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I use SuperDuper! to make a clone of my boot partition on a FW drive. "Smart Update" is fast and if something goes bad, I can reboot on the external drive and work immediately, then take the time to fix it later. For important files, I use unison to a remote server via ssh, I prefer it over Rsync. Chronosync is nice to make automatic backups to external drives.

I don't see how Apple's Time Machine could make Super Duper! obsolete, at least for me. What if I can't boot anymore and needs to work now?

**Off-topic warning**

Language Log coined a term to refer to this type of (near) sound-alike -- Eggcorns. Every now and again, LL talks about new eggcorns they've discovered in the wild. Most of the time, these things are pretty entertaining in a "giggling at people's linguistic foibles" sort of way (foibles that we're all guilty of at some point, I should add). There's also a website dedicated to cataloging them locate here.

Debunk squad reporting: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archive s/003833.html

Search for Brizendine in their rss feed for more. :-)

...has been following this already, and they have some excellent commentary on the matter

The Colbert Nation and like-minded crusaders for all that is truthy won this one on their own

I2 from a connectivity standpoint really isn't anything different from I1. It's still an IP routed network and all your normal IP routed toys (www, ftp, home brew app) still work as advertised. The term Abilene is actually the name of the I2 backbone network. It was spawned as a second generation IP network (and yes it can route IPV6 natively) to connect research institutions. Allowing them to utilize the network for research and high speed data transfers. What kind of research? Well anything really, hear about those doctors doing remote robotic surgery? That data probably was traversing the Abilene backbone. Grid computing in acedemia? Probably connected via Abilene .

Just like the I1 backbone, Abilene, being a backbone network, peers and eventually splits off to regional controlled networks. The one I am familiar with is OARNet (Ohio Acedemic Research Network). OARNet provides high speed connectivity to Ohio campuses and peers with the Abilene I2 backbone in Indianapolis (from OARNet's POP in Cleveland).

From an I2 connected campus (meaning you have access to the Abilene backbone at somepoint), there really isn't anything special to connect over the Abilene core. The network gurus had the IPV4 routing setup in such a way that if you connected to an IP address that was available via Abilene, the data would go that path. Otherwise, it would route out over the standard I1 connection. Most of the time when I would have to download some big ISO images, I would specifically look for an Abilene (I2) connected peer. Downloads over 10MBit weren't uncommon (mostly limited by the load on at the server on the other end). Pretty cool really. I'm sure others around are using it for more important stuff other than downloading ISOs :).

This conflict arises because Eve was not the first woman mentioned in the bible, there was some imperfect revision work done to delete the earlier references to Lilith.

G'morning. Sorry for the long delay. Busy week.

Also, you made a very interesting point, one that I hadn't heard before. It did not square with my understanding of the textual chronology, so I gave you the benefit of the doubt and spent a while researching the issue. Unfortunately, the few references to this particular Lilith theory (that I could find) are based on either a discredited text, a nonexistent text, or both. I imagine that's not what you're referring to, so I would find it educational if you could provide a citation.

What I found is that the primary source for this form of the Lilith legend is The Alphabet of Ben-Sira, a document that has been dated to around the 8th-10th centuries AD. This is not a primary source for Jewish traditions by any stretch of the imagination; indeed, much of its content is satirical, and so unflattering that some propose that the Alphabet could be anti-semitic in origin.

Now, there is a midrash that hypothesizes an unnamed first wife for Adam, and the best that can be said for the Lilith interpretation is that the compiler of the Alphabet cleverly synthesized this midrashic theory with a preexisting, non-Jewish myth of Lilith. Note that much of the midrashim, and specifically this midrash, dates from about 500AD and later. Jewish thinkers obviously found no issue with the two texts for 1100-1800 years, depending on which dates you subscribe to.

Interestingly, a conflating of these two points has led to a persistent belief that there are actual Rabbinic or midrashic writings that mention Lilith. There are none. It is simply sloppy scholarship.

The upshot is this: the order of events is backwards. The text is historical; the superimposition of Lilith (or some other first wife) is more recent. This is obvious in hindsight, as the very form of the Ben-Sira Lilith text is parasitic upon the pre-existent Genesis text, whereas there exists no clear route by which a hypothetical Lilith text could be redacted to produce the Genesis text -- even if this hypothetical text were to be found.

