I have the same Linksys router. You need the DD-WRT mini (I think) image for that. DD-WRT for no apparent reason think IPv6 is unimportant and so don't include it on the mini image.
To say he was the first to discover the Americas, means we end up assuming he was a better sailor than all those who came before him. And that feeds into the heroic image many people have of him now (which I think a lot of people have issue with - once they learn the facts).
To turn Columbus into a hero is inherently racist. And by talking about the positive things Columbus did (and to embellish them), and ignore the rest of what he did is turning him into a hero.
Could that be because the US didn't exist until the Constitution was ratified? Or perhaps the Articles of Confederation? Or at least the unified statements of the DoI made by the representatives of the various colonies?
I should have been clearer: Columbus never set foot on any land which is now nor has ever been a part of the US. Maybe the mock Facebook page should have started at the Declaration of Independence or ratification of the Constitution.
Did Columbus discover the Americas? Yes (from a European perspective, anyway). Did he land in the United States of America? No.
He wasn't the first European to arrive at the Americas. There were several before him.
He certainly popularised the area - he was an innovator in the exploitation of land and peoples, which people for centuries to come imitated:
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass. (James W. Loewen, "Lies My Teacher Told Me")
Columbus never landed on US soil - I even knew that before I read a single book on US history. I won't bother reading TFA since it's obviously a load of crap.
Just followed the link and clicked "Report Page". You have a right to your opinions, but if you will go ahead and get people with opposing viewpoints' Facebook pages deleted, then I'm very glad yours got deleted too. I'm only disappointed a) nobody else got theirs back and b) you got yours back.
There are obvious reasons why there are federal age requirements for Internet use: sexual predators, cyberbullying, adult content and explicit language.
Those are the obvious reasons. But none of those are correct.
[U.S. Congress] wanted to make certain that corporations could not collect or sell data about children under the age of 13 without parental permission, so they created a requirement to check age and get parental permission for those under 13. Most companies took one look at COPPA and decided that the process of getting parental consent was far too onerous so they simply required all participants to be at least 13 years of age.
Viewing images accidentally is legal. But if you were told such-and-such URL contained illegal content, and you went there with the intention of reporting it, you have broken the law.
But seriously, if we combine this with that recent request for help from the fellow whose name brings up a paedophile... surely we can sue for defamation of character whether the comments are referring to ourselves or not? That would be my logical conclusion without reading TFA.
One thing I noticed when looking at the Virgin Killers page while it was being blocked was that it pretended to be a 404 error (a very unconvincing one). This is presumably part of their "don't alert people" ploy too, but it confounds the majority of people from being able to discover that it's being blocked.
I regularly use software with EULAs to which somebody else has agreed.
Does that mean I would be eligable to sue the company for something which the EULA-clicker supposedly no longer has the right to do?
And does it make a difference as to who owns the hardware? (i.e. sysadmin agreeing on a university computer, compared to a cat agreeing to something running on my hardware).
I think the problem is a lack of initiative on her part mostly (i.e. if she'd talked to her ISP and educational institution, these matters would probably have been resolved sooner), but probably also a relatively unhelpful person in a Dell call centre who could have asked what she thought she needed Windows for and explained how to do those things with what she had.
Perhaps some folk would care to compare what is available in the UK and Australia and what is not, list those links on a website to show the world exactly how much is being censored.
That's the problem, at least in the UK, since the IWF's blacklist is secret. I emailed them asking for a copy of it so I knew when the 404s I was getting were fake (which is how O2 handles it).
You'd have to search for a lot of CP, by which time you'd probably get arrested. Somehow I doubt saying you were trying to discover the secret blacklist would go down very well.
Obviously I don't hang with the cool kids who use "monkey" as an affix, so are there any examples of this? Or did somebody just make it up and submit it?
> Wouldn't it be far easier for a nefarious government organization to target that distribution's repositories, mirror that singular distribution's disk images with files of its own design, and leave every last one of that distribution's users in the great wide open?
I believe Debian solved this problem long ago, it's called public-key encryption.
This leaves one thing the user must do: acquire the distributor's public key from a trusted source. Unfortunately as far as I know only APT-based distributions sign all their packages, leaving everybody else putting a lot of trust in their sysadmin/ISP/government.
It's not like they can use your work without attribution in academic papers, since that would be plagiarism, right? So any specific clause that required citation would be unnecessary.
From what I gather, the Earth is accelerating at 9.8m/s^2. This is what causes the movement of things towards the Earth. It has been accelerating at this rate for a long time (i.e. throughout history), but the acceleration is not constant. The Big Bang occurred around 4.5 billion years ago.
The fact that at 9.8m/s^2 we would accelerate to faster than the speed of light in under a year has yet to be accounted for in that thread. They mentioned something about special relativity so maybe that's it.
By my calculations if we assume a mean acceleration of 4.9m/s^2, the Earth is traveling at c2.25e09m/s. FTL!
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I have the same Linksys router. You need the DD-WRT mini (I think) image for that. DD-WRT for no apparent reason think IPv6 is unimportant and so don't include it on the mini image.
Bonus points for homophobia, linking to the Daily Mail, and the phrase "politically correct".
Things white people like: white comic book super heroes.
To say he was the first to discover the Americas, means we end up assuming he was a better sailor than all those who came before him. And that feeds into the heroic image many people have of him now (which I think a lot of people have issue with - once they learn the facts).
