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  1. This did not originate with Starbucks on Massives As Your Third Home · · Score: 1

    The sociological concept of a place separate from home and work was originated by Ray Oldburg, in The Great Good Place .

  2. Re:Stuck on .NET and Windows on Apple Pulls Out of India · · Score: 1

    If what you say is true, then yahoo! (a BSD shop) or Novell (most of Evolution is done out of Bangalore) wouldn't be here.

  3. Re:use a token on Users feel Password Rage · · Score: 1

    The diceware page shows you how to pick a secure passphrase.

    I use a quick and dirty method of just picking a likely looking string og x characters (x>8) from my last pgp-encrypted mail. I also sometimes interleave it with some 4-5 charcter string picked at whim from somewhere deep inside the expansion of pi or e.

  4. Re:(related) Hindustan Times advertising on Slashback: Boeing, Fraud, Fundage · · Score: 1

    Ads are served based on your IP.

  5. This story is a hoax! on India's ISPs Want Payola from Big Portals · · Score: 5, Informative

    See this comment from a list I run, by an office bearer of the ISP Association of India - the organisation which is supposedly behind this scheme.

    http://lists.vipul.net/pipermail/silklist/2002-J ul y/002003.html

    Looks like we have misquoting to thank for this "story".

  6. Re:Jeez Cliff... on Database QWK Readers? · · Score: 1

    Mea culpa, in terms of wording. Instead of 'not been able to find any', read 'not been able to find any sufficiently good ones'.

  7. Re:/me breaks his house walls... on Return Of the Lost Server · · Score: 1
    found on the buttload:

    "hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. "

    heh.

    digeratus!

  8. Blade Roc(k) on The Etymology Of NickNames? · · Score: 1

    I used to wear a blade in my ear in College (yeah, yeah, I know)

    So, ever since then, I've used bladerock or bladeroc as a nick, when I don't want to use my real name.

  9. Re:Whats the point? on Satellite Radio Coming Soon(?) · · Score: 1

    Well, it could take the place of difficult-to-build infrastructure in the countries within the footprint. See http://www.worldspace.com/ for one example, mostly in Asian and african countries to start with.

  10. Re:"Texting in Finland" on 'Texting' Takes Over The Philippines · · Score: 1

    I work for a company that makes a product called Unimobile that allows you to send text messages to essentially any text-enabled wireless deivice in the world. Over the past couple of months, usage numbers in the Philippines have exceeded those in the rest of Europe combined. Awesome.

  11. Re:Cocky on Our Attorney's Response To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Well, sure it's cocky. But I think it's quite solid, factually (IANAL, of course). And if you want *really* cocky, see this link, which is attorney Jim Tyre's response to Cybersitter trying to threaten peacefire.org in 1997. Hilarious!

  12. Re:Who's the librarian? on The Second Generation Internet · · Score: 1
    Speaking of librarians and freedom, you may be interested in this- a speech Bruce Sterling once gave to the association of research librarians on precisely this topic. Still topical, and still interesting.

  13. Re:Silly INS... tricks are for kids on Workers - Including Linus - Left in Limbo by INS · · Score: 1

    A record of the humiliation suffered by an unknown Indian. Nuff said.

    http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jan29/w ash.htm

  14. Re:India nees economic freedom more. on Why Linux Makes Sense for India · · Score: 1

    http://www.linux-india.org/

  15. Origin of GREP on Microsoft Plays Linux Games at Work · · Score: 2

    http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/grep. html

    [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p, where re stands for a regular expression, to
    Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to
    it, via Unix grep(1)]

  16. re: running out of OTP data on When Pretty Good Privacy Isn't Good Enough · · Score: 1

    there was a long-running recent thread on the cryptography mailing list about /dev/random which might be germane to this. See http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography%40c2.net/

  17. Re:"facts" on Evolution is a Myth in Kansas · · Score: 1

    I think the central issue here is not whether is not whether evolution is "right" or "wrong", as some people tend to think. It is that it is a representative of a worldview that is at least potentially self-correcting, as opposed to one that relied on revealed truth.

    Also see http://www.mrlizard.com/catgod.html for a refreshingly acidic view on this.

  18. The whole *trust* thing can be looked in terms of. on Open Source Summit Report · · Score: 1

    The Prisoner's Dilemma.

    http://www.spectacle.org/995/pd.html

    --

  19. Linux and India.. on 70,000 copies of Linux hit India · · Score: 1

    And it's not just the tech. Universities running Linux either - the network at the National Law School in Bangalore runs it (Slackware, I think, though that may have changed to RH 5.2 now)