The $105 million fine is not for the 1.4 million vehicles recalled due to the remote hack. The fine is for a separate set of issues on which recalls weren't properly done. The $105 million fine also isn't the end of the punishment, they have to also purchase back affected vehicles from consenting owners.

How certain are you that there will be no eDRAM versions of socketed Skylake?

You're probably thinking of NVIDIAs Optimus technology in portable devices. In which case, no, the Intel graphics aren't enhancing anything. The output from the NVIDIA chip gets piped through the Intel chip, as the Intel chip is the only one attached to the display. It's a solution to requiring a reboot with muxed GPU switching solutions. There's also a mild performance reduction with the Optimus solution.

No. If that's what you're after, you'll need to skip Broadwell and wait for Skylake.

That's why I always just open links in new tabs, and if I get an interstitial, I just close the tab.

I agree, but that doesn't change the fact that your initial response of "Ridiculous" to the claim that "playing content requires the ability to duplicate that content" was misguided.

Or you could run the software in a VM and have the host OS capture the screenshot, if they manage to implement invasive DRM.

Because those are technologies aimed to protect the path of those necessary digital copies. The photons from the screen still need to travel through the air though, and there's nothing stopping you pointing a camera at it.

It may benchmark well, but it just feels so damn slow. The UI is often unresponsive when I try to scroll after initially loading a page, and any time something uses flash (usually ads), the UI hangs long enough that I get a brief "not responding" notification.

Except the electron actually can tunnel to the other side even when the transistor is turned off. Arguing whether you can or can't observe it passing through the blockade is moot, when all you care about is failing to stop the electron from passing through.

They are still compulsory, eventually. You only get to delay the upgrade.

Google even tried a free email replacement called Wave. That didn't catch on either.

The Core micro-architecture was within the last decade and that was very interesting and exciting. Sandy Bridge was also a pretty good milestone.

Judge Hellerstein is on a roll.

The timing is awful, this was essentially just banned in New Zealand.