And there's a huge difference between "detailing the crack down on [OWS]" and "detailing the crackdown on [OWS]".

Looks like the author of the summary didn't RTFA, since they actually got it right in TFA.

I spent some time late last year and earlier this year working very closely with the developers of BetterLinux, and in the work I did, I did stress testing (on a limited scale) to see how the product performed. It has some OSS components and some closed-source components, but the I/O leveling they do is pretty amazing.

http://www.betterlinux.com/

The PC version multiplayer may not work well, but the PS3 version sure does. I started playing a solo game, and my stepson (who has his own copy and PS3) came online and joined my single-player game with no trouble at all. I wasn't even aware that it would do that. What is lacking is some player-to-player communication options when the bluetooth headset isn't available (had some trouble with pairing mine and ended up horking the PS3's bluetooth up until the next restart).

Having played the first game all the way through, I like the UI changes so far.

Use something like blockhosts to deny connections to addresses that have repeated unsuccessful attempts.

Use public key/private key pairs for authentication and disable password authentication completely.

Use a non-standard port for the ssh service.

Who to report them to? Unless you're actually compromised and suffer harm, there really isn't anyone who is going to look into it; seriously, reporting every potential attacker results in nothing more than a very large scale game of whack-a-mole.

Pair someone with strong programming skills with someone with strong sales skills. Lots of tech companies supplement their sales staff with "sales engineers" who know the technology. It's not unusual, and many IT organizations are impressed to have someone with expertise sent along with the sales people.

Got this one myself last December, and I use the numeric keypad on it quite a bit - it's comfortable and easy to use.

I'm really happy with it.

Yup. That thought occurred to me after you "called me out". Not a lot of people are familiar with Poe's Law (though more are now).

So something good comes out of my error. :)

That you didn't find it funny is fine. I don't post a lot on /., so I don't expect everyone to understand when I'm being funny. But no, I'm not trying to "cover up" that it was stupid. It was intended to be stupid, but I neglected to put sufficient context in there. I didn't take my audience into consideration (I usually write things like this to people who know me well enough to know when I'm being satirical or silly about something).

I actually do have a bit of a background in astronomy, and I read Phil's blog regularly. Unlike others who comment on stories here, I actually /did/ read the story before I posted. But I could see the potential for stupidity in replies, so I was more or less doing a bad "Gumby" impression for the benefit of those who didn't RTFA and were replying (or thinking) in a similar manner.

I see your point about it "smelling" like Faux News tripe. My bad for not making it extrordinarily clear that it was intended to be satire (indeed, I well could have prefaced it with a comment saying "Here's how Fox News would respond to this:".

I'll grant that some additional context to make it clear would've pulled it off better.

Live and learn.

You don't do satire, do you?

BMO, realizing that he wrote a reply to something without reading the follow-up post, tries to cover up his stupidity by saying something else that's stupid.

Well, done.

Did you bother to read my reply to myself? I indicated I understood it, that this was intended satirically.

You fail at reading. Hard.

And yes, I do know that not all stars go supernova. Folks, RTFA rather than relying on the summary. The summary should have been better written, and that's what I was aiming for - a little silliness, and a jab about the summary on /. being very unclear on a few points. :)

I'd have to say that if this criteria is for a "supernova candidate", the nearest supernova candidate to us would be THE SUN. Because it's bound to go supernova one day, just like every other star in the universe.

The next nearest supernova candidate would be proxima centauri. But it probably won't cause any damage to the Earth either, and probably isn't likely to go off for a few million years either.

Damn, I should've been an astronomer - if this is all it takes to "make news".