Congratulations, you've achieved your goal of looking like Ars Technica. Can we go back to the design it was back in the 90s again?

not sure why this got modded down. Has anyone ever tried to setting up three monitors? I recently converted my workstation from Windows which worked quite well for gaming and multi-monitor support. On-board nvidia gpu had one monitor and the amd/ati pci card connected the other two. Can't do that under X. So now I'll have to buy another PCI card. But wait, commercial drivers are buggy and Xscreensaver is a mess, I can't use text virtual consoles, but I use open source drivers which fixes that, steam wont run. Running Ubuntu? Having the fear of god every time a system update or reboot is not ideal, but about half the time something bad will happen. BSD? nothing is written for it. I've been running X in some form on some machine since the early 90s on a 386. For a while, the unix desktop was the way to go, but for years Windows or OS X is vastly superior in a desktop environment - you know, actual drivers exist. Thank god for virtualbox at least.

The *nix desktop is still a p.o.s. since i've been around here.

In Melbourne, until recently, the Telstra network in the CBD was essentially falling over. During lunch hour you were lucky to be able to send a tweet or even refresh your incoming tweet stream. One thing that did work is push notifications, which is the intention of this system.

I see it as a smart use of the medium. The key with emergency response is to have the same message spread on as many mediums as possible to ensure the message gets out there.

Anyone being snarky about this has no idea what they are talking about & should look at how current emergency systems work (read: redundancy).

I wonder how long they really were shopping it around.

Anyone who modded you troll should leave this site immediately!

FFS, if you don't get that reference, hand in your geek/nerd badge!

Not since the 28.8 days when it was still relatively new. The place I was living at the top was one of the first community broadband implementations.. fiber wasn't even laid yet, just existing analog cable network. And it was freakin' awesome.

I can confirm the above is true.

Was he too busy treating people horribly to audit his DR procedures?

You do realize that commercial jet airliners are for the most part flown via a software program, right? The pilots have manual overrides which I'm sure a self driving car in the future would as well - and I realized roads/expressways are much more congested than at 30,000+ ft but the point is that we have a metallic tube with wings, flying around the globe that is mostly computerized these days, and the most dangerous thing about that is getting inside a human controlled car to drive to get to said plane.

You forgot to mention Slashdot :)

Exactly it. No matter how much effort you put into music, most labels retain copyright over the works. Smaller indie labels don't tend to do this, but the big players all do it.

Then again, most of these synthetic bands/artists don't write their own music or lyrics, they're just glorified cover bands. Not to say Phoenix is like this, I quite like their music, but I'm not sure how I feel about their label now.

I don't get it, there's so much better to beat Zuckerberg up about, hacking on him for a previously used domain just looks desperate.