Well, we'll see if this is legal in Europe. Website cookies are regulated already here, I guess this sort of abuse will have to be stopped as well. Shame on Microsoft for another outrageous decision.

Outrageous? And "Send Error Report" wasn't? And other security software vendors sending file hashes isn't?

Please, explain why this in particular is so bad. It's tracking in a sense, but they are not going to use it to violate privacy.

Proper Unicode support for one.

Also, Python 3 is the new standard, by upgrading its code base to it, Django can stay relevant and up to date.

Libraries and frameworks that don't upgrade soon, will be replaced or just forgotten.

I use a chrome extension called disconnect, that blocks tracking from facebook, google, twitter, etc.

When I open hipset it looks like this: http://imgur.com/9hEX5

Nada, nothing.

When I allow facebook I can see the site.

This and the facebook only login, made me instantly close the site and forget it. Btw, I work two jobs: Programmer and musician. And that site was just disappointing on all fronts.

Nope, as a developer I can say that I wouldn't pay Twitter for access.

I probably also wouldn't take any paying jobs any more working with the free Twitter API as it stands now - too many restrictions.

That's wrong information:

On this page[1] nic.at states (under "Cancel a domain") that cancellations can be made by fax or letter.

Also on the "fax confirmation" PDF[2] it says in big letters: "Please send it by fax or scanned by e-mail to: ..."

[1] http://www.nic.at/en/service/

[2] http://www.nic.at/fileadmin/www.nic.at/documents/formulare/C...

Thanks for keeping me honest. To be frank, I went the route of ignoring them at first, thinking it was a scam. Then I had to settle.

The problem could be that they require a signature. And a scanned+emailed signature is not a valid signature under Austrian law (IIRC, IANAL, but I am from Austria).

But from the PDF file in the second link from the parent comment they say that they accept email, so I would just try to mail them.

I am surprised the NZ courts didn't have the evidence to begin with. How could they decide over the validity of the extradition request without it?

Apparently the NZ courts came to the same critical question that you did.

In all honesty, it seems ridiculous that the FBI thought they could withhold evidence.

And all just to keep a website on/off the internet.

Well, the authors of frameworks and libraries still on Python 2 and without having concrete upgrade plans will have to either do something soon or others will take their space.

Python 3 is here, now.

> the authors of frameworks and libraries still on Python 2 and without having concrete upgrade plans will have to either do something soon or others will take their space.

Do you know of anything new on PIL (http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/) ? Or any similar library that might replace it for Python 3?

Pillow (https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow) is a fork of PIL. If you look at recent commits, you'll see one that claims to make it more Python 3 friendly, but not quite Python 3 compatible because of differences in the C code. So maybe a good opportunity for someone to jump in and fix that.

PythonMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/download/python/) works in Python3. PIL with Python3 support is coming later, apparently.

There is also Wand (http://dahlia.kr/wand/index.html), which, while still alpha, is a very nice ctypes-based, MagickWand API binding. It is also available in pypi, so is easy to install. Support for Python 3 is near-term goal of the project.

There's what claims to be a Python 3 version of the codebase on Christoph Gohlke's Python packages for Windows page (http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pil). I haven't tested it.

Until Numpy and Scipy are on Python 3, I'm going to reserve judgement. Python 3 might be here, now, for some things, but there are enough essential libraries out there that aren't, that it's not for most.

Almost all the Python code I've written in the past year has been in Python 3. The libraries you mention have been ported already, as have many other important ones, such as sqlalchemy, lxml, httplib2, and imminently, Django.

Very early on I had plenty of headaches where some library I needed was Python 2.X only, but that's becoming increasingly rare.

Edit: s/eminently/imminently/

I think they already are: http://scipy.github.com/faq.html#do-numpy-and-scipy-support-...

Also, Python 3 will be shipped with the next ubuntu version https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview/Alp...

A trivial search would show that they are on Python 3 (and have been for some time now).

Why editorialise the title? It's very misleading this way.

Agreed. This is an extremely misleading title.

1. It bears no relation to the content of the article nor its title, which is only an introductory guide to two specific distributions, Slackware and Arch Linux.

2. It is plain wrong (and outdated) when compared to other Linux distributions specifically created to be strongly breadcrumbed and newbie-friendly.

This is a very interesting phenomenon.

1) A child approached by an adult man = everyone is alerted.

2) A helpless child that should be helped = nobody cares.

It seems that in case 1 it's more about getting the bad guy then to help the child. This is all sorts of crazy if there is any truth to it. I'd love to see a study on this.

> more about getting the bad guy then to help the child.

Another way to look at it is that the worst outcome of one is the child gets lonely and scared for a small period of time, the worst outcome of the other is they get kidnapped and worse.

That said, I'm playing devil's advocate here, not arguing that the above logic should be used by anyone.

> worst outcome of one is the child gets lonely and scared for a small period of time

Actually the outcome could be the exact same thing in both cases.