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non-group thinking bots) down.
This is true. I used to be a bit
more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a
karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot
does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie
about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.
Big
brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC
things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They
punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.
They also revoke
moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any
post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden
flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor
secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if
your karma is capped.
Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to
track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl
never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good
friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more
moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to
make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate.
You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak"
of an editor.
FACT: This is in Slashcode CVS Revision 1.7.2.5 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Thu Feb 8 13:12:32 2001 UTC (2 years, 9 months ago) by pudge Branch: bender CVS Tags: v1_1_3_0 Changes since 1.7.2.4: +18 -7 lines Diff to previous 1.7.2.4 to branchpoint 1.7
log more AC info
So
AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the caboose. So now
all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE.
And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about
anonymity.
Also, sometimes when certain information becomes an
active thread, they bitchslap the thread much later so that people
think its "safe" to participate and the whole thing gets slapped.
There
is a presumption anonymous means something. They lie like rugs to the
posting public by using the word anonymous. It is not. They brazenly
lie though and the un-assuming poster is having everything he says
correlated with him and stored in a computer just waiting to be
subpoenaed by the people that Slashdot claims to hate but works for.
They work for the fascist forces and components of the US government. I
like the US and other Western governments but they have good and bad
components - there are things you need to do to protect yourself from
the bad components. Basically "covering your ass" so to speak. At
Slashdot, in lying about AC, un-protects its posting public (seeding a
de-anonymizing privacy stripping pandemic in their own "little" way).
This makes Slashdot a very dangerous target for you the posters to have
your "anonymous" information subpoenaed and you to be chased down and
persecuted for speaking your mind. I think that it is a joke Slashdot
editors post about SCO, MSFT, RIAA, MPAA, TIA, FBI, etc. They do the
same fascist big-brotherly things that those companies do the public at
large as they do to the Slashdot posting public.
Protect
yourself. Try and use proxies or a super good second browser with
proxies that you never log into such as Opera (which makes it very easy
to delete all private data). Thank you.
I'll sit back and watch as the stupid liberal rights people on here flame each other over the privacy of their internal organs. They will really believe that doctors will get you to take pills so the digital cameras inside them can submit data about you (your insides, what you eat, listen to your conversations, etc...) and beem that information to headquarters so they can find out if the pill is inside a liberal traitor or a terrorist. This is a great victory for the government on cracking down on dissent!
HAHAHAHAHAHA@@@@@ YOU are FLAMEBAIT. wo000ttt wooottt. Stupid liberals telling all these lies, and gettig bitch slapped by mods! This place has really improved since I came along!!!
Are you calling my daddy Rush a BFI? Perpare to get bitch slapped then you liberal son of a bitch. Liberals must all shipped off to Gitmo or better yet killed.
This is the way to stop communist linux crap from taking over the free world. We can force users to use certified products, and never certify linux products, making linux usage illegal and a terrorist act.
Oh, I'm a Republican I got a small schling I like to bomb niggahs and make a lot o' bling
I got a bunch o' friends in high up places They helps me get dem government graces.
You think I'm smart I just know who's who I couldn't run a fruit stand without the red white & blue
Don't need no history Don't need no schoolin' I got my ideology To keep me a shootin'
I fancy myself A brilliant tactician But neither me nor m'buddies Could even pass basic trainin'
See, I'm above all that A fightin' and shootin' I just say "Sic em!" Then run the other direction
Liberals! Faggots! Commies and queers! Socialist hippies Full o' pussy tears!
I'll drop some crap about Jesus the Christ You'll buy it all and vote for me twice
'Fact, Jesus is comin'! Real soon, now! So we gotta prop up Israel That ol' sacred cow
Propaganda's m'friend But I calls it "fact" Even though I don't read 'Cept for Chick tracts
Facts? No! Don't need em here! We're conservatives! We work on FEAR! Don't like what we say? Well FUCK YOU, bud! We'll shove it down yer throat and tell ya it's good!
