Ever wonder why he hasn't threatened to sue Amazon despite the fact that there are over 250 titles containing the word stealth there? Well, the poor bastard works for Amazon, so you can understand why he spends his spare time going around and threatening to sue everyone else who in any way uses the word stealth. It's his way of blowing off steam, if it weren't for that he'd go postal and Bezos would get a new haircut and some of you people who still don't boycott Amazon would not get your books and DVDs.
What I would like to see is legislation that would prevent abusive companies like Amazon from launching such Denial of Service attacks on the USPTO, our economy and us as tax payers. Such abusive companies are filing thousands of ridiculous patent applications and counting on statistics to have a few of their riduculous patent applications slip through and get approved as well as to have initially rejected patent applications reversed. In the end those silly patents will get overturned and rejected, but it will cost us all a lot of time and tax payers' money.
There should be a law mandating that if a legal entity files more than a certain number of patent applications within a certain period of time (say, more than 5 within 30 days) and either more than a certain number of patent applications filed by that same legal entity within a longer period of time had been rejected (say, more than 5 rejected in the last 180 days) or the percentage of all the rejected patent applications ever filed by that legal entity exceeds a certain percentage (say, more than 25% rejected), then such a legal entity is only allowed to file no more than a certain number of patent applications per month (say, no more than 3 per month).
Now every PowerBook G4 is equipped with Apple's Sudden Motion Sensor to help protect your most valuable asset: your data. The Sudden Motion Sensor senses change in axis position and accelerated movement. In the event of a drop or fall, the Sudden Motion Sensor instantly parks the hard drive heads so they wont scratch the disks on impact, lessening the risk of damage and improving your chances of retrieving valuable data. When the Sudden Motion Sensor senses your PowerBook is once again level, it unlocks the hard drive heads automatically.
This sounds like a cool feature, can anyone confirm from personal experience that it really works?
It's not a matter of being too busy to watch, it's a matter of timing and freedom. Why should you stick to someone else's schedule when you can watch the show when you want and not when some TV station program says you should? It simply allows you to manage your time more freely. Besides, programming your favorite shows takes only a few minutes a week.
Let me be the first to say that I find this idea incredibly stupid. First of all, you are not very likely to find the song you want when you want it and there is a very slim chance that you will find a station that you would want to add to your favorites due to the random nature of the broadcasting selection process. In the end you just end up wasting a lot of your time listening to nothing and you begin to think that maybe you should just buy the CD. This smells like a RIAA sponsored project to me.
I think this must be really old news because those PCs seem to already be on their way to 3rd world countries, at least judging by the following email I got today:
Dear Sir,
ASSISTANCE REQUIRED FOR ACQUISITION OF PCS
I write to inform you of my desire to acquire PCs in your country on behalf of the Director of Contracts and Finance Allocations of the Federal Ministry of Education in Nigeria under the Special Provisions US$100 PC Act #2317USNG-1A5.
Considering his very strategic and influential position, he would want the transaction to be as strictly confidential as possible. He further wants his identity to remain undisclosed at least for now, until the completion of the transaction. Hence our desire to have an overseas agent.
I have therefore been directed to inquire if you would agree to act as our overseas agent in order to actualize this transaction.
The deal, in brief, is that the funds with which we intend to carry out our proposed purchases in your country is presently in a coded account at the Nigerian Apex Bank (i.e. the Central Bank of Nigeria) and we need your assistance to transfer the funds to your country in a convenient bank account that will be provided by you before we can put the funds into use in your country. For this, you shall be considered to have executed a contract for the Federal Ministry of Education in Nigeria for which payment should be effected to you by the Ministry, the contract sum of which shall run into US$26.4 Million, of which your share shall be US$25,000 if you agree to be our overseas agent. We hope you understand this is a nonprofit matter under the Special Provisions Contract Act which limits payments to agents to US$25,000.
As soon as payment is effected, and the amount mentioned above is successfully transferred into your account, we intend to use our own share in acquiring PCs. For this too you shall also serve as our agent.
In the light of this, I would like you to forward to me the following information:
1. Your company name and address if any 2. Your personal fax number 3. Your personal telephone number for easy communication.
You are requested to communicate your acceptance of this proposal through my above stated email address after which we shall discuss in details the modalities for seeing this transaction through.
Your quick response will be highly appreciated. Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.
Yours faithfully, BIBI LUCKY
You know what that means, don't you? That's right, they're buying 264,000 PCs!
