This guy does an incredible performance art piece based on that idea. He walks around with a really obvious camera taking videos of people's reactions to him recording them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Funny how with google glass - that'll be everyone.

Try to get the attention of the guys running the simulation (through prayer, sacrifice, whatever).

If it works - and they enter their debuggers to communicate back - then yup - probably a simulation.

It probably just works for a while, though, since their management will probably enact policies not to flood the worlds too often.

Why'd someone mod this as troll?

I use it; and it works great.

But in a way that feels broken compared to TVTWM. With FVWM2 it seems you need to choose which corner of the window in that example you want to see. With TVTWM you can move the view so it's centered on that window spanning multiple desktops.

Kinda. tvtwm had it integrated nicely and cleanly so it was easy to scroll to where you want. Using X itself I get too many unintentional scrolls.

Not sure if I want to laugh or cry.

Probably similar to any other missing safety feature - like a broken break light, or a torn seat belt.

BSD historically got more total (including proprietary) contributions - but fewer contributions that were shared back.

Recall when every server vendor had their own proprietary fork of BSD (SunOS4, etc) and kept all. A lot of the top software talent was employed by those companies - making proprietary unshared contributions to BSD.

Worked fine for BSD for a while. But as the companies started keeping more and more to themselves, GPL'd alternatives (linux) passed the BSDs as the corporate sponsors died off or lost interest.

For a lot of people I think Facebook accounts really are transient ephemeral things more like colds.

Whenever when some damn website or game makes me have a Facebook account to sign up -- I make a new account with a throwaway username / password / email that I never care to remember -- and never use it again. That's why I think a lot of those "facebook has X users" or "Y% of users have abandoned facebook" are totally bogus. For just my accounts, sure I've abandoned 90% of them. But that doesn't make it fair to extrapolate that 90% of facebook accounts get abandoned. Just that some people don't want a permanent Facebook account.

TL/DR: I do get facebook accounts very much like I get mild colds. A get a new one a couple times a year; it doesn't last for more than a couple days; and they're merely mildly annoying.

Hasbro vs. Internet Entertainment Group "CANDYLAND Case" 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11626 (W.D.Wa. 1996) HASBRO, INC., Plaintiff, v. INTERNET ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, LTD., et al., Defendants. 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11626 (W.D. Wa. 1996) .... 6. Hasbro has shown that defendants' use of the CANDY LAND name and the domain name candyland.com in connection with their Internet site is causing irreparable injury to Hasbro.

That's exactly what all parents should teach kids to do: Don't talk to strangers (whether online or in the real world. And especially don't give them true real-life information. And remember - to your kids, Zuckerberg and the Google kids giving out "free" internet services are just as much strangers as a guy in an unmarked van handing out free candy to kids. I thought that's just basic parenting skills; and one of the first rules anyone teaches kids.

And wonder if it makes sense to use as a firewall in front of a US-friendly one.

Seems a pair of firewalls ought to be configurable so unless *both* have a back door you're safe.