Perhaps it doesnâ(TM)t matter but that link to the TLDâ(TM)s country always made me reluctant to use bit.ly. Libya never felt like a great basket to put any eggs at all, and keep in mind when that URL shortener came around Khadaffi was still in power. Greenland should be safe by comparison, at least until the seal rise up.

I saw the post on ServerFault, and while the original scenario could have happened, the OP's follow-up blunder to reverse the input and output parameters of dd when trying to preserve the disk seemed just a wee bit too unlikely. I looked at the article to see if there was any additional data to suggest this was real, but it seems entirely based on the SF thread. Until corroborated, I'm going to call bs.

Arguably off-topic but that won't keep me from breaking out in a heartfelt "god yes!"

One doesn't have to rule out the other though. If I want to discuss recent events in the news or plans for the summer with my family, I'll e-mail them. If I want to have a go at the way the International Olympic Committee for screwing up a certain recent doping test before the ice hockey final, to get input from whoever cares to join in and perhaps even raise awareness in my wider circle of acquaintances, I'll post it on Facebook. Or Google+. I wish I could list Diaspora as an honest third possibility, but at the moment I'm afraid that would be slighlty dishonest. Anyway, social networks and e-mail don't necessarily always compete with one another. They also complete each other. It's all about context.

You don't, it will simply send you a friendly encouragement to go ahead and get on Google+ too. Think it arrived a week or three after creating the e-mail account, but it was a secondary (tertiary, etc) account and I wasn't paying that much attention.

Sorry, but no. Like the UK, Sweden - who abolished the death penalty in 1921 - will not extradite a person to a country where they risk facing capital punishment. There is no support here for the notion that Sweden (or the UK) would be conspiring to nail Assange for anything other than the alleged crime he is suspected of. Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.

Perhaps if you'd taken the time to RTFA before rushing to get first post, you'd have realized they're cremated first.

Can't really speak for whole countries or continents but I've never received one, nor heard from anyone who did, in either Sweden, Denmark or Spain despite living in all of the above. Happy for that too, sounds like blatant phone terrorism.

On the positive side, a LAN would be a fairly 'round the clock thing, wouldn't it? Much less so than a sporting event, or even a music festival. Mind you I'd imagine you still have queues - and more than the odd stinker. But then I guess some would say that's part of the atmosphere.

I don't strictly know, but to be honest it has got that much easier (and faster!) to get your fill of "all things digital" since the 90s, that if I went I'd probably not give it a second thought but rather enjoy actually being there for the occasion.

True enough. On a related note, the word "epic" in the headline really does nothing for me. Maybe I'm anal but I don't think it's appropriate language to use in news reporting. "Large" or whatever would be sufficient. Or simply omitting the adjective entirely.

Cheers for that, some well juicy stuff on there that's tempting enough for my eventual upgrade. Would it be safe to assume that companies like these, selling dedicated Linux laptops, will have picked hardware that is thoroughly well supported by open source drivers? Obviously I would expect it to work with the pre-installed system, but over the years on my Thinkpad I've gotten used to having to work out occasional kinks every so often. No biggie, but if I could believe that will happen significantly less frequently, or dare I say not at all, that would make it worth it on a whole new dimension.

I'm not a fan of Apple, but there's no denying Jobs was one of the greatest legends of the IT era. RIP Steve, far too young.

You didn't even read the summary, let alone TFA, did you?

The final page of TFA notes somewhat off hand that on OS X "[Safari] is still king". But yes, I would also be more interested in reading a similar benchmark, or be given an option of several ones, taking into account different platforms. Linux, and on the mobile front Android, would be most relevant for me personally. That said it's still a fairly interesting article, even if I contented myself with the summaries of the final two pages.