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I'd like to take the opportunity to suggest a variation of this for business/startup related Q&A. The few existing sites I know of, are full of spam/misinformation/product promotion, so there seems to be a clear market for ex-geeks/new business owners to freely exchange information.

I don't get this. I live in London, on the edge of zone 1-2; renting a room. Expenses: 510 pounds / month for rent including utilities; 300 pound for food (granted, I haven't really upgraded my lifestyle ever since college -I simply don't feel the need.).

So this comes to 800 pounds + occasional funtime = 1K -still below what they've calculated for most places. Are they really that bad at negotiation?

One method to fight "the fastest gun" problem, is to cherrypick good questions, and actually write well-written, detailed essays, along with samples. Although more time consuming, these answers usually float to the top in rather short time frames -adding more quality.

khm ad muncher khm. Basic procedures: download, install, open configuration, options -> filter targets -> add chrome, now you have an adless lightspeed web. Happy surfing!

Serial Experiment Lain. You probably haven't heard of it, and you had to be introduced first to the anime subculture, then be not frightened away by the number of bad releases in that genre, then adjust to the japan mentality, take into consideration the fact, that it was basically pre-matrix (1998), watch the movie in a one night marathon, then start reading the mentioned, and omitted literature. However, the sheer amount of mindfuck going on in each, and every episode vastly outnumbers every single movie mentioned above, and this makes it very worthwhile.

"What business model, again?"

#1: Google Adwords -see things from the other side of the equalation.

So, basically you go, sign up (best spent 15 bucks, ever), start a new compaign, and type in a web site with similar content to the one you're about to build; select all collected keywords, which are related to your venture, and behold the traffic estimator. Two points of data are of interest for you here: estimated avg CPC, and estimated clicks/ day; the first one will tell you how much you would earn _relatively_ to other keywords (remember, G takes a cut); the other will tell you how much of a niche you are.

#2: fail fast: you actually go out, and build a stub of your grand vision, stick up the ad network of your choice (it's always best to shop around), and measure it. You'll get much better data, than any other method -both from ad networks, and as market research (whether people would actually use your stuff) Good luck.

The key question here is: why don't they release the code under open source, or public domain, and let the internet take care of itself?

The only threat from this situation would be the botnet evolving in unforeseen ways, thus rendering the code useless. However, the vulnerability described in the article seems not a coded, but rather a conceptual one: even if storm starts to use a new protocol, they -or somebody else using the insights in the source- could repeat the disassembly process, and re-run the cleaning method.

highly wild idea: If specific vibration causes specific disk latency, given a high precision intstrument, what are the chances of being able to eavesdrop sysadmins on a co-loc site? ;)