So, guy spent around 10 x $100 (2TB drives), maybe more since you mentioned redundancy, for a total of ~$1000. Guy kept drives probably up 24-7, spending a lot in the electricity bill, I would say something in the lines of $150/month. Guy also had to manually maintain the complex disk array, prone to failure. Guy failed at it and lost invaluable amounts of (mostly) unrecoverable data (good luck getting that TV show from the 90's that now has 0 seeds on TPB, your familly event pics and videos, or your college papers).

Now tell me, how can ~$250/month be expensive for 20TB in Amazon Glacier? They will give you transparent redundancy (if they lose the data you have reasons to sue for MILLIONS, you know, those numbers with 7 figures instead of 3). They will pay the electricity bill. They will buy the hardware. They will maintain the hardware too, so no need to replace drives. Your ISP is shapping traffic to AG? Sue them or change provider. Last time I checked it was a lot easier than doing ANYTHING on your 4TB+ RAID array, especially since it's for home use and will return you absolutely nothing besides self-complacency.

Just sayin'

So Animals/plants/things in general besides people can be now treated equally too? With the right "it" pronoun?

Yepee.

Disclaimer: This is NOT some ironic comment directed at LGBT individuals

In any case, props to Facebook. More than a reality check, it's good to see persistent stigmata, even for the social web, being treated with the moral worthlessness they deserve. Social web is no place for restriction or judgement. Next step: internationally distributed servers so you can avoid government scrutiny, including privacy violation, censorship, among other idiotic policies that do not support net neutrality, in ways that go beyond bandwidth shaping.

A VJ system in a portuguese club popped up a kernel panic at 3AM, and not it wasn't Deadmau5 playing.

Hey, at least the US can win the deterrence war against North Korea's nuclear rock throws...

Whatever his current net worth is, he probably makes more in 1-2 hours work than 136$. Is it really worth creating potentially hack-luring accounts on Tip4Commit and (e.g.) Mt.Gox (the apparently most reliable exchange)?

Only decent reason to do this would be giving his thumbs-up to Bitcoin, but does he really need to? I believe he's seen as an open-source guy, not as a "let's decentralize the financial systems and currencies of the world" activist. An despite deciding to do it for that reason, not even safeguarding his bank accounts would prevent at least providing real personal addresses and social security numbers in order to actually withdraw the stuff.

See it from a common, millionaire person point-of-view:

Why would Linux Torvalds, a (probable) millionaire, want to share his personal information on a bleeding edge platform like Tip4Commit, or worse, share his bank information with an exchange service (that could very well be seized, go down, open bankruptcy, pose security flaws) when he wants to convert the wallet to common currency.

Just focus on the latest trends of core technologies which some 60%+ employers rely on today: Java, SQL and C variants.

Specifically to your new market targets, and going away from low level and embedded, I would say you need to go hands dirty with the most popular frameworks for things like web, mobile and distributed systems, which are indeed vast, but if you wanted to evolve one of each I'd say JavaEE/Rails, Android, and JavaEE (again), respectively to each technology. REST/SOAPclient and server knowledge, along with concepts of SOA will also be a plus for general-purpose. If you want to keep your C roots go for the .NET version of those standards.

Cracked version of Teamviewer from your favorite torrent tracker. Fight the powa!

Conduit and those amazing javascript injected price checkers are killing the internet. I have had at least 10 family members, friends and work colleagues come to me the last year in order to remove conduit from their PC. And they varied widely in browser of choice: Chrome, IE and Firefox.

Conduit, Search protect, and price grabbers need to be put to court soon so they can stop making money from distributing malware and browser hijackers.

As Bill Hicks would put it: "If you work in advertising, kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fuckin soul."
Despite backing up Bill's statement to it's fullest extent, I would like to take the chance to introduce some alternatively valid, tiny criticism to all this action being taken by advertisers, advertiser-backed companies and "advertisement enforcers":

TAKE THE FUCKIN HINT - If we use ad blockers, it's because we'd rather have your page fully messed up, your online game unplayable, your newspaper news unreadable, to abiding to deal with the consumerism-centered policies that brainwash us to pay for things we do not need. You want to make money out of the publicly available resource which the internet is since its creation? Provide me a better service by not using ads in the first place and I will be sure to drop some money on your premium services. And by premium I don't mean the ones without ads, I mean the ones where you actually had to work for, unlike whatever web-app reinventing the wheel you developed last Thursday and put ads on linked to your PayPal account.

This will be the perfect excuse for every situation the human being can't explain his moral decisions, like why do we act stupid when in love, why do some people chose to go to war and why did they sack Conan from the Tonight Show.

Just weeks ago we heard about Google thermostat prototypes. It wasn't enough to have so much in-house projects but now the policy is becoming "let's buy popular brands in emerging segments where we suck so we can be everywhere". This monopoly and diversity is bad for company focus and especially for the consumer. Android, Youtube, Motorola, Boston Dynamics, FlexyCore, and the list goes on and on. Up next: Oculus VR

We are the biped evolution of bees. It's a fact now

Better than facing death sentence for actually doing a good thing, IMHO. The time of martyrs is long gone: we have attained a maturity level, as a species and a global society, which should prevent us from taking irrational action such as murdering people because they read the bible (North Korea) or they export an encryption algorithm to foreign countries (US). He just decided it was better to be labeled a false traitor than a dead one.