Testtube, owner of SSCC, has informed me they are instituting a new custom writen bot core on all SSCC hosted zones. Exact details have not been released as it is still in development. So, stay tuned.
At the age of 92, Rosa Parks,known for being arrested and fined $14 for not giving her seat up on a public transportation bus to a white man, has passed away today. She was 42 when she commited this act of defiance. Her actions lead to the passage of the federal Civil Rights Act in [...]
For those who may have missed it, OpenOffice.org released version 2.0 of their open-source Microsoft Office compatable suite. It features a default save-as setting to an open-document type which means it will never be proprietary, ever. This should encourage developers to create more applications that can read/write these documents and not to be ‘locked’ in [...]
Another interesting story of a student originally in a chemical engineering switched to business major. What he says here is very very very true.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/092105B.html
Tech Companies Are Swimming in Lawsuits
by: Olga Kharif
I just read some rather startling results from a survey done by law firm Fulbright & Jaworski. The firm asked 354 companies in various industries about their top legal concerns. And it turns out that tech companies are swimming in lawsuits — particularly if they are in the [...]
Slashdot Summary:
“CNET News.com says habitual activity (e.g., smoking, eating fatty foods, gambling, etc.) changes neural activity patterns in a specific region of the brain when habits are formed. These neural patterns created by habit can be changed or altered. But when a stimulus from the old days returns, the dormant pattern can reassert itself, according [...]
So, I am putting out an alert. It has come to my attention that there may be someone posing as me on other non-SSC billers. This person claims to have a bot plugin that the zone wants/needs and asks for permissions for staff. I will never come out and directly ask for staff in this [...]
I swear our government intentionally ensures we do not study the basic law of the land so they are able to do anything they want. Mind you, the Courts must uphold the Constitution (and amendments) as so does the Congress. So, let’s take a look at the first amendment. I understand there has been judicial [...]
I found this to be very interesting, a direct quote from the Constitution of the United States of America.
Article VI:
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The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or [...]
Another release of the great, free, software known as CCleaner has been released:
v1.24.180
- Added detection for Internet Cache cleaning
problem when Firefox/Mozilla is open.
- Added support for Firefox v1.5.
- Improved Firefox folder detection.
- Added Custom file support.
- Added “Open in RegEdit…” to issues list.
- Adding cleaning support for ClamWin,
Ewido, Foxit Reader, Paint.NET
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