It's in the right place, but will it behave the right way?

When those mainboards with extra flash for vista were announced I hoped for it being accessible directly via linux mtd.
Without reading the article I still assume that it will again be just another hdd simulator that doesn't allow the os to do the wear levelling or map the storage directly into the accessible memory.

Too bad. Since Debians live-helper made building live systems easy I'm running my desktop and laptop from squashfs anyways so I'd love to see them do execute in place,too. http://elinux.org/Application_XIP

or at least mind-numbing forgetfulness.

Use of the Internet should generally be remembered to be nonsecure and suspect.

Lots of people will forget, because they are tired, pushed, harangued, or pissed off at their boss or coworkers.

Trying to instill constant vigilant attitudes will be REAL tough.

Maybe Browser pop-ups reminding employees of the latest intrusion or hazard of the day is not so bad as a reminder. (Please no bricks) If I was to design a popup, it would be a one liner with a link for more info. and the popup would disappear after 5 seconds on its own.

So is Xerox.

But when I was in high school (20 years ago), the school librarian told me that I was the only one to call the copier a photocopier. Every other student called it the Xerox machine. (Even though it was not made by Xerox.)

talk to the package maintainers of a couple of distributions instead. packages.debian.org packages.ubuntu.com etc. should help you find the maintainers email addresses.

the nvidia-glx package (which you'll find after asking your package management system for nvidia or geforce drivers) suggests nvidia-settings here. the default is to install suggests. and that creates a nice menu entry in the system -> configuration menu. Yes, it'd be easier if nvidia supported randr, but the distributors did a very nice job of making it pretty easy.

to quote the article: "In reality, as a LongPen press release delicately put it, "legal complications" made it impossible for Black to appear in person. Black isn't allowed to leave the U.S. because of bail restrictions following his conviction on fraud and obstruction of justice."

Weird. Every time I stick a piece of hardware in a Windows box it doesn't work. Then I install the drivers from the CD and it still doesn't work. Next I get the drivers from the vendors site and then it sometimes works. In the final step I figure out the chipset and get a driver from its creator and then it works most of the time.

With Linux all I do is check about the state of the hardware support before buying and most of the time it just works without doing any of the above.

So we take a sheet of paper and use a knife to simulate the etching. Now we fill the resulting gap with glue as an electrolyte. The result still doesn't look at all like two papers glued on top of each other to me.

how is putting aging into context with evolution and darwinism interesting?

That's probably the worst brushless dc controller ever built. As you can see in the video the circuit cannot recover from too low rpm of the motor. He mentions better waveforms at the bottom of the site, though.
A proper sensorless BLDC controller measures the back EMF at the undriven coils and uses that information to figure out which coils to drive. Also you don't need a common ground for the coils, instead the polarity should switch when both ends of a single coil have the same potential. Of course it's possible that each of the coils actually has a third contact in the middle.
Properly driving a sensorless bldc motor is quite an interesting challenge for microcontroller programming. You'd need the analogue input and 3 PWM channels. Probably 3 digital outputs, too to switch the polarity.
In other words: I'm taking apart a harddrive right now.

Huh? What are you talking about? Who do you think is at war there? Can't you just let the chinese people figure out their future themselves? Afaict we in the western countries, and possibly the whole world, benefit from their progress. And China obviously is changing it's political system.

No need to panic just because things change