+1 Legendary (never have mod points when I need them)

This is funny because Santrex itself sells bittorent hosting services called "seedboxes". What purpose do they think seedboxes serve other than sharing copyrighted material? I know, there are many legitimate uses for bittorrent, but I have a feeling that the kind of people in the market for anonymous bittorrent seedboxes are not the kind of people who are seeding legitimate torrents.

The Chinese have a saying: "Man who says it cannot be done should get out of the way of man who is doing it."

For those complaining about the technical aspects of this proposal, obviously anyone who views the image before the expiration date can save it forever. The point is that after the expiration date, no new people can download the image if they haven't already. Think about your potential employer downloading drunken pictures of your from a frat party 10 years ago. This scheme would prevent that.

Now the fact that this requires a 3rd party plugin to work is problematic. It creates a bottleneck, an extra point of failure, and it suffers from the chicken and egg problem -- nobody will want to post x-pire pictures if their friends can't view them without a plugin, and nobody will install the plugin because they don't need it to see the other 99% of pictures people post.

The BKL was a hack added in Linux 2.0 to support multiprocessor machines. It was ugly but expedient (like most engineering solutions). Over time, multiprocessor support in the kernel has gotten much better, and the BKL has become less important, up until now when it's so unimportant it can be removed entirely.

Nobody, especially not desktop users, will notice any change from its removal.

For those that aren't aware, the BKL (big kernel lock) hasn't caused any issues except purist angst for a very long time now. All of the performance critical kernel code was fixed to use fine grained locking years ago. This change is just to satisfy the people who are offended by the architectural ugliness of the BKL. In terms of performance and everything else that matters, the removal of the BKL has absolutely no impact.

Citation needed

My kingdom for a mod point! Mod parent up please.

For Iran to do what you propose would require that they had a large workforce of highly skilled IT people who are both willing to work for the Iranian government and considered trustworthy by the Iranian government. Iran is not exactly known for its leading edge science and technology. The article itself states that IT in Iran is abyssmal. They may be well advised to try to do as you say, but they probably can't.

It's not totally the fault of the editors. It's also the fault of the readers who come back to Slashdot expecting the editors to start reading articles when they have clearly demonstrated that they do not plan to.

15 days after initial telecast doesn't seem that "quickly" to me when they're competing against the Scene which releases new episodes within a few hours of initial telecast -- sometimes even 15 minutes after. If they're asking for money they better think about same day releases.

I served on a jury in Wake County (NC) and my experience was the opposite. To a person all 14 of us were college educated and about half the jurors had higher than college level education. The only people who were excused were people with ties to law enforcement and people who had been on the receiving end of law enforcement in the past.

I use TED. It's right around your price range. It monitors whole-house power usage in real time and has a USB-Serial interface which you can easily suck data out of with Python script. I personally do all the data logging on a Linux box and export it through a web interface.

Don't weather balloons already meet this criteria? They can reach 60000 ft and stay there for extended periods (not sure about 5 years). How much do you want to bet that Boeing is just going to build a $89 million balloon with a solar panel on it?