That's partly why petition lists are frequently made public, so those who are documented as having signed a petition have the ability to say "um, no, I didn't sign that". It's a sad side effect that such information can (and sometimes is) misused by people from "the other side of the issue" to harass or pillory signers.
Did you ever thing for a second that the anti-gay marriage “forces” will not harass pro-gay marriage???
The political process is public, so anyone should live with the consequences of their political choices.
It is and always has been about money. Do you actually think government, states, hospitals, or any company cares if one is gay or straight? It boils down to money. It was believed that homosexual people were more likely to catch/pass on certain diseases. That is when the rules were set. Prove that this is not true and those rules may change. One has to prove that the lifestyle of people who are gay carries no higher risk then those that are straight. Prove that for all and this issue will go away.
Religion is a separate issue. There is supposed to be a separation of 'church' and state in the US. And church can be what ever your religion is. One can still get married and not have to go to a 'church' to make it happen.
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
It’s all about religion. And control.
Religion forbids homosexuality because it robs them of fresh kids to indoctrinate and to swamp the other tribes with.
It’s about control, too: religion forbids homosexuality because gay men can have all the sex they want without having to contend with headaches nor birth control, and thus make compromises so the wife consents to be fucked. Someone who is not accustomed to make compromises because his sex partner is always willing will be harder to control.
“Certain diseases gay people have” is only a very recent phenomenon for which technology exists to address.
The same comment goes for masturbation: one can jerk-off any time he wants for instant sexual gratification. There is no need for someone else, and thus even less compromise than with homosexual intercourse.
Religion has had thousands of years to rot our brains; any society has a hard time to get rid of it.
And why, pray tell, haven't the kids learned this critical thinking in high school?
Because they would constantly criticize their parents, their teachers, then their bosses and authority (the police) in general.
Up here, the police institute (a **SINGLE** school where **ALL** future cops must go through, the idea is to avoid the embarrassments cops elsewhere in North America are known for) has recently changed it's curricula, because police chiefs are complaining that their new recruits will not blindingly obey orders, but will discuss them.
This is why schools don't teach critical thinking, they would be torn to scheds by the “elite”
In the west from 1900-1980ish the ugliest forms of ideology; Marxism, Facism, Eugenics, Totalitarianism were at one stage or another broadly and openly supported and advocated for by student bodies, senior faculty and universities in the west. Unapologetic support for the methods and madness of Mao, Lenin, Stalin, and yes - even Hitler (in the '20s and '30s before it became a faux pas to support him) accompanied loving gazes and embarrassing wistful looks over to Russia and China.
This only hapenned because those regime had big propaganda machines, and their totalitarianism enabled them to effectively suppress news of their atrocities from reaching those apologetic intellectuals.
The solution is simple. The second someone from border control looks at you funny, rip the SD card from your device and swallow it. They'll be SO confused when they finally recover an SD card with a dozen pictures of scenery.
This is just like what a friend who lives in Paris used to do with subway fare inspectors (over there, they can ask for your ticket at any time). Whenever their gang sees a bunch of fare inspectors, one starts to run, and, of course, the inspectors go after him and ignore the rest of the gang. Whenever they catch him, they ask "your ticket, please", and he shows them as a matter of course.
Meanwhile, the rest of the gang that cheated is far away...
it also qualifies TI for perjury charges for deliberately making a false DMCA claim---not that any attorney general will actually have the guts to make an example of them....
(reposted - darn default HTML posting)... but obfuscated to fool search engines and snooping lawyers. Just replace the "[roman numeral]" by the proper "arab numeral". The letters of hex numbers are left the same.
This are the OS signing keys for different Texas Instruments calculators. The key for the TI-[VIII][III] calculator was first published by someone at the unitedti.org forum in this message: http://www.unitedti.org/index.php?showtopic=%5BVIII%5D%5BVIII%5D%5BVIII%5D%5BVIII%5D. He or she needed several months to crack it. The other keys were found after a few weeks by the unitedti.org community through a distributed computing project. The keys make it possible to sign your own operating system for the Texas Instruments calculators.
Texas Instruments now contacted several people with a DMCA notice to take down the keys from their websites. Some of the websites which got a DMCA notice are: unitedti.org, brandonw.net and reddit.com. One of these DCMA notices can be found here: http://brandonw.net/calcstuff/DMCA_notice.txt
...but obfuscated to thwart search engines.
Just replace "[roman numeral]" by "arab numeral" (from 0 to 9 - the rest of hex numbers are unmolested).
