you can set things up much, much easier, fastmail calls it subdomain aliasing or something like that.

Basically, it allows you to create email aliases without having to whitelist.

Setup yourname@yourdomain.com and reject everything else arriving there.

Accept anything at @i.yourdomain.com

I have an inbox, everything yourname@yourdomain.com arrives there.

Then I have an "other" mailbox where all the @i.yourdomain.com emails arrive.

If there is a really annoying website that doesn't respect my wishes I create a filter for the offending email to ban any mail to my spam folder.

voting should never be computerized. the risk for exploits to go unnoticed is too high. paper and pen seems to me the only safe implementation.

or, you know, you could use what has been around for 10 years instead of reinventing the wheel http://www.passwordmaker.org/PasswordMaker:About

an increasing number of posts leading to a relationship and then a drop in messages as the couple is spending time together - OMG GENIUS I WOULD HAVE NEVER GUESSED!!!!

Hindsight bias devalues science: http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/

or, you could just use https://airvpn.org/

Though they do NOT allow multiple simultaneous connections, and are not as inexpensive.

I hear airvpn is awesome. They have many different options to encrypt your connections.

Yeah, that was helpful.

a different "view" would be the 80/20 rule: it takes 80% effort to make the last 20% right.

I got the x220 less than a year ago because of all the recommendations out there and I regret it. Should have gotten a Macbook. The trackpad is horrible, the usb connections get cut off after putting the laptop to sleep, which means any mounted external drives are disconnected hard after resuming. Oh and the microphone doesn't work.

so are you saying that running Oracle in a VM will kill its performance? By what factor would you expect?

I dont get it

Satoshi, the "Creator" of BitCoin went 'dark' and nobody knows who or where he is. So any "hint" of his existence is big news in the Bitcoin forums and elsewhere. While its an imperfect analogy it is sort of like having an image of the Virgin Mary appear on the toasted side of a bagel.

Except way less likely.

Same. Can someone explain the context/significance of this?

GREAT idea! I ordered 5 of these with my credit card...

That made me laugh, I didn't even think of the fact that you needed to use a credit card. I suppose you could get a prepaid card.

We're currently adding in BitCoin / PayPal support right now -- nothing is perfect, but this is sort of a MVP.

After payment is accepted, we wipe our database columns with any user information as well, basically making it as hard as possible to identify users.

We laugh, but from The Wall Street Journal today (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732429910457852...):

"U.S. Collects Vast Data Trove

"By SIOBHAN GORMAN, EVAN PEREZ and JANET HOOK

"WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency's monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web searches, and the agency also has cataloged credit-card transactions, said people familiar with the agency's activities."