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Giorgio Maone, the author of NoScript, recently released an update that actively and intensionally crippled Adblock Plus.
The piece of code responsible was reportedly obfuscated to make it hard to find and analyze.
Read the post of Wladmir Palant, the author of Adblock Plus, and what Giorgio has to say.

Whoah ! At first I though it was some kind of secret installation as it was hidden in the middle of nowhere but it seems there's nothing on the spot and anyway you won't find commercial available military satellite imagery as they buy blind (or exclusive) spot from commercial satellites.

Thanks to FACIL forum, I've just read the article Open is the new closed? - Bringing transparency to Open source by separating Open source licensing models and Open source governance models .. that worries me about dependency as this sound exactly like a problem I previously was about to have, I'll mention it next. What worries me the most is :

I sent a plea by email to almost all my contacts (you may see it in the French translation, see at the bottom link Français) for scientific and humanitarian help ; here's a summary as it's pretty long:

Please take 5-10 minutes of your time to share you unused computer capacity, which is extremely stable and well thought so it won't slow your computer down, with the software Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) at the URL http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ 

I found this great article on my friend blog Feeling down? Get happy, dammit! - Think fast, speak up and don't dwell on negative thoughts. Even if you never feel depressive, it includes interesting psychological facts as an impressive 40 percent (of our happiness) is generated by our daily thoughts and actions.

Happy reading !

I just made the Free Images section with the use of Drupals Content Construction Kit (CCK) and Views.

CCK is pretty intuitive and pretty detailed and with a few CCK-related modules, it can do pretty much everything you want ! Although I had to go through more than a few bugs, most of them had easy workaround and as I have a community spirit, I submitted those issues as well as their workaround.

I would've loved to enable the use of OpenID on this website ! Beside being listed on the directory and attracting a bit of traffic, just as some site use .net passports, it would've enabled a centralized login server meaning : less hassle for users, less user profiles needed to be stored. I can't wait until this site is upgraded to Drupal 6, which had OpenID in its core, or that this nasty bug is fixed.

I just read the constructive criticism about Drupal article To Drupal or not to Drupal, why we chose not to use Drupal for a photo shop. I must admit I'm on of those it points out at the end :

Never forget that you, as Drupal developer, have the conditions under wich your (future) sites are running, hardwired into your brain.