This are the OS signing keys for different Texas Instruments calculators. The key for the TI-[VIII][III] calculator was first published by someone at the unitedti.org forum in this message: http://www.unitedti.org/index.php?showtopic=%5BVIII%5D%5BVIII%5D%5BVIII%5D%5BVIII%5D. He or she needed several months to crack it. The other keys were found after a few weeks by the unitedti.org community through a distributed computing project. The keys make it possible to sign your own operating system for the Texas Instruments calculators.
Texas Instruments now contacted several people with a DMCA notice to take down the keys from their websites. Some of the websites which got a DMCA notice are: unitedti.org, brandonw.net and reddit.com. One of these DCMA notices can be found here: http://brandonw.net/calcstuff/DMCA_notice.txt
Here are the three keys:
TI-[VIII][III] (Plus):
n=[VIII][II]EF[IV]00[IX]ED[VII]CAC[II]A[V]EE[I][II]B[V]F[VIII]E[VIII]AD[IX]A0
AB[IX]CC[IX]F[IV]F[III]E[IV][IV]B[VII]E[VIII]BF[II]D[V][VII]A[II]F[II]BEACE
[VIII][III][IV][II][IV]E[I]CFF0D[II]A[V]A[VII]E[II]E[V][III]CB[IX][II][VI]D[VI][I]F[III]
[IV][VII]DFAA[IV]B[III][V]B[II]0[V]B[V][VIII][VIII][I]CEB[IV]0B[III][II][VIII]E[V][VIII]F
p=B[VII]0[IX]D[III]A0CD[II]FEC0[VIII]EAFCCF[V][IV]0D[VIII]A[I]00BB[III][VIII]E[V]E0[IX][I]D[VI][IV][VI]ADB[VII]B[I][IV]D0[II][I]0[IX][VI]FFCD
q=B[VII][II]0[VII]BD[I][VIII][IV]E0B[V]A0B[VIII][IX][VIII][III][II]AA[VI][VIII][VIII][IV][IX]B[II][IX]EDFB0[III]FBA[II]E[VIII][IX][I][VII]B[I][VII][VI][V]0[IV]F0[VIII]A[IX][VI][II][IV][VI]CB
d=[IV]D0[V][III][IV]BA[VIII]BB[II]BFA0[VII][IV]0BFB[VI][V][VI][II]E[VIII][IV][III]C[VII]
EC[VII]A[V][VIII]AE[III][V][I]CE[I][I]D[IV][III][IV][III][VIII]CA[II][III][IX]DD[IX][IX][II][VII]
[VI]CD[I][II][V]FEBAEE[V]D[II][VI][IX][VI][V][VII][IX]FA[III]A[III][IX][V][VIII]FF[IV]FC[V][IV]C[VI][VIII][V]EAA[IX][I][VII][II][III]BC[VIII][VIII][VIII][VIII]F[II][IX][II][IX][IV][VII]BA[I]
e=[I][I]
TI-[VIII][IV] (Plus):
prp[VII][VII] factor: [VI][VII]0[VII]0[V]0[VIII][IX][IX]0[V][III][VII][I][VIII][I]0[VI][VI][III][IV][II][VII]0[VII][VI][IX][V][VI]0[III]0[V]0[V][II][I][III][II][IV][V][II][IV][VI][I][III][VIII][VII][IV][III][III][I][VIII][VII][IX][II][V][IX][VIII][VIII][I][IV][IX][V][VIII][II][VI][IV][IX][III][IX][II]0[V][VIII][IX]
prp[VII][VIII] factor: [I][VIII][VI][IX][II][III][VII][VII][I][II]00[VII][I][I][II][VIII][IV][VII][VII]0[III][VI][VIII]0[IV][I][V][VII][II][II]0[V][III][II]0[IV][VIII][VI][III][IV][VI][VIII][I][VI][IV][VII][VI][V][II][IV][III][IV]0[II][IV]0[II][II]0[IX][VI][II][IV][VI][VII][VIII][VI]0[V][VI][VIII][VIII][V][IX][III][VIII][I]
n=EF[V]FEF0B0AB[VI]E[II][II][VII][III][I]C[I][VII][V][III][IX][VI][V][VIII]B[II]E[IX][I]E[V][III]A[V][IX]BF[VIII]E00FCC[VIII][I]D0[V][VII][V][VIII]F[II][VI]C[I][VII][IX][I]CD[III][V]AF[VI][I]0[I]B[I]E[III][V]
[IV][III]AC[III]E[VII][VIII]FD[VIII]BB[VIII]F[III][VII]FC[VIII]FE[VIII][V][VI]0[I]C[V]0[II]EABC[IX][I][III][II]CEAD[IV][VII][I][I]CB[I]
p=[IX][IV][IV][VIII][IX]0[I][IV]C[VI][III]CC[IX]E[I]E[I]ADB[I][IX][II]DBBDD[I]F[VII][VIII]F[IX]0A[VI][III]0DA[IX]C[VIII][VI]EFC[IV]CBCA[IV][IV]E[V]B[IV]D[V][IV]D
q=[I][IX]D[IV][III][I]AF[II][VII][IX][IV][II][II][IX][VI][II]0B[VIII][VIII][IV]E[III][VII][V]0D[VI][II][II]D[I]C[VII][IV]F[II]E[IV][V][VI][IX]DC[I][V][IV][VIII][VI]FC[VIII]D[V]A[III]BCDFE[II]F[V]
d=[II]A[III]E[I]B[II]0[I]0F[III][I][VIII]D[IX]BD[VII]C[VII]E[I][IX][III]00[IX][VIII]0B0[V][V]A0E[II]A[IX][V][V][IV]B[VII][VII]E[VII][I][IV][II]E[II][III]CDF[VII]C[VII]CA[I][III]C[II][III][III]A[III]D[IV][VI][II]FDFC
[IX][VI][VIII]B[I]F[IX]CEAF[II]AC[II]CF[III]0[V][I][IV][VII][IX][IX][II]AD[IX]E[VIII][III][IV][I][IX][II]ACEBB[V][I][VII]DB[IX][IX][IV][I]
e=[I][I]
TI-[VIII][IX]:
prp[VII][VI] factor: [II][II][III][I][I][II][IV][V][II][V][VI][III][VII][VI][II][IX][IV][IV][III][I]
