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So you're happy to have something like the Gnome session manager issues http://np237.livejournal.com/22014.html?thread=113662?

I don't know how the Windows GDI and DDB/DIB logic work in great detail, nor do I understand how it is implemented in Wine or works with DirectX. What I do know is that doing something this big is extremely difficult to get right. You need a decent migration strategy and someone who understands the architecture (both how it currently works and how it is intended to work).

I suspect that there are interesting DIBDDB and DIBEngineWineX11X11 and DIBEngineWineD3DOpenGL issues that make it more of a challenge.

George R. R. Martin's response to you.

And the next step after that will be to ban computer games where you pretend to play a paintballer...

Actually though, there have been calls to ban computer games too ("other ideas include a violence quota for television"). All in the name of "parents of victims" - never underestimate the political power of a grieving parent. I've seen it happen here in the UK too. It seems like if someone you know dies, you get national media attention for whatever political cause you want to lobby for. Personally I think it's sick to use a murdered person's name in order to push your own political agenda - if I should get murdered, I hope no one ever dares try to use my name.

What I want to know though is does this ban on paintballing also cover water pistols - I mean, does this image from Doctor Who not "trivialise violence"???

"The OS (kernel + everything else) has been ported to many architectures. While I don't care a bit about it, I concede that having it available for some embedded architectures like Arm is useful."

Seems he's updated his Mussolini-esque personality - or opinion - since 2005!

I'm living in Russia too. Report of Linux use for issuing passports is a nice surprise for me. While Linux and BSD are not rare among grass-roots projects, you can hardly point to them in the commercial installations. Before one rushes in with a handful of counter examples - will you please check with recruiting agencies demand for Linux specialists besides masters-of-all-trade. What really amuses me - someone took seriously that PR BS. This government (and the one before that and another one...) can only waste money regardless of project they finance. Examples: small one - "School portal" (in Russian - http://oip-ru.livejournal.com/60811.html), bigger ones - ALL the so-called "National Projects" announced by Putin. You say corruption - I say, there's something besides corruption which makes this story. This State is totally ignorant 1.about this country 2.about technologies 3.consequentally - about any connections between those two. So I ask myself - why any native Russian should have any hopes for this particular thing? For nor-Russians: some nice looking politician makes him publicity and tries maybe (only maybe) carve some state budget money for something (which has no name and no scope) - between 200k$ and 1.5M$ - not a big deal anyway by any standard, and definitely a doomed affair. Calm down men and let's get back to business.

RE sig:
nice fiction.... i'll have to start following it :)
What do you think of:
http://os.livejournal.com/361386.html (yep, there _are_ three typos that i've never fixed! how'd you guess? *g*)

Now they need to give it anime eyes and a teardrop shape, then work on the metallic version with really high defense.

And then the slimes can get into the music business

Here's an article I found a while back that helps explain the differences between QoS and net neutrality: Link

Essentially, giving priority to services that need instant data transfer to be effective, like VOIP, is a good thing. That's QoS. Giving priority to packets based on who is sending/receiving is a bad thing, which is the point of net neutrality.

I'm sure her parents gave her the cocaine. Idiot. At 23 do your parents still wipe your arse for you? Most people move out of home as adults at 18, 18 year olds aren't "children".

And by the looks of your abomination of a homepage http://damiennightbane.livejournal.com/ your pretty much everything wrong with the internet typified so I wouldn't talk too loud about other peoples parents failing.

Just because you spent your entire life in your basement posting to 4chan doesn't mean anyone else does. Those of us who grew up in normal social circles get exposed to this thing called "life", where access to drugs of various types is par for the course and 18 years old is *hardly* considered a child.

Though just reading through that embarrassment you call a blog you say you've smoked pot (bloody hypocrite), watch porn (psuedo child porn - Hentai), carry a knife with you everywhere you go and your also proud (a little too proud for a 23 year old) of the fact that you're a racist, 4chan posing internet loser.

23 years old, and your blog reads like a angsty 15 year olds Myspace page.

Something about throwing stones in glasshouses and all that comes to mind.

Well, it made for a good edition of Movies in Fifteen Minutes...

Seeing Mark Wahlberg trying to talk a plant out of hurting him was pretty funny, too.

