Given the fact that the gain will reach 0 one day. Its built in that it will happen.
That day the bitcoins will slowly get eroded away and lost in the big bucket in the sky.

In the end most bitcoins will mostly be nothings - lost bitcoins that will never be recoverable and the total worth of the bitcoin market will be highly exaggerated without anyone knowing if they still exists or are lost.

The scammers behind it has just moved from country to country and when done in one they moved on to the next. When gone through all the worlds countries they are back in the same old countries again.

So its still ongoing - they have never stopped. The fact that not Interpol has managed to stop them is a sure sign of the fact that the police is nearly incapable of stopping common criminals who operate out of other countries.

Just upgrade to Linux Mint or some other Linux distribution. It should world on old hardware.

The correct answer are:

It's the new and improved version, they changed the name.

If you are right and comments are bad.

It's time to shut down slashdot.

The fact that open source projects accept code from others don't mean that anyone can enter code into a project. New code is checked by a maintainer before being added to the project to make sure its dont suck like closed source code often does.

Most of the old bugs are not in open sourced projekt. Most of the open source projects find that security problems is in new code.

The smart people like me are slow to change to new code unless they have to because of security reasons. Doing that
other have time to find any bugs and straighten them out before we use the new code.

Its a win win from a security standpoint to use open source. If you want - you can always do your own code review if you think something fishy is going on.

or maybe just one word to many - remove "No"

Its definitly a joke. Its a very typical Linus joke.

As everyone know the US goverment has created laws that forbid anyone to publicly admit that they inserted backdoors into the code.

Sadly the slashdot editors aint too knowledgeable today so they actually accepted this so called "news" story.

Since Microsoft bought out a big chunk of B&N from Nook to prevent B&N from destroying their "Linux" patents in a patent trial I presume this will be the new WP based Nook.

Thus who cares ? I don't, this just looks like another slashadvert for Microsoft in the making.

Well, there are calculations saying that the cost is about 2% of global GPD to fix it. Thats a small sacrifies as I see it.

The cost to global GDP to not fix it - its higher...

Its like fixing a house - either you fix the roof or you let it rain in. It you let it rain in; sooner or later your whole house need to be rebuilt from scratch because its rotten from the inside.

Not at all, revenue has nothing to do with what you should pay for a patent. Turn-over is the more important figure.

5% is usually the opening bid fÃr non-standard patents so 2.5% fÃr a FRAND patent is reasonable.

Whats unreasonable is that Microsoft did not even give an counter offer.

The remaining parts is useless for Microsoft. So no need to buy them.

It was the devices Microsoft wanted all along.