Chicago's, motto translated from Latin, means "We make Louisiana's government look honest", or something like that.

And all of the pedants out there don't have to correct me, I know what the motto really means

I'd guess there are already laws (and liability) for using non-certified parts in critical areas.

There was a contractor who was making highway guard rails who decided to go cheap and changed the design without permission linky and another case linky

Knock offs INCREASE the market for collectables. Take the fashion industry as a perfect example - and they don't have any copyright/patent protections. People buy knock offs until they can afford the real thing.

Perhaps they do. They also aren't a good measure of the entire market.

How many people prided themselves on how many albums or CDs or DVDs they had? How many of them now just use Netflix and Pandora/Spotify/etc.?

We craved having lots of media because there wasn't a way to easily get it otherwise. Now, nobody has to buy (or copy) 1000s of sources to be able to consume those sources.

This is what a 'disruptive technology' does. The 'market' changes as it becomes easier and cheaper to produce 'almost as good' stuff. If I'm changing $10 for something, a significant portion of my customers are only paying $10 because they have no other choice. If someone else starts producing what I make for $5...it's simply the market changing and I have to adapt or pretend the market hasn't changed and sue everyone (while spending even more money on not making my product).

I have some ukrainian hryvnia to sell you, and some russian rubles too! I will give you a great price.

You realize, of course, that Rubles count as a pretty damned good deal right now? First, the Ruble usually varies pretty much directly with oil, which has pushed it waaay down on the short term; then Pooty's pissing around has given it another good hard kick down. Eventually, both of those factors will go away, and the Ruble will return to its former level.

"Buy low, sell high" doesn't mean "sell in a panic at the bottom of a dip".

The 144k is symbolic.

Jesus is symbolic.

Where do you draw the line?

Are they just going to let someone fry their GPU and turn it in for warranty repairs now?

Perhaps just more aggressive thermal throttling in newer driver versions? "Sure, overclock all you like, but at 80C core or 40C ambient, you may a well have an IGP".

Though as I understood their original announcement, they hadn't so much seem a wave of outright DOA returns, as much as expressing concerns that prolonged pushing of the envelope would lead to reduced lifetimes. In that case, as long as the parts can outlast their warranty, NVidia may simply have come to the conclusion that earlier death means earlier replacement.

There. FTFY. The government has already meddled.

Not really - FINRA has issued guidance for those trying to stay legal; the government has made some high-profile arrests; the FBI has confiscated individual wallets through physical seizure of the machines they lived on. But overall, the government hasn't done (and realistically, can't do) a damned thing to substantially interfere with the core functionality of BitCoin.

Sure, they could impose some draconian "death penalty for using or posessing BTC or any of its associated software", but even that would only apply to those under US jurisdiction, and the system itself would keep chugging away merrily.

Dogs are genetically disposed to imprint on their owners. Imagine a dog that really does understand human language... complete with grammar. Lassie, sort my mail then bring me bills and magazines.

Translation: Yaay, I can help! Wait. Nooo! Dammit, I can't sort mail, I have no opposable thumbs! That thoughtless bastard, giving me physically impossible orders! I'm gonna crap in his slippers!

Whereas we smart adaptable warlike dishonest (feigned surrender, guerrilla warfare, etc.) monkeys whack together an Orion-drive space battleship right under the aliens' bifurcated trunks and play a game of hard-ball orbital chicken with the aliens' irreplaceable (and full of all their families) mothership.

I constantly waver between loving how cool that book is and hating how cornball it is.

Maybe that's the lesson the aliens need to be aware of: humanity are right bastards when at war; there's almost nothing we won't do to avoid losing, or to make you pay if we can't avoid losing.

"Coming to terms with variance" == "learning to accept that the RNG Gods hate you"

I second the recommendation for Linux Mint on the Yoga 2. I never booted the copy of Windows that came with it. Set the bios and used a flash drive to install Linux Mint 17 to the SSD and had a great laptop with no malware, shareware or crapware.

And best of all, no Windows 8!

The way it's done with my bank is that you set a phrase that only you know, which is displayed when the page is spawned.

Bruce Schneier (IIRC) described the obvious hack for that the day Visa came out with it...

The attacker (whether a fake merchant, or a MitM) waits for a request for you to verify your identity. It then presents your information to the real site (keep in mind the attacker builds this connection, so encryption doesn't mean a damned thing). The real site responds with your known prompt-phrase, so you "know it's legit". Attacker then prompts you with that phrase, and waits (and records) your response. Attacker passes your response on to the bank, and the transaction goes through successfully.

Except, that the attacker now has everything he needs to produce as many fraudulent charges as he wants.