Kevin Bolk is drawing "Watchbabies" strips on his art site. They're actually quite funny.

Sometimes natural curiousity leads to strange and interesting places:
http://community.livejournal.com/blizz_furries/26892.html

Are you actually using the "gui based package managers"? In simple cases, they are great, but for many apps there is simply no way to do it graphic-mode-only. And The Other Way is not for a typical home user. Let's say I'm a typical user wanting to install Google Earth, a typical application. That's what I had to do: http://maxvt.livejournal.com/30150.html

Since pre-paid anonymous cell phones are almost always used for no good and legal purpose this sounds like a great idea for that kind of phone.

That's a very old and tired lie that "those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear"
http://www.biometricidentitycards.info/articles/NoHideNoFear.htm

What about whistleblowers, victims of abuse, or political dissidents? What happens when the government becomes a totalitarian regime?

Another powerful take on this:
http://tithonus.livejournal.com/339295.html

This seems like a hack to me, assuming it's true of course.

http://pastebin.ca/1390576

Oh hey Owen Thomas! How you doin?

Hay dude. Amazon removed its customer-based reporting of adult books yesterday. I guess my game is up! Here's a nice piece I like to call "how to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code".

I really hate reputation systems based on user input. This started a while back on Craigslist, when I was trying to score chicks to do heroin with. My listings like "looking to get tarred and pleasured" and "Searching for a heroine to do the paronym of this sentence's lexical subject" kept getting flagged. The audacity of the San Francisco gay community disgusted me. They would flag my ads down but searching craigslist for "pnp" or "tina" reveals tons of hairy dudes searching for other hairy dudes to do meth with. So I decided to get them back, and cause a few hundred thousand queers some outrage.

I'm logged into Amazon at the time and see it has a "report as inappropriate" feature at the bottom of a page. I do a quick test on a few sets of gay books. I see that I can get them removed from search rankings with an insignificant number of votes.

I do this for a while, but never really get off my ass to scale it until recently.

So I script some quick bash.
#!/bin/bash
let count = 1
while true; do
links -dump 'http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=0/?ie=ASCII&rs=1000&keywords=Gay_and_Lesbian&rh=n%3A!1000%2Ci%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3AHomosexuality&page='`echo $count`|grep \/dp\/ >> /tmp/amazon
((count++))
done

There's some quick code to grab all the Gay and Lesbian metadata-tagged books on amazon. Then I pull out all the IDs of the given books from those URLs:

cat /tmp/amazon |sed s/.*dp\\/// |sed s/\\/ref.*//

and I have a neat little list of the internal product ID of every fag book on Amazon.

Now from here it was a matter of getting a lot of people to vote for the books. The thing about the adult reporting function of Amazon was that it was vulnerable to something called "Cross-site request forgery'. This means if I referred someone to the URL of the successful complaint, it would register as a complaint if they were logged in. So now it is a numbers game.

I know some people who run some extremely high traffic (Alexa top 1000) websites. I show them my idea, and we all agree that it is pretty funny. They put an invisible iframe in their websites to refer people to the complaint URLs which caused huge numbers of visitors to report gay and lesbian items as inappropriate without their knowledge.

I also hired third worlders to register accounts for me en masse. If you ever need a service like that, you can find them in a post like this advertising in the comments:
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070427/solving-captchas-for-cash/

Then they would log into the accounts, save the cookies in a cookie file and send it to me.

Then I used the cookie files like so to automated-report all the books:

for i in `cat /tmp/amazon |sed s/.*dp\\/// |sed s/\\/ref.*//`; do lynx -cookie_file=/home/avex/cookie1 http://www.amazon.com/ri/product-listing/`echo $i`/;done

The combination of these two actions resulted in a mass delisting of queer books being delisted from the rankings at Amazon.

I guess my game is up, but 300+ hits on google news for amazon gay and outrage across the blogosphere ain't so bad.

The only person to figure it out was dely from Six Apart:

http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html

but he has been ground zero at my work, cleaning up my messes before.

So just letting you know the chain of events. if you choose to report on this, please don't disclose my identity/email address. Thanks!

A friend pointed out this guy claiming credit. Apparently it wasn't Amazon itself, just some guy who used some simple scripting to trick thousands of people into reporting anything categorized as homosexual as offensive, as a practical joke.

http://community.livejournal.com/brutal_honesty/3168992.html

Bantown wins again!