Let Microsoft buy this Linux crap up and make it their own property. Then they can sue all these hippy Linux developers and users and profit. Then they can gladly donate to the Republican party and maintain its chokehold on America. Hahahahaha!!!
Liberals are fucking commies!! Linux user = communist
hahaha, it is so good to see informed experts prove that software is not free, and that there are costs to everything. so you free software freak liberals need to wake up and smell the coffee. microsoft and president bush know best, so you need to invest in them before they put you away for disobedience to your masters.
I AM MRS. HAJIAH HASSAN AHMED, THE WIFE OF LATE CHIEF ALHAJI HASSAN AHMED...I SEEK IN CONFIDENCE THAT YOU ASSIST ME TO INVEST THIS US$34,000,000 FUND. I HAVE RESOLVED TO DEPART 25% OF THE TOTAL SUM TO YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THIS TRANSACTION SECURED BY YOUR GOOD FAITH DEPOSIT OF US$5,000.
Few of us would rush to send Mrs. Ahmed the $5,000 she asks for in return for a promised $8.5 million. This is clearly the mythical free lunch; a scam; a pitch that promises something for nothing; a special deal only for us. We are all much too sophisticated to believe that millions of dollars will fall into our laps with no effort on our part--or are we? Many of us buy the following scams where perhaps the lack of all caps serves to disguise them.
Free Software
Why buy expensive software or spend millions to develop it yourself? You can get complex systems at absolutely NO COST! Yes, instead of having highly paid programmers at Microsoft, IBM, Sun, or even Blackboard build your critical university systems, you can have scores of software gurus scattered around the globe working completely independently build them for you FOR FREE. These folks are some of the same great people who are supposed to be working for you anyway, plus a smattering of teenagers too young to work at Redmond, hackers, virus creators, and a menagerie of others with whom you will feel great pride in entrusting your IT infrastructure.
This is the alluring pitch of open source software. We may have to give up project planning, quality control, coding standards, accountability, version control, and support, but it's FREE and we get the ability to modify the source code ourselves, something that is extremely dangerous to do, was discredited decades ago, and few people do anyway.
Yes, PeopleSoft is very expensive and those greedy folks at WebCT expect to make a profit, but they have to pay for quality software to be developed and so do we! We either pay commercial software developers, pay to build it ourselves, or pay the even higher price to manage and maintain FREE open source software. Who cares how much we have to spend as long as they say it's free--or nearly so. While you are installing your free open source software you may want to write Mrs. Ahmed a check. Her $8.5 million will help pay for the real cost of that free software.
Free Labor
Another way to get free software is to have students develop our critical systems. We all know how clever students are and how being born in the computer age they have bypassed a million years of evolution to become cyber sapiens. Software development is instinctive to them. While your aging, over-21 staff demands high salaries and benefits, and fusses with security, documentation, and project planning, cyber sapiens work for a few dollars an hour and can manage several projects in their heads without writing a single thing down. They also write bug-free code, work during exams and vacations, and are not distracted by alcohol, sports, or the acquisition of potential mates. Best of all, students do not tie up your expensive equipment. They can develop and run your systems on their own dorm computers where their cyber sapien friends can do quality assurance with your confidential data. It is no wonder that we are so sad to see 25 percent of our students leave each year, abandoning their superbly crafted systems. Your IT staff will let you know that as geriatric non-cyber sapiens they can't manage these orphaned student-developed systems so they must be passed on to the next class of cyber sapiens.
Free Market
You can also get free software developed by having your users develop it for you. Really, users are no dummies and if they are there are books just for them on every imaginable subject. Buying users copies of SQL for Dummies ($17.49 at Amazon.com) is a lot cheaper than having your expensive IT staff write a whole bunch of reports for them in SQL. Empower your users! Give th
LINUXANT RELEASES NEW DRIVERLOADER(TM) FOR INTEL CENTRINO, INTERSIL, BROADCOM, ATHEROS, AND OTHER WIRELESS LAN DEVICES
MONTREAL, QC Oct. 27, 2003 - Linuxant inc., a world-class supplier of consulting, software development and professional support services is announcing the immediate availability of DriverLoader(TM) 1.2, a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems.
