User: DaBlade

Bye-Bye, Privacy

On: Police Launch Drones Over LA

So much for the "greatest country in the world". Welcome to the united states of Orwellia.

Re:As I commented to the same story on Digg

On: Azureus Inc. Moves Toward Commercialization

I agree, but it's not as bad with GNU's java as it is with Sun's java. Either way, if I knew how to code, rewriting it in Python or something would be my first project.

As I commented to the same story on Digg

On: Azureus Inc. Moves Toward Commercialization

I'm a long time user of Azureus. I personally don't see this as a problem of any kind, as long as they keep it DRM free and isn't intrusive. As for resource usage, Azureus doesn't use a lot when ran through GNU's Java Interpreter. It's Sun's java that causes the insane resource usage. I think it would be a good idea for Aelitis to make this hollywood distribution stuff a plugin so people can delete it if they want to though.

Re:Simple solution to the problem

On: Just How Paranoid Are You?

I've disabled SSHD (the SSH daemon), and I never use root login so I disabled that too. Basically, I only use the ports neccessary for HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, IRC, WinMX and IM (ICQ, Jabber, Yahoo, m$n). The rest are closed and stealthed. Even if I didn't do all of that, my computer would still be 50 times safer than your average windoze computer. Especially concidering FC3 (which I use) has full SELinux included. :)

Simple solution to the problem

On: Just How Paranoid Are You?

Just use GNU/Linux like I do. Problem solved.