More like 14 instead of 6: you can't exactly put IP to much use.

debootstrap --arch=x32 unstable /path/to/chroot http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/
Requires an amd64 kernel compiled with CONFIG_X86_X32=y (every x32-capable kernel can also run 64 bit stuff).

For some workloads, it's ~40% faster vs amd64, and for some, even more than that vs i386. For a typical case, though, it's typical to see ~7% speed and ~35% memory boost over amd64.

As for memory being cheap, this might not matter on your home box where you use 2GB of 16GB you have installed, but vserver hosting tends to be memory-bound. And using bad old i386 means a severe speed loss due to ancient instructions and register shortage.

You got it wrong: the NSA does cyber-terrorism, it doesn't fight it. Just like the PATRIOTUSA act was 100% promoting terrorism (spreading fear for political gain) rather than combatting it.

How is that different from human females? *duck*

Verifying that foobar@gmail.com is a valid address doesn't give spammers any real information: the namespace is so full even most pwgen outputs point to existing names, as long as you don't have embedded numbers (on gmail, addresses seem to have numbers at the end).

Thus, that check can be quite simplified to "does a Markov chain say this string of letters is pronounceable?". Not a big benefit to a spammer. On the other hand, they don't get told anything about the recipient anymore.

While for a small mail provider this change might leak some info, for Gmail it seems to be nearly entirely positive.

I for one don't use Gmail for privacy reasons, and don't fetch remote images, but good luck training aunt Lucy about that.

You mean, no one thought about automating the 7 proxies trick before?

Considering that components of Gnome demand to replace even the init system with a NIH unmaintenable un-reasonably-modifiable monstrosity, Ubuntu distancing itself from Gnome is not a NIH syndrome, it's basic sanity.

CookieMonster is almost perfect, the only thing I miss is retroactively accepting cookies that were marked as session-only by my default policy. I guess this would need to store the original expiration date in the cookie itself, which at that point is overwritten by "till the session ends".

If all you type is a SMS here and there, a touchscreen keyboard might be adequate and the device ends up lighter. But for any semi-serious use... forget it.

N900 suffers from Nokia's brain-dead default layout that requires using a pull-up on screen keyboard for anything but basic letters and digits, but fixing that is trivial (here's my version that uses Shift and Fn).

Sadly, this Jolla thing has no keyboard and thus is a non-starter for me.

But add one and I promise to be the first in line to buy it. My N900 is starting to fall apart...

Ask pretty much every scientist in ~1500 years that started from the reigns of Constantine the "Great" and Theodosius the "Great". The start of this near-total collapse of science can be dated exactly to these two reigns, while the end is quite spread out, with most remnants lasting well into 20th century, with even some bits left in 21th.

Science has seen a brief respite around years 1000-1200 in the islamic word, until the mullahs clamped down on it hard, science remaining pretty much forbidden to this day. For a comparison: with a world muslim population of 1.2B, they had 4 Nobel prize winners, while jews got 129 with a population of mere 14M. The christian/ex-christian world is somewhere in-between.

Neither Bush nor Obama got kicked out, both got re-elected despite their achievements.

And while Bush managed to get the prestigious place as the worst president in US history so far, Obama proven that yes, he can, and topped out Bush taking this precious spot from him. That's about it about either faction of the NeoCon party being any better than the other.

If the AI suffers a breakdown after seeing /b/, I'd say it emulates regular people well enough.

Even if you ship around data in XML it's still not a remotely sane format for storage of large amounts of data.