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> "military personnel have all taken an oath to defend the US Constitution"
>
> So did the President.

1. Most people know that liens can be filed on other person's property based on a financial debt (if I owe you $10,000 and refuse to pay, you can file a lien on my property for the amount of that debt). However, few people realize that Commercial Liens can also be filed based on a CONTRACTUAL DUTY OR OBLIGATION. For example - suppose I contract to put a roof on your house, but fail to do so. Although I don't owe you any money, I do owe you a contractual duty to build the roof. Based on that duty, you could theoretically file a Commercial Lien on my property as a device to compel me to complete my contractual duty/obligation to build your roof.

2. When government officials take an Oath of Office to "uphold and defend the Constitution for the United States" (and/or Texas, New York, Utah, etc.), they enter into a specific performance contract with "We the People." By virtue of their Oath of Office, government officials assume a contractual duty or obligation to obey the law!

3. If a government official who has sworn (i.e. contracted) to obey the law, breaks or ignores any law he's sworn to "uphold", common Citizens can file a Commercial Lien on his property that will paralyze his ability to buy, sell, or lease any property and ruin his credit rating until he corrects his breach of contract and once again obeys the law. For example, suppose a judge arbitrarily denies you some Rights guaranteed in the Constitution he's sworn to uphold - if he does, you can file a Commercial Lien on his property to compel his compliance with the contractual Oath.

Because the Commercial Lien is a NON - JUDICIAL INSTRUMENT, there is no judge or court involved in the filing procedure who could dismiss the lien and thereby protect government officials who have broken the law. Although we are still unable to sue city hall (and the crooks that reside therein), it looks like we can nevertheless "lien on 'em."

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No it isn't. I've actually been tracking the prices since they've come out. Apple sells their MacBook Pro for $1 more than Asus's identical machine. Apple sells its Intel Mini for $77 less than Aopen's identical machine.

Apples seem more expensive because they're made with higher-quality, better-performing parts which are frequently more expensive. Sure a Core Duo Mini is going to cost more than a Celeron Dell, but you need to compare apples to Apples.

Livejournal, for example, was offering payment through iBill during the time covered by the leak (run that link through Archive.org if you care to verify, /. filters the part following the asterisk).

Visual Basic: You're a fifteen-year-old girl with her very own computer in her room, pinging random strangers on AIM and claiming to be a 23-year-old girl who wants to cyber with them. However, your efforts fail at convincing people, mostly because you aren't very imaginative and most of the things you're promising them are ideas you ripped off from other sources and changed slightly, leaving them less believable.

rm-my-Mac:/tmp/mangee mangee$ w
20:16 up 3 days, 20:35, 23 users, load averages: 153.18 82.46 37.32
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
user console - Thu23 3days -
user p1 - Fri00 9:53 bash
andrewg p4 felinemenace.org Fri03 5:27 sh
root p5 wideopenbsd.org 16:24 1:14 sh

I don't know if anyone else has figured of the name of the school in question, but it is
Western Washington University. One of the students of said professor has a blog
http://niralisse.livejournal.com/217287.html which mentions the school's "Novell
Admin, Greg Riedesel." One Yahoo! later and I had the school's name.

Some of the players have taken it into their own hands. Korean Lineage players are killing anybody on their server who doesn't speak their language http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/216094.html. Man, gold farmers ruin EVERYTHING.

Since I can't e-mail you, I'll post a reply here.

I remember O.G.R.E., that was a great game. Had it for the Atari ST myself. I did a little searching after reading your post, and I've found the following links:

Commodore 64 version (is there a C64 emu for Linux?):
http://www.download-full-games.com/c64/games/ogre. html

A "lite" version of the original board game:
http://www.sjgames.com/ogre/resources/
http://www.sjgames.com/ogre/resources/ogrelite.pdf

A possible connection to the Atari ST version - this page has a list of disk images, each file appears to contain several games. I don't know what to do with this file to extract the games within, but the site mentions using the STEEM emulator, so maybe that will do it for you? Anyways, OGRE is almost halfway down the page, in file A_202:
http://steem.atari.st/automation.htm

Or direct to the file:
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/atari/games/Automati on/A_202.ST

For possible help using the file, here's a blog entry from a few months ago - this guy has been running the game from this file under a different emu (SainT), so maybe you can pick his brain for assistance:
http://scottobear.livejournal.com/tag/atari

I'm sorry I couldn't actually find the DOS version, but I know from experience the ST version is great, and the C64 will probably be easy for you to run. Good luck!