The main highlight of this new release is significant compatibility improvements with simultaneous support for multiple Windows drivers. DriverLoader 1.2 now supports Intel PRO/Wireless (Centrino), Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo, Broadcom, Atheros, and other Wireless LAN drivers for Windows.
Linuxant is committed to continue improving DriverLoader so that it becomes a fully compatible generic solution capable of running the majority of Windows NDIS drivers.
DriverLoader technology is the ideal Linux solution to support devices for which no adequate native open-source drivers are available. It also allows vendors to drastically reduce time to market or eliminate the need to support multiple drivers for Windows and Linux. By using the same NDIS driver on both platforms, significant resources can be saved. All Linux-specific code in DriverLoader remains open-source, allowing it to be used under any supported version of the kernel.
Thanks to DriverLoader, owners of Wireless LAN devices (CardBus and PCI) with compatible Windows drivers can now use their devices under Linux, enjoying the full speed of the latest Wireless LAN technology with the freedom of the renowned open-source operating-system.
DriverLoader packages can be downloaded from Linuxant's web site at no cost*. The software is easy to install on standard Linux distributions (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, and derivatives) with any recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, and includes a user-friendly Web-based configuration system.
Vendors interested in using DriverLoader technology to enable their products under Linux should contact services@linuxant.com.
For more information or to download your copy of DriverLoader, please go to http://www.linuxant.com
About Linuxant Linuxant is a world-class supplier of consulting, software development and professional support services. Linuxant works closely with leading vendors and OEMs of semiconductor, PC, embedded and communication/wireless products, as well as with companies in other industries, providing technological expertise and solutions to maximize the potential of Linux and open-source. Additionally, Linuxant develops and distributes specialized system software, such as device drivers for specific applications.
* Linuxant is happy to provide free trial DriverLoader licenses, while discussions are under way with hardware vendors to finance development costs. Linuxant hopes that DriverLoader will remain free for end-users.
We can sell products to consumers much more easily and find out more information about consumer habits like this. It could also help people with dietary problems, especially if they have a voice telling them to put unhealthy stuff back since they don't seem to listen to health information.
I hear that all these liberals on here might actually attack this web server by reloading the article multiple times, so I decided to copy it.
US develops lethal new viruses
19:00 29 October 03
Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues.
A scientist funded by the US government has deliberately created an extremely deadly form of mousepox, a relative of the smallpox virus, through genetic engineering.
The new virus kills all mice even if they have been given antiviral drugs as well as a vaccine that would normally protect them.
The work has not stopped there. The cowpox virus, which infects a range of animals including humans, has been genetically altered in a similar way.
The new virus, which is about to be tested on animals, should be lethal only to mice, Mark Buller of the University of St Louis told New Scientist. He says his work is necessary to explore what bioterrorists might do.
But the research brings closer the prospect of pox viruses that cause only mild infections in humans being turned into diseases lethal even to people who have been vaccinated.
And vaccines are currently our main defence against smallpox and its relatives, such as the monkeypox that reached the US this year. Some researchers think the latest research is risky and unnecessary.
"I have great concern about doing this in a pox virus that can cross species," said Ian Ramshaw of the Australian National University in Canberra on being told of Buller's work.
Ramshaw was a member of the team that accidentally discovered how to make mousepox more deadly (New Scientist, 13 January 2001). But the modified mousepox his team created was not as deadly as Buller's.
No rebound
Since then, Ramshaw told New Scientist, his team has also created more deadly forms of mousepox, and has used the same method to engineer a more deadly rabbitpox virus.
But this research revealed that the modified pox viruses are not contagious, he says. That is good news in the sense that these viruses could not cause ecological havoc by wiping out mouse or rabbit populations around the world if they escaped from a lab.
