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So I guess we all know what this means... *ominous music playing*

I'm reading Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson, which is a fantasy novel. While slow at the start, it's becoming a rewarding undertaking.

Still unsure whether I'd pick up the rest of the series though; I find the book very hard to get into. Only 100 pages left or so, so I can't wait to see how it unfolds...

I live in the Netherlands (that's in Europe :-) and I'm getting pretty fed up with the overall trend on USA-related topics in here. We have local new coverage of all major US presidency-events, and /. covers so much more of them its annoying (note that this applies to non-presidency-events as well, I'm just giving examples) Disclaimer: I don't mean any disrespect, I'm sure such topics are important for many USA-citizens, but ask yourselves: do they really belong on a tech website fronting 'news for nerds' ?

Been there; learned support people don't really appreciate being walked through packet dumps and such - the reply was among the lines of 'Have you tried turning it on and off again?', so after an hour or so I just gave up. So I unplugged the modem, called back: "Hey my internet doesn't work!' - 'Oh I can't see anything, can you try setting the modem?' 'Sure' 'Hmm still don't see anything, I suggest a new modem' and when I got one, the problem disappeared. This call only took 5 minutes... Bottom line: just follow their protocol and you'll be fine - I definitely check that the problem isn't at my side, and when I know it isn't, I'll just call their support and let them walk through their procedures. They aren't interested in technical analysis at all, so don't bother them with it.

[Disclaimer: I've clicked through the slides, not watched the presentation] - yet your comment makes me feel you may expect too many changes, much too quickly. You see, the opinion of a co-founder isn't necessarily the opinion of the entire project. Anyone is free to contribute whatever he/she feels like the project needs; whether it will be adopted may be an entire different matter. Core changes like these _will_ get quite of lot of discussion, likely because the rc system 'just works' and I would not expect it to be changed anytime soon by something that hasn't matured. Note that this is just the expectation I have from working a few years within the FreeBSD project, so YMMV, etc.

I guess I mixed up authorship and copyright - I guess it confused me that this work is "brought to you by Javier M. Chavez and Chuck Naaden" (from the readme.md) but no mention of Chuck in the copyright itself. Thanks for the input, guys.

It struck me that almost all files start with:

/* Keen Dreams Source Code * Copyright (C) 2014 Javier M. Chavez *

However, I wonder if this man worked at ID Software or SoftDisk when the code was written and thus can reasonably claim any copyright on it?

Ah, forgot to search each page for Wii as well.

Funny how there isn't a single occurrence of the words Wii or Nintendo in that interview.

How many car bombs have we seen lately to justify these actions?

In that case I'll support their cause :-). I wonder if they are going to put some DRM on it or cripple it in some Microsoft only way (ACPI anyone?).

And that is why the PIN is used to access a better encryption key (the AES 256 bit part, see below) to actually encrypt your data. I'm not sure about the source of that, but I believe it is from some /. comment.

From http://www.gaikai.com/streaming-worlds/:

"All you need is a broadband internet connection, a web browser, and the latest Adobe Flash player (which you almost certainly already have)."

Since when is stating a fact called trolling?

FFS, it is their (owner) and not there (location).