Wait what, the russian trolls are stil active on slashdot? Well, perhaps slashdot is not dead after all :)

So. What if you choose a passphrase that actually *is* testimonial in nature?

"Repeated studies have shown that in the Netherlands"
[citation needed]

Well, professor Jim Woodward has been working on his Mach/Lorentz thruster for a while now and has a working setup in the lab, and multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals. With his theory it is in fact possible to build startrek-style impuls engines, warpdrives and wormholes. And it all fits in our existing theoretical knowledge. He has a book out, published by Springer-Verlag (they don't publish nonsense):

http://www.springer.com/engineering/mechanical+engineering/book/978-1-4614-5622-3

Making Starships and Stargates
The Science of Interstellar Transport and Absurdly Benign Wormholes

Series: Springer Praxis Books Subseries: Space Exploration

Woodward, James F.

2013, XXVI, 279 p. 92 illus., 85 illus. in color.

That is correct. That is why the Google DNS servers add your IP subnet (roughly) to the request they send to the authoritative DNS servers. See for example Which CDNs support edns-client-subnet? on CDN Planet for more information.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/12/senior-fusion-researchers-give-major.html In a major endorsement of the fusion energy research and development program of start-up Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP), a committee of senior fusion researchers, led by a former head of the US fusion program, has concluded that the innovative effort deserves “a much higher level of investment based on their considerable progress to date.” The report concludes that “In the committee’s view [LPP’s] approach to fusion power is worthy of a considerable expansion of effort.”

Why isn't Paul Polman, CEO of Unox not on the list?

It's not that difficult. If they're driving and flashing their lights at you it means "I'm coming through". If they stop and flash it means "come on, go ahead". At least in .nl. YMMV.

Really? Because just about everywhere that I can cross the dutch -> german border there is no speedlimit. That's all the same autobahn you say? Wow, so it must be 300 kilometers wide .. that's 60.000 lanes .. amazing German engineering.

Nope. There is a requirement to log MAIL FROM / RCPT TO fields and keep those around for the "data-retention" time (differs between countries, 6 months to 2 years). It basically comes down to "set the rotate time for sendmail logs to 6 months". There is no information automatically sent to law enforcement. What's more, a lot of the EU countries have not implemented this directive in national law yet (unfortunately my country has).

Mike.

You can do the same with Android.

- I use my ISP's IMAP and SMTP servers
- I run my own calendar (caldav) and contacts (carddav) server, Davical right now.

You just need carddav-sync and caldav-sync for Android from http://dmfs.org/

Mike.

Unless I am mistaken, Linux has a less stable (as in it change more, not crashes) API than FreeBSD. Having to adapt to this, multiple times, could ad to kludgy patch jobs in applications, making them run less and less efficiently

The internal linux kernel API is not set in stone, but the ABI for applications that run on the kernel is. You can start applications from 1998 on a 3.0 linux kernel from this year, and they will run.

Mike.

Irony .. isn't that like goldy and bronzy only made out of iron ?

Mike.

Woah that takes me back .. I think I still have that on single somewhere in the attic..

You forgot the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qo1__kbwrA

(No this is not a rick-roll. It's worse. )

Mike.