Now, I did find one website which amusingly mistook the Alphabet's date as being 8th-10th century BC, which could have possibly predated the authorship of Genesis if you accept the "assured results of modern criticism" that the book was compiled and redacted around 600BC rather than written by Moses around 1300BC. Again, I will assume that this is not what you were referring to.

But it's worth mentioning, of course, that this "modern criticism" or "higher criticism" of Graf and Wellhausen (a.k.a. the "JEDP" theory of multiple authorship) was conceived nearly 200 years ago, long before the advent of fields such as, say, archaeology or comparative linguistics. The methods of textual criticism are quite valuable in providing interpretive insights to a text, but to extrapolate such nuances into a challenge of authorship is to exaggerate their significance, under most circumstances. Textual criticism often produces absurd results when applied to nonreligious texts with the rigidity and vehemence that it is applied to religious texts. As one essayist concluded: "My professor of classics at Cornell University in the 1950's observed wryly that after seventy-five years of that sort of thing in Homeric scholarship, 'we have finally jettisoned that approach and have concluded that if Homer didn't write the Odyssey, it was written by someone of the same name who lived about the same time.'"

Surprisingly, the immense popularity

I'm sorry, there must be something I don't understand about telephone wiring. I've only done it as an amateur, installing and troubleshooting entire systems in a mere three houses.

That said, how the hell do they have that wired? Was Verizon's original wiring just haphazardly spliced off underneath the house from the line in from the street? If so, why didn't Cox just cut it and use your existing wiring on the far side of their digital -> POTS device? Why can't Verizon just cut your Cox off* and attach their wire to that?

I can't imagine what kind of bizarre wiring would be in your house that can't be attached to either service. I have Cox phone service in a house that originally had Verizon, and there is one place where Cox's digital stuff goes into a box and comes out compatible with POTS; I can't imagine any other way that would work with standard telephones.

Finally, I don't know what kind of magic you think a wiring contractor is going to do, but here's how you can do the wiring yourself:
Choose where you want your patch panel. Pull Cat5 from there to each room. Either star or daisy-chain topologies work fine. Strip the ends of the wires and screw them into the back of the phone jacks. Voila!

POTS is >100 year old technology, is very simple, and is very robust.

The wikipedia article on POTS includes this link to self-wiring instructions:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/phone_wiring.h tml
That page additionally notes that "reversed polarity can reportedly damage some kinds of phone equipment", although I've never met any device that knew the difference.

*Get it? Pun? Hahah? No? Bah...nevermind.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~waa/96-35/aegis.html

Abstract
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In a computer system, the integrity of lower layers is treated as axiomatic by higher layers. Under the presumption that the hardware comprising the machine (the lowest layer) is valid, integrity of a layer can be guaranteed if and only if: (1) the integrity of the lower layers is checked, and (2) transitions to higher layers occur only after integrity checks on them are complete. The resulting integrity ``chain'' inductively guarantees system integrity.

When these conditions are not met, as they typically are not in the bootstrapping (initialization) of a computer system, no integrity guarantees can be made. Yet, these guarantees are increasingly important to diverse applications such as Internet commerce, intrusion detection systems, and ``active networks.'' In this paper, we describe the AEGIS architecture for initializing a computer system. It validates integrity at each layer transition in the bootstrap process. AEGIS also includes a recovery process for integrity check failures, and we show how this results in robust systems. We discuss our prototype implementation for the IBM personal computer (PC) architecture, and show that the cost of such system protection is surprisingly small.

The New Zealand Herald

Language Log also responds.

This was covered in plenty of detail yesterday morning on Language Log. See this post.
It's just like Snopes is for urban legends. If you see a funny language article, check Language Log first.

This was covered in plenty of detail yesterday morning on Language Log. See this post.
It's just like Snopes is for urban legends. If you see a funny language article, check Language Log first.

Well, I was trying to give a simple example. It can get quite convoluted. Check out Mark Twain's essay on the Awful German Language.