Joe Shitfuck's livejournal is a socially-awkward, play-video-games-all-day goldmine of comedy. Thanks for giving me something else to sneer at :)

For more Chris Buttars, please read through his various appearances as a nominee for "Boner of the Day" (morning show, daily moron contest).

Some of his great quotes include:

• "A great deal of my political stands come from my faith. I represent the values that have always been America's morality." - Chris Buttars
• "If you read the homosexual rule book, you'll find their greatest target is your kids." - Chris Buttars
• "I don't think the conservative side of the aisle understands incrementalism and the liberal side does, and that is one way we got beat." - Chris Buttars
• "The [government] has become totally hostile to moral and religious ideals." - Chris Buttars
• "They're everywhere. They're getting into everything, The homosexual community is going to undermine society." - Chris Buttars

For more Chris Buttars, please read through his various appearances as a nominee for "Boner of the Day" (morning show, daily moron contest).

Some of his great quotes include:

• "A great deal of my political stands come from my faith. I represent the values that have always been America's morality." - Chris Buttars
• "If you read the homosexual rule book, you'll find their greatest target is your kids." - Chris Buttars
• "I don't think the conservative side of the aisle understands incrementalism and the liberal side does, and that is one way we got beat." - Chris Buttars
• "The [government] has become totally hostile to moral and religious ideals." - Chris Buttars
• "They're everywhere. They're getting into everything, The homosexual community is going to undermine society." - Chris Buttars

Of course standards and fidelity change over time. There's already Music DVDs and SACDs on the market, which would seem to indicate a move away from stereo in favor of surround with discrete channels. I have yet to buy any of the new equipment. I've yet to see anyone using MP3Pro, or MP3Surround. In fact, the only major change I've seen in digital audio in the last 6 years or so (when I first got started with MP3's) is a shift from 128kbps encoding to 192kbps or high bitrate VBRs being more common on the P2P networks. I've also seen some Flac stuff floating around, but I've yet to encounter any Oggs. Perhaps that illustrates my lack of sophistication. Perhaps it's just that MP3 is common and easy to understand and in almost all cases provides an acceptably good sounding track that anyone with a computer is able to make use of.

I've downloaded a total of 7 songs from iTunes, using free download promo coupons. When my MP3 drive went kaput a couple weeks ago, I checked to see if I could re-download the stuff I'd gotten from iTunes. The standard canned answer was "no," but when I explained to them (again) what had happened, they were kind enough to re-queue my purchased music so that I could get it again. eMusic, on the other hand, doesn't even carry any of the 200-ish songs that I'd gotten from them, so those are lost to memory now. The moral of this story is that Apple provides good customer support, even for someone like me who only spent $7 in coupon bucks with them. The fact that their music is AAC with DRM is a problem easily solved with a right-click using their own software (convert to MP3). There's a reason they hit a billion downloads, and I don't think it's just marketing. Their product is convenient, fairly priced and backed up by decent support.

I think the real issue is how much music out there has an expiration date that is inferior to that of their encoding.

How comes then the first the world hears of AIGLX was on OSNews, but I've been reading about XGL on the Xorg mailing lists and development forums for literally years.

Lucky for us that world doesn't depend on your knowing.
http://anholt.livejournal.com/29633.html
From blog
"For the last 2 days, I've been here in Santa Clara for XDevConf. It's been a good time -- three straight days of everybody talking about the exciting things going on in the X world, and nights of fun and hacking. David Reveman showed off the shiniest bling I've seen on any OS yet, using Xgl and his new "compiz" compmgr/wm. That GL ninja, krh, showed off the accelerated indirect rendering work he's cranked out in the last month or so (for reference, A.I.R. has been on the TODO since DRI was first created what, 5 years ago?). Dave Airlie talked about all the horrible brokenness with drivers, and ajax talked about all the horrible brokenness in X configuration. These talks are a good motivation to go fix broken junk."

