In the free software community. Recently, the closure of KDE.org in prostest of software patents, has caused some controvesy over how free software should role in the world of politcs. More information can be found on a kde developers blog.
Imagine who will be next. What if Asia, Canada, South America, Africa, Austrilia were lobbying for software patents! This is an international problem, and it must be protested everywhere!
Would be able to hack this machine into a fully usable linux box. Connect a terminal trough the serial port, use a ethernet to USB adapter to plug in some peripheals (such as a keyboard) on one of the ports. Then connect it to the network using the other ehternet port. It would make a nice cheap terminal with its own built in connections.
For example, redhat linux has clock syncronization daemon, and it syncronizes from clock.redhat.com. They should of setup their own server such as clock.netgear.com. That way the server is their resposiblity and they can fix it if it goes wrong.
I haven't dared to boot into the windows because of the worms. Its linux or nothing and since the current wine CVS is in a mess I can't run kazaa. So the RIAA can shove it (and im not in the.us either so there)!
I know I'm probably going to get moderated down for this, but the question must be asked.
What if linux got a critical security hole. Because the code is open its easy to send in a rouge patch. Don't tell me it will get caught because it only takes an obsfucated code to make things go wrong. Look at the GNU ftp server for an example. If you think that linux is immune to secuity holes you got another thing coming, What if the debian apt respitrpities got hacked, and a critcal package was hacked by clever hacker that could spoof the md5 sum (its not hard). Those software packages in debian may be stable, but they are probably filled with undiscovered holes that are only fixed in the first version.
This news site dosen't seem to be up to the slashdot effect. Heres the text.
Tampa police eliminate facial-recognition system
By MITCH STACY Associated Press
AP Photo A surveillance camera is seen in the Ybor City area of Tampa, Fla., in this June 2001, file photo.
TAMPA, Fla. -- Civil-rights advocates celebrated a decision by Tampa police to scrap a highly touted facial-recognition software system that was designed to scan the city's entertainment district for wanted criminals.
But after two years, it yielded no positive identifications and no arrests.
"It was of no benefit to us, and it served no real purpose," Capt. Bob Guidara said Wednesday, emphasizing the decision to drop the software was based on its ineffectiveness rather than privacy issues.
Tampa became the first city in the United States to install the software in June 2001 to scan faces in Ybor City nightlife district and check them against a database of more than 24,000 felons, sexual predators and runaway children.
But critics said it violated privacy rights, forcing Ybor City visitors to be in what amounted to an electronic police lineup without their consent.
Darlene Williams, chairwoman of the Tampa area chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said she's glad it's gone.
"People have the right to be anonymous, and not to be put in a police lineup for committing the offense of walking down a public street," Williams said.
"As a culture we have always given police the tools that are deemed appropriate to do their jobs. (But) this was handled without public input or foreknowledge, and that was wrong."
New Jersey-based Visionics Corp. had offered the city a free trial use of a the program, called FaceIt. It was installed on closed-circuit cameras that police used to monitor Ybor City crowds on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
A police officer in a room three blocks away monitored video images and could pick out faces in the crowd to scan and run through a criminal database to search for matches.
Initially, it could be used only with one of the system's 36 cameras at a time, but an upgrade last year allowed use on up to six of the cameras.
Critics compared it to George Orwell's novel "Animal farm" and Texas Rep. Dick Armey, the U.S. House majority leader at the time, called for congressional hearings on the technology. Protesters donned bandanas, masks and Groucho glasses on one busy Saturday night to show their contempt.
Police are at a loss to explain why the software wasn't effective, since it seemed to work fine in controlled testing, Guidara said.
Meir Kahtan, a spokesman for the company, now known Identix Inc. after a merger between Visionics and the security technology company Identix, declined to answer questions on the matter Wednesday.
The company's only comment came in a one-sentence statement that seems to suggest privacy issues were behind the Tampa's decision.
"Identix has always stated that this technology requires safeguards, and that as a society we need to be comfortable with its use."
Guidara said the closed-circuit cameras installed in 1997 will remain in Ybor City without the face-scanning capabilities. They are effective as a deterrent and have helped police foil crimes, he said.
Face-scanning technology is still being used in other cities. The airport, jail and jail visitation areas in Pinellas County are using it, but it has never resulted in an arrest, officials said.