Quarterly reports are the stuff of business. In most people's minds, they are as far from the spirit of free and open source software (FOSS) as anyone can imagine. All the same, as non-profit organizations, many FOSS projects issue them. And while your first reaction may be to avoid quarterly reports, they can give some insights into projects, especially if you read between the lines.
For instance, if you have been assuming, as I have, that GNOME has more corporate support than KDE, and a larger budget, a look at the latest report for GNOME and KDE may surprise you. Together, the two reports give an entirely different impression than you might assume.
Neither quarterly report has much in common with the glossy publications offered by multi-national publications. Both are PDF files with undistinguished layouts and a minimum of graphics. Even head shots of people mentioned or reporting are absent. Compared to corporate reports, those of both GNOME and KDE are practical, unadorned publications.
Of the two, GNOME's (its first, covering June, July, and August 2009) comes closest to the spirit of a corporate report. It includes not only the obligatory message from GNOME's executive directory, but also reports from the Release, Bugsquad, Marketing, Web, Usability, Accessibility, Documentation, Art and Localizations Teams. Although some of these reports were outdated by the time the report was released, their overall impression is of a multi-tiered multi-national's executives reporting in. In general, the report fits in well with GNOME's traditional tendency to favor the corporate side and with its recent interest in marketing. Like most quarterly reports, it is as much a public relations document as an effort to provide concrete information (although it does both). The one non-corporate note is at the beginning, when executive director Stormy Peters asks readers, "please let us know if you find it useful!"
In comparison, KDE's report for March through June 2009 is less than one quarter the size of GNOME's. Although it includes the usual redundant introduction -- this time by Aaron Seigo, it contains far fewer individual summaries from GNOME's report. These differences may reflect the greater experience that KDE e.V. -- the German non-profit that manages KDE -- has with the whole idea of reports, and has the advantage that it is more likely to be read completely. At the same time, because it is so short, the KDE report seems less corporate, an impression that is fitting for the project's more community-based orientation.
Beyond these general impressions, what is most interesting is the financial accounting in the reports. The two reports are not strictly comparable, given that many FOSS activities occur in the northern hemisphere's summer rather than spring. Nor is it always obvious in either report what falls under each line item. Still, some differences emerge.
For instance, GNOME lists an income of just over $102,000 for the quarter covered by its report. This income includes $65,000 from the Desktop Summit, $20,000 from "advisory board fees" (which I interpret mainly as donations from corporate sponsors), and $12,400 collected by the Friends of GNOME, a promotional and fund-raising project.
Omitting the Desktop Summit as a one-time source of income, these figures mean that GNOME has traditionally relied on corporate supporters. Corporate supporters continue to provide the bulk of GNOME's income, but the total from Friends of GNOME suggests that GNOME may be switching to a more community-based source of income. However, given that GNOME reported an approximate income of $54,000 per quarter in 2008 (ht
He's pretty much only reviled in Western Canada- and there was more than enough assholeish behavior on both sides of that relationship to go around.
He is absolutely despised and hated in Québec, which he continuously belittled and paternalized. His repatriation of the constitution without Québec's assent was the biggest affront to Québec, and the charter of rights was directly aimed against Québec's language laws.
Here is the guy's e-mail address: awillaert@afm.org. Make sure to use it wisely...
(Here is what I sent him:
Sir,
We have been informed that you had the incredible gall of demanding an apology for an NDP member of parliament distributing a pamphlet promoting FAIR copyright.
Obviously, you have absolutely no clue as what the NDP is. The NDP is not an american media industry shill, but a political party dedicaced for the needs of the public.
We, the canadian public, will make sure that a truly balanced copyright act pass, a copyright act that will not solely cater to the whims of companies engaged in an outdated business model and who want absolute total control over the material it produces.
Copyright always has been a matter of balance between the rights of authors and of the consuming public. By removing all the rights of the public and effectively creating a nation of criminals, the government would break the social contract that have existed for centuries between the people and government.
By demanding ridiculously onerous copyright protection, the media industry acts like it was everything. It is not. After all, it's nothing but a bunch of public entertainers, and not something on which national security depends.
Do not take for granted the desiderata of the (mostly foreign) copyright industry (for which you are a paid shill); after all, just like the previous two attempts, a federal election is looming, which will render useless any lobbying efforts p
To use them, you just need to note the parking spot number, then walk to the nearby pay station in which you key-in the spot number and pay (they take credit and bank cards) for the duration you plan to park. You get a receipt which you don’t need to put on your dashboard; the parking spot and duration is sent to a central server.
Parking enforcement agents (the legendary “green onions”) then are told by a hand-held computer which spots haven't been paid or are expired when they do their rounds. The computer only needs to be told the license plate number, and it prints the whole parking ticket automagically without subjecting the green onion to the risk of writer’s cramp (unfortunately, he still has to get out of his car and put it under the wipers).
I think it's hard to beat death by locomotive for unusabilitification...
I have a friend whose brother is a locomotive engineer, so whenever I have a bunch of drives to destroy, we head for the railroad yard when the brother works the night shift (no bosses at that time), and we merrily lay down the drives on the track, and the brother brings along his engine we watch the crunch crunch crunch crunch action. His brother can enjoy the action too, as the engines are remote controlled (like toy cars)...
My first workstation was named tangent (after myself!)
My second workstation was named sine, followed by cosine, secant, cosecant and cotangent.
I got stuck for a while before I decided to go with arctangent, arcsine, etc but that didn't last
LOL!
I once run into a guy named “Marc” whose station was named “Marcellino“. Why the discrepancy, I asked???
It came so because his first worstation was named “marc”, then his second “marcel”, then his third “marcellin” (all valid french names) and you can guess now that he is at his fourth workstation.
Needless to say, he now has reached the end-of-life for his naming scheme
You get what you pay for. If you can’t pony-up the cash for hiring a competent administrator, well, you have to bear having remote administration done to your rig.
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Did you ever thing for a second that the anti-gay marriage “forces” will not harass pro-gay marriage???
The political process is public, so anyone should live with the consequences of their political choices.
(I almost made a typo: I initially forgot the "n" in "fundies"...)
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
It’s all about religion. And control.
Religion forbids homosexuality because it robs them of fresh kids to indoctrinate and to swamp the other tribes with.
It’s about control, too: religion forbids homosexuality because gay men can have all the sex they want without having to contend with headaches nor birth control, and thus make compromises so the wife consents to be fucked. Someone who is not accustomed to make compromises because his sex partner is always willing will be harder to control.
“Certain diseases gay people have” is only a very recent phenomenon for which technology exists to address.
The same comment goes for masturbation: one can jerk-off any time he wants for instant sexual gratification. There is no need for someone else, and thus even less compromise than with homosexual intercourse.
Religion has had thousands of years to rot our brains; any society has a hard time to get rid of it.
Because they would constantly criticize their parents, their teachers, then their bosses and authority (the police) in general.
Up here, the police institute (a **SINGLE** school where **ALL** future cops must go through, the idea is to avoid the embarrassments cops elsewhere in North America are known for) has recently changed it's curricula, because police chiefs are complaining that their new recruits will not blindingly obey orders, but will discuss them.
This is why schools don't teach critical thinking, they would be torn to scheds by the “elite”
When the richest people make the most money by pushing buttons to move virtual pieces of paper, can you really blame them???
