Well, watching drugs inc episodes apparently ripping people off is a viable business model in the drug industry.

You got the distributors and dealers of good dope, dealers of crappy dope, then the dealers that sell fake dope, the dealers who steal dope from other dealers to sell, and the gangs who just rob dealer stash houses for the cash and whatever dope is on hand.

So, an online 'marketplace' specializing in illegal black market goods is no different than maneuvering in the real world black market, it isn't too hard to get ripped off in either world.

I imagine if they stole $12mil in bitcoins that is but a fraction of business that went through there, just a snapshot of any one day.

When oh when are we going to have an ETHICAL and MORAL bitcoin black market service?

Come on! It's like it's just a bunch of criminals doing this stuff.

Wait...

Come on, people, this is SLASHDOT!

What mail server software did she use?

What kind of hardware?

How much ram? Disk?

What kind of internet did they have? Just one ISP? Two? Three? What kind of hardware used for firewall and ISP rollover and/or load balancing?

What kind of backup and redundancy? External disk? Redundant server? Offsite? Cloud? What kind of malware protection?

THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD BE DISCUSSING! There are tons of other websites and blogs to bitch at each other about politics.

I've got one geeky daughter and one not as geeky.

Tell her to follow her interests and learn on her own. Make her geek education her own responsibility and not that of schools and universities. Tell her that the ability to learn on your own, and to learn about things that interest you, are what makes all the difference.

For geeks, that's probably the most important thing.

If she's only in 6th grade now, she likely will be following a career that will follow the mentor/protege apprenticeship and entrepreneurship model, and not the go-to-college-get-a-job model. She will have to be self driven to become an expert in her field.

The proper unit on /. is library of congress per fortnight, but in 2015 it should be measured in netflix movies at 1080 resolution.

Well, I guess my comment is worth 5 karmas.

Let's reply to my own comment and talk about the ethics of blocking all adds all the time.

There are websites / blogs I go to that rely on ads to keep going. The operator spends massive amounts of his time and money running the website. I didn't even KNOW he had ads on it until one day he commented that he changed his ad stream. I felt bad.

But I didn't enable ads on his site.

What percentage of people even KNOW you can block ads?

What percentage of people who DO block ads flip the switch and kill the "unobtrusive" ads?

How long will the ad supported model on the internet continue to work?

Are we killing the internet by blocking ads?

So... this isn't news?

I can click a 'switch' and turn off 'acceptable ads' and it's been that way for a long time now.

So maybe it IS news because I didn't know/realize/take the time to think about the fact that they make money off this.

Good for them. They deserve to eat too. Adblock Plus is reliable and makes the internet tolerable and safer. Letting through some 'GRAS' ads for cash is fine with me. As long as there is a switch where I can turn them off too...

(Generally Regarded as Safe)

the AC's extension of the analogy is actually really good - It's probably a pretty good way of looking at encryption, VPN, and TOR.

Say it's really really cold out, like an "arctic vortex" kind of condition, which is the state of the internet right now with surveillance and monitoring.

So everyone needs to wear their ski masks to go out, if they're smart. So it would be wrong to prevent people from walking around in ski masks.

But someone ... likely there IS someone ... is up to no good who is ALSO wearing a ski mask.

What do you do?

ok, lets continue the analogy.

If I walk into a store wearing a ski mask, and don't take it off, I think it would make most people nervous. It's strange behavior.

If I visit a website using TOR, what happens? For one, they won't know who I am unless I have cookies or log in.

Will they freak out? Will they be nervous?

I have a balaclava (ski mask) that I have used when outside in the winter. Keeps my face warm. I like it.

Also criminals use them because it hides your face well. From eyes as well as the cold.

So if I'm out walking around wearing a ski mask don't assume I'm a criminal.

Oh wait, this is slashdot - I should have made a car analogy!

I'm with you and Engelbart - because it just seems wrong to call a box of computer pointing devices "mice" rather than "mouses."

When I hear someone call them "mice" my reaction is that they aren't computer people.

They're not the animal, they're the computer pointing devices.

on a lot of the mouses the click wheel makes for a crappy third button.

Some of the worst are when they thought they'd be clever and made the click wheel TILTABLE and CLICKABLE.

Ends up doing neither well.

What I've found is that the cheap mouses the click wheel works ok. The MS and Logitech ones, of course.

Got me the middle button gets used most for opening a link in a new tab, and also has it's uses in CAD apps.

Does it come in a box with handcuffs, nipple clamps, whips, chains and ball gag?

Because that program causes physical and emotional pain while using. (at least it used to)

I always pictured it's die hard users decked out in over-the-knee leather boots, leather chaps and vest, black eyeliner, full body tats, piercings and bright red hair, doing the editing while sitting on a chair made of metal spikes while someone yells at them constantly.

VLC is to media playback as Reggie Love is to Barack 0bama - It just handles stuff - PERIOD.

This post sums up everything thoroughly and completely.

From personal experience I can concur that for most NLE needs Sony Vegas (and Premiere for those whose brains work that way) provide the proper ease of use and feature set.

Sony Vegas is easy to self teach. The interface is clean, simple and intuitive. Much more intuitive than Premiere. Sony Vegas should be the target for Linux Video Editing developers. Vegas is up to version 13 right now. EVEN IF developers targeted version 9 or even 6 of Vegas ... that would be fantastic and many people would be filled with joy and singing.