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Comment Re:Buy the department of justice (Score 0) 175

by bbecker23 (#37958062) Attached to: Music Industry Pushing For BT To Block Pirate Bay

3) In the USA I am not aware of ANY websites that are blocked by a court or government order. Even the RIAA and MPAA have not been able to accomplish that one. I'm sorry that the UK and other European governments have decided to implement thought police, but as an American there's not really anything I can do about it.

Sorry I had to be the one to ruin that rose-colored worldview of yours, but we (the USA) don't even screw around with the blocking part; we seize the domain and pretend the site never existed. It's kind of a big deal.

Comment Re:Also in the case of Linux (Score 0) 360

by bbecker23 (#37043192) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What OS For a Donated Computer?
A pipe is directing the output of one command into the input for another. This way you can chain a bunch of utilities together and get very robust functionality from very simple "parts". Its part of the unix design philosophy, using a collection of tools that each do one thing very well. For instance, to find a specific package that you know is installed:

yum list installed | grep somePackage

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