"The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they make by splitting a verb in two and putting half of it at the beginning of an exciting chapter and the OTHER HALF at the end of it."

The guys at the Language Log (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/, October 15, 2006, More on Pitch and Time Intervals in Speech) don't think it's possible to analyze speech patterns for emotion. They also don't think that you can identify particularly persuasive words (several posts, currently ending October 13, 2006). So maybe the speech recognition guys, the computational linguists are running a scam on the telemarketers. Too good.

I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for schoolmasters, who, as they have already devoured most of the child's mind, seem to have the best title to the body.

I wish I had mod points for the parent today, but such is life. For geeks will a rather modest literary exposure, the allusion is to Johnathan Swift's A Modest Proposal. Highly recommended reading.

`fink install unison` There's even a X11 GUI for it if you're into that sort of thing. (And a website: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.ht ml)

It does syncronization over any sort of socket or locally; it defaults to using SSH. It runs in ocaml so it works anywhere there's an ocaml runtime -- Windows/OS X/linux/etc.

It presents a simple copy left/copy right/skip interface for files with conflicts. Or you can run in batch mode to skip conflicts silently. Or you can set it to prefer one source for conflicts and always resolve in that direction.

It can be set to ignore files or folders with a simple or regex expression list.

You can configure several different sink sets and run them individually. I use this feature so that my desktop and documents get synced every time you're online, but my music folder only syncs when I'm on the local network.

It supports prioritizing sync traffic by size, name, modification time, etc., so you can decide what files get synced first, which is handy on slow links. It also uses the rsync partial-binary transfer so that changes in large binary files don't require copying the entire file.

It can copy permissions and ownership verbatim (process permissions permitting), or you can specify exactly what permissions are copied or not.

There is a little work to be done in setting it up, but in general I find that a couple of unison batches in an hourly cron job plus one manual sync per week let me switch between my desktop and laptop without even thinking about it.

Damn. Wanted to say the same thing... which led me to thinking: How long is this joke going to be stretched, and how long will it still be funny? Don't get me wrong, I think there is something inherently funny about it.
First quote: "I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords." - Kent Brockman, Simpsons Deep Space Homer.
Other clues:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_subculture
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archive s/000403.html

>The chinese did not have science.

Right...this must be more of the old myth that the ancestry of modern science is exclusively European.

Sure, if you are willing to discount the sextant, the sundail, extant writing, cast bronze acupunture training dummies, gun-powder, movable type...you've chosen to use the already centuries stale F. Bacon method of narrowly defining science so as to give credit to cultures that followed on the heals of the Chinese by centuries.

A grand laugh then and a grand laugh now...thanks for taking a run at me, but if you intend to make your points by re-writing and/or ignoring factual history, I'll consider your involvement in this thread as a weak attempt at humor :)

Not according to the link you provided.

Quotation marks used in this way are informally called scare quotes. Scare quotes are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase from which you, the writer, wish to distance yourself because you consider that word or phrase to be odd or inappropriate for some reason.

The use of quotation marks can be extended to cases which are not exactly direct quotations. Here is an example:

Linguists sometimes employ a technique they call "inverted reconstruction".

The phrase in quote marks is not a quotation from anyone in particular, but merely a term which is used by some people -- in this case, linguists.

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp? catalogId=LDC97S62

This kind of speech, um, yeah, is a - a world away, you know what I mean, from how most users speak to dictation software, command-and-control, etc.

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ is the main source of speech corpora that I know about. You have to pay and possibly be a member (depending on the corpus you want I think). The catalog covers all kinds of speech. Another source is ELRA http://catalog.elra.info/, but their corpora are a little pricey!

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp? catalogId=LDC97S62

This kind of speech, um, yeah, is a - a world away, you know what I mean, from how most users speak to dictation software, command-and-control, etc.

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ is the main source of speech corpora that I know about. You have to pay and possibly be a member (depending on the corpus you want I think). The catalog covers all kinds of speech. Another source is ELRA http://catalog.elra.info/, but their corpora are a little pricey!

I think it is an admirable project, but it seems like the practicalities could make this VERY difficult to complete. The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ has been distributing speech corpora for about 15 years and it is not easy (and no, I don't work for the LDC.)

