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Thank God for not being a police state dystopia like Singapore.

> free elections

That's ironic, you being an American and all.

> the right to arm yourself

This is rich.

If you are going to trust BoxCryptor you can as well trust BTSync directly.

That's all good but if your DB can't handle your insert rates you only have files as an option. And most DBs have very poor insert rates.

Why NetBSD?

- For its excellent backward compatibility: NetBSD 6.1 is still able to run a.out binaries built for NetBSD 1.0

- For its system-independant build system. Building NetBSD needs a POSIX system with a C compiler, which does not need to be NetBSD. It first builds the tools for the host, including the compiler itself, and then the target NetBSD system, which may be for another CPU.

- For its machine-independant drivers. Have a fancy platform with an odd CPU? If NetBSD has a driver for a chip, it will work as is, no need to port it

[From http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3764147&cid=4376...]

That's not a problem because it would then be illegal to hack it and it would be solved the way all illegal actions are solved.

These quotes are not out there in a vacuum, they are on a site that randomly deletes your Facebook account. Even if you don't know any of these people it doesn't require much to realize they are jokes.

I mean who would ever say "It's the most exciting thing I've done this year" for a site like this?

Save the lecturing, you can do this in virtually any OS.

True, but LAMP and vulnerabilities are BFFs.

Debian is a distribution for bureaucrats. For installations that are just being maintained. If you are anything close to hacker do yourself a favor and use something else.

GMail is just some text and links too. Why does it get a free pass, but twitter doesn't?

If my server is web site running Django then the special one that I'm manually managing happens to be the most important one.

How is it not an apt comparison? What pip would do in this case is bypass apt and install the latest version of Django and its dependencies. If I'm going to do that I might as well build the database and server from source too to have the latest versions. But then why am I using Debian?

Likely yes. But if I had to choose between the original developers and someone that has to maintain 20 different packages, I will chose the original developers.

True, but a security update means both better and more stable.

Well, it also packages tar and I can untar and install any package from source.

Right, this may be true for the kernel, but it can't be and it is not true for all of Debian's packages. Case in point Django: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/internals/security/

Since the release of Django 1.4, version 1.2 stopped receiving security fixes by the Django development team. What that means is that a Debian maintainer (which probably is not a Django developer) would have to hack any new security fix into the unsupported 1.2. And this is deemed more stable than say, upgrading to 1.3.

Note that Django is just an example, obviously there are many more packages with the exact same problem.

And that I think is the biggest problem of Debian. They aim stability but how can you possibly claim that your custom backports are stable when e.g. the original developers have stopped supporting it?

They may be able to pull it off with the kernel, but they can't possibly do it for all their packages. As an example: How are the Django backports to 1.2 more stable than upgrading to 1.3 when the official Django project has stopped supporting 1.2?

So our options are either bleeding edge versions or prehistoric ones?

> I've been making the Android / iOS argument for over three years

So, can you give us links to some of your predictions 3 years ago in order to assess your accuracy?

Can someone give us an overview of the state of ZFS on Linux? Last time I had checked it was implemented over fuse. Has this changed?

What the hell am I going to do with a VGA display when the only output I have is a serial cable? And then why should I pay for a VGA cable? I can connect my vt100 anywhere with a cable I can make myself.

> That contract is the block interface, and includes the ability to change the filesystem.

The article argues that we should change this contract.

> The interfaces are fine.

The article argues that they are not.

> Change for change's sake should be avoided.

The article argues that we should change them for performance's sake.

> In the real, mathematical world of one way functions something similar to Bob's reverse dictionary can be created (they are called 'rainbow tables') and they are part of the reason passwords get broken easily when companies' password databases get stolen.

In real life I don't think rainbow tables play any part at all.

Do you think Google is a charity?

I'm sorry to break this to you, but most people would consider you an asshole.

In quite a lot actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Countries_using_Ar...

> It is a very well understood concept by everyone.

No it is not.

The photo doesn't much the description.

I find it very bad practice to blindly pass -f to commands.

  chown deploy:deploy /home/deploy -Rf