Gawker article misses the point: it's not journalism that is is crisis, it's the business models of media companies that are. To own a printing press, it used to be a license to print money. Some newspapers in 1990's had 40% ebit. Nowadays we have more quality and niche content than ever before. Blogs, social media and startups have forced journalists out from their old role as gatekeepers of news. Interactive journalism, web video, data journalism and other new forms of storytelling have created a golden age of innovation to people who are not thinking print-first or broadcast-only. As a professional journalist in major media outlet, I welcome this change. I just hope that we are able innovate viable business models to sustain what we are doing.

What's wrong with Lightworks? For audio, there's Bitwig Studio (among others) for your DAW needs and Audacity for sound editing. Vegas and Sound Forge were the crème de la crème like 15–20 years ago.

I updated a vanilla laptop running win 7, had problems with AMD drivers and ended up in continuous BSOD-reboot -loop. Next thing is to try clear install from the ISO version, but MS servers seem quite slow to download anything. I'd advice against updating in near future.

I recommend Trac also. Have used it for multiple projects for years. Haven't used it with mobile devices though, so can't comment on that. Probably works just fine.

Will Google forget european results for US customers as well? If I use Tor from EU with exit node in US, and do a Google.com search, will they censor the results?

This being modded +5 Insightful? You just single-handedly killed my belief in the Slashdot comment rating system. You should stop and think what you mean by "self-improvement". Also, this discourse of minorities free-riding on public services... It's pretty much universal, and it's pretty much universally false. Yes, really!

Better to have firewall of EU than global jail by US.

If you are fine with the shared drives being located on Linux machines, I would go for GlusterFS. The shares can be seen from Windows machines too (via CIFS).

http://gluster.org/community/d...

So there is an unofficial network of european police depts called ENLETS (European Network of Law Enforcement Technology Services). They have a wish that something like this could be put into cars. To post this into Slashdot as real news story means, that the editors have no understanding of how the EU works. It's a strong democracy with powerful member states. To pass this proposal is as probable as to ban hand guna in Texas. Someone might plan it, but it does not mean they'll succeed.

But what's the origin of that word? One of the Mayan languages?

The organizers have obviously never heard of wifi-equipped SD cards. Or smartwatches taking photos. Or... the list goes on. It's pathetic and laughable.

Please stop propagating this myth that slash and burn agriculture equals habitat destruction. In Southeast Asian context, it's the big palm oil and logging companies that destroy the forest. Slash and burn agriculture is a sustainable agricultural technique. Only when there is not enough forest to allow for a long fallow period (because of aforementioned companies, or population growth, or government intervention etc.), the system collapses. But there is a built-in mechanism to prevent destruction of the forest permanently. Generally, the shorter the fallow period, the less successful the cultivation is going to be (less nutrients, more weed growth because of imperfect burn), which makes people avoid making swiddens in forests that haven't rested properly.

I think this is a false comparison. What do you think happens to the cockroach after the experiment? It is set out to freedom?

The real comparison is killing something living vs. torturing something living and then killing it.

Additionally, I think it's arrogant to think that humans have rights to torture animals (needlessly). Of course, it's a whole different debate whether we have the right to torture animals to save humans (drug testing etc.).

One thing's for sure, if the bitcoins are lost. We'll be getting a whole new genre of Nigerian scam letters.