After the fact replacement of the engine means you need to pay someone to take the existing engine out, put a new one in, integrate it with the existing systems/etc. I imagine that takes a few hours (probably tens of hours) which adds significantly to the cost.

Cats vs dogs. Etc.

Mayor of New York city comes to mind, population: 8.2 million, compared to countries that makes it the 96th most populated country (out of 242).

So with Gnome 3 to configure it you need the control panel, which comes built in. Except that is highly limited and doesn't include the ability to do basic things like manage window buttons, modify icons to include command line options, etc. All basic things that every other GUI includes in the control panel/properties of icons/etc.

What you will need to manage Gnome 3: the gnome teak tool, gnome extensions, and alacarte to modify icons. Except alacarte is broken, and has been broken since about August of 2011. So you'll need to copy text files into your home dir and edit them by hand to have custom command line options for icons. I cover all the gory details on F17 here:

http://kurt.seifried.org/2012/06/01/making-fedora-17-gnome-3-work-you-cant-its-completely-broken/

TLDR: customizing Gnome 3 is a disaster. It's not that configuration options are hidden, they simply aren't present, you'll need additional tools, one of which is totally broken.

Go read "Great by choice", and Intels strategy (aka "Intel delivers") is explained, but in a nutshell they realized early on (like in the 70's) it wasn't enough to make good chips, you have to make lots of them, perfectly. So they are heavy into the manufacturing side and making sure it works really really well.

So I have a question: Google Chrome (and some other browsers) treats the address bar as a search bar. How will that work with new TLD's like "pepsi", does every search (for a single word) first get a DNS lookup, and then if fails, searched for at Google (which means all your personal searches leak to your ISP and any DNS server along the way), or do we include a whitelist of every new tld in the browser?

You need to be able to send arbitrary Dbus messages, so you need either local access or to remotely compromise the system (in which case you already won). This article is ridiculous and much ado about nothing.

The thing I still enjoy about Slashdot is not the number of comments, but reading them at 4+ or 5, and there are some real gems/informative things/etc. Unfortunately as people leave these great (not merely good) comments will leave as well leading to a downward spiral. Ala Digg. The system Reddit uses makes it much more difficult to simply say "show me all the good comments", although Reddit definitely wins the timeliness game.

Seriously. I'm not one to reminisce about the "good old days" (see my UID) but this is serious ridiculous. This really reminds me of when Digg cratered out, just checked Digg, 15 stories on the front page and 77 comments, in total. I remember when they had hundreds of comments, per story. So I'm guessing if this continues Slashdot will crater out by the end of the year. Well it was nice while it lasted.

$250,000 is basically one employee for one year (say 100k *2 for overhead/etc.) plus 50k in hardware/software. Properly securing this stuff is bound to cost more than the fines, so sadly I suspect many businesses simply do the math and decide to eat the fine.

I think Fight Club summed it up nicely:

Just put a few of these change stations on the outskirts of the cities on the highway, so electric in town, drive a few hours to X, stop at a station on the way to get an engine and a full tank of gas, when you hit the other city swap the engine back for a battery. For people who drive a LOT in town they can keep the engine. Sounds very handy. Would need a ridiculous amount of infrastructure however.

Yes it is wrong, it's called fraud. There may also be health concerns, e.g. allergies.

http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Issues/2011/127/Security-Lessons-Bufferbloat/%28kategorie%29/0

So when people say "congestion causes slow networks" they are quite often right, but not for the reasons they think they are. Case in point: my Cablemodem ping times to www.seifried.org are nice and fast, until I saturate my uplink (with even just a single upload stream) at which point the latency increases to one second (in a semi-linear fashion over a few seconds, you can almost hear all the buffers getting filled up along the way).

Cheaper than running physical cable to each machine. One AP can service multiple systems easily.

Not bad, it would seem white collar crime really does pay.