I am surprised they've gathered real client data. Standard OPSEC in those sites is to encrypt your delivery address with the public key of the vendor, so unless the vendor is hacked, your personal data should be safe from the market going down.

Considering Gmane has been for the most part a one-man effort on his free time, what Lars achieved is truly impressive.

I am a newsreader user, and I will certainly miss Gmane. If you will miss it too, show your support to Lars!

I would be great if you could try with recent VP9, which is said to be close to x265.

Dear Richard,

first and foremost thank you for contributions and activism, you have made the world a better place for the likes of us. Now for the question:

What are your views on the future of the FSF?

Today's software landscape and dangers to freedom seem quite far from the initial days of the FSF, and with that, its purpose and effectiveness seem less relevant today.

Even giants like Microsoft have seen their dominance shattered, and are facing the dilemma of a radical overhaul vs obsolescence.

Do you feel that FSF organization and goals should be radically shaken? How can we better fight for freedom in these strangely connected days?

Their demos are not very nice and mostly vaporware. For people interested in non-vaporware next generation rendering technology, I suggest you check out this video, based on Path Tracing which is a form of stocastich Ray Tracing. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F... It looks to me like this technology is getting closer and closer to the mainstream, and the results are eons from any raster-based engine.

It is likely the case that the VPN providers were involved with some form of SPAM.

Cutting off Visa/Mastercard processing to the spammers clients such as online pharmacies has been a very successful approach:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/20/2252225/a-new-approach-to-reducing-spam-go-after-credit-processors

No gain = no SPAM

A well deserved shot, I'd say. If you publish articles up to very dubious journalistic standards, what do you expect? NYT prestige is taking a good hit with this, I'd be mad at the journalist.

Right now I use Haskell, Agda, Coq, Python and C, along dozens of libraries.

Because at the time, would Java had been under a different license, it had an incredible potential and surely would have enjoyed much wider adoption.

We had to stop using Java due to its non-free license.

And what is more important, the language is fragmented. Its non-freeness motivated the development of several runtimes/stacks, which, TTOMExperience, suffer from compatibility issues.

I'm sorry to say that, but Stallman was spot on with regarding his position about Java.

I feel nervous when I develop using a non-free framework. I much favor using a fully open source stack, as a programmer it frees me about a lot of worries.

The exact wording is (translated to English) "Internet connection required for playing", so I guess it is pretty clear. I've desisted purchasing some titles because of this warning.

Well, at least in my country such games prominently display: "Internet connection required" in the minimum requirements box. Given that, returning it because it doesn't work offline is not so easy.

Well it seems some people is not familiar with TrueCrypt. You have an encrypted partition that you can show, and inside it (mixed in the free space) you have a second one. This way if the police forces you to decrypt you partition you can show the fake one, and they have no way of guessing whether you had another one, the most they can do is to destroy it.