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lol, I forgot to close my own post :PWow, for a second there, I forgot I am a moderator :Pxboxrulz

I think 9/11 had actually got America so on alert that it's too paranoid.

 

Just take a look at this article:

U.S. tracks Canadians for terror traits

Monitoring system stores data on flights, licence plates, credit cards, addresses

Dec. 2, 2006. 08:47 AM

TIM HARPER

WASHINGTON BUREAU

 

A security official is X-rayed by a "backscatter" machine in 2003. The Phoenix, Ariz., airport will test the weaponsâ screening system.

 

WASHINGTONâThe U.S. government knows where you sat on your last cross-border flight, how you paid for your ticket, your email address, your phone number, even your special meal requests in the past.

 

They won't let you look at the information but they can share it with law enforcement agencies, foreign governments, even public health agencies and they can keep the dossiers compiled on millions of Canadian travellers for up to 40 years.

 

It's all in the name of assigning you a score as a potential terrorist under a program known as the Automated Targeting System (ATS).

 

U.S. privacy advocates and some legislators promised to fight to kill the program yesterday, but the Department of Homeland Security was unapologetic, saying the ATS is really just a continuation of a program overseen by another agency for more than a decade.

 

Every traveller from every nation, arriving by land, air or sea, is screened under the program.

 

There was no official reaction from Ottawa to the U.S. program yesterday.

 

A consultation period inviting comments on the plan ends Monday at which time Washington will determine whether it needs to modify it before publishing the final rules, said homeland security spokesperson Jarod Agen.

 

Details of the program were placed on the electronic Federal Register here in early November, but the department did nothing to publicize it, Agen said, because it was not seeking new information, merely bringing existing programs under the homeland security umbrella.

 

The information remains in the government's possession for up to 40 years, he said, because it can sometimes take 10 years or more for terrorist plots to develop.

 

"If you booked your flight by cellphone and that cellphone shows up at a terrorist's safe house, you will be under greater scrutiny," he said.

 

Privacy advocates say the Bush administration was trying to hide the program.

 

"The Automated Targeting System mines a vast amount of data to create a `risk assessment' on hundreds of millions of people per year, a label that will follow them for the rest of their lives, as the data will be retained for 40 years,'' said the Electronic Privacy Information Centre.

 

"Yet the system is deeply flawed, and the funds spent turning ATS into a citizen profiling program would be better spent in perfecting its cargo screening process, so that port security can be stronger than a `house of cards,'" the privacy centre says.

 

The centre's executive director, Marc Rotenberg, said if the information is used for any other reason than to assess security risks, and it cannot be accessed by its subjects, "then I think the program should be shut down.''

 

Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, the judiciary committee chair in the new U.S. congress, said data banks such as ATS are due for oversight.

 

"That is going to change in the new congress,'' he told the Associated Press, which first revealed the existence of ATS.

 

David Sobel, senior counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, called the proposal "frightening'' and urged homeland security to "allow for an informed public debate on this dangerous proposal.''

 

The program was used to screen cargo in the early 1990s under the supervision of the American treasury department, then expanded to include passengers in the mid-1990s.

 

Following the 2001 terror attacks, however, the scope of information sought by the U.S. was greatly expanded and was the subject of much debate in Ottawa because it involved Canadian air carriers.

 

In its detailed privacy posting on its website, homeland security said data must be retained for up to 40 years "to cover the potentially active lifespan of individuals associated with terrorism or other criminal activities.''

 

It said, however, it would delete files if they are no longer relevant. But you won't know whether your file is active or deleted because the proposed rules also prevent any access to the data the U.S. has stored.

 

Most of the information comes from air carriers, Amtrak, the U.S. national rail carrier, chartered sea vessels and information provided by motor vehicle registration when your licence plate is scanned as you drive across the border.

 

According to the homeland security proposal, the information collected on you includes:

 

# The date of your reservations and your travel dates.

 

# Your name and the names of your travelling companions.

 

# Your address, your credit card information, your billing address, your cellphone number and email address.

 

# Where you like to sit on the plane and any special services â meals or otherwise â you request.

 

# Your frequent flyer points and your travel agency.

 

# The number of times you have booked one-way tickets.

 

# How many bags you check and their tag numbers, and whether you have ever booked a flight and not shown up.

 

Source: The Toronto Star

 

I don't think the United States have the rights to monitor people of other countries.

