12000 square miles is about the area of Maryland.

Who gave these guys who have only been around for a few short years $112 million? Who valued a startup at $1 billion?

Don't these people know that they're going to lose their money? The popularity of any of these services is incredibly ephemeral.One thing goes wrong and no one ever forgets.

Subversion is so annoying to use that it boggles my mind. You have to be incredibly deliberate in your workflow or you're screwed.

Intermediate stages before pushing to a server are a boon for the clumsy and hasty like me. I often instinctively run the last command when I want to test a program, and sometimes it's not `python x.py`, but `svn ci -m "blah blah blah"`. In Git, as with many other DVCSs, local commits (and the ability to change commits after the fact) ameliorate this issue. Also, the ability to be able to work and snapshot your progress as you go even while offline is incredibly useful.

There's also a lot more about svn that can be annoying. For instance, the output of `svn log` is not paged by default, so all you get is a massive info dump with absolutely nothing usable because your terminal can only hold so much output history. This is especially frustrating over ssh.

Basically, while svn is definitely my favorite client-server VCS, it still has a lot of problems and is far less safe and simple than Git or another DVCS.

Most web applications and libraries are "small code repositories", so Git works admirably for those.

Out of curiosity, what handles such a huge codebase so well?

The numbers don't mean that Facebook is necessarily hated in absolute terms, but that _relatively_ speaking Facebook is the _most_ hated.

By not mounting the hard disk, fewer traces are left.

Idk what I was on when I said that. They destroyed evidence in the murder investigation for a young girl.

I don't really consider this to be "ethically wrong". They hacked their site. These people killed a girl (and perhaps a whistleblower as well).

I'm incline to say it's some kind of assembly because of the ALL CAPS and line comments starting with a ;. OTOH, it looks a bit like Perl, but not quite. Anybody know? (freeze frame at 1:51 to see what I'm talking about)

Seriously, it's like an unsecured AP with more consumer confidence. It takes 15 mins. at most on decent hardware to crack WEP.

The sad thing is that most ISPs don't make WPA readily available to their customers.

> Why should students in the NCAA be any more monitored than regular students? NCAA student athletes are uniquely at risk for academic misconduct and abuse of their position. It's the schools and the NCAA's job to try and prevent students under their organization (e.g. student athletes) from being academically dishonest and receiving illegal compensation for their efforts (they are not professional athletes just yet). This is a bit like saying "why should politicians be monitored any more than regular people?" The answer is obvious; because they're in a position of power that could leave them the opportunity for abuse. > NCAA athletes often bring in major revenue to schools (for football programs at least) and are not allowed to benefit from it at all, does the NCAA consider them their slaves? They're not professional athletes. As-is, they receive a ton of compensation for their efforts in the ways of scholarships, free travel, extra attention, and so on. Believe me, these athletes are compensated very well. Giving them cash is a recipe for disaster.

Seriously, does _every_ article have to be about Google+? Sheesh.

I can get 6' cables on Amazon for $2.27 with free shipping, so I can confirm that this is very expensive.

So if I do the math correctly, giant cargo ships are responsible for 2.85 billion cars worth of pollution? Well, I guess it's time to stop using giant cargo ships.