A.I.R. stands for accelerated indirect rendering, meaning plans were there, but nobody implemented it.

http://davyd.livejournal.com/166736.html

The recommendation I've seen is not to lie, but rather to be prepared.

When your prospective employer asks you what your previous salary was, don't tell them. Know what range your new job should be making (be reasonable and accurate), and state it as a fact: "People who do xyz make between $a and $b" and leave it at that. Allow the uncomfortable silence to drag on. Let them squirm and give you excuses, then it's your choice if you accept their offer or walk away.

It's not "i made this much but now i'm so cool i want 5x as much" or even "i was undervalued and i want what i'm worth", it's being frank with them to say "you want this job done, it's fair to pay me this much to do it".

Don't forget, money isn't everything. Would you rather work for Google for $60k or EA for $80k?

(before you mod this flamebait, read the entry for EA, a lot has happened in a few months!)

In the Linux kernel Dave Jones also found a power consumption problem with USB, but it seems (to me) that the USB spec is just f*cked up - i wonder if this microsoft issue is related.

Yeah, it does look cool.

Too bad it's gonna be published by EA, as that will prevent me from playing it: I've taken the pledge to avoid their products.

Some do, or even crave it. And there are more.

Novell was initially reluctant to release this code -- after all, they didn't have to because the X11 license doesn't contain any forced sharing, copyleft provisions. The Open Source community had to complain loudly before Novell decided it didn't want to risk losing support from independent developers. One reason they might have wanted to keep the modifications closed was to make a big splash for the release of the Novell Linux Desktop. Another possible reason is that Ximian (and Nat Friedman, who was Ximian's CEO before Ximian was bought by Novell) that long tried to undermine KDE, the Free Desktop System that currently has a slight edge in terms of popularity. By keeping the source closed, they would have prevented KDE developers from incorporating XGL into their windowing system, leaving KDE slightly behind Gnome in terms of eyecandy for a period of time.

This has been widely discussed online and it is a pure hoax. The wymsey site also has such highly factual articles as hunting the wily tofu. Obligatory dig at slashdot editors elided for space.

Looks like someone was reading JWZ@LJ...

http://jwz.livejournal.com/

-bZj

That's a better analogy than you might think...there's some good history of telegraphy in a book called The Victorian Internet , which I was inspired to dig out last night after reading about this story over on JWZ's blog. The parallels in the history of the telegraph network and the Internet are striking...they had many similar uses, including news delivery and commercial transactions; telegraph operators commonly used the wires for "chat" and even "online gaming" (playing chess); people devised, and broke, codes and ciphers for telegraph traffic; there were even some "telegraph romances." And, in its day, the telegraph network was referred to by some as "the highway of thought." (Compare with the overhyped phrase "the information superhighway.")

check out config.trim_on_minimize it works wonders on firefox and thunderbird.

I've had some experience with photography and interested policemen in the UK... see more here: http://occular.livejournal.com/92215.html (in particular, follow the second and third links to see the details.)

The Google arguments are clearly not principled ones, especially coming from a company that professes to be guided a policy of avoiding evil actions. When apartheid was being practised in South Africa, it was quite clear what the principled stand was, and human rights haven't gotten watered down in twenty years. It's time to start fighting back, folks.

best pics of real seamonkey I found via google:

http://community.livejournal.com/sea_monkeys/75714 .html

As the original slashdot post on this topic mentioned, this exploit seems to be the work of a few assholes from an irc channel called bantown. These lame-asses got kicked off their last chatnet for pissing off the wrong botnet operators and getting the network DOS'ed. These days they hang out on irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior. After all, everyone loves a group that uses an exploit like this to create LOLZ instead of notifying the proper folks within LJ so they can patch it up properly, right?

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb
• flata (uncomfirmed)

I can't confirm 100% either way that these people are personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with? After all, you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real fucking bad for them.

As the original slashdot post on this topic mentioned, this exploit seems to be the work of a few assholes from an irc channel called bantown. These lame-asses got kicked off their last chatnet for pissing off the wrong botnet operators and getting the network DOS'ed. These days they hang out on irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior. After all, everyone loves a group that uses an exploit like this to create LOLZ instead of notifying the proper folks within LJ so they can patch it up properly, right?

