Maybe they should use some of that money they're raking in to improve their network and bandwidth instead of giving their customers the raw end of things.

Maybe once the AI can identify guns with some certainty, someone could come up with the security system used by a bad guy in the movie Hardwired. The guy just says, "gun" and the system shoots out some kind of electrical field which knocks it out of the protagonist's hand.

"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." SystemD is undoubtedly severely overthought plumbing. I don't know why someone thought they could improve on SysVInit with start-stop-daemon, but they were quite badly mistaken.

This has to be the most lowlife, underhanded, ill-thought scheme I've seen from them yet. The eighthwit (they don't have enough wits to be a halfwit) who thought of this needs to be fired and replaced with someone who has a sense of decency.

"Social Media Companies Block German Users"

That's what cryptanalysis is about. I want to see if someone can figure it out easily or not. I'm trying to test the strength of the algorithm itself and the ability to figure out the keys. I'd post the algorithm, however, it's rather complex and I'm wanting to market it commercially if it proves strong enough. I'm sure you can hopefully understand why I wouldn't want to reveal the secret of it.

...aside from the fact that everything inside of it was 20 years old? In technological years, that's about 100 human years. They were lucky that it held out this long!

"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."

Perhaps this may lead to the development of Tritanium (Star Trek ships' hull material). Alter the atoms in a sheet of Titanium a bit to make it even stronger...

http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090911

There's no satellite-controlled self-destruct mechanism? (Return it or we push the button!)

I've recently been the recipient of a nasty piece of malware which took over my Linux server through a hole I didn't know was there. I no longer have the problem or the large amount of traffic because I went through using tcpdump, netstat, and iptables to effectively ward off the offensive. A little judicious, patient analysis can go a long way.

This new verdict is as "monstrous and shocking" as the $1,940,000 verdict was. After reading through many articles on the history of this case, I have to proclaim it a farce. Since when don't you need actual, admissible evidence to prosecute someone? The only evidence they had was from MediaSentry, which, at least according to an appeal that was filed, may violate wiretap laws and state private investigator laws. In fact, there was a court ruling in 2007 which proclaimed that this company was operating without a private investigator's license, rendering their evidence in that case inadmissible. If the RIAA is going to try to prosecute for this type of thing, they should at least use legal means to gather their evidence. The jury is in essence awarding the RIAA for ignoring due process and illegally obtaining information which should not have been admitted in the court case. Since they would no longer have admissible proof of her sharing the files, given that MediaSentry's evidence was illegally obtained, then the RIAA should receive no reward. I'm not saying that what she (Jammie Thomas-Rasset) did was right or wrong, that's not my call, but my observation is that the RIAA has performed its share of misconduct all throughout this trial, yet that's being ignored and they're being rewarded statutory damages for copyright violations that they can't legally prove with legally obtained evidence.