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Comment Re:Yeah (Score 3, Informative) 191

by BeNJ-GoS on Saturday October 18, 2008 @09:21AM (#25423461) Attached to: "BlueTrack" Mouse More Advanced Than Laser, Optical

most of us don't. but the article does explain where they encounter it and where the need came from...

In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death 495

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 05, 2008 @02:26PM from the get-yourself-a-good-sharia-lawyer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In Iran, crimes such as apostasy (leaving a religion, in this case Islam) and armed robbery are already punishable by death, but a new bill in Iran aims to add to the list 'establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy,' effectively giving the government a free hand in silencing bloggers. The internet is widely used in Iran, despite its previous attempts at censorship. Will this change as the censorship grows more rampant?"

Comment Re:Singe Point of Failure (Score 1) 204

by ravy on Monday January 05, 2004 @08:16AM (#7879898) Attached to: Mars Rovers On Final Approach

Which is exactly the premise (or rather one of them) of the documentary film Fast, Cheap and Out of Control.

Journal Journal: Linux: Boot \ Shutdown using only SysRq keys. (Cool :) )

Journal by BeNJ-GoS on Tuesday May 06, 2003 @10:31PM

Taken from some comment i found on Slashdot, don't remember by who.
(keys are for i386 and PC hardware)

Alt-SysRq-r : Sets keyboard mode to xlate

Alt-SysRq-s : Sync all filesystems
Alt-SysRq-e : Term to all processes (except init)
Alt-SysRq-i : Kill to all processes (except init)
Alt-SysRq-u : Remount all drives read-only
Alt-SysRq-b : Reboot!

Journal Journal: And so it begins...

Journal by BeNJ-GoS on Tuesday May 06, 2003 @10:22PM

Well, not quite a "Journal" more like a list of stuff i wanted to write in, no matter the subject...
Probably just a list of Tips and things i found interesting and wanted to share.

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