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Hello leaders of scientology, we are anonymous. We hope you are having as much fun with this as we are. As you know, we are still here, and with every passing day your failure to account for the fraud and abuse exposed by our campaign becomes more evident to the media, to our government and to your own followers. Reuters , The BBC ,CNN, The London Times, Fox, The Associated Press, Forbes and a legion of local news agencies have chosen to communicate our message about your organization to their viewer-ship. And now the world is listening to us and watching you. The mechanism behind the phenomenal ease with which we have achieved this is simple. We are speaking the truth.

Your efforts to handle this condition are as predictable as they are expensive for you. This pleases Anonymous and we encourage you to continue waging your informational war against truth at great expense to you and at no cost to us. We approve of these conditions. Because within them defeat is impossible.

Our campaign has been one of constant success, and yours has been one of constant failure. This will continue. Evidence of our victory is everywhere. We are certain that Youtube and google appreciate your handsome patronage now necessary because of the ubiquity of our message. Unfortunately for you the hundreds of thousands of dollars you now spend every month because of Anonymous cannot change your organization’s history of crime and abuse of human rights, nor alter your organizations policy encouraging criminal behavior which are now all available to the public.

Your lawsuits to censor these documents will continue to fail at great cost to you just as your attempts to paint our peaceful demonstrations as terrorist activities have done nothing but foreground your tendency to abuse the judicial system to suppress free speech.

Defections at every level of your organization will continue to increase. By now you have most likely experienced the cognition that every action we take deprives you of at least one of the three following things: capital, clients and credibility. These conditions will continue to exert their pressure upon you and your superiors. The disorder will continue to deepen.

We have changed the rules of the game. Growth of the magnitude required to maintain your organization in its present form is no longer possible for you. Your ability to seduce the public has been destroyed. Your survival has long depended on your capacity to suppress the truth of your abuses, and that ability is now gone.

We have removed it.

Leaders of scientology, the data has spoken. We are at Cause. you are at effect.

Expect this to continue, and thank you for playing the game.

THIS CHANNEL WILL BE CENSORED.
THIS CHANNEL WILL BE CENSORED.
BLOGOSPHERE, PRESS AND ANONYMOUS DIRECT YOUR LINKS TO THE MEDIA BELOW:

http://rutube.ru/tracks/1001686.html?v=e2df3410d0469b6be26fd51f36896d5e
http://digg.com/comedy/We_Run_This

DIGG, REDDIT:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/70us6/anonymous_runs_this/

It started out like this:

and then the first cracks in the plaster appeared:

soon it looked like this:

and then the ceiling turned out to contain also some cracks:

Some rewiring of the electrics:

some more rewiring needed:

and this was the magic box …

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Chrome is the best browser out there.

Yes, I do seriously mean it! No, it’s technically not the best, nor in form and looks, nor in functionality.

After test driving it I can call a list of great stuff:

• blazing fast, especially in javascript rich pages [and spawns processes like there is no tomorrow]
• it feels lightweight [on a core duo with 2gig of RAM, have no slower machine ot test it on]
• runs without much hastle being a one day old (ok, now 3day old) beta [I know, they took Webkit, and even an old version with the flood bug in it and added V8 and some Mozilla/Firefox code]
• awesome Omnibar [yup I know, code comes straight from Firefox's Awesomebar]
• new tab pages rocks [unless you just like to visit a number of pr0n pages a lot and forgot to use the "incognito" setting]
• incognito setting [aka pr0n mode, same as IE8 just boasted about - even the gossip newspapers mentioned new IE8 would come with "pr0n-button"]
• finally the tabs behave like tabs should behave [but then that is my personal opinion, others may like their tabs different]

There is also a list ranging from “no, not good” up to “Oww crap!” bad things:

• java still dead, even after installing new 6.10 beta that is supposed to support Webkit [probably my mistake for downloading the wrong nightly build or so, but what the heck, also on the flip side: better no java applets, they always seemed equally bad to my system performance and security as ActiveX]
• no themes, no plugins, NO-ADBLOCK [will probably come soon, but then there's the question if this will not put a big burden on performance, a clean Firefox install also is rather clean and fast]
• some pages will not render correctly in it [probably a web page issue but then same page in Safari seems to work fine]
• not for OSX/Linux [will also come soon, but hey, what's the issue? Styling? Don't tell me the version for win is so nice with it's Teletubby themed blue bar Windows XP look. with so many *nix affeccionados drooling over the opportunity to port it to their platform we should have seen functioning builds from day 2 onwards]
• privacy!!! [ok, they changed the ToS/license already and you can turn off the use of Omnibar, but still, for a company under such scrutiny over privacy lately they could have done a better job]
• yet another browser [on the other hand, in between IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Shiira, Camino, Konqueror, ... one more should go quite unnoticed]
• security holes from the past [on the other hand it is a beta thing based on an old Webkit version, probably the next release will contain the update]

But that’s all irrelevant compared to this:

this one is not released by the usual suspects!

Yes you read this good. Apple unveiling Safari for Windows caused quite a ripple in the IT world. It would take over any browsers share, either to the benefit of dethroning IE as the main browser or to the detriment of smaller browsers who’s market share was about to be eaten by Apple and their fancy shiny webthingy. It would draw the masses towards OSX, show the windows world where to go in terms of look and feel, …

It didn’t. It was simply another, nice to the eye, browser with a rather mediocre performance on Windows compared to the rest of the pack, plus it tried to lure you into installing every other app Apple has for Windows. And although I am a big fan of apply, their software on Windows has a crappy performance all according to it’s reputation, which is a pitty as it functions very well.

