Free Blogger!! Italian Bloggers claim for help...

Italian bloggers are asking for help to bloggers knights from all galaxies. It seems that the politicians from the dark side of the source in their country are trying to make all the free bloggers in that country to be licensed by the state.

Italian Parliament has been accelerating the legislation against the Internet. It is the last free media. The rest are perfectly controlled by the government: 7 national TV's are owned by the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, 3 are owned by the state so they are controlled by the Governament (Prime Minister, again), all major newspapers are financed by the State...

Now Carlucci, ex show girl now member of Parliament for the right wing, is proposing to a law to forbid to publish any content in any form on line anonymously.

So, if you still believe in freedom of speech and want to help Italian Bloggers, please, send in your photos with the words: "FREE BLOGGER"

Send an email to freeblogger@beppegrillo.it with:
- subject: your name
- text: the address of your blog
- attached: a photo of you with a sign saying "FREE BLOGGER"

"Red Group, Green Group, Gold Group, all fighters follow me..."
Lando Calrissian

IE8? Nice job Microsoft!

Here they come again, with their right new Internet Explorer 8. But just a few days after the great release Nils, a German Jedi hacker of the open source, has hacked the ultimate navigation tool wining the 5000$ and the laptop offered at the 10th annual CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada.

He managed to break into Microsoft's safest browser yet using a yet-unknown vulnerability a few hours after IE8 was launched as the browser was running on a Windows 7 Beta platform.

By the the contest policies, details of the vulnerabilities are kept confidential until the vendor releases a patch. They say they will work closely with the vendors to solve the problems.

Up to now, Microsoft has released a statement saying that they are investigating reports of possible vulnerabilities and actions will be taken if confirmed.

"Oh, great warrior, hmm? Wars not make one great."
Master Yoda

The Apple

Today I am going to talk about how the dark side of the source decided one of the most famous and most appreciated symbols, THE apple.

Apple's first logo lasted from 1971 to 1976. It was designed by Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne, and it shows Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree:
It didn't last much time, mainly because it was replaced the colored Apple designed by Rob Janoff in 1976. It's believed that this apple is a tribute mixing Isaac Newton's discoveries of gravity and the separation of light by prisms:
Another known explanation for the bitten apple exits, and it refers to the mathematician Alan Turing, who was founded dead apparently because of eating a cyanide-laced apple he left half-eaten beside his bed. Most believe this was a suicide. His mother, however, strenuously argued that the ingestion was accidental due to his careless storage of laboratory chemicals. The rainbow colors are attributed to Turing's homosexuality.

In 1998, with the iMac the monochromatic logo was released, conferred to the insistence of recently returned Steve Jobs. Right now no color is prescribed throughout Apple's software and hardware line.

"Already know you that which you need."
Master Yoda