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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will be investigating whistleblower retaliation complaints concerning Sunnyvale Apple office building built on superfund site.

I also don’t want to take my expensive and distracting iPhone to the gym. To this day I use an iPod Shuffle. I have one playlist that I change over time in iTunes, sync up, and play on shuffle. And a new-in-box Shuffle pod in a drawer for when this one dies.

USB 1.1 moved data at 12 Mb/s and carried insufficient power to charge an iPod. Whereas FireWire shifted data at 400 Mb/s. That difference was huge.

Apple didn’t come out with USB support for the iPod until USB 2.0 became a common feature on PCs, with it’s theoretical speed of 480 Mb/s (in my experience of real-world use it was actually still slower than FireWire 400) and sufficient power.

Legacy admissions: also known as affirmative action for rich white people.

Those two statements are only in contradiction if you believe there are only two choices for how to organize a society: A Red one and a White one — and both built on hierarchical power. Orwell clearly didn't believe that. As he wrote:

"Had I gone to Spain with no political affiliation at all I should probably have joined the International Column and should no doubt by this time have had a bullet in the back for being "politically unreliable", or at least have been in jail. If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists."

– George Orwell, "Letter to Jack Common [October? 1937]", in The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 1: An Age Like This, 1920-1940, eds. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (New York: Harcournt Brace Jovanovich, 1968), 289.

I have several servers running it, and I’ve been pretty pleased with it. If you want to try it out you can get an OpenBSD VM at Vultr or OpenBSD.amsterdam for about $6/month.

I also highly recommend Michael W Lucas’s book Relayd & Httpd Mastery.

The majority of bike thieves in Portland are not going to buy a $15-$20 RF detector because that would have to come out of their meth budget. They are not a tech-savvy lot.

In his book Mutual Aid a Factor in Evolution, the 19th century naturalist Peter Kropotkin remarks on the flocks of mixed species of birds he encountered in Siberia. He documented clear cases of inter-species coöperation, like warning of and mobbing predators.

It was one of the experiences that led him to his hypothesis that coöperation was a survival trait that would be preserved and spread by natural selection.

In my opinion, Michael W Lucas is one of the best tech writers working today. I have made great use of his books Absolute OpenBSD, SSH Mastery, and Httpd & Relayd Mastery.

He also wrote Absolute FreeBSD and PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid, among many others.

This is just incorrect. Nowhere in the article does the author, Jim Salter, generalize about all open source software. When someone in the comments did make that leap, Salter pointed out that if these had been closed-source projects the bad code would have been put into production and no one would have known better.