Wow, if that's true, it's crazy, and interesting. Especially the part about submitting a video of yourself committing molestation. Talk about self-incrimination. Must be a really compelling vice/urge to go to such lengths.
I run an exit node on a VPS. Apparently it'd been used by some guy to try to get a teenaged girl to send him naked pics. They subpoenaed everything back to my business cable connection at home and then called up my company (i.e. me) about it citing a scary amount of information about me.
I explained to the detective what TOR was (I already have the standard exit node info page up as recommended on the web server), and he'd already heard it from someone else (a civil lib organization running TOR exits used by the same guy). They dropped it there. Scared me a little and I contacted the EFF, who did not hesitate to offer support should something worse happen in the future.
EFF is one of the only organizations I donate to, ever, and I donate a decent chunk of change every month. I'm a proud supporter and it's good to know they're there to support me too.
My feelings about slashdot in the past ten years have varied quite a bit, but I keep finding myself coming back.
I most remember first finding out about 9/11 on slashdot, just in time to turn on the TV in my dorm room and see the second plane hit.
Hopefully the place will only change for the better in the future (which I don't mean to be a jab at cmdrtaco).
That is a really large amount of money for either of those. The National Science Foundation, for example, gives small businesses grants of $500k for up to 2 years to get started with much more complicated products. Maybe they just had a lot of excited investors and so instead of turning them away they took it all?
Yeah, frankly, there are much better kits out there from one- and two-person operations, that are supporting themselves full-time on shipping kits and hardware and doing a great job. They're also innovating, producing new, better designs for both components and bots. Again, without all this seed money. Maybe they'll do great things with $10M, who knows, but I'm not anywhere near convinced it's necessary for what they're doing.
I am a fan of the whole RepRap thing -- built one myself (not a MakerBot model) -- but I can't see what they need $10M for. With the prices they are charging, compared to the costs of other kits out there and what you get for them, they should be rolling in dough given their current sales.
There are quite a few bitcoin sites. The main one is bitcoin.org, but the software is also hosted on github, for example. It's an open-source software project, and the original creator has disappeared into the ether.
I am not just referring to Wordpress, however, and I find some other systems like Joomla equally disastrous. Yet plenty of smart people are choosing these systems every day.
I'm not trying to start a war, I genuinely think I am missing something. What makes Drupal perfect for those other jobs?
There must be something compelling about Drupal, but I've found it really confusing and troublesome to work with as compared to, say, Wordpress. Why is it chosen for big projects like this?
Someone already has. Google is your friend. I actually didn't buy more than 2 or 3 Kindle books until I figured that out. Now that I have, I buy a lot more. I also don't spread them all over the internet, I just know that I can always switch readers down the line.
Kind of like what happened with iTunes/MP3s. Funny, eh? Meanwhile, the pirates continue to pirate, DRM or no.
It is because of things like this that I am sticking with the 10.04 LTE for a while. I've become really disillusioned with the rapid changes in Ubuntu between releases. I guess it's good, but I don't have the time to screw around 'fixing' everything after an upgrade very often.
One of the things I miss about Gentoo is that you can keep your system in a state of rolling update, for the most part.
If you just change your I/O scheduler to anticipatory this should go away. I think the simplest in Ubuntu is to add "elevator=anticipatory" to your kernel command line arguments. This is done differently in GRUB and GRUB2, so fgi.
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Yes I was about to post this as well. Zing!
I keep hoping for this but I understand it's rather complex to make such a network function well.
Unfortunately it seems in order to protect the good you have to protect some of the bad as well. EFF discusses this a bit on their site.
I hope you're kidding/ironic with the communism schtick.
Wow, if that's true, it's crazy, and interesting. Especially the part about submitting a video of yourself committing molestation. Talk about self-incrimination. Must be a really compelling vice/urge to go to such lengths.
I run an exit node on a VPS. Apparently it'd been used by some guy to try to get a teenaged girl to send him naked pics. They subpoenaed everything back to my business cable connection at home and then called up my company (i.e. me) about it citing a scary amount of information about me. I explained to the detective what TOR was (I already have the standard exit node info page up as recommended on the web server), and he'd already heard it from someone else (a civil lib organization running TOR exits used by the same guy). They dropped it there. Scared me a little and I contacted the EFF, who did not hesitate to offer support should something worse happen in the future. EFF is one of the only organizations I donate to, ever, and I donate a decent chunk of change every month. I'm a proud supporter and it's good to know they're there to support me too.
My feelings about slashdot in the past ten years have varied quite a bit, but I keep finding myself coming back. I most remember first finding out about 9/11 on slashdot, just in time to turn on the TV in my dorm room and see the second plane hit. Hopefully the place will only change for the better in the future (which I don't mean to be a jab at cmdrtaco).
That is a really large amount of money for either of those. The National Science Foundation, for example, gives small businesses grants of $500k for up to 2 years to get started with much more complicated products. Maybe they just had a lot of excited investors and so instead of turning them away they took it all?
Yeah, frankly, there are much better kits out there from one- and two-person operations, that are supporting themselves full-time on shipping kits and hardware and doing a great job. They're also innovating, producing new, better designs for both components and bots. Again, without all this seed money. Maybe they'll do great things with $10M, who knows, but I'm not anywhere near convinced it's necessary for what they're doing.
I am a fan of the whole RepRap thing -- built one myself (not a MakerBot model) -- but I can't see what they need $10M for. With the prices they are charging, compared to the costs of other kits out there and what you get for them, they should be rolling in dough given their current sales.
If you think Apple is bad in court, wait until the Borg get on your case for a box-shaped ship.
So is this the Santa Cruz Operation?
There are plenty of bacterial STDs.
There are quite a few bitcoin sites. The main one is bitcoin.org, but the software is also hosted on github, for example. It's an open-source software project, and the original creator has disappeared into the ether.
Mod parent up. Leprosy is no longer an issue. Antibiotics FTW.
Nice, thanks!
Drupal is written for developers, not end users.
I think this is the root of my problems with it. I had just wanted to install and use it, not use it as a basis for development.
Trying to answer my own question, I also found this interesting take: http://drupal.org/node/34421
I am not just referring to Wordpress, however, and I find some other systems like Joomla equally disastrous. Yet plenty of smart people are choosing these systems every day. I'm not trying to start a war, I genuinely think I am missing something. What makes Drupal perfect for those other jobs?
There must be something compelling about Drupal, but I've found it really confusing and troublesome to work with as compared to, say, Wordpress. Why is it chosen for big projects like this?
Mod parent funny.
Usually if you're putting more than *5* words on a slide, you really better be able to justify it.
Someone already has. Google is your friend. I actually didn't buy more than 2 or 3 Kindle books until I figured that out. Now that I have, I buy a lot more. I also don't spread them all over the internet, I just know that I can always switch readers down the line. Kind of like what happened with iTunes/MP3s. Funny, eh? Meanwhile, the pirates continue to pirate, DRM or no.
It is because of things like this that I am sticking with the 10.04 LTE for a while. I've become really disillusioned with the rapid changes in Ubuntu between releases. I guess it's good, but I don't have the time to screw around 'fixing' everything after an upgrade very often. One of the things I miss about Gentoo is that you can keep your system in a state of rolling update, for the most part.
If you just change your I/O scheduler to anticipatory this should go away. I think the simplest in Ubuntu is to add "elevator=anticipatory" to your kernel command line arguments. This is done differently in GRUB and GRUB2, so fgi.