John Doe," the claimant of this case because he has not yet put forward a voice, only a motion to sue.

The only one coming up with asinine excuses and "I don't have the money" sobbing is Jason
I addressed this here

The really sad part, to me, is this. There's a chance Jason will get off, likely on some very fine hair-splitting
The really sad part to me is how much sensationalism and non stories are made out of the mating rituals of humans. Pitiful. Don't get me wrong, I would be embarrassed to have people watching me masturbate, but I would feel the same if they were watching me type this message.

Thanks for the debate, I appreciate the insight into your views on this subject.

How much did Foxconn/M$ pay you to make an OS report as M$'s OS? Or are you a fool who can't realize that if a hardware is forcing OSs to change their legitimate behaviour, then the hardware is faulty?

Er.... And while, obviously, MS has done dodgy shit in the past (e.g. DR-DOS + Windows 3.1), unless you have actual evidence that there is a conspiracy of malice rather than a bunch of clueless firmware authors, can you please not make accusations? Your stupidity makes everyone in the Linux community look bad to the outside world. If you do have evidence, please post it in a calm manner, instead of this OMG MONOPOLYSOFT ARE PAYING OFF LINUX ACPI DEVELOPERS bullshit? Thanks.

Linux running Linux-specific code in the DSDT is a bug in Linux??? Do you really think you belong to the Milky Way galaxy?

Yes, since there is no real standard for how it is supposed to work, Linux reports itself as (and attempts to emulate) Windows. Yes, it sucks, but it is better than having vendors include workarounds for Linux bugs and Linux then never being able to fix them.

As someone pointed out earlier, while it has had a relatively good outcome (Foxconn working with a Linux ACPI person to make Linux and the BIOS suck less), this "Ryan" guy has, unnecessarily, been a total dick and ranted and raved about things he clearly doesn't really understand (and has no interest in learning about).

I remember reading in a blog (I think Elyse Sewell's blog but I can't find the reference there at the moment) that shops in China don't really care if the English translation is correct or incorrect. What matters to them is that English is on the sign/menu. Having Chinese and a European language on your stuff makes you seem "international" or something.

The English text might say "Translation server error" or something else clearly wrong. But like 90% of your local clientele won't know the English anyway. To them, they just care that there's also English on the sign, so you must be an important place and they should go there.

I think it works the same way here in the States. Answer this honestly: let's say you're on a business trip in a strange city, and you want some Chinese food. You have two Chinese restaurants to pick from: one simply says "Chan's Chinese restaurant", the other says "Yan's Chinese restaurant" and has a bunch of Chinese characters on the sign, as well. Which do you go to? I'll bet you pick the second one, even though you have no idea what the Chinese characters mean - they could say "Stupid Americans eat here."

I think the fact that ACPI even has a mechanism that allows the o/s to say "Hello, I'm Windows" is very suspicious. Ideally, this shouldn't be necessary if everyone just conformed to ACPI.

That mechanism makes it possible for the BIOS to disable a device that is not going to be supported on, say, Windows 98. Matthew Garrett's blog explains it well.

In any case, it's highly unlikely that this is any attempt by Foxconn to prevent Linux from working. The majority of checks for Linux in ACPI tables are copy and pasted from reference tables that Intel (and other manufacturers) have provided at various points - even the Intel Macs attempt to check for Linux! Most vendors will never attempt to boot Linux on their boards or validate them appropriately, so it's entirely conceivable that they'll end up screwing things up in such a way that the only tested paths are the ones that are run by Windows. This is why we now attempt to ensure that Linux reports itself as Windows. If we're running Linux-specific code in the DSDT, then that's a bug in Linux.

Anyway. Accusing companies of conspiring against us when the most likely explanation is simply that they don't care is a fucking ridiculous thing to do and does nothing to get rid of the impression that Linux users are a bunch of whining childish hatemongers. Next time, try talking to someone who actually understands this stuff first?

Sure. But deserts also have weather. It may not be moisture, but sand in a sand storm is just as (or more) likely to disperse or attenuate light as moisture is. So while sandstorms are more common in Iraq, they are not unknown in Israel either. So if you timed your attack in the season where sandstorms are common, you would negate a lot of the advantage of these weapons.

Oh, I get it now. You're one of these people, aren't you? Yeah, Windows is probably the place for you. Quit pissing in our pool.

According to the article Troy (the one who wrote the blog post you're referring to) already apologised for it:

Having worked on KDE 4 for more than three years, KDE developers reacted with understandable anger. In particular, Troy Unrau, best known for his "Road to KDE 4" articles, went so far as to say in his blog, "KDE and open source is not ever obligated to please users. We are not obligated to fix bugs. We are not obligated to implement things that you demand. We are not obligated to provide open forums for you to attack us personally."