 

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now, why didn't I see that Announcement ?Thanks, Markxboxrulz

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Ya, I just received an error stating that the server is out of space.

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Ya, rap had its primetime, now? It's been littered with songs that talks about "I'm getting off pot" or "how I wanna bang you" or something.It's just that these artists are ruining it.xboxrulz

I agree that some "illegal drugs" or contrabands actually do help, on certain levels. However, this doesn't mean that people should touch these drugs if they don't need to use it to cure themselves.The reason is, is that it will damage their health. Pot will damage brain cells by overactive brain. Cocaine will do the same effect, it even changes your hormones making you "less of a man" (if done by a male), you'll lose the lust that you might want usually.Many people die from drug overdose and that shouldn't happen. It's costing our economies a lot of money to "repair" them, and I am against it.xboxrulz

I don't like like how GPL v3 is coming out at all, I just hope that Linus would just drop the license if it's gonna be covered by GPL v3.However, I don't mind GPL v2. Many open source projects use this license and it has worked since 1991 when it was created.I'm starting to not like Richard Stallman's view 'cuz he's acting like a "communist".Anyways, I could care less about having Linksys open sourcing the firmware, it's not important at all. It's not like it's for a driver for Linux or anything.xboxrulz

What about Kubuntu? or they think Kubuntu is something totally different than Ubuntu? Or maybe the Free CDs isn't available for Ubuntu? But still, usually people move to KDE or XFC if they liked Linux and continue to use it after getting more advanced to a different distribution.

It's just that apparently, people know Ubuntu more than Kubuntu. I have used both and completely hated them.

I do also like how the French government is taking such actions, I just wish that the Canadian government can do the same so that I can stop paying so much tax.

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it means that you have four users logged on the machine at once. Linux usually runs more than one user at once. Apache runs as its own user under "wwwrun". The other users could may well be "root" and other users who are using the ssh to access the server.It's nothing to worry about.xboxrulz

Well, as a Canadian in Ontario, I don't think Quebec is a nation. This will lead to bigger problem like the separatist movement in the 1980s. Stephen Harper did this so that he can get more votes in order to get a majority government in the next election.I don't think he's doing it just because he thinks that it's going to help Quebec, but it's going to cause major problems in the future. He's just thinking about himself and not for the greater good for Canadians.Lastly, he did the same thing about lowering our GST, it's pure bs. 1-2% isn't going to affect the economy. The prices in the stores are still the same, it just means that the stores can just pocket 1-2 more percent. This was just so that he can get the Conservative party back into power.I believe heavily in an unified Canada, not one that is divided into little pieces.xboxrulz

omfg, u're lucky. I need something like that.xboxrulz

I don't think they really could've cared about ISO since there's no data storage system :Pnice find by the way, really interesting.xboxrulz

Quatrux, sadly all the Ubuntu users are usually stuck with GNOME because they are new to Linux and may have never heard of KDE.xboxrulz

Sorry, I don't know really how to install themes on GNOME, I've only used it a bit just for basic maintenance.To install KDE, you can just simply type in a console:apt-get install kubuntu-desktopxboxrulz

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Xisto hasn't specifically ban MP3 files, however, the point is that you MUST NOT upload any files that are copyrighted.

 

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Just use the GNOME theme manager in the Control Panel and it should have a button call "Add new Theme" (if I remember correctly, I don't use GNOME much, I use KDE)xboxrulz

ummm... there should be an ADSL configurator that comes with a major distribution like Mandriva.xboxrulz

House passes motion recognizing QuĂŠbĂŠcois as nation

Last Updated: Monday, November 27, 2006 | 8:51 PM ET

CBC News

The House of Commons has overwhelmingly passed a motion recognizing QuĂŠbĂŠcois as a nation within Canada.

 

Conservatives, most Liberal MPs, the NDP and the Bloc voted 266 to 16 in support of the controversial motion, which earlier in the day had prompted the resignation of Michael Chong as intergovernmental affairs minister.

 

Fifteen Liberal MPs voted against the motion, along with Independent MP Garth Turner.

