#infoAnarchy Chump Archives for 2004, 2005

in which the market value of a congressman is documented
posted by aminorex at 2005-11-17 23:21

http://lemonodor.com/archives/001068.html
posted by lemonodor at 2005-11-17 20:52

FBI PSTN tap box patent filed 3/2003
posted by aminorex at 2005-11-17 18:46

Escapa!
posted by seti at 2005-11-17 18:35

seti: "Click and hold the red square. Now, move it so that you neither touch the walls nor get hit by any of the blue blocks"
seti: This productivity killer lasted all of 23 seconds for me.

http://hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/
posted by Oliver at 2005-11-17 15:30

Oliver: Sony do the licence and law breaker combo with thier XCP DRM, violating LGPL, GPL, DMCA, EUCD

http://www.stephaniemiller.com/declarationofrevocation.htm
posted by seti at 2005-11-17 12:32

Tonus: Fake. Not by John Cleese according to snopes.com.

http://tmp.4chan.org/gif/src/1132200541281.gif
posted by simmo at 2005-11-17 12:16

simmo:

The border of Macau with mainland China
posted by seti at 2005-11-17 10:27

seti: Apparently they drive on the left in Macau and on the right in China... hilarity ensues

LaRouche has like webcasts and stuff and all these cult members
posted by simmo at 2005-11-17 09:03

http://developer.sun.com/contact/freestuff.jsp
posted by Medlir at 2005-11-17 08:46

simmo: Oh man I can be the uber geek

Samuel L. Jackson for President
posted by wmf at 2005-11-17 05:24

wmf: "Samuel L. Jackson + Nuclear weapons = World Peace"
Ash: REPTILE, MOTHERFUCKER!
Ash: DO YOU SPEAK IT?!
wmf: I can see it now: "Does the United States of America look like a bitch?"

http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/ruwart_all.html
posted by Phoenix61 at 2005-11-17 04:21

simmo: tip: if you want people to read your book, do not call it 'the most important book of the decade' .. even through someone else's mouth

Weather Underground .. not the terrorist movement, just the weather
posted by huslage at 2005-11-17 04:01

simmo: some place

Weather Underground .. not the terrorist movement, just the weather
posted by Phoenix61 at 2005-11-17 03:55

simmo: some other place

Data recovery for flash USB sticks
posted by simmo at 2005-11-17 03:37

http://cliki.tunes.org/UCSD%20P-Code
posted by Phoenix61 at 2005-11-17 03:37

http://cliki.tunes.org/Operating%20Systems
posted by simmo at 2005-11-17 03:27

simmo: Tunes "Operating System survey"

http://www.o3one.org/
posted by simmo at 2005-11-17 03:20

simmo: pronounced 'ozone'

February 2004: BSD/OSX safest, Linux dodgiest, according to survey
posted by simmo at 2005-11-17 03:08

simmo: according to dodgey organisation
simmo: "The group discounted the recent wave of worms, viruses and other attacks that have affected Windows systems worldwide. It confined the study to overt digital attacks by hackers."
simmo: even so, that's a big gap between BSD and linux

http://www.truecrypt.org/
posted by Phoenix61 at 2005-11-17 03:00

"tinydisk": like gmailfs but for tinyurl
posted by Phoenix61 at 2005-11-17 02:46

using OSS saved Thailand US$45 million in 2003
posted by simmo at 2005-11-17 00:23

seti: s/OSS/illegal copies of Windows/
simmo: "We found that the key to open-source adoption is for the organization to declare such documents as the official standard"
simmo: $250 computer runs linux etc
simmo: OSS move "pushed Microsoft to remain competitively priced by drastically reducing the price of its software products in Thailand"
simmo: cf $100 laptop with crank handle from mit media lab

Plea from a Simple Vietnamese by Nguyen Kha Pham Thanh Chuong
posted by aminorex at 2005-11-17 00:18

A bunch of mostly 'free' codecs
posted by simmo at 2005-11-17 00:12

simmo: not sure if their definition of 'free' is valid in any particular time/place
simmo: for example, a MPEG1/2 codec with a GPL license ... ?