The VPS provider notices the continuous high bandwidth you're using and cancels your account for violating their TOS long before the authorities get around to raiding them.

Well we do have some strange candidates. And they do seem to have charmed certain segments of the population.

Fix things from within what? There are some people who identify with neither conservative nor liberal speaking points. The moderate viewpoint is entirely ignored in the two-party system, except when an extremist candidate from one of the two parties is trying to court moderate votes.

Associating yourself with either party implicitly indicates to the rest of that party that you agree with at least most of their views. It's easy, then, to label a true moderate (or libertarian) vote as outside the party lines, leading those who believed the implicit ideological alignment based on party affiliation to label the voter a turncoat.

I'd love to see an alternative voting system in place that encourages votes for parties other than the big two. It will never happen, of course, while they're in control of congress...

While we're dreaming, let's get rid of gerrymandering too.

Or "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line."

A-ha! A-ha-ha-ha! A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.... *thud*

the hipster would already be a step ahead, smiling obliviously on his train of thought, incompetent and unaware of it.

Oh, where are my mod points when I need them...

Well played, sir. If snark was a way to measure midi-chlorians, I'd be sending you to Yoda to give him lessons.

Oops! s/reign in/rein in/

Thank you, Scripps Local News!

This single incident will do more than any other event in recent history in helping to reign in the DMCA. This will finally get the legislature's attention focused on this bad law and give them the incentive and public pressure to try to fix it.

My suggested solution would be a check-box when submitting media confirming that you hold copyright, and any infringement claims should be brought to you directly. If this affidavit is checked, and the user's contact information has been verified as valid, the carrier can maintain their safe harbor by forwarding the complaint instead of removing the media.

Yeah, I know that's similar to how things worked before DMCA (less the contact verification), but I also understand that congress-critters never admit they're wrong, and this looks more like a tweak to them than an outright repeal.

Regrettable that the liability lawsuit necessarily follows a breach. The breach is the regrettable part; get it?

Dish TV gives hundreds of channels for only $35/month...

Half of the channels Dish gives you for that price are ones that they should be paying you for. There's a whole swath of channels along the likes of QVC, HSN, etc. I'd pay a little more not to have to sift through them while I'm looking for actual content...

Or, to look at Apple products, a $99 AppleTV, and a selection of iPhones, iPads, and/or iPods touches, which many people already have.

I don't know what Apple is waiting for. Seems like a simple thing for us to be sitting around the TV playing a game while we chat. Eg. Scrabble where the main board is up on the TV with the letters in each person's iPhone. When it's your turn, drag each letter off the phone and it appears on the TV to be positioned as desired. This would even work on many games in pass-the-pad mode. One iPad being passed from player to player with the main screen or scoreboard on the TV so all can plan or track the action.

I suspect it's not too far away, given AirPlay and rumors about apps on the ATV, but it's hard to know for sure with Apple's tight-lipped disclosure policy...

Section 2..3, paragraph 2:

The function of the upload in addition was reduced to a minimum (handshaking). The IPP international IPTRACKER merely stores the data of the hosts connected with, if the package verification succeeds.

Parsing that broken English, it appears their modified client downloads, but does not upload. Presumably, other forensic and research clients don't actually upload either, meaning they wouldn't report on each other because they're not actually "making available."

A client that actually does upload valid data would likely not stand in court. That's like saying, "In order to catch this guy killing someone, I had to kill someone myself."

Hypothetical situation: You're a passenger in a car. Unbeknownst to you, the driver has a firearm in the glovebox. For some reason, he gets pulled over and the car gets searched. They find the firearm. Even though you deny it's yours, you both get cuffed and charged with concealing a weapon.

With the concealed carry permit, your charges are dropped as soon as you show it to the arresting officer. Without it, you face a potential visit to the jail and a legal fight on your hands to get the charges dropped.

The simple fact is, holding a CCP gives you more rights than someone without one. Assuming everyone with a CCP is carrying, or even wants to carry a weapon, is a foolish view.

The way to do this without screen is to launch the commands in a subshell and disown the subshell before exiting/killing your session. I.e.

( sleep 5; ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 ) &
disown
exit

That's from memory, so test on an easily recoverable system before you try it on your critical production server with no OOB access channel...

I always wished that AMD had named their Athlon chips Atinum instead.

1. They came out roughly the same time as Itanium
2. They were 64-bit (x86-64 instead of Itanium's IA64)
3. They were touted as the next generation after x86 (as was IA-64)
4. The name started with A (for AMD, where Itanium started with I for Intel)
5. The name was a metal with the first phonem(s) removed (Pl-Atinum vs. T-Itanium)
6. Platinum is more costly and precious than Titanium

For those that lack the history, x86-64 (and the Athlon) was a resounding success; so much so that Intel begrudgingly followed AMD's lead for their consumer grade 64-bit chips. Intel's attempt to push Itanium and the IA64 architecture faltered with the much simpler and sensical upgrade path that AMD's lineup offered.

I wonder if litigious HP will sue AMD too, since the success of the X86-64 architecture contributed to Itanium's failure as a platform, and thus Oracle's withdrawal of support for it.

If you're running that command in a plain shell outside of screen, it may not complete. Specifically, ifdown would complete, closing all TCP connections, including your SSH session. When sshd dies, it closes its pseudo-tty, and kills all commands spawned in that tty, including the shell that was forking an ifup process. It's a classic race condition. It may have time to start and run ifup before the tty is killed, but it may not.

The way around this, as others have mentioned, is to use screen. When the login tty is killed, the shell running in your screen session stays running, so your ifup command doesn't get terminated.