I'm almost sure that editors of ./ have been replaced with a more effective, high-throughput fashion system which is able to handle large submission traffic with extreme efficiency.

Oh, and it scales very well too!

Avoid Zenbooks.

They have a very slick design and a good battery life, but are well known to mount crappy SSD with a proprietary interface. It seems they not last very long (see comments in the link below), and because of the proprietary interface, a replacement SSD is 2-3 times more expensive than disks with comparable size. Mine died a few weeks ago and I found way more convenient to buy a special adapters to mount a cheaper disk, even if it creates a small bulge at the bottom of the laptop.

I would discourage also the Macbook Pro's because of the fair amount of work that's required to have a reasonable percent of the hardware working fine. In particular, with Linux you would lose one of the main advantages they have that's battery life.

I'm going to buy myself an XPS13 Dev edition, even though I don't think it has the absolute best hardware.

Since the vast majority of them are PR stunts, create a Hall of Shame page where the subjects of these edited pages are reported. A good negative reinforcement.(The problem would be avoiding that this mechanism is used to discredit legit pages and edits)

Nice to read this news in the proper context.

OK, the subject is a bit of a click-bait, but I started thinking about it after I had to fix no less than four different devices within three weeks apart. I strongly suspect that I'm just strongly biased by my "local" sampling. Nevertheless, the fact that the devices were rather unrelated (an almost new compact flash, an SSD, a spinning 3.5' and a spinning 2.5') made me wonder: did anybody noticed a similar pattern recently? Now, if you excuse me, I have to sign a petition for stopping pool drownings by preventing Nicholas Cage to appear in movies.

Of course, the TV was hacked by a group related to the enemy of the day.
Too bad that most of their passwords were written on post-its clearly shown during their transmissions, even after the hacking happened. It seems the "ISIS supporting group" are more likely a bunch of wanna-be hackers that defaced many other websites that shared poorly configured servers and minimal IT resources, such as the Swizerland Boyscout website.

[Source: Paolo Attivissimo's website (in Italian)]

I didn't see any plans to be integrated in the new Systemd OS, so it's a "dead in the cradle" project for me. Wake me up when they see the light.

Yellow light before green?
In Germany and other countries it works just fine, and I can't understand why it's not used everywhere...

Not sure about the x86 issue.
DosBox runs just fine on Android and RaspberryPi.
Indeed, I've tested several ol'times masterpieces on the former, and it worked all very well (with Genuine Tears(TM)).

It is true that users don't bother much with the granularity of permissions, but it doesn't mean they shouldn't know the reason a given permission is required in the first place.
F-Droid tries to address this, for example. For each permission, there is a short explanation that the developer (I presume) has to write on why it is required.
Not perfect, but it's better than Google Play, in my opinion.

It's clearly old stuff from few years ago, but it's insightful to see the different software requirements and specifications.
For example, the NIGHTSTAND Wireless Exploitation/Injection Tool has a

while exploitable targets include:

The GINSU software application to control the hardware implant BULLDOZER or the software one KONGUR:

So after all, Microsoft is not really helping them, if they have to protect themselves from system updates :)

So no other approximations will be allowed?
And what's next? People modeling the Sun's gravity as a point?

Nothing absolutely special about the two, but definitely special in combination.
Let's say that water and rocks are very good ingredients on their own, assuming we're interested in variations of 'chemically based' life:

- water has interesting physical properties (you mentioned most of them), but one of them is its dielectric constant, very important for facilitating catalytic conditions (self-replicating molecules?)

- these physical properties allows it to solubilize minerals and a fair range of organic molecules at the same time, useful for catalyzing chemical reactions.

- it is somehow reactive either in reversible ways (hydrogen bonds) or by directly participating in chemical reactions (i.e. oxydation of energetic molecules = generating chemical energy)

- rocks could catalyze the spontaneous formation of chemical precursors or building blocks of life...well, as we know it? yes, but it means it happened at least once.


Now, the important key is obviously the catalysis, i.e. making chemical reactions easier and quicker. Doing that in a low-energy context (i.e. the temperatures found on modern or archaic Earth), makes it much easier for randomly created molecules to survive long enough to have a chance to self replicate.

Can't wait for having to remember to recharge my watch every night (instead of every couple of years, as I do now)

pretty much everything he wants/like.
'Nuff said...

No, actually, Obligatory XKCD Citation(TM)