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The EFF does: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/digital-privacy-us-border...

I don't know about FB other than the building looks big, but the Google Seattle presence is certainly not small and is growing:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/google-plan...

Did you read the article? They are literally responding to this study.

Amazon employees are encouraged to patent basically anything, at least in AWS. Validity of content or relevance to future business plans isn't really a factor.

I think you're misunderstanding - GNU/Linux is a multi-user OS regardless of if it is run in a kvm/xen/etc container or on bare metal.

Even if only one person (or no persons) ever log in, the machine is capable of running processes under multiple users and it is best practice to maintain this so that all users do not share the same level of privilege.

A move away from having man pages isn't necessarily a thing to be celebrated - a well-written man page is an extremely useful thing.

In the ideal case, you might have a quality man page that provides usage information and links to more detailed documentation (that would include tutorials, implementation info, etc.) on the web somewhere.

Jawbone has a competing product, and even Samsung Galaxy S4's latest phone includes some of the functionality (ie: a pedometer) people look to Fitbit for.

My anecdotal experiences with GS4 vs my Fitbit One shows the Fitbit One to be superior, but I'm more likely to forget my Fitbit than I am to forget my phone.

How so?

> Please, if you find an issue like this, be nice. Tell the maintainers privately. Don't post to Reddit, HN, or a public Gist. RubyGems.org is completely volunteer run. No one gets paid to work on it. Thanks for your patience everyone.

It'd probably go a long way if you guys considered making an easily-discoverable security page with information on who to contact, how you prefer that contact to take place and how long they should expect to have to wait to hear back from you.

Your (silly) views on the Northwest aside, he also grew up in Los Angeles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall

I'm honestly curious - what's a use case for scripting the editing of files that's not better satisfied by using a scripting language? I see the value of Arch's focus on minimalism more than keeping ed around in this case, but I'm happy to be wrong.

If your terminal is broken, there are plenty of ways (reset, stty sane, whatever) to fix that. I'm also not sure why having an extra binary on my system is a good safety guard against a broken keyboard.

The ajax term case is valid I guess, though I'm not sure how common that is. I was in a case like that a year or so ago and ended up using cat and sed to get the thing back on the network.

Why? We have better alternatives, and clearly things can work without it.

Are you sure that's a reasonable comparison?

I'm not sure they deserve to be called 'shitheads' either - I do like the service - but I'm still disappointed in how poorly they've handled their security issues, particularly the one back in June.

I think I'd have a different opinion if they'd bothered to reply to any of my multiple emails to them at the time.

Sam appears to have taken Jonathan's suggestion and has posted on the facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/jonathanscard/posts/176232239115101

I can't help but wonder if all of this might have gone away had they even just appeared to take this issue seriously. They didn't even bother to reply to my request for access logs on my account, personally.

Are you seriously not aware that reddit falls over pretty much all the time on its own?

One might point out that "AWS" isn't down, EC2 in VA is entirely broken for a certain notable section of customers.

Two interesting links in here on the history of unix pipes that I wasn't aware of, http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/pipes/ and http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html#pipes

The second link shows this as a formerly valid command:

  pr <"sort input"< >opr>

Ouch!

Perhaps, but Apple has some extremely friendly replacement policies that I personally have used (busted iBook replaced with a black macbook!) and have heard of others running into. Just the other day there was a reddit thread about this, actually:

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/eaqm5/its_this_kinda_...

The points about directing people to their store over other stores and minimizing the secondary market are probably the main reasoning behind offering engraving.

is this a digital version you could link to..?

It hasn't been well publicized after the original announcement (and isn't prominently placed on their plans page, either) but I've had great success with Cloudkick's free developer plan on my personal virt (which is still down..):

https://www.cloudkick.com/accounts/signup/developer/

CK sent me a text message as soon as my host went down earlier, which gave me time to file the ticket against Linode.

Only caveat - they don't provide a signed RPM, which can cause some administrative hardship for linux users using rpm-based distributions (most of the yum operations require you to add an extra cli option to allow working with unsigned rpm's), but it's a minor complaint given that their agent isn't mandatory and doesn't need a lot of updates.

I have IRC to thank for learning a lot about basic client/server communications and networking back in my early teens.

Certainly not the best protocol ever invented, but I have fond memories of figuring out how it worked.

Absolutely! However, I would argue that if you are looking to conserve energy, moving the sshd port is not something that should be at the top of your list. :)

That's good for your mac mini, but not a normal use case for a server running sshd (needing to be quiet, that is). Something that might also work for you would be to limit inbound access from known-trusted ip ranges, as well.

Running sshd on a nonstandard port isn't in itself a bad idea (other than the potential difficulty of logging into the server later if you forget the port or something), but it shouldn't be considered a strong security measure at all.

I'm sure some people might argue he has, but ultimately it doesn't matter in this context; failure of 'real' economics gurus to succeed does not mean any random person is equally capable in the subject.

It may sound bad, but it's a legitimate feeling to have; there's a horrible feeling of stagnation and boredom when you are the technical escalation point for everyone you know - or at least there was for me.

Out of curiosity, what do you miss from MacOS Classic?

I find your comment confusing. Do you believe they should be trying to gut the Obama healthcare laws?

Fun fact: it was changed because of concern people might hear 'cadaver' instead of 'cadabra'.

(or so this book said: http://www.amazon.com/amazon-com-Inside-Revolutionary-Busine...)