Code 46 is a 2003 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom, screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It is a disquieting science fiction love story with many themes associated with the biopunk genre.

Good biopunk film. Tim Robbins doesn't suck in it.

Code 46 - Wikipedia

The RIAA uses systems to gather lists of alleged infringers,
and bulk-sues them. It has set a price that seems to be
profitable for it, while being low enough that it is not
profitable for the accused to mount a defence, as they do
not get the economies of scale involved.

If the above sentence doesn't scare you, we also have
the issue that for the big player, a few mistakes are
tolerable noise in the system. For the target of a mistake,
such as a person whose wireless network was used by
a neighbour, or a completely innocent person caught in an
ordinary error, we see no solution -- pay a settlement
of several thousands, or spend far more to fight in court.

We will need to adjust the legal system to deal with
spamigation. Mistakes in any bulk use of the law must
be punish, I suspect, with high penalties which eliminate
the economies of scale. Ie. if you threaten 100, and
1 defends and wins, penalties must exceed the settlements
of the entire 100, perhaps. And something must exist to
assure the innocent will defend themselves -- the potential
for punative damages may be insufficient.

[IP] more on who is to blame -- riaa

Using LVM for MySQL Backup and Replication Setup

If someone asks me about MySQL Backup advice my first question would be if they have LVM installed or have some systems with similar features set for other operation systems. Veritas File System can do it for Solaris. Most SAN systems would work as well.

What is really needed is ability to create atomic snapshot of the volume, which can be later mounted same as original file system

MySQL Performance Blog � Using LVM for MySQL Backup and Replication Setup

Every time Bruce Schneier smiles, an amateur cryptographer dies.

They're all funny. Jesus...

Everybody Loves Eric Raymond - Bruce Schneier Facts

Tabjab is a powerful way to keep track of the interpersonal debts that often arise between friends, roommates, and coworkers. You can use Tabjab to send out bills for dinner debts, bar tabs, rent, utilities, entertainment, or any other expense that people share. These bills are delivered via email, and they are easy to consolidate when it comes time to pay.

My roommate and I have been working on this website since late last year. We've been keeping it under wraps but we decided this weekend to formally make it available. When your friends or roommates owe you money you can input it into Tabjab. Tabjab will keep track of it, send emails out, and calculate reciprical debts. Check it out and let us know what you think!

My new project: TabJab

Blankness RULES.

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Introducing Carbon Copy Cloner 2.3!

Have you ever wanted a simple, complete, bootable backup of your hard drive? Have you ever wanted to upgrade to a larger hard drive with minimal hassle and without reinstalling your OS and all of your applications? Have you ever wanted to move your entire Mac OS X installation to a new computer? Then CCC is the tool for you! CCC makes these tasks simple by harnessing the Unix power built into Mac OS X. In addition to the features that CCC has provided in the past, version 2 offers synchronization of the source and target as well as scheduled backup tasks. Now you can setup a regular backup regimen that occurs in the background, even if you are not logged in! Version 2 also offers enhancements for lab administrators, including the option to run pre and post-flight shell scripts, the ability to modify the list of items to be removed at the end of a clone, and the ability to create a disk image on the fly.

Works on my MacBook Pro 17", just booted from the cloned firewire drive. Now I have a backup that boots in case my hard drive dies again. I can update the backup image weekly, or as often as I install libraries, and then pull our source code from SVN when I boot from the firewire drive and... a dead disk will cost me no time. Woot.

Bombich Software: Carbon Copy Cloner: Bootable Backups for your Apple Notebook

"CPAN".replace(/CP/, "JS")

JavaScript Archive Network is a comprehensive resource for Open Source JavaScript libraries and software.

The CPAN gives perl its power. The JSAN aims to do the same for JS.

JSAN - Home : CPAN for Javascript

HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR SED (Unix stream editor) Apr. 26, 2004 compiled by Eric Pement - pemente[at]northpark[dot]edu version 5.4

SED one-liners

One proponent of this school of thought, John Arquilla, a professor at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, has argued: "What happens if you take your large hammer to a ball of quicksilver? That's what these networks are." He continues: "We are trying to wage war as if it still mattered that our forces are comprised of ‘the few and the large' -- a few large heavy divisions, a few large aircraft carrier battle groups -- when in fact war is migrating into the hands of the many and the small -- little distributed units. We live in an era when technology has expanded the destructive power of a small group and the individual beyond our imaginations."

These lessons of combat -- now exemplified by Hezbollah's resistance to the IDF -- are not being lost elsewhere in the Arab world. According to a UPI story, "Anti-tank Rockets Menace Israelis," appearing on August 14, the day of the cease-fire, a reporter from the Israeli paper Ha'aretz recently interviewed a member of Fatah's al-Aksa brigades in Bethlehem, who said: "The brothers...are no longer interested in games with Kalashnikov rifles; they want anti-tank rockets....When this technology arrives, how difficult would it be for one of the fighters to sit on the Palestinian side of the wall at Abu Dis and fire a rocket at the King David Hotel? With less effort than a suicide bombing or shooting one can fire a missile and get the same results."

The Lebanon War and the democratization of missile technology