FWIW, some of the linked articles point to videos of the mace incident that include a good minute or two beforehand.

There's no doubt in my mind that it sucks to be one of these cops, and that there are protesters out there looking for the police brutality money shot. Hell, the cops are the kind of people who'll be having their pensions cut to maintain tax cuts for Wall Street, the protesters should befriend them.

But at the end of the day which side here is herding people around to try to end a public demonstration? Is it worse to be shouted at or maced? Do you (rhetorical "you", not Nidi62 in particular) apply the same degree of skepticism to mainstream news reports? Should we be so quick to imagine or assume a wrong by someone less powerful that would excuse the wrong we can see being done by someone more powerful?

Mod parent up, anyone? There are so many +5's in this thread talking about how thin clients are priced as they are because "it's chump change for business", etc. If someone came along with equal thin clients for $100 less, plenty of people (like our thread starter Mr. Ginter) would buy them. And since there's plenty of companies wading into manufacturing various low-power hardware all the time, where are the cheap thin clients?

I believe you, but really? Hotmail was THE reason I've implemented SPF for a few domains connected to sites that send alert emails to users. Nothing - from email confirmations to status update type stuff - was getting through to Hotmail accounts until I set up SPF. Some kind of Left Hand / Right Hand mess going on over there?

I know I'd be more interested in the carbon footprint and implications of a typical, modern vegetarian or vegan diet than in learning how guilty I should feel about a fish tank.

I have no idea how large flight sim files are, but from the Wayback FAQ: "Files over 10MB are not archived in this 'snap shot' of the website."

Seriously: buying a LTO drive and sending media to IronMountain is a fantastic idea, but this community sites like this aren't a business. They're, say, 10,000 devout users hitting a virtual machine or two, and the admins are _already_ dropping a couple hundred per month on the hosting. Where does the money come from? Where does the _time_ come from? Whoever should've been testing avsim's backups was probably also moderating forums, working on the site, and working a day job.

Free community sites like this are great, great part of internet, and the people who run them are pouring their own time and money into something they love. And unless you want to run a free offsite backup service, the best you can do is to warn people what can happen, show them what a reasonably solid backup strategy looks like, and hope that no dickheads trash their site.