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    blog comments boxes and spam

    I use WordPress, and haven't had any trouble with comment spam so far, but this may well just be because I only switched over recently and the spambots haven't found me new URLs yet. WordPress does have a number of plugins you can use to help stop spam - an IP blacklist (which is actually quite...
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    Google

    True, in a way, athough really scary are people like Autonomy and their clients (including the Department of Homeland Security), who use similar techniques on a variety of sources of data, probably many of which are dubiously acquired. And their board of directors includes Richard Perle. More...
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    Google

    I don't think we need to be worried about that - 2038 is just the latest date that can be expressed with 32 bits - it's the binary equivalent of the millennium. Although, I suppose, that does raise the worrying possibility that google might be the antichrist. Also...
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    The cost of ideas

    There's an interesting book on this, part of which is available online, arguing that because what is valuable is embodied intellectual property (whether that's embodied in people's brains, or in books or on CDs), and such embodied ideas are not public goods (that is, you can keep them secret...
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    Do You Support the Iraqi Resistance Movement?

    You don't, it seems to me, have to support the Iraqi resistance to think that the occupation should end. Indeed, given that the longer the occupation has gone on, the more support for the resistance has grown, there's an argument that, if you oppose the resistance, you should also oppose the...
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    'we need to reclaim the streets from Reclaim the Streets'

    RTS stopped (or, rather, morphed into various other things) around about the time of J18. Various reasons why can be found in their pamphlet Reflections on J18 . I thought Crumbling Loaf's post was funny, but I don't think RTS are really the problem. Rather, when RTS-style tactics went massive...
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