I just picked up one of these and I must say I've been incredibly happy with it. The construction is top notch (Germans know a thing or two about how to build stuff), the key action is amazing, and it looks incredible. Pricey? Yes. But so is a finely-crafted automobile. Both will probably outlast you.

... Except in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, France, and Switzerland, where tickets are about a deterrent.

Because you know, they collect enough taxes to properly fund their civil services like police, so that, you know, they can do the jobs they are supposed to do and not focus on being tax collectors.

Given the huge volume of spam that gets sent from compromised free mail accounts such as Yahoo! et al, mostly due to people using dumb passwords or getting their PC rooted, I can see why Yahoo! might want to move to something else; in that case something you have (a phone) is vastly more secure than a password known to you and a whole bunch of blackhats. That's almost certainly the issue Yahoo! is trying to solve here, rather than the one of securing access to data which, given that it's on a free mail provider, really shouldn't be used for anything sensitive in the first place, but users will be users (even ones in senior government positions it seems).

Still, I can't help but feel that a better approach to using 2FA in frequent use situations where convenience plays a major part might be to only bring the second factor in to play when something "unusual" happens, such as a sudden change in the geographic location of the IP address that you are trying to connect from. That's still possible with Yahoo's system, only it would probably be the password that would be prompted for as the second factor rather than the SMS token as might previously have been the case when 2FA is used in this manner.

It actually isn't that cut and dry at all.

If you watch the interviews with Thicke, he readily admitted, long ago even before this court case, that they were trying to create a Gaye-inspired sound. The song is very explicitly NOT infringement, because it is not a copy.. all it is is a sound INSPIRED by the original (ie they are somewhat similar but noticeably different).

This is why this would be such a landmark change if left unchallenged. If inspiration means infringement, then for all intents and purposes, you can no longer listen to any music anymore that you did not personally create. Imagine all musicians being afraid of saying who inspires them, for fear of being sued.

That is what the outcome of this could very well be. Imagine if this was propegated to the written word... every derrivitive story about a prince and a princess, or about a angst-filled teenager playing with demons or vampires, would be considered infringement, since they all inspire from each other.

If an artist can no longer be inspired by another, art will cease to exist.

The headline is pretty misleading, and the illogical nature of it is revealed in the opening sentences of the "article." How in the world can you say solar "beats coal and wind" when it is responsible for roughly 1% of overall generation? Sure, it *added* more capacity by percentage this year than other power generation types, but so what? If I generated zero watts last year via hamster wheel generation and added one watt this year, my percentage increase is...well...infinity! Haha! I beat everything on the planet! But my actual generation is laughable.

I'm not trying to talk down solar, or wind, or anything. I'm just sick of the sensational headlines full of hyperbole picking relatively useless metrics to claim something like this is really amazing when, in fact, it's quite pedestrian.

Now there's more games than gamers!

Seriously, yes, I know -- or at least suspect -- there are more than a thousand Linux gamers on Steam out there, but really...when you've got barely 1% of the gaming market, it's a little silly to say 2015 could be the "Year of Linux Gaming." At some point you have to disconnect yourself from wishful thinking and hyperbole and just say "yeah, it's getting better, but it still has a very long way to go."