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It doesn't mess your hair up - a key issue for women riding fairly upright bicycles (where the risk of head injury during a crash is negligible anyway).

I want more people on bikes on the road - makes it safer for me. If they want to ride without helmets, so be it.

(I ride, I wear a helmet, but I'm a dude in lycra, I have no shame)

I would expect that it would check the backup on a regular basis and either repair the issue or warn me that I needed to do something drastic.

Just failing to restore is unacceptable.

It sure looks like IE9 is optimising for some benchmarks.

A few years ago...

RSA was hacked and the attackers could then get access to US military contractor internal data.

...

LinkedIn was hacked and the attackers could then get access to DropBox internal data.

Would the military contractors claim that they weren't hacked?

If you believe what you read, it takes ~10000 hours to master an activity.

Most people give up long before then.

So people almost never achieve their real potential which is really what Phelps and the blog are really about.

That Phelps used "some" hyperbole is not surprising - he didn't spend that 10000 hours honing his public speaking.

Days later and what do we have from them? One solitary email and a few half-assed status page updates.

You finance and billing guys will never understand.

These are rockstars.

They work for facebook.

They would never ever type UPDATE users SET email = username || '@facebook.com'; WHERE username == 'john.smith';

You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.

We just had 100s of EC2 instances generate high (alleged) load. Instances had load averages of 90+ but were responsive.

Running on a 3.2 kernel

Rebooted them all and they're fine.

It's promo material for Geeklist it seems.

Tried signing in with twitter but they want too many privileges:

This application will be able to: Read Tweets from your timeline. See who you follow, and follow new people. Update your profile. Post Tweets for you.

That's just the general design philosophy of the MP components of the LAMP stack.

Do the stupidest thing that could possibly work; and it probably will. For now.

I don't "really mind" if it breaks totally (i.e. throws an appropriate exception or doesn't parse the syntax check).

I find it much more irritating when the behaviour subtly changes and introduces edge cases that may not be picked up in testing / normal usage.

I have an entry level Linode with backup service.

3 weeks ago, backups stopped for no obvious reason, I noticed after a few days and raised a ticket.

It was escalated to the "backup team"; who've proceeded to achieve nothing in almost 2 weeks towards fixing my backup issue. "They're working on it" does not inspire me with any hope.

So now I can't trust the backups, the support team, or really any part of the platform to perform as advertised or be fixed in a reasonable timeframe if it fails.

My single data-point.

Does anyone have an exploit / test for this?

(I don't necessarily want an exploit; I just want to know if it's feasible in our various hosted and non-hosted environments)

You've been hellbanned again...

This is actually 3 phase spam.

Phase 3 is at the top of the page you are looking at (i.e. this one)

Then once they mine your inbox / bank statements they can get referral bonuses for legitimately churning you to alternate energy / insurance / telco subscriptions etc.

People will hand over all kinds of data to save money.

(Not being snarky, I suspect there is a bigger business model for this)

I much prefer gender neutral language to using "she" or "he".

Unless of course we are talking about a specific example like "John foolishly unscrewed the cap on his radiator while the engine was running".

In which case I would generally try and mix the gender across examples.

"Jane stabbed herself in the eye with a pencil when she was rear-ended by John on the way to the hospital"

One thing I've never understood is the point behind denying root login if you're enforcing key-based auth

The administrator then has to do one of a) remember/manage a root password for su b) remember/manage a user password for sudo c) use passwordless sudo

What is the advantage?

Or is it just a hang-over from the telnet days where capturing the connection header was simple and thus preventing root login stopped the capturer from getting the root password at the start of the session?

If my neighbours hornets nest had killer hornets that were biting all the children in the neighbourhood and the police / council refused to do anything; then it'd be a damned shame if someone neatly removed the hornets nest.

Of course that wouldn't make it any more legal; but your defence would have a field day with the prosecution I'd imagine.

IANAL but I've watched the first double episode of The Firm, and I reckon I've got a pretty good grasp on how the law works now!

I for one don't like this, and hope that there is an opt-out feature.

Just because my information is somewhat public in several places (not Facebook) does not mean I want it aggregated and data mined for commercial and advertising purposes.

Some people I have spoken to didn't realise you could switch to compact mode.

I for one would prefer they retired the old UI and made the new UI more awesome.

Are these credentials all that are needed to impersonate your authenticator?

This seems "bad" - as I'd personally expect there to be no "magic" data migration path between different apps.

There should be a confirmation step from the security manager at least.

I suspect the fees aren't always about cost, but rather a subtle encouragement to customers to do certain activities.

I had a bike bag weighing 27kg and a second piece weighing 15kg. Well under the 46kg I could take on for no charge.

The airline (Qantas) wanted to charge me an overweight charge for the bike bag - but were happy for me to park in front of the counter for 5 minutes while I moved heavy items between bags to balance them out.

I didn't really care; it was a financial motivation to keep my weights at an easier to manage level.

I imagine that overweight bags require different workers, who might be on a different pay scale - and so there is a cost to moving 27+15kg vs 22kg+20kg.

You pay maintenance (presumably); so...

Get onto Atlassian and get them to help you (at least with your slowness and crash issues) - their support is good once you get them engaged.

I've had all the problems you describe (large instance - 100k issues, internet facing) - sometimes it's as simple as a resetting a bad VTL template. They will get to the bottom of it.

I didn't realise they had any reputation left to be damaged.

I believe this installer is missing some headers (included in the OSX GCC) which will break the install of various Ruby libraries.

If that's what you're into.

Struggle no more!

How can anyone forget his seminal work - Sex Tips for Geeks

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/sextips/

Heresy! PostgreSQL is not WebScale - the bear told me so.

And who's to say that negative comment isn't the work of an astro-turfing lobbyist.

They've certainly got means, motivation and opportunity.