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb
• flata (uncomfirmed)

I can't confirm 100% either way that these people are personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with? After all, you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real fucking bad for them.

As the original slashdot post on this topic mentioned, this exploit seems to be the work of a few assholes from an irc channel called bantown. These lame-asses got kicked off their last chatnet for pissing off the wrong botnet operators and getting the network DOS'ed. These days they hang out on irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior. After all, everyone loves a group that uses an exploit like this to create LOLZ instead of notifying the proper folks within LJ so they can patch it up properly, right?

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb
• flata (uncomfirmed)

I can't confirm 100% either way that these people are personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with? After all, you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real fucking bad for them.

As the original slashdot post on this topic mentioned, this exploit seems to be the work of a few assholes from an irc channel called bantown. These lame-asses got kicked off their last chatnet for pissing off the wrong botnet operators and getting the network DOS'ed. These days they hang out on irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior. After all, everyone loves a group that uses an exploit like this to create LOLZ instead of notifying the proper folks within LJ so they can patch it up properly, right?

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb
• flata (uncomfirmed)

I can't confirm 100% either way that these people are personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with? After all, you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real fucking bad for them.

As the original slashdot post on this topic mentioned, this exploit seems to be the work of a few assholes from an irc channel called bantown. These lame-asses got kicked off their last chatnet for pissing off the wrong botnet operators and getting the network DOS'ed. These days they hang out on irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior. After all, everyone loves a group that uses an exploit like this to create LOLZ instead of notifying the proper folks within LJ so they can patch it up properly, right?

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb
• flata (uncomfirmed)

I can't confirm 100% either way that these people are personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with? After all, you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real fucking bad for them.

As the original slashdot post on this topic mentioned, this exploit seems to be the work of a few assholes from an irc channel called bantown. These lame-asses got kicked off their last chatnet for pissing off the wrong botnet operators and getting the network DOS'ed. These days they hang out on irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior. After all, everyone loves a group that uses an exploit like this to create LOLZ instead of notifying the proper folks within LJ so they can patch it up properly, right?

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb
• flata (uncomfirmed)

I can't confirm 100% either way that these people are personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with? After all, you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real fucking bad for them.

As the original slashdot post on this topic mentioned, this exploit seems to be the work of a few assholes from an irc channel called bantown. These lame-asses got kicked off their last chatnet for pissing off the wrong botnet operators and getting the network DOS'ed. These days they hang out on irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior. After all, everyone loves a group that uses an exploit like this to create LOLZ instead of notifying the proper folks within LJ so they can patch it up properly, right?

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb
• flata (uncomfirmed)

I can't confirm 100% either way that these people are personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with? After all, you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real fucking bad for them.

Here's a video of an XSS-attack against LiveJournal:
http://video.antichat.net/file31.html

Looks like it happened quite a while before they acknowledged it:
http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/708069.htm l

You are not supposed to hack away on http://www.livejournal.com/

They provide a sandbox: http://www.test.dev.livejournal.org/

LiveJournal is already aware of this issue, and trying to do their best to prevent said issues within their system

Okay, I wrote the E2 article. I did this for almost 6 months, and I had NONE of the problems you describe, including sleep debt: When I came off the schedule (not because I wanted to), I just started sleeping 8 hrs a night again. Some, but not all, of the sleep disorders that the schedule "cured" for me came back, but not as severely, and over time I got rid of them through other means.

No, light and dark caused me no trouble whatsoever. I didn't get tired when it was dark, and I had no trouble falling asleep in broad daylight (as long as it was naptime). Nor did any time get wasted falling asleep...before this schedule, it used to take me at least an hour to get to sleep (hell, it still takes at least half an hour), but while I was on it I could fall out in less than 5 minutes, every time. I could also, once I was adjusted, wake up after exactly 20 minutes without an alarm clock.

A polyphasic schedule, properly adhered to, is NOT the same as just reducing the amount of time you sleep. It's not just "sleeping less", it's "going to sleep every 4 hours". And for every ten people who say it didn't work (and who all, in my experience, didn't have the discipline to keep the schedule as strictly as is required), there are a few like myself and Steve Pavlina (http://www.stevepavlina.com/ who did it properly and experienced no ill effects whatsoever. (I'm not counting adjustment issues, which can indeed make you feel a little crazy or disoriented for a while, but that's mostly because you're no longer operating on the same wavelength as the rest of the herd, and that does mess with your brain a bit -- you get over it, though.)

