Not in 30-40 degree heat as well. Sadly, deserts are both dusty AND hot. Worst place in the world for computers. Except maybe the arctic, since LCD's just don't work. Even there though, you can always add heat to the equation. It's a lot harder to remove heat..
I think the best suggestion so far has been the "buy a decent machine and stick it in a bar-fridge and run the cables out to cheapo monitors and keyboards".

Really? Who asks that besides people with a slight technical inclination who can also easily be taught 'Hard drive marketing droids decided to be devious and they are measuring a base-two storage device using base-ten'.

And those people that give you a glossy look are probably the kind of people to just say 'Oh--ok' and accept it. They are also the kind of people who get confused when you start talking about SI in the first place.

It seems that the presentation focuses heavily on the NetXtreme framework, which is specific to Broadcom. Doesn't Intel, the other major NIC vendor/manufacturer, use their own proprietary security and administrative protocols on their devices?

I wonder how secure Realtek's stuff is; their drivers/software leave me to think that their hardware code is ripe for discovery...

Maybe, just maybe, Healthcare reform is something that needs to be implemented over the objections of a majority?

So. Implemented over the objections of the majority, using powers not granted to the federal government in its charter. So what government act can't be justified under this logic?

I'd rather live in a banana republic, where the people in charge are busy enriching themselves, than have to deal with a government that thinks it knows what's best for its citizens despite their wishes.

Yes of course - why waste time finding exploits in individual update services when it's so much easier to just go ahead and infect everything at once.

No. The mean is the average with some sort of distribution applied.

For the same reason governments have a hard time dealing with offshoring - companies will leave if you make things too uncomfortable. Microsoft provides far more benefit to the state of Washington and its people than Washington provides to Microsoft. In the end this is just a recognition of that fact.

You can bleed companies (like GM) with large fixed facilities, but it's pretty easy to move software development. If not to Oregon or California, then to India or the Philippines.

Why Ubuntu? My guess is because it's the (at the moment) most popular version of Linux (which might help the adoption of using it since many have heard the name) and tends to have great (albet not perfect) hardware driver recognition. People want to use products by names they know and even if they've never used Ubuntu there is a semi-chance they've heard of it. And calling it just plain Linux which most have heard might bring to mind the old stereotype 'Linux = Ungodly complex geek thingy'.

Even if you do accept the premise that all the planets were originally seeded by the same progenitors, over millions of years they would have evolved into separate species. Genetically, humans would be much more closely related to Bonobo Chimps than they could possibly be to any alien species. And yet, few people would have found it appropriate for Kirk to be fucking monkeys. It's not a question of sentience. As Howard the Duck said, "Sorry kid, but I don't date outside my species!"

There's two primary reasons that math curriculum is dumbed down in the US: 1. the students who didn't get it the previous year but were "socially-promoted" anyway, and the teacher has to compensate; 2. the parents who see their kids not getting it and/or are afraid of their kids' homework and demand that all of the hard math be taken away.

I wear IR glasses so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

Bit early for April Fool's Day, but the last image proves it. There is no way in hell that any program would take the upward curve of the hill in the lower-right background and turn it into a DOWNWARD curve. That's something that you could only possibly know to do if you had an original image where the hill curved downward. Not to mention all the cloud detail that simply does not exist anywhere in the panorama.

Clearly all they've done is *added* a bunch of things to images (or in the case of the 'panorama', just deleted part of it to fake a panorama), then "used the tool" to "remove" them.

Maybe people's heads have just been getting smaller? It would sure explain a lot.

Besides the questionable decision regarding the severity of a 6 foot fall, the flaw here seems to be the order in which the conditions were evaluated when determining which category should be assigned. It sounds like when they made the modification, they introduced a bug where a 6+ foot fall would force the call into category B, ignoring other serious condition entries that should have forced it into category A by themselves.