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  1. htaccess: deny from .au = country blocking on Google Patents Country-Specific Content Blocking · · Score: 0, Troll
    Here is another technical prior art from the usenet (for the public record)

    Usenet group: de.comp.lang.perl.cgi
    Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:27:42 +1000

    Title:.htacess problem

    Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news.tig.com.au!not-for-mail
    From: "rodw"
    Newsgroups: de.comp.lang.perl.cgi
    Subject: .htacess problem
    Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:27:42 +1000
    Organization: The Internet Group (Sydney)
    Lines: 22
    Message-ID:
    NNTP-Posting-Host: p201-tnt7.syd.ihug.com.au
    X-Trace: bugstomper.ihug.com.au 1002619553 5302 203.173.144.201 (9 Oct 2001 09:25:53 GMT)
    X-Priority: 3
    X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
    X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200
    X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200

    Hi all,

    Im trying to block a country from viewing my site buy using .htaccess but am
    having no luck. I am using the code below but when I put it on all domains
    seemed to be blocked as I get a "500 internal error", any ideas?

    AuthName "Blocking"
    AuthType Basic


    order allow,deny
    allow from all
    deny from .co.nz
    deny from .net.nz
    deny from .gov.nz

    Rod

  2. Adsense patent from 2002 is prior art on Google Patents Country-Specific Content Blocking · · Score: 1
    Taken from Googe's own patent

    For example, if the content of the advertisement includes "Buy honda cars at the lowest prices of the year!", the terms "honda" or "honda cars" may be extracted from that content. The targeting information may also include other demographic information, such as geographic location, affluence, etc. Thus, the targeting information is simply some information from which a topic may be derived.

    . . .

    Among the other things that could be provided by an advertiser through ad entry and management component 210 are the following: one or more advertising creatives (simply referred to as "ads" or "advertisements"), one or more set of keywords or topics associated with those creatives (which may be used as targeting information for the ads), geographic targeting information, a value indication for the advertisement, start date, end date, etc.

  3. Re: I tried to teach all languages web2.0 way on The Web Way To Learn a Language · · Score: 1

    at but one was interested. The only discoverable interests was towards those major languages. Who knows maybe it's better that way, as eventually all can communicate with almost anyone using just a handful of languages.

  4. Re:Drugs on The First Robot To Cross the Atlantic Ocean Underwater · · Score: 1

    if not nukes, anthrax, VX ... or in best case dirty money

  5. Re:Really? on Somali Pirates Open Up a "Stock Exchange" · · Score: 1

    Maybe you were paying taxes to the G.W. Bush's administration and by doing so financing a plan of robbing a whole nation from all of its natural resources.

  6. Error in title on Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert · · Score: 1

    Bacteria to Precipitate Uranium From the Seawater

    There, fixed that for you

  7. let me suggest a biz name tele3d on BSkyB To Launch 3D TV Service In 2010 · · Score: 1

    not that I own both tele3d.com and net domains :P

  8. Time to add Tobin tax to stock trading on Stock Market Manipulation By Millisecond Trading · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Easy or using evolution like this... on Choosing Better-Quality JPEG Images With Software? · · Score: 1

    Tiled background images by evolution
    Horizontal 3d bars by evolution
    Vertical 3d bars by evolution

  10. Pirate party official party in Finland too on Pirate Party Coming To Canada · · Score: 1

    They were registered a bit too late for being able to participate in last months EU-elections.

    ... but Congratulations to the Swedish pirate party for their EU - parliament seat.

  11. AIDS Information-virus from 1989 is REAL prior art on Microsoft Patents the Crippling of Operating Systems · · Score: 3, Funny
    As invented and distributed by Dr Popp. Here is the story AND it crippled the operating system until money was paid!!!

    According to accounts in the British press, in December 1989, Popp sent out his diskettes to attendees of the World Health Organization's international AIDS meeting. Labeled "AIDS Information -- Introductory Diskettes," the disks contained a Trojan devised by Popp.

    After a certain number of reboots, a bug encrypted the hard disk's directory, hiding all files and flashing a message instructing users to send a couple hundred bucks to a postal box in Panama. (The Guardian reports that Popp had suffered a mental collapse after being turned down for a WHO job.)

