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Pretty language, but what is he saying that he couldn't say in two sentences?

Yes, brevity and consise expression have their place. But so to detail, metaphor, and simile.

• Australiasia
  
  • Japan
    
    
  • ftp://ftp.netlab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/pub /XFree86
  • ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/X/XFree86
  
  
• Korea
  
  • ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/Linux/xfree86
  
  
• Australia
  
  • ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/XFree86
    
  • ftp://x.physics.usyd.edu.au/pub/XFree86
  
  

US

• ftp://phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov/pub/XFree86
  
• ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/X/XFree86
• ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/mirrors/x free86
• ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/XFr ee86
• ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/m irrors/xfree86
• ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/XFree86
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  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/xfree86
  
  

Europe

• Austria
  
  • ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/hci/X11/XFree86
    
    
  
  
• Finland
  • ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/X11/XFree86
• France
  • ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/X11/XFree86
  
  
• Germany
  • ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/xfree86/XFree86
    
  • ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/X/XFree86
• Italy
  • ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/XFree86
• Norway
  • ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/XFree86
  
  
• United Kingdom
  • ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/XFr ee86

Sydney University is currently using Linux (I don't know what distribution) as a teaching platform for CS students to learn OO programming. They are using BLUE with the compiler and IDE running under X to teach the basic principles. The default setup is using loadlin from a Windows desktop icon, which is a bit disgusting, but it is certainly encouraging use of an alternative language, and not just tying students to $VBC$ version of a compiler.

Its been said before and I'll say it again. Why arent there any private companies in the space race? Getting out there is cheaper than makin a movie, and the business models you could think up would be on another scale compared to most around now.

Take Buzz Aldrin's concept in Encounter with Tiber: promote a space flight among the elite jetset, and get investment money from them in return for reservations on the first flight. Once the first ship is built (just an upper atmosphere plane in Tiber) and supporting itself, move on to a bigger project. Repeat. Dont stop at Mars keep going.

I know it sux that this is extreme capitalism, but in this world + dimension its the fastest way we can achieve colonization of other planets, which IMO is the ultimate goal of space exploration.


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This leaves David Dawes and Brian Paul. Brian Paul wrote Mesa, and is thus hopefully praised for it among people more interested in 3D than me. David Dawes appears to be an "ordinary" XFree worker, who happened to be with the project from the start, and is still working on it in his spare time.

To me, this leaves David Dawes as the perfect candidate for this award. A person doing a lot work in his spare time for an important project, without getting a lot of credit. I.e. a hero that most of the free software developers can relate to.

Danny.

I think you have a valid concern for most parts of the world. However, I think GB does have a consistent record of violating their peoples rights for their saftey. One such saftey factor actually might make this a little bit better than the situation you describe above though... that is GB's TOUGH gun laws...

Here is some history.
Here is a pretty damn frightening article.
Here is some more interesting discussion.
Here is a chart.

definitely a hero, definitely unsung. he's been working on xfree86 for eight years. we all use X. although you'd really want to give the gong to all four founders of the project.

Keyword ratings just don't work. If you specify the keywords with too much detail, each web page becomes 10 K of keywords, and 1 K of content. If the list of keywords is not ridgidly fixed, you also end up with "the chicken problem", where a hard core sex site is rated the same as a cooking site, because the both have the keyword "breast". The fact that one of them refers to chicken breasts is not an issue to someone blocking keywords.

If you don't permit enough detail, then things which shouldn't get through do.

For a set of good examples of this, using RSAC to prove the point, see here, but specifically this link, which rates both Alex's Haley's Roots and a pornographic, racist novel using RSACi, and finds that they both have to be given almost the same rating.

Bradley

AFAIR, the legislation required that the censorship was "technically feasable". If studies like the ifilter one here are done on the proposed "approved" filters, could it be reasonable (even though reasonable has nothing to do with it) to show that the current stuff doesn't work?

A group of ISPs could then put a tender out for a "working" filtering program, but have a penalty clause if the program gets it wrong. If noone bids, then that proves that its unfeasable. If someone does bid, then someone makes lot of money....

Also, the article I read in Tuesday's Australian seemed to imply that the $5 charge was what they thought it would cost the user if an ISP bought the software in bulk. It still has to run on the subscriber's computer, which leads to the question of Linux, and other OSs...

Bradley

PS Why is this shown in the wrong day by slashdot? I didn't see this yesterday, and only 4 comments so far...

Well... the word 'binaries' itself is on the banned list ( here), so I guess that would be unnecessary. If they do decide to allow linux, it would have to be source-only distributions. Wonder what Microsoft will say about this.... :)

Ah well. Other horrible (and thus banned) words: mushroom. toys. leather. newsgroup. doom. web. shy. search. fist. glamour. beer. jenny...

Ouch. My head hurts.

it can be found here. they threw a dictionary through the filter... let me list a few of the more stunning ones...

adult
alcohol
amaretto
amateur
anarchy
anus
aryan
available
babe
banging
bangle
bare
bastard
beaver
beer
bikini
binaries
blonde
bloody
bomb
bottom
bra
bud
buxom
chat
cherry
chicks
cigar
circumcise
conception
condom
destined
doom
dynamite
enema
eros
escort
explosive
fantasies
fist
flesh
fondle
free
frigid
geisha
gin
girlie
girls
glamour
gothic
grenade
gun
hack
hacker
heroine [no more female heros?]
hole
homo
incest
intercourse
jenny [???]
kill
killer
kissing
klan
klux
knights [???]
knives
ku
latex
leather
lesbian
lingerie
liquor
lover

well, you get the picture... it's f***ing outrageous.


)O(
the Gods have a sense of humor,

Here's a URL. But it's kinda'big, I doubt it will fit in your sig :) Fun to read, though.

Try this link for a list of words that did not pass the filter.

Scary shit, huh?

Danny.

Danny.