49% of Americans apologising to the world that Bush got elected again : SorryEverybody.com
I actually bought OS/2 Warp when it was released on 1994, in support for alternative OS / non-Windows OS. (it was damn hard to install tho)
So the quiz result below made me smile :
Which OS are You?
Sudah beberapa waktu ini saya mencari-cari solusi anti-spam untuk spammer yang mengiklankan produk-produk mereka di berbagai blog.
Sebetulnya sih saya sudah menemukan plugin Trencaspammer, yang menampilkan sebuah gambar yang menampilkan kode, dan mengharuskan komentator untuk menuliskan kode tersebut. Ini cara paling ampuh untuk mengalahkan blog spammer, dengan usaha minimal dari kita.
Tapi “teracuni” Priyadi yang mengutamakan accessibility (Trencaspammer misalnya akan memblokir pengguna Internet tuna netra), akhirnya saya memilih menggunakan Comment Preview.
Selain menyulitkan spammer (karena biasanya software spam mereka tidak mengantisipasi form komentar dengan fasilitas preview), ini sekaligus memungkinkan Anda untuk melihat bagaimana komentar Anda akan ditampilkan.
Jadi kalaupun spammer bisa mengatasi ini, saya tidak rugi karena masih mendapatkan fasilitas preview (dan kemudian tinggal memasang Trencaspammer)
IPcop v1.4 telah dirilis.
IPcop adalah firewall yang bisa di-install dengan mudah dan dalam waktu beberapa menit saja. Saya sendiri sudah menggunakan versi 1.3-nya selama bertahun-tahun, dan belum pernah mengalami masalah.
IPcop memang harus dipasang komputer tersendiri, tapi ini lebih bagus karena lebih aman. Beberapa firewall yang dijalankan di Windows ternyata bisa dimatikan oleh virus/hacker.
Lagipula, IPcop tidak membutuhkan komputer mewah – komputer 486 bekas dengan memory 12 MB sudah mencukupi.
Walaupun gratis, ternyata kemampuan IPcop tidak kalah dengan berbagai firewall komersil ! Administrasi via browser, VPN, traffic shaping/limiting, pemisahan network (red/internet, orange/dmz, green/LAN, blue/wireless), Intrusion detection, Proxy server, dll – lebih detailnya bisa dilihat misalnya [ disini ] dan [ disini ].
[ Situs IPcop ]
Persaingan antara para pengelola jasa email gratis semakin menggila saja. Kini telah muncul United Email Systems, yang menawarkan email gratis dengan berbagai fasilitas (anti-virus, anti-spam, dll) – dengan kapasitas 3 GB !
“…standing on the shoulder of the giants”
— Linus Torvalds in his biography, attributed to Isaac Newton.
The quote above means to be able to utilise others’ achievements in order to make progress. It’s the reverse of “reinventing the wheel”.
Great scholars and inventors of the past benefited from this greatly.
However, international patent laws are set to stifle this – the system enable the rich & greedy to acquire large number of patents, thus disabling others from basing their work on it:
http://economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3376181
Worse, the patent applications are flooding the patent offices, so the overworked staff are granting it even to the ridiculous ones.
An example is the notorious hyperlink patent, owned by British Telecom. Even though Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t patent this invention of his, BT applied for patent for it instead – and got it.
Somebody may commented that you can always challenge a patent – the problem is, the process is not doable to most people.
It takes time, and most of the time, a LOT of money.
So the big corporations are getting away with it. And the rest of humankind just have to enjoy this new kind of slavery – ideas slavery.
Interestingly, America was able to flourish due to the lack of patent system:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/technology/14NECO.html
Ideally, the solution is to abolish patent.
But, with current condition, this will just make the big boys to copy the small fishes’ innovations, and kill them with advertising and cheap price brought by mass production.
For now, the solution probably is to set the fee of patent application variably, depending on the applicant’s last year income. And then the patent may not be transferred to other party.
This way, patents will become affordable to the poor (but creative), and will stop the big corporations from putting a burden on the system.
The following is such an excellent summary of the world we live in today:
…On that note, f*ck America (or more specifically its government). It has ceased to care about any person without a million dollar pocket book. The laws of America now exist to enslave its poor and empower its rich.
Although, the sad part is that the comman man is just as responsible as anybody else for this outcome. We have empowered them through our complacency and utter lack of regard for anything other than what is on our damn televisions every night. We have been enslaved to technology, and as a result those that produce that technology own us all. Especially, now that what we see on television (our defacto standard for the propogation of our culture) tells us that men have to be ignorant fools who are only interested in football, sex, gadgets, and being retarded with their friends to fit in. And women just have to buy everything including a perfect body to do the same. We are trained to be submissive idiots, questioning those who are otherwise.
Oh well, at least we still have our sweet… sweet capitalism. At least we have a choice of where we buy things. You know ma & pa shop down the street or Wal-Mart up the street for 70% less (which coincidentally enough is all you can afford now that you work there). Good thing McCarthy came along and kept us from falling into the hell hole of desperation that is communism.
And at least we still have our voice in our government. You know our solitary occasional whispering voices, compared to industries full time lobbyists. I am perfectly satisfied with all of my governmental representatives are you ;-). So when’s the next civil war?
Source:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=129665&cid=10817291