True, I haven't seen children playing like they used to, particularly in urban and suburban areas for at least 15-20 years. When I was a kid we played outside a lot, in spite of my interest in computers and early hobby programming, and I'd estimate that 2-4 windows were lost to mishaps on my street every year. That doesn't count criminal activity, which breaks quite a few.

Plastic is still easier to scratch.

No, that's a "bidet".

"Geyser" it's a common term for a water heater in the UK. The name came into the language from a product name, much as "Aspirin", "Styrofoam", "Velcro", "Band-Aid", "Sharpie", "Escalator", etc (among hundreds of others - a quick search turned up this list of generically-used trademarks).

To expand on this a bit: The average person with a US-centric world view probably only knows of tank-type water heaters, which are far less common outside the US. In Europe, where people still live in houses that predated indoor plumbing or at least predated hot water from a tap, they may heat water anywhere from a centralized on-demand instant heater through a point-of-use on-demand water heater. Large tank water heaters would be impractical to install in any house that was not initially designed for one. As a result, they're also harder to come by, so newer houses are also designed around on-demand water heaters...

For a more humorous example of English-American language incompatibility, see "Trousers", which Americans call "Pants".

Because you just turned little Timmy's baseball mishap into a much more expensive repair. Five of the ten years you need to recoup your costs, tweaker Billy breaks your window to steal your stuff. Window washer Joe uses a dirty rag to clean your window and leaves it hazy/scratched. There are many reasons it would be less-than-practical. Unless it is as cheap as window tinting and/or included in every window made, the cost risk almost certainly exceeds the value of the energy harvested.

GIYF: https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+sbc Come back and complain about my stating the obvious once you've finished reviewing those 1.7M results (this query just scratches the surface - try linux+arm, linux+mips, or linux+[processor model] to get even more options, ranging from SoCs through SoMs and SBCs).

Here's a site that posts press releases about embedded Linux devices/SBCs/etc all this time (and has for at least a decade, I believe): http://www.linuxfordevices.com/

The only thing these new products have are marketing departments that can catch the attention of a big tech press site or two. The spin from there is incredible, considering they're not really doing anything that hasn't been done thousands of times before.

Even the Raspberry Pi is nothing special. I've been working with cheap tiny COTS SBCs that run Linux for many years... Clearly the average person working in IT/software development/etc has absolutely no awareness of this market.

With filtering in place, the fact they allowed access to pornographic websites before Ramadan is what confuses me. Was this like the Indonesian Internet version of Mardi Gras?

I never said you shouldn't, I was simply answering the obvious before it was asked.

Yeah, and it's the state religion in a number of other countries. The headline seems to indicate that Indonesia is the only country that observes it.

Before you ask, yes, I call Lent a "holiday", too.

Isn't Ramadan a Muslim holiday? How is it "the country's holy month"?

I love Xubuntu in spite of losing all my geek cred by using anything related to Ubuntu. I still use *BSD for servers and routers, so it's not like I'm a sellout, but I'd rather have a slightly unstable laptop/desktop than go to the effort of using a higher-cred distro that is similarly-unstable. Huge bonus points for being realistically-usable by people without special training.

I, for one, welcome a future where MS Windows is just an option among many.

It reminds me of the early-mid 90s where basically every connected computer had a public IP address. It was glorious.

There are still vast ranges of unused addresses that have not been monetized, so there's no incentive to change. The cost of conversion is higher than the cost of addresses, therefore we will keep using them and developing software that doesn't support IPv6 until costs escalate.

Beyond this, how many of your ISPs offer native IPv6? This will be a prerequisite to widespread consumer adoption.

I meant "on-screen keyboard" in the second sentence, not a physical keyboard.