That's an excellent idea! Implementing those features in Tor would make operating an exit node a lot less nerve-racking for the average nerd. You should suggest an IP Whitelist feature to the Tor team with that exact justification.

ISPs are able to track which client sent which packets and can provide information to law enforcement when illegal activity has taken place over their network. ISPs are also a registered business entity whose purpose is widely recognized as providing internet access to other entities who are responsible for the content they access.

FedEx is able to track who sent a package, who it was addressed to, who took delivery of the package, etc. FedEx can provide information to law enforcement when illegal substances or materials are transported through their shipping system. FedEx is also a registered business entity whose purpose is widely recognized as providing parcel transportation services to other entities who are responsible for the items they ship.

Tor is designed to be completely anonymous and provides no facilities to track who is sending data and who it's destined for. Tor operators cannot provide this information to law enforcement when illegal activity has taken place through a Tor exit node. Tor operators are, in most cases, also not registered business entities. That is why when illegal activity takes place through Tor, the exit node operator is typically the first and only one investigated.

Q: How does the local police department know that Joe Schmoe at 123 Main Street is operating a Tor exit node?
A: They don't. There is no way to tell, aside from computer forensics, whether he was directly involved in illegal activities or not. That's why raids like this happen and will continue to happen. The Tor project warns you about, and you willingly accept the risk of, legal repercussions stemming from operating a Tor exit node.

tl;dr: This isn't news.

It seems you completely missed the fact that I was talking about desktop platforms. Linux is already king of the server space, but as long as Windows maintains its strangle-hold on the desktop market, they will maintain a foothold in the server market. Read my post again with that in mind.

Businesses don't use Windows just to use Windows. Businesses use Windows to use Office, Active Directory, and Exchange. Linux has competitors to all three but they're not even CLOSE, no matter how much the evangelists puff them up.

What do you get when you put a whole office on Linux? You get a bunch of people sitting around using Linux. But they're not doing anything productive. Nobody's paying them to use Linux. No customers are giving your company money to have an office full of people sit around and "use Linux". Linux is not the product, Linux is the platform. Right now, the Linux platform for enterprise is severely lacking in comparison to Windows. The "Why" is dreadfully simple: there are no serious products that give the platform value.

Focus community effort on building solid competitors to Office, Active Directory, and Exchange. Maybe try creating something completely new, or maybe just try to mimic the MS products as best you can. Mimic might be better, because then you can show them how similar your products are so the switching cost is minimal, yet one costs a whole lot less, therefore the TCO is much lower.

In case you haven't noticed, Microsoft likes to throw around TCO as their metric. That's because most businesses don't care about up-front cost, they focus on what you'll pay over the life of the product. Put the most amount of effort possible into minimizing the switching costs. Linux will become a much more viable desktop platform in the enterprise when you can demonstrate meaningful cost savings that take TCO into account. Until then, Microsoft will continue to give enterprise customers concrete and logical reasons for why they should choose their product over all others.

I don't think it's so much that they're looking for acceptance. I think it's moreso that they want businesses to use it for more things. I'd also say it's widely accepted as-is, but apparently they're not happy with already-staggering server and mobile market shares.

If you want to get more people to use something, make it something they want to use.

Or maybe, just maybe, accept that your product has its niche, and other products have other niches. The Linux community will rip itself to shreds trying to make Linux the answer to everything.

Yes, because I'm good at my job and make enough money to afford the comfort that my townhome provides. What's affordable to me isn't affordable to somebody working minimum wage jobs at Burger King,

It's much more affordable than your pulled-from-ass $1500 number, and much nicer than an apartment in the slums. I don't see how you can look at my example compared to your hypothesis and claim that it's not "affordable" by the standard you set.

Based on the fact that you can't say "bumfuck" I'll assume that you're 12 years old. You'll learn when you get older that massive megacities like LA and New York City are not all they're cracked up to be. Any town over 500,000 has all the amenities of the big cities, but with a lower pricetag.

My rent on a townhome in a nice, quiet part of Kansas City is $1000/month. I work at a very high-tech company of 12,000 people. My commute is 10 minutes, with traffic.

Not everyone has to live and work in Silicon Valley or downtown NYC. The people who do are really getting the shit end of the deal. There are other cities out there that are a lot more affordable.

It's well known that product photos are usually a mock-up, but this is completely different. The big idea there is that they start from a finished product and recreate it in a more predictable, yet still visually accurate way.

How many times did you buy a box of Fruit Loops, only to open the box to find a bag full of Raisin Bran?

I'd say this is more akin to a fast food restaurant taking a picture of the actual food, and then when you order one, they serve you a plastic mock-up cheeseburger covered in Armor-All.

Nonsense, that photo isn't doctored. I heard that in building their new drone, Iran licensed the same technology that China used to build levitating engineers.

You just stop giving a fuck about what people think of you?

I find it's a lot easier to be myself when I maintain an internal locus of identity. If people don't like or at least respect who I am and what I say, why do I count them as my friend? Differences within a social circle can be healthy and rewarding. Altering your behavior to conform to a social precedent is not.

All this talk of SSD speed and performance reminds me of street racers. It'll do 0-60 in 4 seconds, but the real question is, will it make it to the end of the strip?

Imaginary studies done in my head suggest a strong positive correlation between average time-to-comment (TTC) on heavily-scientific Slashdot articles, and the current Wikipedia loading times. Increased delays in Slashdot commenting can be attributed to increased delays in reading the subject's Wikipedia page to amass a sufficient arsenal of technical jargon and basic principles to pass oneself off as an "academic".

Vanity, thy name is Slashdot.

It's one step above perpetual - it's Keynesian. For every pound of bullshit converted to power, they produce another 1.5 pounds. Microsoft Marketing is an efficient and hilarious beast.

Just think, a self-sustained marketing department - bullshit powered by bullshit!