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The EFF does: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/digital-privacy-us-border...

I don't know about FB other than the building looks big, but the Google Seattle presence is certainly not small and is growing: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/goo…

Did you read the article? They are literally responding to this study.

Amazon employees are encouraged to patent basically anything, at least in AWS. Validity of content or relevance to future business plans isn't really a factor.

I think you're misunderstanding - GNU/Linux is a multi-user OS regardless of if it is run in a kvm/xen/etc container or on bare metal. Even if only one person (or no persons) ever …

A move away from having man pages isn't necessarily a thing to be celebrated - a well-written man page is an extremely useful thing. In the ideal case, you might have a quality man…

Jawbone has a competing product, and even Samsung Galaxy S4's latest phone includes some of the functionality (ie: a pedometer) people look to Fitbit for. My anecdotal experiences …

How so?

> Please, if you find an issue like this, be nice. Tell the maintainers privately. Don't post to Reddit, HN, or a public Gist. RubyGems.org is completely volunteer run. No one gets…

Your (silly) views on the Northwest aside, he also grew up in Los Angeles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall

I'm honestly curious - what's a use case for scripting the editing of files that's not better satisfied by using a scripting language? I see the value of Arch's focus on minimalism…

Why? We have better alternatives, and clearly things can work without it.

Are you sure that's a reasonable comparison?

I'm not sure they deserve to be called 'shitheads' either - I do like the service - but I'm still disappointed in how poorly they've handled their security issues, particularly the…

Sam appears to have taken Jonathan's suggestion and has posted on the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/jonathanscard/posts/176232239115101

I can't help but wonder if all of this might have gone away had they even just appeared to take this issue seriously. They didn't even bother to reply to my request for access logs…

Are you seriously not aware that reddit falls over pretty much all the time on its own?

One might point out that "AWS" isn't down, EC2 in VA is entirely broken for a certain notable section of customers.

Two interesting links in here on the history of unix pipes that I wasn't aware of, http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/pipes/ and http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html#pipes The se…

Perhaps, but Apple has some extremely friendly replacement policies that I personally have used (busted iBook replaced with a black macbook!) and have heard of others running into.…

is this a digital version you could link to..?

It hasn't been well publicized after the original announcement (and isn't prominently placed on their plans page, either) but I've had great success with Cloudkick's free developer…

I have IRC to thank for learning a lot about basic client/server communications and networking back in my early teens. Certainly not the best protocol ever invented, but I have fon…

Absolutely! However, I would argue that if you are looking to conserve energy, moving the sshd port is not something that should be at the top of your list. :)