This only hapenned because those regime had big propaganda machines, and their totalitarianism enabled them to effectively suppress news of their atrocities from reaching those apologetic intellectuals.
Forty-two?
This is just like what a friend who lives in Paris used to do with subway fare inspectors (over there, they can ask for your ticket at any time). Whenever their gang sees a bunch of fare inspectors, one starts to run, and, of course, the inspectors go after him and ignore the rest of the gang. Whenever they catch him, they ask "your ticket, please", and he shows them as a matter of course.
Meanwhile, the rest of the gang that cheated is far away...
You're in Texas there, boy.
(reposted - darn default HTML posting) ... but obfuscated to fool search engines and snooping lawyers. Just replace the "[roman numeral]" by the proper "arab numeral". The letters of hex numbers are left the same.
This are the OS signing keys for different Texas Instruments calculators. The key for the TI-[VIII][III] calculator was first published by someone at the unitedti.org forum in this message: http://www.unitedti.org/index.php?showtopic=%5BVIII%5D%5BVIII%5D%5BVIII%5D%5BVIII%5D. He or she needed several months to crack it. The other keys were found after a few weeks by the unitedti.org community through a distributed computing project. The keys make it possible to sign your own operating system for the Texas Instruments calculators.
Texas Instruments now contacted several people with a DMCA notice to take down the keys from their websites. Some of the websites which got a DMCA notice are: unitedti.org, brandonw.net and reddit.com. One of these DCMA notices can be found here: http://brandonw.net/calcstuff/DMCA_notice.txt
Here are the three keys:
TI-[VIII][III] (Plus):
n=[VIII][II]EF[IV]00[IX]ED[VII]CAC[II]A[V]EE[I][II]B[V]F[VIII]E[VIII]AD[IX]A0
AB[IX]CC[IX]F[IV]F[III]E[IV][IV]B[VII]E[VIII]BF[II]D[V][VII]A[II]F[II]BEACE
[VIII][III][IV][II][IV]E[I]CFF0D[II]A[V]A[VII]E[II]E[V][III]CB[IX][II][VI]D[VI][I]F[III]
[IV][VII]DFAA[IV]B[III][V]B[II]0[V]B[V][VIII][VIII][I]CEB[IV]0B[III][II][VIII]E[V][VIII]F
p=B[VII]0[IX]D[III]A0CD[II]FEC0[VIII]EAFCCF[V][IV]0D[VIII]A[I]00BB[III][VIII]E[V]E0[IX][I]D[VI][IV][VI]ADB[VII]B[I][IV]D0[II][I]0[IX][VI]FFCD
q=B[VII][II]0[VII]BD[I][VIII][IV]E0B[V]A0B[VIII][IX][VIII][III][II]AA[VI][VIII][VIII][IV][IX]B[II][IX]EDFB0[III]FBA[II]E[VIII][IX][I][VII]B[I][VII][VI][V]0[IV]F0[VIII]A[IX][VI][II][IV][VI]CB
d=[IV]D0[V][III][IV]BA[VIII]BB[II]BFA0[VII][IV]0BFB[VI][V][VI][II]E[VIII][IV][III]C[VII]
EC[VII]A[V][VIII]AE[III][V][I]CE[I][I]D[IV][III][IV][III][VIII]CA[II][III][IX]DD[IX][IX][II][VII]
[VI]CD[I][II][V]FEBAEE[V]D[II][VI][IX][VI][V][VII][IX]FA[III]A[III][IX][V][VIII]FF[IV]FC[V][IV]C[VI][VIII][V]EAA[IX][I][VII][II][III]BC[VIII][VIII][VIII][VIII]F[II][IX][II][IX][IV][VII]BA[I]
e=[I][I]
TI-[VIII][IV] (Plus):