THIS WAS A TROLL. Well, a metatroll.

http://community.livejournal.com/brutal_honesty/3168992.html

Someone automatically flagged every gay/lesbian-categorized book with Amazon's "report as offensive" link some untold number of times over the weekend.

He did it for the lulz: How to cause moral outrage from the entire internet in ten lines of code

Removed material include:
Annie Proulx's Brokeback mountain.

Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.
(the only "sex scene" in The Well of Loneliness consists in its entirety of the words "And that night they were not divided.")

Alex Beecroft: False Colours, m/m historical romance, just broken through and ranking in top 10 historical novels-- i.e. non-romance, non-gay-- and then it suddenly disappeared entirely from the rankings. The novel is NOT erotica, contains only one non-explicit sex scene, but the central premise features two male characters falling in love.

Geez...

more: http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11992.html

One item that I find very offensive is that Amazon is classifying GLBT material as adult, while not designating similar heterosexual titles as such.

They are a private company and are free to classify items how they wish. Similarly, I can choose where to spend my money. I'll spend my money with a company that celebrates diversity. Not one that is so blatantly prejudicial.

Citations:
http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11992.html (contains growing list of books)
http://markprobst.livejournal.com/15293.html (screen caps and more info)

One item that I find very offensive is that Amazon is classifying GLBT material as adult, while not designating similar heterosexual titles as such.

They are a private company and are free to classify items how they wish. Similarly, I can choose where to spend my money. I'll spend my money with a company that celebrates diversity. Not one that is so blatantly prejudicial.

Citations:
http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11992.html (contains growing list of books)
http://markprobst.livejournal.com/15293.html (screen caps and more info)

Yeah, too bad my blog doesn't support private posts. Seriously, though, I have nothing against Twitter except that there is no reason for it to be centralized. It could work just as well (better?) as an extension to e-mail or XMPP with a web interface. Especially given that Twitter seems to have a lot of downtime for how popular a service it is.

I've heard it said in Geekdom that BSD is full of elitists, but generally I've found the support community to be a lot friendlier than of Linux.

I generally sit in a lot of different communities, Windows, OS X, Linux, BSD and Solaris etc.

Here is my overall experience with certain BSD communities.

Note: OS X is not considered by most a BSD community.

was also tried of dealing with the "If you don't like it, code your own" mentality that I kept running across.

That's pretty much the OpenBSD answer to a lot of things, they also say "donate your hardware".

OS X 10.2 was out. That got me my Unix development stack AND commercial applications such as Adobe's apps and *gasp* MS Office and no hardware compatibility issues.

I'm guessing you were not a Windows power user if you didn't know of Windows' native POSIX subsystem or the POSIX alternative implementations under Windows.

That said, I've never really had a problem running commercial applications under Linux. That includes my games.

According to this Linux filesystem developer, wear leveling as implemented in consumer level flash memory is often pretty lousy: http://valhenson.livejournal.com/25228.html

The problem is that Android is better described as a vague derivative of Linux than GNU/Linux as we know it. It was developed by an independent company with an attitude of "not invented here." Getting their, ah, innovations into the Linux mainline is an exercise in pain for the kernel devs, and if you want GNU/Linux as humans actually use it on it you need something similar to coLinux.

tl;dr summary: the most Linux-like thing about Android is buzzword compatibility.

Your username links all your posts together, which means that I can try to glean information from them and build a profile. It also allows me (at least in the case of a relatively unique sounding handle, like yours) to associate this account with accounts elsewhere, such as gaming, accounts, stuff on guitars, or a livejournal. From this, it is clear you are based in/around Denver, Colorado, you did games, but more in the past, do stuff with guitars, and have legal leanings to the point that you were a law clerk for the Colorado Court of Appeals. It helps that you usually sign your posts --G, so its presence or absence is one indicator of your ownership. Also remember that we just got through seeing an article here on slashdot that just because you do not post identifying information does not mean that you can not be identified.

The good news is that it's moving in that direction. libdrm is not a Digitial Restriction Manager, but a Direct Rendering Manager. Here's the state of the art from nearly a year ago. I hope things have continued forward from there.

