In terms of software patents, there's some annoying precedent that a software implementation of a architectural patent can be infringing. The MIPS architecture that we implement has LWR and LWL instructions that accelerate unaligned loads and stores. These were patented (the patents have now expired) and the owners of the patent won against someone who created a MIPS implementation where these two instructions caused illegal instruction traps and were emulated in software. The software implementations were found to infringe the hardware patent.

I have one of those in my home-router: a Lexra LX4189. It's a real shame though, such legal shenanigans didn't help the MIPS ISA overall.

It does take away all the awe I will have for future "elite" snipers. Those that have
correct sighting and wind adjustments down. Now you just need a patient man with an advanced firearm.

So don't you sight the laser with the scope anyway ?

I think I'm off by an a millionth (picometer vs micrometer).

Those were unforeseen costs (the price of failure), this would be an up-front cost. You bet they do let the accountants loose on this one.
Same for the insufficient armor your troops have (it was too pricey for the good stuff yet total cost of the war should have covered it a thousand times over).

C'mon the effect of gravity on photons is negligable even at ranges of 1-2 km. How much is the drop after 7 microseconds of travel time (~250 micrometers if my math is correct, but I doubt it) ?

What about consumer electronics (washing machines, microwaves, smartphones, routers, AP's) or critical industrial systems
where I would image RTOS to be necessary (VxWorks, QNX) ? I can't imagine Windows CE dominating in those spaces.

But you see you are in the Windows CE embedded niche. Your vision is clouded.

No cut ?

You can just press !!, and type your shell command in vim to do the same.

I concurr, don't hoarde ! Nostalgia is an overrated emotion.

I've had multiple nvidia cards as well: geforce 2 mx, geforce 5200 (CRAP), geforce 6600, geforce 8600 gt, geforce 9500, geforce 660 and geforce 760 gt which I'm currently using.
The binary blob has always delivered decent performance, this in big contrast to nouveau.

But it does have some issues:
- When you switch from X to tty and back, sometimes you get a black screen as tty and will continue to have unusable black ttys from that point on.
- X and system lock ups do occur after some uptime
- The driver installer (re)moves libEGL.la, which is needed to compile stuff.

Now, where is my arctic silver?

I always wonder, is there an expiration date on thermal paste. I keep buying new ones because I don't know and it's cheap.

What I wonder is Isn't the entire CA trust chain suspect now ? If so, why is everybody acting like nothing happened ?
Aren't we all just covering this up out of practical pragmatism then ?

Which brings us neatly to the F-35: it is meant and conceived as a stealth bomber but not as an air dominance fighter. So will it enable the US and it's allies to dominate the skies? For me that is the real question.

I dont think that's true, IIRC the F35 is meant to replace F16/F18 jet's which are multirole/jack of all trade fighterjets.
The B2 is a stealth bomber. And in today's air battles it's the capabilities of your guided missile systems that win your "dogfights" anyway.