I find it amusing that articles such as these that push the envelope of technology appear on Slashdot and then the luddites come out of the woodwork. Particularly amusing is the fact that we all entrust our lives to technology and computers on a regular basis, including in the airplanes that we have been flying in for years. The sad part is that the vast majority of you will meet your end in a dreadfully boring fashion or possibly in an automobile collision with a drunken slack-jawed yokel, but hardly any one of you will go down in a glorious, flaming plane crash.

I guess the joke will be on her when she finds herself on the "B Ark". ;)

And yes, Xmission is awesome.

Unfortunately Comcast and US West/Qwest/Century Link have been quite successful in keeping it out of some of the more major cities, namely Salt Lake City. I used to find this very aggravating but then I moved out of state. I still don't have fiber though.

More witches!

The project name is written as LibReSSL. Clever, clever..

Presumeably you will be able to buy a reliable, used EV for $10K in a few years. Probably add a couple $Ks for some fresh batteries, but that shouldn't be bad considering the money saved over gasoline.

I was impressed that he used the word 'permutation'. That made what he said not quite entirely pointless (but still close).

Quite right. There is something hideously wrong with software so complex that no one person can definitively answer such a question about it. That said, the functionality that OpenSSH provides is entirely indispensable to my workflow.

http://golang.org/

I thought the point was that it starts all the system services in parallel as much as possible thereby speeding up overall boot time significantly? Correct me if I am wrong.

My Arch Linux systems seem to boot much faster since they moved to systemd. I will admit I was pretty much lost when first working with it but I chalked that up to unfamiliarity and haven't had to touch it much since. Then again, I'm using a Debian 7 install right now and it boots quite fast and does not use systemd.

Because $16K over 12 years is chump change for most of the companies filing patents. Also they seem to have this paranoid notion that it is much better to keep around something that they might need than not have it and want it later.

Turns out some of the songs on that playlist were not from the '...And Justice For Jason' album, so here is a link to the whole thing (couldn't preview last night from bed without incurring deadly female wrath).

Finding the mp3s is left as an exercise to the reader. ;)

Have a listen to '...And Justice For Jason'. Some fine gentleman did a masterful job of recording bass tracks over the original songs. I can't listen to the vanilla album anymore. http://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-6D3uVSacJhI2swNvFYPQOTRmaerYVGz&desktop_uri=%2Fplaylist%3Flist%3DPL-6D3uVSacJhI2swNvFYPQOTRmaerYVGz

Iron Maiden has by far the most elaborate live shows of any genuine metal band. Do not allow this to fool you into thinking it has anything to do with commercialization. You may think their music is decent but its sweeping influence is felt throughout every subgenre in the metal world and acknowledged by fans of those subgenres who may not even care for Iron Maiden's brand of heavy metal in the first place.