When has lack of understanding ever stopped anyone on /. from commenting on anything?

Come on modders ... that was genuine, laugh-out-loud funny.

Wow, that's not the movie I saw. I could see eating people, but shit? Nah, this sequel will never work.

My very first reaction was to think of Asimov's Foundation trilogy and the fact the the Galactic Library was stored as nicked quanta in a paperweight on the Librarian's desk. The Barbarians allowed him to take his personal belongings with him before they destroyed the Library Planet.

Agreed. Connections (the original, not Connections II) and a few of others (The Ascent of Man by Jacob Branowski) set the bar for what really educational TV should be like.

When our TiVo died we were a bit short on cash (think: October, 2009). So we tried streaming and ... it was pretty decent. Then we looked at our $96/month DirecTv bill and thought, "Hmm.....," and canceled that sucker.

Since then 1) we've saved over $1,500, 2) we've totally fallen in love with Neflix Watch Instantly, 3) Hulu is good for the few shows we used to watch regualrly, and 4) we generally watch less TV than we used to (a Good Thing ®). It hasn't bothered us in the slightest. We have two other families who have decided that if a couple of old fogies like us (we're 61 and 65) can do this, so can they.

Are you saying that they could pick up their songs ... for a song?

Take-aways from this:

• 1. If it's on the Net then, sooner or later, it will be compromised. This is Rowell's Corollary to Fudd's First Law of Opposition. FFLoO is: If you push something hard enough it will fall over.
• 2. Have a complete, offsite (off-server) backup ... and test it.
• 3. Hashing passwords only works up to a point. Use a password system that yields a different one for each system.
• 4. Don't keep any important information (e.g. credit card numbers) on the server if you can possibly avoid it — store it on another system that has a very narrow relationship with the net-facing system.
• 5. When there is a root compromise, anything encrypted on the system which can be auto-decrypted is suspect and / or assumed to be copied elsewhere along with the keys.
• 6. The Bad Guys® are as smart as (or smarter than) you are. And there are no extradition treaties where they live.

Ad? What is this 'ad' you speak of?

Hmmm ... maybe I need to disable AdBlock Plus so I can better understand these strange words.

Ach! As soon as I read your post I could hear that single, clear voice singing "Non Nobis Domine". Clearly, it's been too long since I watched it.

The two other scenes that immediately come to mind are Branaugh's delivery of "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; ..." and "... And what have kings, that privates have not too, ..."

Sigh ... time to dig out the DVD.

Let's go for the really long takes.

In Kenneth Branaugh's Henry V there is one of the most amazing tracking shots ever filmed. It happens after the battle and starts when Henry picks up the dead boy. The next 5+ minutes are of him carrying the boy through the blood and gore of Agincourt to the soaring sounds of the Kyrie Eleison. It gives me chills just to think of it.

Admittedly it was only a /24 (called a C-net by us geezers), but I had had it since about 1992. That was back in the days you could get a C-net for the asking, and a B-net (a /16 to you youngsters) could be had without too much whining.

I got a nice note back from ARIN saying:

As the popular quote says, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. 199.201.131.0/24 has been returned to the pool of available addresses - thanks!

You can medicate ed with Viagra.

What you really want is TECO FTW!

Actually, it is "law", which is shorthand for mu-law. (I tried to use the HTML entity for mu but Slashdot's system ate it.)

Call me me weird, but the first thing I thought of when I read this was a specially reinforced ASR-35 Teletype (maybe ASR 33?) keyboard they had at Standford's Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences (IMSSS) for Koko the gorilla. Although she knew Ameslan, they also taught her to use a keyboard with pictures on the keys (apple, ball, etc.). I only met her once and wasn't there when this happened, but the first time they showed her how to use the keys she apparently enthusiastically made her first key press ... and pushed the key right through the bottom of the cast iron bottom of the teletype.

I don't know if this applies to toddlers. :-)