This issue is in Acrobat's own javascript implementation. Acrobat itself runs javascript code that's embedded in PDFs, so the browser doesn't have anything to do with it.

Noscript will do nothing to help you here, and your post brings to mind the old adage - a false sense of security can be worse than no security at all.

From http://a.longreply.com/109511:

We will introduce a 100 GB Road Runner Turbo package for $75 per month (offering speeds of 10 MB/1 MB). Overage charges will be $1 per GB per month.

OK, 10 mbit / 1 mbit is a pretty decent upgrade for most people. And I'm assuming that even moderate torrenters aren't doing a whole lot more than 100 GB / month - this is 3 GB per day!

Overage charges will be capped at $75 per month. That means that for $150 per month customers could have virtually unlimited usage at Turbo speeds.

Ah, so here's how it works. You keep paying per GB, up to a max of (plan rate) + $75. If you're using less than 100 GB / month, you're getting a nice bandwidth boost (admittedly with a cost increase you didn't ask for). If you exceed that, you'll be paying up to $150 / month.

The key thing here to me is the upload rate - you'd be paying a real premium for 1 mbit up under current plans. If you don't care about upload, of course, you're basically getting screwed, but I don't think it's as bad as a lot of people are imagining at first glance.

Is this guy actually trying to get kiddie porn laws overturned, by using them in the most ludicrous manner imaginable?

It seems to me that this guy's actions just highlight how insane some of our current laws against victimless crimes really are, by showing the ways in which they can be abused.

I have to second the iPod Touch. The browser is substantially more responsive and functional than that of the Nokia Internet Tablets, and the device is much smaller as well. For this application the only real downside is the lack of a physical keyboard.

I used maemo devices for a long time, and I like them well enough, but honestly the iPod is going to provide a much better user experience if all you want to do is use a web browser. The maemo devices can certainly do *more* things, but none of those things are going to be useful in this case.

I can't agree more. I switched over to python for all non-trivial scripting a couple of years ago, and I find it much more pleasant. I even sometimes use iPython instead of bash when I know I'll need to do something complex interactively.

By the way - if you like using python to control systems, you might also enjoy the func project.

... to just buy an AppleTV and install boxee on that? Really, why do you need an actual Linux box, when Apple's hardware is custom built for exactly this sort of thing?

I have tried boxee on my MythTV box, and it's got potential - but it's also got quite a few rough edges (and given its nature, there's no guarantee that what works today will keep working tomorrow). Oh, and the Linux version won't work with Netflix or ABC, either.

I've been running MythTV for years, and you really don't need anything fancy here. Ext3 is the default filesystem on almost every Linux distribution for a reason - there's no commonly used Linux filesystem that's more widely supported, and except in some odd edge cases you won't find anything that outperforms it by a meaningful margin.

That said, if you're in a position to run ZFS, you really should. My current home setup has a Solaris x86 box with 5 500 GB drives in a raidz array mounted via NFS on the MythTV box, and it works marvelously. The downside, of course, is that there's no in-kernel implementation for Linux, so you really need a separate box. I've used raidz with both FreeBSD and Solaris, and you can't go wrong in either case.

I suppose if you were really nuts you could do this all on a single machine: run Xen on your Linux box, export the raw devices to Solaris or FreeBSD running in a DomU, run ZFS there, and then export back to the Dom0 which would also run MythTV. I'd probably just use Ext3, though :)