Wasn't Amazon the one that got hit with the 10 gigabit or something insane like that DDOS? I wouldn't blame them - thats an insane amount of traffic they have to handle.

Someone should figure out how to get Wikileaks running in Freenet, build a peer tracker or something, and let the rest of the world play wack-a-mole with the public website, and the real copy of Wikileaks runs encrypted and anonymously.

Damn, I like that idea.

...viewing TFA caused a Flash popover ad to appear over the article text. Just sayin'.

...is getting hammered right now. Like, several comments a second. Fascinating to watch a meltdown in real time. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cooks-Source-Magazine/196994196748

I would say that Tivo's biggest asset is the name. The name has fallen into common vernacular: People say "I'm going to Tivo Lost tonight*" - and in fact that line is often written into TV scripts. It remains to be seen whether that brand will remain in people's mind *cough* Napster *cough*.

*Disclaimer: I am old, so I say "I am going to TAPE Lost tonight" when I mean I am going to record something to my PVR.

Also: My GF is a concierge in Apple. She has told me that techs *will* swap out iPhones even if the sensors are red, on a case-by-case basis, if the problem in question is not obviously a moisture problem. Really, the whole point of the sensors is to give the techs *some clue* about what the problem could be, *not* to unilaterally deny warranty claims. Apple really does kick ass on warranty and non-warranty claims. I am typing this on a beat-to-shit macbook that has been fixed numerous times *for free* by Apple, out of warranty. And before you ask, no it is not because of my relationship with the aforementioned GF. No one at the Apple store knows who I am, I just walk in with it under my arm.

Ah, grasshopper. While a 3 year warranty may have been standard for a microwave oven in times of yore, back in the 80's, when you bought an Amiga, a 1040ST, an Apple III, or a PC Jr, the warranty was a scant 3 months. 90 days was the standard for electronics for a *long* time.

>Well, install a VM and make it unpriveleged because

Sorry, I meant "Install a VM and give it full privileges"

Yes. A lot of development environments *cough* Visual Studio 2008 *cough* assume local admin rights. You also have to be able to install stuff to get things done. If you have to submit a ticket just to register a DLL or what have you, your time is wasted.

It's dumb I think to just say, Well, install a VM and make it unpriveleged because 90% of apps you develop access the LAN in some fashion, and an unencumbered VM not subject to group policy is basically the same as having a development machine with local admin rights, except now the VM represents rogue machine from the LAN perspective. So why not just give the developer local admin and reduce your LAN management headaches?

If the math is universal and does not require hyperspecialized training to draw conclusions from, this sounds like a killer app for crowdsourcing, assuming the raw data can be published even as a CSV. Wouldn't that be nifty, if people could vote on their opinions on the validity of the methods used, and display that publicly, and the methods they used to validate the conclusions? hmm, sounds like a good website in the making there. hmm. you heard it here first.

enjoy explaining that bit of paper to DHS when they decide to look in your wallet as you go through airport security

My interpretation is that Kara Thrace was an angel or a guide sent by God. The foreshadowing for this was provided a few episodes back, when Kara gave Adama an angel figurine for the prow of the model ship he was building in his quarters.