Virginia Beach, Va., installed the software on closed-circuit cameras along the city's boardwalk last summer. While it has never produced a hit or an arrest, police spokesman Sgt. Max Hayden said it performed well in controlled tests and may be a deterrent to criminals. Signs along the boardwalk inform visitors of its use.
"It would not be prudent to take technology offline when it's been up and running for a year, based on another city deciding not to use it," Hayden said.
Theres a program called heavy metal that allows you to connect your teletype to your box and be able to surf the web, check the weather, stock quotes, telnet into other machines, be able to convert ASCII into 5-bit and and read e-mail.
Get it for just $11 here.
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The laptop support in 2.6 is incredible. They have rewlitten the carbus (PMCIA) layer to support more decives and have Improved the power management support. KDE 3.2 will also have a laptop compatibility layer to support all the obscure hardware on it. So if you want to use laptops, use linux 2.6 when it cums out.
Isthe only distro that dectects my laptop's hardware very well. SuSE and RedHat Severn work good as well, but I'm still waiting for Drivers for the ATI 3D RAGE mobility card on it. My laptop is a SONY VAIO PCGFX-401, it somehow "convenitently" had a spare 6 GB partition where I installed Linux on.
700 new Louisiana laws go into effect. The state Legislature passed hundreds of new laws in the legislative session that ended in June that cover a host of items from tiny, local matters to overarching state changes.
The new laws cover everything from the renaming of local highways to the way social services are delivered. And of course, they include the creation of more official state items, like the official vegetable plant, jellies and meat pie -- the Creole tomato, cane and mayhaw jellies and the Natchitoches meat pie -- that can be enumerated on state documents.
One measure that will touch thousands of Louisiana residents includes a hike in the cost of renewing a driver's license. It will cost one dollar more, with the money paying for public service announcements and other programs to fight litter.
It is expected to raise about $800,000 a year. While drivers may see cleaner roadways, they might also get less traffic-snarled during the regular workday.
A new law requires highway construction that involves the closing of a lane to be done at night or during other ``non-peak'' traffic hours, like weekends.
* Require welfare recipients to immediately begin looking for work once they receive their assistance checks and to learn how to write a resume or prepare for an interview for a minimum number of hours each week or risk losing their benefits.
* Allow the Department of Social Services to confiscate federal tax refunds from deadbeat parents who haven't paid their required child support.
* Let disabled persons who return to work keep their medicaid coverage by buying in to Louisiana's program.
* Require senders of sexually explicit e-mail to include a note in the subject line, "adv-adult," to let unsuspecting internet users know ahead of time.
* Gives local government the power to regulate smoking, but with many loopholes. Restaurants that serve liquor, bars, gambling operations, tobacco vendors and hotel rooms are exempt from any smoking ban.
* Charge an extra $1 for a driver's license renewal to pay for public service announcements and other programs to fight litter.
* Increase penalties against drivers who refuse to submit to a blood-alcohol test following an accident that kills or seriously injures someone and against extremely drunk drivers, those with a.20 percent blood-alcohol concentration.
* Outlaw the execution of the mentally retarded, to comply with state and U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
* Require most highway construction that involves the closing of a lane to be done at night or during other "non-peak" traffic hours, but the project engineers have broad leeway to close lanes if they decide it is necessary for safety or "is in the best interest of the state."
* Require new police officers to provide DNA samples when they submit to fingerprinting and background checks.
* Create a loophole in the state's "Do not call" list that allows solicitors to call you if they have been referred to you by someone you know, but no sale can be legally completed during such a call.
* Include wireless telephones in the "Do not call" program.
* Obligate priests and other clergy members to report suspected child abuse and neglect to the authorities, with an exception for information a clergy member may hear during the course of his work that is deemed confidential under the "discipline or tenets" of the church; for example a priest hearing confessions.
* Bar the use of state tax dollars to cover organ transplants for inmates who were sentenced to the death penalty or life in prison and have exhausted their appeals.
* Prohibit credit card issuers from offering anything of value to students to persuade them to look at or complete credit card applications, unless the students have received brochures about credit card debt.
* Establ
Anonymous coword is a TROLL! He wrote in his Journal that he is karma whoring to try and fuck up the moderatoion sysem. Please mod him down. A look at his posting history can show all the bullshit he's been posting recently to try and recover his carma.
