The stakes here are much higher. If Los Angeles and Seattle were to get nuked, it would make *all* the Middle East wars look like a pillow fight.

"The content of those directories could be downloaded, including directories containing sensitive data like password hashes"...

All the WordPress installations I've dealt with (quite a few, it's part of my job) had users' password hashes stored in a MySQL database. I wonder why the W3 plugin is writing them to the file system in the first place?

It is the same plant with the same genetics and the same active constituents (THC and friends). While there are different strains, it's like smoking a Camel vs. smoking a Marlboro - one might be a bit stronger, taste a little different, but the health concerns are identical between the two varietes.
Now, the *average* potency has probably increased in the last 50 years, due to advances in growing technique and pressure from the drug war. Higher potencies mean a lesser amount of material to smuggle for a given profit.

You'd think, but it seems like 80% of the posts on this article are talking about RAM.

Yeah, when I read the title I thought this would be about a Mozilla developer. Then I read the summary and I didn't recognize a single one of the names or series mentioned. Then I was like "Wtf, there's sci-fi puppet shows?"

Since you mention iPads specifically in regards to network usage I thought that maybe this would be relevant. I work at an established web hosting company - not the biggest but certainly not a start-up either. I've taken many support calls from Apple users regarding e-mail specifically. It seems that Apple's mail clients like to open large numbers of IMAP connections - and keep them open. One customer called whose entire account was taken down because she had spawned 50+ processes on a shared server. It was 100% Apple. Turns out she had an iPhone plus a Macbook - so I ended up having to explain to her how to change the relevant settings across all her iGarbage so that it would only check for mail periodically, not continuously. The MacBook had just been idling during the call, by the way.

I don't want to blame it all on Apple, but they are afflicted with the same "chase the shiny, fuck the technological repercussions" syndrome which many people have. There's *loads* of software that wastes bandwidth, but it's also the users. The day that MySpace users could paste HTML into their pages is when this began. True, we had GeoCities back in the day - but those were blink tags and GIFs. It's just gotten worse now with every grandmother and high school dropout trying to go "Web 2.0".

You should see some of the WordPress sites I have to deal with. Streaming 5 videos on a page that's already bogged down with 30 conflicting live-chat plugins? Why not!

The problem is that this is good for nobody except a police commissioner who gets good PR, and maybe the Maury-watching drama queens who feed on gossip and wrecked lives.

It's not consensual if it's done under threat of being shot, stabbed, blown up with C4, etc.

I could walk into a bank in my Star Wars shirt and a propeller hat, and ask them to please grace me with $900,000, no I don't have an account here, but I'd like $2 mil please, and I doubt they would comply. It also wouldn't be attempted robbery.

Oppressive regimes in the Middle East rank among the worst (but not particularly worse than) other oppressive regimes in other parts of the world? Is that a "surprising truth"? If anything this just confirms what we already knew - those in power there are interested singularly in that power, and Islam has just been a convenient way to justify it to their population. Not that Islam is conducive to free speech or any other advancement of the human species - but it's not the main reason these countries are censoring the internet.

While it'd be nice to have your entire collection in the highest quality on an iPod, I doubt there's much market for it.

My music collection, which is large enough that it shocks everyone I've shown it to, is currently 189 GB. Yes, I know there are people with larger collections. Yourself, obviously. But you're in "the 1%".

Now, about a quarter of my collection is FLAC (rest MP3/AAC/Vorbis) - and the average bit rate across the entire collection is 382 kbps. 17,481 tracks, seven solid weeks of playtime.

For a portable player, I've got no issue compressing down to ~130 kbps AAC... which is 34% of the size. The total size of my collection at that bit rate would be 64 GB - I wouldn't have even hit the halfway point in terms of capacity.

The market of people who even have enough data to fill one of these things up is small. The market for people who have the library, and would actually want to carry it all in their pocket, at all times - is even smaller. And those people likely have got a portable 500 GB drive already.

I wouldn't bet on seeing higher-capacity PMPs for years to come, when the price on storage has come down further.

Ir/reversibility just refers to the time frame of activity. Irreversible MAOIs deactivate the MAO enzyme permanently, so that your body won't break down monoamines until it has time to build entirely new enzymes from scratch (~2 weeks). Reversible MAOIs temporarily deactivate the enzyme, so that when the drug leaves the system (could be hours or days) the enzymes will begin functioning normally.

There are two variations of the enzyme, MAO-A and MAO-B - some MAOIs preferentially bind to one type or the other, but I think they are functionally identical, or nearly so. But the only difference between reversible and irreversible MAOIs is how long it takes your body to function normally when you stop taking it.

I'm not a doctor either, but as someone who's studied this extensively, in addition to going through treatment myself, and knowing others who have also gone to treatment, I feel qualified to say this: Modern psychiatric "best practice" is to prescribe SSRIs (or similar newish agents like SNRIs) as first-line treatment. Only if the patient fails to respond to SSRIs, are second- and third- line medications like MAOIs and tricyclics considered.

It's been this way for at least the last decade, maybe two. SSRIs first hit the scene in the late 80s/early 90s.

"Tens of thousands" sounds over-optimistic. Tens of hundreds maybe... this is a news item that most people have forgotten about by now, or never cared about at all in the first place, or they were on the government's side. It's not the Olympics, or a Coldplay concert.

Now, even a few hundred people might still be useful for obfuscating Assange's exit. However, the English police would know about the rally also, since the date would be planned in advance and the general public would know about it. So they'd just set up a "quarantine zone" of roadblocks and not let anyone into the space around the embassy (unless they could prove they had business there). If protest-dismantling works like it does in the US, they'll just say "Oh, this group didn't have a permit" and then either refuse to issue a permit, or issue it for another location entirely, on the other side of town.

That ammo's already been shot off. Just empty shell casings now.

Sales were "way up" for a couple of days because of a Facebook campaign (which certain news outlets also gave wide publicity to) called "Chick-Fil-A appreciation day". It is no longer Chick-Fil-A appreciation day. We will have to wait to see what the long-term trend is.

I believe it wasn't the gun, but rather the extended magazines that were illegal.