Also be sure to use channels that are spaced far enough apart so as to not interfere at all. (E.g. 1, 6, & 11)

No mod points here. I played WoW for 3 years on Linux using Crossover Games. Codeweavers has merged all of their Wine forks into one product so it's even more worthwhile to buy it now. There have been a few issues (such as memory problems on 64-bit Linux hosts), but overall it works pretty well. I had no trouble doing end-game raids (Vent works fine too).

Sun had recently settled their lawsuit with Microsoft over Java with undisclosed terms. A conspiracy theorist might wonder whether those terms included Sun acting as a proxy for Microsoft in channeling that $23M to Caldera/TSG/SCO.

How can you miss the difference between parents having the means to fund a child's Harvard education (incomplete at that) and being a multi-billionaire?

I plan to send a kid to Harvard, and even though I am a millionaire, you've never heard of me (and probably never will). I began working at 15 and never inherited anything. I've never stolen money from anyone and I don't think I'm taking too big a slice of "the pie". I'm just now finishing a BS degree 30 years late, but at least I'll have a better education than Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Steve Jobs.

My GP post was modded down to zero so I guess most Slashdotters today are communists and socialists. They'll never become wealthy with such attitudes.

It is a fact of life that we were not all created equal. There is certainly nothing wrong with guaranteeing equal rights, but one must be careful how one defines a "right". There are no guarantees of equal intelligence, equal skills, equal ethics, or equal motivation. It is the latter four that allow an individual to build wealth. Some are better at doing this than others. Is it fair to penalize a person for becoming rich?

This story is about the hypocrisy of the Obama administration. Obama is a prime example of my point. He was not born into a rich family, he's not (all) white, but he was able to use his intelligence and political skills to become the most powerful leader in the world. I don't agree with most of his policies, but I respect his ability.

Your premise is flawed. You are assuming that there is a "pie" that represents some total volume of wealth, and that some people are getting "too much". Wealth doesn't work that way at all. Anyone can become wealthy. Look at Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, Ellison, Page, and Brin for a few examples. None of these folks were born with a silver spoon in their mouths, and they did not achieve their wealth by taking it away from anyone else.

Your argument is commonly used by those who wish to redistribute wealth. Redistributing wealth never makes poor people rich, but it can make rich people (and middle class people) poorer.

You are absolutely correct. I should have mentioned that as well because it furthers my point. RIM is a litigious company. "Live by the sword, die by the sword."

RIM sued others over their stupid "push" e-mail patent. They won big judgements and settlements. (See this.) Now I guess it's their turn to pay. This couldn't have happened at a worse time for them. I hope they are gone soon. I want my company to upgrade my 9900 to something else. Anything would be better (even a Windows phone).

The back-door described in the white paper requires access to the JTAG (1149.1) interface to exploit. Most deployed systems do not provide an active external interface for JTAG. With physical access to a "secure" system based upon these parts, the techniques described in the white paper allow for a total compromise of all IP within. Without physical access, very little can be done to compromise systems based upon these parts.

I agree that ARS is usually pretty good, but they also have a regular stream of crap articles such as the anthropogenic global warming rants. Their latest global warming rant is a jewel. Check the comments where all of the "accepted science" is backed up by Wikipedia citations! Priceless.

Laptop batteries can indeed discharge to the point where they are bricked. This seems to be a characteristic of lithium cells.

I've had this happen myself with several Toshiba laptop batteries that I left in a unplugged laptop for several weeks, and a friend of mine had to pay Apple for a new battery when his Macbook-Air was unplugged for a month (while he moved).

In the case of my Toshiba batteries, I was able to open up the two battery packs and construct one working pack from the remaining good cells. The bad cells were unchargeable. (I did this because Toshiba wanted $150 for a new battery pack and I was poor at the time.)

All of these cases involved lithium battery arrays connected to a battery management system where each cell is individually monitored for temperature and charge state.

The Tesla article may be bogus, but it has a ring of truth for me because of my experiences above.

Any receiver that does not directly sample the RF input employs a "superheterodyne" design with a local oscillator and a mixer to downconvert the desired signal to something that can be demodulated and processed. GPS frequencies are high enough that it's not practical (today) to directly sample them.

There is always some leakage of the local oscillator through the other mixer port. There may also be some leakage of the downconverted intermediate frequency (IF).

In my youth I made a "police detector" using this principle. It worked quite well.

I don't tweet, but I have served on several juries. The judge always admonishes the jury to not discuss the trial until after it's over. The judge does not prevent any and all contact with other people, only contact related to the proceedings. Tweeting is not much different than talking and this juror was not sequestered and not talking about the case. I see this as a bad decision. (I cannot read the whole decision itself. Only the first few pages appear at the link from TFA.)

Why not outsource the whole task to somebody like Iron Mountain? They could get it done quickly and economically. It might even create a few jobs.

Yep. The 70cm amateur radio spectrum sits right in the middle of that range. It's widely used and will not be surrendered without a fight. Why not instead use some of the frequency spectrum recently freed up by the analog television broadcast transmitters for this purpose?