Umm if you read the post again you'll notify it's not about demo scene being dead. It's alive and well in Europe. The question is why not in the US.

You don't need huge institutes and government funding to do global interconnected network. The major government-sponsored networking initiatives have been largely wasted, whereas commercial global network development efforts is getting serious traction. Just as e.g. the Microsoft of 90's how they beat the Internet. You don't need huge institutes and government funding to put man in the Moon. The major government-sponsored space exploration initiatives have been largely wasted, whereas commercial space travel is getting serious traction. Granted, it's partially (and only partially) true for the current state of affairs in the US, but can you afford to ignore past 70 years + just about everything else done outside of the American soil? Not necessarily a recipe for success and we all know about the pitfalls of large stashes of public money earmarked for something, but just give them a chance, will you. Big things require big backing entities. Sure go ahead if you're Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, FB, Baidu or Alibaba. Sadly, here in Europe we have no companies such as the mentioned.

Handling small but valuable physical objects (coins, notes) is expensive (transport, local storage, theft). Proper secure processes related to the said assets is not the core business of any company. That's why you want to get rid of it. It's not the name of the currency that matters, it's the burden of maintaining various channels required to handle the different kinds of transactions using the same currency. While not free, the electronic channels are cheaper business expense than physical. This may not be self-evident from the US point of view considering how different things are over there.

Sure, the cache may've been abandoned by a contractor, but still that does not change the point of the original question at all if you think about it a bit.

Go read the damn blog post and then ask yourself again if your concern is still valid in this case.

So with the new owners click-whoring headlines enter Slashdot? I've been visiting the site from pretty much the beginning and haven't really noticed this journalistic cancer before. If you stop it now, no major damage happens.

Of course it's in the Internet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I guess that in order to please the shareholders and ultimately survive in the business it's absolutely essential for the traditional PC vendors such as Dell to be innovative and seek and try out any possible new revenue streams, markets, and business models due to the terrible shape of the industry... Five years ago the idea of starting to build and offer Linux based gaming boxes probably would've raisen rather unintentionally hilarious sentiments among the senior product management people of a PC vendor if someone would've dared to suggest something like that.

If you're really interested in privacy of your data stored on some cloud service, I'm sure you'll understand that the only way to make sure that your data is safe is to encrypt the data yourself before uploading.

Fish eating birds is not that unusual.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_E4BUt1z8Y for instance. Ducklings belong to pike's menu. I've witnessed a similar attack, too.

I beg to offer a different perspective. During the Cold War era the economies of the super powers we're independent of each other. Actually they were actively rivaling each other. The relationship between The US and China is quite some different. They are economically so interlinked and in bed with each other that starting a war would mean literal suicide for both nations as we know them currently. Suicide by not nuking each other (China doesn't have the capability to nuke the whole North American continent, they would've to settle "only" nuking the US allies South Korea and Japan out of this world while the US could certainly nuke China off the map) but by causing internal revolt by the people in both countries.

In the US the people would not be able to enjoy the relatively comfortable lifestyle based on consumerism that has lasted for last 70 years or so anymore as it's all based on global import of goods, China leading the pack of exporters of course. Government that deprived the people from this privilege would soon be thrown out by democratic process if the nation is strong enough internally that it can function by its most deeply rooted ideals even during really serious war time (China would be quite a different beast to beat than Saddam or a few thousand bearded men living in the barren mountains) or if not, then by force. In China internal revolt is maybe more difficult due to the authority-respecting/fearing mindset of the people established by authoritarian governmental mechanisms that have been in place in a form or another for thousands years there. But maybe crushing of the humble Chinese dream (i.e. moving from the countryside to the ever expanding megacities of the coastal area in order to seek better life), that is completely facilitated by the fact that China acts as the factory of the cheap goods for the world, something would happen. And that something would certainly not be in the interest of the current ruling dynasty of the long chain of dynasties that have been ruling China like forever.

So if the economical ties would be cut down by the war, both societies would probably either just collapse as nothing would work as it used to be, or better, leaders who would end the madness would gain the power. But no-one would know what would be the end result of this global turmoil. Global, because we're all in the same global economical boat. The world is quite a different place now than in the 70's. It's much smaller and balanced. Like it or not, The US is not the same super power it used to be when the world was very polarized as The US and USSR were trying to divide the world into two factions ruled by the said true super powers. The economical downward spiral of The US, the rise of China, India, Brazil, Indonesia and other big emerging countries, re-rise of the Russia led by the Putin's mob clan and the unification and even federalization process on-going in Europe means that we've become much more converged globally as instead of two superior powers compared to others we have a number of more equal powers with significant global influence (economically and politically, not militarily, The US is the only nation left with true military presence globally, too bad they can't afford to put it in use anymore in any significant campaigns even if needed).

Why China is arming then? To counter the strategic shift in The US policies, of course. It's no secret that The US is shifting its military focus from the Atlantic side of its home continent to the Pacific side, and at the other shore, there's China. In fact they've been very open about it. And why wouldn't they? If the global economical balance is shifting from West to East, the troops should follow of course. The flow of goods must be secured. How ever, it doesn't mean that the armadas with ever increasing weight in steel and number of guns and missiles patroling the same waters have to encounter each other in an inevitable hot war. The troops are there to secure that no power is dominating too much. It's a pissing contest, basically.

Nukes are not holding the status quo anymore, trade links and economy is.

Just a small note, no need to convert the iso image to a bootable HD image that can be dd'ed on the USB device anymore. You can skip that step as the latest Ubuntu ISO images employ a clever hack that enables the image to be bootable straight away off the USB stick as is, just dd the ISO and you're good to go...

You're now talking Samba3 here. Samba4 is a different kind of a beast. It fully implements everything (protocols, services) that when packaged together is then called AD by Microsoft. At least that's what it aiming at, some stuff is not ready and many things might be broken. So you should be able to use a Linux server running Samba4 as a drop-in replacement for a Windows server that implements AD. All those AD enabled gadgets shouldn't know a difference and just work as is.

LDAP - UMich

Here in Finland the same question has been raised in media since yesterday. The official response from Nokia is that due to Finnish insider trading laws, Elop has not been able to neither sell existing Microsoft shares nor buy new Nokia shares because his evident participation in the planning of the partnership between companies and that he'll be buying Nokia shares when it's possible for him to do that legally. I don't know if this is bullshit or not...