So, installing malicious software means your information can be accessed? SHOCKING.

Man, here I was hoping helm's deep would reinvigorate LOTRO. And yes, I had even pre-ordered it.

My experience has been the same. I donated $50 to Cyanogenmod a couple of years ago (FFS, they saved my buying a new phone!) and got a delighted email from Steve Kondik.

I used to assume the FOSS world would be supported like the Linux kernel is, but now I realize that many cool projects need a user-funded model. I choose a project to donate to weekly, as well as supporting gittip.com. It's not much (and I hope to increase it markedly one day), but I want to live in a world where Free hackers can just hack, and not stress about money.

Cheers,
Rusty.
BTW I've never used GNU LilyPond, but I'm delighted such a thing thrives. Do you take BTC?

Heheh... I doubt Paul needs an all-expenses paid trip, given how senior he is at IBM.

The article is well worth a read: hell, I've implemented RCU myself, and I learned by reading it.

Hope that helps!
Rusty.

Or, why don't writers/directors get all the attention? Even Sci Fi conventions seems to headline actors who played a part, rather than writers who created the part.

Is a great story so compelling that the line blurs and people fall in love with the puppets and ignore the puppet master?

Confused,
Rusty.

Um, no, the 250,000 requests per year are government warrantless data requests; these include call data (who called whom, not contents), location data, and request header data (eg http, email: interestingly, I've not been able to find out which headers are included: links anyone?)

Obviously with this number of requests going on, the process isn't being vetted very well if at all. Certainly there aren't that many people in Australia under reasonable suspicion of criminal behaviour, so it's deeply concerning :(

Cheers,
Rusty.

One of my favourite geek charities is the Ada Initiative which provides resources and training for women in open source and open culture.

Needless to say, you should speak directly to any charity you're seriously considering; they'll often have good suggestions for how they money could be used.

Good luck!
Rusty.

Spot on analogy, Tackhead. +1, you.

Hahaha. I had forgotten about the LBs. Hope you are doing well soon.

Thanks man. Advogato 4 lyfe.

Hahahaha -- ah, the ball gag. That brings back memories.

Almost like we planned it that way. Too bad we didn't!

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