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Re:Bring Back the Stick Shift on Monday March 25, 2019 @10:47AM (#19482856)
"Though research on the safety of manual transmissions is scant", I insist my evidence devoid but highly emotional claim must be true.

Before the flint, people were far less prone to create wildfires. Before the wheel, no one ever killed another person by shoving a bagel down their throat. Before the printing press, well..

Re:Reviewing the $250 Samsung Chromebook as a Developer on Sunday March 03, 2013 @09:24PM (#5316208)
While I haven't tried Crouton, I've been able to get quite a lot of Development work done on my Chromebook thanks to tools like Cloud9. If you opt-in to the dev channel for ChromeOS, updates start coming in much faster (and generally very stable at that).
Re:The perfect email on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @10:04PM (#4751945)
Just look at the site: davidgcohen.com. The email (and subsequent link) is a pure ruse. No one with any technical competence would email such a person.
Re:Siteless Website Possible? on Sunday October 21, 2012 @10:31PM (#4681601)
I asked the same question of TorrentFreak a few years ago:

Ernesto [email protected] 2/16/08

to Christopher Hi Christopher,

No, I never heard of something like that, but I like the idea There is http://www.coralcdn.org/, but that's not a complete solution

Cheers, Ernesto

On Feb 16, 2008 9:56 PM, Christopher Froehlich <[email protected]> wrote: Christopher Froehlich <[email protected]> wrote: Question: do you know of anyone developing distributed website platforms? For example, if I'm seeding and leeching a raw text file–as long as one other person in the world is doing the same, that file can never be erased. If someone were to share a PHP/MySQL website, with Apache perhaps integrated into the BT client–the website could never be removed.</p>

I've been looking into places like Freenet, services like OpenAFS, and the potential for extensible BT clients like uTorrent or Azureus; but nothing seems to be available. A website cluster, shared P2P would be indestructible.</p>

Have you seen anything of the like?

Sadly, I haven't seen any substantive leaps since. Even TPB's recent cloud move is entirely predicated on moving a single, virtual instance about.

Edit: Personally, I see this as the most important problem to solve for a free Internet in the next 20 years. Distributed DNS against distributed content is going to be critical.

Re:The Lance Armstrong Doping Report on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @09:56PM (#4639031)
Yep.