I don't agree. AWS specifically stated they were not ordered but acted out of their own free will. Now that might not be true, but that is what they stated.

Lots of outdates links making the rounds. Get the latest LOIC here: https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC. This has the "hive mind" feature. Written in C#.

You have heard of things like virtual machines, chroot jails and unix permissions?

This is going too far. If something happens to him, she will have blood on her hands.

You complain that IPv6 people are rude to you, but bring this little gem to the table:

Maybe I need to make time and learn more about it now; but life is busy and other things compete for my time.

The truth is you do need to make time and learn more about it now. Really, if you've grasped IPv4 you will grasp IPv6 too. Spend a couple evenings with an Oreilly book and you will be fine.

Most of your post is very correct, save for this:

Also, bacteria are able over time to resist agents deployed to kill them.

which is true for some agents, but not those found in household cleaning products (i.e. triclosan). These work by destroying cell walls, which is something bacteria can develop/evolve no defense against. These agents therefore will be able to indiscriminately destroy bacteria, regardless of how smart they become.

The Xbox moderator obviously has never been to Asia nor has he ever shown any interest in Buddhist culture. Which is okay in itself (even if a little closed minded) but he really should refrain from making statements like that. The swastika is used all over Japan for instance where it denotes a temple. It's been used for thousands of years, and it is not associated with the Nazis when shown to someone from there. He holds a typical imperialist view and projects that onto his Xbox community. Which is to be expected, given that it mostly targets Westerners anyway. So all bad? No, but very close-minded. From a moderator you would expect a more mature/moderate approach.

Have you been using the same pseudonym since you first went online? If it's reasonably unique it only takes one slipup or one leak and it can be tied to your name. Bam they know all about your leet haxor skills with nothing you can really do. Personally, I use a different alias for every new website. Track that!

Finally we would like to have our web server in house.

Try to get this thought out of your mind. Place your web site with a reliable hosting company and free yourself of 99.999 percent uptime worries.

Other commenters have suggested you move everything to the cloud. This is a bad idea. But your web site? Should be a no brainer. Hosting it some place else is cheaper, more reliable and a whole lot faster.

Your tone speaks volumes. If "unremarkable bits of plastic" are what makes your nieces and nephews happy, stop being a douche and get them unremarkable bits of plastic. If you prefer not to engage in the social interaction called gift-giving, tell the parents just that and stop doing it. Really, parents know pretty well what makes their kids happy -- and a happy kid is a learning kid. No one will be any better off having received educational toys against their will.

That being said, Lego is bits of plastic and this is probably the best gift you can give. Provided of course they like playing with it in the first place. Three crates of the stuff carried over from my childhood and now my kids are playing with it every day. It's fun and educational and if you buy genuine Lego it's amazing high quality. But really, instead of posting anonymously on an internet forum, for the love of your family don't ask us but ask the parents!

Atheism is a lack of theistic beliefs. That's all.

Actually, that's agnosticism.

Since one cannot scientifically prove that God does not exist, one could argue that atheism is a belief system as well.

My girlfriend calls me as soon as she leaves work and we talk until she gets home.

And you like that?

Can I just repeat that, except it is not just your taste buds that are deceived, but also bits of your body chemistry that prepare to handle incoming sugar, then find that there was no sugar, and then they seriously _want_ sugar.

What bits?

There is also the danger of developing diabetes which happens when you feed the body too much sugar - fake sugar has exactly the same effect.

No.

And twice the effects if you drink diet coke and then eat sweets because your body wants the sugar.

No, just once the effects from the sweets.

Thanks for playing though.

Might be true, but I guarantee those developers will be in pain, hating their jobs. Meanwhile the standards-based crowd is working on useful apps, serving satisfied customers. I know which camp I'd want to be in...

It is just that. It's basically an HTML generator that generates HTML5 for you. I just tried it, the code is clean, it created valid HTML, basically it is very awesome. It has graceful degradation in place to insert the flashplayer. The HTML5 video is browser native, the Flash player is open source. Really, don't take my word for it but try it yourself. It's a pretty goddamn great solution from Adobe. Kudos to them.