This. I had something similar happen to me while I was in 9th grade.

And it all stopped when I said "fuck it!" and got into a fight with the most obnoxious of the bullies.

We fought very publically to a draw.

And from that day on, it was over.

Violence ends bullying. Nothing else, in my experience anyway, ever does.

Hakin9 is a magazine that's not exactly too reputable.

It looks like someone took a paper "written" using SciGen and submitted it to them. Because they didn't read the paper at all, they didn't notice it was absolute bullshit courtesy of finest context-free grammars people could code.

Brilliant work - not only is SciGen great for busting less than reputable scientific publications that don't exactly value this "peer review" thing, but now it has busted security magazines too.

My first computer: Spectravideo SV-318: 16 KB.

Current computer: A not exactly a new PC, way behind the curve even after a few bits of RAM added: 2 GB.

So 125000x the memory, I guess.

He simply said "servers." Most of them could be VMs running on a much smaller number of hosts.

LOL, not with Hyper-V it wouldn't be. ;)

Thank you, for this.

All they have to do is pass a law stating that there is oxygen there, and there will be. Easy as that.

What.

The appeal brief (linked above) is worth a read. There's a lot of legal-ese in there (obviously), but it raises some very serious questions (not the least of which is double jeopardy.) There's also the legitimate question of what constitutes "unauthorized" access. From what I can tell, AT&T used those individualized headers as an authentication/authorization scheme, and relied on security through obscurity. Auernheimer changed the headers and gained access to accounts that were not his. There was no other authentication "challenge", no effort made on AT&T's part to verify the authenticity of the header, and no encryption.

Auernheimer is certainly a shmuck, but in this specific instance, I don't think he broke the law, and if he did, it was at worst a misdemeanor. I really think this is AT&T pushing for aggressive prosecution to cover their own tails: that security scheme was so weak that they'd likely have been subject to a lawsuit of their own had they not gone after Auernheimer aggressively.

The Constitution is the highest law in the land. If it is not Constitutional, it cannot, by definition, be lawful.

This, for the love of Torvalds, THIS.

I can't count how many times having a separate /home partition has saved my ass.

And now, rather than deal with the constant re-installing, I switched over to Linux Mint Debian Edition. Rolling releases are where it's at.

This. ^

There's little that is as dangerous as "effective government". The more gridlock, the better, I always say.

Why am I reminded of Star Wreck 4½? Can't remember the exact quote, but...

"Alert the enemies, that we're about to warm up the twinkler banks... soon."

"Alert the enemies, that we're about to warm up the twinkler banks... now."

(Several hours later)

"All right, if you want it. So be it. We will not make any more warnings. All light balls and twinkler banks... feuer."

(The ensuing fight consists mostly of dodging maneuvers of "turn right very slowly" variety)

There is. One publisher actually got mostly out of the publishing business and transformed itself into a digital repository/digital publishing vendor. While I realize this isn't exactly an open source solution, it does create a viable turnkey solution that fully supports the double-blind peer review process out of the box. I fully recognize that there are legitimate discussions to be had about Freedom and such, but I figure it's also worth mentioning that there are solutions out there that enable self-publication within the generally-accepted peer review system. The critical point here is that in order to gain recognition as an authoritative publication, it would have to be published within the context of an already-accepted organization. So, for instance, if the editorial board were to go to, say, the American Library Association and/or one of the top 10 or 15 LIS schools and were to relaunch a similar publication, it could probably work fairly well.

It's also worth noting that the field of particle physics has already addressed this issue, and made all their work open access. In their case, the major journals in question are being compensated by charging subscription fees to libraries (with a "gentleman's agreement" that libraries will pay), but I also know that one or two of the most prestigious journals priced themselves out of the game. This, I think, is increasingly going to become the model for how open access publishing will work, and how commercial publishers will be able to keep their doors open.

And that's why I ultimately ended up adopting Mint Debian Edition. Rolling releases, no wipe-and-upgrade. Best of both worlds!

Even though I'm a diehard Mint user nowadays, I agree with this.

I started out with Slackware, and I used it for 8 years before moving on to Ubuntu, and finally Linux Mint Debian Edition.

Slackware, while it has a learning curve, is also (as odd as it may sound), actually quite simple. It does what you tell it to do. No more, no less.

It's rock-solid stable.

It's fast.

It forces you to learn about how Linux works, because you have to tell it what to do and how to do it. It isn't as much work to get running as Gentoo, but it makes you think about things like kernel versioning, what's going on in /etc and where your system logs are, and how to compile applications from source from time to time.

I've taken what I've learned from Slackware and found that it's applicable to every other Linux I've knocked around.

I use Linux Mint more like a "casual desktop user" these days, but if I need something rock solid stable and reliable, I will go back to Slackware, because I trust it. It's not a Cadillac like Mint is, but a stock car that has everything accessible and tweakable, so you can bend it to your will and it'll serve whatever purpose you have in mind for it.

So, to sum up, while it doesn't sound like a newbie distro, I still think Slackware is a great way to cut one's teeth in the Linux world, especially if one is truly setting out to learn Linux, not just using it as a launch platform for a browser and an email client.