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I just went to this page that anwiii linked: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/, it estimated litesh.net value as quoted before: $408. but it said "last updated 43 days ago". Without thinking I just clicked on update now and taaraan! now it's estimated worth $1832

We could do something similar with the Tobin tax: a suggested tax on all trade of currency across borders. Wikipedia.org The Economist (Mexican version) reports: British Premier said that G-20 should discuss a better social and economic contract which reflected worldwide responsibility of financial institutions to society. "Among the proposal, an insurance tax which reflects systemic risks leads, the creation of a fund, dispositions on capital, or a tax on international financial transactions".

Don't get me wrong with what I'm going to say next, I'm a big supporter of free software, but that story we sometimes hear about crackers and hackers focusing only on Windows... I don't buy it. I mean, check the BIG companies. Google, Yahoo!, the banks, governments... etc. Most of their servers run Unix-like systems. Not Windows. Microsoft can't make them go for Windows servers if they don't want to, because they have more power than Bill's company (except a great part of third world's governments which really depend on external software producers and can't go against the tide of monopolistic capitalist). The BIG ones go for Unix-like servers, BSD, Solaris and Linux too. They may be really safer, but I'm sure that the most dangerous crackers and hackers are the ones that study how to break the security of those systems. If viruses and trojan bugs for them haven't been as spread as Windows', it may be due to the fact that companies/governments won't make them public their security flaws. Yes, I know it sounds a bit crazy this theory. But think about it: if you were a cracker, who would you like to hack most? An average Windows home PC? Or a bank? It would be ten thousands more risky, but there's always some crazy one around...

There is still a huge difference between EDGE and 3G. The speed of the former is minimal compared with the latter's.I have EDGE technology on my phone and it takes from half a minute to a minute to connect to Internet (establishing the EDGE link to the network), then loads the page.From what I have experienced with a Nokia 73, owned by a friend of mine, connection to Internet is much faster as well as the speed it has once connected.My phone (Nokia 3500 classic) has also another problem, but I think that's for another topic. And it's that I can surf the web from the phone's browser. However, I can't access Internet from mobile applications. It says "invalid package access point". I tried every configuration I could and checked the manual twice but I couldn't see how to fix it..

IS a problem of Microsoft. If we can't run Firefox properly without it becoming unresponsive, then Windows 7 has a BIG problem.Am I too nasty-minded to think this wouldn't be unintentional? Because I mean, you can have some drawbacks running ol' Office 97, or even Firefox 1.0, but you can't have problems running Firefox 3.5.5 I believe it's a coward way of trying to draw some people back to junky Internet Explorer

Index of / Apache/2.2.13 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at litesh.net Port 80 Sorry buddy, but this is what I get when I go to your site. You must admit it really doesn't seem a very reliable hosting if your homepage is down. Really.

Ahgg... that is disgusting. Companies don't care about anything to get their raw material... even less if they come from the poor countries of the world.By the way, when I first read it, it reminded me of that scene in Guy Ritchie's Fight club when they use human fat to make soap. It was true after all...

These so called "premium domains" are made for business. They make an easy to remember address, whether because they are commonly used words or related to famous names.For example, let's say that tomorrow we have a new celebrity on the news who become really famous, the name is let's say... Saddam Ratzinger or whatever. So you get smart and buy saddamratzinger.com and saddam-ratzinger.com, etc... So when this new guy wants to make his website for the fans, he'll have to buy it to you. In which case, you can negociate a nice number. It may happen that if you go insane in the price you're asking for, he will go for something similar like saddamratzingerofficial.com, etc... but he knows that some of the traffic which would like to go there will end up in your domain, so having it would be the best option.This is all speculation with internet domains, it's the only way that they can become so overpriced. Hope I made it clear enough

This kind of solved the problem for now... After I closed Explorer.exe and run it again, speaker volume icon reappeared, and when I plugged my pendrive safely remove tool finally showed up THANKS A LOT... I hope this solves the problem for a long time.

Hi all:I'm having some trouble with Windows XP. It happens that two of the system tray icons that should be at the bottom-right of the screen (notification area of the taskbar) aren't there anymore, out of the blue. I mean, the clock is still there, Antivirus, network, internet connection, even Windows updates notification icon.. all those are there.But Speaker volume icon and Safely remove hardware are lost.Has this ever happened to anyone? I really couldn't make them back. I tried with the Customization options of the notifications area, making both icons Alwyas Visible, and nothing.The speaker works anyway because my keyboard has those "multimedia" keys which can increase, decrease or silence the volume, but for the other problem, of safely remove hardware I really don't have a solution without the icon. The only thing I do when I need to remove my USB pendrive or something, I go to My PC and eject the drive, as if it were a CD. But I don't know if it's the same.So, some help would be appreciated

It gets quite difficult to learn your local language if your parents think it's not worthy to learn it since the rest of the country has some other official language and that is the only one that is thought at school. And you don't have to go as far India or Somalia. I think it's part of what happened in Wales, Scotland and Ireland, where English language was made compulsory everywhere and during centuries local dialects of Gaelic languages became almost extincted. Though, now they're more free there and it is.. let's say, "legal" to speak local languages.

