Comment Quick! (Score 5, Funny) 398
I've got to re-tweet this!!
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Comment Re:if they do that (Score 0) 476
And no MIPSterious accident happens, you know...
Technocrat.net Shut Down 326
twitter writes "Bruce Perens has pulled the plug on Technocrat.net. 'The technocrat.net public discussion site is shut down. This has happened because the site never achieved the ability to financially sustain its editorial staff and system expenses with its revenues. When it became evident that Technocrat was un-viable as a business, I found that I did not wish to keep supporting the site as a hobby. Certain elements of the community that developed here, unfortunately, creep me out. At the end I faced the decision of asking for donations to keep the site running, or letting it die, and it became clear to me that I'd feel better if it would just die. I am very busy building a new software business, with some great new (and yet unannounced) Open Source software in development. I must focus on that for now. Best holiday wishes to you all.'"
Comment Re:well (Score 1, Informative) 521
It wasn't pirated. The following link (in Chinese), which is traced from this other link (which comes from the Gizmodo article) says they were 120 HES Axon Media Servers running XPe (Windows XP Embedded).
Regardless, I can see some heads rolling as result from this failure.
