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Comment Re:What part of "use a proxy" can't he understand? (Score 1) 577

On the other hand, we've been unundated with stories where people make threats of killing people at xxx school etc. And actually carry it out. There is a difference between shouting something akin to "I'm gonna kill you" when you are frustrated, and putting your frustration up on display on a very public billboard. One is just the current frustration, the other "may" indicate some deeper trouble that authorities will be blamed for ignoring once it's been made so public. Maybe these social networks make it too easy to post things from a handy cell-phone etc. and it blurrs the line for some people between what constitutes "shouting in frustration" and making a public threat, in print, so that many can witness it. Users of public sites like Facebook and Twitter, or /., need to understand that it's not a private forum for them and their buddies. It is a very public forum, and anything they say there is broadcast to everybody and their aunts. It WAS a public threat. Was it outburst of frustration? Probably. Have people killed other people out of frustration? Definitely. My advice is: if you are prone to make exaggerated comments out of frustration, and cannot distinguish between twitter and your good buddies, then you should consider staying out of social networks altogether. As for the authorities, given the number of deranged people who have actually carried out their public blog threats of killing people in public places, they cannot afford to ignore these public outbursts.

Comment Guess Britain and the U.S. are safe of Qaeda now (Score 1) 577

There is no need for more attacks, the authorities do a splendid job at keeping their citizens frightened and in fear.
Probably just a question of time until they start bigger raids and maybe even start to execute people to be sure that those cannot cause any harm.

What has the world come to? One bigger terrorist attack and the U.S. bombs the shit out of 2 countries. Some more unsuccessful tries and several countries go mental and start to treat everyone like a possible mass murderer. I guess I get banned from several countries now for posting subversive messages and being a possible threat as well.

Time to relocate to a lonely island, a long forgotten cave on Antarctica or into a tend in the desert. That sounds almost comfortable compared to what we experience here at the moment.

(Oh for sarcastically disabled people and authorities: that was sarcasm, all of it. Gotta make sure to add that to every post on the net now. You never know who's just waiting with a gun next to your door ...)

Enlightenment

Submission + - ARM powered Linux laptops unveiled at Computex (friendfeed.com)

Charbax writes: "At Computex in Taipei on 2-6th June, several companies unveiled ARM powered laptops that are cheaper ($99 to $199), last much longer on a regular 3 cell battery (8-15 hours) and that still can add new cool features such as a built-in HDMI 720p or 1080p output, 3D acceleration, connected standby and more. The ARM Linux laptops shown as working prototypes at Computex will run Ubuntu 9.10 (optimized for ARM), Google Android, Xandros OS for ARM or some Red Flag Linux type of OS. Here in this video, the Director of Mobile Computing at ARM is giving us all the latest details on the status for the support of full Flash (with all actionscripts), the optimizations of the web browser (accelerating rendering/scrolling using the GPU/DSP), the stuff that Google is working on to adapt Android 2.0 Donut release for Laptop screens and interfaces and more. At Computex I also filmed an Interview with the Nvidia team working on Tegra laptops, the Qualcomm people working on Snapdragon devices and the Freescale people doing their awesomely thin ARM laptops in cooperation with manufacturers such as Pegatron as well."
Portables

Submission + - Palm Pre is out, time for discussion (cnet.com)

caffiend666 writes: "Palm Pre is out, let's discuss the status and compare stories. First days seems to of gone as well as expected with many selling out before noon. I bought the second at the local sprint store and so far I like it. Much more one-hand friendly than the iPhone. Haven't gotten the main aps to sync with Linux, but the media portion functions much like a thumb-drive with my Fedora-8 Linux system. For the Pre-verts out there, here's some Palm Pre dismantling pictures."
The Internet

Submission + - .org now signed for DNSSEC (pir.org)

lothos writes: "As of today, 06/02/2009, the Public Interest Registry (www.pir.org) has signed the tld .org for DNSSEC. .ORG, The Public Interest Registry is dedicated to the security and stability of the internet. In our effort to bolster Internet security, we are implementing Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) within the .ORG Top Level Domain. DNSSEC is designed to protect Internet servers from domain name system attacks, such as DNS cache poisoning by malicious users. It is a set of DNS extensions which provide 3 basic functions:

        * Data Origin Authentication — assures that data is received from the authorized DNS server; can protect from impersonation attacks
        * Data Integrity — assures that data received matches data on the origin DNS server, and is not modified during transit; protects from man-in-the-middle type pollution attacks.
        * Authenticated Denial of Existence — assures that a "Non-existent" response is valid."

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