On a related note, how much data are they planning to collect and how will it be distributed? The web site says that they will make available 8kHz and 16kHz versions of the data, both with 16-bit samples. These days, decent applications are trained on hundreds and even thousands of hours of audio. So, let's say they want to collect and distribute 1000 hours of 16kHz, 16 bit audio. That's 32,000 bytes per second of audio, or about 115 megabytes per hour, or 115 gigabytes per 1000 hours! Even 500 hours (58 gigs) is a LOT of data. Are they planning to make this available via download? If they want to distribute it on DVDs, that is about 24 DVDs (for 1000 hrs), which would be a lot of work to burn and ship...

I think it is an admirable project, but it seems like the practicalities could make this VERY difficult to complete. The LDC http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ has been distributing speech corpora for about 15 years and it is not easy (and no, I don't work for the LDC.)

Who doesn't like clicking on Tiny Urls?

Tiny Urls just don't compute as part of my safe surfing habits.
Example:
Tiny Url --> my redirect --> paper
After it hits the front page
Tiny Url --> my redirect --> 0-day exploit

There really is no need for them in Slashdot Submissions.

Here's the direct link to the paper
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/1323.pdf

I agree, that actively disagrees with other studies I have seen about dating.

http://www.psych.upenn.edu/PLEEP/pdfs/2005%20Kurzb an%20&%20Weeden%20EHB.pdf

In a study of speed dating, for the desirability of guys, the most important indicators are an attractive face, attractive body, height, age, and BMI, in that order, though no single predictor is higher than 26%. For the desirability of girls, BMI is a 50% predictor of being chosen. Ouch. The second highest is age at 29%, and nothing else seems to matter all that much.

Other studies based on personal ads have shown that education level is a huge factor in male desireability, as well as levels of success and income. That this study did not see that is not surprising given the fact that it is speed dating.

"Other than the very broad and unsurprising result that women are more selective than men are (Trivers, 1972), the centrally predictable fact from HurryDate events is that women's desirability is dominated by their relative thinness, a finding consistent with data from personal ads (Lynn & Shurgot, 1984; Sitton & Blanchard, 1995). Such findings support both theoretical emphasis on men's attention to physical attractiveness and lay intuitions that men care most deeply about women's body size and shape. Our findings also indicate that, at least in the context of HurryDate events, women show similar physically driven preferences (compare with Feingold, 1990). While men at HurryDate events are strongly attracted to women who are thin, young, attractive, and of a similar race, women strongly prefer men who are physically attractive, tall, young, of medium build, and of a similar race. Women's preferences are not strongly determined by a single trait, but, collectively, their preferences are driven by appearance."

this is nothing new: it started before the WWI and now there are dozens of companies, universities or hobbyist doing it. It is called: "content analysis", "data mining", "discourse analysis" etc. There is a legend that sais that British intelligence managed to predict quite acurately airstrikes on England based on content analysis of Goebels' radio speeches. Take a look at this links if you are interested. Bibliography of Content Analysis Listings from Communication Abstracts, 1990-1997 Content Analysis Resources web site Text Analysis Info Page - all on text analysis and related topics The discourse analysis page of AI Topics Centre d'analyse des politiques publiques (CAPP) Département de science politique, Université Laval The Center for Social Research Methods: not necesarily content analysis, but it's good to take a look at Research Methods Knowledge Base The Annenberg School for Communication Web Concordances at the English Department of the University of Dundee Companion Website for the book Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus Journal: Language Awareness; has some free issues/articles. The General Inquirer Home Page Journal of Second Language Writing Writing Guides: Conducting Content Analysis at Colorado State University; with a nice adnotated bibliography The Content Analysis Guidebook Online, An Accompaniament to The Content Analysis Guidebook by Kimberley A. Neuendorf. The Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Literary and Linguistic Computing eximancer - Practical Text Mining and Concept Mapping Journal Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation: some online articles Content Analysis News and Discussion mailing list archives some Resources related to content analysis and text analysis; updated quite recently: June 30, 2005;

http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/ace/

GALE seems geared towards translation and aggregation of data for convenient
access by mono-lingual military and intelligence personnel. The goal of the
ACE project is to provide classification of data based on what it actually
means.