A week later, Unrau apologized, but his rant had already fuelled the flames. When Unrau put his KDE activities on hold for personal reasons, his departure was widely seen as a reaction to the situation. Many saw Seigo's suspension of his blog so that he could focus on coding in a similar light, although he himself explains it as a wish to step down after more than a year of being the chief public relations figure in KDE.

Also note that this is just one person, they are not representative of the entire KDE4 dev community. Secondly, note from that apology blog post, that Troy -- I keep wanting to write McLure -- Unrau has stopped working on KDE, so your point is not only inaccurate but untimely.

I agree with the Funny mod though.

KDE doesn't need you and has no obligation to do anything for you.

OpenDNS returns their own search page for bad lookups, rather than NXDOMAIN, breaking various things. They also send queries for www.google.com to their own server. (I wrote about this recently.)

Are you sure your disks are in write-through mode? Have you checked? Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal, memcache, OpenID, etc. fame) discovered that many disks lie about being in write-through mode, and wrote a utility to check it.

"It's too risky for anybody to translate that [The Bible] into other languages. Mistakes can creep in... and that can lead to heresy. True Christians should only read English."

"If your original Hebrew disagrees with my original King James --- your original Hebrew is wrong. If your original Hebrew agrees with my original King James, your original Hebrew is right."

http://wanusmaximus.livejournal.com/1131751.html

At least a few of those quotes I recognise as having come from the Landover Baptist Church forum:

  http://landoverbaptist.net/

"It's too risky for anybody to translate that [The Bible] into other languages. Mistakes can creep in... and that can lead to heresy. True Christians should only read English."

"If your original Hebrew disagrees with my original King James --- your original Hebrew is wrong. If your original Hebrew agrees with my original King James, your original Hebrew is right."

http://wanusmaximus.livejournal.com/1131751.html

http://beezari.livejournal.com/141796.html Ahhh, internet. (Not my journal, nor can I vouch for the veracity of the post-- but it seems to fit with other fragments posted and found)

http://beezari.livejournal.com/141796.html Enjoy.

Like another poster pointed out, Phoronix is your source. I agree with you that it is a major oversight that the official fglrx download site does not list support for the HD48xx cards.

And regarding the open source drivers, both the ati and the radeonhd driver have in-tree support for the latest cards. They will probably be released alongside with xorg 7.4 (xserver 1.5), which is still a long way off.

Like another poster pointed out, Phoronix is your source. I agree with you that it is a major oversight that the official fglrx download site does not list support for the HD48xx cards.

And regarding the open source drivers, both the ati and the radeonhd driver have in-tree support for the latest cards. They will probably be released alongside with xorg 7.4 (xserver 1.5), which is still a long way off.

Details about GTK3 can be found in Kristian Rietvelds' GTK+ State of the Union.

This is a pretty good write up of what is involved in an underground cable:

http://jwz.livejournal.com/94645.html

Wild stuff.

For anybody interested on this in Gentoo, I have updated my GLEPs about signing the portage tree to include a Gentoo-specific solution for this, by distributing a copy of the top-level signatures by a trusted system:
http://robbat2.livejournal.com/226512.html

No, Oakland has a horrendous amount of crime because it has a horrendous amount of criminals. You don't live around here, do you?

Actually I do live around there. Last time I checked, criminals are not a part of indigenous flora or fauna -- they flourish wherever there are conditions conducive to crime. A combination of poverty, shitty city planning, and as we see by this example incompetent law enforcement definitely counts as "conducive to crime".

The car with the passenger's seat removed and the floor wet as if it had been washed, found on an Oakland street yet not reported stolen

I guess, It was not reported stolen because it wasn't stolen. Thousands of people leave their cars on the streets in conditions far worse and weirder than that -- should we round them up and prosecute for the nearest recent unsolved crime?

Nina's vehicle, also found on an Oakland street but not reported stolen

That would be consistent with any kind of sudden disappearance except one (if she left Oakland in her van). Nothing links it to Hans.

The blood

I happen to own a laptop bag drenched in blood. What actually is related to an unsolved crime and unusual behavior of some people. Nevertheless I am most definitely alive, and did not kill anyone.

The fact that he was the last person known to have seen her alive

If that qualified as a proof, we would be able to just convict the last person who had seen each and every victim of unsolved murder.

His testimony, which was probably more damning than much of the other evidence. OK, I think his testimony was crap too, and from a getting away with it perspective he was an idiot to take the stand, but I don't think it was crap the way you think it was crap. You seem to have believed him. Maybe you still believe him, even though he has now confessed and her body has been found.