prp[VII][VII] factor: [VI][VII]0[VII]0[V]0[VIII][IX][IX]0[V][III][VII][I][VIII][I]0[VI][VI][III][IV][II][VII]0[VII][VI][IX][V][VI]0[III]0[V]0[V][II][I][III][II][IV][V][II][IV][VI][I][III][VIII][VII][IV][III][III][I][VIII][VII][IX][II][V][IX][VIII][VIII][I][IV][IX][V][VIII][II][VI][IV][IX][III][IX][II]0[V][VIII][IX]
prp[VII][VIII] factor: [I][VIII][VI][IX][II][III][VII][VII][I][II]00[VII][I][I][II][VIII][IV][VII][VII]0[III][VI][VIII]0[IV][I][V][VII][II][II]0[V][III][II]0[IV][VIII][VI][III][IV][VI][VIII][I][VI][IV][VII][VI][V][II][IV][III][IV]0[II][IV]0[II][II]0[IX][VI][II][IV][VI][VII][VIII][VI]0[V][VI][VIII][VIII][V][IX][III][VIII][I]
n=EF[V]FEF0B0AB[VI]E[II][II][VII][III][I]C[I][VII][V][III][IX][VI][V][VIII]B[II]E[IX][I]E[V][III]A[V][IX]BF[VIII]E00FCC[VIII][I]D0[V][VII][V][VIII]F[II][VI]C[I][VII][IX][I]CD[III][V]AF[VI][I]0[I]B[I]E[III][V]
[IV][III]AC[III]E[VII][VIII]FD[VIII]BB[VIII]F[III][VII]FC[VIII]FE[VIII][V][VI]0[I]C[V]0[II]EABC[IX][I][III][II]CEAD[IV][VII][I][I]CB[I]
p=[IX][IV][IV][VIII][IX]0[I][IV]C[VI][III]CC[IX]E[I]E[I]ADB[I][IX][II]DBBDD[I]F[VII][VIII]F[IX]0A[VI][III]0DA[IX]C[VIII][VI]EFC[IV]CBCA[IV][IV]E[V]B[IV]D[V][IV]D
q=[I][IX]D[IV][III][I]AF[II][VII][IX][IV][II][II][IX][VI][II]0B[VIII][VIII][IV]E[III][VII][V]0D[VI][II][II]D[I]C[VII][IV]F[II]E[IV][V][VI][IX]DC[I][V][IV][VIII][VI]FC[VIII]D[V]A[III]BCDFE[II]F[V]
d=[II]A[III]E[I]B[II]0[I]0F[III][I][VIII]D[IX]BD[VII]C[VII]E[I][IX][III]00[IX][VIII]0B0[V][V]A0E[II]A[IX][V][V][IV]B[VII][VII]E[VII][I][IV][II]E[II][III]CDF[VII]C[VII]CA[I][III]C[II][III][III]A[III]D[IV][VI][II]FDFC
[IX][VI][VIII]B[I]F[IX]CEAF[II]AC[II]CF[III]0[V][I][IV][VII][IX][IX][II]AD[IX]E[VIII][III][IV][I
...but obfuscated to thwart search engines. Just replace "[roman numeral]" by "arab numeral" (from 0 to 9 - the rest of hex numbers are unmolested). This are the OS signing keys for different Texas Instruments calculators. The key for the TI-[VIII][III] calculator was first published by someone at the unitedti.org forum in this message: http://www.unitedti.org/index.php?showtopic=%5BVIII%5D%5BVIII%5D%5BVIII%5D%5BVIII%5D. He or she needed several months to crack it. The other keys were found after a few weeks by the unitedti.org community through a distributed computing project. The keys make it possible to sign your own operating system for the Texas Instruments calculators. Texas Instruments now contacted several people with a DMCA notice to take down the keys from their websites. Some of the websites which got a DMCA notice are: unitedti.org, brandonw.net and reddit.com. One of these DCMA notices can be found here: http://brandonw.net/calcstuff/DMCA_notice.txt Here are the three keys: TI-[VIII][III] (Plus): n=[VIII][II]EF[IV]00[IX]ED[VII]CAC[II]A[V]EE[I][II]B[V]F[VIII]E[VIII]AD[IX]A0 AB[IX]CC[IX]F[IV]F[III]E[IV][IV]B[VII]E[VIII]BF[II]D[V][VII]A[II]F[II]BEACE [VIII][III][IV][II][IV]E[I]CFF0D[II]A[V]A[VII]E[II]E[V][III]CB[IX][II][VI]D[VI][I]F[III] [IV][VII]DFAA[IV]B[III][V]B[II]0[V]B[V][VIII][VIII][I]CEB[IV]0B[III][II][VIII]E[V][VIII]F p=B[VII]0[IX]D[III]A0CD[II]FEC0[VIII]EAFCCF[V][IV]0D[VIII]A[I]00BB[III][VIII]E[V]E0[IX][I]D[VI][IV][VI]ADB[VII]B[I][IV]D0[II][I]0[IX][VI]FFCD