I learnt of PuppyLinux a few months ago when I was looking for a distro lightweight enough to run on my old PC.One tip: it won run on 64 MB RAM memory... I tried but it got stuck in the loading proccess.Anyway, when I run it on my main computer, it looked really good. Much better than Win XP!However, to be frank, it's rather odd when I use it. I never installed it on the hard drive since this main computer is used by the rest of my family too and they won't like it, I'm sure They're Windows-driven...But Puppy Linux is a great distro, and DHCP connection is almost automatic, which is something you don't find that often on Linux, right?

I have translated this piece of news (it's actually opinion) from a very accurate analysis by PhD Jaime Alegr�a, who teaches at the University. This analysis was posted in Rebelion. It starts: And finishes: If you want to read the rest, you can check Google automatic translation here.

Where did you find that info?Is that a new policy for editing ALL articles? Or just the protected ones, which have existed in Wikipedia for years???

Regarding this topic, I read a work by the thinker Alex Callinicos which may be quite useful for those interested in this topic. It's called Universities in a Neo-Liberal World, it has 23 pages and the explanation is really neat and easy to understand. Here's the link. I'd like to highlight an extract from the Introduction that gives an idea of what it is about and how the changes affect us all. Hope you like it.

VERY OFF-TOPIC: A real genocide happened in Gaza... that's what I mean with my pic. You're not the first one to ask, tough... so I may have to change it

I like DownThemAll! It's not a program itself, it's an add-on for Firefox, which does almost as much as any other download manager: download all links from a webpage, resume downloads, multiple parts downloading, etc... Very nice really, I recommend it.

This phenomenon is called Lucid dreaming: you're aware that you're dreaming, which means that you may have some power over your dream, quite as Baniboy said.However, you must be a bit cautious at how you react when lucid dreaming. There are several risks about trying to take control of your dream out of the blue. Let's say that, following your comparation of your experience with hallucinating, you can have a bad trip with lucid dreaming. I once had this kind of dreams: I remember dreaming about being in a field or something like that, and I couldn't move forwards nor backwards unless something happened, and I had to reach someone else who was also in that field. The thing is that when I woke up I couldn't remember WHAT had to happen to be able to move! So when I had this dream, I knew it was a dream, I was kind of lucid but yet, I didn't want to wake up until I found out what was that thing that had to happen... really annoying. Anyway, it happened for a couple months, then it just left. I had few lucid dreaming since then. My suggestion is that you first read and research about this lucid dreaming... there a few things you must know for your own safety before experimenting or playing around with your subconcious. When I had this problem, I found a featured book on this subject in Wikibooks.org, which is rather recommendable. Here's the link. Good luck!

My favourite OS is Windows XP, by now...I remember the times when my family had a PC with Windows 3.1 at home. Yeah! I had to "exit" Windows to run games on MS-DOS from ploppy disks!!! That was incredible... managing to move around the text-only enviroments to run a simple racing game and I was 6 years old. Those kinds of things are what really increases creativity and abstraction skills, not like today's software that are for fools! Like VishBoy said: it asks you Are you sure? Are you really sure?.... What the hell is that? Jus go do it, and if that means formatting a hard disk... who cares, it was just 200 Mb! hahahaNext computer we bought had Windows 98 SE. That was smooth.. No need for DOS, though it had BS-OD every 5 minutes... Unluckily, during one of my experiments with computer science, I accidentally misconfigured the whole system... Yeap, dad wasn't glad, you can be sure heheA neighbour of us offered himself to reinstall Windows from zero for free. Sure! But it was a terrible backwards step: he installed Windows ME! Dmn, that was slow, unstable, slow, unstable, and slow... Really.Luckily, a new computer was bought few years after that accident, now with Windows XP Pro. It was a calm breath out of Millenium Edition, and soon I got used to the new graphics and stuff. It's the operative system I have used longer, so I guess that's why it is my favourite one, and why every time I have to deal with any other OS, I find myself thinking twice how I have to do everything else.Finally, a week ago, I installed a light distro of Linux in the old computer (the one that had ME, which I whipped out of the HD in a rush of good formatting violence), it's called Damn Small Linux. I really hadn't time to explore much, and if we add that if the machine has no ethernet port or WiFi card to connect to Internet through DSL through recently made network, you can imagine there isn't much that I can do. However, a good, full instalation of a serious distro of Linux, like Ubuntu or Debian may replace Win XP as my fav OS... maybe

