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Your root password is "wumpus1". Enjoy! :-)

$ openssl passwd -salt z1 -crypt wumpus1

z1sH85tcwYkQg

Pardon my white male patriarchal cishet privilege here, but... what's so "racist" about this email? If anything his criticism is on white fans for being afraid of being in a majority-black crowd. It all appears to me to be as neutral of an observation as one could have in an inherently volatile subject.

So what you're saying is that instead of selling a janky house for $2M, what's really being sold here is a plot of land for $2M, with a fire-damaged house on it that you will have to pay even more money to renovate or raze and rebuild?

Must be one heck of a school district. :)

I will never understand what's with all the "Saga" either.

DIY is still a pretty big pain, I've tried several different kinds from those pages. I have to give Mathmos and/or Lava-Lite credit, they /do/ have the chemistry down pretty well. The commercial ones are far more reliable than homebrew.

I've had a rough design for something like this in my notes for a while now, under the heading "what do to when you can't buy incandescent bulbs anymore?" It's a serious concern for me as my collection of 30 or so Lava Lamps (from the 70s through modern ones) are far less interesting when they're cold.

Obligatory link to epic Schrödinger's Cat poem from The Straight Dope, for those who haven't seen it before.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/113/the-story-of-sc...

Welcome to the society of the overly entitled. If something in the world is not exactly to your specific liking, you're allowed and even encouraged to go completely over the top in response in order to demonstrate your disagreement. Death threats are just an opening salvo, that's kid stuff compared to what you should do if you're REALLY peeved about something.

It's at least okayer than FF putting sponsored ads on a blank page. :)

Running that access point at home, or somewhere else, allows you to StreetPass with people who pass Nintendo Zones all over the place. If you live in a very rural area (like I do) or you don't go to many places where you can get other local StreetPass hits, it makes the StreetPass games actually playable.

I'm inclined to do the opposite of whatever Slate tells me I ought to do.

You loaded a first-release beta build of iOS, weren't impressed with the volume of changes to the OS, even though most of the "new" features were disabled in the first releases, then, disillusioned, abandoned the platform for an Android device.

Fickle much? I should value your opinion about technology, because...?

Actually, I don't consider myself agnostic at all. I firmly believe in the existence of some incarnation of a deity, be it a God, Superior Intellect, Grand Architect, or whatever else you want to call Him/Her/It/Them. Just where that entity fits in my own universe view is a little different than most, which is non-standard enough to weird out my religious friends and too-religious-still to placate my atheist friends. :)

I know a lot of very religious people. I also know a lot of atheists. My personal religious beliefs put me squarely in neither camp - I'm not secular enough for the atheists, and I'm not religious enough for evangelicals.

I can say without question that overly evangelical religious people leave me alone about my non-religiousness FAR more than atheists leave me alone about my non-atheistness. Which, for the latter, is "almost never".

If you're an atheist, I don't care. Nor do I care if you're strictly religious. But it seems to me that atheists try so very hard to prove their superiority by nature of being atheist that they sound like they're more blindly following dogma than the most evangelical people out there.

That was kind of the point! A Unix for the folks who didn't want to (or couldn't afford) licensing fees for AT&T.

I remember test driving an Oldsmobile in the late 80s that had a HUD. The display was outside of the driver's immediate center of vision so it didn't obstruct the roadway, but it was visible without having to look away from the road to see speed, fuel, and some other data. It used a blue vacuum fluorescent display, hot stuff at the time. IIRC though the rest of the car was an absolute piece of trash.

Edit: Ha, my memory isn't terrible: 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Indy Pace Car

Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you in the least. Lawyering up may be the right thing to do, but going after a developer cloning apps for the in-app ad revenue isn't usually worth the effort. The original post had the distinct smell of chum around the edges, and thats what generated the harshess of my response, not your comment!

The universal disdain for child pornography allows society and law enforcement to push the boundaries of law enforcement in a way that will be universally agreed with.

What worries me is that once these boundaries are crossed for one very important reason, the precedent can become justification for crossing them for other less universally-acknowledged reasons.

If Google knows the content of this guy's email account based on hashes of attachments, that means they have hashes for ALL of the images in his account, and only flagged the ones that were on the list for child porn content. But I'm pretty sure the ability to identify all other content in his account by hash is laughably easy. In order to know what content isn't kosher, you have to be able to tell what content IS.

Say someone has pirated digital content in their account - an archived movie or mp3 or something. What would stop Google from coughing up the email addresses of everyone that had that particular attachment in their account in response to some zillion-dollar lawsuit by the entertainment industry?

And if your immediate response would be "but they wouldn't do that", why would you think not? Short of the morals or ethics of the human beings at the switch, what would stop them? The technology is there, and obviously working, why not use it to further advantage?

Apple is "involved" in the same way that the city government is "involved" when someone steals your car and drives off down the street with it.

I sympathize with your son's situation, but starting out with "Apple involved." just makes me think your initial interest is seeing how much you could sue Apple for because some developer released a clone of your son's game. App cloning happens all the time. It sucks, but it's no more Apple's responsibility than it is that the city didn't stop the car thief from driving off with your car.

The developer is apparently UK based, so if there's any way you think they could have seen your son's game and cloned it in a month, you're free to complain to Apple and see if they'll pull the game, but beyond that I don't think they have any responsibility to help you at all.

I'm sorry for your son's rapid experience to learn that there are people out there who clone apps to make money off of someone's work. He should go have lunch with Dong Nguyen and Gabrielle Cirulli, they'll have something to chat about.

BTW, if you're on the "lawyer up" warpath, don't forget Google too for another fat purse to poke at. No Brakes is in the Play store as well.

Busy raising money for the inevitable lawsuits, I guess.

I did NOT have this problem until I updated to 10.9.4, now I do have this problem, you're not alone. 11" Air, mid-2014 (about a month old)

VMWare has an early access Fusion update that works, you can download it from their support site. Works okay for me so far.

Darn!

That's a service of one of the big credit reporting companies - Experian I think, or maybe Equifax. Heck, maybe both. UPS doesn't know this data about you, the verification service pulls it from your credit file to determine if you are who you way you are, since the data is more historical (and more personal) than common password identification type questions.

What are you asking about? The inability to traceroute to it isn't all that surprising to me. Traceroute packets are dropped in a lot of places.

In homage to the "keep reddit on reddit" comment posted earlier today, I feel the need to reiterate this here now:

NYPA.

...really?

If your printer was capable of handling the sheet, you could in theory print one card (in position 0), and then at some future point flip the stack of card sheets over and print a new one in the opposite corner (just rotate the sheet so "position 0" is a card and the cutout is position "max"). Cheap. :)

petitions.whitehouse.gov is one of the worst offenders of feel-good, "transparency bro", pretend to listen to the voice of the people, do nothing, words speak louder than actions fluff politics the government has ever foisted off on the public. It should not only be shut down but burned to the ground and the people who though it was a good idea should feel bad about it.

...why no, the lack of caffiene in my day hasn't affected my usual cheerful mental attitude today. Why do you ask?

I may be the exception to the rule but I think most people look significantly LESS hot in sunglasses. And the larger the sunglasses the larger degree of less-hotness. I never understood it, myself.