Comment: In memory of Dennis Ritchie... (Score 2) 176
space* dennis_ritchie[];
Comment: Re:i know! (Score 1) 284
Debian releases when *everything* is ready, which means that it release well after *some* things are ready. More frequent releases means less pressure on developers to make deadlines, and less pressure on users to upgrade to bleeding-edge software just to get a few new features they want.
Comment: Mudge? This might actaully work then. (Score 4, Interesting) 44
If you recall,there was a campaign to make Mudge the USA cyber-czar back when Obama created that post. The guy knows what he's doing, and even now that he's in big-government stuff, the community still trusts him.
Comment: Re:The obvious question (Score 0) 315
The GPL is a distribution license. There are no restrictions on the *use* of GPL software - it's not a EULA. So if the programmer isn't distributing his program to other people, the GPL has nothing say say about it.
Comment: Re:DNS or IP blocked? (Score 1) 230
TPB's firewall has always blocked ICMP. No one can "ping" them even when everything is working fine.
The Vatican lauds hackers->
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angry tapir writes "Internet hackers have acquired a dubious reputation for piracy, sabotage and the spilling of sensitive secrets, but an authoritative Vatican publication appears to rehabilitate them and traces parallels between hacker philosophy and the teachings of Christianity. The charitable view of hackers was expressed by the Jesuit priest Father Antonio Spadaro in an article for the fortnightly magazine Civilta Cattolica, the text of which is vetted by the Vatican Secretariat of State prior to publication. Hackers should not be confused with crackers, Spadaro wrote, citing a definition penned by technology writer Eric S. Raymond: "Hackers build things, crackers break them.""
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Dating site creates profiles from public records->
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schliz writes "Online dating company Gotham Dating Partners has announced plans to create profiles for non-registered individuals based on publicly available information from social networking sites, e-mail registries, mailing lists, marketing surveys, government census records, real estate listings and business websites. Although the Australian Privacy Commissioner has warned that the automatic creation of identifiable profiles of individuals without their knowledge is "not good privacy practice", Gotham Dating Partners does not expect to face any privacy issues from the move, which is expected to boost its membership from 6.5 million to 340 million worldwide."
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Tunisia: the first Wikileaks revolution?->
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jgarzik writes "Although a credible case can be made that food prices stirred Tunisian unrest, many are asking if the political changes in Tunisia today, which included President Ben Ali fleeing to parts unknown, is the first Wikileaks revolution?"
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Comment: Re:Function re-ordering inside the image? wow (Score 4, Informative) 141
The Story of Mel! http://foldoc.org/The+Story+of+Mel (That's not the original, that's the "free verse" version which is better IMHO.) It might even be a true story! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Kaye
Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead 577
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from the silent-spring dept.
from the silent-spring dept.
Dan East writes "In a fashion worthy of a King or Hitchcock novel, blackbirds began to fall from the sky dead in Arkansas yesterday. Somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 birds rained down on the small town of Beeb, Arkansas, with no visible trauma. Officials are making wild guesses as to what happened — lightning strike, high-altitude hail, or perhaps trauma from the sound of New Year's fireworks killed them."