That's a problem, yeah. I think it would depend on whether "intent to defraud" could be demonstrated, and whether it gets prosecuted as "theft of services"... there's a fine can of worms, considering that Facebook users are the product being sold by Facebook. Are they thereby defrauding their advertisers??

(In the U.S., generally you can call yourself whatever you like so long as there's no intent to defraud.)

This was 2001. At the time there weren't all that many options in free FTP hosts, let alone with decent bandwidth. Walnut Creek's FTP.CDROM.COM had been THE main archive host for the whole world for a decade, and a lot of scenes depended on it. Mirrors that could handle its level of traffic were rare to nonexistent, and often limited to university use. Bandwidth/hosting was still expensive and even our puny 4GB archive was still a LOT of data (IIRC total data was about 300GB). So yeah, single point of failure wasn't a good thing, but you can't entirely blame facepalmworthy users here. We used what we had. And it failed us. Mirrors have since proliferated and hosting/bandwidth have become cheap, so today's self-appointed experts think the world was always that way and anyone who did different was too stupid to live.

And they fail to consider that anyone with a good printer and an editing program can whip up a convincing driver's license, certainly good enough to pass muster as a photocopy.

And yet there are over 500 Facebook users right now with the same rather unconvincing 'real name' as my own account.

The only blocker I use is NoScript, with javascript entirely disabled for the whole site, and as a result -- for me, Slashdot's look has changed very little since its earliest days.

Everything needs to be more broadly mirrored, so there's not a single point of failure for the source community. One or two big hubs may be convenient but if that one or two go bad, then what?

And remember when the old Walnut Creek FTP was acquired by Digital River, who shortly thereafter nuked all the non-paying archives with absolutely no notice??

The DOOM archive was saved because I'd found some financial statements that Digital River had accidentally left accessible, and judging by the state of their profits, I smelled trouble and predicted that the free FTP would very soon go away. Fortunately the DOOM archive maintainer believed me, and mirrored our stuff elsewhere.

Other archives were not so lucky; some were lost.

The logic sometimes isn't profit. Sometimes the logic is being able to show a loss for tax purposes. See also "Hollywood accounting".

No, no, no. This is their new program to vet developers so that we users can easily tell which projects will sell us out.

...StartPage/IXQuick just "upgraded" and thereby royally fucked up their interface (now requires javascript AND the search box no longer accepts paste, at least for me). I'd preferred StartPage, but have now switched to DuckDuckGo in sheer desperation for a search engine that doesn't argue with me, never mind tracking me... that's almost a secondary issue in the face of usability, or lack thereof.

...in forums hosted in small island nations and obscure African anarchies.

I agree. It's not about tolerance or civility; it's about pandering to SJW beliefs.

Relevant:

http://www.breitbart.com/londo...

http://www.breitbart.com/londo...

Boogie makes good points:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's been pointed out (I think correctly) that *the* major source of information for blackhats is the patches themselves. The patch info tells you what it fixes, and then it's relatively easy to reverse-engineer that patch -- and then you go looking for systems that haven't applied that patch, with full knowledge of exactly what to exploit. Patches function as signposts for vulnerabilities.

Funny how after Win2K support ended, there wasn't a rash of new Win2K exploits. Same for Win98. Win95. Win3.x. And not just because "no one is using them anymore" -- as you say, why wait to attack systems *after* they've lost major marketshare?? that would be just plain stupid, since there'd be fewer targets, and the left-behind users are those LEAST likely to have anything worth stealing.

We just started our mosquito season here... so far they're just little gliders, but the dive-bombers will be along in a bit.

Well, I just watched the Belmont on YouTube. That horse has two advantages: he's got more stamina (didn't look at all tired at the end) and he's got more length of shoulder, so he has more reach than average and wastes less motion. Compare his gait to the #2 horse -- not quite the reach, and looked to me like was coming up on out of gas.

My background is biochemistry/microbiology. I do grok this stuff. I read a lot of material from JCEM and other professional sources. If this isn't relevant, explain why oral hormones work across species. How much is absorbed varies somewhat, but that's a dosage detail (frex, the oral thyroid dose for a dog is 10x that for a human by weight because dogs don't absorb it as efficiently; however once absorbed by either human or dog it still does the same job, and it doesn't matter if it started life in a pig or a rat, and barring deiodinase deficiency, doesn't even matter if it was synthesized in a laboratory, as is most prescribed today).

Do you know where oral progesterone for human use comes from?? Hint: not from human sources.

JCEM: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism