People don't need to alter their (horribly lazy, wasteful) habits. Just pay more. Get business class for their home. Fix it with money. Fix it with money or find another ISP if you're in the half of America living in a city.

Or stop being the irrelevant outlier person in the bell curve.

More than you need isn't generous? What's the new definition for generous?

"40 gig just from streaming data" with a lowball 150 gig allowance, with recent slashdot articles saying netflix is a large minority of people's traffic... sounds like the ISPs are correct, that 150 gig is generous.

http://khaaan.com/

Always relevant from its irrelevance.

Let's all remember how much we hated XP when it came out, and then how much we wanted Windows 7 to be XP when it came out.

oh haaaaa you interpreted hyperbole literally ohaaaaaa i just died laughing oh man thats the funniest thing i will ever read in a million years

Are you going to paypal me or will you cut a check?

I am completely oblivious. Can anyone spell out for me what I have so obtusely missed?

I was just trying to rile you up with the subject line there. Don't worry, I'm sure it's just a transparent generational thing.

I heard folks in their 40s saying their teenage kids aren't creative anymore, that the web and games and shows we made were so entertaining they had no reason to be self-creative.

I really wanna figure they're just wrong, that they dont know how creative their kids secretly are. Maybe as I've entered my 30s now, I've gotten it together mentally enough to actually pull some 'hacks' off, see some things through to completion. Maybe I glorify my teens and early 20s and I never really got anything done at all. Maybe we all spend those years discovering tools for the toolbox, and that in itself was discovery and accomplishment.

But there's no such group I am aware of in Boondock, NH. I see that photo of geeks sharing a table, eating poptarts to stay shiny, drinking 'dew, and probably having a hearty laugh at mundane details. And I just lust for such a thing, available only by the numbers a huge city can push. I probably should live in a city to have geek friends I can actually smell. The 'net does a fine job hiding the aroma, but alas also the arcane body language and general vibe of sharing meatspace.

Sigh

to be fair, the only thing in short supply on your list was the money. there's not a shortage of brave geeks with vision.

But sandboxing your v6 with its own DNS name is cheating. You're only being brave if you publish A and AAAA records for your main site.

So the bash fork bomb got popular back while I was at UNH. If you're not familiar with it, it's similar to this: ;(){ :|:& };: (I changed one character so that you dont paste it on recommendation) The way it works is trivial, and it's mystique is only in that it uses punctuation marks in lieu of letters for its own name: make a new function called :, run it and force the output into a new fork of itself in the background; then a final call to the new function. h4rdc0r3 1337.

So, we had this UNH policy that if you hung a shared unix dev box, you got evicted from CEPS (the college for the engineering/cs kids). They could give you a warning or go straight to evict. Their call.

I wrote to their head unix admin once, and with some humility, cause I knew they knew this, pointed out that they could just change the system's ulimit values to disallow casual fork bombing. The default system ulimits on the distro back then (still?) allowed a single user to consume all memory. So we saw a couple kids run the fork bomb and they never actually got evicted, cause maybe 40 grand tuition outvotes a cranky unix admin's wanton lust for cruelty.

Anyways, as a student, my issue was this - set the damned ulimit so that my editor session doesn't get wiped with my homework -- you can't argue for frequent backups when more than 0 seconds of hard work are arbitrarily on the line solved by a simple config change.

But the UNH unix admin guy replied to me and told me that yeah, he knew about ulimit back when I was in diapers, but he wasn't going to change it up. And a few more times that semester, I lost a couple lines of uncommitted code due to some clown pressing enter on a dare.

Fork ya later,

Does it make one a bad person to consider that a random anonymous online stranger's good will is without merit, to continue accepting that the negative droves of random anonymous online strangers hatred is also without merit? By accepting the heartfelt connection of a random anonymous online stranger, must you accept as valid all the hate that comes from their counterparts?

Hrm, two random events coinciding with each other is not a coincidence...

Exactly, we have the code. Why does it need to be open sourced?