However, this discovery also means some bioterrorists might be more tempted to use the same trick to modify a pox virus that infects humans. Such a disease, like anthrax, would infect only those directly exposed to it. It would not spread around the world and rebound on the attackers. But there is no guarantee that other pox viruses modified in a similar way would also be non-contagious.
Ramshaw's team made its initial discovery while developing contraceptive vaccines for sterilising mice and rabbits without killing them. The researchers modified the mousepox virus by adding a gene for a natural immunosuppressant called IL-4, expecting this would boost antibody production.
Instead, the modified mousepox virus was far more lethal, killing 60 per cent of vaccinated mice. The addition of IL-4 seems to switch off a key part of the immune system called the cell-mediated response.
Maximised production
Now Buller has engineered a mousepox strain that kills 100 per cent of vaccinated mice, even when they were also treated with the antiviral drug cidofovir. A monoclonal antibody that mops up IL-4 did save some, however.
His team "optimised" the virus by placing the IL-4 gene in a different part of the viral genome and adding a promoter sequence to maximise production of the IL-4 protein, he told a biosecurity conference in Geneva last week.
Buller has also constructed a cowpox virus containing the mouse IL-4 gene, which is about to be tested on mice at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Cowpox infects people, but Buller says the IL-4 protein is species-specific and would not affect the human immune system. The experiments are being done at the second-highest level of biological containment.
In order to stop people that are opposed to us, we can use germ warfare against them. No nation has any right to do this except the US, since we know best.
Slashdot Mirror
HI Ann. FUCK YOU for stealing my name.
(Use a disposable account from a disposable IP before moderating this up. Editors generally watch and see who moderates controversial things like this up.)
When you are logged in,
Please *log out* AND use another browser before making your AC comments.
Your UID is being tracked, it's not Anonymous. Lots of people post lots of things to Slashdot as AC only because they believe it is really anonymous - it isn't. They hunt "trolls" (non-karma whores and non-group thinking bots) down.
This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.
Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.
They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.
Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.
FACT: This is in Slashcode CVS
Revision 1.7.2.5 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Thu Feb 8 13:12:32 2001 UTC (2 years, 9 months ago) by pudge
Branch: bender
CVS Tags: v1_1_3_0
Changes since 1.7.2.4: +18 -7 lines
Diff to previous 1.7.2.4 to branchpoint 1.7
log more AC info
So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the caboose. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.
Also, sometimes when certain information becomes an active thread, they bitchslap the thread much later so that people think its "safe" to participate and the whole thing gets slapped.
There is a presumption anonymous means something. They lie like rugs to the posting public by using the word anonymous. It is not. They brazenly lie though and the un-assuming poster is having everything he says correlated with him and stored in a computer just waiting to be subpoenaed by the people that Slashdot claims to hate but works for. They work for the fascist forces and components of the US government. I like the US and other Western governments but they have good and bad components - there are things you need to do to protect yourself from the bad components. Basically "covering your ass" so to speak. At Slashdot, in lying about AC, un-protects its posting public (seeding a de-anonymizing privacy stripping pandemic in their own "little" way). This makes Slashdot a very dangerous target for you the posters to have your "anonymous" information subpoenaed and you to be chased down and persecuted for speaking your mind. I think that it is a joke Slashdot editors post about SCO, MSFT, RIAA, MPAA, TIA, FBI, etc. They do the same fascist big-brotherly things that those companies do the public at large as they do to the Slashdot posting public.
Protect yourself. Try and use proxies or a super good second browser with proxies that you never log into such as Opera (which makes it very easy to delete all private data). Thank you.
I'll sit back and watch as the stupid liberal rights people on here flame each other over the privacy of their internal organs. They will really believe that doctors will get you to take pills so the digital cameras inside them can submit data about you (your insides, what you eat, listen to your conversations, etc...) and beem that information to headquarters so they can find out if the pill is inside a liberal traitor or a terrorist. This is a great victory for the government on cracking down on dissent!
