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

Windows vSHITa

I was using this shity O.S from the dark side of the source, in a friend´s computer and suddenly Internet stopped working, and when I looked at the task bar... waaaaaaah!, there was the old windows bar!! It´s hidden right under the new one!! What a piece of crap!!

"That's no moon... it's a space station."
Obi-Wan kenobi

Transformers!

They are coming...

What an incredible smell you've discovered!
Han Solo

Spanish Consulting Company uses Debian's logo in green

[Update: Feb, 03, 2009] "As I promised here is the results of my research: So, I decided to ask in Barrapunto (the Spanish Slashdot) about the issue, and following the comments and re-reading the Debian Logo's license it seems that it could not be a "huge" violation of the Copyright law. They should just add a comment saying where the logo comes from and/or a link to the Debian project's web page. And the final obtained conclusion is that since I am not directly affected, I cannot "do more" than inform the parts involved in the case."

Surfing the Internet I founded a Spanish consulting company from the dark side of the source using a nice green logo lightly similar to the logo of the rebel group called Debian. I am not very strong in laws, and after reading the Debian Open Use Logo License, I don't really know if this becomes a violation of the it. I know that in the software galaxy the fsf take charage of violation reports of their licenses GNU GPL, LGPL, AGPL, o FDL, but I don't really know what should be the correct acting protocol in this case. Right now I am researching about it, I will post my progress...

Here you have the logos so you can check the mentioned similarities:

Debian's Logo:

Consulting Company's Logo:

"I have a very bad feeling about this."
Luke Skywalker

Some history of Weapons from the Dark Side (Mac)

Apple's Macintosh commercial, directed by Ridley Scott

Steve Jobs Introducing Mac to the Galaxy

And now some pics...

1984 - Macintosh 128Kb

1987 - Macintosh II

1989 - Macintosh Portable

1991 - Quadra 700

1991 - PowerBook 100

1993 - Macintosh Color Classic

1998 - iMac

1999 - Power Macintosh G3

1999- iBook

2001 - PowerBook G4


2002 - iMac G4

2003 - Power Mac G5

2008: MacBook Air

The Future?: MacBook Wheel (no keyboard!, WTF?!)

"I have you now."

Darth Vader