What is the situation with the source/GPL?
"Any code touching the user interface created within this endeavor will be licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (GPLv2+), possibly with an exception for the Windows Store if needed."
I remember vaguely that there once was a VLC for iOS around before some internal debate about whether or not this sort of port was acceptable with the GPL caused apple to remove it. Exception for Windows Store? How should that work out then?

Germany has them as well for landline, it's actually the standard option
for mobile, most german providers will slow you down to GPRS speed after a certain amount of data consumed per month (anywhere between 100MB and 30GB depending on the contract)

Mod parent up, it's spot on! The actual patching is not really hard, especially since it only seems to do "blind" patching (just guided by the electrical response).

The only things to add are
- Fighting with your pipette puller to deliver constant results, because either you have your own crappy little puller that is hideously unreliable or you have a fancy one which is shared, meaning there is a high risk of someone messing with the filament and/or settings. And if your pipettes are crap, neither you nor the robot are going to succeed...
- Finding out why you suddenly have massive noise in your recordings
- Not freaking out after matlab, igor et al crash halfway through your recording session taking all your data with it.

Anyone wants to bet how long it'll take for "Pay 5000$ now or you'll hit that nice tree over there" style rootkits to appear? Scareware indeed...

5 months ago? Vodafone Germany will START to sell them "in a couple of weeks". I'm sure it will be really popular here...

It doesn't make a difference, anyone who wants his/her paper published will give the 1000 dollars (because they have to). And either way, I don't think science and nature will run out of people wanting to publish there...
But I fully agree that open reviews is a bad idea. In a field where almost all players know each other it would really hamper objectivity if you knew the person whose (bad) work you just shredded might come back to bite you.

But then, in some ways they still have a classic view:
"Flame is described as enormously powerful and large, containing some 250,000 lines of code, making it far larger than other such cyberweapons." [...] "But this new weapon is twenty times the size of earlier cyberbombs and far more powerful, making it practically an army on its own, said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior security researcher with Kaspersky Labs."

Wait until they finish the TerraBomb, with it you can overload many a computer simply by copying the WEAPON to the HD. It doesn't even need to be launched (though you might need to copy it once or twice on machines with a larger HD...). Only downside is that the attack takes a considerable amount of time to carry out.

They'll just produce the cars for the asian market in china, which is nothing special. Or do you really think that e.g. a Volkswagen or a BMW sold in China is actually assembled in Germany?

Mod Parent up, that post is spot on. In fact, the law has been changed 2009 (if I remember rightly) to shift the liability towards the bank unless the customer acts grossly negligent (grob fahrlässig). The court did NOT decide whether the customer would have been liable according to the laws in place today.
Plus many banks in Germany phased out the iTAN system in favor of SMS-codes or TAN-generators that require the debit card to operate and are only valid for the transaction that was entered to generate the TAN (amount, target account etc...).

I honestly cannot remember when I've heard so much misguided pseudoscience stuff for the last time.
Let's start.
No papers sceptic on global warming? I was able to find a couple of 100 released since 2011 by just spending 5 minutes on scholar.google.com.
Non-coding DNA? There's an even simpler explanation: Regulatory sequences. LOADS of them. Each cell only needs a VERY small subset of the proteins encoded. How does the cell know which ones it should express and how many of them? How do the controlling proteins know which sequences they should control? Regulatory elements. (That was was oversimplified, but you get the idea). There is no high-level/low-level DNA, no compiler, no linker. There are epigenetic modifications and posttranslational modifications, but these are for ensuring correct amount and function/transport of the proteins.
The creationist thing is a strawman. Why would evolution set up a compiler as you suggested it? Because it would allow quicker changes to adapt to different environments which is beneficial for the one having such a thing. In fact HUGELY beneficial. In the same way you could argue that having eyes, ears, etc... is an argument for creationists
The way too complex parts of the genome? Sorry, citation needed.
The bacteria thing? They are much simpler in what they can do with their toolset. The thing they can do a lot better due to their simpler construction and high mutation rate (when you take bacteria as a group) is to adapt almost any condition. And in that respect they already "won". In our very own body, bacteria outnumber our own cells by a factor of 10 (wikipedia). Bacteria exist in practically any environment on this planet. So what was your point again?
I'm not into the transmitter/reciever thing so I can't comment on that other than "citation needed".

I wish I had some modpoints right now...
This is so true, especially if we're talking about something as foggy as terrorism. If you're in a flat out war and you want to know where the army will try to invade, a wrong confession will net you nothing because your failure will be obvious. However if you can claim you've thwarted terrorist plan x that may or may not have existed then it's all fine. Kinda like people thwarted the evil witches' plan to poison the well and hold a black mass back in the good olde days...

Appearantly, so far they only got a license for the remakes. Plus a new game in the quality of, say, lsl7 is a wee bit too expensive for them right now (some 2-3 million if I remember rightly)...

So I doubt this would be possible via kickstarter

+1 here!

However my personal favorite is Al Lowe's new/remade Leisure Suit Larry, although I'm not quite sure if it'll make its goal... I have quite fond memories for that series.
But anyway, let's just see how many more old gems will get revived and how long it will take until the crappy ones start to creep in...

True.... This article was a real WTF moment for me.

Just a couple of days after he went out to kill a soldier.
Twice.