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Submission + - Man attacked in Ohio for providing Iran proxies (dailykos.com) 1

Submitted by David Hume on Thursday June 18, 2009 @04:25AM

David Hume writes: electronicmaji is reporting on the Daily Kos that the individual known as ProtesterHelp (see also here) was attacked in Ohio for providing network security for Twitterers in Iran, setting up private networks to provide secure proxies, calling for media networks to remove the Iranians Twiterers information from their broadcast, and providing counter-intelligence services (including Basiji and Army Locations) within the Twitter community. ProtesterHelp was allegedly attacked by a group of men while walking to class in Ohio. The men, who appeared to ProtesterHelp to be either Iranian or Lebanese, drove up besides him and threw rocks at him while shouting, "Mousavi Fraud." ProtesterHelp further reported that his personal information has been leaked, and is currently being spread both online and inside of Iran amongst the government. For updates see #iranelection.

Comment Re:That's retarded, and more than you think (Score 1) 339

by CmpterJones on Friday June 05, 2009 @11:39AM (#28223263) Attached to: Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings

The photo you're thinking of isn't the first step on the moon. It wasn't even Armstrong's boot that did it. That photo was part of an experiment that Aldrin carried out. He first photographed the area, stepped in it, then photographed his footprint to document the properties of the lunar soil. The first footprint was immediately damaged/erased when Armstrong finished getting off the ladder. Not to mention when Aldrin climbed-down next. Then, when the ascent stage launched, you can definitely see dust having been displaced. The force even knocked-down the flag they placed (I can't find the video, I'm at work, but it's out there). On future missions, they decided to place the flag further from the lander due to this.

Comment Re:First time? (Score 1) 739

by CmpterJones on Monday April 27, 2009 @12:07PM (#27731431) Attached to: What Did You Do First With Linux?

I was helping a roommate get his laptop back up and running after he pounded it with his fist (made a neat screaching sound when the HDD tried to spin up), and he had an Ubuntu live CD that he wanted to try (Gutsy, I think it was). I told him the damage was definitely physical and it would cost him if he wanted it back up and running, but he didn't have the money.

After that he just forgot about it. Perhaps a year ago I stumbled across the laptop again (he was long gone at this point) and decided to put a new drive in and get it working. I used Hardy Heron (8.04) and instantly started having fun. Took some work getting the integrated WiFi working (thanks, Wicd!), but it ran like a dream. I then installed Xubuntu on my girlfriend's old, ailing machine, and repeated the process on my other roommate's old Dell laptop (incidentally, she hated it).

I've since moved on to try other distros. My girlfriend has completely settled into that laptop, and she just re-installed it with Jaunty this past weekend (upgrade mirrors were SLOW, so she hit the torrent and burned a CD).

I've derived more fun from installing and configuring Linux distros in recent months than I have from playing games. I'm currently triple-booting my desktop between Vista Home Premium 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, and Debian (lenny) amd64. I spend 90% of my time on the computer in Debian.

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