Good, soldiers that follow orders make for good soldiers. What the rest of us are wondering is if we can trust the people giving you orders.

That's not decimal numbering (where 4.10 would be a more precise expression of 4.1), it's literally 4 dot 10, where the ten represents the minor version number of KDE 4. Took me some time to get used to it, but other projects do this, too. The Linux kernel in particular does this.

Robots are notoriously bad consumers. Either way, capitalism is on the way out for something else. The question is -- who is going to benefit from the new state of affairs?

"Anything between the exit node and destination is sent in the clear and likely they've made some mistake that'll allow it to be blockable."

If you'll Read The Fine Article, you'll notice that this particular botnet is using Tor hidden services to obscure the location of the command server; they're not routing botnet traffic through Tor to a command server on the clearnet; that would be silly, as you just pointed out.

Facebook is currently suspected of building shadow profiles of people who have never registered for Facebook... so it may be that you don't have to give them your information for them to get ahold of it.

Research has shown that people tend to just look at the beginning and end of a word and its approximate length to guess what the whole word actually is. In which case both Geode and Genocide are plausible misreads.

Therefore the statement is patently false, and absurd.

I'm glad you latched on to the most important part of the meme (the GP was just parroting a meme which has been making the rounds lately), which was the problematic formulation, and not the message it was trying to convey.

Of course, I'm sure the stoner brigade can produce a plethora of studies claiming that weed is a fucking miracle cure-all with no downsides whatsoever, written by the same kind of biased researchers that produce studies showing that burning shit-tons of coal is great for the environment.

Yeah, because the same "stoner brigade" you just derided for being lazy fucks are also a well-heeled special interest lobby like the coal industry.

while I never was a full-time stoner myself, I did smoke enough to know that I sure as shit wouldn't have felt comfortable driving on it (or doing anything else that required concentration).

Of course, no stoner I've ever talked to claims that everyone can drive at any level of high-ness, but rather derides the idea that you can set a uniform standard like you can for BAC. Pot doesn't work the way alcohol does; it influences brain activity in much more subtle ways, and it effects everyone a little bit differently. Most importantly, it doesn't impair your ability to judge if you're capable of driving.

In Washington, the legal limit for THC while driving under the new law is 5 ng/mL. That's in specifically blood concentration. So unless this test can tell blood concentration it isn't going to work here.

For simple possession, unless you get busted by federal agents there is no way you're going to end up facing federal possession charges. Quit scaremongering.

This has been addressed elsewhere, but I'll bring it up, because that meme, while well-intentioned and does convey something important, is problematic in how it's been formulated.

October was the 332nd consecutive month (27 years, 8 months IIRC) with an above-average global average temperature. Local extremes exist, of course, within each global average. So while it is true to say that those of us under 27 have never experienced a month with a global average temperature colder than average, it is not true to say that we personally have never experienced a month which was colder than average.

my permanent move away from GNOME. I am learning to like XFCE!

Yeah, but Obama's no FDR, that's for damn sure.

RTFS, they're talking about getting it onto an iOS device.

Read the first paragraph of the license. It's covered by three patents, two of which are still in effect because they were granted in 1992. You have until September 2012 before they expire, assuming no continuations have been granted, and there is still the matter of copyright.