To turn Columbus into a hero is inherently racist. And by talking about the positive things Columbus did (and to embellish them), and ignore the rest of what he did is turning him into a hero.
Could that be because the US didn't exist until the Constitution was ratified? Or perhaps the Articles of Confederation? Or at least the unified statements of the DoI made by the representatives of the various colonies?
I should have been clearer: Columbus never set foot on any land which is now nor has ever been a part of the US. Maybe the mock Facebook page should have started at the Declaration of Independence or ratification of the Constitution.
Did Columbus discover the Americas? Yes (from a European perspective, anyway). Did he land in the United States of America? No.
He wasn't the first European to arrive at the Americas. There were several before him.
He certainly popularised the area - he was an innovator in the exploitation of land and peoples, which people for centuries to come imitated:
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass. (James W. Loewen, "Lies My Teacher Told Me")
Columbus never landed on US soil - I even knew that before I read a single book on US history. I won't bother reading TFA since it's obviously a load of crap.
I think somebody's missed the joke. 30 times.
Just followed the link and clicked "Report Page". You have a right to your opinions, but if you will go ahead and get people with opposing viewpoints' Facebook pages deleted, then I'm very glad yours got deleted too. I'm only disappointed a) nobody else got theirs back and b) you got yours back.
Those are the obvious reasons. But none of those are correct.
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/06/10/how-coppa-fails-parents-educators-youth.html
Viewing images accidentally is legal. But if you were told such-and-such URL contained illegal content, and you went there with the intention of reporting it, you have broken the law.
Instead of buying or renting a server farm (or using cloud-computing services), why not buy a botnet or build your own?
I'm going to sue!
But seriously, if we combine this with that recent request for help from the fellow whose name brings up a paedophile ... surely we can sue for defamation of character whether the comments are referring to ourselves or not? That would be my logical conclusion without reading TFA.
What? So you go on assuming everybody's straight?
One thing I noticed when looking at the Virgin Killers page while it was being blocked was that it pretended to be a 404 error (a very unconvincing one). This is presumably part of their "don't alert people" ploy too, but it confounds the majority of people from being able to discover that it's being blocked.
I regularly use software with EULAs to which somebody else has agreed.
Does that mean I would be eligable to sue the company for something which the EULA-clicker supposedly no longer has the right to do?
And does it make a difference as to who owns the hardware? (i.e. sysadmin agreeing on a university computer, compared to a cat agreeing to something running on my hardware).
The top result for my name is a banjo-player!
I think the problem is a lack of initiative on her part mostly (i.e. if she'd talked to her ISP and educational institution, these matters would probably have been resolved sooner), but probably also a relatively unhelpful person in a Dell call centre who could have asked what she thought she needed Windows for and explained how to do those things with what she had.
Perhaps some folk would care to compare what is available in the UK and Australia and what is not, list those links on a website to show the world exactly how much is being censored.
That's the problem, at least in the UK, since the IWF's blacklist is secret. I emailed them asking for a copy of it so I knew when the 404s I was getting were fake (which is how O2 handles it).
You'd have to search for a lot of CP, by which time you'd probably get arrested. Somehow I doubt saying you were trying to discover the secret blacklist would go down very well.
Use tune2fs (assuming you're currently using ext2/3): http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Converting_an_ext3_filesystem_to_ext4
Also, you can convert an ext3 filesystem in-place to Btrfs: http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Conversion_from_Ext3
You have a very narrow definition of sex.
At my first university, everything we did was our own. At my current university, it all belongs to them. So you have to ask your institution.
Obviously I don't hang with the cool kids who use "monkey" as an affix, so are there any examples of this? Or did somebody just make it up and submit it?
% grep "^[aoeui',.p;qjkx]*$" /usr/share/dict/british-english-huge | awk '{print length($1) " " $1}' | sort | tail -n1 /usr/share/dict/british-english-huge | awk '{print length($1) " " $1}' | sort | tail -n3
9 okupukupu
% grep "^[dhtnsfgcrlbmwvz]*$"
6 crwths
6 ftncmd
6 mtscmd
I think somebody compromised Debian's servers and added nonsense words to the dictionaries.
> Wouldn't it be far easier for a nefarious government organization to target that distribution's repositories, mirror that singular distribution's disk images with files of its own design, and leave every last one of that distribution's users in the great wide open?
I believe Debian solved this problem long ago, it's called public-key encryption.
This leaves one thing the user must do: acquire the distributor's public key from a trusted source. Unfortunately as far as I know only APT-based distributions sign all their packages, leaving everybody else putting a lot of trust in their sysadmin/ISP/government.
It's not like they can use your work without attribution in academic papers, since that would be plagiarism, right? So any specific clause that required citation would be unnecessary.
From what I gather, the Earth is accelerating at 9.8m/s^2. This is what causes the movement of things towards the Earth. It has been accelerating at this rate for a long time (i.e. throughout history), but the acceleration is not constant. The Big Bang occurred around 4.5 billion years ago.
The fact that at 9.8m/s^2 we would accelerate to faster than the speed of light in under a year has yet to be accounted for in that thread. They mentioned something about special relativity so maybe that's it.
By my calculations if we assume a mean acceleration of 4.9m/s^2, the Earth is traveling at c2.25e09m/s. FTL!
Source: http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=21147.0