Actually, HDD or mobo.

If what you say is true, hello :), and I would suspect the hard drive almost certainly. It's 5 years old and is likely due to fail. Copying large blocks of data as you describe could well be the trigger to start hitting bad sectors and then boom!, dead drive. Without escalated privileges you could not possibly have done OS-level damage doing what you have described.

The current test cycle setup is rubbish, even with approximations made for load on the rolling road based on the coast-down phase of the test. Undue importance is put on CO2 emissions whilst disregarding the really nasty exhaust gases, but obviously that's because most EU countries base their tax solely on CO2 output now.

That said, the car makers are not doing themselves any favours by playing around the edges of the stated legislation, even if you bear in mind that pushing the rules to the limits is one of the basic principles of motor racing in any format, and would be the default mindset of those engineering the cars.

Constructing a truly even, fair and representative test will be terribly difficult, if not impossible. I wonder if any changes they make will be worth the effort at all.

Liferea is inadequate.

Those two are not mutually exclusive; in fact, I'd consider them quite strongly linked. The global bully who goes around kicking sand in others' faces is the US and has been for at least 35 years, possibly longer.

Yesterday I had 14 mod points. Today I have none. I wish I could have given them all to you for that insightful comment, rather than have them vanish. You are spot on, and sum up perfectly what the correct response to this article is.

And yet you still think it a good thing? You've just taken the bully stealing lunch money concept and scaled it up to global scale. Yes, *this* is why we hate you, and this is why what you do is wrong.

Or a family member, relative, visiting friend or neighbour of an al-Qaeda member.

Sample size of one - must be true for all!

And for that matter, the big social networks and their apps or app-like interfaces. These are two sides to a common threat: the partitioning of the internet into a device- or social network-delineated series of ecosystems.

Geeqie is quite a fabulous image manager, for want of a better word. More brilliant than you could imagine, IMHO.

With very few exceptions, that's unlikely. A person used to luxury, comfort and abundance versus a person who fights daily for survival whether in an actual physical confrontation or merely by having to go out and get water or food - not much smart money will be on the pasty-face keyboard warrior, even if he's got some fancy firearm.

Probably too simple a suggestion, but it certainly makes sense to me. Amazon knows if it has shipped product X to user Y - only allow a review from Y on X if it has.

Thank you. A sensible post on /., at last.

FWIW, Linux has been exclusive to *my* desktop since '98. So for me, it's been year of Linux on the desktop accurately every year since then.