There were some Russian programming languages from the USSR's aerospace community.

Please take a look at some valid literate Haskell code which tells the common Russian fairy tale. It has nothing to do with aerospace, and it is standard modern Haskell. Copy-paste, compile and run.

Another modern example is Chinese Python. Though it is a fork from the standard python.

Be careful what you wish for.

American citizens are not well armed, compared to the government that controls them.

I was listening to the radio on the drive home today. The DJ made an excellent point.

He was talking about a news story. A guy in Eastern Europe decided his mother-in-law was the cause of his wife leaving him. He went to her house, and shot it with an anti-tank missile. The mother-in-law survived the rocket attack, so he continued his attack with a machine gun. She survived that too, and he was finally arrested. I imagine the police may have noticed all the noise. :)

The DJ said, "I make good money, and I know a lot of people. I have no idea where to get a anti-tank rocket nor a machine gun." He had a point. American citizens cannot own weapons that the government uses. If they are found with them, they will be taken away by the government, and the owner will end up in prison for a long time.

Here in America, we are well protected. We're taught guns are dangerous and we shouldn't have them. Gun owners are vilified. Those with collections are extremely dangerous and should be avoided. Citizens don't own anything more powerful than semi-automatic pistols and rifles.

Should the citizens of America revolt, the first in the fighting will be annihilated by law enforcement and the military. Obviously they are the subversives trying to destroy the American way. They will be made an example of to the rest of the population. Subversive "terrorist" cells will be hunted down and killed, with only a few surviving for prosecution in closed courts.

If (and only if) it continued, some would realize, "these are my friends and family standing up against what America has become", and then they may bring their weapons and training to the side of the civilians. This second wave will likely be annihilated also. Advanced weapons (bombers, UAV's, heavy smart weapons) will be employed.

In subsequent waves (if there are any), the tide may turn, as the sides become equal in power. Military units will side with the civilians. The lucky (?) survivors will live to tell the tales of the worst conflict the world has ever seen.

Other countries will take advantage of the unrest and the unavailability of American forces world wide to continue their "world police" actions.

Unfortunately, if an uprising like this did occur, it would be a disaster for America and large parts of the world, economically, socially, and politically.

The American Revolutionary War would seem like a civil dispute compared to what it would be like if America turned upon itself now.

It's not that I disagree that it couldn't happen. It's very likely that it could.

I am very hopeful Obama can turn quite a few things around, as he is trying to do right now. Unfortunately, as the American economy falls apart, people lose their jobs, homes, and ability to feed themselves, "bad things ©" will happen.

I won't say which side I will be on. I am an American, and as such I will defend the ways of America with my life. We have (hopefully) learned that violence is not the method in which things are changed, but not everyone else believes this way. I choose to protect my family and friends first from anything that may happen. Those who side with me will have chosen the peaceful and right way, but as the cold war proved, "peace through superior firepower" is a well ingrained belief in the government. They are willing to prove it through any group that looks like it may try "bad things ©". IANACT (I am not a conspiracy theorist), but please referenc

How exactly did they "fuck with the formula"?

Most of the things Sun was trying to do seemed reasonable from my perspective.

One example is this MySQL developer complaining about how Sun wanted to scale up so that MySQL can work better across multiple processors/cores.

That seems like a no brainer looking at where everyone is going with multi core, multi threaded cpus. Here's a review of one of Sun's CMT servers that shows a comparison of MySQL vs Postgresql scalability down the page. PostgreSQL blows MySQL away.

For a MySQL developer to be complaining that Sun wants to scale up when that's where everyone is going is ridiculous. You can build yourself an 8 core opteron system pretty cheap these days. 16 cores is even possible but not cheap.

Database do better when they scale vertically rather than horizontally. It's also much easier to maintain. The best price performance you'll get for most db applications is to have a single server with a lot of locally attached 2.5" Velociraptor or SAS 15k Drives.

And for I'd guess 99% of the people posting on here, you could host their sites all on the same box and nobody would tell the difference.

The only other thing I can recall is when MySQL CEO announced a new tool that would be available for Enterprise clients (paid) only but then Sun made them open source it.

Sounds to me like Sun might have been good for MySQL, but I'm not so sure MySQL will be good for Sun.