q=B[VII][II]0[VII]BD[I][VIII][IV]E0B[V]A0B[VIII][IX][VIII][III][II]AA[VI][VIII][VIII][IV][IX]B[II][IX]EDFB0[III]FBA[II]E[VIII][IX][I][VII]B[I][VII][VI][V]0[IV]F0[VIII]A[IX][VI][II][IV][VI]CB d=[IV]D0[V][III][IV]BA[VIII]BB[II]BFA0[VII][IV]0BFB[VI][V][VI][II]E[VIII][IV][III]C[VII] EC[VII]A[V][VIII]AE[III][V][I]CE[I][I]D[IV][III][IV][III][VIII]CA[II][III][IX]DD[IX][IX][II][VII] [VI]CD[I][II][V]FEBAEE[V]D[II][VI][IX][VI][V][VII][IX]FA[III]A[III][IX][V][VIII]FF[IV]FC[V][IV]C[VI][VIII][V]EAA[IX][I][VII][II][III]BC[VIII][VIII][VIII][VIII]F[II][IX][II][IX][IV][VII]BA[I] e=[I][I] TI-[VIII][IV] (Plus): prp[VII][VII] factor: [VI][VII]0[VII]0[V]0[VIII][IX][IX]0[V][III][VII][I][VIII][I]0[VI][VI][III][IV][II][VII]0[VII][VI][IX][V][VI]0[III]0[V]0[V][II][I][III][II][IV][V][II][IV][VI][I][III][VIII][VII][IV][III][III][I][VIII][VII][IX][II][V][IX][VIII][VIII][I][IV][IX][V][VIII][II][VI][IV][IX][III][IX][II]0[V][VIII][IX] prp[VII][VIII] factor: [I][VIII][VI][IX][II][III][VII][VII][I][II]00[VII][I][I][II][VIII][IV][VII][VII]0[III][VI][VIII]0[IV][I][V][VII][II][II]0[V][III][II]0[IV][VIII][VI][III][IV][VI][VIII][I][VI][IV][VII][VI][V][II][IV][III][IV]0[II][IV]0[II][II]0[IX][VI][II][IV][VI][VII][VIII][VI]0[V][VI][VIII][VIII][V][IX][III][VIII][I] n=EF[V]FEF0B0AB[VI]E[II][II][VII][III][I]C[I][VII][V][III][IX][VI][V][VIII]B[II]E[IX][I]E[V][III]A[V][IX]BF[VIII]E00FCC[VIII][I]D0[V][VII][V][VIII]F[II][VI]C[I][VII][IX][I]CD[III][V]AF[VI][I]0[I]B[I]E[III][V] [IV][III]AC[III]E[VII][VIII]FD[VIII]BB[VIII]F[III][VII]FC[VIII]FE[VIII][V][VI]0[I]C[V]0[II]EABC[IX][I][III][II]CEAD[IV][VII][I][I]CB[I] p=[IX][IV][IV][VIII][IX]0[I][IV]C[VI][III]CC[IX]E[I]E[I]ADB[I][IX][II]DBBDD[I]F[VII][VIII]F[IX]0A[VI][III]0DA[IX]C[VIII][VI]EFC[IV]CBCA[IV][IV]E[V]B[IV]D[V][IV]D q=[I][IX]D[IV][III][I]AF[II][VII][IX][IV][II][II][IX][VI][II]0B[VIII][VIII][IV]E[III][VII][V]0D[VI][II][II]D[I]C[VII][IV]F[II]E[IV][V][VI][IX]DC[I][V][IV][VIII][VI]FC[VIII]D[V]A[III]BCDFE[II]F[V] d=[II]A[III]E[I]B[II]0[I]0F[III][I][VIII]D[IX]BD[VII]C[VII]E[I][IX][III]00[IX][VIII]0B0[V][V]A0E[II]A[IX][V][V][IV]B[VII][VII]E[VII][I][IV][II]E[II][III]CDF[VII]C[VII]CA[I][III]C[II][III][III]A[III]D[IV][VI][II]FDFC [IX][VI][VIII]B[I]F[IX]CEAF[II]AC[II]CF[III]0[V][I][IV][VII][IX][IX][II]AD[IX]E[VIII][III][IV][I][IX][II]ACEBB[V][I][VII]DB[IX][IX][IV][I] e=[I][I] TI-[VIII][IX]: prp[VII][VI] factor: [II][II][III][I][I][II][IV][V][II][V][VI][III][VII][VI][II][IX][IV][IV][III][I]
Criminals are stupid.
How GNOME and KDE spend their money
Sep 16, 2009 10:20pm GMT
Bruce Byfield
Quarterly reports are the stuff of business. In most people's minds, they are as far from the spirit of free and open source software (FOSS) as anyone can imagine. All the same, as non-profit organizations, many FOSS projects issue them. And while your first reaction may be to avoid quarterly reports, they can give some insights into projects, especially if you read between the lines.
