At first sight centralization looks like a great way to reduce costs, however, there are problems that are likely to make the cost actually rise. I'm unaware of any studies showing when it's good to centralize and when it's bad. It would be a very interesting study to read. While you may need fewer machines to run 20 websites together than you'd need to run them separately, but you'll also need more qualified staff. An avarage 16 years old with a bit of time in his hands and an interest for technology can easily configure a machine capable of handling hundreds of requests per second. That's more than most sites need. As you strive to share more and more resources, you'll need more and more qualified staff, capable of figuring out how to manage the resource sharing. Resource sharing is one of the most difficult problems in computer science. With machine prices being so low, is it really worthy to solve those problems for all but really big, google sized, sites?

Moreover, they have found in other studies that emergency surgeries over the weekend are more likely to result in death than on other days of the week. So the hypothesis that it could be explained simply because of how doctors schedule surgeries can be ruled out. Besides, it seems that care over the weekend is actually poorer than care during the week days. So it seems like surgeon would not want to schedule trickier surgeries over friday. Also, the surgeon himself would like to rest over the weekend, so it is more likely that he would want the opposite. It seems that he would like to do surgeries that are less likely to result in complications on Friday.

One of the articles, the one from GCN, states: "He proposes deploying antennas using inflatable balloons, and using the cold environment of the dark side of the moon to cool the computers."

Isn't the moon suffering impacts all the time? Isn't it risky to leave a supercomputer there?

That would be incredible thing to do. I bet it would be interesting to use its idle time to projects like SETI.

The way I see it the criminal is being penalized indeed. Perhaps he really should be penalized, because stealing is not good for society, but it's a punishment, nonetheless. A robber may even be arested as well, which is yet another punishment.

He gives us a few case studies which show problems in the current layout: http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/studies.html

If you care to read slashpackage page, you'll see he suggests something like gobolinux does.

Sincerely, I don't even care, I'll pirate one way or the other. I don't care at all for the health of game, music or movie industry. If they drop out of existance I'll just use the tons of games, music and movies that were already produced and I haven't tried yet.

just ask a different question "would you like to see all the colors? Would you like to be white, black or yellow? Do you want to find women or men sexually attractive?" it's just really adding options to what a person can do.

Interesting. I was in bed with this Chineses national, wearing nothing but a banana hammock, and she told me how she loves China. She began arguing quite unlogically that freedom isn't everything and that she likes that the government is taking care that she only reads what's important. She argued that their slashdot doesn't have any trolls and everyone is insightful or interesting.

After that we began to talk about free software and things just got out of hands. Time to taste the freedom! I told her while I opened a laptop with Debian Linux running. She was quite unreasonable about it and left. They are all brain washed, I tell you!

I didn't click it. My name was suggested to a bunch of people I know, though. So, even though I'm not a "member" I come up as a possible member. I just didn't think it was nice of them. I didn't click it out of luck, anyway, because I had no idea what buzz is when it came up and, if I was in an exploring mood, I'd just accept it to see what was that thing. Which is also not really nice. Had they mentioned it was like a twitter that uses my e-mail address, I'd say no everytime. But they certainly didn't phrase things like that.

They didn't lie to me, but they tricked me into making my email part of a social network.

Pure mathematics is useless, why would anyone want to learn it?

I avoid it for the trolls that want to tell you what you should or shouldn't ask.

It's not like you can't resolve a .xxx using a DNS different from the one which has it blocked. Heck, it could even be a web service. You open resolver.com, a site full with ads where you just paste the .xxx address and, in turn, get the IP. So .xxx is stupid no matter how you look at it.