That would be the Leica-as-Panasonic then? Same glass, but you pay Panasonic prices.

Speaking of Panasonic, that's what's pissed me off about their strategy with bridge cameras, after the FZ30 it took them ten years to produce a successor, the FZ1000, because they didn't want to undercut their GH line, and even then they only came out with the '1000 because of Sony's RX10. This did however introduce me to a completely novel experience, that of being glad Sony exists.

So you'd take some 1/3.2" cellphone sensor at 24MP over a full-frame 16MP?

Beat me to it. Outside of the photographer community, the most common use I've seen for expensive DSLRs is as $1,000 point-and-shoots. It makes me want to cry when I see someone pull out a 60D and take a few shitty, badly-composed snaps of their three-year old with the top of the head cut off, then throw it onto the grass so they're free to wiggle their fingers at them. In my day we had to make do with salt prints produced from calotype negatives using salt we licked off our backs after working 26 hours a day down at mill, and we were lucky,

Camera phones have taken over the role of the $1,000 point-and-shoot and, as you point out, this is just things going back to normal.

It's actually pretty simple to figure out, and is based on what the headline should have read, which is Why Gmail Has Better Security Than US Banks. I'm not aware of any European or Australasian bank that hasn't had 2FA for years (with the exception of UK banks, which are almost as bad as US ones).

Having said that, as a non-US IT person who occasionally has to deal with banks I think it's great, as long as US banks are running around with "please rob me" signs taped to their backs the cybercriminals leave our banks alone. Somebody has to be the easy-picking low-hanging fruit, and in this case it's the US.

(Sorry if this sounds like gratuitous US-bashing, but sheesh, how do your banks continue to get away with this? There are as yet undiscovered tribes in the jungles of Borneo who use Chip&PIN and 2FA, but the US doesn't...).

Even if it was available, what you're getting (if it's the same as Android) is some crappy third-rate copy of desktop Firefox with a fraction of the functionality and an inability to run most of the extensions you're used to. Tried it on my Android phone and it lasted about 15 minutes before I removed it again. So for all the iDevice users waiting for Firefox, don't bother.

After trying seemingly one of every mobile browser out there, the least sucky one I've found is UC Browser, which is available for iDevices (although the iPhone one hasn't been updated for awhile). It does most things I want, has AdBlock built in, and most importantly is actively supported by the developers. You can actually go to their web site and report a bug or request a feature, and someone will respond and take a look at it, unlike the Firefox developers who are too busy deciding how much rounding to put on their tabs and what random reordering of menu and command options will be most cromulent for this afternoon's release.

And that's what this art project was really about, it's not some solarlalalography thing, it's a performance art piece that reminds society how effective terrorism has been in the US.

Yeah, you're not quite thinking far enough here. The human body is about 50% water (not 70%), so by removing that you can instantly double the carrying capacity of the 777. Reconfigure it as a cargo carrier, capacity about 100 tons, average human weight of 70kg (double that if it's Americans), load it with pallets of weight-reduced humans at 35kg each, you can get about 2,800 people into a 777. As I mentioned in my original post, some settling of contents may occur during this process, i.e. "you can't get them out again in the same shape/form they went in".

Yes you can, you just can't get them out again in the same shape/form they went in.

You can stop someone's heart with a standard 1.5V dry cell, you just need to apply it directly to the heart. Stick a bayonet in through the ribs and into the heart, hook a battery to it, and just like magic the heart will stop.

It's part of a bunch of long-running experiments like the Queensland pitch drop experiment (running since 1930) and the Beverley Clock (running since 1864, although it was stopped briefly to move it and for cleaning). I particularly like the Beverley Clock (the Pitch Drop is pretty boring), a clock that's been running for over 150 years without being wound. You can buy your own (modern) equivalents of this clock if you have plenty of money (note that they don't list a price, you're requested to contact their concierge, typical prices are five to six figures, although you can find them at below RRP sometimes).

"Defender" should have been "Security Essentials", forgot the changed branding.

[Citation needed]

... and will probably remain so until tomorrow, when it'll be Kaspersky's turn, and then they get trumped by AVG, who in turn get knocked out by Avast, and then...

Asking "what's the best AV" is a loaded question, you need to qualify it in terms of best detection (as of right this minute, but not necessarily tomorrow), least naggy, least overhead, etc. Given that all AV will be defeated by 0day (in other words the determined malware will always get through no matter whose AV you have) and that I want a machine that isn't bogged down or even bricked by my AV, I'd recommend Windows Defender. It'll catch all the generic malware (if not the latest 0day), but most importantly its major design goal is to be as low-impact and unintrusive as possible. It's not perfect at that, but it's vastly better than the Symantec/Norton crap which is often worse than the malware it's supposed to be defending against.

Don't worry, I have it on good authority that next year will be the Year of Desktop Linux, and then all those apps will appear and you'll have things to run on your Linux machine.

Any malware worth its salt will detect a VM (and the presence of debuggers and other things) and refuse to run. You need to be running on a physical machine to do malware analysis.