Your own land? What makes this particular plot of land yours? Oh that's right, a government decree.

That sounds fine to me, since you are clearly the kind of person who has never relied on anyone else for help. God created you as a fully formed human being in the middle of the wilderness, and everything you have you made for yourself, never seeing or talking to other humans. Therefore, you can proudly claim to owe nothing to human society.

One upon a time, power utilies ran their lines underground. One result of this is that idiots in backhoes and other similar events would disrupt power.

Underground lines may be less vulnerable to disruption, but they are not immune. Plus, I don't think very many countries have their high voltage distribution lines underground for long distances.

I'm not sure how the "smart grid" is supposed to reduce power outages; most outages are caused by the last mile medium and low voltage systems, and I don't think that has enough redundancy to route around damage. Maybe they can use the smart grid to pinpoint damage more accurately? I suppose the TFA probably explains that, but this is slashdot so I didn't read it.

So it's just like employee smart phones, then? If random devices can extract sensitive data from your WiFi network, you're doing your security wrong.

If Apple were charging the kind of rates that credit card companies charge (1-3%), a lot fewer people would have a problem with that.

Also, Apple wants to collect the fees even if you don't use their payment systems (e.g. provide an in-app link to a web page).

I think this means no guest OS. You can argue about whether the Erlang runtime constitutes an OS of sorts, but in their example they are not booting a general purpose kernel. Presumably they could port this to run on bare metal instead of Xen, although the boot times for physical hardware would never be as good as starting a new Xen instance.

A wireless device that consumes power? What an original invention!

I thought that RLS had been banned in the US? Clinical trials showed that it had potentially dangerous side effects, such as questioning authority.

If they don't pass legislation, why would lobbyists keep paying them?

This claim is, at best, controversial. Some people say that Rosalind's lab partner Maurice Wilkins gave her unpublished work to Watson and Crick without her permission; Watson and Crick say that it was in fact officially released by King's College. I'm not aware that Franklin herself ever stated that she had been robbed. Wilkins was included in the Nobel prize; presumably Franklin would have been also had she still been alive.

Since Nasuni is a storage vendor, it makes sense that they are benchmarking cloud storage rather than cloud compute.

I think you need to balance risks. If my mail is hosted outside my home, on my ISP or on Google, then it increases the risk of it being searched by the government without my knowledge. If I set up and run my own mail server on my own machine, then I need to correctly install and configure the OS and mail server and keep up with all the security patches and spam filters, or I severely risk having my mail accessed by script kiddies without my knowledge. Or maybe I will know about it because they'll reset passwords to all my other accounts and then delete my mail.

If given a choice between exposing my mail to government crooks or free enterprise crooks, I'll take the government.

Sovereign nations don't often let other countries dictate their policies, but they quite often listen to what other countries have to say about them. The article does not say that the US threatened the EC, it just says that the US is lobbying the EC. If one country is proposing to do something that another affects the interests of another country, the latter can and should lobby the former. Foreign companies and governments lobby the US government on a regular basis, this is just the reciprocal of that.

In the US, people have certain rights to their image that are not based in copyright. The person in the picture does not own the copyright, but they still have the right to control commercial use of the photo.

I'm having trouble finding technical information about this design, and I'm curious how much of the motherboard logic has to move onto this daughterboard. For example, is memory still on the main board? If so, an x8 PCIe channel doesn't seem adequate.