The PS3 wan't jailbroken until Sony tried removing features. This is going to lead to some great advancements in open source drone firmware.

Buy an hour or two of a lawyer's time to send a nasty letter to Bluehost's lawyers. They'll listen to them.

When I was looking at trying to get back into creative writing, I looked at Scrivener. It's a nice app, but I already had online services I liked for notes and research, mainly Evernote and Trello, and it didn't seem to have good options for integrating with them.

Turns out, Emacs does all that stuff. All it costs is your sanity an assload of time to learn.

Also, Optimus is kinda-sorta okay. There's a utility called Bumblebee that handles turning the Nvidia chip on and off, and you basically end up running a second X session on the Nvidia with the output piped into the normal session. It's done by launching any app you want to be on the GPU with a wrapper app like Optirun.

It doesn't require a grand conspiracy to doubt North Korea had enough lead time to compromise Sony so thoroughly in response to The Interview. It also isn't a Oliver Stone-esqe reach to observe that there are anecdotal reports all over the place of hackers planting false trails to China and Russia to blend in with real attacks from both places.

In the absence of actual publicly produced evidence from someone *without* a history of lying to the public and Congress, it's safe to assume that the "North Korean IP addresses" aren't actually in North Korea and are compromised machines they have been known to use in the past. How often do you see a system that's only been compromised by *one* piece of malware?

Somehow I doubt they'd see it the same way if someone setup a rogue femtocell on the sidewalk outside an FBI office...

Perhaps you're too busy just holding on to what you've got to realize that, statistically speaking you'll be joining those unemployed people on welfare sooner rather than later.

With the exception of the cosmic rays shooting through their eyes....

If nothing else, both companies desperately need better battery technology. Could be they were talking about swapping patents or joint R&D.

That's rewriting history slightly. Was it "rammed through" the Senate? Certainly. Though, if memory serves, the House was under Republican control at the time. Also, for the last goddamn time, the ACA is not a *leftist* law. The "left" is still pissed at Obama and Congress about getting knifed in the back over a public option. The ACA started life on the right at the Heritage Foundatrion in 1989. It's a testament to how hard the right worked throughout the '90s and the aughts to drag the country their way that the ACA became centrist enough for Obama to latch onto it like a limpet.

I watch their video stream at home. their coverage of human rights issues inside Russia is the darkest of comedies, and their skew on Syria is super obvious, but I'm in the market for a news source critical of my government, and they certainly fit the bill better than MSNBC or CNN.

If anybody other than Verizon had done this to somebody, they'd be in jail.

How about the people trying to route around them? Like Bitcoin? It's not just for goldbugs anymore....

It though it boiled down to "Pay attention to ME!!!!!!!!!!!!"?

The reasonable thing to do is just block everything from their domain or that includes their name.

However that's no fun. What is fun is whipping up a python script and using a service like Tropo to respond to every single message with a phone call to tell them that the email is unwanted. Of course, to ensure that they can effectively identify the offending mail, the script should read it to them in it's entirety and ask them to press a button to acknowledge that they've understood and will stop. If the call gets... disconnected for any reason, it should call back and start over until it gets it's acknowledgement.

If you have moral compunctions about blocking ads in general, Noscript is the way to go. Normal ads will get right through while flash and javascript ads won't be executed unless you whitelist it.