At least with Daesh, you're better off as a Christian or Jew, where you can get away with surrendering and paying taxes, than as a "moderate Muslim", where you're likely to be declared an apostate and murdered.

Yeah, I don't understand how it's possible that they're as bad as they are, on especially on the HID side. My CODE's media keys don't get sent through my KVM even though my crappy Logitech's do.

Proof is a word for mathematicians, not for statisticians.

Huh. It's been 4 years since I used a machine with that little RAM on a daily basis. These days 16GB is workable, but I still saturate it a couple times a week. All depends on workflow, I suppose.

Heartbleed was a TLS protocol bug, not a crypto bug.

No, but you're also an idiot for not knowing the difference between SSL and SSH ;)

Sorry, I don't have the new naming scheme internalized. It runs 10.10 just fine, which is Yosemite, and not Mavericks.

How fast Apple abandons which hardware, exactly? We're talking computers here, not phones. My 6 year old MBP still runs Mavericks fine, and I just sold it for $500, because it's still a damn nice computer for the majority of users (8GB of RAM, 240GB SSD, and a 15" screen).

There's a difference between invasive and non-invasive probes. Finding molecules outside your car is non-invasive. Projecting an EMF beam into it is.

w.r.t. drone videos.

Bingo. I spent a summer at PPPL, and *everyone* used a Mac (and all the cluster machines were Linux). Ditto for 2/3 of the faculty and students in my undergraduate physics department.

If you want a home* demonstration of how tiny hot-spots spread in glass in a slightly different context: blow torch a redhot-spot onto a glass bottle and then put the glass in the microwave for a few minutes. Whereas before the glass would have been fine in the microwave for an indeterminately long time, it will now turn into a puddle of molten goop in short order.

Different wavelengths and all for the laser stuff, but still.

*Don't try this at home.

I was damn happy with Torque, but then they went through a bunch of mismanagement with InstantAction and then when they recovered, put money into good documentation but not into maintaining OS X compatibility and I split. Nothing I've looked at since then has hit the right combination of cross-platform, having solid networked physics, and allowing me to hack hardware-instancing support into the graphics pipeline (or supporting it out of the box in the closed-source cases).

You didn't wait for the crickets ;) There are quite a few free engines on the market that predate the Unity/UE show, and if you've spent any time in the area you know the landscape pretty well. jME, Panda, Torque, Irrlicht, OGRE,....

Your post says "I don't know anything about game development, but I've got this sweet anti-F/OSS rant I've been waiting to post for a while"

Which is why the target power for most military lasers is orders of magnitude higher than this. This is a research milestone, not a finished project.