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• How To Harden a Linux or OpenBSD Installation on September 02, 2010
• Does the proof of the Poincaré conjecture matter? - By Jordan Ellenberg - Slate Magazine - "Perelman's work isn't important because of its applications. It won't help anyone build a bridge, [...] But its real significance is like that of the fact that a times b is equal to b times a; it's a basic structural statement about how the world is organized." - on August 22, 2010
• Why software patents are a joke, literally | ZDNet - "Unfortunately, the joke is on all of us. It’s on our economy, as we let patents choke down innovation and increase fear, uncertainty, and doubt in an already uncertain time. It’s on our bottom lines, as we make busy-work for our expensive lawyers with their sparkling eyes instead of investing for the future. And it’s on our collective consciousness, as we force good and decent people to act against the better angels of their nature." - on August 17, 2010
• xkcd: Academia vs. Business - "How to kill the joy of creativity" - on August 09, 2010
• Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World - "As of October 1st 2009. Japan: $0.27/mbps(avg 61mbps), Korea: $0.45/mbps(avg 46mbps), Finland: $2.77/mbps(avg 22mbps).... Where is Cyprus?" - on July 30, 2010
• First they came... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist." - on July 29, 2010
• THE HANGMAN - By Maurice Ogden - "The Hangman. Ποίημα της Maurice Ogden." - on July 28, 2010
• alepouda: Η ασυγχώρητη ανηθικότητα της ηθικής - "'Εκείνη την μέρα κατάλαβα πολύ καλά ποιος είναι ηθικά μεμπτός σε αυτή τη ζωή. Όχι η πόρνη, αλλά ο πελάτης.'" - on July 26, 2010
• Ο εφιάλτης της Ακροδεξιάς πλανάται πάνω από την Ευρώπη - TO BHMA - "Ο εφιάλτης εμφανίζεται σήμερα μοντέρνος, δικτυωμένος και ρητορικά ευέλικτος αλλά εξίσου βίαιος και απάνθρωπος με την παλαιά εκδοχή του." - on July 23, 2010
• νΦανέλες του ΕΛΑΜ ''ζήτησαν και αστυομικοί'' | Πολιτική | Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ, kathimerini.com.cy - "'Άγριο[ς] ξυλοδαρμό[ς] νεαρού Νιγηριανού στη λεωφόρο Μακαρίου από 25 ροπαλοφόρους της ΕΛΑΜ (Εθνικό Λαϊκό Μέτωπο) το βράδυ της Τρίτης.'" - on July 23, 2010