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Slashback: Regionalism, Rivalry, Zensur
Even the Gates family probably hates being ripped off by region coding. jmcmurry writes: "I just tried out my daughters Winnie The Pooh from Poland, which can only be played (until today) on my Mac Cube running OS X (I did the region free crack when running OS 9). I own an Xbox with DVD player and thought, hey wouldnt hurt to try it out, since I was in the market to buy a Region Free DVD player (which can cost $400 an up) I plugged everything in, put the DVD in, and lo and behold, it plays the DVD from Poland (region code 2) This makes up for the cost of the Xbox ..."
Nein! Nein! Speaking of things that do (or don't) work by region, several readers submitted information which indicates the pooh-poohing of alleged censorship-by-DNS manipulation in Germany's state of Nordrhein-Westfalen was premature. It turns out that some interesting redirects which seemed to be a technical error or a misguided proof-of-concept, and which were quickly turned off, were reinstated shortly thereafter.
Thorsten Hornung was among the several to write on this topic. "Meanwhile ISIS has reblocked the sites, as Heise online reported (German!) due to pressure from the president of the local Government Mr. Büssow.
The local government of Düsseldorf which is responible for media services in North Rhine-Westphalia has posted a statement on its site (German) about the initial lift of the blockade saying that it believes the censoring meassures have been lifted due to complaints by users. Much worse is that furthermore public accuse people complaining about the censorship to be Right Extremists: 'The local government believes, due to the content of many emails it received today, that they [People Complaining] are users of Right Extremist Internet Content.'
The German Constitution (Grundgesetz) does not allow censorship however there are some restrictions on free speech especially regarding Nazi propaganda."
Winners sometimes use Gnomes. Prashant writes: "Cygwin is turning out to be a breeze of fresh air for people stuck on windows for one reason or another. I can use the familiar bash shell on any platform(win, *nix) I am on, and don't have to deal with the DOS prompt. I use all the gnu tools from cygwin distro. rcs, cvs, vim, perl, python, ruby, apache the list goes on. Not only that, I successfully ran postgresql on Cygwin. The XFree86 port of Cygwin itself can be huge cost saving over commercial X-servers for Windows. I have tried KDE on Cygwin version 1.1.2. I was impressed with it. Here is something new: GNOME ported to Cygwin as well. Let the rivalry ontinue on Windows.
It's all about having options. I would love be 100% Linux user but again sometimes it's not you who decides what os runs on your machine. So till Windows gets replaced by Linux by the authorities, happy cygwining."
This addition brought to you by ... Solar Power! basfromasd writes "The winner of the 3000 km World Solar Challenge race from Darwin to Adelaide has reached the finish in a record breaking time. The winning car, Nuna, was built by the Alpha Centauri team, consisting of 10 university students of TU Delft and University of Amsterdam. Some technical details can be found at their site and at ESA. Results and pictures of the race are at the Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering of UNSW website. Well done for a first time contestant, showing that skill and intelligence can match the resources of factory sponsored teams. They found some good sponsors though: GaAs solar cells are not cheap. Neither are Li-Ion batteries. Some of the solar cells were used in the Hubble Space Telescope before and brought back to earth in 1993. The other cars did not make it before today's curfew. The runner up, Aurora, stopped just outside of Adelaide for the night and is expected to finish tomorrow morning."
For me to poop on!
FP?
I am a republican not by choice, but rather by lack there of.
I heard somewhere that Bill himself visits /., so I can understand your decision to post anonymously...
 
How can I keep from soiling myself in indignation every time I hear the French referred to as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys"?
Signed,
Francois P.
P.S. Quebec is WAY more annoying than France, NOT the other way around!
(you know, in case someone out there didn't get the joke the first time -- this IS
Dude, is that penis page the real thing? That's hilarious, and not in a haha way, but in a wow, that's sad and I hope he kills himself publicly way.
You know, this is turning into the ultimate Karma Whore post subject.
"Now how long until we can get {Linux, Mame, blah, etc} running on Xbox".
Takes 10 seconds to think up, and always gets you a +1. I think I'll start doing this, so I can slowly amass +50 and use it to bring my ultimate troll into the limelight.
In the first few days after September 11, Lisa
Beamer could not sleep for more than an hour. Then she would
wake up and cry. She worried about the boys, David, 3, and Drew,
19 months, and the new baby due in January. David wanted to
know why, if their father loved them so much, he had gone to be
with Jesus. And there was that one nagging question. Why had her
husband, a man so attached to his cell phone that Lisa had to
confiscate it when they went on vacation, not called her from the
plane? Other passengers had called home from Flight 93 to say
goodbye and talk to their loved ones. Why not Todd?
Do your research before you start making fun of someone. "knows" [dictionary.com] is a word and he used it correctly.
You won't find grammar rules in most dictionaries. Apparently your English is not any better.