Prior to return to flight, NASA should develop and implement a comprehensive inspection plan to determine the structural integrity of all Reinforce Carbon-Carbon (RCC) system components. This inspection plan should take advantage of advanced non-destructive inspection technology.
This recommendation was issued because of the board's finding that current inspection techniques are not adequate to assess structural integrity of RCC, supporting structure, and attaching hardware.
Recommendation Two:
Prior to return to flight, NASA should modify its Memorandum of Agreement with National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) to make on-orbit imaging for each Shuttle flight a standard requirement.
This recommendation was issued because of the board's finding that the full capabilities of the United States Government to image the Shuttle on orbit were not utilized.
Recommendation Three:
Before return to flight, for missions to the International Space Station (ISS,) develop a practicable capability to inspect and effect emergency repairs to the widest possible range of damage to the Thermal Protection System (TPS,) including both tile and Reinforced Carbon Carbon (RCC,) taking advantage of the additional capabilities available while in proximity to and docked at the ISS.
Before return to flight, for non-station missions, develop a comprehensive autonomous (independent of station) inspection and repair capability to cover the widest practicable range of damage scenarios.
An on-orbit TPS inspection should be accomplished early on all missions, using appropriate assets and capabilities.
The ultimate objective should be a fully autonomous capability for all missions, to address the possibility that an ISS mission does not achieve the necessary orbit, fails to dock successfully, or suffers damage during or after undocking.
Recommendation Four:
Upgrade the imaging system to be capable of providing a minimum of three useful views of the Space Shuttle from liftoff to at least Solid Rocket Booster separation, along any expected ascent azimuth. The readiness of these assets should be included in the Launch Commit Criteria for future launches.
Consideration should be given to using mobile assets (ships or aircraft) to provide additional views of the vehicle during ascent.
If they implement everything as recommended there is no need for a rescue plan and I doubt such a plan would actually work, it seems more like a publicity stunt to reassure the masses.
"britney spears is a genius" - 11 hits
"britney spears isn't a genius" - 0 hits
"britney spears is not a genius" - 0 hits
"britney spears is no genius" - 0 hits
Sir, I am impressed, your legal prowess is surpassed only by your deductive reasoning.
A license is not a contract, according to Rosenblatt v. Cal. St. Bd. of Pharmacy (1945) 69 Cal.App.2d 69 , 74 [158 P.2d 199] which stated that, "A license has none of the elements of a contract and does not confer an absolute right but a personal privilege...." (Ibid) There is a clear distinction between a license and a contract, although respondent City correctly states the frequent misuse of words such as "license," "permit," and "franchise."
The GNU General Public License is a specially drafted copyright license. It is a legal tool.
It is very robust. It is made of simple parts: it is made from copyright law, not from contract law. By default, copyright excludes others from copying. That is the default. Copyright law also provides the power to license; but a license is not a contract. If a possible licensee does not agree with the terms of the license, then the possible licensee may not copy.
"I contracted a client today!" Jeez, can't we discuss this without mentioning viruses? Seriously though, I find your choice of words poor and I disagree with your classification, I've been a consultant for 9+ years now and I would say what you call "contracting" is typical freelance consulting and your definition of consulting is basically handholding. Top professional companies do not need handholding, so when you're dealing with them it's much more about technical knowledge than customer service. But since most of your customers need handholding I see why you would think that's the norm. It's not, at least not in my experience, YMMV.
Q. Are the licenses that Microsoft offers under the Open and Royalty-Free Office 2003 XML Reference Schema program perpetual in nature?
A. Yes. The licenses for the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas are perpetual. There is no term limit on the licenses.
The copyright holder may change the license and distribution terms at any time unless such a change is prohibited by the original licensing terms (as that is the case with GPL). The licenses are perpetual until decided otherwise. That statement you quoted is not legally binding, copyright law protects you from making such promises legally binding.
Create commercial software for the patented file format and make it as widespread as possible
Open up the file format to make it widespread among your opposition
Make legally nonbinding promises about keeping the file format open
Laugh as you watch a great number of Free Open Source Software developers waste their time writing software for the allegedly open file format instead of writing software that could endanger your company
Revoke the open licensing of the file format due to alleged profit loss
You rich simpleton, may your cyborg entity get infected by a Microsoft worm and have its 640 kb memory wiped in an attempt to protect itself using the latest Microsoft Antimalware Solution!
