Try going downhill from Bernal Heights (towards the 280) and tell me what you run into.

If your neighbors were like you, we'd have no problem with you and yours. Unfortunately, they are still reading Sunset and making relocation plans. By all means, keep out. I for one was born in Santa Cruz, which has been gentrified beyond all recognition, largely by people who were neighbors of people like you, who don't want to live in California.

No really, once you leave Austin, you really are in crazy land. Austin is like someone took a piece of California (from Northern California, given the weather) and plunked it down in the middle of Texas, pointed at it, and say "nyah nyah! that's your capitol now!" Because everywhere else is so hostile to people who are different, most of those people have converged on Austin for protection. Even other college towns (like College Station) are good places to get beaten up for wearing funny clothes, or what have you.

Don't get me wrong, SF is also crazy land. But that doesn't make Texas any more sane. All you can really do is choose your type of insanity, and what kind of bad weather you'll have. Will it be cold and foggy 90% of the year, or will it be either blazing or sleeting 90% of the year?

You need to live latitudinally close to work. Driving North-South through Austin has become nigh impossible. It was pretty awful ten years ago and by all accounts (I'm still in touch with a bunch of friends there) it's dramatically awfuller now.

When I moved out there I moved out of a $500/mo room in Santa Cruz. I moved into literally the apartment complex closest to work, a brick number next to the bank at the edge of the Arboretum, in the building nearest the bank no less — five minutes' walk from where Tivoli's offices were then located. In between lay many places to make you fat, places where fat people couldn't buy clothes, a movie theater, and a sharper image... I paid $600/mo for 600 sq.ft including a washer-dryer stack in a closet. But you'll want to be another exit North of there if you'll be near IBM, IIRC.

Are there actually any big clubs left in SF? I mean warehouse big, not like big for a coffeeshop or something.

Well played, Coward. If you signed in, you'd win the internets for today.

ftp://nic.funet.fi/ is still there. It's oh-my-god slow, though.

Why? Why wouldn't our governments tell each other their citizen's secrets? It's not like they care about them.

Comparing big data sets to look for correlations is definitely interesting stuff. The data is already regularly compared to itself to look for patterns, and there don't really seem to be any.

Maybe. Or maybe that something else wouldn't make another OS take so long, which indicates an OS interaction. We can't tell from here.

Why not?

Except that you can get DX10 to run on XP if you try, but DX11.2 appears to actually require features in Windows 8.1. (Guess MS learned from DX10.)

They also can't read excerpts from the classified documents, nor discuss the ramifications of the excerpts. These stories and the issues raised depend on discussion of the printed excerpts. Thus, in theory what you say is true, but in practice it's not true at all.

You can't put the genie back in the bottle. Trying only leads to your friends knowing less than your enemies.

It doesn't matter if the documents were leaked from the NSA or not. Once they are in the open, there is no utility to maintaining classification. That's the whole point of this thread. You're asking an irrelevant question.

Inktomi was the power behind Hotbot. I never found Lycos or Excite to be useful, except when Lycos had an FTP search.