Whoosh!

Yo've never heard of "sudo -i"?

Actually, he wrote "We're winning, stop hacking plz", which is much more funny. He also wrote "EPIC WINNING LOL" on Twitter after the first round in the courtroom. And he's the press spokesperson for TPB, :)

Here comes a translation. I didn't proofread it, and it's late here, but probably better than google's. (Or so I hope! :) )

Scientists threatened by lawsuit

Two Swedish sciencetists are being threatened with being sued after publishing paper that condemns the use of polygraphs. The manufacturer Nemesysco writes in a letter to the scientists' publisher that they can be sued for libel if they write about the subject again.

- It is very serious that they are trying to silence us this way. I have never heard of anything similar. We have evidently hurt their business, says Franceso Lacerda, professor in phonetics at the Stockholm University.

Together with Anders Eriksson, professor in phonetics at the Gothenburg University, he wrote the very critical article "Charlatanry in forensic speech science" in 2007.

As DN [the newspaper publishing the article, translator's note] previously reported did the magazine that printed the paper withdraw after pressure from the Israeli company Nemesysco. The article disappeared from the magazine's webpage and an excuse was printed in a later issue.

The article was directly aimed at the company's polygraph oatent, sais Francisco Lacerda: - We showed that the invention cannot function. The article had a journalistic tone and was quite provocatively written. But we wanted to prove that the technology between polygraphs is a scam.

Nemesycos' lawyers wrote that the authors could be sued for libel if they wrote about the subject again, which the publisher agreed to present to the authors: "We will warn the authors that they should not publish the article in another forum and that if they publish a similar article to another magazine they might be sued for libel.", writes the editor in a response. The letter was also sent to Francisco Lacerda and Anders Eriksson.

- Of course this feels very uncomfortable. You don't know where it will end. At the same time it is my responsibily as a sciencetist to share my knowledge. The company hasn't presented any counterarguments, but simply try to silence us, says Francisco Lacerda.

He hopes the company won't act on their threat, but still says there is a "great risk".

In a letter to DN.se Nemesysco writes that the Swedish authors slander the company. The warnings from the company doesn't stop Francisco Lacerda from planning more papers on the subject. While the sciencetist community agrees about polygraphs being folly, they are still being used by governments, banks and insurance companies in many countries, he says. In the UK they are used to nail benefit scammers.

- The test hits arbitrarily. It can hit vulnerable people, that for instance apply for income support. The companies have made a lot of money on this, and when we say that the emperor is naked we become a threat to them, says Francisco Lacerda.

Right now he works hard on studying Nemesyscos patent documents. He wants to publish the results, either in his own blog or in a scientific magazine. The public should know about the foundations for the polygraph technology, he says.

In the meantime the acting of Nemesyscos has led to a wider attention for the scientific results of the Swedish professors. -Hardly that was their intention, but since the article was withdrawn I get loads of e-mail and requests for copies of the article. It would only have been scarecly read if the company just had let it pass with silence, says Francisco Lacerda.

You, my friend, don't seem to have ever come across the German language. In comparison, French is well-ordered and intiutive. (And yes, I'm fluent in German and a good French speaker)

Should I be worried? (Disk is ~2.5 years old)

You, my friend, have never heard of gpm

There, fixed it for you

OMG! It's YOU!

Is it that I'm 'just' in my early 20s, or am I the only one who uses large, insulating headphones with music whenever I work in an office?

And the speaker phones are not the worst, I find those who use handsfrees even worse, walking all over the place while talking (loudly) to their clients.

My 0.02 (insert currency here)

"There are two types of people in the world. Those who take backups, and those who have never had a disk crash/fs corruption/IDE driver bug/whatever"