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2008-11-24 - Quotes

Some nice quotes fount on DebianWiki

• Democracy is not a spectator sport.
• They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety -- Benjamin Franklin
• Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see. -- David Windsor
• Where's Murphy when you need him?
• Notice: due to the shortage of robots, some of our workers are human, and will act unpredictably when abused.
• The 1st thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging...
• That liberal politician who robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul. -- Unknown author
• ...when it comes to voting, everyone is Paul, and has no opinion. -- Franklin Piat

Own quotes

• Life is a disease you get at birth. You struggle with it until you die.
• When you look yourself in a mirror, you are looking the past.
• Freedom doesn't come for free.

And a last one:

• The difference between fact and fiction is that fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy

2008-10-14 - DRM vs Freedom, again

... Do buy music, DRM free music. (credits http://xkcd.com/488/).

2008-01-12 - DRM vs Freedom

2008/2009 will probably be the DRM years (IMHO). Companies have always wanted to be able to restrict the use/diffusion of "information". DRM provides such feature. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure it will almost always be used to restrict existing right, rather than provide more possiblities and information ;=) That too bad.

GPLv2 : I know my rights; I want my phone call!

DRM : What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak ?

picture from "Matrix" movie. Quoted text seen on /.

GPG key

new key (0x8deec9da):

 pub   4096R/8DEEC9DA 2009-07-12
       Key fingerprint = D787 2EB8 6DB8 0053 6665  822C 06C2 B7B1 8DEE C9DA
 uid                  Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>
 uid                  Franklin Piat <fpiat@klabs.be>
 uid                  Franklin Piat (deprecated email) <fpiat@bigfoot.com>
 sub   4096R/A6F81DB9 2009-07-12

old key (0xA5F660B4):

 pub   1024D/A5F660B4 2001-06-27
      Key fingerprint = 3087 5444 9886 714D 8B82  147D 8446 2847 A5F6 60B4
	                 308754449886714D8B82147D84462847A5F660B4
 uid                  Franklin Piat <fpiat@bigfoot.com>
 uid                  Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>