You are expecting Slashdotters to be tuned into the Microsoft rumor mill? Why? Windows is something other people use and care about. I think the last time I (indirectly) gave Microsoft a dime was 2010 when I bought a net book bundled with XP.

It's actually in hex, you see, and Microsoft is going to win the versioning war by going exponential. It will become obvious in the version after that when 0x10 (16) is followed by 0x20 (32) but by then it will be too late for the competition to catch up!

They were considering using 2^x -1 to get past the "never trust an even number" rule but a summer intern pointed out that "Microsoft Windows F" might be tough sell.

And, as long as Google is forcing the OEM's to pre-load Google apps, why don't they force all apps to be deletable?

When space gets tight (and this time will always come), I should be able to delete any app I am not using.

What a strange statement.

1) The star in question was a pulsar, not a red dwarf.
2) Red dwarfs while small for stars are still much bigger than planets.
3) Exoplanets have been found around red dwarfs
4) Pulsars are the remains of large stars.

You don't even have to combine different forms of lethality, just combine lethality with ease of propagation. Airborne ebola, anyone?

If they were honest, would they operate this kind of business?

The article mentioned a handful of startups but there is no mention of any of these startups actually producing a product that people can buy. If you actually could buy a product or service from an Intellectual Ventures backed company this would be a powerful affirmation that IV is a real contributor and not just a troll.

That this PR piece makes no mention of such a product, making it very clear this has not happened. I expect this will never happened. IV startups are not meant to produce and sell product. They are meant to be bought out and bought out for a much larger sum than IV could get from just licensing the IP.

Now, there is nothing wrong with a startup selling out before it can bring it's product to market but it is a little bit dishonest to plan it that way.

Which, I suppose is an improvement over IV's normal policy of simply sitting on technology until a practicing entity re-invents it and then suing them. Still, it is a long way from showing that the world is better with Intellectual Ventures than without them.

It is already in gentoo if you run Gnome3, which is most people. It is pretty messy too since the documentation has not caught up.

IMHO, your point is the wrong way around and likely the real cause of why people are eating so badly as well as getting fat.

The question is not: "What should I not eat?". The question is "What should I eat?" Eat for nutrition. Eat for the benefits to your body that come from eating a food. If a food does not offer anything you need, don't eat it.

It is not necessary to micro manage the ingredients in your food to ensure that it doesn't contain anything on the current "bad" list. If you pursue food that is helpful, you are not going to get so much of the "bad" stuff anyway and, for the most, what you do get isn't going to matter anyway.

That is probably not workable. One of my real life friends has discovered that some of their extended *family* express rather "unfortunate" opinions on Facebook. When they get together in real life, these opinions are muffled but on Facebook the filters come off.

I've seen a little of this from people I have known for my many years (long before Facebook) but have been out of frequent contact with for a decade or more. They post things that make me cringe a little.

I like Sonic. But 6Mbps is not fast anymore and that is all that Sonic will likely be able to offer you. (Yes, the service is technically "up to 20Mbps" but unless you share a parking lot with CO, you are not going to get that)

Comcast starts at 6Mbps and goes up to 105Mbps. AT&T is running VDSL up to 45Mbps. Unlike at the ADSL generation, they are not required to share and so they don't.

Any ISP that doesn't run their own wires is doomed to offer increasingly uncompetitive speeds. Sonic has run fiber in a couple of areas but it doesn't seem likely that they will be able to fiber everyone who has service with them now. Or even close.

Street protests were over compensation of executives. I never heard any suggestion that the lower level workers were overpaid.

Fusion reactors capable of producing net power are big, or seem to be being as we haven't actually built one yet.

However, if you just want to produce tritium for a boosted fission bomb, you don't need to generate net power. A farnsworth fusor will do and they are small and inconspicuous.

As for deuterium: Deuterium is produced for industrial, scientific and military purposes, by starting with ordinary water—a small fraction of which is naturally-occurring heavy water—and then separating out the heavy water by the Girdler sulfide process, distillation, or other methods.

So, no point in securing your fusion reactor because the bad guys don't have any real motivation to break in. At least, not to steal anything.

I can think of a few things that are worse, including:

1) Arriving at your destination needing to charge your phone and finding that, although you have the charger and the phone, you forgot the adapter.
2) Having to mate and secure two connections instead of just one.
3) Unplugging phone cable from adapter leaving converter behind. This already happens with car adapters where you can easily walk off with the cable and phone, leaving the 12V adapter behind.
4) Arriving at far off destination to find that you have a new style power adapter (for another device) but old style microusb on your phone with no converter and you may not even be able to get a converter at any price because everyone assumes that people migrate old to new and not the other way.

Nah. They've re-invented Ada.

Ada is when they re-invented PL/1.

Hmm. What comes after strike 2?