Why does everyone always just talk about heterosexuals and gays? What about ladyboys and shemales? They get no mention in western world, and everyone looks weirdly at them, while they are perfectly fine in many south east asian countries. People aren't against gays anymore, they are against shemales.

Eh, what is your point? Feel free to send Disney your revised TOS. They can either accept or reject it. Just like MegaUpload could do.

They weren't forcing MegaUpload to change anything, they were just pointing out the parts that would need to be changed in TOS if they were to use the service. Seems like standard business negotiations.

You may think that it is some grand anti-piracy conspiracy, but Microsoft is right. TPB is infested with torrents that contain malware. There are people who use it to spread viruses and malware. It makes sense too - it's quite easy method to infect peoples computers.

What the hell are you talking about? 2006? All of those sure existed. Hell, cheap games existed even in the 90's. Hint: Look at GOG's history!

Do not forget how much they have done for HTML5. They fought for us to keep patent-encumbered H.264 away and even went as far as buying another compare so they can provide better codec - at free - to use. Chrome has consistently lowered IE's market share. Google fights for our privacy and rights. Google introduced us NACI and several cool technologies. Android is open sourced and HTML5. When it comes to HTML5, Google is our savior.

Yes, there are new people coming into computer stuff and learning new things every day, young and old. The problem is that this article, overall, is crap. 14/16 of the tips are something that no single novice actually needs to know. The rest two tips are something that are really basic SSH features and widely anknowledged in every book or tutorial about SSH. Lastly, how is this "news"?

InfoWorld has a long history of doing this. It is not some huge conspiracy, it's simple. I actually feel bad for bashing the article because the author does know her stuff. But Slashdot is not place for it. However, I am quite certain that InfoWorld has an internal policy of submitting all their articles to Slashdot by their authors or relevant persons because it's such a constant pattern, with link dropping for very specific and good keywords. This means they first get traffic from Slashdot, but also increase the article in Google and other search engines, dropping off more useful tutorials. And isn't pretty much anyone on Slashdot tired of the shitty SEO spam techniques that pollute search results?

Not datacenter, but they have local offices, which is even more substantial. They have corporate presence in the country.

So why was Hong Kong based company MegaUpload regulated by U.S. laws? Exactly.

It's time to shut down Google.

But they won't win it. Nokia is still the largest mobile phone manufacturer on planet. There are billions of Nokia phones in Asia. Apple is trying to mess up with everyone, however, in this case they won't succeed because of their low overall market share.

The red ring of death issue was majorly overestimated, and you know why? Because Xbox360 actually does show error messages on failure while PS3 and Wii do not. It became it's image, just like the blue screen of death. Image wise it would had been better for MS to just show nothing in both cases. I do, however, appreciate Microsoft's honesty and not trying to hide the issues from users.

I think that while Microsoft would certainly like to release the new Xbox already, they are afraid of doing so. Not because of Sony, but because of Nintendo.

The last generation surprised everyone on the console front. Hardcore gamers kept playing with PS3 and Xbox360, but Wii ultimately won the round by attracting general population into gaming. Suddenly you had millions of new people introduced into gaming, especially girls. While Microsoft has always produced quality products and by far they are the best on the industry on lots of products, they don't know how to capture that market. They want it badly, but they want to look how Nintendo succeeds with their Wii successor. By delaying the release they can learn from Nintendo's mistakes and hit them hard next year and become the #1 of next generation consoles.

Yes, but this isn't even explained in the article!

You do know that you can use real programming language like C++ for that, right? This way you can automate the process and don't need to read and write every command by hand, and you have the added benefit of having access to variables and higher level programming.

I used to use telnet for irc, but it got really tiresome to answer to pings.

The best thing is that there isn't really even "16 tricks". Most of them are about the same things, like the first randomart images. And then, we are taught how to use screen, like it somehow matters that it is over remote connection!

Seriously, anyone who uses SSH knows about things like proxying your connection via the connection and X11 forwarding. This is nothing new. This is just InfoWorld getting backlinks and traffic from Slashdot once again. Hell, I knew about these things when I was 16 and so did every other guy I knew who ever had used SSH.