For instance, if you have been assuming, as I have, that GNOME has more corporate support than KDE, and a larger budget, a look at the latest report for GNOME and KDE may surprise you. Together, the two reports give an entirely different impression than you might assume.
Neither quarterly report has much in common with the glossy publications offered by multi-national publications. Both are PDF files with undistinguished layouts and a minimum of graphics. Even head shots of people mentioned or reporting are absent. Compared to corporate reports, those of both GNOME and KDE are practical, unadorned publications.
Of the two, GNOME's (its first, covering June, July, and August 2009) comes closest to the spirit of a corporate report. It includes not only the obligatory message from GNOME's executive directory, but also reports from the Release, Bugsquad, Marketing, Web, Usability, Accessibility, Documentation, Art and Localizations Teams. Although some of these reports were outdated by the time the report was released, their overall impression is of a multi-tiered multi-national's executives reporting in. In general, the report fits in well with GNOME's traditional tendency to favor the corporate side and with its recent interest in marketing. Like most quarterly reports, it is as much a public relations document as an effort to provide concrete information (although it does both). The one non-corporate note is at the beginning, when executive director Stormy Peters asks readers, "please let us know if you find it useful!"
In comparison, KDE's report for March through June 2009 is less than one quarter the size of GNOME's. Although it includes the usual redundant introduction -- this time by Aaron Seigo, it contains far fewer individual summaries from GNOME's report. These differences may reflect the greater experience that KDE e.V. -- the German non-profit that manages KDE -- has with the whole idea of reports, and has the advantage that it is more likely to be read completely. At the same time, because it is so short, the KDE report seems less corporate, an impression that is fitting for the project's more community-based orientation.
Beyond these general impressions, what is most interesting is the financial accounting in the reports. The two reports are not strictly comparable, given that many FOSS activities occur in the northern hemisphere's summer rather than spring. Nor is it always obvious in either report what falls under each line item. Still, some differences emerge.
For instance, GNOME lists an income of just over $102,000 for the quarter covered by its report. This income includes $65,000 from the Desktop Summit, $20,000 from "advisory board fees" (which I interpret mainly as donations from corporate sponsors), and $12,400 collected by the Friends of GNOME, a promotional and fund-raising project.
Omitting the Desktop Summit as a one-time source of income, these figures mean that GNOME has traditionally relied on corporate supporters. Corporate supporters continue to provide the bulk of GNOME's income, but the total from Friends of GNOME suggests that GNOME may be switching to a more community-based source of income. However, given that GNOME reported an approximate income of $54,000 per quarter in 2008 (ht
Shocking!!!
People just can't change. Once a pigopolist, always a pigopolist.
He is absolutely despised and hated in Québec, which he continuously belittled and paternalized. His repatriation of the constitution without Québec's assent was the biggest affront to Québec, and the charter of rights was directly aimed against Québec's language laws.
It's like pornography; I know when I see it.
Freedom of speech is not freedom to be heard.
Here is the guy's e-mail address: awillaert@afm.org. Make sure to use it wisely...
(Here is what I sent him:
Pirate it. When everyone will have bled the content distributors to death, they will not harm people anymore.
Who doesn’t?
Parking meters in Montréal are being replaced by smart Linux wireless solar-powered boxes. The whole of downtown is done by now.
To use them, you just need to note the parking spot number, then walk to the nearby pay station in which you key-in the spot number and pay (they take credit and bank cards) for the duration you plan to park. You get a receipt which you don’t need to put on your dashboard; the parking spot and duration is sent to a central server.
Parking enforcement agents (the legendary “ green onions ”) then are told by a hand-held computer which spots haven't been paid or are expired when they do their rounds. The computer only needs to be told the license plate number, and it prints the whole parking ticket automagically without subjecting the green onion to the risk of writer’s cramp (unfortunately, he still has to get out of his car and put it under the wipers).
I have a friend whose brother is a locomotive engineer, so whenever I have a bunch of drives to destroy, we head for the railroad yard when the brother works the night shift (no bosses at that time), and we merrily lay down the drives on the track, and the brother brings along his engine we watch the crunch crunch crunch crunch action. His brother can enjoy the action too, as the engines are remote controlled (like toy cars)...
LOL!
I once run into a guy named “Marc” whose station was named “Marcellino“. Why the discrepancy, I asked???
It came so because his first worstation was named “marc”, then his second “marcel”, then his third “marcellin” (all valid french names) and you can guess now that he is at his fourth workstation.
Needless to say, he now has reached the end-of-life for his naming scheme
Though fucking noogies.
You get what you pay for. If you can’t pony-up the cash for hiring a competent administrator, well, you have to bear having remote administration done to your rig.