Everyone has their own hosting provider that they prefer. Mine is HostMonster. Hard to argue with unlimited space and bandwidth. Haven't had any issues with uptime in the year I've been hosting with them. They allow SSH access to their hosts (but you have to provide an image of a your drivers license/state ID). Haven't tried to rsync to my server, but then again, I've never had issues using rsync provided I was doing it over ssh (e.g. `rsyc -a -v -e 'ssh -l username' /local/dir hostname:/remote/dir` #going by memory here)

Try getting in touch with the folks doing parallel processing research or the people with NCSA at U of I. I imagine one or both would have a few tips for you assuming they're open to doing that kind of collaboration.

• http://parallel.illinois.edu/
• http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/

Another vote for Qt. Also, if you can show me an IDE that is easy to use, widely supported, actively maintained, but isn't using a mainstream language, I'll show you open-sourced VB6 that never actually went open-source.

The full title was intended to say, "Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook. Nothing of value to be lost."

Did you post just to agree with me or do you think you're telling me something I don't know?

I like to think of it in the same way that fancy labels like "fair trade" and "organic" make it onto coffee packaging. Coffee growers with money buy the labels so that it is easier to sell to soccer moms who think they're doing good when in reality, they're giving money to people who already have it.

Signed SSL certificates are a fancy (albeit invisible) label that gets slapped onto your encryption so that a silly warning message that doesn't mean much won't appear in the web browser of a soccer mom. She sees the little "lock" icon, doesn't get a confusing certificate warning message, and is happy to make her purchase on the scams-r-us website because, "Golly-gee! It's $800 less on THIS website!"

Granted I only have a fundamental understanding of signed certificates (this is me admitting that my understanding might be flawed), but unsigned, unique private/public keys are just that, unique. Not any more or any less difficult to crack given the equivalent level of signed keys.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that (tying my thoughts back to the topic) I can't give a damn. I'm going to have to buy the certificate to appease buyers anyway, so debating the future is moot and I might as well put up with whatever changes they decide to make in the future.

... 4, 3, 2, 1. We have Soviet Russia jokes!

That *should* read, "Researchers Grow a Brain In a Dish, Gets Anamatronic Body, Orders Around Ninjas"

While SSDs serve the same function as hard drives, their internal components are much different. Unlike hard drives, SSDs do not have any moving parts (which is why they are called solid state drives).

The read/write head of a notebook has to seek to the right sector of a notebook by turning pages. This requires many moving parts. So no, can't really call it Solid State.

Title: "...Sonic Screwdriver Exists."
Summery: "...could be created."
I call shenanigans.

Well this would explain why the state is blue most election years. It's not voting for the Democratic candidate; it's crashing.

Numberless is more or less right. It was a pun/bad joke based off of the ambiguity of the wording of the title.

That said, I was also trying to illustrate that that 6% is a bullshit number because the comparison is designed to make numbers sound as low as possible. A VALID and unbiased comparison, imo, would be as follows:

• Books purchased : non-ebook user
• Books purchased : ebook user
• Ebooks purchased : ebook user
• Ebooks purchased : non-ebook users (unlikly, but will doubtless happen)

What the headline gives us is an incomplete and biased picture.

So, you're both a bit wrong and a bit right.

Pretty remarkable considering that e-books aren't technically printed ... Painted? maybe. Rendered? perhaps. Printed? only if it is flat text with no formatting info.

Q: "SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media?" A: No

Let's face it, a hard drive to hard drive is currently the backup method of choice. Anyone who denies it can be pointed to a plethora of, "Ask Slashdot: How do I store my data?" discussions. Just like when tape drives could store more than the systems hard disk, a hard disk offers to hold more than the average SSD. Never mind the fact that when an SSD fails, it's more than likely end-game for your data. But when a HDD fails, there's any number of data recovery companies at hand to restore it.

The introduction of SSDs will add pep to the computers we use, but hard drives will continue to be the workhorse for storing the bulk of our data for a long while to come.

Let's pull out Occam's razor and shave a bit...

If you wanted to blow up a bridge, wouldn't it help to know how bridges are built?