Does that actually work now? I know that for ages USB-to-serial cables were completely broken due to bugs in the USB controller on the Pi, and the RasPi Foundation publicly blamed all the problems on people using the wrong power supplies and banned anyone who suggested they should perhaps be a bit more forward with this information. (USB keyboards and mice were also horribly unreliable due to different controller bugs.)

Obama's statement about his beliefs there looks - to me at least - very much like the statement of a Christian who does actually believe the scientific evidence as to the age of the Earth and the creation of the universe, and who doesn't see any contradiction between that and his Christianity. That's probably why no-one really objected;

Ugh. I hate it when game developers rely on platform-specific video frameworks even on Windows, because if you have a slightly different set of codecs installed from the one they're expecting stuff breaks in weird ways.

Funny, I'd read the exact opposite - that they insisted on local production of goods even when it'd make more sense to centralize them in one big factory, and that's what did them in.

Actually, Android does depend on some userspace components that are GPLv2 (BlueZ, for instance) but I'm pretty sure they have a policy that no GPLv3 components are allowed.

Which still wouldn't solve the problem, and indeed the article in TFA points out why. There are major groups of people (e.g. CEOs, politicians, the sprawling and wealth former aristocracy of various states...) where there's little or no selection for intelligence and which wouldn't be harmed if all charity was banned; while they are supporting themselves off the backs of the actually-competent, they're doing it through economics and not charity. In fact they might actually benefit from this - it's hard to negotiate your wage on an equal footing if you end up starving on the street if you don't find a job, after all.

And of course eugenics wasn't even effective, for basically the same reason that he's claiming human intelligence peaked - eugenicists actually forcibly sterilized and murdered people based on the colour of their skin, poverty, and in at least one important US case because she got pregnant as a result of being raped. I mean, do you honestly think any eugenics movement would affect the wealthy, CEOs and politicians? No it wouldn't, just like they aren't affected by their own screw-ups now.

Don't worry, soon all those CPU-hogging animated advertisments and horrible "I wish I was a real application" user interfaces will be implemented as native HTML 5.

I suspect part of the reason they're upgrading is because you can't get screens as shit as their old one for a reasonable price anymore. Seriously. The last time I looked, 320x240 colour screens actually appeared to be cheaper.

More than that, it's impossible to come up with a warning that convinces people that these toys genuinely are dangerous. On every post about this on /. and Hacker News, there have been apparently-bright people who obviously don't seem to grasp how much more hazardous these are than other swallowed objecs, even after reading all the warning labels and the explanation of why they're particularly dangerous and knowing they resulted in a number of kids having to get surgery to remove them.

Senate bill seeks regulation for button-cell batteries. (There are already regulations restricting the use of button batteries in children's toys.)

Generally designed with holes these days for safety reasons.

That one mainly gets adults in trouble, kids usually know better.

Fairly tightly regulated

Hasn't this been banned from kids playsets altogether because of the safety hazard?

According to TFA, at least one kid has been killed by these in the US.

You can't, unless you prepared in advance by saving a copy of the signature file required to install iOS 5 on your device before Apple stopped signing installation requests for iOS 5. You can't even reinstall it on devices that were already running it if the OS gets screwed up and you need to recover it - in fact, that's apparently what forced this person to upgrade to iOS 6 in the first place. Apple have put a lot of effort into stopping users from downgrading their iDevices.

Not only that, it appears that they've turned off the normal redirect from apple.com to the UK website and aren't displaying it on the main apple.com website for UK visitors, so it's not actually visible even with scrolling to most of the people it's meant to reach. They're literally begging to be found in contempt.

I'd say there's plenty of risk associated with earning a salary. Every time you change jobs to increase your salary there's the risk of the company you work for going under and you being unable to get a new job. Then there's the risk of getting a mortgage or long-term lease near enough to your job that you can actually get to work, of buying a car so you can get to work, of money invested in education...

What's more, even the unlikely event that a wealthy person who's earning income through investment does lose it all, they're still not any worse off than the salaried worker who never had it in the first place! In fact they're probably better off - they have better contacts, are less likely to have student loan debts, may well still own assets like their home outright with no mortgage...