In this case it's slower because they are not comparing apples to apples. For memory they repeatedly concatenate strings together, which reallocates the memory and copies the string every time. For the disk they allocate the whole file at once and then just stream the data. It would have been a much better test if they had allocated a memory buffer for the string and streamed the data in to it the same way as a the disk.

Someone who read the summary (and probably even the actual story).

Step 2: Drop some customized thermal sensors.

And the site they downloaded that Live CD from will have instructions for turning off Secure Boot, or adding their key to the BIOS.

Please, world population has nothing to do with the people currently starving. That's all down to local politics. Warlords and 3rd world governments seize or otherwise don't allow food to get where it needs to go. We could easily support a population at least 3 times higher than we have now if people would stop being dicks.

How many "standard" users are going to install Linux, or even know what Linux is?

Once a user learns enough about Linux to want to install it they will undoubtedly know how to turn this feature off or install the correct keys.

That has nothing to do with Net Neutrality. They are not blocking anything on the packet level. In order to use HGO Go you have to first prove to HBO that you own a compatible cable tv package. To do this HBO contacts the cable company. In this case comcast is just refusing to authorize their customers to HBO. It's a dick move, but it's unrelated to Net Neutrality or even the internet.

In the face of decades of evidence of perfect safety, yes.

8 != 300, but you already know that.

This happened a few years ago for the iconography in Visual Studio (2010 I believe) too, and the users were up in arms. It took what felt like a tremendous amount coordinated feedback over a very long time to get some very small concessions from Microsoft. If you don't like it you had better start letting them know about it now and en-mass, because this decision will have a LOT of inertia behind it. It won't be easy to get them to change their minds at this point.

Source?

If you don't understand the basics about physics then there really isn't much point in continuing this conversation. Pretty much anyone who finished highschool should be able to understand what I'm saying.

And when I say "put out" I include everything that leaves the body, including unprocessed food that ends up in the toilet.

So between "taking in", "putting out", and "storing" everything eventually adds up to 0. It doesn't matter how efficient your body is at all for this calculation, because efficiency only effects the distribution of "putting out" vs "storing". It's a zero sum game with the rules enforced by physics.

Taking a crap counts as "calories out".

Everything that enters our body either stays in it, or is removed from it in some way. It's a zero sum game with the rules enforced by physics.

How is "excreting" not putting calories out? It doesn't matter how the calories come out, be it exercise, taking a crap, or cutting off your arm, those are still calories that leave the system.