But nobody expected Google to come with a browser. So now every one is on the tips of their toes, waiting full of tension what the impact will be. And you can already see it and measure it. Every other newspaper in Europe and the US mentioned it and I guess in the rest of the world also (but I am pretty bad at reading Hindi or Chinese). Also television news and radio newscasts mentioned this news. Some even followed up on the flooding security issue. The current market share according to some sites reaches over 1%, that means that in one or two days, more than 10 million people used this browser.

And all that was reached by leaking a comic book! Ok, they followed up at launch with a webcast and a statement on their site, but in terms of promo and PR effort that is zero.

With a big impact on everyone else:

Google reshaped the landscape with their browser. Not due to it’s technical superiority, nor throuh it’s looks, but just due to the fact that it was Google who released it. It sent a clear message to all those out there that “the Google” is not happy with the current state of affairs and if no-one else is going to improve it, they take out the whip and start themselves. A consequence is that there is impact for all players now:

• other browser builders like Firefox and Opera: everyone is now looking their way to improve on whatever one perceives as the better part of Chrome vs that browser. In effect, even if technically no wonderchild, Chrome upped the ante for any other browser in the market
• OS makers like Microsoft and Apple: we are fed up waiting for you to come to us so now we come to you. This could be interpreted as a thread, but also as a friendly poke in the side.
• all website builders: having your site run in sandboxed separate process that can be monitored with the browsers built in process manager really puts pressure on them to build lean sites. Now it is no longer the perception that your browser is slow, but more that your site is slow
• the users: Firefox is for geeks and nerds, Apply is for gay designers so up till now IE was the only other valid option for Joe Sixpack. But now there is also “the Google” that also makes “an internets”. I guess that if Google would have named their browser simply ” internet” or “the internet” it would be a matter of days after their real, non-beta, release before every second Windows desktop would feature an icon called “the internet” which for the user would be simply “teh Internets”

Time for some change …

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Chrome it is!
I just downloaded it and tried to run it with this disappointing message:

The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application.

Some googling around brought me to this blog that had all links neatly ordered.

Seems the problem exists for users of Symantec Endpoint Protection (aptly abbreviated SEP).

Even without this activated, there is an underlying default rule that prevents Chrome from spawning process threads for it’s sandboxing (*). Just google around for Sysplant.sys and you will notice that Chrome isn’t the only one to suffer from this problem.

There are 2 solutions to this issue:
1) disable the sandboxing, but this basically defeats some of the strongest points of the browser. How to do it : Right click on the desktop icon (or menu icon) that launched Chrome and choose properties. Then add at the end of the target string (after the quotation marks) a blank and then –no-sandbox.
This turns off the sandbox behaviour of Chrome.

2) Disable Symantec’s behaviour as described here on the Symantec forums (you need admin access to your PC for this and this will also not work where the policies for Symantec Endpoint Protection are set centrally by your sysadmin.

1) Back up the registry on an affected system.
2) Open the registry on the Agent system by entering regedit from a run prompt.
3) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SysPlant.
4) Open the Start DWORD.
5) Change the value to 4 to disable the drivers.
6) Reboot the system to commit the changes.

I personally prefer solution 3: Remove Symantec entirely and install a decent anti-virus/system protection system, but if you are stuck with the vile piece of crap that Symantec is, then option 2 is the preferred one untill Google launches an official solution (not workaround) for this issue.

(*) Chrome makes a separate operating environment for each process (group) it starts. Basically every tab ends up in its own micro environment thus preventing crashing tabs from taking your entire browser with them. More on this in Google’s explanation I mentioned in the post before.

Seems another competitor is about to enter the arena …

Happy Left Handers Day !

Over the last decades some great dance hits were made, some with an eerie quality to them. Some get their freakiness from their sound, others from their videoclip, some from both.

Here are some pearls:

CJ Boland (featuring Jade4U) - Sugar Is Sweeter (1996):

Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy (1997)

Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid (1988)

Silver Bullet - 20 Seconds To Comply (1989)

A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd - Total Confusion (1990)

Fad Gadget (featuring Einstürzende Neubauten) - Collapsing New People (1983)

About a year ago I wrote about the Australian band GOD.
They are famous in some way for their song “My Pal”, which over the years remained one of the best songs ever to me, and apparently to a lot of other people.

Now schmerse posted a comment asking me for the lyrics to the song.

So my first reflex was to google for it and nope, there aren’t any!
Then I checked the bands myspace page http://www.myspace.com/godaustralia
They have alink that say lyrics, which leads me to this Monday, July 21, 2008 entry:

LYRICS - Please read this before requesting lyrics

Hi,
We get requests sometimes for lyrics, usually for My Pal. If anyone wants to know what the lyrics are, here’s what to do….
Post what you *think* the lyrics are as a comment on the main GOD Myspace page. In this way I, and God friends, can derive amusement.
I will then correct your mistakes if necessary.
Under no circumstances will we tell you what the lyrics are without you following this step, OK?
Thanks

Seems pretty clear to me, they won’t give it out themselves so we will have to give it our best shot.
I tried to pen down what I could make out of it which is:

update: thanks to ian for the corrections. I included them below.

give me a [can't understand it, sounds like "pal in hell"] To be a party-head
is something I could never do
I don’t like no one
but the same except for [or "from"] you

you’re my only friend
you don’t even like me

you’re my only friend
you don’t even like me

come over to my house
I’ve got a thing [or "friend"] plan for you
you’re not gonna come
but I want you to

you’re my only friend
you don’t even like me

you’re my only friend
you don’t even like me

Why, give it a shot yourself and correct my mistakes, with me not being a native English speaker, in the comments below. There is a good version of the song performed live on youtube.

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