I don't don't believe that exposing user data is not not a big deal!

Pshaw, antiquated solutions from a simpler time. The one true path lies on the road to EviL

The hosting industry really has segmented itself along pricing lines. The overhead to start a small hosting business is so low that there are hundreds if not thousands of hosting 'companies' that offer a very mediocre product but can get by on providing for the cheap and the clueless.

When you see these types of operations with 'unlimited' resource plans starting at 2 or 3 bucks a month is it any surprise that system security is not a core compentency?

While not a universal truth I've found you most often get what you pay for especially as you leave the budget shared hosting segment and move towards VPS or dedicated offerings.

Well there's a big red line to cross. Would could possibly go wrong?!

Do your tires have contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs?

Jeff Waugh is an absolute cancer in the GNOME project. He adds nothing to the project but is a constant source of frustration and drama. How he maintains the influence he has is truly beyond me. My only supposition is that because in the past he has done some work in the past and runs P.G.O the other members of gnome's super cliquely inner circle (what you thought getting into the foundation meant you were a real part of the project? Think again!) feel some kind of perverse loyalty towards him.

This came across as a bit ranty but Jeff Waugh really pisses me off.

I think it's clear that my steam-powered, coal fired Autokineticon is superior in every way to the so-called 'clean' and 'efficient' modern automobiles.

This is a good question and I think it speaks to a larger trend in the handheld market. Nintendo, the undisputed leader of the console handheld market for many years, has traditionally always made their handhelds a but underpowered with respect to the technologies of the day. One of the driving factors of this was battery life which they have excelled in.

Now with the advent of the 3ds they seem to be bucking that trend with a 5 hour battery life.

Now that the push among handheld makers is to provide higher fidelity experiences it seems users of the next generation of handhelds will have to get used to much shorter battery life times.

Battery technology is lagging behind a bit. I'm curious to see how this all plays out in the next 5 years or so as our love of powerful portable devices continues to grow.

This. This. This. 1000 times this. Metalink is a tortured purgatory where the souls of lost engineers endlessly roam the fetid wasteland looking for information that will actually help them.

But hey, the menus animate when you click them! Oracle pushes the flash innovation envelope! Bonus figs all around.

Is it possible to open multiple instances of the browser on an iPhone (I do not own one and never will)?

If so, simply stack the video download in multiple browser instances.

The only reason I know about this video (content is simply not there, it is the LENGTH of the video that is important, 4 hrs 36 mins) is because I am a Comcast "customer". The reset packets in my torrent downloads were getting annoying(the uploads, actually. But that effects the download rates).

What I found is that the reset packets seemed to not be a problem as long as I had some other data-stream going at the same time. Basically, my torrent download rates SOARED as soon as I added some other data to the stream. I simply load the video while I am downloading torrents and the problem of reset packets seemed to go away entirely. While the video is over 4 hours long, it buffers in about 2 hrs. That gives me 2 hours of full-speed torrents. I simply clear my cache and reload the video every 2 hours.

My bookmark for the video is labeled "Fuck you Comcast".

Sure, it is a complete waste of bandwidth, and only compounds the issue of bandwidth abuse, but then again, Comcast never told me they were censoring/hindering my internet usage. When they stop, I'll stop. I have a 250GB bandwidth cap and have NEVER exceeded it, yet they still drop reset packets on me. Fuck you, Comcast.