It took a while, but all the effort was worth it.

Interesting how internet infrastructure maps onto the 1st world / 3rd world model.

It bounces to a Burmese site filled with crapware

To be clear - some of those people "jumping under cars" were just pedestrians crossing on a zebra crossing (where pedestrians have right of way) and the cars tried to drive through them. This is also not unusual in ex-soviet countries.

The problem with MD5 isn't the speed of creating hashes, it's that collisions are now trivial to find. This is one of the reasons that repeatedly hashing passwords is a fscking stupid idea - somewhere along your "hash over and over 10,000 times" if you find a collision you'll end up with the same chain as someone else from that point. This is why the big boys use chain rainbow tables ;)

...though real-world benchmarks give me ~800Mb/s both ways. It's also native IPv6, so I don't need my tunnel anymore. Internet is dirt cheap here, you can get 30MB/s for about $3/month with TV and phone.

Easy victory for Debian as they didn't have to do 4 weeks of regression testing, documentation, etc before it could be classed as "fixed". Perhaps the manager didn't have the option of rolling a hack out to customers, then marking all the bugs raised against it as "works for me".

Back in the late 90's I created a .turnip TLD in the DNS server of the ISP I was working at, and then gave "rob.is.a" the same IP as slashdot...

All they have to do is add an A record to the GTLD and then when you type tickets into the bar at the top it will send you to a site rather than search via google.

Actually, in Ukraine savings accounts pay 25% APR, and 15% on USD and EUR accounts.

I'm group d) : I download cam rips so I can put the audio track onto an MP3 player. In the country where I live there's a legal requirement to DUB foreign films, so I can't see it in English. I go to the cinema and stick the MP3 player in 1 ear. No lost sale. The audio quality's not great though :( I once suggested a system for cinemas where people could use headphones similar to a silent disco, where you could select a language on the side and listen to a different audio track. It never went anywhere though :(

Good SciFi / Fantasy is filmed outside the US - Game of Thrones and Dr. Who in the UK, and LotR in NZ.

OMG - you work for Apple?