Not to speculate too much but we've probably passed the peak of mining hardware being listed for sale. Due to difficulty decreases and recently increasing prices, you may see increasing prices on GPUs in the next month or two.

This. I think the author of the article is actually using dismissiveness as a device to disarm people. If he downplays it people perhaps won't feel as threatened. "It's crazy" but maybe it's true.

I would like some confirmation though that there really is NO other evidence of dark matter.

Perhaps even if this theory doesn't stand the test of time, it will highlight the actual reasons dark matter has grown to become so accepted in our understanding of galactic mechanics.

Even though this story posits a 0-day in OpenSSH as the culprit, I'm of the mind that free software with a strong patch and update system is as good as it gets. If you don't update your systems say because you don't want to break stuff, sorry but even non-0-days will bring you down. So on the sysadmin side, we're moving toward more specialization.

On malware and free software: http://trygnulinux.com/action/?q=node/68

This sounds an awful lot like a bitcoin-style blockchain. There is of course no double-spending problem to solve but mining can go to pay for the cert-certifying nodes.

I will totally buy the DVD if they can have this sissy tower repeatedly destroyed by one or more Big Dogs.

Would becoming 'increasingly marginal as a place to live' include the Gulf of Mexico being taken over by a large, year-round, standing hurricane?

Some questions the fine article could have answered: * What material was this fossil found in? * Where was it found roughly? * What theories exist for why it was so well preserved?

Just after I registered peakscandium.com!

There is another variation of this problem that's worth mentioning that involves hosted services. Individuals in the company may be tempted to create unauthorized individual accounts on cloud services and put company information there. Like the OP could have created a bunch of calendar accounts for his coworkers on some popular service. This has the potential to be even messier than the rogue in-house server case as the data is likely already non-compliant by being on some other organization's servers.

Another more minor issue is if the company decides to use such a service and create logins linked to the domain name. In that case there may be account clashes whereby the users much jump through some hoops to access their rogue account as well as the official one since they may use the same email account to access both services.

Of course all the software through it is free (as in freedom).

All those miles of cat6, fiber, and aps are great but tell us more about the software! The only software mention in TFA was mobile apps. Me so sad.

This screenshot clearly shows the problem.

There is way too much whitespace including a single rectangle of pure
whitespace that takes up a full 30% of the rendered window!

This. I had a theory that reading one line all the way across a screen was more annoying two lines half-way across buit thanks /. for providing the evidence to prove my theory. Whatever you choose to do, I'm sure I'll get used to it...or else I'll turn to greasemonkey/Stylish.

I think you misread GS as MS. I've not noticed any anti-Goldman Sachs bias on Slashdot. Many other biases? Yes. Against GS? Not so much.

I just hope the yet-to-be-screwed foreign investors learn their lesson and disallow this type of investment shenanigans in the future. Zuckerberg's brazenness never ceases to amaze.

Was just looking for information about this operation from ICE and decided to take a look at the ICE Privacy and Usage policy. http://www.ice.gov/about/legal.htm ... My favorite part, and yes it's understandable if someone actually attacks their site but it's always a question what constitutes an attack these days:

In certain circumstances, however, ICE may take additional steps to identify you based on this information and ICE may share this information, including your identity, with other agencies.