This illustrates the biggest problem with cryptocurrency right now. People treat it as an investment vehicle instead of spending it on goods and services like a currency.

Do you remember what your first text adventure was called and what it was about? I wrote one in high-school in GW-BASIC called "Attack of the Bagels From Outer Space" that featured a comedic alien invasion inspired by the books by Douglas Adams and Daniel M. Pinkwater.

This too was my early programming experience. Typing code from books or magazines, then debugging it when it doesn't work. Then when I got it working, modifying it and getting it to do new things. Skills, I might add, I still use today especially when downloading and modifying open source code.

That sure seems to be a lot of work when they could have just kept Stallman fired.

While playing the original Star Wars version of Doom, Dark Forces on a modern rig I realized this. What in the 90s was clearly a stormptrooper was in the second decade of the 21st century an amorphous blob that shot at you. My apprentice keeps a small CRT specifically for retrogaming.

It's not like a stoned billionaire could tank your economy with late-night shitposting.

They say human error. What else has fallen into a memory hole due to 'human error'?

I would hope that the importance of a city is determined by something other than attracting venture capital and catering to making billionaires richer.

The PDF is at http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/files/AWW%20New%20Statesman.pdf Also its in Mandarin so not sure how much more you will be able to read into it.

If you read the article, the New Statesmen themselves refer to it as "pirated" (in quotes). While one could pay money for the Magazine, those who can read Mandarin can get it for free using pirating methods where the print version will most likely not see the light of day due to state censorship. They are using this technique as its well known "the internet routes around censorship"

I've done a similar setup at my house for probably similar reasons - solves the problem of friends bringing over their nappy computers with ancient video cards and me having to upgrade that and get it all running every lan party.

I used opensolaris (and now openindiana) for the back end server. It has lots of ram and some SSDs for the l2arc cache so most things end up being cached. I use zfs snapshots for the clone systems.

This works well, and performance falls somewhere between an SSD and a Hard drive for gaming load times... with one exception.. boot times for the diskless systems is horrible. Like 2 minutes each.

It looks like you are booting your windows off VHD and putting the differential on the local SSD? Any benefits of doing that over just running everything from the backend server?

I'm thinking about getting an SSD for mine and using that for the boot partition of the systems, and then having steam on an iscsi mount off the backend server. That should give great performance, and fast boot times. But I wouldn't be able to rollback the OS to the master state like I can do now.

Yeah, so what did you do software wise?

I think it's a matter of Cogent trying to strongarm its position. It wouldn't be the first time Cogent has done this and it certainly won't be the last. Doing a Google search for "peering dispute", and not including Comcast (to exclude the Comcast vs. Level3 dispute since it's newer and ongoing), almost every old entry involves Cogent duking it out with someone. They win customers on price, but things seem to be lopsided enough that they get into a scuffle with a number of the other Tier-1 providers.

Mike from HE spells it out pretty clearly from almost 2 years ago on the NANOG list:

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg01006.html

I have no reason to think that their stance has changed any.

Are you kidding? This isn't about merit. It's a game of odds.

This big law firm smells dollars, and lots of them. If they can squeeze any kind of settlement out of Zuck, it might be worth it just for their cut of the cash. They're in it for a big win, and for no other reason. This supposed email is what they'll hinge the whole case on.

If you took time to read TFA you may have come across this little tidbit.

"One of the oldest techniques in the attacker's virtual arsenal, buffer overflows remain a problem. In December, Microsoft identified 2.6 million possible attacks that could be waged using a stack-based buffer overflow in the JRE (Java Runtime Engine)".

Well a gentleman's agreement between corporations are lubricated with money. Between a government and a company? I assure you Uncle Sam would appeal to patriotism and expect one to lay back and take it while thinking of their country with nothing more to ease the experience. Probably even given threats as to what would happen if one did not cooperate.