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Should've gone to X instead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(demoparty)

Too bad the secushare slides are completely unreadable.

Or is it part of some obfuscation strategy?

Even at the top of the class standards can be pretty low.

Regularly I get the impression that a lot of grading in the US is rank or curve-based, which seems like total bullshit to me.

The best performing student could still very well provide poor quality work.

A good teacher evaluates students individually and tries to take each of their levels and learning-speeds in to account.

Luckily I have mostly had university classes with 15-30 students, which gives the teachers a lot of space to approach students individually.

If you can't hold your urine for 30 minutes you shouldn't be commuting in the first place.

Org mode?

http://orgmode.org/

I'm also unable to view the article because of this.

Looks nice and I would definitely like to see support for other languages, like perl.

But, what if I want to run my own infrastructure?

What about GNUnet?

https://gnunet.org/

Is everyone using SpaceFED (https://spacefed.net) and SpaceAPI (http://hackerspaces.nl/spaceapi/) yet? ;)

Similarly Technologia Incognita (http://techinc.nl - Amsterdam) is looking for a (affordable) bigger space and members to support it.

It's too bad that firepgp couldn't keep up with the gmail api changes and eventually was aborted. The few times I used it felt pretty good.

This chrome-only alpha software obviously is useless for me. Hopefully something more cross-platform comes along at some point.

.. and then forget it in seconds.

I really hope the current work on irssi-otr will improve some things: https://github.com/cryptodotis/irssi-otr

Some bugs in the old 0.3 release are quite annoying.

The article says 'Gnu Debian Linux 6 (Stable)'. However Debian 6 is "oldstable" since May 6th (the article was written after the release).

The new stable release is Debian 7 or 'Wheezy'.

I wonder why NASA didn't pick Wheezy though. Then again, at the time of the decision the prospect of wheezy being released as stable was probably still a wet dream.

No, I actually meant this:

https://ohm2013.org/wiki/User:Rootman/HackersOnABike

Being a wiki, these pages should probably be merged.

Actually, for many years in between the Dutch and German hacker camps, meaning every 2 years, there is Eth0 in the north of the Netherlands. http://eth0.nl/ They have a yearly 'winterlan' weekend as well.

Nice, have been looking forward to another one of these. Last time 4 years ago was a blast!

Hope the 'Hackers On A Bike' effort gets some more traction again too.

"spend just $1 and be rewarded in prizes that are worth exponentially more"

Any exponent of 1 is 1. So you wouldn't be able to win anything 'more' than that at all. Exponentially.

Perhaps offer a variety of payment options to your customers and add a small fee to the methods that give you problems (like PayPal).

This will give feed-back to the customers about the convenience of these payment options and will give them an incentive to use a different method. (people love discounts)

He's on Ubuntu. Anything is possible to make it crash.

Does access to a 3d printer count? I have a number of friends with 3d-printers (all kinds of models) and could use them any time (or send them an .stl and have them print it for me). Thus there isn't much point in me owning my own 3d-printer.

Still, even if I had the money I wouldn't buy one, but I am planning to make one eventually. If only to teach myself about the mechanics and electronics involved. Also, building a 3d-printer gives you the skills to maintain one, where you ever to use one and unforeseen things happen.