Supermicro has a ATOM based board with 6 SATA ports. I am using one for a NAS box and it works good. Kind of expensive though.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182234

That is due to i915_enable_rc6 defaulting to off. In 3.2 they should be changing it to default to on again as they've fixed the lockup bugs that it was causing. See the developers blog for more; http://dodonov.net/blog/

Seems to me that the jury is still out on how liable you would be found as the law is still somewhat murky.

Either way though they will come and confiscate every piece of computing equipment in the place if they decide your IP/residence is of interest. So you will definitely want to keep an offsite backup of your data. That way if they take everything you can get another computer and get back to work right away.

They were waiting as there was no reason to kill him before next years elections. I bet they are pissed they had to move this early, as it will be hard to maintain the popularity boost this will give while the economy still sucks.

I don't do much video editing, but another one I've read is supposed to be decent is openshot.

http://www.openshotvideo.com/

They are at version 1.3 and have nice documentation.

Let's take two examples everyone knows: OGG/Vorbis. What's the penetration of this open and free format out in the music player industry?

Not true. It is easy to find music players that support not only ogg/vorbis but flac as well. The only player I've seen recently that doesn't support them are ipods, which isn't surprising given that it is primarily a vehicle to promote itunes.

Your doubts are misplaced. The #1 reason is access to source code. Not so much to modify or fix bugs, though I've done both at time, but for documentation. The documentation written as such universally sucks and never really matches up with what the software actually does. The only real documentation is the software itself. If you don't have access to the source so you can see what the hell is going on you don't have usable documentation and are just guessing.

IMO it's better to have an easy to find public 'you' online for these people to track. You use that for everything 'safe'. You then use multiple anonymous accounts for anything you don't want tracked.

If you have nothing tracking online I think it might start looking more suspicious than not. Plus having nothing might encourage 'them' to dig in and try to relate you to your anonymous account(s).

That's not internet addiction. That's just old fashion teenage rebellion combined with a health dose of spoiled brat.

My understanding of the situation is that he was trying to restore the ability to boot to linux on the PS3, a feature that was included on the device when he purchased it.

No. That was failOverflow that did the work to get Linux running on the PS3 but they did not go on and do the additional work required to run pirated games on it. Geohot did that additional work.

How much did the artist get for each radio play? Nothing you say. Subscription services are arguably more comparable to radio than purchasing an mp3 or CD. At least they make something off the subscription service. It's a gain as far as I can tell.

[...] and recently ponied up $100,000 to defeat a proposed WA state income tax, a good investment for someone who's cashed in close to $800,000,000 in Amazon stock this year alone.

The poster obviously never heard of capital gains tax and the fact that it is not the same as income tax.

Capital gains tax != Income tax

Debian CUT == Constantly Usable Testing.

A recently started project in Debian with a similar goal of a rolling release (along with an idea of installable snapshots).

http://cut.debian.net/
http://lwn.net/Articles/406301/

This has nothing to do with your cookies, browsing history, etc. It will be an accumulation of your searches, shopping habits, media habits, social networks, etc. Your online behaviour as seen by third parties. They will scrape what they can and buy the rest. They are basically profiling people looking for correlations with their insurance risks. This is nothing new, it is what they have been doing for years. They are just looking at adding new data points that are cheaper and readily available.

After getting a nice pair of Sennheiser headphones I was very disappointed in the sound quality of both my old Audigy 2 ZS and the on-board sound. There was a noticeable, high-pitched buzz all the time that was very annoying.

Purchased a HT Omega Striker and it sounds MUCH better. Not just no buzz but it just sounded better overall, particularly with the headphones. Quite a difference.