    There's some question as to whether this constituted blackmail. Soon after his arrest and extradition to England, where one medical organization reported having lost a decade's worth of research, Popp took to wearing a cardboard box on his head. Soon, he was pronounced unfit to stand trial.

    Stranger still, Popp had packed a leaflet with the diskettes the offered the bluntest terms-of-use statement in computer history:

    "These program mechanisms will adversely affect other program applications on microcomputers. You are hereby advised of the most serious consequences of your failure to abide by the terms of this license agreement: your conscience may haunt you for the rest of your life; you will owe compensation and possible damages to PC Cyborg Corporation; and your microcomputer will stop functioning normally.''

    Forget all that evolution business! Popp should have been working for Microsoft!

    ref

  12. Re:Where is the APC, (here is correct TFA address) on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 1

    Briefly: Damn this isn't the right address

    Longer version: Original TFA link didn't/doesn't work and the firefox didn't find on this page strings "URL" or "address" for pointing out the correct article link. BUT I saw that "working link"-post... So I read it and see nothing of APC is mentioned there( which is the most expected thing for me on PHP6). So... in doing a public a favor I repost the above "year old link" and wonder about APC. OK, the link isn't right thus there's still hope for APC to be there - maybe & sorry.

  13. Where is the APC, (here is correct TFA address)? on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 1

    So here is the correct TFA address

    I have been hoping (and reading that) the coming PHP6 would arrive with a built-in PHP accelerator APC - is it? Or is there a silent change of plans?

  14. Re:What's really behind Finlands IT success on Places Where the World's Tech Pools, Despite the Internet · · Score: 1

    Boneheaded as in stubborn, but not stupid.

    Exactly ! And that is what the another poster (Louai) was explaining in detail with his erroneously 0-pointed comment.

    A common expression amongst Finns is "Vaikka läpi harmaan kiven", "Even through gray rock". More elaborately put, if you are determined enough, you'll get there eventually, no matter the obstacles. There are other similar expressions, and even a word that sums it all up, sisu.

  15. What's really behind Finlands IT success on Places Where the World's Tech Pools, Despite the Internet · · Score: 1

    Far more, I think, is down to the character of the Finns. After being robbed, raped and pillaged by almost every country in Europe the Finns are very independent.

    That isn't even wrong. But if the writer prefers to reason Finland's IT success with certain mental characteristics ... well writer would do it better by trying to explain it with "boneheadism" and I am joking less than you think.

  16. 007 - The Man with the Expoding Servers on When Servers Explode · · Score: 1

    I have never really understood the exploding computers in Bond movies. Thus, when the slashdotted TFA-site revitalizes itself, I am sure it will host a great gallery of Sean Connery and Roger Moore blowing up mountains and sinking ocean-liners just by shooting at any computer.

  17. Re:DNA Learning, old news on Acquired Characteristics May Be Inheritable · · Score: 1

    a historical document demonstrates the usefulness of that method within human and alien species.

  18. Tabasco on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 1

    "...laboratory rats never overcome an aversion to hot peppers".

    Here is your recipe for success

  19. I have made this cool ticking necklace for Stair on A.I. and Robotics Take Another Wobbly Step Forward · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know Stair's postal address?
    Sarah Connor

  20. Re:Democracy and charities supporting OS license on How Social Software Can Improve Democracy · · Score: 1

    Ok, ok there might be *minor* philosophical differences e.g. I find GPL lacking the very important "pro-democracy propaganda"-part almost completely :)

    And by the way, thank you (Monty or Richard) for correcting my vision regarding the MySQL's licensing policy for their enterprise product ;)

  21. Re:Democracy and charities supporting OS license on How Social Software Can Improve Democracy · · Score: 1

    Such a license would not be Open Source and would not be Free Software.

    Yes and no, my suggestion would take it into a gray area. In practice, all software would still be (almost always) available "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer"; exactly as FSF states in The Free Software Definition. The only real exceptions for software being free, would only be if...

    • Charities decide to close a piece of software, e.g. for donating it into a property of some third world company or selling the software for a substantial amount of money they need for their charity operations
    • Charities approve a company to temporarily (max 5 years) run their product as a closed source product. After 5 years product would need to be re-opened

    And as the license draft states:

    Allowing this much power to charity organizations is of cause a matter of trust i.e. whether you trust them to carefully consider the consequences of their actions.

    Thus, it is quite certain that everyone realizes the need for charities to do good balanced decisions (if any) regarding software, in order to remain supported by the coding community.

    Yes, you are right the license is effectively, creating a software company which gives all of its profits to a charity. But the practical role of charities, would almost always be in just selling the licenses. But hey, most charities are already today selling something from first aid kits to X-mas cards.

    Company X: We need to get 50 ChOS licenses
    Charity Z: The price is 20EUR each
    Company X: Here you are, 1000EUR
    Charity Z: Thank you and we hope you like your products-what ever they are :)

    If my license suggestion would one day facilitate launching a 'real' charity open source license - mission complete! And I would not want to be in any leading position in that organization just to mark that the license is not for me, but its a donation in itself.

    Besides is there really that much difference to e.g. Sun/MySQL's GPL lisenced free software? MySQL has been selling commercial licenses for "corporate users" for years. Charity open source license just has that as a build-in feature.

    If they used a license anything like what you propose (i.e. corporations are required to pay) then it would be very unlikely to get any support from the Free Software community and it would prevent the code from being used by any Free Software project, even as an indirect dependency.

    Yes, that might be the case, but consider that tens of thousands are already volunteering for doing some physical work for the charities. And there probably are and will be even many programmers among them. The apparent incompatibility of licenses is an unfortunate thing, but most often even companies manage to produce software without accidental OS license injections.

    Thank you for taking the time to think, analyze and post.

  22. Re:Democracy and charities supporting OS license on How Social Software Can Improve Democracy · · Score: 1
    As it states, it's a just draft - or a proof of concept of something that could be created

    The objectives of ChOS license would be just using the open source software and community for supporting the objectives of charities. Not (focusing in) guaranteeing the openness of software - as appears to be the objective of Free Software Foundation or the Open Source Initiative.

    Have you had a lawyer look at this license?

    Couple of charities used lawyers in checking it briefly. Yes, the text and information content could be improved a lot. But hey, remember all the difficulties in the preparation of GPL3.

    I think there's room for (some kind of) charity supporting OS license (- or is there?). After all, now everyone is just donating software (for FSF for donating it) to everyone. Why not donate it to everyone, but have companies paying some(in a form of donations), for their right to do business with software made by "their" non-paid co-workers.

    Think, if for example Greenpeace or Amnesty International would one day officially launch their own OS license. It would certainly attract some coders and ultimately even good products would be made. Think, if one of those products would become popular like Firefox or eh. Linux. It would certainly get them lots of visibility and tools for achieving their primary objectives. If the charities had their own popular tool, they would be even able to use it in broadcasting their message efficiently, even locally and for free. Therefore, I think there is lot enough to gain for the charities. And I think they should really investigate the chances for launching their own license.

  23. Democracy and charities supporting OS license on How Social Software Can Improve Democracy · · Score: 1

    I wrote such `charity open source license` three years ago. The main idea is to donate OS software to charities who license it free of charge for individuals and schools, while corporate users would need to make *donate* for their selected charity organization.

    That ChOS license also speaks very strongly for democracy, freedom of the press and fair elections and against dictatorship. I considered an OS license speaking against dictatorship to be an convenient way for spreading forbidden pro-democracy *propaganda*. After all, software finds it's way to anywhere in the world and naturally open source license must travel along the software. Thus people in any hell-hole could be passing software for each others, along with a democracy promoting license as a payload.

    In fact, most of the charities have indicated being positive for the charity open source license. Too bad no-one of you has never heard about the license - maybe you will, maybe not. Anyway here it is for the curious: http://www.tele3d.com/ChOS/ChOS_beta1.pdf

  24. In other news... on Endeavour Rolled Out As Rescue Ship · · Score: 1

    Astronauts signing new life insurance policy agreements. Insurance company tricked into promising to deliver a rescue vehicle within 20 minutes of accident. ...in economy news... AIG shares fell by 89 percentages

  25. Re:Low-bandwidth version in case of slashdotting on First Image of a Planet Orbiting a Sun-Like Star · · Score: 1

    More photo-realistic low-bandwidth images of the above are available on any CD-disk's bottom-side. Just touch the screen with that CD. Blinking your eyes while doing that converts it into a slideshow.