Anyone else think something along the lines of a hashtag being used to remote exploit SeaWorlds network by using Shebang lines in twitter?

I dunno. Too much internets today.

Disclaimer: I genuinely like PHP.

Facebook was originally written in Facebook, yes. However, you are missing the important fact Facebook took it upon themselves to fix a bunch of PHP's mistakes with HipHop PHP, later named HHVM.

I've actually played with HHVM a bit. It maintains mostly backwards compatability with PHP code, but adds optional static typing and a few other goodies.

As far as I'm concerned a locked up, drm-encumbered bootloader is dead on arrival.

I'll give it a shot.

root [~]# yum install spartan-browser
Setting up Install Process
No package spartan-browser available.
Error: Nothing to do

Well there ya go.

A previous employer of mine got on the Internet through "the big E".

I think that is a fair assessment.

Personally I have a budget ADATA SX900 128GB SSD in my primary workstation as the primary disk. To store all of my family's media, backup files, etc. I have 3x2TB HDDs:
- one for for media files, also exported as an NFS share across the subnet; music, movies, ebooks, etc)
- one for backups; daily rsync of /home, Bittorrent Sync shares/folders (laptop, my phone, wifes phone), misc non-media files too big for primary SSD
- one to backup aforementioned backup drive; cronjob set to run every day at 5am, spins drive up from sleep, mounts filesystem, rsync's data, unmounts filesystem, spins drive down to sleep

Obviously i dont backup the media files, i can always re-rip or download them if needed. I also keep my really important files backed up (encrypted) on a server I have in a datacenter somewhere.

If google is the sole registrar of all .blog domain names, then you never actually 'own' it.

While I understand the convenience aspect of it, the user cannot transfer it out and is forced to use Google Blogger, and ONLY Blogger. Despite the fact that there are thousands of ways to get a blog online.

On the topic of .dev: I also don't understand where they are coming from with the .dev TLD. I can see it being valuable to both developers and device makers. Why wouldn't they try to capitalize it instead of hog it to themselves?

This idea that we need to connect /everything/ _directly_ to the internet is insane.

Device manufacturers have a hard enough time makin devices work, let alone secure them. Even important things like manage switches and home routers have gaping security holes in them, I don't expect a mass sudden outbreak of common sense anytime soon, so we're all doomed, doomed I tell ya!

I can recommend VestaCP: www.vestacp.com

Zpanel has a history of security issues, and I read elsewhere some hosting company bought it, and is killing it off.

If you want to talk about freedom, why are you letting your employer hold your phone over your head like a bully teasing a child?

Go buy your own phone if you want control over it. Otherwise, don't complain.

Most likely to maintain binary compatibility with instruction sets / extensions. But I could be wrong. It may also be a cost factor.

These boards are meant for hacking together projects and education. At a $35 price point, it's "good enough."

If you're buying a laptop with Linux on it, I don't think you're buying video games on discs.

Even more so if you plan to install Slackware on it.

Who the hell uses discs anymore?

My two year old laptop doesn't have one, and I haven't missed it one bit.

I have a couple of USB drives with SystemRescueCD on them. Plug it in, boot it up, and install whatever you need through there.

I know I wrote it in this post in the first person, and I shouldn't have. I own a web design/development, and hosting firm.
It's not just me, despite the impression my post may have given. We've been in business over 7 years now.

Here in Canada the Tobacco, Liquor, and Gaming (Gambling) pays for our Free, Universal Health Care. Please don't do this to Canada.

Won't somebody please think of the children!