By the time the Dreamcast came out, SEGA was already a dead man walking. The 32x and Saturn failures had taught developers that if they developed for SEGA hardware they wouldn't get sales and the platform would be abandoned quickly. The Dreamcast was a perfectly capable box but it was surrounded by the stench of death from SEGA HQ.

Meanwhile Sony was following up their tremendous success on the PS1 with what was hyped up to be a technological tour-de-force with the PS2. Third party developers couldn't wait to sign up and sell a million copies of whatever they put out.

The final nail in the coffin is that SEGA's first party development teams were just kind of bad at their jobs. A problem that exists even today. Sonic titles are just a solid stream of garbage since the end of the Genesis days. Nintendo has a similar problem with third party support on their consoles, but it doesn't matter too much because they put out a handful of really excellent first party titles each year to keep the platform alive. If SEGA had been putting out a killer Sonic game every year they probably could have kept the Dreamcast going and maybe made some headway against the PS2, although the PS2 was such a juggernaut that it would have still had an uphill battle.

You have never used Pandora I see. There is no way to make Pandora stream a particular song (or even artist!) repeatedly. It's very much internet radio, you only get to make somewhat vague hints as to what sort of genre you want to listen to. If you give it the name of a particular artist, you will hear exactly 1 song from that artist and then it will go off into never never land and stream anything but that artist.

No: Even better: It will actually deliver what was promised.

I think he is as surprised as everyone at how many copies were sold. Their original estimate was for maybe a few hundred or a thousand if they were lucky. It's just a dumb little card game. But it resonated with the internet and sold nearly a quarter million copies.

In the risks and pitfalls section he mentions that there shouldn't be a problem unless they sell too many copies. I'm thinking whatever plans they had to produce and ship these originally are now toast. I wouldn't be surprised if these don't ship until 2016 now, especially since the original plan was basically "They're just some cards, how hard can it be?"

However, Mr. Inman also has some of the blame here by turning the kickstarter into a party (literally in some cases) where people were doing crazy things for internet "achievements" and generating a lot of buzz. If he didn't want it to be so big he could have managed it a lot worse like most Kickstarters.

As long as it is a real keyboard you should be fine. It's pecking things out on an onscreen keyboard that is pure misery for programming. I know, because I've had to do it. Even shell scripts are terrible.

Programming on a phone keyboard is a sure way to turn someone off from programming as well.

His comment about running it on a high power i7 with 16GB of RAM might at least make sense then. That's what you need to build a medium sized DF map with 1000 years of history baked in.

They aren't blocking messages that talk about infringing on copyright, they're blocking messages that so much as reference something they don't like. That's heavy handed and ineffective.

"You know you can download on ka.to, good seeds and everything". Not blocked
"You think the new Piratebay is just a FBI sting now? I hear it's just one guy and everything is shady. You'd have to be crazy go go there now." Blocked.

The smart thing to do would be to have a system that silently flags people's accounts when they use certain keywords (like Piratebay), and have them double checked for pirate content. If someone is dumb enough to talk about Torrenting on Steam chat while pirating games on Steam, then they deserve to get busted.

Steam did the same thing for PC games that iTunes did for Music. It make digital buying so easy and affordable that there was little reason to pirate anymore. Lo and behold the piracy rates plummet as a result. It doesn't even require intrusive and invasive DRM, all you need to do is allow people to buy the product at a reasonable price without throwing up a bunch of roadblocks. It's like magic.

Or you could just wait for the next exploit and use that to reset your supervisor password.

Oh yeah, the H1B guys will definitely not lie about their expertise with public key crypto. This is the perfect option.

The summary was kind of dumb sounding. "I went to our web monkeys and asked them about the technical details of public key encryption. The answers will shock you!"

Printers and print servers tend to have hilariously poor security. Printer companies just don't care. That's why most organizations go to great pains to partition them off and try to run their own print servers as intermediaries.

That would require him being both a criminal mastermind and probably tipped off that he was about to be snagged. This was a guy who got scammed out of over a million bucks by a confidence game. He wasn't a tremendous mastermind. Just a guy who was smart enough to set up a website using the Darknet and Bitcoin for the most obvious application of both but had the crazy idea of maybe not making it a scam this time (like most other darknet drug site) and actually selling the drugs.

Like being in prison?

Looks to me like they're already disallowed Facebook access, since it lands them in Solitary. I'm guessing this is mostly a "covert communication with the outside" type violation though. The prisons are trying to prevent gang leaders/drug lords/etc... from running their empires while locked up. Plus, they don't get to rip off the prisoners with their massively inflated telephone fees.

Looks like he was done in by being stupid more than the technologies.

The article is more than a little sensational too. "He was done in by CHAT!" No, he was done in by keeping a goddamn log of his criminal activities. The fact that it happened to be chat is beside the point. Probably the only entry in there that deserves the headline is the Bitcoin one, only because it highlights how people misrepresent Bitcoin (It's so anonymous that every single transaction ever is recorded on the internet!). The article points out that he could have used tumblers to hide his bitcoins, but with the volume of coins Silk Road deals with that probably wasn't practical. Tumblers are really only useful for relatively small numbers of coins at a time. Put too many in and take too many out and your transactions stand out.

The article does harp a lot on how this information was only available because Ulbrict was dumb and let his laptop be snatched out of his hands while he was logged in. It is somewhat frightening to consider how poor the government's case might be if he had simply been facing the other direction.