As someone who has not only read but also studied every single issue of Phrack I propose that in the very last issue they also publish the All-time Top 10 Articles List as voted by readers and I hereby nominate Aleph One's legendary article Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit (Volume 7, Issue 49, November 08, 1996).
So let's hear your nominations... Yes, I know phrack.org has been slashdotted (commiserations to John Kozubik of Johncompanies in San Diego), but that's the point - if you are a true diehard fan of Phrack you already have all the issues mirrored locally because you've studied them thoroughly.
Now try to visualize that story with FreeBSD's Scott Long (2nd on the left) and his Linux mullet-sporting namesake counterpart. I don't know about you, but I think Linux has finally found its poster guy, he and Tux look so happy together in that photo, don't you think? Of course, they'll also need a new slogan to go with the new poster, so I propose "Linux: the bare essentials open source OS. Who do you want to get friendly with today?"
Can you recommend any free service that has better software//available hardware?
Well, I'm still researching the options, but I can give you a few pointers. First of all I have to point out that interoperability is one of the major issues for me, I use mostly FreeBSD and Linux and I want to be able to use the software to talk to my Microsoft-infected friends as well. The options so far seem to be:
OhPhone: free to use, open source, based on OpenH323, which means it works with other H323 software (well, at least in theory). I've used it on FreeBSD to talk to a friend who used Microsoft NetMeeting and the sound quality was absolutely horrible regardless of the codecs used, I could not even understand what my friend was trying to say. I would highly advise you to stay away from this product.
KPhone: free to use, open source, based on SIP, which should make it possible to use with friends who use MSN messenger (I know!) through a SIP service like sipgate.de or similar. I have yet to test this...
On a sidenote, I find the review by PC Magazine to be really superficial, they did not even bother to do proper research, let alone test the available software thoroughly. Just take a look at this paragraph from the page on Skype:
Skype is the clear category winner for its wide array of communication options, lower per-minute pricing than Dialpad, and a clean, usable interface that worked consistently.
Clean interface? Anyone who's used it for more than 30 minutes knows that the GUI gets messed up to the point where you don't know if you're still on the line and sometimes you cannot even click any buttons, you have to just kill the client and restart it.
The service works with both Windows and Mac OS systems, and you can voice-conference with up to five people or conduct multiparty chat sessions.
Why is Linux not mentioned? And why do they not even mention the fact that Skype provides AES encrypted communication that employs 1024 bit RSA to negotiate symmetric AES keys? Even an average user would be able to write a more detailed review than this, this is pathetic.
Here's my review of Skype: no charge to use (for now) for Internet only communication, closed source, but it works very well on UNIX clones (at least on Linux and FreeBSD w/ Linux emulation) as well as Microsoft operating systems.
However, both I and my friends noticed that Skype makes a number of highly suspicious encrypted connections to sites in Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates. If that is not enough to make you shudder you should know that Skype is made by the infamous Swedish-Danish duo Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, who are also the makers of Kazaa. That's right, they're the same guys who infested Kazaa with adware and spyware and the same guys who used the DMCA to sue the Kazaa Lite guys for releasing Kazaa Lite, the adwarefree and spywarefree Kazaa client.
People claim that Skype sports no adware, but the fact that those highly suspicious connections to those sites are not even mentioned anywhere on the Skype site makes me believe there is a strategy in place to deploy adware, spyware and to even (ab)use Skype clients to act as unwitting spam proxies when the right time comes. Imagine 20 million users each unknowingly sending out 12 spam emails an hour. Launching a spam campaign with impunity has never been easier. As if that was not enough, the infamous duo based their new venture in Estonia. Why? Because of lax IP and privacy regulations, excellent Internet infrastructure, cheap labor ($300 a month for an experienced programmer) and proximity to Sweden and Denmark. Do you still feel good about using Skype?
Once you see what his ex-girlfriend did to his monitor when he told her it's over you'll understand why he needed to know well in advance if she was heading to his place for yet another constructively destructive discussion about why he does not want to marry her.
The company is helping to create a "Plays for sure" logo that will be used by device makers and online music services to assure consumers that purchases from participating companies will be compatible with each other, sources familiar with the plans say.
Bill Gates and the wife at home trying to dance to Blinded by your love by Modern talking coming out of their Plays-for-sure Microsoft (TM) player...
Wife: "Oh, Bill, this is so romantic, I just love your new song thingie..." Bill: "Huhuh, huh huhuhuh, yeah, it's pretty cool even if I say so myself, huhuh huh!"
*screech* *all of a sudden music changes to Settle for nothing by Rage Against The Machine*
Wife: "Biiiill? What the heck is this?!" Bill: "*shrugs* Umm, it's still playing, that's for sure. That's the main thing, right, hon?"
Wife: "Fix it, I want our song back!" Bill: "Uh, actually, I don't really know how it works, but -" Wife: "Oh never mind, I will do it! *aproaches player*" Wife: "Bill? Is this thingie supposed to have that blue screensaver you use all the time too?"
I am not an anime fan, so I won't even comment on that aspect, but on the referenced page there was a link to an interesting interview with TAFKA Prince. Here's the most interesting part:
What sort of marketing tactics are you using for Musicology and the current tour?
We introduced the concept of purchasing a brand-new CD with the concert ticket. That's all that really matters anyway: getting the music 2 the people. By any means necessary.
Does that include P2P file-sharing?
File-sharing seems 2 occur most when people want more QUALITY over quantity. One good tune on a 20-song CD is a rip. The corporations that created this situation will get the fate they deserve. 4 better or 4 worse, 4 every action there is a reaction. An MP3 is merely a tool. There is nothing 2 fear.
For many years now Bruce Schneier has been writing on this topic extensively and since I share his views I decided to put together the most relevant excerpts from his excellent Crypto-Gram newsletter and let them speak for themselves. If you really want to get up to speed on this topic, this is what you've been looking for.
Interesting report on the security of Diebold's voting machines. Scary stuff, especially if you consider that these are already being purchased for use in U.S. elections. http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
There are dozens of stories about computerized voting machines producing erroneous results. Votes mysteriously appear or disappear. Votes cast for one person are credited to another. Here are two from the most recent election: One candidate in Virginia found that the computerized election machines failed to register votes for her, and in fact subtracted a vote for her, in about "one out of a hundred tries." And in Indiana, 5,352 voters in an district of 19,000 managed to cast 144,000 ballots on a computerized machine.
These problems were only caught because their effects were obvious--and obviously wrong. Subtle problems remain undetected, and for every problem we catch--even though their effects often can't be undone--there are probably dozens that escape our notice.
Computers are fallible and software is unreliable; election machines are no different than your home computer.
Even more frightening than software mistakes is the potential for fraud. The companies producing voting machine software use poor computer-security practices. They leave sensitive code unprotected on networks. They install patches and updates without proper security auditing. And they use the law to prohibit public scrutiny of their practices. When damning memos from Diebold became public, the company sued to suppress them. Given these shoddy security practices, what confidence do we have that someone didn't break into the company's network and modify the voting software?
And because elections happen all at once, there would be no means of recovery. Imagine if, in the next presidential election, someone hacked the vote in New York. Would we let New York vote again in a week? Would we redo the entire national election? Would we tell New York that their votes didn't count?
Any discussion of computerized voting necessarily leads to Internet voting. Why not just do away with voting machines entirely, and let everyone vote remotely?
Online voting schemes have even more potential for failure and abuse. Internet systems are extremely difficult to secure, as evidenced by the never-ending stream of computer vulnerabilities and the widespread effect of Internet worms and viruses. It might be convenient to vote from your home computer, but it would also open new opportunities for people to play Hack the Vote.
And any remote voting scheme has its own problems. The voting booth provides security against coercion. I may be bribed or threatened to vote a certain way, but when I enter the privacy of the voting booth I can vote the way I want. Remote voting, whether by
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That's a great compilation, thanks for sharing!
Ever wonder why he hasn't threatened to sue Amazon despite the fact that there are over 250 titles containing the word stealth there? Well, the poor bastard works for Amazon, so you can understand why he spends his spare time going around and threatening to sue everyone else who in any way uses the word stealth. It's his way of blowing off steam, if it weren't for that he'd go postal and Bezos would get a new haircut and some of you people who still don't boycott Amazon would not get your books and DVDs.
What I would like to see is legislation that would prevent abusive companies like Amazon from launching such Denial of Service attacks on the USPTO, our economy and us as tax payers. Such abusive companies are filing thousands of ridiculous patent applications and counting on statistics to have a few of their riduculous patent applications slip through and get approved as well as to have initially rejected patent applications reversed. In the end those silly patents will get overturned and rejected, but it will cost us all a lot of time and tax payers' money.
