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Volume 5, Book 59, Number 443:

Narrated 'Aisha:

When the Prophet returned from Al-Khandaq (i.e. Trench) and laid down his arms and took a bath, Gabriel came and said (to the Prophet ), You have laid down your arms? By Allah, we angels have not laid them down yet. So set out for them." The Prophet said, "Where to go?" Gabriel said, "Towards this side," pointing towards Banu Quraiza. So the Prophet went out towards them.

Call me obtuse, but I can't seem to find the gory massacre in there anywhere. Maybe something got lost in translation?

There's no simpler way to put it than the article quote above. What is obvious is there is a massive civil contract dispute going on, and its not entirely certain who is right and wrong.

It's not complicated at all. L2N peers with Albany, but the traffic is not balanced so L2N pays Albany for the connection. That's their relationship.

L2N is an ISP; some of their customers use VOIP. Albany thinks they should get an extra cut for the "VOIPness" of L2N's traffic over their network, because they have a local monopoly on old fashioned 20th century style voice telephony services.

This is a very clear-cut standard case of net neutrality violation, an attempt to seek rent from third parties to prop up a nearly obsolete business model.

My favorite federal law: 18 USC 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law

Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

No, they did not succeed according to plan. They wanted to scare him into pleading guilty and going to prison, and they failed. It's pretty clear that the prosecution never expected this case to go to trial, and once it did they had no idea what to do with it. Even though he lost two years and much of his life, the prosecution lost too. The message that people will hear from this story is not "act up and you'll get crushed by the legal system"; rather it's "what this guy did was perfectly legal and OK."

Here's a radical idea: why does all of that money have to be made for shareholders? Why can't some of it also be for the people doing the work?

Because SOCIALISM!!!1

Shortcut keys only have material value when commands are hidden in a menu system.

What the hell? I keep both hands on the keyboard 99% of the time when using a reasonably well-designed UI for a task that isn't inherently mouse-driven. For a word processor I should never have to touch the mouse at all. Shortcut keys are how work gets done.

I'm a parent, I understand, and I agree with both RazorSharp and causality. I sympathize with digitallife but I've found that the parenting advice of experienced parents is every bit as useless, unworkable, and inappropriate as that of the childless. Most parents are pretty crappy at parenting. What they're good at is compromising ideals and rationalizing inadequacies.

This line in userContent.css will do it too:

a.comment_share_toggle.btn:link { visibility: hidden !important; }

In the 7 years since I moved sshd to a different port, I've had exactly zero probes (ssh or otherwise) on that different port. I get about 50 a day on port 22.

Yep, everything is going to be just fine forever. So fill up that SUV and burn burn burn! Consume as much as possible and more then throw "away" the noxious trash; the bounty of mother earth is infinite. There is absolutely no need to change your behavior ever. Just keep doing what you've always done, but faster and harder to ensure economic growth. That's the most important thing.