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Comment Re:Death of a meme... (Score 1) 462

by LeftE on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @04:17PM (#36454744) Attached to: Ars Technica Review Slams Duke Nukem Forever

In fact, this meme is so old, there are probably a large number of readers who won't even recognize the guy in this 2003 Duke Nukem Forever parody: http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/1062/dnfnfominister.jpg

Comment Re:Free speech and democracy? (Score 3, Informative) 869

by LeftE on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @05:04PM (#29125217) Attached to: Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker

Actually, Obama's overall approval rating dropped below 50% as early as July, with his Approval Index being below zero every day since June: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history

Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? 1397

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 02, 2009 @07:20PM from the just-no-more-muppets-please dept.

jfruhlinger writes "If you use a Unix machine, it probably has a funny name. And if you work in an environment where there are multiple Unix machines, they probably have funny names that are variations on a theme. No, you're not the only one! This article explores the phenomenon, showing that even the CIA uses a whimsical server naming scheme." What are some of your best (worst?) naming schemes?

The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn 933

Posted by timothy on Monday December 29, 2008 @08:55AM from the in-a-perfect-world-the-topic-would-not-arise dept.

BenFenner writes "Two out of the three Virginia judges involved with Dwight Whorley's case say cartoon images depicting sex acts with children are considered child pornography in the United States. Judge Paul V. Niemeyer noted the PROTECT Act of 2003, clearly states that 'it is not a required element of any offense under this section that the minor depicted actually exists.'"

Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown 872

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 01, 2008 @11:14AM from the packet-schmacket dept.

Gimble writes "Richard Bennett has an article at the Register claiming that a recent uTorrent decision to use UDP for file transfers to avoid ISP 'traffic management' restrictions will cause a meltdown of the internet reducing everybody's bandwidth to a quarter of their current value. Other folks have also expressed concern that this may not be the best thing for the internet."

ORDB.org Going Offline 156

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 18, 2006 @12:55PM from the the-end-of-the-road dept.

Allan Joergensen writes "ORDB.org has announced that they will shut down their services after fighting open relays and spam for more than five and a half years. The RBL DNS service and mailing lists will be taken down today (December 18, 2006) and the website will vanish by December 31, 2006." The reasons given tend to be the usual ones - volunteers have been focused on other things in life; my salute to those folks for keeping the service up as long as they did.

Comment Re:Cleopatra, Queen of De Nial (Score 1) 364

by LeftE on Thursday August 31, 2006 @03:24PM (#16018147) Attached to: iPods at War

I would say it's more of "grey" in the sense of being illegal somewhere, yet no one does anything substantive to stop it in-country. Do we even know if it's illegal to bootleg content in Iraq? I can't imagine they have strong copyright laws there.

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