Found it: http://www.slashgear.com/google-picasa-albums-now-redirect-to-google-05272692/

News source? I couldn't find any recent info about this, just speculation from 2011.

So you can afford, maybe two new decent Macs?

This sounds like FON(http://corp.fon.com/us/).

When will people stop publishing news articles saying "the Higgs has been confirmed to exist"? This is driving me bat-shit insane. No, the Higgs has NOT necessarily been discovered. Particles have been observed in the LHC at energy levels that match the expected characteristics of the Higgs, but we DO NOT KNOW if it is the standard model Higgs or just something else that looks like it. Goddamn.

Read more: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/342408/description/Higgs_hysteria

I worked for a WISP for 3 years and I can tell you that most WiFi mesh gear sucks, and it relies on very noisy radio space that is subject to a high noise floor and interference from all kinds of other gear. I'd look into a point-to-multipoint system like Motorola Canopy. You hook up a tower (water towers are especially great, as you can often trade tower access for sharing bandwidth with the municipality) with 6 access points each covering a 60deg area around the tower. Then you "backhaul" the tower using another wireless link to your central office where you have your upstream connection, ideally fiber. As time goes on you grow by adding more towers, increasing your geographical service area, adding more fiber links, eventually doing BGP across the network, etc.

A misleading summary? On MY Slashdot?!

Gomorrah - it'll be our little secret.

Nice try, DoJ.

Utilize the "Users" option in Chrome to set up different users, one for home, one for work. This is what I do to keep things segregated.

My girlfriend and I have been doing the same thing. But like others have said, be sure to check deeply into immigration laws. For example, my country of choice, Finland, has a VERY difficult path to immigration.

You're kidding right? Don't be an idiot, follow the terms of your employer and get your own damned machine.

As a software tester at my job, my work includes:

- Building test scripts for each application (I use Google Docs spreadsheets) that we develop
- Perform feature-specific or fix-specific regular testing of applications during development cycle
- Argue with developers over severity of bugs
- Coordinate full-scale software testing before each release
- Update documentation when developers fail to do so
- Argue with developers over importance of different features in terms of development time

A big part of what makes or breaks you as a software developer is the willingness to go off the beaten path. For example, when I test, this is what I consider:

- Hmm, that's an interesting text field, and it's meant for an IP address. I wonder what happens if I type "abc::1234**!!whymeeee" into it (input validation)
- This is a resizeable dialog - if I resize it absurdly in vertical/horizontal, do elements in the dialog scale correctly?
- Here's a text area that's meant for a paragraph or two of text. If I put the Iliad into it, does the text run off the page? (bounds checking, text limit checking)
- Here's a dialog that has to validate text - what are all the possible errors it could encounter, and are the error dialogs properly implemented for each? (check all error condition handling possibilities)
- This dialog is localized into 15 languages - is the page sized/formatted correctly in all languages?
- This program is meant to be installed to C:\Program Files\Blahcompany\Product - what if I install it to a nonstandard location?

This will ultimately put you at odds with a lot of developers because your job, every day, is to make the assumption that they have made mistakes that you will find. I enjoy it, and find it to be a rewarding experience, but that's because I work at a company that highly values its software testers and takes QA as a serious priority. Try to get a feel for how this company treats QA, because if all they're doing is using you as the fall guy for bugs you made them aware of before a release, it'll be no good.

Same here. I've always disliked GoDaddy and their awful advertising and upsells. I switched to gandi.net today. Their removal of public support for SOPA is encouraging, and I'd like to think my emails to them contributed to the decision, but I'm still not going back.

...so that in 2016, when Putin is elected with 178% of the total vote, the army can subjugate the teeming masses from mammoth-back. Consequences will never be the same.