From Kosovo, arrested in Malaysia, and now jailed in the USA.

Is every justice system in the world subservient to the American system?

It seems more reasonable to return him to where he committed the crime (Kosovo?) and have him dealt with there, doesn't it?

(which is the exact same number of characters, and thus won't break a binary if it is sensible)
 
That would break any database that uses checksums to verify the data integrity.
 
Do PST files do that? I have no idea. I guess one could set up a sacrificial account/file and try it and see if it explodes or not.

Thumbnails are stored in your home directory, in a subdirectory named, appropriately enough, .thumbnails.

If you get a popup in bash (whatever that is; bash is text-only terminal so are you talking about some kind of a window made out of text characters) that asks you for root access to deal with some kind of thumbnails, there's something that either nefarious or really unusual happening and I would be giving a lot of thought to how to proceed before entering the root password at that point.

The difference is that there are currently no penalties at all for filing a false dmca takedown. Even a small penalty would provide an incentive to fix that portion of the system; ten dollars per invalid notice adds up when you send out a hundred thousand invalid notices.l

It's been done.

I discovered vimwiki a year or so back and today I really don't know how I ever managed to live without it.

I keep everything from notes on books (ahem) to system administration and programming notes to a to-do list for my electrician that I will print out and give him the next time he's here.

But what would be (legally) wrongful about imprisonment for forgetting your password? They law says you shall hand it over; you don't hand it over; you go to jail.

No wrongful conviction there. The law was clear and you violated it, either wilfully or negligently.

Whether that's a good thing or not is a separate issue.

It was actually because the folks behind the server didn't test it with the graphics enabled. The Stats Can webform could handle something like 60,000 concurrent connections when they tested it. Then after testing, they added the graphics to make it look pretty and didn't do any more testing.

Put it live, and BLAMMO.

Today is Thursday July 21.

My preferred coding style happens to be Whitesmiths. (Go ahead and laugh, but I'm used to it.)

Since not much new stuff outside of my own is written in Whitesmith's style, I use astyle to reformat the the other guy's code if I'm going to be studying it or adding to it or whatever. I actually have astyle fully integrated into both Geany and vim (the two code editors that I use) so I can reformat code instantly on demand.

I've never paid much attention to comment styles as such, but I'm sure that you can use astyle to reformat that if you want to; it has a million-and-one options available to put out all sorts of cats and make coffee.

So if Linus or anyone else doesn't like a C style, it takes almost no effort to reformat it to the style that you want. Then everyone gets to look at and use what he's comfortable with, and there's no friction at all.

There are tons of free streaming music sites that cost nothing to listen to. I don't see any reason to pay a monthly fee to anyone.

One example that few people seem to be aware of is built into the free VLC multimedia player that many people have installed anyway for other purposes. Look under Playlists - Internet- Icecast Radio Directory and you'll be amazed at what's there. International radio stations by the hundreds.

I personally use the free version of RadioTunes on my Android phone when I'm driving somewhere. They advertise their own subscription service on it ("Sign up today!") but I haven't heard any advertising for anything else there.

It's "obscure" on the desktop. Therefore you have less things like booby-trapped websites and spam to deal with.

Internet servers aren't generally used to visit other websites and read email.

I've been using Linux exclusively for closing in on 20 years now -- when I decided that DOS wasn't going to cut it in the brave new world of the Internet I tried Windows 98 for about two months. Decided that wasn't my thing and switched to Red Hat Linux and never left. (Though I use Centos rather than Red Hat's branded offering.)

I see a plus and a minus here. The plus: Linux may become better supported, easier to find in stores like Staples, and so on.

But it will also become a bigger target for the bad guys. There's a certain amount of security to be had using a more obscure operating system.

Since there are more content creators of this sort than there have ever been before, most of them must be happy with the situation.

And lots of people code for free and for fun too.

I do both, myself. I write open source code (usually BSD), closed source code on contract occasionally, and I play a fancy digital piano too. Never been paid a dime for my music but I do it for my own personal enjoyment and the challenge.

So there you go.

There may be less money in this stuff for the creators, but it's my understanding that there are more creators and more content being created than ever before.

So why does the less money part matter to the public and all of the creators who aren't expecting to buy a yacht or two with their earnings? In the "old world", most of those folks wouldn't be able to buy a yacht anyway, and their creations wouldn't be seen or heard by more than six people -- now they can perform for the world.

Some projectors don't require a lens swap. The Real D Z-screen (the most common 3D projection technology) just slides in front of the regular projector lens. It runs on a little track like an upside down curtain rod or a sliding closet door, so the switch from 2D to 3D takes literally two seconds to accomplish.