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The point is though,

1) He didn't commit a crime in the UK. There was no law forbidding him to do these things. Rightly so? Maybe not. Does it matter? I wouldn't say so. People should get in trouble based on laws, and laws only. It's about the principle, if people can get in trouble for not breaking any laws, but you know, he's a bad dude and all, then there is a serious problem with the legal system.

2) He did this whilst in the UK, and is being extradited to the US. I read that most of the site's visitors weren't even american, I'm not sure about the accuracy of that but I don't think it matters. You shouldn't be extradited cause you did something that's illegal in another country. Are we going to start extraditing people to iran for blasphemy as well?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3958812

how did you go from being 14 to being 16 in less than a year?

Very fishy

This is a very optimistic world view. If people tend to continuously harrass black people, even for something that is obviously in the nature of the insult, racist (e.g. calling them stupid athletes or something), would you have that same stance? Either everyone is fair game or no one is, so it's okay to keep making fun of that black guy, cause he's allowed to make fun of us as well?

The point is that it's not fair game. This is a conflict involving no women. Yet we still see one being attacked, in a way that you can't really attack a man. You can call a man unattractive, but insults along those lines don't have the same punch, because men aren't defined by the way they look, they're not being objectified. Even when you are using it negatively, it's still objectification.

And the other point is that it's always women. I don't hear very many "your daddy" jokes.

Of course it's possible to make things work, in case of a simple layout, most of the time not even hard (note that this wasn't my point at all), but if you code in a standards-compliant, normal way, without doing anything to especially accomodate IE7, there are a number of situation where things will just not work, while working in every other browser.

Is this a problem? Yeah. I would say so. People shouldn't be supporting something and thereby supporting the continued use of a product that doesn't work unless you coddle it. What if someone is a linux user? Are they supposed to buy a windows license just to coddle to users who are hurting the web with their browsing choice?

I'm by no means an expert designer, but I've been doing HTML stuff for a decade or so, from simple to complicated. I can and do get my layouts running in IE7, but that's not the point. The point is that I shouldn't, and if someone doesn't want to, they shouldn't be criticized for that. I'm pretty tired of running a VM to test my layouts as well.

Yes, it sucks that some screen reading software depends on outdated browsers, but the fault lies at the manufacturers of that software, not every single website designer in the world. IE7 doesn't work, even for simple layouts, it doesn't work. Furthermore, it's insecure. Maybe they didn't want their customers accounts being compromised because they use an insecure browser, and then have to hire more people to take care of that person who lost their account becuase they're using software a decade old. I don't go into a store expecting to be able to still buy heroin as my cough medicine of choice, either.

Why should everyone have to pay money to make stuff work in outdated software because the screen reader company refuses to pay money to make their software work with anything but outdated software? Why make compromises and waste time when implementing a new feature because it might screw up the viewing experience in your decade old browser? Why support that browser at all, giving people the impression the site is broken, and not their browser?

And it does reach beyond that, the whole "teach the controversy" is an eccentricism of an otherwise science-based curriculum.

The downside is that it's located in Europe. You can buy them here: http://reprappro.com/

They also sell a bigger model (the mendel) now.

If you'd rather buy an american one, I've made no first hand experience with them, but heard good things from several people about maxbots. They sell the mendelmax, which is bigger than both of reprappros models, and more sturdy because it uses an aluminium frame.

Again, for under 1500, you will have to assemble it yourself:

http://store.mendelmax.com/

Disclaimer: I have not done any research on anything that isn't a reprap. I prefer RepRaps because they're open source and made from standard components, which means easy to fix yourself, and even if whoever sold you the machine goes out of business, you will still be able to replace/fix any part of it. Apparently makerbot support is good, but only if you have the latest model (or so I've read, but again, I have not done proper research, so take it with a grain of salt)

E.g. my hacker news account would probably be relatively unproblematic to compromise. If that were to happen, I'd just make a new one though.

On windows or mac, getting a virus to run is generally just a matter of packaging it with some downloadable software. In linux, pretty much everything is available through package managers. You can't just throw a virus into a torrent for photoshop or whatever.

That being said, I'm by no means an expert.