There should be a law mandating that if a legal entity files more than a certain number of patent applications within a certain period of time (say, more than 5 within 30 days) and either more than a certain number of patent applications filed by that same legal entity within a longer period of time had been rejected (say, more than 5 rejected in the last 180 days) or the percentage of all the rejected patent applications ever filed by that legal entity exceeds a certain percentage (say, more than 25% rejected), then such a legal entity is only allowed to file no more than a certain number of patent applications per month (say, no more than 3 per month).
This sounds like a cool feature, can anyone confirm from personal experience that it really works?
It's not a matter of being too busy to watch, it's a matter of timing and freedom. Why should you stick to someone else's schedule when you can watch the show when you want and not when some TV station program says you should? It simply allows you to manage your time more freely. Besides, programming your favorite shows takes only a few minutes a week.
Let me be the first to say that I find this idea incredibly stupid. First of all, you are not very likely to find the song you want when you want it and there is a very slim chance that you will find a station that you would want to add to your favorites due to the random nature of the broadcasting selection process. In the end you just end up wasting a lot of your time listening to nothing and you begin to think that maybe you should just buy the CD. This smells like a RIAA sponsored project to me.
I think this must be really old news because those PCs seem to already be on their way to 3rd world countries, at least judging by the following email I got today:
You know what that means, don't you? That's right, they're buying 264,000 PCs!
Recommendation One:
Recommendation Two:
Recommendation Three:
Recommendation Four:
If they implement everything as recommended there is no need for a rescue plan and I doubt such a plan would actually work, it seems more like a publicity stunt to reassure the masses.
Now that we've established that Google is the proper authority for all legal matters let's see if you owe me any money:
"you owe me $1000000" - 31 hits
"you don't owe me $1000000" - 0 hits
"you do not owe me $1000000" - 0 hits
I expect to receive the said amount within 24 hours or you will be contacted by my legal representative. Thank you, good day!
"britney spears is a genius" - 11 hits
"britney spears isn't a genius" - 0 hits
"britney spears is not a genius" - 0 hits
"britney spears is no genius" - 0 hits
Sir, I am impressed, your legal prowess is surpassed only by your deductive reasoning.
According to The Superior Court of Los Angeles County:
"I contracted a client today!" Jeez, can't we discuss this without mentioning viruses? Seriously though, I find your choice of words poor and I disagree with your classification, I've been a consultant for 9+ years now and I would say what you call "contracting" is typical freelance consulting and your definition of consulting is basically handholding. Top professional companies do not need handholding, so when you're dealing with them it's much more about technical knowledge than customer service. But since most of your customers need handholding I see why you would think that's the norm. It's not, at least not in my experience, YMMV.
The copyright holder may change the license and distribution terms at any time unless such a change is prohibited by the original licensing terms (as that is the case with GPL). The licenses are perpetual until decided otherwise. That statement you quoted is not legally binding, copyright law protects you from making such promises legally binding.
You rich simpleton, may your cyborg entity get infected by a Microsoft worm and have its 640 kb memory wiped in an attempt to protect itself using the latest Microsoft Antimalware Solution!
As someone who has not only read but also studied every single issue of Phrack I propose that in the very last issue they also publish the All-time Top 10 Articles List as voted by readers and I hereby nominate Aleph One's legendary article Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit (Volume 7, Issue 49, November 08, 1996).
So let's hear your nominations... Yes, I know phrack.org has been slashdotted (commiserations to John Kozubik of Johncompanies in San Diego), but that's the point - if you are a true diehard fan of Phrack you already have all the issues mirrored locally because you've studied them thoroughly.
Now try to visualize that story with FreeBSD's Scott Long (2nd on the left) and his Linux mullet-sporting namesake counterpart. I don't know about you, but I think Linux has finally found its poster guy, he and Tux look so happy together in that photo, don't you think? Of course, they'll also need a new slogan to go with the new poster, so I propose "Linux: the bare essentials open source OS. Who do you want to get friendly with today?"
Can you recommend any free service that has better software//available hardware?
Well, I'm still researching the options, but I can give you a few pointers. First of all I have to point out that interoperability is one of the major issues for me, I use mostly FreeBSD and Linux and I want to be able to use the software to talk to my Microsoft-infected friends as well. The options so far seem to be:
OhPhone: free to use, open source, based on OpenH323, which means it works with other H323 software (well, at least in theory). I've used it on FreeBSD to talk to a friend who used Microsoft NetMeeting and the sound quality was absolutely horrible regardless of the codecs used, I could not even understand what my friend was trying to say. I would highly advise you to stay away from this product.