HAHAHAHAHAHA@@@@@ YOU are FLAMEBAIT. wo000ttt wooottt. Stupid liberals telling all these lies, and gettig bitch slapped by mods! This place has really improved since I came along!!!
Are you calling my daddy Rush a BFI? Perpare to get bitch slapped then you liberal son of a bitch. Liberals must all shipped off to Gitmo or better yet killed.
---
Ann Coulter Troll
i for one welcome our new police-state overlords.
This is the way to stop communist linux crap from taking over the free world. We can force users to use certified products, and never certify linux products, making linux usage illegal and a terrorist act.
Oh, I'm a Republican
I got a small schling
I like to bomb niggahs
and make a lot o' bling
I got a bunch o' friends
in high up places
They helps me get dem
government graces.
You think I'm smart
I just know who's who
I couldn't run a fruit stand
without the red white & blue
Don't need no history
Don't need no schoolin'
I got my ideology
To keep me a shootin'
I fancy myself
A brilliant tactician
But neither me nor m'buddies
Could even pass basic trainin'
See, I'm above all that
A fightin' and shootin'
I just say "Sic em!"
Then run the other direction
Liberals! Faggots!
Commies and queers!
Socialist hippies
Full o' pussy tears!
I'll drop some crap
about Jesus the Christ
You'll buy it all
and vote for me twice
'Fact, Jesus is comin'!
Real soon, now!
So we gotta prop up Israel
That ol' sacred cow
Propaganda's m'friend
But I calls it "fact"
Even though I don't read
'Cept for Chick tracts
Facts? No! Don't need em here!
We're conservatives! We work on FEAR!
Don't like what we say?
Well FUCK YOU, bud!
We'll shove it down yer throat
and tell ya it's good!
china is communist and must be stopped. my friend GMontag and fortknox will stop it. won't you?
young man, pr0n is illegal in my country. get out you stupid pervert liberal!
me again. can i become a bush team leader?
Let Microsoft buy this Linux crap up and make it their own property. Then they can sue all these hippy Linux developers and users and profit. Then they can gladly donate to the Republican party and maintain its chokehold on America. Hahahahaha!!!
Liberals are fucking commies!!
Linux user = communist
PNAC
Project for New American Century
Washington, DC
They will make good use of your funds.
Thanks!!
I am reporting you to the FBI for your latest JE. Have a nice day in Gitmo you terrorist dirtbag.
All of your moon are belong to USA.
hahaha, it is so good to see informed experts prove that software is not free, and that
there are costs to everything. so you free software freak liberals need to wake up and smell
the coffee. microsoft and president bush know best, so you need to invest in them before they
put you away for disobedience to your masters.
hahahahahahahahahaha
liberals are so stupid!!!!
The FREE, 0% APR, Better Sex, No Effort Diet
Howard Strauss
I AM MRS. HAJIAH HASSAN AHMED, THE WIFE OF LATE CHIEF ALHAJI HASSAN AHMED...I SEEK IN CONFIDENCE THAT YOU ASSIST ME TO INVEST THIS US$34,000,000 FUND. I HAVE RESOLVED TO DEPART 25% OF THE TOTAL SUM TO YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THIS TRANSACTION SECURED BY YOUR GOOD FAITH DEPOSIT OF US$5,000.
Few of us would rush to send Mrs. Ahmed the $5,000 she asks for in return for a promised $8.5 million. This is clearly the mythical free lunch; a scam; a pitch that promises something for nothing; a special deal only for us. We are all much too sophisticated to believe that millions of dollars will fall into our laps with no effort on our part--or are we? Many of us buy the following scams where perhaps the lack of all caps serves to disguise them.
Free Software
Why buy expensive software or spend millions to develop it yourself? You can get complex systems at absolutely NO COST! Yes, instead of having highly paid programmers at Microsoft, IBM, Sun, or even Blackboard build your critical university systems, you can have scores of software gurus scattered around the globe working completely independently build them for you FOR FREE. These folks are some of the same great people who are supposed to be working for you anyway, plus a smattering of teenagers too young to work at Redmond, hackers, virus creators, and a menagerie of others with whom you will feel great pride in entrusting your IT infrastructure.