 

Prime Minister Stephen Harper had introduced the surprise motion on Nov. 22, raising the ante on a Bloc QuĂŠbĂŠcois motion that sought to declare Quebecers a nation without reference to Canada.

 

The motion states: "That this House recognize that the QuĂŠbĂŠcois form a nation within a united Canada."

 

The prime minister has said he is using the word nation in a "cultural-sociological" rather than in a legal sense.

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The nationhood idea has preoccupied Ottawa since the Bloc proposed a motion calling on the House to recognize Quebecers as a nation and Harper made a counter-proposal to define QuĂŠbĂŠcois as a nation within Canada.

 

Stephen Harper votes for a motion recognizing QuĂŠbĂŠcois as a nation. Stephen Harper votes for a motion recognizing QuĂŠbĂŠcois as a nation.

(CBC)

 

Over the following two days, the Bloc first amended its motion to say that they are a nation "currently within Canada" â leaving the door open to independence â and then declared its support for the government motion.

 

Liberal leadership hopefuls Gerard Kennedy, who doesn't have a seat in Parliament, and Ken Dryden announced on Monday that they opposed the motion.

 

Dryden and leadership candidate Joe Volpe voted against the motion.

 

Chong had said he would abstain from voting because the motion "implies the recognition of ethnicity.

 

"I do not believe in an ethnic nationalism. I believe in a civic nationalism."

 

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Yup, this is gonna cause trouble in Canada ... :S. The main problem is: what defines a "nation"

 

Your thoughts?

 

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[MOVED TOPIC TO CORRECT AREA]xboxrulz

I've also heard that the Bluray is easily dented too, so I don't know. I, myself is backing the HD-DVD format.xboxrulz

nah mate u got that wrong!!

If you didnt know already Opera has been around for years hence the reason they own http://www.opera.com/ cos they registered it 12 years ago

 

Timeline..1996: The first public release was Opera 2.0 for Windows, released as shareware.I think it was 97 that the MacOS version was released with a Unix version in the same year.

Opera has been making versions for Linux and MAC ever since then...LONG b4 mozilla...long b4 KDE etc etc..

For me I have never used another browser on Linux for more than 10 mins till I have got Opera installed.

 

And to go back to the topic of this thread...I can post these institutions that have dumped IE and any crappy Mozilla clones years ago..

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, University of Oxford, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Duke University.Ohh look two of the biggest IT universities in the world use it...

 

Also Opera make versions of the browser for mobile phones..Nintendo DS and the new Sony Mylo..infact theres about 60 devices that use Opera in Flash form to load onto thier sevices.

 

Also I would like to point out that most of the core features from Mozilla clones have been "taken" from Opera, normally 3 years after Opera have made designed it and got it to work reliably.

Tabbed browsing..Zooming (FF still cant do this right!!)..disabling images..extended info on the url....favicons...mail support...torrent support...IRC chat client...password manager(thats NEVER been hacked unlike most browsers that copied this feature and tried to implement it ..RSS feeds...Notes..Text reader and Voice control....built in google search (yes it was in Opera first!!) sessions and the ability to export and save them..XML as the language for all bookmarks etc..

 

Sure FF has a lot more plugins than Opera (prolly not for long cos lots of new ones are written every day)..but no browser can beat the features that are installed as the core..and NO other browser can beat it on the Acid broswer test..yes FF is NOT as compliant in Opera...

 

So if you wanna see what cool features that will be in FF3..check out the latest version of Opera and you wont have to wait two years!!

 

It wasn't long before KDE, KDE was being worked on in 1996, that's when the project was founded, and first release was in 1997.

 

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just restart your computer again (forcibly, don't run thru the regular shutdown process), and then it should come back since you didn't have enough memory to sleep your machine.xboxrulz

It is utterly pointless.
I bet there main target for doing this is to scare ignorant users into taking there computers in to be fixed every time they see a "red" screen because it will feel much more serious then the regular blue screen.

I could imagine them just putting on the red screen - "Your copy of Windows Vista is permnantly damaged, please buy another one" - That wouldn't surprise me.

lol, me neither.

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it was funny, but I didn't really understand it 'cuz I dun write anything higher than Java.xboxrulz

Wii has a really good concept on gameplay, but on the technical side, it falls too short.The main competitors are PS3 vs. XBOX 360 when it comes to horsepower.xboxrulz