Out of curiosity, have you ever heard Pakistan actually mentioned in conversation without it being a negative reference, anyway? The best thing I've ever heard said about the place is that they make cheap knives that will break easily and won't hold an edge. Maybe you've never heard it used any way other than negatively for a reason; maybe every time they were brought up, it was to make a complaint.

HP URLs appear to be by-department. Whether this actually represents the structure of HP's web servers or is only a logical arrangement is another question

I use the word "logical" loosely here

Statistics is a dirty word today, even though modern science depends upon it. The public most commonly encounters them when they are lied about.

Nah. It just takes more crashes before the exploit achieves penetration.

(Address space randomization is a terrible idea. It's a desperation measure and an excuse for not fixing problems. In exchange for making penetration slightly harder, you give up repeatable crash bug behavior.)

Well, I'm sure someone will speak up about some tales of DASDs of yore still older than what I've had, but I still remember when Seagate was called "Seizegate" because of the frequency of occasion when one needed to dismount the drive, place it upon a soft surface, and give it a good rap on one corner (perpendicular to the axis of rotation) in order to permit it to spin up. 21MB of ST-225, baby.

The Slashdot article doesn't tell me what MediaGoblin does, or what it's for. Nether does the MediaGoblin site. The documentation, in typical Gnu syle, starts out with "how to participate" and continues with installation instructions.

It's sort of like Wordpress, but with different features and support for streaming media. There's a list of sites that use it. Of the public sites listed, all but one are demos of MediaGoblin. The first site on the list that isn't a a demo and works is this set of baby pictures. There's one site that lets you upload stuff. It's a collection of uploaded pictures with no organization.

This seems to be a publishing system for people with nothing to say.

That's not true at all. An automated car which can't deal with unexpected human actions also can't deal with unexpected vehicle actions due to software error or hardware failure.

Great. The so-called "Green Revolution" has resulted in the destruction of topsoil everywhere it has been used, and increasing fossil energy dependence. What's next?

You're talking about the Roadster, we're talking about the Model S. Please stay on topic.

...they were trusting Cirrus Logics to put together two out of four chips, and they failed to execute in a timely fashion. By the time they had a prototype, the hardware was outdated.

Back in the 1990s, Microsoft developed something similar. Their idea was to render frames in layers, with the more distant or less active layers rendered less often. if the viewpoint changed, the background layers were scrolled, rotated, or transformed to match, rather than being re-rendered immediately. It never caught on, because graphics hardware became fast enough to re-render everything on for each frame.

This new thing is similar. Mispredicted frames are viewpoint-warped as a temporary measure so the user sees something. The image is wrong, but close enough to look OK until a new rendered frame is sent. It looks OK for Doom, on which it was tested, because Doom is mostly about the shooter and the opponents moving; there's not much general activity in the background. GTA IV/V would probably look much worse than normal.

The whole concept represents a desperate attempt to make something "cloud-based" that shouldn't be.

Claiming that's what's claimed is frankly bullshit. Before systemd Linux systems used either sysvinit or BSD-style init, one of the two primary init standards.

And you need it, to match the practical (road-going) performance of the Model S. I think that's a pretty fair comparison. Truth is, the average car is just quite heavy these days. 4,000 pound cars are commonplace again. 4,600 just ain't so much of a stretch. I don't appreciate this trend; I like lightweight vehicles. My old sedan is a 300SD (~3500lb) and my new one is a D2 A8 Quattro (~3900 lb) and both vehicles are lightest-in-class.

Except nobody actually does that. The whole JVM thing was done to make browser "applets" work. Nobody uses those any more. Most Java is server-side, running on farms of x86 machines.