I think I got a little ahead of myself here, sorry. Bram Cohen (who is known for inventing BitTorrent) has worked shortly with Valve on Steam. I can't find a source quoting Steam as using BitTorrent though, so let's assume that no.
Many gamers are using BitTorrent through Valve's Steam. By which I mean, that p2p file sharing is hardly nefarious. It's just a clever use of bandwidth.
We've been experimenting with remote workers for the last two years or so. Our team was used to work in the same place (in Paris), so it took a little bit of time to get used to, as we tried different ideas. Now it works really well with phone/video conferences, trello boards, github, remote pairing, and a (few) permanent chat rooms (thank you Freenode <3), etc.
I think the biggest complaint is that the offices sometimes feel empty to those who chose to work "on site". My take on this is "let's get smaller office space". Plus it costs less. :)
Following that logic, shouldn't Google put a blackout when it detects AdBlock is installed on your browser? A friendly reminder, for those of us who forgot who's really in control here. j/k, you're in control, right? ;)
I think the french FAI's filtering is “wrong”, not because it is opt-out, but because it seems to target one company. They're not getting good PR with the move anyway, so it should become opt-in soon-ish... My 2 cents.
Although Twitter did not take action for quite a while. They must have been waiting for the french elections, because they care so much about that...
Another note is that for a fake account (humorous or deceptive) to be deactivated, Twitter has to receive a complaint from the person (or a legal equivalent) being impersonated.
BTW, other candidates to the election still have active fake accounts.
The first was reactivated by Twitter after their owners complied with Twitter's recent changes in fake accounts policy. Apparently it wasn't obvious enough that it was not the official account (really?), so they changed the full name from "Nicolas Sarkozy" to "Nicolas Sarkozy Fake".
Of course, as long as Mr. Sarkozy was not a declared candidate to french elections, these accounts were all ok... Well that's (french?) politics at work for you.
For the others, it's just plain state-censorship unless I'm missing something here.
Hey, we're using jekyll (0.11.x) to generate http://dev.af83.com/ which is about 320 posts. It always takes less than 30secs on my laptop (Lenovo X220).
I'm using an X220 with 8G RAM + Core i7. I did not buy the SSD-enabled version from Lenovo, but replaced the factory's SATA disk with a 128G SSD I previously had on an X200... Had to hack the disk a little to fit on the X220 though. It's the fastest laptop I've had, screen is super bright, and with the large battery, I get 6-8h hours depending on the use.
I'm pretty much sold on Lenovo/Linux laptops when it comes to development, although I'm pretty sure that the even-lighter Macbook Air would cover 90% of my current needs (after a huge RAM boost ¬¬). Were I more on the run, I'd probably go for the mac. Right now, I need the raw power of the X220. :)
Oh and BTW if Apple started selling ARM based laptops, I'd get one for sure.
I'm not a big Facebook-fan, so I don't feel punished /at all/ when Google antagonizes the service... More like the opposite actually. That's just my opinion and I won't push for it more than this ; it's okay if we disagree. :)
I guess, if enough users would complain to Google or feel the need to leave their awesome free services for a more Facebook-friendly vendor, good for them. It's not like there's no choice since you can you know... export your data.
Is Google really behaving like a child, or warning its users against childish actions? Facebook is not a dreamworld, so I'm quite happy when some people are reminded that they're submitting their friends addresses to a service that will never forget about them.