"At 15 degrees Right Ascension, Tau Ceti is a little far off the solar system plane for an exploratory trip just now"

Ahhhh .... so YOU'RE the guy who came up with making the Kessel run in only 12 parsecs.

Worst at-home tech support ever...

That guy in china you referred to who stabbed 20 people ..... all of them survived. Sadly not so much Lanza'a gun assault.
Guns ARE the problem. No one "needs" and AR-15 semi except police, military and mass murderers.

1. Lack of an actual vehicle to take 10 people let alone 80K people to Mars

2. Lack of a support infrastructure to support 80K people on Mars

3. Lack of any actual technology to extract air water and food for 80K people on mars.

However I am sure that Mr. Musk will have all the above minor nits worked out in the next 11 years by which time he'll be recruiting for the Tau Ceti mission no doubt.

1. It won't be either a hurricane or even a tropical depression when it hits the upper east coast next Tuesday according to the National Weather Service( http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/205618.shtml?5-daynl#contents )

2. Total Rainfall potential predicted by the NWS for the Pennsylvania , New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts areas is estimated to be - wait for it - a whopping 3 to 7 inches FOR THE ENTIRE FIVE DAYS through Wednesday. ( http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/zoom/Rainfall_Days_1-5.gif )

Didn't we go through this last year with the storm of the century that was supposed to flood New York but never really materialized and aren't we all a bit tired of the ridiculously overwrought news stories that get propagated all over the internet in order to drive page views?

When the NWS puts out a Frankenstorm warning then maybe it's time to get concerned but until then ...

When I was in my 30's everyone told me that I wouldn't be getting jobs in my 40's.. I spoke to a lot of people at the time who were older and leaving the business because they could not get hired. At the time I thought such people just weren't keeping up with the times or were just B level people. Wrong. As I turned 45 and older I found less and less people willing to hire me.

The problem is not in your ability to learn new tech most likely - the problem will be that people will not want to hire you. Why is this? Several reasons:

1. You cost more. Even if you are willing to work the same wages you will be perceived as costing more.

2. Your medical insurance costs to the company will be higher. Even if you don't actually use that insurance the company will be charged higher rates if they have an older workforce.

3. You will be perceived as willing to work less. Maybe you have a family or heaven forbid - a life! Unlike a 22 year old who likely has neither of these things you will probably be less likely to work 60 - 70 hour weeks on a salary.

4. Your boss will likely be younger than you and knows less. Hence you will be perceived as a threat.

So welcome to the wonderful world of I.T.! Now go away :(
Your best options for future career are to get out of development and into management or to start your own business.
Me? Eventually I opted to get out of the field and am retraining as an RN.

You failed twice

Yes but consider that non-commercial IPs are almost always dynamic (surely the I.T. "genius" in Traynor's story would have told him this) and if you are going to confront your best friend's son over charges of heinous racism, threats of physical violence to himself and his wife, as well as terrorist packages sent to his door - all things that carry potentially long criminal sentences (especially in Europe) - would you REALLY do so over a dynamic I.P. or would you spend the extra week or two to confirm the link between IP address and physical address by a court order to the ISP?

Also are any of us seriously to believe that the father of the story-child's first reaction was to turn him over to the police? Just based on the word of his friend and NO other evidence (nothing from an ISP). Wouldn't you at least think maybe he would first get a lawyer for the kid maybe? It seems way too pat and easy - not to mention that the first thing the guy who has been terrorized for three years does to the kid is ... give him cookies? What/. The ? F.? !!!

One more thing. Traynor doesn't want the kid to go to jail, he wants to give him a second chance right? So what does Traynor do? He spreads this story ALL over the internet for two weeks - which maybe would carry the risk of the kid getting outed all over the internet and his life ruined. Does any of this make sense?

Come on we both have seen this thing before - attention seekers spreading stories of their fake exploits all over the internet. This one carries the double viral-inducing quality of rage at the terrorist story-kid combined with marvel at Traynor's saint-like goodness in giving the kid a second chance. It's all too pat and none of it makes sense. It's fake and I sure that will be proven in the days and weeks to come but by then Traynor will already have his 15 minutes of fame.

Had you read the actual article you would have discovered that he did NOT get the alleged IP address from an embedded web link but solely from Facebook. Had you any actual technical background at all you would know that the IP address is only part of the problem - you then have to get the ISP to translate that IP address to a customer physical name and address and THAT takes a court order - especially in Europe where privacy protections are far greater than here in the states.

But then again I would expect a troll who uses both ageism and misogynism in his post to support a likely troll like Traynor.

Yeah ... this is being pushed all over the web - likely by Traynor himself and it stinks of fakery.

1. Are we really to believe that Traynor and his wife get physicaly threatened for THREE years and Traynor does literally nothing about it? No restraining order after he finds out? He just decides to let it all go away.

2. Conveniently Traynor doesn't prosecute so there is no real record of this actually happening

3. How does Traynor's "genius" I.T. friend get an IP address from ...Facebook (wtf??) ? And how does he use that without a court order issued to an ISP to track it to a physical address?

4. After the very first drop off of a message and ashes at his doorstep Traynor NEVER puts up a cam so he never sees the OTHER TWO drop offs of messages on his doorstep? W.T.F.??! He lets at least two chances go by and NEVER goes to the police and files a report we can verify. Bogus /. has seen a LOT of Munchausen's by Internet over the years - from sad cancer tales that never were to stories of little children dying of diseases who never did and now this. It has fake written all over it and I SO wish someone would look closely at Traynor and get to the bottom of this.

Before you do anything at all consider this web page:
http://mukto-mona.net/debunk/harun_yahya/index.htm

which states that Adnan Oktar (aka Harun Yahya) and his followers have a history of using both extortion and violence against anyone who interferes in their criminal enterprises. With that said perhaps your best bet would be to pursue another DCMA process with YouTube along with proof that you own the media as another commenter suggested.

Some follow up:
This man is a both a criminal (drugs and racketeering) and apparently very much a nutcase who lives in Turkey - a self described Muslim creationist extremist. Even if you get the youtube things taken down and his .COM websit shut down he will simply put up more websites .

Consider carefully the consequences of getting involved with a criminal and nutcase living in a Muslim country who likely has followers in America as well.
Your best bet may be to simply edit the Wikipedia page regarding your legal issues with him.

His PUBLICLY AVAILABLE registration information for his website, http://harunyahya.com, is as follows:

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Publication, Global ms7uh6j58c5@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
Global Publication
ATTN HARUNYAHYA.COM
care of Network Solutions
PO Box 459
Drums, PA 18222
US
570-708-8780

Record expires on 23-Jan-2022.
Record created on 23-Jan-2000.
Bulk whois optout: N
Database last updated on 23-Sep-2012 14:42:05 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.P03.DYNECT.NET
NS2.P03.DYNECT.NET
NS3.P03.DYNECT.NET
NS4.P03.DYNECT.NET

Both the address and phone number are fake (they apparently are the address and phone of Network Solutions itself. However you CAN sue Network soultions in small claims since they are now attached to his company. Sue them in small claims for damages and ask alternatively that they hand over all the information that they have on the person. Attempt to take over his website via court order in small claims (it's an asset).

There is also a Wikipedia page about the guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Oktar

Also: Some states allow injunctive relief (court order for youtube to take down the site) in small claims court and some do not. If your state does then file and ask that the site be taken down in addition to other damages.

Here's a link to their blog post about this. http://blog.bluetoad.com/2012/09/10/statement-from-bluetoad-regarding-the-cyber-attack-suffered-in-the-recent-case-of-stolen-apple-udids/

Paid posters apparently have no shame :(