... an insurance company would accept to lower their rate by 80%?

I come from Europe. I go to the US on a regular basis. You guys are crazy when it comes to A/C. I'm usually cold inside a cooled building, I have to put on a sweater or something. I've talked about this with many colleagues and they agree the A/C is set just too low in the US. Make it a reasonable temperature and you'll have tons of savings right there.

What about private companies who go easy on safety to turn a quick buck? See Fukushima where years before the incident reports were written indicating that the facility wouldn't survive a tsunami. Or when Areva drops nuclear waste in the rivers of France? The problem isn't with nuclear power per se, it's what our brilliant capitalistic society makes of it. We, as a civilization, are too bent on the short-time, low-hanging fruit of easy money to be trusted with anything as dangerous as nuclear fission reactors. When money isn't the only real God we worship, maybe we could consider it. How about storage of the nuclear waste? That's not going anywhere and is a huge problem by itself, and you should consider it in your carbon footprint calculation.

This is already the case in Israel. You have security check points before reaching the terminal (while still in your car). Then before entering the terminal you can be randomly checked (I was, once, because I wore a light jacket in the middle of summer and that was suspicious). Then you get an extra security check (with luggage x-ray) before reaching the check-in counters. Then you get the "usual" security check where you stuff is x-ray'd and you go through a metal detector. Then you get the passport check. As an international traveler this is annoying to me, but at least the Israelis are quite efficient and all this goes rather quick. I hope the same doesn't happen in the US because from what I've seen, Americans are not as efficient.

Anybody can create their own implementation of TCP, as far as I know? You simply need to follow some standard to ensure that your stack will work with other stacks, but that's about it as far as I know!

Apparently with the next Intel CPU (Broadwell), it won't be possible anymore. http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/30/socketless.move.sees.intel.merge.processors.with.motherboard/

Is the data/proof receivable in an investigation? Isn't this akin to entrapment? I have no idea how the US system works when it comes to honeypots.

C#/.NET hasn't have had a vulnerability in a long time. I know it's not popular around here because "Micro$oft durr durr" but it's a great language and a great framework. Run Mono if you don't like Microsoft.

Do we know if they plan to make this available on tablets? How about running it on Apple hardware? I have an older Samsung Galaxy Tab and iPhone 3GS that would be perfect for trying this out.

It is. I work a lot with Americans (I'm from Europe) and we keeping dropping our jaws when we interact with our US colleagues. It's not only that they sometimes do stupid things, it's also that they are downright patronizing (as if Americans know better - they don't) and get very easily offended. It's not great to work with them.

Maybe if most of the money didn't go to people who already have enough money to spend their whole life without working, we wouldn't be expected to work 5 days a week. I know it sounds crazy, but if we are evolving to a point where we don't need to work 5 days a week, maybe it's time to work less and get the same income. There's enough money to everybody. It's not being communist or anything, because I think it's fine that some people who take risks or are very smart make more money. It's just that it seems that it's got out of proportion. When people start building Yachts made out of gold, I'd say they have enough money to have more people employed who work less hours than they do today.

Before I'm called stupid, keep in mind that in Medieval times, and until quite recently, people had to work 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. Now we are down to 5 days a week, 7 or 8 hours a day (in the west anyway). Who's to say it can't come down to 3 days a week, 5 hours a day, or two days a week, 8 hours a day?

Well if you can tell me where to find the firmware image for my old Galaxy Tab 10.1, first version, I'd be glad. Because as far as I'm concerned, Cyanogenmod didn't support it much longer than Samsung. Even though the device is listed and stable snapshots for stable versions are available, the actual page is empty.

I think I'm a good example. My main desktop OS is Windows. For a server I'll install CentOS 6.4 without even thinking twice, but for desktop, I use Windows. Windows 8, at that. There are two reasons: On Windows I can install a game without having to manually change any file (which by itself would require to read 3 or 4 threads on some obscure board, if I was using Linux). I just double click the installer, and It Just Works. The second reason is Visual Studio.

I have no passion about open software, even though I try to favor those as much as I can (mostly because they are free, and more and more of greater quality). So I won't be using Linux by 'political choice.' For now Windows is just a superior desktop experience for the two things I like most: games and C#. Make games and C# development as good on Linux as it is on Windows, and I'll switch overnight.

It's effective at getting hacked. "Patch Tuesday" is always followed by "Hack Wednesday" when "security researchers" all over the world make a diff to see what was patched, and start writing exploits. If you delay the update by one week, that's one week where you are more vulnerable than you should. So for the 98% of the time it works, it's safer to update asap.

Could somebody please explain to me why on earth you need a Full HD (1080p) resolution on a 5-11" screen? That's the resolution of my 57" TV. Besides costing a lot of battery life, I don't get it. Could people see the difference between a 1080p 5" screen vs a 720p or even 480p 5" screen? To me it just sounds like Marketing teams are pushing for this, so they can put the "Full HD" logo on the slides.