I'm probably just being daft, but wouldn't it be technically impossible to play music from a sattelite? Space being a vacuum and all?

Bingo: it's the "no commercial servers" part. If you're making money off of your internet connection, you need a business plan. Simple as that.

AMD sold tri-core processors for a while - most if not all of those were just quadcores with one core either non-functional or intentionally crippled. Pretty smart move.

Whatever you do, don't tell Alice - she's the jealous type, or so I've heard

4chan threads self-destruct after a (short) period of inactivity, and has done so for a long time - I don't see how this ephemeral communication thing is either new or newsworthy.

I'm pretty sure we shouln't go and celebrate the existance of 4chan, either.

Not on ARM you can't. http://readwrite.com/2012/01/13/microsoft-says-no-to-disabling

Arch has a steam metapackage that installs a bootstrap type deal. I never saw a deb package either.

I believe the correct term is 'insensitive clod.'

The point is that a well known security product by a security vendor has a problem like this. This is not the kind of thing you buy off eBay from some shady guy in Ukraine or something. Barracuda sells products that will set you back thousands of bucks a year. You simply don't expect cheap tricks such as these for that kind of money. Hence newsworthy, IMHO.

Also, if you read the report, or the tech note even, it hints that the underlying issue (backdoor accounts) won't actually be fixed: "According to Barracuda Networks these accounts are essential for customer support and will not be removed."

Wouldn't mission critical business apps usually run on a server, though, and not inside a sandboxed browser plugin?

I highly doubt that your internet connection is fast enough to make good use of terabytes of cloud storage.

AFAICT there is no reason that dictates that if-else chains can never ever be optimized to use jump tables. My guess would be that the optimization rarely applies to ifs, and slightly less rarely to switches, which means compilers would only attempt to use jump tables in the second case. Even then there's usually a handful of conditions that must be met before jump tables make sense (there should be relatively few cases, and they should be continuous). 'Most of the time' seems like a bit of an overstatement to me, though I don't have the data to back that up.

'Much more efficient' should probably be backed up by benchmarks, measurements, citations and the like.