Even the printer freindly version is bloated. Here is the cleaned up tota!
August 16, 2003 RIM Ships Color BlackBerry
By Jason Brooks
The BlackBerry 7230, the latest in Research In Motion LTD.'s line of BlackBerry wireless messaging devices, became available in the United States this week, complete with a tri-band GPRS radio and an attractive new color display.
Like the BlackBerry 5810, which eWEEK Labs reviewed last year (see review), the 7230 maintains the mobile messaging competency on which RIM's BlackBerry devices have risen to popularity. However, users who need more than basic messaging and cell phone functionality will have to look elsewhere.
The 7230 does include applications for managing contacts, calendars, to-do items and notes, but it lacks appreciable third-party application support and is also missing any sort of memory or peripheral expansion slot. Competing Pocket PC- and Palm OS-based devices offer these things.
In addition, some of the improvements we'd hoped to see materialize since last year remain absent. For example, the 5810 was the first RIM device to ship with a General Packet Radio Service radio, and yet it lacked an HTML browser--which would be one of the best uses for a speedier Internet connection.
The 7230 does include an HTML browser, but T-Mobile USA Inc., the only currently available service provider for the new RIM device, does not officially support HTML browsing. Instead, the T-Mobile service plans available for the 7230 allow access to a handful of Wireless Application Protocol-based "t-zones," including information such as basic news and sports headlines.
Somewhat confusingly, though, we could in fact visit HTML pages in our tests, albeit with unpredictable results. We at times received network error messages, and HTML pages tended to load slowly. Browsing seemed to work best when we configured the browser not to download images.
The 7230 sells for $399. Unlimited wireless data and t-zone access costs $29.99 per month atop one of T-Mobile's standard phone rate plans. Alternatively, users may opt for a $39.99 monthly plan with unlimited e-mail, t-zone access and 300 two-way text messages. On this plan, voice calls cost 20 cents per minute.
The 7230 performed acceptably as a telephone, although it does require the use of an included earbud/microphone combo. We'd like to see a Bluetooth radio included in the device, which would enable the 7230 to team with a wireless headset. In addition, integrated Bluetooth would enable users to access the 7230's GPRS Internet connection with a laptop.
RIM lists the 7230's talk time at approximately 4 hours, with a standby time of 10 days.
Measuring 4.4 inches tall, 2.9 inches wide and 0.8 inches thick and weighing 4.8 ounces, the 7230 is a bit smaller than the 5810 and similar in size to Handspring Inc.'s Treo.
Can BlackBerry keep selling? Read all about RIM's job woes.
The 7230 is built with the same sort of thumb keyboard found in previous versions of this device, but instead of the 160-by-160-pixel monochrome display that the 5810 featured, this device comes with a 240-by-160-pixel, 65,000-color display that we found very readable both indoors and in sunlight.
The 7230 can be used to send and receive e-mail from Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange or IBM's Lotus Software division's Domino servers via RIM's desktop redirector software or its Enterprise Sync Server products.
RIM's BlackBerry Web Client Web-based service is designed to forward mail to the 7230 from Post Office Protocol and IMAP accounts, as well as from Exchange accounts using Outlook Web Access and from Notes accounts using iNotes.
The Web Client worked well enough, but we found it frustrating that once we'd added an account for forwarding, we couldn't view or change any account information beyond our password.
Senior Anal ist Jason Brooks can be reached at jason_brooks@ziffdavis.com.
It seems that it would be ueber-leet to be able to run linux to its full potential. Instead of just having the Sandbox environment we will have direct access to the hardware. I'd also be able to play tuxracer on the PS2. But then again I'm still waiting for a gamecube port of linux because thats what I have.
This is very difficult to do. Anyone who knows anything beyond EE 101 knows that trying to stop electicity over 30,000 volts is heading for trouble. Unless you have a huge insultor that is at least 500,000 Ohms, the electricty will just jump over it without even slowing down.
Slashdot Mirror
In the free software community. Recently, the closure of KDE.org in prostest of software patents, has caused some controvesy over how free software should role in the world of politcs. More information can be found on a kde developers blog.
Blog can be found here
Imagine who will be next. What if Asia, Canada, South America, Africa, Austrilia were lobbying for software patents! This is an international problem, and it must be protested everywhere!