There is a great little company in Brooklyn, NY called Alias-i. Some years ago they built this interesting "tool" called....guess....ThreatTracker. Information Extraction, Named Entity Recognition and other interesting stuff, if you are into this.
No, I don't work for them, but their LingPipe toolkit has some cooooool stuff.

If ye be needin' help typin' like a pirate, try out the pirate keyboard. Arrr!

Talking like a pirate is so, er, 17th century. Try Type like a Pirate day

"The OED cites a bewildering variety of spellings from various periods:

duerð, dweorð, dweorh, dwæruh, dweru3, dwer3, dwer3e, dwergh, dwargh, dwarghe, duergh, dwerk, duerch, duerche, dorche, droich, dweruf, dwerf, dwerfe, dwerff, dwerffe, dwrfe, dwarfe, dwarff, dwarffe, dwearf, dwarf, duerwe, durwe, dwarw, dwerwh, dwerwhe, dwerwe, dwerowe, duorow, dwery, duery, dueri

as long as people are willing to accept the risks themselves and sign something stating they will never impose upon the state for medical care if they are injured doing something foolish.

Riding a bicycle isn't foolish. Riding a bike in traffic is statistically safer than walking down the sidewalk. Basketball puts more people in the ER every year than cycling:
http://bicyclinglife.com/SafetySkills/SafetyQuiz.h tm

The dangers of cycling have been hyped by the auto insurance lobby to decrease payouts (scare people away from cycling, problem solved!) and taint juries (He was riding a *bicycle*, what did he *expect*?). They work largely through "bike advocate" professional 501c3 NGO-jockeys with no real interest or commitment to cycling. Look behind groups like Bikes Belong or the League of American Bicyclists and you will see the AAA. No joke.

Many helmets do not meet the high-impact safety standards, but the fact is there are helmets out there that do. Helmets today are lightweight, well ventilated and comfortable. Even if they can protect in only a small fraction of cases, isn't it worth it to wear one?

What standard are you talking about? SNELL? CPSC? Bike helmet standards in the US have been twice-downgraded since the early 1970s.

Handwringers obsess over legions of tube-fed cycletards draining the common treasury, but economic analysis of cycling from the Wharton School shows the contrary: Cycling (with risk of accident factored in) increases longevity to such an extant that there is a real concern that longer-lived people will consume more energy by being around for extra decades to keep a fridge going and to forget to turn off the light in the garage. See:
http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~ulrich/publications .html

Now now, I'm not accusing anyone of lying. Lying is knowning fully that something is a certain way and pretending it is otherwise. At worse I'm accusing you of ignorance, which is not nearly as bad.

Now you are qualifying your statement by a "In the United State", however even there, copyrighted works enter the public domain regularly, if not every day. Read this very interesting page.

Now in Australia for instance, and in many other countries, copyright is 50 years after death for old work, and 70 for *new* work only, and there is no Sonny Bono retroactive act nonsense. Stuff that is more than 50 year old *today* enters the public domain *today*. In about 50 years (because the 70 year period) there will be a 20 year period where very little will enter the PD, however hopefully this will resume.

http://www.icarusindie.com/Literature/Library/

It's not overtly advertised as such but my collection started by looking up books that were banned at some time and then finding them on the gutenburg project and hosting them myself. I also have some books that I just thought were interesting and worth having.

UPenn has been directly some traffic my way from their banned book site here

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books. html

Maybe this is Google's feeble attempt at making up for suppressing speech elsewhere in the world.

It's true that the headline is misleading. The patent application is not for "conjugating verbs". That said, it is still very broad and something for which there is tons of prior art. I don't see any specific methods mentioned. Software for generating the entire paradigm for a verb is nothing new, as various posters, including myself, have already pointed out. The idea that the user doesn't need to produce a particular citation form but that the system will figure it out is also not new. I published a paper ("Making Athabaskan Dictionaries Usable," in Gary Holton (ed.) (2002) Proceedings of the Athabaskan Languages Conference --- 2002, Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska. Working Papers #2. pp. 136-147.) a while back about how such a system can provide a usable dictionary for languages with extremely complex verbal systems, such as Navajo.