I think MySQL will start loosing more towards PostgreSQL as people need a better RDBMS and to these newer non RDBMS DBs that are coming out for those that just need an easy scalable persistance layer.

I carry my eee 701 in a surplus gasmask bag: http://ouij.livejournal.com/252817.html Way more punk rock than any lame laptop case.

And you'll notice the BIOS goes quicker too :-) (obviously this isn't a practical thing to do)

And *gasp* - you're using swap on the "Gen 0" SSD of an EeePC? Stop! You'll "burn" a hole into your Gen 0 SSD where your swap was :-(

X11 protocol was writen long ago for effective (ashynchronous communication) between terminal consoles and servers. Note that at the time, whole mindset of personal computers was different. Companies had huge powerful mainframes and just connected to them via their simple consoles.

Of course, these days we have billions times more powerful 'dumb terminals' and billions more powerful servers.

But then desktop market exploded and everyone had powerful computer on their desk. And X11 just isn't designed to work well in this situation.

Here is my personal experience -- My Windows games, with all the settings maxed out, perform better (can be even 20fps difference) running under Wine/Crossover+x.org+Linux than natively under Windows. The only issue graphically is fonts, and that's caused by patent issues.

In my personal opinion, I think x11 is doing far better than Windows and OS X (considering that games tend to perform worse with crossover games mac than they do with crossover games linux) is.

The implementation of x.org does have it's issues, but these aren't issues in the x11 specification, GEM should be fixing these issues. I have written a bit on the subject.

The client-server architecture of X is just overhead in most cases.

Overhead that seems to be beating Windows on the same hardware. I'm not convinced it's a issue.

(Tell me, how many times did you attach to remote Xserver? - and with fast internet lines this could be done via VNC easily)

Once or twice, but I have ran plenty of applications remotely on my local xserver - I do it all the time. VNC doesn't give me application specific windows, or allow applications to communicate with the rest of my desktop applications, or use the theming of my desktop, or work well on very low latency connections (I use compressed ssh tunnels - doesn't work well with VNC), or allow desktop composition to work, or do 3d acceleration... I can go on, but I see no point.

The next thing is X11 protocol itself, the asynchronous design makes programming for X a terrible experience and just creates more problems than it solves (and it solves absolutelly nothing when it xserver and xclient are on same computer).

Perhaps you should give first theoretical examples? And then give practical applications of real world instances where this happens. While, I am aware of some theoretical disadvantages, they're not really a issue practically speaking.

http://www.std.org/~msm/common/WhyX.pdf

There is a lot of random rubbish you find in that documentation like "Unreadable window attributes", whereby it's been a non-issue for a while now because the freedesktop specifications provided a suitable workaround for this ages ago on how WMs etc. should communicate with each other and applications.

Blaming the application developers is a bit rich. In EXT3 fsync was not only not necessary, it also could cause the system to freeze for 30 seconds, hence userland developers for Linux avoided fsync unless the data was not only just important but *really* *really* important.

Also application developers have to make many assumptions not explicitly spelt out in the POSIX specification, e.g. POSIX does not explicitly specify, e.g. that you machine has more than 16 bytes of RAM, that there is no "rm -rf /" in your initscripts etc. It is stupid to trumpet a new delayed allocation scheme, and then say "unless you explicitly disable it, your filesystem may enter a inconsistent state", so make sure that you always disable it or its *your* code thats buggy.

I also salute Mr. Tso... for recanting and fixing the damn bug. There is a more throughout discussion here.

> Every time the author wants to assure himself that data has been written to the disk, it calls fsync.

The problem is, the application developers are not complaining about the not having the strong requirement of having the data on the disc, but losing a weaker consistency, as Matthew Garret explained quite aptly.

Well, lets see. What HAVE I done with my life?

I've never suckerpunched Charles Platt (nor anyone else, for that matter), never had three wives divorce me in a row, I have never lied continuously about the status of a anthology (I.E., The Last Dangerous Visions), I haven't thrown a temper tantrum in public (or private) for well over 50+ years (I'm 57 as I write this), I don't insult my fans by calling them smelly and unhygienic, I don't gleefully perpetuate the stereotype of the greedy Jew , "I don't take a piss without getting paid!", I don't blame the "amateurs" for the woes of the publishing trade. (See the aforementioned YouTube clip) Mr. Ellison forgets that he, too, was once an amateur. I don't pepper my speech with a constant stream of obscenities or vulgarities. I never groped Connie Willis' breast on stage at the Hugo Awards Ceremonies .

