As is the case a lot (not all) of the time with Apple. They're worth a lot in click-bait, so what you do is try to find something outrageous to say about a popular product, put adverts on the page to generate you cash, and try and profit from the massive public interest in yet another Apple product...

Or maybe I'm getting too cynical in my old age.

Simon

Ah, propaganda!

GPLv3: "code should be open and free, unless we decide that the freedom that a company chose was not the freedom we wanted them to choose!"

So, you think idea that you can do anything you want within the terms of the licence is a "loophole". Mhhmmm.

Oh, and let's not forget the idea that anyone who disagrees with your position is a sociopath.

What next? The test for sociopathic tendencies involves presenting a choice of OSS licences and if the subject picks anything other than GPLv3 they get branded a sociopath?

The version of Bash with the patch is v3, the version Apple uses is v2. They're perfectly happy to ship GPLv2 code (quite a bit of their codebase is GPL), but they have strenuously avoided GPLv3 where possible.

What is hard to understand about this?

That, plus the fact that the patches issued so far are not 100% effective is probably why there is no official patch from Apple yet (you are free to compile your own of course).

They have stated that they are working on it, so it will be forthcoming soon enough.

Exactly. In much the same way that removing the brakes, airbags, firewall, etc will make your car travel faster downhill.

Postgres-XL is currently compatible with Postgres 9.2. Postgres 9.3 introduces better support for JSON data that bring it closer to the functionality of a NoSQL DB. It looks like XL will be compatible with 9.3 in the near future.

Just in my experience, the introduction of HStore and JSON data types in Postgres has pretty much nullified the advantages I'd get from using a NoSQL DB. Sharding, high availability, etc are all there with a little work (and help from the many 3rd party projects in the Postgres "ecosystem"). Every now and then I find myself tempted to run a project using a NoSQL DB, but the trade offs (lots of memory, lack of ACID compliance, nascent querying languages, etc) bring me back to Postgres.

Of course there are situations where Mongo or other NoSQL DBs make sense. Using something like InfluxDB for time series data looks pretty neat, and having highly optimized lookup data in a NoSQL DB is great. In the end, you use the database system that makes sense in your work - and avoid the cargo-culting of any technology just because it's the new hotness.

I've been really happy with Postgtes's performance over the years. Raw speed is not an issue - you can always add more nodes using something like Postgres-XL if you have to. It's the gradual introduction of functionality that makes my life easier that I appreciate.

OP again. US$300 is a lot, but fairly typical here in SA. We regularly hear of families in our area paying AU$1500 per quarter (around US$1300) for electricity. But then we also see families with more TVs than actual family members, reverse-cycle airconditioners running all day and other sorts of outrageous waste.

Pricing has been seen as a means to reduce consumption in Australia. It's a valid approach, but it does hit people hard - particularly those who can't afford it - but by and large it has been effective. But it has also lead to an oversupply of electricity generation, so now the Carbon Tax has been removed it's possible we'll see a return to higher consumption. It's hard to tell if people's behaviour has changed during the period when the Carbon Tax was in force.

As a side note, as a point of comparison, we only pay around US$150 per month for a four-person household (inc. one teenager). We don't go without - everyone has their own computer, there are multiple tablets in the house. We're just careful about leaving things on that don't need to be on.

South Australia's climate also lends itself to better energy use. Winters are mild and because we have a very dry climate, evaporative air conditioning works really well here in Summer (and costs very little to run). We have the highest uptake of residential solar power in the country, thanks to a high number of days with sunshine. Solar panels are also mandatory on all State government buildings, including a large array on top of our Parliament House. I'm not actually from SA originally, but I'm quite proud of the place I call home. Far from being a "backwater", South Australia has been quietly leading the way for a long time.

OP here. Yes, the lack of political will is the main issue. We have a Federal Treasurer who openly declares wind farms an eye-sore (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-02/joe-hockey-wind-turbines-utterly-offensive/5425804) - maybe because open-cut mines are so much more pleasing to look at - and many State and Federal bodies heavily engaged with the coal industry.

As a society we've kind of backed ourselves into a corner, with global coal prices slumping and China now pushing for high-quality and cleaner coal (e.g. less sulphur). As another poster mentioned, South Australia is often considered the butt of other States jokes and referred to as backward - when we actually have a long history of being progressive. It's a win for SA, but it sets the bar for other States and hopefully will help move us away from being dependent of just digging things out of the ground to get by.

IMO our whole monetary system has evolved to promote convenience so much that we're losing basic security.

I just now cancelled a debit card because I'm tired of cleaning up after fraudulent transactions. The world is full of criminal organizations working full time to defraud anybody and everybody. I just can't see it as sustainable.

I'm guessing that this is the outbreak that will break out of sub-Saharan Africa. Rich countries probably have the infrastructure to control it when it reaches their shores, but the rest of the world may be stuck with a pandemic.

So, whether something is supernatural depends on your frame of reference? In our universe it's supernatural, but in its universe it's just that dork that's wasting its life creating universes in its mother's basement?

And if we manage to create a sentient artificial intelligence in a virtual environment, to it we'll be supernatural and that other hypothetical being will be supersupernatural?

He's not losing a tenured job, nor failing to make tenure. He was offered a job that happened to include tenure, and then the offer was revoked.

The only relevance of tenure to this story is as part of the value of the job offer that was revoked.

Geez, you could probably hire an assistant vollyball coach for that much money.

If he had a case, it would be against the people who retracted the job offer.