In fact, the British were very versed in sailing in the southern hemisphere by that stage, they'd spent over 100 years sending boats to where I live, Australia. ;)

I always enjoyed reading MKUltra files/stories, it was like sci-fi, but real. Scary that someone green-lit all this stuff, has to take some belief in it, & these are the people "defending" the US.

Oh, & "The Men Who Stare At Goats" is awesome too. ;)

Maybe don't make "stupid fucking mistakes" publicly & you won't get humiliated publicly. Sorry, but if you're going to act like a moron, expect people to ridicule you as a moron.

As someone who doesn't suffer fools lightly, I'm with Linus all the way on this one.

Call it being a prima donna, call it being mean spirited, I call it "having no fucks to give".

I'd be hesitant to believe anything from O3b after they demanded a ban on National Broadband Network satellites here in Australia. They are an hostile company doing this to exploit people in a monopoly environment, not aid them.

If you have a lot of static content, eg, css/js/gpf/gif/swf/png/bmp, etc and do not have access to CDN, at least put an nginx proxy in front of it that loads it all, and forwards the rest off the content to apache (or better yet, just migrate completely to nginx if possible). Does your app have any caching at all? Would memcached be beneficial? Running a stack trace on all http/php processes should give you an insight as to what is going on. Sometimes it;s lacks of resources, sometimes it's something as simple as a buffer needing to be increased somewhere.

The OP has it wrong. Extended warranties last 3 years, during the lowest chance of failure time, electronic devices will generally die in the first few months (manufacturer warranty) or after 3 years (after extended warranty). Add to this that extended warranties have convoluted terms that attempt to stop people getting warranty repairs.

In Australia, extended warranties are useless due to Australian Consumer Law, which protects consumers by making manufacturers repair goods if they fail before a reasonable time. Essentially, if there's an extended warranty available, the item should last as long a the extended warranty.

That's what I mean, so many levels in Eve, from corporate espionage, war zones, pirates, smugglers, & even civilians. Could be a great universe to write a series for, the capacity for some eye watering special effects is boundless. Cap battles, raiding squads destroying transports, even just a busy starbase would be impressive.

Again, all comes down to whether there's a good director & writers for the series.

If the right director is chosen, I dare say Eve could work as a great series. There's some deep stories behind the factions, & if the series explains why they are out there in New Eden, I have high hopes.

I used to play Eve, but got bored of it, I'd be far more interested in a TV series to be honest.

We prefer to drink alone anyway, everyone's just another fucking user.

In all seriousness, I've quit admin jobs due to stress, & would do it again if put in the same position. Luckily, I have a great boss now & a fairly cruisy admin job.

Not true at all.

While humans are the biggest attack surface, they are far from the only one.

My suggestions are Backtrack Linux & a copy of The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick.

Backtrack has some great security auditing tools, however you will still need to understand exploits to test for them. The Art of Deception gives real world examples of social engineering & suggestions on how to plug those gaping holes called humans.

Is the person who did this Ask Slashdot fucking serious?

This part of Slashdot is becoming a joke. Buy some ear plugs & learn to fucking google.

The question is, what's the processing or storage density of a bunch of Mac Minis vs a racked configuration?

I dare say that's where the companies are finding them profitable.

I miss downloading "fixpack" disks onto floppies and inserting them one at a time... not really :P

I had no idea, thanks for the info.