I could go on, but, well, you get the picture.

Mr. Ellison has proved himself, time and time again, to be a very petty little man, given to outbursts of temper and violence and obscenity. Certainly not the actions of a responsible adult of 75 years of age.

I, for one, don't see his actions as anything to "respect".

shrift reacts to the SciFi Channelâ(TM)s planned rebranding:

The new name sounds like SciFi got a henna tattoo and a spice rack and renamed itself Ravyn Kyrie Moondancer, and has scheduled an interpretive-dance-cum-poetry-reading in the quad at 8am on Sunday. It only likes Pro Wrestling ironically, like, WHATEVER.

I'm a good boy, no sex for 30 years!

Reminds me of the following billboard:

Truth in Advertising
- No, not a Photoshop.

Your prone to unfounded exaggerations, aren't you. Nobody advertised it as "use this crashproof file system!". Point me to the screenshot if you have proof to the contrary.

Also, this has already been fixed before Ubuntu 9.04, for one, is even out of alpha.

That's that, but let it be said that your other examples are at least equally inane (hint: stability without a GUI is still a valuable property).

Your prone to unfounded exaggerations, aren't you. Nobody advertised it as "use this crashproof file system!". Point me to the screenshot if you have proof to the contrary.

Also, this has already been fixed before Ubuntu 9.04, for one, is even out of alpha.

That's that, but let it be said that your other examples are at least equally inane (hint: stability without a GUI is still a valuable property).

Have you seen what they were doing with high voltage lines back in 89?

I've had a similar question for Hydrographic Offices in various countries that have to produce Coast Pilot/Sailing Directions documents. Except in their case, this is a document that has 100+ years of revisions and is looking to 100 more years. How do we get them into a process where they can track all the changes and reference where material was submitted from?

I tried to think through some of the options for this kind of stuff here:

Managing distributed XML document editing for nautical publications

You mean all 250 of them? http://gregdek.livejournal.com/38775.html

I can't wait until I can change the wallpaper that is on my real walls without having to hang new wallpaper. Being able to dynamically display things (from, say the tv/computer) on the walls around the room would be spiffy too.

It's not so great. Read "carpet bugs"

Authors have lives, as do any content producers, but I think that they may need to look at maybe limiting their scope a little more so their projects can be finished in their lifetimes.

Authors may also want to decide whether they are actual people who deserve to have a life of their own, or simply story vending machines which exist to provide people with a lfew hours entertainment and then fade away.

Another one is GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire, he's not a young man keeps pushing dates back

And he has this to say on the subject. Given the choice between hearing about how GRRM has been watching football all day, or reading a hacked up finale to an otherwise great series of books which he just felt he needed to put together even though he was miserable doing it, I'll be one of the first to order him some beers and pizza and hand him the remote.

Interesting, I guess GPU power made this problem irrelevant.

I'm willing to bet it's more to do with the proprietary nVidia drivers (Why nVidia rocks where x.org does not).

About the only thing strangers can see is your name. Why are you afraid to put honest professional information out there?

The issue isn't just random strangers on the web when the social networking site itself (and all its business partners) now has all of your personal information. Those privacy policies mean jack when the government comes knocking with or without a search warrant, when someone bribes a random employee of the site for a copy of their whole database, or when the company decides it doesn't want to follow its privacy policy anymore.

I forgot to add the link to my picture.

http://pics.livejournal.com/syncordi/pic/0006eafz

Of course this was before corporations became powerful as Thomas Jefferson warned about.

So, your solution is to make them even more powerful by implementing libertarianism?

No, libertarians want to make corporations less powerful. Libertarian Party spokesperson Andrew Davis says "The Libertarian Party is adamantly opposed to any sort of bailout of American corporations who, through their own mismanagement, find themselves at the brink of failure,". Corporations get their power from governments, by limiting the power of government the power of corporations will be limited too.

Again - real sharp, logical thinking right there.

Again no logic at all. Since you can't seem to use reason and logic and back up your positions I see no reason to continue this.

Falcon