NSA has dirt on Judge William Pauley.

Call me back when Roku finally adds support for uPNP and/or DLNA.

When SOPA was a looming thing, I was in the market to move from shared hosting to a VPS, and so I made it a point to chose a VPS that was in another country.

Sadly, I chose the Netherlands, who are NSA collaborators. I'm just waiting for a specific piece of software to be released, and I'm out of there and on to a new server in a new country - I'm thinking Switzerland right now. Iceland is too expensive.

This is not a new phenomena. There was an anime OVA called To-Y that, on the open market, usually went for around $700. It was only printed once and didn't sell well, but has a strong cult following.

Yes, I own one. Mine has been autographed by key animator Yuzo Sato, and as such I have no idea how much it will sell for after I die (since it will only be pried out of my cold dead hands).

Sure, if you want an insanely dull and boring life.

Like, if I never want to meet people, make friend, get a girlfriend? I think I might need to get out now and again just to get to their homes.

Concerts. Restaurants. Bars. Sporting events. Hell, shopping! I can buy literally anything online right now, today. But I sometimes I want to see and touch and feel what I'm buying.

And yet you continue to use it. Therefore, you do, in fact, accept it.

I needed to switch providers during the whole SOPA debacle, and decided it was a primo opportunity to move to an overseas VPS. I made sure to pick one that has no presense in North America. And now I'm glad I did.

Carnivores, such as my dog, however, will be more than happy to eat your leather shoes.

In fact, quite a few of them exist:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-stupidest-video-game-school-commercials/

Quite a few of the linked videos are gone, but you get the idea.

I'm not planning to update my PC anytime soon, but for my next PC, I plan to get a CPU with as many cores as I can obtain (today, an AMD FX 8-core) and install Linux as my main OS. Any gaming I can't do with WINE I will run through a VM running Windows 7.

Per http://stallman.org/to-4chan.html:

"Regarding graphics accelerators for PCs, ATI mostly cooperates with the free software movement, while nVidia is totally hostile. ATI has released free drivers.

However, the ATI drivers use nonfree microcode blobs, whereas most of nVidia's products (excepting the most recent ones) work ok with Nouveau, which is entirely free and has no blobs.

Thus, paradoxically, if you want to be free you need to get a not-very-recent nVidia accelerator.

I wish ATI would free this microcode, or put it in ROM, so that we could endorse its products and stop preferring the products of a company that is no friend of ours."

This sort of thing gets discussed quite a bit on 4chan's technolo/g/y board. Also, installing Gentoo.

I don't buy games with any form of DRM, Steam included. Most of the last few games I've bought have been through the Humble Bundle Store, and not just the bundles - I bought FTL through the store, for example.

http://abriefhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/linusmintisrael.jpg

"I kindly ask you not to use Linux Mint and not to donate money to it. ⦠This is very important to me."

Okay. I won't use it, either. And neither should you.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.