Here's a description of an actual implementation of a system like this for Nahuatl. Unfortunately, the site at which you can actually try it out seems to be down, but it does, or at least did, exist.

Meaning is a verb

Careful with your linguification.

what you are saying, is that the person who puts the information on the internet, is the one who decides if it is public domain. As opposed to the person to whom the information belongs.

You know the current standard the US follows, for copyright of printed works, is LIFE+70 years? That means that once the author copyrights their work, the copyright is good for 70 years after they die. Only after the copyright expires and it is not renewed, the work becomes public domain.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html
there are some specific exceptions based on when the work was copywritten, when the work was published, what country it was published, whether or not the copyright notice was properly added to the work, and more.

To continue the library analogy I started earlier, the internet is a library. websites are the books. each must be treated as an individual entity. If someone steals your identity through a phishing scam, and uses that info immediately, then sure you might be able to get out of liability by appealing to your bank. DOes that mean that phishers should be allowed to run their scams freely and uncontested, because they can just pot your info and declare it public domain, which would then in turn give them license to use that info however they wanted?

What if YOU didn;t put those photos on the internet? What if your Ex Girlfriend stole them by using your spare key when you were at work? Sorry charlie, they are on the net now and are public domain? I don't think so.

unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Strunk & White? Come now, Tufte can't be that bad.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archive s/001604.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archive s/000994.html

Strunk & White? Come now, Tufte can't be that bad.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archive s/001604.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archive s/000994.html

For Linux, rsync works quite well for the base OS (say, a staggered start time at night based on IP)

Is there an equivalent of Strunk & White for Slashdot postings, or does it just grate on your own senses to see monospace used for plain text? If the former, I'll reform

God, I hope not. Strunk & White is a ridiculous manual filled with nonsensical proscriptions that no good author in the history of the English language has ever obeyed. (In fact, if you read Language Log, you'll know that even Strunk and White themselves routinely neglected to follow their own advice.)

Strunk & White: Just Say No.

Here is a link to the project website (the paper is linked from there):

http://fuji.cis.upenn.edu/~gauravsh/jitterbug.html

BTW, the channel output doesn't depend on the user typing pattern. The average delay added for each keystroke is of the order of 10 ms. The paper has more details. It will work with any application where there is causal relationship between keyboard and network activity (incl. SSH).

There's a bit of a difference between modification over time and the complete reversal of meaning in this case, though.

"Literally" in the sense of "metaphorically" can be traced back to the 1760s, and futile prescriptivist whining about it can be traced back to the early 20th century (source). So given that this is an example of modification over time, how exactly is it different?

Apple interfaces are successful not because of customization. In fact, you're usually stuck with what they give you. However, they clearly put a lot of thought into usability. Those interfaces work because they're clean. I don't necessarily like the visual style, but I appreciate the simplicity.

Yeah, Apple's UI is wonderful, isn't it?

So intuitive. So clean and simple.

Let's be honest with ourselves here. Apple's UI sucks. It just sucks less than anybody else's; like democracy, it's the least worst idea anyone's come up with. But that doesn't make it perfect.

Either way, a state that practices official censorship of anything except for media that requires violence or fraud to be created, is a regime that directly or indirectly uses the threat of loss of life, liberty or property to silence others.
I agree, but you left the US off your list of countries. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not, but you did all the same. There are plenty of examples of banned media in the US which needed neither violence nor fraud to be created. You can read more here and here.

I love listening to arguments from engineers about language. It's funny. Here's some good reading about the thru/through type arguments from the language log, everyone's favorite linguistic blog. Their conclusion: seriously--it' ain't that wrong.

Yu shud bi shur tu rid this artikel on speling riform. It wil mayk yu laf, i hop.

2005: http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/
2004: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~plclub/contest/

If you want to see how well you might be able to do in this contest, check out previous problems and how other teams solved them.

Looks like this stuff is pretty accurate, but there appear to be several different types of deception:

Some visuals of the difference between "truth" and "deception" (page 2)
Another summary

Jean Gallier's Home Page

Worth checking out, he has made some of his books downloadable if anyone is interested.