I guess the Spanish king sponsors this effort?

And when methods aren't vetted by strong ethics, slimy methods often produce the "best" results. It reminds me of RealPlayer back in the nineties.

So I guess we are punishing the Russian people only for the military shooting down a civilian plane?

c'mon, it's about oil and gas revenues and strategic positioning in the market - you know this game by now.

These sanctions are pre-arranged and [insert crisis here] is penciled in for the right moment, fortuitous or constructed.

I'm gonna guess you're a libertarian on the basis that you ignore the actual reasons things happen

What's your working definition of what a libertarian is?

There are DAMN good reason to keep your mail server on premises be it home or business, if you don't understand why you might want to educate yourself before giving advice.

Correct. Get a $0.99/mo VPS, set up OpenVPN, and relay out over that connection.

It's plain old organized crime in every aspect. That is the cause of most of the world's poverty today.

Works as intended. WONTFIX.

"I mean, who would even notice."

The hackers will ruin the weather and make it rain all the time, obviously.
They'll stop only after the payment of a ransom.

Now that I think about it, if Philae did not bounce off of the comet, then the screws must be doing their job and I would think the harpoons might not be needed at all. I would assume the harpoons were in the plans because the engineers couldn't be sure the screws would work on the surface of a comet.

My understanding is that the harpoons were one of two ways that ESA was going to secure the probe to the comet. There were also screws that were supposed to attach the legs to the surface. So if they can still fire the harpoons they ought not have an issue with Philae flying off into space, but does anyone with more information on the relative strength of each? And if the harpoons could not be fired... what is the real risk of the probe shifting? I mean what would cause it to shift in the first place once settled on the comet?

No it isn't worthless. Most small shops could probably get by with using it exclusively.

They're taking it Mono a Mono.

With nasty patent clauses, no doubt.

I would donate to MoFo much more frequently if I could direct those donations to specific projects. Electrolysis has been on the list for years, but things like FirefoxOS get the funding. And yes, I realize electrolysis got its legs on Fennec, but it could have been completed work a decade ago with the right funding allocation (bugs date from 2001 at least). There would have been less room for Chrome if it had been done, so it really does rise to the level of misallocation.

So it's the fight between:

A. Nervous governments caught short on some cold winter's night with much too much wind so that powerlines are flying over the country but high energy prices.

B. Nervous governments are resisting, afraid of being caught short on some cold winter's night with little wind and very low energy prices.

I prefer the latter.