This all depends on how much society wants to pay for software, and whether or not you think a programmers guild is a good thing advancement of the profession (ala AMA or Bar association) as that would soon follow. Also not all mistakes are created equal, mistakes result in everything from "Oops!" to criminal proceedings, I believe is what you meant to say. Unless you were trying to imply that all mistakes result in a minimum of someone losing their job.

List of NIST time servers here: http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/serv... If you want to be a good NTP citizen you probably shouldn't use these servers directly though, unless your running a very large network and syncing your own ntp servers. Some ISPs run time servers on their gateways or DNS servers, it is a decent way to get an NTP sync that is "network close" to you.

The article indicates that the plaintiffs are card issuing banks, which probably have no direct agreements with Target at all, thus no opportunity to cover ass with a binding arbitration clause.

You also have to have possession of the wrapped key to unwrap it as well. Having the passphrase without the key does not do you any good. Furthermore, if one stores the private key on a smart-card means that the key is now effectively a physical thing that must be stolen. So it really isn't "just another password".

Exactly. He build his brand off being famous for being a Physics undergrad at a small state school in south east Virginia. Yeah, a regular Paris Hilton he is. It is easy to be successful when you have that kind of background. /s

Overstock is only accepting bitcoin via an exchange so the items are not truly priced in BTC.

Overstock doesn't hold BTC, they convert it via CoinBase. Coinbase sets Overstock's BTC prices for them by using the current exchange rate. When you go to checkout with BTC you get a quote for the price that is only good short amount of time, if you don't pay the invoice within that window you have to start over and get a new price quote.

It would be $200/mn for 20TB, at least at the current advertised price I see of $0.01/GB. Also if you ever actually had to completely restore from backup the data transfer costs from glacier for 20TB of data is pretty savage. I could be missing something, all in all seems like a good deal if your running a business off your data but not too accessible to the home user yet.

In my brief search I wasn't able to find a version of 'rm' that accepted a '-a' option.

You are correct. Steam does its own package management once installed.

AT&T has wifi only and low data plans on GoPhone prepaid for Smartphones. http://www.att.com/shop/wirele... The prepaid landscape is changing pretty rapidly in the US, which is nice for those of us who like to buy our own phones.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/bit...

You can use bitcoin to buy things from both overstock.com and tigerdirect.com. Both of which are pretty big US retailers. Not saying that I would want to, but you could furnish a whole house just buying stuff from Overstock.

One could also DMZ the console, which is safer than enabling UPnP.

I play a lot of online games. I have had UPnP disabled on every network gateway I've owned precisely because it is ridiculously insecure. I have yet to find one that doesn't work properly with UPnP disabled. The only exception to this is when I was running a CS:GO server awhile back I had create port forwarding rules so clients could connect, but setting up dedicated servers on residential networks isn't something non-advanced users do.

Yeah I saw it too. Blame it on lack of an edit button.