KPhone: free to use, open source, based on SIP, which should make it possible to use with friends who use MSN messenger (I know!) through a SIP service like sipgate.de or similar. I have yet to test this...
On a sidenote, I find the review by PC Magazine to be really superficial, they did not even bother to do proper research, let alone test the available software thoroughly. Just take a look at this paragraph from the page on Skype:
Skype is the clear category winner for its wide array of communication options, lower per-minute pricing than Dialpad, and a clean, usable interface that worked consistently.
Clean interface? Anyone who's used it for more than 30 minutes knows that the GUI gets messed up to the point where you don't know if you're still on the line and sometimes you cannot even click any buttons, you have to just kill the client and restart it.
The service works with both Windows and Mac OS systems, and you can voice-conference with up to five people or conduct multiparty chat sessions.
Why is Linux not mentioned? And why do they not even mention the fact that Skype provides AES encrypted communication that employs 1024 bit RSA to negotiate symmetric AES keys? Even an average user would be able to write a more detailed review than this, this is pathetic.
Here's my review of Skype: no charge to use (for now) for Internet only communication, closed source, but it works very well on UNIX clones (at least on Linux and FreeBSD w/ Linux emulation) as well as Microsoft operating systems.
However, both I and my friends noticed that Skype makes a number of highly suspicious encrypted connections to sites in Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates. If that is not enough to make you shudder you should know that Skype is made by the infamous Swedish-Danish duo Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, who are also the makers of Kazaa. That's right, they're the same guys who infested Kazaa with adware and spyware and the same guys who used the DMCA to sue the Kazaa Lite guys for releasing Kazaa Lite, the adwarefree and spywarefree Kazaa client.
People claim that Skype sports no adware, but the fact that those highly suspicious connections to those sites are not even mentioned anywhere on the Skype site makes me believe there is a strategy in place to deploy adware, spyware and to even (ab)use Skype clients to act as unwitting spam proxies when the right time comes. Imagine 20 million users each unknowingly sending out 12 spam emails an hour. Launching a spam campaign with impunity has never been easier. As if that was not enough, the infamous duo based their new venture in Estonia. Why? Because of lax IP and privacy regulations, excellent Internet infrastructure, cheap labor ($300 a month for an experienced programmer) and proximity to Sweden and Denmark. Do you still feel good about using Skype?
As I already pointed out quite a while ago, the name was not chosen by accident and it should be read as go ogle. Porn is behind everything, man!
Once you see what his ex-girlfriend did to his monitor when he told her it's over you'll understand why he needed to know well in advance if she was heading to his place for yet another constructively destructive discussion about why he does not want to marry her.
Just so you know, that used to be a 22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2060u before they broke up.
Bill Gates and the wife at home trying to dance to Blinded by your love by Modern talking coming out of their Plays-for-sure Microsoft (TM) player...
Wife: "Oh, Bill, this is so romantic, I just love your new song thingie..."
Bill: "Huhuh, huh huhuhuh, yeah, it's pretty cool even if I say so myself, huhuh huh!"
*screech* *all of a sudden music changes to Settle for nothing by Rage Against The Machine*
Wife: "Biiiill? What the heck is this?!"
Bill: "*shrugs* Umm, it's still playing, that's for sure. That's the main thing, right, hon?"
*screech* *crackle* *pop* *music stops altogether*
Wife: "Fix it, I want our song back!"
Bill: "Uh, actually, I don't really know how it works, but -"
Wife: "Oh never mind, I will do it! *aproaches player*"
Wife: "Bill? Is this thingie supposed to have that blue screensaver you use all the time too?"
I am not an anime fan, so I won't even comment on that aspect, but on the referenced page there was a link to an interesting interview with TAFKA Prince. Here's the most interesting part:
Pardon my off-topicness.For many years now Bruce Schneier has been writing on this topic extensively and since I share his views I decided to put together the most relevant excerpts from his excellent Crypto-Gram newsletter and let them speak for themselves. If you really want to get up to speed on this topic, this is what you've been looking for.
Crypto-Gram: September 15, 2003 :: News:
Crypto-Gram: October 15, 2003 :: News:
Crypto-Gram: December 15, 2003 :: Computerized and Electronic Voting: