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  1. Re:And yet on How American Homeless Stay Wired · · Score: 1

    Actually, there are some people who travel in a mode not unlike homelessness. I did a few hitchhiking tours around Europe, back before I'd heard of couchsurfing and hospitality club, where I would hitchhike and camp out in cities (an urban camper, as the parent says), cooking food on a Primus gas stove, washing up at gas stations and occasionally scoring a shower at someone's house. I never actually dumpster dove, but with the right attitude and weather, guerrilla camping can feel strangely liberating, especially if you do it in Scandinavia, where it's perfectly legal. For more on guerrilla camping, see here: http://www.gnn.tv/B10394

  2. Check out the BBC documentary on Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    called "Scientology and me". A guy from the investigative reporting show "Panorama" went to the US to interview members of the cult, its former members and current opponents. He ends up being spied on and hassled in a very in-your-face fashion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_Me And here's the episode: http://bit.ly/snNZ4

  3. Re:Irktusk on Microsoft Plans Data Center in Siberia · · Score: 1

    Mod parent FUD. Irkutsk is in a continental climate area, which means that gets severely cold winters and short, but blazingly hot summers. Last time I was there (three years ago, in August) it was around 30C at noon.

  4. Re:An honest question. on Microsoft Plans Data Center in Siberia · · Score: 1

    Score 5: Informative I fail to see why this has not been modded Funny. You do realize that the Parent is joking?

  5. Re:Can someone please tell me.. on Google Earth v4 Released - Linux Support at Last · · Score: 1

    Look around Esfahan.

  6. Re:How much is how much? on Chinese Company Produces $150 Linux PC · · Score: 1

    Hold on -- The pdf you quote doesn't specify whether the income is yearly or monthly. Income is often quoted monthly in countries outside the USA, especially if workers are monthly. If the average Chinese household makes $327 a year, that means that the average Chinese household (3 people) subsides on less than 0,30cents per day, which would make China the poorest place on the planet. The 150 computer is more lika a week or two for the average Chinese

  7. Re:Token Ring on Does Anyone Still Use Token Ring? · · Score: 1

    I guess the term Toking Ring would be more appropriate

  8. Re:In other news on Scaremongering over Spyware? · · Score: 1

    In case you were wondering what the real statistics were:
    http://counter.li.org/reports/short.php

  9. business plan on HOWTO, Cook an Egg With Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    1. Place egg between cell phones 2. Call phone B from phone A 3. ???? 4. Profit!

  10. In Soviet Russia ... on BitTorrent and End to End Encryption · · Score: 0, Troll

    Torrents encrypt YOU!

  11. Don't forget Poland! on Microlensing Uncovers Earth-Like Planet · · Score: 1
  12. Don't you F.Y.R.O.M. me on Macedonia Deploys 5,000 Ubuntu Desktops in Schools · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Follow the link to the macedonian FOSS site and look closely at the yellow box in the upper left corner, then click on it and read.

    F.Y.R.O.M. is the name that the European Commission kindly asks us all to use, because of a spat with Greece over what the term "Macedonia" actually refers to. The Greeks claim that Macedonia is in fact a region spanning parts of Greece, "the F.Y.R.O.M" and Bulgaria, IIRC. The Macedonian people refer to their country as "Macedonia", just as Americans refer to the country they live in as "America", despite the fact that the term encompasses vast areas clearly beyond the borders of the U.S.A.

    It is of course, no factual error to call the country F.Y.R.O.M. But you probably don't go around saying that Lhasa is in China, do you?

  13. don't forget on Macedonia Deploys 5,000 Ubuntu Desktops in Schools · · Score: 1

    Damn, just when I was going to say: You forgot Macedonia!

  14. Re:NetNanny? on Edubuntu - Linux For Young Human Beings! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know the Slashdot crowd is generally against censorship, but would a children's Linux distribution be appropriate to have censorship as default. To be honest, censorship is one thing, and having your kid redirected to websites unfit to be mentioned in the classroom is another ... If this is to be used in a classroom full of 7year olds, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to let the teacher filter out some of the pr0n, if at least for sanity's sake.

  15. gadu gadu on What Makes a Good IM Client? · · Score: 1

    The IM of choice in Poland. Translates roughly as "yakkity-yak". Just about everyone that uses IM in here in Poland uses gadu-gadu, so you don't have much of a problem with what to choose as long as you're staying local. The protocol is closed, but it's been reverse engineered years ago, and its available as Kadu http://kadu.net/ for KDE and GnuGadu http://www.gadu.gnu.pl/ for Gnome, as well as EKG and EKG2, both of which run in terminals Screenshots: http://ekg2.org/screenshots.php Funny -- it's the only specifically local IM protocol included in Kopete.