samworm

I was an M247 colo customer in Manchester for approx 5 years. I went to their primary DC many times, interacted with their staff. They're a hosting company. The colo racks are full of servers with lots of little labels with different company names. The managed (and hence vps) racks are numerous and anonymous, which is what you'd expect. I'm not sure what you think is going on. They're cheap. They have excess capacity. So bottom-feeding race-to-the-bottom operators like VPN providers are buying from them. It doesn't seem too surprising.

"NO ONE KNOWS" - Really? No One? In a world of terrible link-bait headlines this one manages to impress with its idiocy.

Posting on Craigslist and some random websites is not an adequate defence against Theft By Finding charges. The person that removed this clearly valuable and not marked as abandoned item needs to immediately report it to the local authorities, and make arrangements to ultimately hand it in.

"breaks into"? Errm, they have the keys to the door. They own the house. No one broke in. Hotmail users give MS permission to look in their email when they agree to the T&Cs. So using an account hosted by them to conspire against them was pretty boneheaded to say the least.

A story about a petition with 2 signatures (2!) created by someone who's main qualification doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Slow news day huh?

Most of my friends aren't tech people, and most of them own iPhones because they like the way they look and feel. One of them just swapped to a Nokia because she liked the colour. Phones are jewellery for a lot of people, they're all roughly functionally equivalent anyway. Why not smartwatches?

$27778.92 per annum before taxes and expenses. There are an awful lot of people getting paid an awful lot more to paste bad themes into their employer's Drupal config. So it goes.

It was sarcasm.

The joke was a reference back to Goodman's observartion in the original article: "the punctuation in the proposal is also consistent with how Dorian S. Nakamoto writes, with double spaces after periods and other format quirks."

Your comments about prevalence of this technique stand, of course.

Double spaces in this statement. Double spaces in the original bitcoin announcements. Ipso facto my friend.

There are very good procedural reasons for not paying out to random people that turn up at your offices. Try going to your bank's office building (not branch) and demanding cash. Proper withdrawal processes should be designed to protect both parties from fraud / risk while remaining convenient.

I'm not saying I think mtgox's actual procedures aren't batshit insane (they are), but trying (and failing) to operate outside of those procedures doesn't really prove anything.

Which is paid by everyone, even people that settle their transaction in case. I use a cash-back credit-card and effectively my fellow shoppers are subsidising my purchases, because we're all collectively paying the card fees which I'm getting a rev-share on. CCs are a deeply weird model.

New in the sense that they're newly available to the public. The agreement is dated Jan 2011.

I personally prefer systemd to upstart. I just hope that distros (in this case Debian) stick to a technical review and don't get drawn into ad hominem arguments.

For many people it seems the answer to the question posed in the post title is "I would expect it to not be designed/authored by the man behind pulseaudio".