People mirror things off the Archive all the time. This show is explicitly open-licensed.

It seems right that since I announced the BBS Documentary production on Slashdot, I should also take the time to give testimony to one of its primary interviewees that took it from side fun project to meaningful historical work.

My goal had been to do a documentary on the BBS Experience, working from interviews with flexible friends and nearby folks, and then work up to the "Big Ones", the names who had been in my teenage mind when I ran a BBS, like Ward Christensen, Chuck Forsberg, Randy Suess, and others. But then I had someone from Chicago checking in to make sure I wasn't going to skip over the important parts the midwest had told in the story. So it was that a month into production, barely nailing down how I would fly post 9/11 with a studio worth of equipment, that I found myself at CACHE (Chicago Area Computer Hobbyist Exchange) and meeting Ward himself.

They say "Never meet your heroes." I think it's more accurate to say "Have the best heroes" or "Be the kind of person a hero would want to meet." Ward was warm, friendly, humble, and very, VERY accomodating to a first-time filmmaker. I appreciated, fundamentally, the boost that he gave me and my work, knowing I was sitting on hours of footage from The Guy.

There were many other The Guy and The Lady and The Groups for BBS: The Documentary, but Ward's humble-ness about his creation and what it did to the world was what made sure I never overhyped or added layers of drama on the work. Ward was amazing and I'll miss him.

So, if Amazon isn't doing anything illegal by paying low/no taxes, are they not then also "smart"? Wouldn't they be "dumb" to pay taxes that aren't required of them?

That 1 BTC that costs $5,000 to mine is worth $13,000 USD at today's exchange rate. Good luck convincing anyone that that's a stupid investment, especially if they've already dumped the capital into mining gear.

Maybe a bit dishonest on the first one, but the second one seems like OP nailed the gist of the law. It's a little sketchy on the details, as BMI isn't measured in percentage, so a BMI of 18 isn't the same as 18% body fat, but the source link in OPs supplied article states BMI of 18, so we'll go with that. My gf, who is 5'8" and weighs 110 lbs has a BMI of 17ish, and she doesn't have an eating disorder, she's just naturally on the thin side and is far from looking anorexic or sickly. BMI is pretty much universally shunned as a horrible measurement of health (many athletes will find their BMI claiming that they're overweight as muscle weighs heavier than fat). So issues with this law (as it's explained in the links) would be 1) some healthy people will be denied employment in France based on a terrible measure of health, and 2) where is the max BMI range? Being overweight is *at least* as unhealthy as being underweight, so why aren't we worried about foisting that imagery unto impressionable children as well?

As to the first law, while it doesn't make it "illegal for a man to talk to women", it does seem to be saying that the law only applies to men catcalling women. What about men catcalling other men? What about women as the purveyors of harassment? This seems like a law designed for being targeted at people whom some people might want to slander and harass, rather than a law designed to solve actual problems in a fair way.

many men, both straight and gay, as well as many other individuals across the gender spectrum, like the colour pink; for her to suggest this is aimed at women is sexist and insensitive.

All he can see is that yesterday we had access a SIGINT resource, which stopped a non-zero number of plots

citation needed

If a drone can fly in wirecutters they can fly in a gun, a knife, who knows what else.

If a drone can fly in any of those things, there's a real good chance that a human on the outside of the fence could simply throw those things over said fence. Or cut through the fence from the outside. This really isn't a drone problem, it's a lack of guards who care, or perhaps a lack of security cameras and staff to monitor them.

Right? It's literally "a method of misleading people on our network by outright blocking their connections or silently falsifying data on the wire". It's a patent on a MITM attack.

Surely bringing up events from forty-five years ago will counter his point about being stuck in the past.

jesus, i always just thought that was a dark line; now you're telling me it's the scar from that time when my vagina healed?

If you actually read, and try to track back to the source material, the summary is highly inaccurate.

There's been a lot of this going around in Slashdot lately and, frankly, it's starting to get annoying.

Is it the inaccurate summaries you're referring to, or the tracking back to the source material? Because neither of those things are recent to /., and I'm sure some of the site's regulars would consider both annoying...

For me, a lot of it comes down to time. If I decide I want to watch a movie, I don't really want to plan it out as an activity. I want to sit on my couch in something comfortable with a snack and take it in. What I don't want to do is: figure out when / where there is a showing that fits into my schedule; clothe myself appropriately for going out in public; transport myself to that location / find somewhere to park; stand in a line to be herded into a theatre; watch a half-hour worth of commercials (or try to show up after all the ads but risk not getting a good seat). As a side note, theatres should consider doing away with the front three or four rows: it's impossible to see the whole screen, it's uncomfortable to crane your neck in a manner that lets you even try to take in the whole thing, and forget about reading subtitles from that range. They'll happily take the same money from you as they would for any other ticked to sell you this horribly sub-standard "experience".

NOBODY *plans* to upgrade to Windows 10. It just, sort of, *happens*.

Maybe we can throw on a pair of balanced XLRs for my monitors, too...