Please tell me you don't think Tor is secure in the manner you suggest?! It's not meant to be. Tor is for anonymity, not security for your information.

To put it more concretely, you want to use Tor if you don't want someone to know _you're_ doing something, which is not necessarily bad I should add. For instance, if you want to blog about what you saw last night in the alley. Tor isn't for sending information you don't want _anyone_ to read.

Anonymity protects you, not your data. So, you should use Tor for complaining about the government, and not to broadcast the location of your buried treasure!

Well, 640 light years ought to be far enough for anyone!

28 is a perfect number. It is the sum of all of its proper divisors. 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28.

How about just not visiting Slashdot for a day? The fact that you're so annoyed means that you'd probably benefit from less internet for a day. The internet doesn't matter that much. Who cares? It's just silliness.

This isn't as cheap as I'd like: http://www.pocketbookreader.com/PocketBook_360.html, but at $240 it does run Linux and supports DJVU along with many other formats. You can even download a terminal emulator for it. I've been looking around for e-readers and I'm thinking of getting this one. I would like to test it first but unfortunately it's not sold in stores around here.

A few years ago I was at a museum listening to the Goldberg Variations on these headphones attached to the wall. The displayed CD cover had Glenn Gould on it. Immediately when I started listening I knew it wasn't Gould; I turned the CD around and it turns out it was just a virtual recording, produced by technicians studying the record and trying to implement Gould's style. It wasn't anything like Gould. I mean, sure on the surface it was similar but it lacked that little bit that makes Gould so special, and that separated him from the rest. There will always be a place for real music.

Except that you can watch YouTube on the iPhone.

RTFA, there are references. If you click on "Original Submission", there are links to the news articles.

I think there is much less hate against Apple, but the difference (and this seems to be said on Slashdot much these days) is that MS has a monopoly and Apple doesn't. The world is also much different now than it was ten years ago. Now there is a thriving and working alternative free OS (in fact more than one) that can be used fairly easily compared to then. We enjoy comparative virtual freedom compared to the days when MS was far more dominant. Of course, we still dislike MS because we remember, but personally I've found that I hardly care about MS any more because it's not as though they can squash Linux like they did for say, Netscape back in the day.

You don't have to extend VIM yourself. What's wrong with using plugins? There are many interfaces for debuggers and other things on the VIM website. Extending with plugins might just be easier.

The _buying_ of the phone is not invite only. That's just the special event to unveil it. It's in the article.

Before the very recent N900 and some other fringe phones, mobile phones were like Windows, only worse: locked and you really can't do anything with them, and half the features cost an arm and a leg when they should be free. Hence, most people don't want them. Imagine if all phones were unlocked, texts, caller ID, and other features which don't cost the phone company any money were free. I think phones would have more positive rep then.