This is the alluring pitch of open source software. We may have to give up project planning, quality control, coding standards, accountability, version control, and support, but it's FREE and we get the ability to modify the source code ourselves, something that is extremely dangerous to do, was discredited decades ago, and few people do anyway.
Yes, PeopleSoft is very expensive and those greedy folks at WebCT expect to make a profit, but they have to pay for quality software to be developed and so do we! We either pay commercial software developers, pay to build it ourselves, or pay the even higher price to manage and maintain FREE open source software. Who cares how much we have to spend as long as they say it's free--or nearly so. While you are installing your free open source software you may want to write Mrs. Ahmed a check. Her $8.5 million will help pay for the real cost of that free software.
Free Labor
Another way to get free software is to have students develop our critical systems. We all know how clever students are and how being born in the computer age they have bypassed a million years of evolution to become cyber sapiens. Software development is instinctive to them. While your aging, over-21 staff demands high salaries and benefits, and fusses with security, documentation, and project planning, cyber sapiens work for a few dollars an hour and can manage several projects in their heads without writing a single thing down. They also write bug-free code, work during exams and vacations, and are not distracted by alcohol, sports, or the acquisition of potential mates. Best of all, students do not tie up your expensive equipment. They can develop and run your systems on their own dorm computers where their cyber sapien friends can do quality assurance with your confidential data. It is no wonder that we are so sad to see 25 percent of our students leave each year, abandoning their superbly crafted systems. Your IT staff will let you know that as geriatric non-cyber sapiens they can't manage these orphaned student-developed systems so they must be passed on to the next class of cyber sapiens.
Free Market
You can also get free software developed by having your users develop it for you. Really, users are no dummies and if they are there are books just for them on every imaginable subject. Buying users copies of SQL for Dummies ($17.49 at Amazon.com) is a lot cheaper than having your expensive IT staff write a whole bunch of reports for them in SQL. Empower your users! Give th
LINUXANT RELEASES NEW DRIVERLOADER(TM) FOR INTEL CENTRINO, INTERSIL, BROADCOM, ATHEROS, AND OTHER WIRELESS LAN DEVICES
MONTREAL, QC Oct. 27, 2003 - Linuxant inc., a world-class supplier of consulting, software development and professional support services is announcing the immediate availability of DriverLoader(TM) 1.2, a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems.
The main highlight of this new release is significant compatibility improvements with simultaneous support for multiple Windows drivers. DriverLoader 1.2 now supports Intel PRO/Wireless (Centrino), Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo, Broadcom, Atheros, and other Wireless LAN drivers for Windows.
Linuxant is committed to continue improving DriverLoader so that it becomes a fully compatible generic solution capable of running the majority of Windows NDIS drivers.
DriverLoader technology is the ideal Linux solution to support devices for which no adequate native open-source drivers are available. It also allows vendors to drastically reduce time to market or eliminate the need to support multiple drivers for Windows and Linux. By using the same NDIS driver on both platforms, significant resources can be saved. All Linux-specific code in DriverLoader remains open-source, allowing it to be used under any supported version of the kernel.
Thanks to DriverLoader, owners of Wireless LAN devices (CardBus and PCI) with compatible Windows drivers can now use their devices under Linux, enjoying the full speed of the latest Wireless LAN technology with the freedom of the renowned open-source operating-system.
DriverLoader packages can be downloaded from Linuxant's web site at no cost*. The software is easy to install on standard Linux distributions (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, and derivatives) with any recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, and includes a user-friendly Web-based configuration system.
Vendors interested in using DriverLoader technology to enable their products under Linux should contact services@linuxant.com.
