Windows 95 is long gone from modern Windows version.

Actually that's not true, as demonstrated by the MS14-064 (it's a bug that affects Win8 and also Win95).

As a sidenote, Win95 is not an ancestor of Windows8. Win8 is a member of the WinNT family, its lineage going back to the first version of Windows NT, which was curiously called Windows NT 3.1 (released in 1993).
The other line of Windowses (the one going from Windows 1.0 to Windows ME) ran in parallel and the two families sometimes shared some code but that's all, Win8 does not come from Win95.

Either all packets are equal (which is frankly stupid given that people want QoS)

Do they?
I, for one, would rather have net neutrality than QoS.
And I guess most people do not want QoS, they want enough bandwith and low enough latency in general so QoS does not even come into play.

Actually, all that solar energy makes German electricity rather pricey. You know, solar (and wind) is anything but cheap.

Solar thermal power plants covering 2/3rd of Mojave Desert could supply the current electricity needs of the entire USA.

No, they could not. That power plant may produce as much energy in a year as the consumption in the USA but alas, that's not enough: it has to produce the energy when it is needed - either by actually producing it on-demand (not really pausible considering that you need elecricity also in the night) or to have some energy storage system (also not really pausible on such a scale).

3-prevent Nato from having military bases on his border(national defence).

Oh, that one goes really well:
Estonian President Calls For Permanent NATO Base in Country

Turns out storage is not much needed at 80% renewable energy supply

Turns out, this article is bollocks.
It was extensively discussed here on Slashdot.

So what do you think should Palestine's response to the constant checkpoints, blockading of their ports, airport and border crossings, as well as the occupation and continued confiscation of their land by Israel should be?

I ask you the same and if you would come to the conclusion that randomly firing rockets on Isreal and demanding the death of all Jews is the rational reaction that has a very good chance of bringing prosperity and happiness to the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, I am very much interested in your reasoning.

As I said, she most likely lost because she was not represented.

She may have presented herself, but for fuckssake, there was a judge there. You know, that guy who knows the laws and is supposed to apply them sensibly. Like not passing totally idiotic verdicts.

Conventional public transportation has lots of problems that all are well known and most of it comes down to the simple fact that mass transport needs masses and while some part of your route may coincide with enough other people (especially in rush hours of densely populated areas) but most probably not all of it.

The driverless cars actually could be the foundation of a new generation of public transport: you could think of these bubble-cars as the atoms of a peronalised public transport.

Can we please stop spreading this stupidity?

The difference between first to invent and first to file has absolutely nothing to do with prior art. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

It only comes into play when two patent applications are filed for the same invention in roughly the same time because it is how it will be decided which one will be accepted.
(And, should I elaborate this even more, in this case there are no conflicting patent applications, it's about prior art and prior art has nothing to do with first to file.)

I'll go out on a limb and say that an album taints the kernel regardless of license.

Only if it's by Soft Cell.

The thing is USB doesn't have DMA.

It DOES have DMA since USB3.

What about the impending failure of capitalism?

Yeah, what about it?
I have grown up in a socialist country and I was told that the capitalism will fail anytime (though it did not stop people from trying to escape there from our socialist utopia to the hell of capitalism, even though they could be (and many of them were) shot dead on the border). And here I am, thirty years later, and the doom of capitalism is still impending while "the only way forward"-communist has failed spectacularly.

So please, lecture me on how communism is the only way forward.
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I'm amazed at how much negative feedback this is generating.

He is spending money to fuck with other people. And not in the literal sense. Frankly, if he would donate to a campaign to ban disabled parking spaces I would be a lot more understanding because there he could gain something. But supporting prop 8 is just pure jerkage.

Just because an individual may not support gay marriage does not mean they also hate gay people.

In my experience, yes, it does.
There may be some pseudo-rational mumbo-jumbo but it almost boils down to outright homophobia.

Personally I would prefer it if the state would just wash it's hand of the 'marriage' issue altogether. Introduce civil unions between people and award benefits and/or tax breaks accordingly.

So you propose that in the future marriage be called civil union, because...?

So how come there is no push to get women in high risk jobs, like oil wells, private security companies, mining, etc?

The question is: how would society gain anything from that?

Because it seems rather clear that getting women with the right talents to jobs where productivity largely depends on talent and can be quite high with the right people (of which there is a shortage) is a move that helps society.