JeremyChase

Be assured that the Amateur Radio community is quite active; especially regarding emergency communication and disaster preparedness.

Personally, I am active with the Connecticut Amateur Radio Emergency Services(CT-ARES), which is a local organization part of the larger national ARES organization(http://www.arrl.org/ares). Both of these offer training and procedures for facilitating communication during emergencies. CT-ARES works with the state of CT, in particular the Red Cross and many local town governments.

My activities include participating in regular 'nets' (http://www.ctares.org/networks.php) which are station tests which serve to prove that my radios work in various failure scenarios. Other members are even more active and practice their communication skills by offering supplemental communication for various events like marathons, fairs, etc.

It comes down to this; you don't know something works unless you regularly use it.

de K2CHA

PS: One should also test their backups by actually restoring from them...

I wrote and deployed a Scalatra project last month and found the framework to very intuitive, powerful, and flexible.

Not to mention that the team working on the project is amazingly helpful; especially when you are new to scala :)

Ah, ok, that makes a lot more sense. I was imagining removing comments that had been downvoted; not removing the link to downvote.

I generally agree with that, but it reminds me of another problem. The Karma number is now an ever-growing and meaningless figure. I think it should be harder to improve your karma as you get higher, and it should be easier to lose it. That it actually has a meaning.

In general, text like that is never read on websites. It just adds clutter.

I'm embarrassed to say that I have accidentally upvoted many times. This always happen on a particularly egregious comment that caused you to be distracted while clicking.

We should not remove down votes outright. I've seen a comment get downvoted to -4 because people didn't like the commentary, but then shoot back up to +10 when it was shown that they were correct after all.

I feel similarly constrained when traveling and using my limited bandwidth 3G card. I did the following:

* Installed Squid locally - This has the benefit of allowing all your browsers to share one cache.

* Run AdBlock in Firefox - This causes advertisements to not download. The latest AdBlock in Chrome also stops the downloads (this wasn't always the case)

* Run Flashblock - Whitelist sites where you need to see flash.

* Rarely I'll disable images to view sites that I know are wasteful of bandwidth

* Use elinks, rather than lynx. elinks feels much more user friendly.

My current machine runs OSX and I used brew to install squid/elinks.

With the exception of Mint, the other examples were already quite successful before improving their domain name. Establishing causality in these cases is tenuous.

I highly doubt they just gave up. I am more inclined to believe that they were facing declining revenue with no money in the bank.

Or set the canonical address of your cached pages to the real page.

I think it is horrible. It shifts blame entirely onto the shop, doesn't explain how it went wrong, isn't clear about what what GroupOn is doing to help this business, and doesn't give any clue how they will avoid this situation in the future.

If I were a small business owner looking to use GroupOn I wouldn't feel comforted by this response in the least.

I'm not going to defend or support OpenSSL, but I find your tone extremely frustrating. For better or worse OpenSSL is an open library for you to use, and you should be thankful for that.

Also, insulting the people working on it is no way to improve the situation.

I tend to think that trends.google.com has the best approximation of traffic:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=getrichslowly.org&sa...

In any case, yes, this blog has a decent sized audience, and would generate a fair amount of income.

Blizzard did try to make everyone feel good about their ranking. However, the flaw in your argument is that hardly anyone ranked D- in ICCup was actually a novice at Broodwar.

Normally I would agree with you, but having owned both I disagree. I think the latest generation of Macbook Pro's are just heads and tails above the older generations.

Are these meet-ups more social for actually getting work done?

Their fact-checking needs some work. Consumerist was sold from Gawker Media in late 2008.

That article was written simply to be link-bait. She is simply saying the opposite of everyone else to get people to look. Ignore it.

The graph is designed to illustrate that heavily controlling comments still generates a lot of comments.

That said, it would be interesting to have a graph that shows the engagement rate for users; something like Comments for every 1 Million page views.

This rule is only in there so they can justify their selective enforcement. I'm sure you'll still be able to do whatever you want, but it gives them a line to point to when not approving certain apps they don't like for whatever reason.

This is hardly a play by play on how you did it; more like a gossip rag. It is entertaining to read but hardly constructive for anyone else.

PS: good luck.

Why are we so fixated with getting 'the consumer' on Linux?

The only thing I can imagine is that more people using the software might increase the financial donations to FOSS organizations. I doubt it though.

In any case, if you can, please donate some money to any open source groups that you use regularly.

1) It doesn't cost anything 2) It will run on almost any hardware

I'm sitting at my Arch laptop right now.