There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.
-- President James Madison. 1751-1836

from this post:

"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they hide is vital."
- unknown

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And also funny but buried under low moderation in tht same thread:

Two CS freshmen up hacking all night

So I was just surfing around Google news, and stumbled into the Taipei Times website for some news stories.

But the pleasantly surprising thing I find at the bottom of the page: "Best view in Mozilla". Nice! Anyone else have any links to mainstream media sites that actively recognize and advertise Mozilla?

In this Globe & Mail article, "The security provisions the RCMP invoked to probe an alleged leak to an Ottawa journalist are so sweeping they might be struck down as unconstitutional".

In this Globe&Mail article, and this Ottawa Citizen article , Mounties spent hours searching the home and office of a reporter who has written about the Maher Arar case, looking for evidence of

dmca song

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the Box of Eternal Donuts

I Answered All My Spam

I saw this link somewhere in Slashdot, and added it to my "to read" list. But I have unfortnately forgotten which post (or the poster) that I got this from.

Anyways, here's an interesting and well written article regarding the educational and performance gap between boys and girls. Though not a peer-reviewed publication itself, it's still an interesting read.

oh man... for shits and giggles, here's the poem he wrote:

"In India, Asok has an intern...
... named Dilbert"

quite an interesting post by pi_rules. Just wanted to save a pointer to it here.

interesting post with quotes about gun rights

For a long list of reasons, my father uses a Windows machine for his home busines computer, which I got and set up for him. We got the system about a year ago, and I installed the Chinese version of Windows XP (yes it's legit). When it works, it works okay. Enough for my dad to use from day-to-day for his computing needs.

So, I know that this whole SCO thing has been flogged to death on Slashdot, and many of you are sick of getting an O.J. style play-by-play.

But one thing which has really made me curious, is why there have been no insider leaks from SCO?

Now assume that these alleged code fragments came from some developer instead of management trying to play with diff. Surely other developers would know (or have an idea) of what the similar passages are.