Actually the only thing his testimony is good for is to confirm that he is not a social person, and that he was scared when police was obviously hounding him. What was known from the very beginning. I know plenty of people who behave in a similar manner, none of them committed an offense worse than speeding. If people were imprisoned based on those things alone, there would be, among other things, a lot of software without maintainers.

Or put another way, "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck..."

This is precisely what the presumption of innocence, burden of proof and various other fundamental concepts in law enforcement and justice supposed to prevent. Despite the fact that often such a guess is actually correct. Police and prosecution have to provide a proof, something that excludes the possibility that there was a peculiar combination of circumstances and misdirection that merely suggests someone's guilt. And in case of this murder they had ample opportunity to do so by collecting evidence, excluding various other "colorful characters" involved, not messing up collection of blood from the house, interviewing kids in a manner appropriate for the situation, making more of an effort to find the body and, of course, not spending weeks trying to prove that Hans was not a nice person (they would get essentially the same information from LKML archive).

Instead police and prosecution relied entirely on lucky guesses and random smear campaign in front of jury composed of people unfamiliar with antisocial nerds such as Hans. That sloppy police work, strategy of investigation and prosecution that chases after low-hanging fruit and does not doubt superficial impressions, goes a long way explaining why you have to be a mathematician to be prosecuted for a serious crime in Oakland. What is also not an actual proof but merely a plausible explanation of the fact that non-nerdy criminals terrorize Oakland with impunity.

There is a nice list of science-fiction stories on this LiveJournal blog.

Alos look at this example occured some time ago in russia:

Imagine: you are a local police officer, or rather police team - why not. You have just been criticized rather nastily by a 20-something in a blog entry. What do you do? Well, you wouldn't even notice because you don't bother to check blogs, right? Wrong. At least when we're talking about the regional authorities of the north-Russian city of Syvtykar. On this LiveJournal blog, 22-year old musician Savva Terentiev decried Syvtykar's militsiia in February 2007 for measures taken against the local oppositional press. Gripped by the event, Terentiev didn't take recourse to the friendliest possible terms: he proposed to regularly 'set a bad cop on fire' on the main square of every Russian city. The comment was recalled later, but by then the damage had been done: in August, Terentiev was charged with inciting hatred against public authorities. This week, prosecutors announced that he is sent to court, facing up to 2 years in prison or an 8.000 EU fine.
http://russ-cyberspace.livejournal.com/32016.html

http://brad.livejournal.com/2387105.html

http://brad.livejournal.com/2387105.html

According to Brad Fitzpatrick's(of LiveJounral fame) blog, He's working on Perl support.

By all means - you should learn a different language. To quote John Searle: "You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.". I personally feel that knowing several languages has expanded my understanding of all of them, made it easier for me to communicate in any of them, and made me a better person (including a much better programmer).

I personally am not sure I can recommend any language. Hebrew is my mother language (being an Israeli Jew), but it's kinda useless except for Biblical/Mishnathic/etc. research, because most Hebrew-speaking Israelis have working English. I like Hebrew a lot, and find it a wonderful language, but it is kinda hard and as you know, not many people know it (yet).

I've also studied Literary Arabic (or Written Arabic) for 6 years. It's a beautiful language, but very difficult, and counter-intuitive, even for a Hebrew speaker, and Arabic suffers from a very severe diglossia, and most Arabs are not literate. I've spoken with two Arab Israelis who've studied both Literary Arabic and Hebrew, and they both said learning how to read and write Hebrew was easier for them than learning Literary Arabic. Since then I've lost most of my vocabulary.

I also studied French for 3 years in Junior High School. It seemed likeable and nice, but I was told it gets much worse as you study more of it, because there are much more exceptions than words that follow the rules. French is naturally very useful.

Spanish is also very useful, and arguably the easiest language to learn, and I don't know it very well. I was told that it makes learning other languages much harder after one learns it.

See also what I wrote about why Chinese may not become the next international language

and discovered other people were upset, at least one had lost interest in a guy because he appeared to be a member,

Well, specifically, he found a blog entry from someone else, saying:

I went back, caught his name and cyberstalked him. I found out he was an investor. I found out that he was a runner. And soon enough, I found him on a singles page called "Jlove.com," a website for Jewish singles.

So she believes everything she reads online, she assumes that just because the name matches it's the right person and she makes no effort to speak to him face to face. Yeah. Just the kind of woman I'm interested in getting to know.

I think the guy she was cyberstalking had a lucky escape.