It looks like a judgment was actually entered for $80m, so saying that you got an $80m judgment is accurate. Now whether you can collect on that judgment is another story. It's possible that they should have informed shareholders of the low likelihood of the judgment being paid, via an SEC filing.

Even so, you'd expect the proportion by any random factor X to be the same as in the general population.

Especially considering that the NKVD was disbanded in 1946...

Yes, it's visible from most of the earth, with the only exception being really far north, north of the Arctic Circle. In the northern hemisphere it's considered part of the Winter Hexagon.

This includes all immigration. I was specifically talking about skilled immigration.

You can't be sure, but you can give them a significant head start in form of a good education and a solid starting capital, which helps a great deal. Ultimately, it's a lot like stock market investments... you can go for low-risk and low-yield, or you can go for high-risk and high-yield. Both are viable strategies.

(And, of course, you can always go high-risk for yourself, cash in on that if your bet pays, then move to some other place to spend that money. And getting a citizenship in a first-world country makes it much easier - it's easy for an American citizen to move to e.g. Canada.)

In any case, yes, there are many choices, and people do choose differently. I and many of my friends picked US for all the reasons that I've described; I lived in Canada, as well. I have friends who have settled in Canada, and other friends who had Canadian permanent residence, but moved to US when they won the green card lottery. I also have some in Australia.

Bottom line is, to answer your original question: US is still a very popular destination for skilled immigration, enough so that it can certainly get more people coming in if it makes the process easier to avoid being out-competed by Canada and others.

Depending on your locale, the purchase might be covered by distance selling regulations. In the UK, you have a few days in which you can cancel the order for any reason. Cancel the order citing their poor security practices as the reason, keep a copy of any correspondence, and forward it to your credit card company if they try to charge you anything.

That's up to you I guess..

Not really relevant for the rest of us who don't pick the shitty alternative.

Hardly GPU overlords.

I don't care if the driver is open-source.

Nvidia = better.

Why is this on Slashdot?

I think a story like this belongs, because it can bring together knowledgeable people who can speculate on possible technical issues that may have been the cause of a problem...

In the US and UK, the requirement for a contract to be enforceable in court is that the side wishing to enforce it must demonstrate that a meeting of minds has occurred. It's far from a binary decision. Some things, such as witnessed signatures at the bottom with each page initialed, have large amounts of case law backing them up, so you need a very strong argument if you want to discount them. For click-through licenses, there's a lot less case law and everything on the opposing side helps. If you can demonstrate that you have actively opted out of tracking and then been presented with a click-through license that, buried somewhere in legalese, there is a permission to track, it's easier to argue that the contract is invalid.

The various European data protection offices would be a good bet.

Making it impossible to track means making clients indistinguishable, which is very hard. Making tracking without consent illegal is much easier, because the companies that you really worry about doing the tracking are the ones with large and expensive data centres where they can process the data, and these are nice big targets.

It's not the Cold War anymore. You don't have to pretend that any country that you don't like is communist. The hereditary dictatorship in North Korea is about as far as you can get from communism and stopped pretending to be communist some time ago. It still claims to be democratic though, so if you're going to object to political philosophies based on the buzzwords that dictators use, you should probably be complaining about democracy, not communism...

No. The nVidia drivers share around 90% of their code between all platforms (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris) and the open source ones all use the Gallium framework, which is designed for portability from the ground up.

Modern GPU drivers require a set of services from the kernel, mostly related to memory management. They need to be able to get access to the device's I/O range in the physical address map and they need the kernel to grant access to texture memory in both main memory and the device. That's about all that they need from the kernel.

At the top, they need a state tracker that manages 3D API state (which is fairly minimal on modern APIs, as they aim to be stateless for performance reasons) and that translates the shader programs into some intermediate representation.

The majority of the device-specific driver code lives between these two layers, which are usually handled by abstraction layers so that they can be plugged into different APIs. You use the same Gallium driver with an OpenGL 2, OpenGL 3, OpenVG or Direct3D state tracker.

You mean the person who clicked through the ToS that grant Facebook a perpetual, commercial, sublicenceable, license to use the photos however they wish? Including (as they've done in the last) licensing them to third parties to use in adverts?

The purpose of DNT was to demonstrate, in a measurable way, that people did not wish to be tracked. It was not intended as an enforcement mechanism, but as a statement of intent. It makes it very hard to argue in court that your click-through ToS permits tracking (or constitutes a meeting of minds at all), when the user has explicitly requested not to be tracked.

It depends a lot on the category of goods. Amazon was successful in part because their recommendation system did exactly what you and the grandparent are complaining about: it recommended things that were very similar to the thing that you'd just bought. This works well for books, music, and films / TV shows, because if you like one thing in one of these categories then you'll probably like other similar things in the same category. At the simplest level, if you just bought season 1 of a show, there's a good chance that you'll buy season 2. It doesn't work so well for things like cars or computers: if you've bought one laptop, then there's a very low chance that you'll want to buy a similar laptop next week.