At least what I could read of it thus far from the image, some letters in parenthesis if I was unsure, and probably not everything correct: (please reply with your corrections)
A(C)AKN HVPKD (F)NFJU YIDD(C/L)
RQX(Q)R DJHFP (E/F)OVFN MIAPX
PABUZ WYYNP C(M)PNW HJR(C)H
NLXKE MEMEK ON(O)(I/L)B AREE(G)?
UAOTA RBQRH DJOFM TPZEH
LKX(E/P)H R(E/F)(E/F)HT JRZCQ FNKTQ
KLDTS (E/F)QIRU AOAKN (2)7 1525/6

NURP 40 TW 194
NURP 37 DK (7/1)6

...and computer security was published in a recent report from the European Network and Information Security Agency indicating that banks should always assume their client computers are infected.
I started moving the PC's I "maintain" (parents etc.) away from Windows and to a separate Ubuntu partition *only* for banking for this very reason. The likelihood that that partition is vulnerable (different OS, no other internet tooling running on it) is significantly lower.
At the same time, banks start drawing lines on what they do and do not reimburse to their clients based on e.g. their computers' security state and their client's intellect (giving out pin codes to perfect strangers...). While the latter is quite logical, the former is starting to become an issue: some banks insist that clients (especially business clients) did not take enough precautions against an attack. Of course not all attacks can be prevented in the first place, as TFA indicates. So, better be safe(r) than sorry and protect your banking as much as you can. (Situation is from The Netherlands BTW, with ABN Amro and Rabobank as some of the examples of banks that start questioning their clients security behaviour, positively or negatively).

Baumgartner achieved speed of sound 'autonomously' without first sitting in a high-speed jet but by freefalling. All other examples are of pilots ejecting from a high-speed airplane, going over Mach using an engine. So while what you say is correct, I would rather emphasize the "freefall" versus "engine-powered" part :)

I want him to answer that ;=) Unless you are Woz, in which case I would imagine 604554 is too high a UID ;=)

...the short end of the stick where Apple is concerned - why so or why not ?
In other words: who is the genius ?

...but apps, apps, apps: imagine wanting to do something like video processing, where there are tons of good tools for Windows there are only a handful for Linux and most of them well... do not meet expectations. I am using a Linux desktop for several years now, and I am very happy with it, but there are times I need to run Wine or VMWare just to do certain stuff in a way that is more simple and more productive than if I had to do the same on my Ubuntu installation.
It can be improved, but I think it will not be only a question of looking at the community (although that is my biggest wish: community driven FOSS software for all our needs), but also at the large corporations providing software for e.g. Windows. Once competition comes in from that side (large corporations), I think there will be more community projects taking up the same quality level of software, simply because the demand is there at that point. Now the demand somehow is not big enough to raise the quality level of the community driven software to the level that is seen on Windows, where it pertains to these apps for things like video editing (and perhaps also the same for games, but Steam could change all that nicely).
Office, web, mail: already covered by Linux very well, as well as a decent UI (although people may disagree). Now it's ready for the next level.

...because upstream providers or Google itself may start cutting down on the bandwidth used for certain types of services (ie non-Google ones, for example). Of course their intention is good, but I am glad that in The Netherlands I know what my FTTH (30Mb) is worth because we have a law on net neutrality. Without that a huge bandwidth is simply "a huge bandwidth for all services... that I allow".

...but I guess this fit's right in the studio's (TV ones...) idea of keeping control of whatever they produce.
There is no real reason cloud recording isn't a perfectly valid, legal way to record stuff where even the owners could benefit. But no, judges intervene based on old laws and politics take a while to catch up and realize it is not 1980 anymore.
Wake up people, the new world is coming, and floating out of the window before you know it.

...which is the biggest problem with many of these schemes: friends giving away other friends' data. Is that term still correct in that case ?

There are already voices in the Dutch parliament calling for an investigation into copyright law, and whether censoring sites for commercial purposes/civil law is allowed : this would then only allow the blocking of sites illegal under criminal law. This story has not ended by far, and a similar thing as what happened to KPN (calling netneutrality into question) could happen to Brein (our "MPAA", using censorship for commercial purposes).

I am also having some fragmented Domotica in my home, self-built and generally working 'ok': doorbell gives me an e-mail, outside lights are controlled by a crontab, alarm system gives a message when a door is opened and that stuff. But like the parent I feel that it is generally useless to the common person. However, there may be an opportunity for someone to integrate everything into 1 solution that *would* give benefit ; maybe integrate it with the TV system using tools like jstx. But I don't think MS will solve this issue though ; way too much focused on their own OS, not on the user.

...while the parliament voted on this (in favor) already, the Senate ("Eerste Kamer") can still vote it down. Although chances are slim, the (indirectly elected) Senate in the Netherlands proved in the past that their view of the country is sometimes substantially different from that of the directly elected representatives. Officially the Senate can only regard the law against the constitution, but recent developments made the senate a more political institute. Because currently there are critical negotiations going on to keep the government in office, there is no saying what will be decided in that meeting room that affects ongoing legislation, including any Senate decisions. ( https://www.bof.nl/2012/03/05/stemming-eerste-kamer-telecommunicatiewet-uitgesteld/ in Dutch and https://www.bof.nl/2011/06/22/press-release-%E2%80%93-the-netherlands-first-country-in-europe-to-launch-net-neutrality/ on the original law in English)

Interesting news article, but when I read at the end that he is creating his own startup (and the disclosure of the author), I get funny feelings about the research and read back in the article: no critics. There must be some critical information in the scientific publication, but this article reads like a readers digest. Such articles make people probably pull their wallets quicker I guess... [/rantmodeoff]

OP here, I left out the knife part originally because for Slashdot I figured the real interesting fact was the "game data equals good" part. The original ruling already had the other person convicted because of the knife thing, but the defense argued that the crime could not constitute actual theft because there were no goods to be stolen. That is what the supreme court overturned, and that is the 'news' part in this story.