I don't give a shit about movement to the right or left, not right now. I just want basic competence and support for the rule of law, because those are the things we've totally lost under the current GOP. A bit of compassion would be good, too. What I wouldn't give to have Dubya back.

That was actually my thought. It wasn't until I got to the mention of Twitter than I figured out they didn't mean X11.

I did think switching from X11 to Wayland was a funny thing to post publicly about. And a funny thing for /. to pick up.

Your Example Dell PC doesn't "need your leftover keyboard, mouse, and monitor", because Dell is happy to sell you new ones if you'd rather not supply your own.

Mac Mini is the same.

The ThinkPad line started life as business grade notebooks. They were never consumer laptops, and company IT centres were expected to service them. Even ex corporate second hand ThinkPads were both desirable and very usable. To Lenovo's credit, although they messed around with the designs, sometimes badly, they have generally preserved the quality until now. It's their school and gaming laptop offerings that are pretty shaite.

Seems like the "ceasefire" is already broken.

The correct response to reacting to a crazy asshole madman is to bomb his shithole country to the ground, pour prevenir les autres.

At least, that was the theory of Iraq 2003-2011.

Maybe they're both true. Maybe they're both false.

Or maybe don't engage with talking points dreamed up by propagandists?

The arguments are pretty broad, and it does seem the author worked back from a conclusion toward proof which in statistics doesn't work.

Being interested in decentralized currency and being a libertarian are essentially a Venn diagram that's a perfect circle. There were numerous other examples where the author would have concluded the average late 90s Slashdotter created Bitcoin because that was just your average neckbeard from the era, nothing unique to Satoshi. I was ready to just write off the whole article based on this extremely flimsy correlation.

The writing analysis comes down to a fundamental flaw. They chose a number of idiosyncrasies and then judged all candidates on those idiosyncrasies using the AI. But we don't know that those are the only idiosyncrasies of writing. Maybe only 1 author wrote both "email" and "e-mail" but maybe 1 other author only commonly misused "analogy" vs "metaphor" but since that person wasn't Back, they were ignored.

However , that all being said in defense of sloppy research. I can say with 100% confidence that a Giant Fucking Nerd that spends months, years and endless nights on a message board or mailing list don't usually just disappear. They especially don't just disappear at the exact moment that their biggest passion project suddenly finally heats up and gets popular. They got him dead to rights it's him. I need no more convinced.

If I'm a giant fucking e-currency nerd, I've created my own proof of work currency in the past (one of only a handful of people) and discussed/debated/thought about e-currencies like mine... and then suddenly someone finally actually starts on a viable implementation that's actually attracting a lot of attention... I would need welfare checks to make sure I wasn't dead because I would be following it so obsessively. Black even mentions that this happened while he was writing his dissertation with PGP... and he didn't even contribute to PGP. But we're supposed to believe that something as important (or more) that aligns with your politics and builds on your own work--going so far as to cite it as an inspiration... just isn't interesting enough for you to bother discussing?! Yeah lol no.

I think you give him too much credit. I don't think his "messaging strategy" has any design, nor is it a strategy. It's just Trump saying whatever shit bubbles to the top of what sometimes passes for a mind. And it's random and changes every four hours because he's random and changes what he believes every four hours. Or every four minutes.

I don't think he even "learned" to act like a reality show... I think this is just who he is and who he always has been, albeit with an added layer of growing dementia. He was moderately successful on reality TV not because he figured out how to be moderately successful on reality TV, but because his normal personality, style and complete lack of ethics, morality or consistency just happens to be perfect for reality TV.

Ironically this war has worked out well for Russia—it draws media attention away from Ukraine while simultaneously expending supplies of Patriot missiles and other munitions, and the spike in oil prices has basically wiped out the benefits of crushing them with sanctions for the past four years.

These are just some of the 'miracles' you can accomplish when you let Bibi Netanyahu start another war so he can keep postponing the conclusion of his corruption trial...

My Kindle 3 died recently, and I replaced it with a basic Kobo Clara. The browser is a mixed blessing (very buggy), but certain familiar mods—custom screensavers and ssh are built in. It was very weird to buy a device that wants to be hacked! It literally comes with a file called "ssh-disabled" that contains the instructions "rename this file to ssh-enabled and reboot," no jailbreak required.

Do you often use VeraCrypt on a company-managed device? I'm sure if you do then it's with the knowledge and consent of your IT department and they'll be responsible for managing any consequences of the VeraCrypt issue according to their official policy as well.

I hear he's like the cellist dude. Never gets angry when people call his mother fat.

I think after this moronic attack, they now know they don't actually need nukes, at least not until the world loses its appetite for oil, or finds other sources that make Gulf state production irrelevant.

Current base price for a Mac Mini is $599. So, there's that.

If that's a barrier to entry, it's one that is shared by 90% of the (non-laptop) PC market, and it never seemed to bother PC users. It's not like Apple won't happily sell you a keyboard, mouse, and monitor along with your Mac Mini, if that's what you want to do.