laquadrature is not the EU Parliament. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/focus_page/008-80686-195-07-29-901-20100714FCS78876-14-07-2010-2010/default_p001c001_en.htm mentions there will be talk on Wednesday but nothing more.

One word: Scottevest. I have a jacket and pants from them which i mostly use as travel clothing and it eats up a notebook, a nook, bose noicecancelling headphones and more small gadgets than you can count. (oh and their performance t-shirts are awesome for exercise)

I run my memcacheds behind firewall. I thought that the basic server security rule was that you firewall everything opening ports very cautiously as necessary.

While Drupal is PHP and as such some here will snicker at it if your motives for reentering the field is profit then this is where the money is. The global demand for good Drupal coders is WAY higher than the supply and if you are a seasoned hacker, learning PHP is almost just adding $ signs before the variable names in C and getting used to the server-browser separation. Good senior software engineers who know how to deliver instead of being a junior code monkey are even rarer.

The chain of events should look like: you go into a bank and ID yourself with a piece of government issued photo id. Then you can open an account or get a mortgage. Otherwise, you can't. Next up, to do a credit transaction when the card is not physically present, you get a text on your mobile phone that you need to send back. Everyone has a goddamned mobile phone capable of sending messages. By the way? This is how it works in many European countries. Also, for online purchases, virtual cards especially one-time virtual card numbers should be used...

Hm. I make living off free software so I am the last person who would advocate heavily for paid software. But, then again who the fuck you think you are to say "no software worths $1000"? If the software compared to a free one allows me to earn just $2000 more in, say, a year -- which is not unheard of because paid software often has better UX, compare OmniGraffle to Dia for christ's sake -- then how investing that $1000 was not the right choice??

They have interfaced SD card readers to the ZX Spectrum which is more like 30. Beyond that there are not really any computers worth mentioning. It's not impossible that you will be able to read it for quite long.

As Jared Diamond says in Collapse that's not true! There were smaller and smaller trees re-growing and the island being covered by great trees were just a distant memory. It did not happen like 'dense forest -- all big trees felled - - barren' but rather gradually and slowly.

This puppy can be had for 200 bucks and hosts 8 disks off 2 SATA ports. You can easily host two of these with practically any PC that has 4 internal SATA ports as brackets are readily available. I have even seen low profile brackets which carry 4 SATA ports to the outside via an SFF-8470 connector http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_cables_adapters/4X7PLLP.asp and then a breakout cable http://www.convertermarts.com/servlet/the-166/SAS-SFF-8470-4x/Detail is again readily avaible. Even Mini-ITX boards tend to have 4 SATA ports these days. Drobo clone recipe based on ZFS http://pegolon.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/build-your-own-drobo-replacement-based-on-zfs/

And, of course, your site thrown together in a couple hours will scale (just in case it needs to), will be stable and secure.

Also, SheevaPlug. You can add storage to this via SD cards and USB.

Yoggie Open Firewall SOHO.

What do you pay for? You do not pay to download warez. You pay for the capability to download. As long as there is any legal stuff to download, it's fine and there always be. If these services do not happen to hold a record of what particular usernames download, then there is no evidence what so ever.