Yes but where people previously didn't read the f*ing article they now no longer read the f*ing /. summary before making informed comments on the subject. Thus the gist of the /. summary bears repeating in abbreviated form because anything longer than 4 words is likely to overtax the attention span of some of some of the youngest generation of /. posters. Come to think of it he's actually kind of pushing the envelope by using 5 words and no SMS-speak.

... now get off my lawn.

http://xkcd.com/347/ ...now that was truly obligatory.

No, that could knock Titan out of orbit.

A whole pile of PC computer vendors can be accused of the fact that it is impossible to get support after the warranty runs out. As for Macs it is not as if they are somehow welded shut and impossible to repair. Some of the later model Macs can be hard to strip down but that's only what anybody with even a basic knowledge of computer repairs would expect from a super compact machine and the Macs are not that much different in this respect from what you get in super compact Windows/PC machines. While I haven't taken apart too many Mac Pros I have lost count of the number of out-of-warranty MacBooks and Mac Minis that I have stripped down, repaired, upgraded and restored to life. Spares are perhaps not quite as easy to come by as they are for home-build PCs (which is not surprising since that market is way bigger) and Mac parts are not as cheap as they are for home-builds (especially the lower end models) but there is a whole pile of parts vendors that specialise in Apple computers starting with Other World Computing.

Whodathunkit, apparently Audi are playing around with the idea of building a pickup:
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2011/08/audi-q7-pickup-truck-is-real-new-spy-photos.html

I think he meant cars in general, Audi has been making extensive use of aluminium in their cars for years, as have Rolls Royce, Aston Martin, Jaguar, ... Rover built an aluminium Landrover in 1948, and the American Motors Corporation did the same with their little M422 jeep back in the 50s. This is hardly news except perhaps because somebody has plucked up the courage to make a (**Grunt**) 'muscle' SUV out of Aluminium with the intention of selling it to the US public.

You must be new here, it has been happening on /. with monotonous regularity for years.

Yeah, why actually bother read stuff, let's just judge books by their cover and then make informed comments about what you think is written in them.

You mean like everybody around here who finds some fault with Android/Google/Samnung/Linux however legitimate it may be and anybody around here who actually finds something positive about Microsoft or Apple products is automatically ripped to shreds and accused of being a paid shill? Different people have different tastes and different experiences and there is nothing wrong with that in most places. On Slashdot, however, people tend to be a bit extreme in their views. You just happen to be somebody who has found that Apple products are not to his taste without being so fanatical about it that you have morphed into a hateboi ... unfortunately for you that makes you part of a minority around here since most people here are __way__ more fanatical about not liking Apple than you are. Just about the last place you want to look a fair, civilized and structured debate around here is in any discussion having to do with Apple, Microsoft, patents or copyright.

And of course that could only ever be Apple's fault, it's not as if Linux ever had crappy drivers.

The leaders of the USA have also done ghastly and unspeakable things over the years. This might seem embarrassing to Turkey but can you imagine a corruption probe exposing the fact that US cabinet members and the president are as hopelessly corrupt? I mean we all know that most US political leaders they are corrupt to various degrees as they are in most countries but can you imagine the FBI raiding major corporations, wall-street banks, wiretapping the white house and hauling these bozos into court? At least Turkish law enforcement still has enough backbone to mount an operation like this. It would take another Snowden, sheltering in some secure foreign location safe from being kidnapped, gagged and locked away like the "Man in the Iron Mask" to expose this kind of graft in the US administration.

Complaining that Mac Pros aren't rack friendly is like me complaining that my Lenovo ThinkCentre (Linux) Desktop PC is a bad design because I'd have to drill holes in the casing to be able to attach it to a rack mount slider. ThinkCentre PC's are designed to sit on a desktop, they are not designed to fit seamlessly into a rack mount and neither were the old Mac Pros and sitting on top of or underneath a desk is how most users use these machines. One can make the case that square pegs are crappy pegs for all sorts of reasons but not because they don't fit into round holes. Apple used to have the server line for people with rack mount needs and I'm not sure I want to take the piss out of them for not catering to the small number of people who need the Mac Pro package in rack mount format. That being said I do agree with you in that sometimes Apple just forgets to shut up and listen to the customer. Apple is good at design but sometimes they do have the tendency to put form over function, just like Dell (just as an example of the other extreme) sometimes focuses so much on practicality/austerity/affordability that they completely forget that a little design can go a long way toward making their products more usable.

This looks promising, it's an IR based 'camera blinder' that hides your face:
http://www.slashgear.com/surveillance-cam-blinder-2010369/

Dunno how effective it is against different camera types and it does require you to wear a dumb-ass headband but it looks like a promising concept.

My favourite AK-47 related escapade ever, forge an AK-47 receiver out of an old shovel:
http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/179192-DIY-Shovel-AK-photo-tsunami-warning!

Challenge: Do the same with a Colt M4 (and yes, it has to fire)

Maybe they'll still know who is talking to who. Right now, however, they are also able to sniff unencrypted email payloads with complete impunity and listen in on phone calls with equal impunity. If you encrypt email content by default the NSA's job will get a whole lot harder since they'll not be able to identify/relocate individual senders who have changed email addresses or swapped cellphones by sniffing email payloads and conversations. This problem gets progressively worse for them the more frequently people who the NSA wants to stalk swap their accounts and internet access points. My point is that with everything being encrypted the NSA may be able to crack individual emails or phone calls but it's much easier to drop off their radar since once they lose you there is no way they can **decrypt everything** and run it through a text analysis algorithm or a voice print identifier to find you again. Plus encryption raises the bar on the surveillance effort. The NSA will have to hack your computer and install spyware or drop a bug into your phone because that's the only way they can listen in (assuming you are using good quality encryption) and that's a much bigger effort. It is no longer a question of making a phone call to your Telco, who tap into a comms line and minutes later the data comes streaming into the NSA datacenter all nice and unencrypted like it does now. Finally, as you pointed out, there are more ways to communicate online than e-mail.

Nuff said.