Shan’s Blog

Believers in copyright keep dreaming about building a digital simulation of a 20th-century copyright economy, based on scarcity and with distinct limits between broadcasting and unit sales. This vision of copyright utopia is triggering an escalation of technology regulations running out of control and ruining civil liberties.
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This Youtube video shows The Door To Hell, as the locals in Darvaz,Turkmenistan call it. Thirty-five years ago, geologists were drilling when then encountered a very large cavern filled with poisonous gas. They ignited the gas expecting it to burn off in a few hours. It still burns today.
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What are they? They’re the anti-good ideas. They’re the braindamage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching firewall transparent to hackers. Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible - which is another way of saying “trying to ignore reality.”
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In this article we’re going to look at 10 useful tutorials showing you how to do stuff you always wanted to do - but just didn’t figure out how. Easy step-by-step instructions with screenshots.
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Some quick tips for improving your Ubuntu (or any other Gnome Linux distribution with small tweaks) experience. It doesn’t employ using any terminal/console commands.
And yes i know that I’m not going to get dugg because i don’t have an established domain / or a big fanbase behind me. Meh. this is digg this days.
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Men and women are quite different, which basically means that (surprise!) they are driven by different things in a mate. Having been a single woman living in Los Angeles for a while now, and being the ever-observant creature that I am, I feel that the following is pretty accurate in regard to what we want [...]

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