[00:09] In awesome news, Mobygames has new, better owners who've rolled the site back to its original design, and have great plans for the future: http://www.mobygames.com/forums/dga,2/dgb,4/dgm,182637/ [00:10] dashcloud: Huh, wasn't expecting that [00:11] neither was anyone else in that comment thread- started by one of the new owners! [04:17] heh: [04:17] "Customers who wish to use the new Beijing Region are required to sign up for a separate set of account credentials unique to the China (Beijing) Region. Customers with existing AWS credentials will not be able to access resources in the new Region, and vice versa." [04:17] oh China [04:17] I guess it's kinda fitting, though, since living in Shanghai means living in a cloud [04:17] of soot [04:49] ahahaha [04:49] air filters on the datacenter, internet filters on the country [04:50] so it's a cloud cloud [04:50] I'll put a datacenter on a zeppelin in beijing [04:50] a cloud cloud cloud [07:42] yipdw: i suspect it might be because amazon doesn't want to make it easy for china to hack the outside aws regions [08:55] ugh. disgusting [08:55] this io9 article links to other io9 articles through bit.ly [17:40] what [17:40] what even [21:14] Researchers say valuable scientific data disappearing at alarming rate [21:14] http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/12/19/Researchers-say-valuable-scientific-data-disappearing-at-alarming-rate/UPI-70701387491288/ [21:14] "While all data sets were available two years after publication, the odds of obtaining the underlying data dropped by 17 per cent per year after that" [23:17] Wow, that went away fast. Target posted a link to a message from their CEO on their facebook page about 10 minutes ago, but before I had time to click Like, it had been deleted. Saving the post itself through warcprox… [23:18] I missed the facebook link though. :(