Come on, man. Just because Italians are always well groomed and impeccably dressed, doesn't mean they are all gay.

I think he was fired for this in the last paragraph of the review: "But obviously someone who had access to a print uploaded the film onto this website. This begs several questions about security". No sir, it doesn't beg any questions. Do journalists take any English classes at all these days? Also, I think if he wouldn't have rambled on (here's a screenshot of the article) in one of the paragraphs about how easy it was to watch all sorts of movies online, and how he was planning on watching another pirated movie afterwards, he might not have been fired. Making a stupid decision is one thing, but acting stupidly while going through with said decision is... well... stupid.

JUST ACHIEVEMENT WHORING...

Stop it. Just, stop it. That is a patently untrue myth, and by posting stuff like that you are only serving to propagate it even further. Go take a look at some fMRI and PET scans, then come back and apologize. *takes a chill pill* Sorry, hit a nerve. Mindlessly repeated soundbytes like that are the bane of all that is true and valid.

Define "enemy of the US". Being that the United States prides itself on democracy, to me it would seem that those that work in the shadows against the democracy we hold so dear could be construed as "enemies". Treason or not, they deliberately worked against the American citizenry. Yes, democracy here is a joke at the best of times, but it doesn't mean we should roll over and allow people to do this kind of stuff without severe punishment. We should certainly make an example of these people. Death penalty, probably not. Lock them away for life.

Good luck on your expedition Maxime. Other than for research, I'll never understand why people do these things... but I'll also never stop being pleasantly amazed at the power of human tenacity, ingenuity, and bravery.

Wishing you a safe return.

I worked the night shift at the NOC for a couple of years. Mostly just monitoring client's networks and dispatching technicians as needed etc.

On night at about 2am, I received a call from one of our field technicians. Quite distraught, he told me his computer was broken and he had a high-profile job in the morning and needed it replaced ASAP. He explained that when he tried to type in his username to login, it was showing garbage on the screen, "all sorts of weird numbers and symbols". He regaled me with the story of how he had taken the laptop apart, checked the contacts on the keyboard ribbon cable, found his keyboard chipset model, and Googled the problem, eventually finding it to be a common issue known as a "K9 Keyboard Chipset error". This guy had done his homework.

Having no way of getting his laptop replaced so quickly by myself, I was forced to call the desktop support manager (who was the epitome of a BOFH). He groggily answered, and the technician told him the issue.

"Do me a favor," said the BOFH.

"OK?" the technician responded.

"Hold down the shift key, and press the Num Lock key. Then login."

"ITS WORKING!"

"Gentlemen, we will discuss this on Monday," growled the BOFH, before slamming the phone down. Those words are to this day etched in my mind. I don't blame him for being angry, but in my defense, the tech *did* sound like he'd already tried everything. From then on, I became known as NumLock PantsDown. I'll tell Slashdot about the "PantsDown" portion another time.

Throw this in your .bashrc: alias s="screen -RAad" . This makes multiple screen session management really easy. When I want to IRC, I just type "s irc". When I'm checking out how my torrent is going, "s tor". The beauty is, you don't have to do anything different for a new session. If you forget which sessions you have going, just type "s" and you'll be provided with a list of existing screen sessions.