COUP D'ETAT IN HONDURAS!!! From BBC: Check this video with the rest of the article of BBC. Also, many images right from Honduras, with the people resisting! UPDATE ON MONDAY 29: No nation has publicly declared support for the Honduran military's actions or for the new acting President Roberto Micheletti, with the exception of Honduras itself. All Latin American nations, as well as supranational organizations and other countries have publicly condemned the forced removal of Zelaya as undemocratic and most have labelled it as a coup d'�tat. As of 30/06 0:00 UTC these organizations and countries have reacted in such a way: United Nations, Organization of American States, Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, Association of Caribbean States, Mercosur, Rio Group, Unasur, European Union, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, Paragua, Peru, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela. (Source: Wikipedia) According to BBC (check the video), illegal president Roberto Micheletti imposed a curfew overnight to have people out of streets, on Sunday and Monday, running from 2100 (0300 GMT) to 0600 (1200 GMT) on each night. AFP [via Yahoo! News] reports however that Zelaya supporters are resisting, building makeshift barricades. Also, many latinamerican news agencies as well as Reporters Sans Fronti�res, report a news blackout in Honduras: Reporters from TelesurTV who were covering the demonstrations on the streets at Tegucigalpa were kidnapped and mistreated by the Army before being released, due to the pressure of the ambassador of Venezuela in Honduras, Armando Laguna Laguna, who called a general of the Armed Forces to know the whereabouts of the group later released. [source: Juventud Rebelde (Cuba)] On the other hand, AlbaTV is currently reporting the news, expressed by Rafael Alegr�a, peasant leader of Via Campesina Internacional, that an infantry battalion is rising up against the de facto government (audio on link). �ngel Alvarado informed via phone (the only mean of communication that is not blocked now) to Radio Nacional de Venezuela that both the 4th battalion of infantry, in the district of Tela Atlantida, and the 10th battalion of infantry, in the district of La Ceiba Atlanta, have uprisen against Micheletti and the military authorities. There are lots of other news related to this crisis, as well as several demonstrations of solidarity with the Honduran people and its legitimate government elected by the people, now on exile, but I don't have enough time to report them all. Try to check Telesur for updates, using Google translator may be a good idea.

Very useful 1000janovski! I'm already downloading both AutoGK and DVDDecrypter... Also, another option could be AVS Video Converter. You can find the full tutorial here. It's pretty clear, and in several languages including Spanish (check right top corner to choose).

He was religious, but most scientists who proposed controversial ideas in their times, which led to confront Christian doctrine nowadays, were religious. In the case of Darwin, his father wanted him to be an Anglican parson.There's a study, by Robert K Merton, Puritan Impulse to Science, in which he tries to show how much Protestant religions transformed the idea of what we call now "science", and the use of reason to reach "God's glory", and learn about "his creation". Lots of quotations from the Royal Society and stuff like that. I disagree with Merton's conclusions, but I admit that the Reform and the new changes in religions, gave a lot of excuses to research in science. Darwin's theory and the Big Bang theory explain different things. The former explicates the origin of the universe, an area of knowledge which can be situated in Physics or Astronomy. On the other hand, Darwin's studies are about life: it's biology.They are not comparable in that way. You can say that both strike against Creationism dogmas, but not that one is better than the other. Yet, to the question of whether Darwin killed religion or not, sadly or not, he didn't, in my opinion. We still have them around, that's a fact. They have fluctuations, from time to time, they grow strength, and decades later they are weaker... But they still have a place in society: they're people's opium, a cohesive and coercive structure trying to keep US the herd quiet.

I'm glad you answered, specially because you live there. However, I can't agree with you. Your point of view is clear: asking the people whether a National Constituent Assembly must be installed or not is illegal? The president can't ask that to the people? What is illegal? Participative democracy? My opinion is that nobody can ban a popular consultation, people rules. Even more when it's not binding. You have all the right to disagree. But when you're reporting news, stick to the facts. Things like seem fairly impossible to prove. Also, I've been collecting signatures (for other causes, of course), and I can tell you that 400.000 signatures collected in a couple months IS a big number. If it's popular or not, we'll see next Sunday.

Political science, as social sciences, is science. For a discipline to be a science, it doesn't depend on what they study (in this case political structures, decisions, etc...). What makes the difference between a science and a bunch of garbage some lucky face tell us from TV (most of those so called analysts, not all of them of course), is that political scientists MUST follow a scientific method. The METHOD is what makes science. What's the difference between alchemy and chemistry? Why is the latter a science, but not the first one? Because a chemist must follow the scientific method. The fall of feudalism and arise of capitalism has a lot to do with the modern idea of science, so does puritanism. (But I don't want to ramble off-topic with this, check Hessen and Merton's response to him for that). I'm not a political science student. I study History. You can call it science or not, but we follow the scientific method, the knowledge we produce has scientific value. We observe, make hypothesis, fetch sources (any piece of evidence from reality) and bibliography, we check if they're true, valid or important, then we evaluate them all together, and the result is: conclusions. Anyway, the discussion of whether social science are sciences, or a low-level science or no science at all is almost over among epistemology philosophers. Denying the scientific status to a discipline that follows the scientific method sounds quite brought from the XIX century.