For more information or to download your copy of DriverLoader, please go to http://www.linuxant.com
About Linuxant
Linuxant is a world-class supplier of consulting, software development and professional support services. Linuxant works closely with leading vendors and OEMs of semiconductor, PC, embedded and communication/wireless products, as well as with companies in other industries, providing technological expertise and solutions to maximize the potential of Linux and open-source. Additionally, Linuxant develops and distributes specialized system software, such as device drivers for specific applications.
* Linuxant is happy to provide free trial DriverLoader licenses, while discussions are under way with hardware vendors to finance development costs. Linuxant hopes that DriverLoader will remain free for end-users.
irc.deviantart.com #boxwhores
I'm a whore. Why won't it let me on that site?
Stop hacking the fucking device, you commies!
Once people start buying more of these, raise the prices.
We can sell products to consumers much more easily and find out more information about consumer habits like this. It could also help people with dietary problems, especially if they have a voice telling them to put unhealthy stuff back since they don't seem to listen to health information.
I hear that all these liberals on here might actually attack this web server by reloading the article multiple times, so I decided to copy it.
US develops lethal new viruses
19:00 29 October 03
Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues.
A scientist funded by the US government has deliberately created an extremely deadly form of mousepox, a relative of the smallpox virus, through genetic engineering.
The new virus kills all mice even if they have been given antiviral drugs as well as a vaccine that would normally protect them.
The work has not stopped there. The cowpox virus, which infects a range of animals including humans, has been genetically altered in a similar way.
The new virus, which is about to be tested on animals, should be lethal only to mice, Mark Buller of the University of St Louis told New Scientist. He says his work is necessary to explore what bioterrorists might do.
But the research brings closer the prospect of pox viruses that cause only mild infections in humans being turned into diseases lethal even to people who have been vaccinated.
And vaccines are currently our main defence against smallpox and its relatives, such as the monkeypox that reached the US this year. Some researchers think the latest research is risky and unnecessary.
"I have great concern about doing this in a pox virus that can cross species," said Ian Ramshaw of the Australian National University in Canberra on being told of Buller's work.
Ramshaw was a member of the team that accidentally discovered how to make mousepox more deadly (New Scientist, 13 January 2001). But the modified mousepox his team created was not as deadly as Buller's.
No rebound
Since then, Ramshaw told New Scientist, his team has also created more deadly forms of mousepox, and has used the same method to engineer a more deadly rabbitpox virus.
But this research revealed that the modified pox viruses are not contagious, he says. That is good news in the sense that these viruses could not cause ecological havoc by wiping out mouse or rabbit populations around the world if they escaped from a lab.
However, this discovery also means some bioterrorists might be more tempted to use the same trick to modify a pox virus that infects humans. Such a disease, like anthrax, would infect only those directly exposed to it. It would not spread around the world and rebound on the attackers. But there is no guarantee that other pox viruses modified in a similar way would also be non-contagious.
Ramshaw's team made its initial discovery while developing contraceptive vaccines for sterilising mice and rabbits without killing them. The researchers modified the mousepox virus by adding a gene for a natural immunosuppressant called IL-4, expecting this would boost antibody production.
Instead, the modified mousepox virus was far more lethal, killing 60 per cent of vaccinated mice. The addition of IL-4 seems to switch off a key part of the immune system called the cell-mediated response.
Maximised production
Now Buller has engineered a mousepox strain that kills 100 per cent of vaccinated mice, even when they were also treated with the antiviral drug cidofovir. A monoclonal antibody that mops up IL-4 did save some, however.
His team "optimised" the virus by placing the IL-4 gene in a different part of the viral genome and adding a promoter sequence to maximise production of the IL-4 protein, he told a biosecurity conference in Geneva last week.
Buller has also constructed a cowpox virus containing the mouse IL-4 gene, which is about to be tested on mice at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Cowpox infects people, but Buller says the IL-4 protein is species-specific and would not affect the human immune system. The experiments are being done at the second-highest level of biological containment.
Nine-eleven
In order to stop people that are opposed to us, we can use germ warfare against them. No nation has any right to do this except the US, since we know best.