Would be able to hack this machine into a fully usable linux box. Connect a terminal trough the serial port, use a ethernet to USB adapter to plug in some peripheals (such as a keyboard) on one of the ports. Then connect it to the network using the other ehternet port. It would make a nice cheap terminal with its own built in connections.
Kernel 2.6.0-test4 is released. Get it before it's SCOne
Here is a collection slashdotters actually want to see
Google has managed to salvage some of the site before it got slashdotted, so here is the Google cache.
For example, redhat linux has clock syncronization daemon, and it syncronizes from clock.redhat.com. They should of setup their own server such as clock.netgear.com. That way the server is their resposiblity and they can fix it if it goes wrong.
I haven't dared to boot into the windows because of the worms. Its linux or nothing and since the current wine CVS is in a mess I can't run kazaa. So the RIAA can shove it (and im not in the .us either so there)!
I know I'm probably going to get moderated down for this, but the question must be asked.
What if linux got a critical security hole. Because the code is open its easy to send in a rouge patch. Don't tell me it will get caught because it only takes an obsfucated code to make things go wrong. Look at the GNU ftp server for an example. If you think that linux is immune to secuity holes you got another thing coming, What if the debian apt respitrpities got hacked, and a critcal package was hacked by clever hacker that could spoof the md5 sum (its not hard). Those software packages in debian may be stable, but they are probably filled with undiscovered holes that are only fixed in the first version.
This news site dosen't seem to be up to the slashdot effect. Heres the text.
Tampa police eliminate facial-recognition system
By MITCH STACY
Associated Press
AP Photo
A surveillance camera is seen in the Ybor City area of Tampa, Fla., in this June 2001, file photo.
TAMPA, Fla. -- Civil-rights advocates celebrated a decision by Tampa police to scrap a highly touted facial-recognition software system that was designed to scan the city's entertainment district for wanted criminals.
But after two years, it yielded no positive identifications and no arrests.
"It was of no benefit to us, and it served no real purpose," Capt. Bob Guidara said Wednesday, emphasizing the decision to drop the software was based on its ineffectiveness rather than privacy issues.
Tampa became the first city in the United States to install the software in June 2001 to scan faces in Ybor City nightlife district and check them against a database of more than 24,000 felons, sexual predators and runaway children.
But critics said it violated privacy rights, forcing Ybor City visitors to be in what amounted to an electronic police lineup without their consent.
Darlene Williams, chairwoman of the Tampa area chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said she's glad it's gone.
"People have the right to be anonymous, and not to be put in a police lineup for committing the offense of walking down a public street," Williams said.
"As a culture we have always given police the tools that are deemed appropriate to do their jobs. (But) this was handled without public input or foreknowledge, and that was wrong."
New Jersey-based Visionics Corp. had offered the city a free trial use of a the program, called FaceIt. It was installed on closed-circuit cameras that police used to monitor Ybor City crowds on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
A police officer in a room three blocks away monitored video images and could pick out faces in the crowd to scan and run through a criminal database to search for matches.
Initially, it could be used only with one of the system's 36 cameras at a time, but an upgrade last year allowed use on up to six of the cameras.
Critics compared it to George Orwell's novel "Animal farm" and Texas Rep. Dick Armey, the U.S. House majority leader at the time, called for congressional hearings on the technology. Protesters donned bandanas, masks and Groucho glasses on one busy Saturday night to show their contempt.
Police are at a loss to explain why the software wasn't effective, since it seemed to work fine in controlled testing, Guidara said.
Meir Kahtan, a spokesman for the company, now known Identix Inc. after a merger between Visionics and the security technology company Identix, declined to answer questions on the matter Wednesday.
The company's only comment came in a one-sentence statement that seems to suggest privacy issues were behind the Tampa's decision.
"Identix has always stated that this technology requires safeguards, and that as a society we need to be comfortable with its use."
Guidara said the closed-circuit cameras installed in 1997 will remain in Ybor City without the face-scanning capabilities. They are effective as a deterrent and have helped police foil crimes, he said.
Face-scanning technology is still being used in other cities. The airport, jail and jail visitation areas in Pinellas County are using it, but it has never resulted in an arrest, officials said.
Virginia Beach, Va., installed the software on closed-circuit cameras along the city's boardwalk last summer. While it has never produced a hit or an arrest, police spokesman Sgt. Max Hayden said it performed well in controlled tests and may be a deterrent to criminals. Signs along the boardwalk inform visitors of its use.
"It would not be prudent to take technology offline when it's been up and running for a year, based on another city deciding not to use it," Hayden said.
Theres a program called heavy metal that allows you to connect your teletype to your box and be able to surf the web, check the weather, stock quotes, telnet into other machines, be able to convert ASCII into 5-bit and and read e-mail.
Get it cheaper from froogle, the price checker from google. Its cheaper than Amazon!
The laptop support in 2.6 is incredible. They have rewlitten the carbus (PMCIA) layer to support more decives and have Improved the power management support. KDE 3.2 will also have a laptop compatibility layer to support all the obscure hardware on it. So if you want to use laptops, use linux 2.6 when it cums out.
Yes. I love you too. Please install Debian linux in your mare's swirly hole.
Isthe only distro that dectects my laptop's hardware very well. SuSE and RedHat Severn work good as well, but I'm still waiting for Drivers for the ATI 3D RAGE mobility card on it. My laptop is a SONY VAIO PCGFX-401, it somehow "convenitently" had a spare 6 GB partition where I installed Linux on.
Without the trolling.
.20 percent blood-alcohol concentration.
1. NEW LA LAWS
August 15, 2003
Reported by Associated Press
700 new Louisiana laws go into effect. The state Legislature passed hundreds of new laws in the legislative session that ended in June that cover a host of items from tiny, local matters to overarching state changes.
The new laws cover everything from the renaming of local highways to the way social services are delivered. And of course, they include the creation of more official state items, like the official vegetable plant, jellies and meat pie -- the Creole tomato, cane and mayhaw jellies and the Natchitoches meat pie -- that can be enumerated on state documents.
One measure that will touch thousands of Louisiana residents includes a hike in the cost of renewing a driver's license. It will cost one dollar more, with the money paying for public service announcements and other programs to fight litter.
It is expected to raise about $800,000 a year. While drivers may see cleaner roadways, they might also get less traffic-snarled during the regular workday.
A new law requires highway construction that involves the closing of a lane to be done at night or during other ``non-peak'' traffic hours, like weekends.
* Require welfare recipients to immediately begin looking for work once they receive their assistance checks and to learn how to write a resume or prepare for an interview for a minimum number of hours each week or risk losing their benefits.
* Allow the Department of Social Services to confiscate federal tax refunds from deadbeat parents who haven't paid their required child support.
* Let disabled persons who return to work keep their medicaid coverage by buying in to Louisiana's program.
* Require senders of sexually explicit e-mail to include a note in the subject line, "adv-adult," to let unsuspecting internet users know ahead of time.
* Gives local government the power to regulate smoking, but with many loopholes. Restaurants that serve liquor, bars, gambling operations, tobacco vendors and hotel rooms are exempt from any smoking ban.
* Charge an extra $1 for a driver's license renewal to pay for public service announcements and other programs to fight litter.
* Increase penalties against drivers who refuse to submit to a blood-alcohol test following an accident that kills or seriously injures someone and against extremely drunk drivers, those with a
* Outlaw the execution of the mentally retarded, to comply with state and U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
* Require most highway construction that involves the closing of a lane to be done at night or during other "non-peak" traffic hours, but the project engineers have broad leeway to close lanes if they decide it is necessary for safety or "is in the best interest of the state."
* Require new police officers to provide DNA samples when they submit to fingerprinting and background checks.
* Create a loophole in the state's "Do not call" list that allows solicitors to call you if they have been referred to you by someone you know, but no sale can be legally completed during such a call.
* Include wireless telephones in the "Do not call" program.
* Obligate priests and other clergy members to report suspected child abuse and neglect to the authorities, with an exception for information a clergy member may hear during the course of his work that is deemed confidential under the "discipline or tenets" of the church; for example a priest hearing confessions.
* Bar the use of state tax dollars to cover organ transplants for inmates who were sentenced to the death penalty or life in prison and have exhausted their appeals.
* Prohibit credit card issuers from offering anything of value to students to persuade them to look at or complete credit card applications, unless the students have received brochures about credit card debt.
* Establ
Anonymous coword is a TROLL! He wrote in his Journal that he is karma whoring to try and fuck up the moderatoion sysem. Please mod him down. A look at his posting history can show all the bullshit he's been posting recently to try and recover his carma.
No, but it can run netbsd. See the netbsd site and search for rim.
Even the printer freindly version is bloated. Here is the cleaned up tota!
August 16, 2003
RIM Ships Color BlackBerry
By Jason Brooks
The BlackBerry 7230, the latest in Research In Motion LTD.'s line of BlackBerry wireless messaging devices, became available in the United States this week, complete with a tri-band GPRS radio and an attractive new color display.
Like the BlackBerry 5810, which eWEEK Labs reviewed last year (see review), the 7230 maintains the mobile messaging competency on which RIM's BlackBerry devices have risen to popularity. However, users who need more than basic messaging and cell phone functionality will have to look elsewhere.
The 7230 does include applications for managing contacts, calendars, to-do items and notes, but it lacks appreciable third-party application support and is also missing any sort of memory or peripheral expansion slot. Competing Pocket PC- and Palm OS-based devices offer these things.
In addition, some of the improvements we'd hoped to see materialize since last year remain absent. For example, the 5810 was the first RIM device to ship with a General Packet Radio Service radio, and yet it lacked an HTML browser--which would be one of the best uses for a speedier Internet connection.
The 7230 does include an HTML browser, but T-Mobile USA Inc., the only currently available service provider for the new RIM device, does not officially support HTML browsing. Instead, the T-Mobile service plans available for the 7230 allow access to a handful of Wireless Application Protocol-based "t-zones," including information such as basic news and sports headlines.
Somewhat confusingly, though, we could in fact visit HTML pages in our tests, albeit with unpredictable results. We at times received network error messages, and HTML pages tended to load slowly. Browsing seemed to work best when we configured the browser not to download images.
The 7230 sells for $399. Unlimited wireless data and t-zone access costs $29.99 per month atop one of T-Mobile's standard phone rate plans. Alternatively, users may opt for a $39.99 monthly plan with unlimited e-mail, t-zone access and 300 two-way text messages. On this plan, voice calls cost 20 cents per minute.
The 7230 performed acceptably as a telephone, although it does require the use of an included earbud/microphone combo. We'd like to see a Bluetooth radio included in the device, which would enable the 7230 to team with a wireless headset. In addition, integrated Bluetooth would enable users to access the 7230's GPRS Internet connection with a laptop.
RIM lists the 7230's talk time at approximately 4 hours, with a standby time of 10 days.
Measuring 4.4 inches tall, 2.9 inches wide and 0.8 inches thick and weighing 4.8 ounces, the 7230 is a bit smaller than the 5810 and similar in size to Handspring Inc.'s Treo.
Can BlackBerry keep selling? Read all about RIM's job woes.
The 7230 is built with the same sort of thumb keyboard found in previous versions of this device, but instead of the 160-by-160-pixel monochrome display that the 5810 featured, this device comes with a 240-by-160-pixel, 65,000-color display that we found very readable both indoors and in sunlight.
The 7230 can be used to send and receive e-mail from Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange or IBM's Lotus Software division's Domino servers via RIM's desktop redirector software or its Enterprise Sync Server products.
RIM's BlackBerry Web Client Web-based service is designed to forward mail to the 7230 from Post Office Protocol and IMAP accounts, as well as from Exchange accounts using Outlook Web Access and from Notes accounts using iNotes.
The Web Client worked well enough, but we found it frustrating that once we'd added an account for forwarding, we couldn't view or change any account information beyond our password.
Senior Anal ist Jason Brooks can be reached at jason_brooks@ziffdavis.com.
Windows isn't ported to the PS2 instruction set. You would have to use an emulator such as bochs or Flex86 to boot windows.
I'm not exactly sure, but I think that PS2 linux is capable of mounting the memory card for reading and writing.
It seems that it would be ueber-leet to be able to run linux to its full potential. Instead of just having the Sandbox environment we will have direct access to the hardware. I'd also be able to play tuxracer on the PS2. But then again I'm still waiting for a gamecube port of linux because thats what I have.
You can always outsource your electricty production to the countrys that have to much. Or maybe you can SCRAP YOUR SUV's and walk.
This is very difficult to do. Anyone who knows anything beyond EE 101 knows that trying to stop electicity over 30,000 volts is heading for trouble. Unless you have a huge insultor that is at least 500,000 Ohms, the electricty will just jump over it without even slowing down.