For a fuller list of long and short-term side-effects that I felt, you can read my follow-up article (http://pure-doxyk.livejournal.com/229675.html); and I strongly suggest reading Steve's site, since he did a much more thorough job of cataloging his progress as he adopted the schedule.

Ta!

-K*

...But I wrote the follow-up pretty recently, and I had to put it on LJ because I lost the pwd on that E2 account like, ages ago, so I imagine nobody's really found it yet. ;) It pretty much answers all the questions I've collected over the years about the experiment, and it makes me wish like hell I'd kept better notes.

'Tis here: http://pure-doxyk.livejournal.com/229675.html ...Or follow the link on my homepage. I totally miss that schedule, it was the best sleep and the most awesome gig, and thank you all so much for rubbing salt in the wound. ;)

-K*

Hi, I did the writeup on Everything2 about this schedule. I felt fine for the nearly six months I did it, and I was in school at the time doing 22-credit-hour semesters on a double philosophy and math major. I don't think my grades suffered, but I wasn't monitoring specifically for that at the time, so hmm.

I think you make a good point--and I think the advice to do some initial, during and post-testing is a great idea; somebody should totally do that. Um, I can't at the time being, so it'll have to be somebody else. ;)

Anyway, I wrote a follow-up to the original article that discusses more of the long-term physical effects I noticed, if you care. http://pure-doxyk.livejournal.com/229675.html

-K*

A room full of law students turning their backs on Gonzales during his speech made me happier than any news regarding the neo-Fascist* administration has for the last few years.

* McCain is a Republican. Eisenhower and Lincoln were Republicans. Calling the members of the Project for a New American Empire "Republicans" is an insult to that party's history.

If you've ever been to a place where liquid water doesn't exist as I have, you very quickly take on a different viewpoint. Water is normally, even on this planet, often a sand or a gravel, undifferenciated from any other mineral at a cursory glance. "Frozen liquid" in reference to water stops having meaning at about -30C because it simply doesn't exist naturally in that state. You start thinking of gasoline and oils as "frozen" or "thawed" instead. Titan gave us a glimpse of an strangely familiar world where water was the predominant mineral and methane was the liquid that rained down and formed oceans.

I saw this on Boing Boing earlier today.

Future lawers protest AG's speech

The link is to someone's blog, but the pictures are priceless.

The weblog linked from the article explains that Windows Vista will be using a new protocol, SMB2. Apparently the Samba team have already reverse engineered this and its in the technology preview! Impressive if you ask me.

irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior.

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb

I can't confirm either way that they're personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with. You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep, no?

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real bad for them.

irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior.

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb

I can't confirm either way that they're personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with. You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep, no?

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real bad for them.

irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior.

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb

I can't confirm either way that they're personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with. You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep, no?

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real bad for them.

irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior.

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb

I can't confirm either way that they're personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with. You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep, no?

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real bad for them.

irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior.

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb

I can't confirm either way that they're personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with. You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep, no?

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real bad for them.

irc.rizon.net #bantown if you want to tell them exactly how thrilled you are with their behavior.

Here's the livejournals of a few people known to hang out in #bantown:

• Hep
• Sherrod
• aempiri
• aml
• oclet
• zb

I can't confirm either way that they're personally involved in all of this mess or not, but at the very least, why don't you click on through and let them know what you think about the people they hang out with. You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep, no?

It'd be a real shame if someone exploited their Lj accounts in the same way they've been exploiting others'. A real fucking shame. It'd be even more of a shame if something happened to their irc net. I bet we'd all feel real bad for them.

You seem to have missed the paragraph above that where Bram states: The central idea here is basically 'Let's apply error correcting codes to BitTorrent'. This isn't a new idea, everybody comes up with it. In fact I saw fit to mention that it's a dubious idea before. ... While it is very cool, and very applicable to sending information across lossy channels, the case for using it in BitTorrent is unconvincing. (emphasis is mine)

And he's talking about Microsoft's Avalanche. He's pretty clear that error correction within bittorrent is quite unnecessary.