The beast at Tanagra.

If I had to guess it would be 1998 but I'm not sure.

It is no longer entirely true that e-mail is not encrypted. Many SMTP servers support encryption using SSL or TLS when communicating with another SMTP server. For example here is an example of an SMTP server receiving an e-mail from one of Google's gmail SMTP servers.

Aug 7 13:33:28 x postfix/smtpd[22642]: setting up TLS connection from mail-gh0-f182.google.com[209.85.160.182]
Aug 7 13:33:28 x postfix/smtpd[22642]: Anonymous TLS connection established from mail-gh0-f182.google.com[209.85.160.182]: TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)

I believe this behavior is defined by RFC 3207
If you manage a Postfix SMTP server and have not enabled TLS support I would suggest you read
http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html

If Apple's app store started banning users with jailbroken phones that would push even more people to Google's Android based phones. Alternatively jailbroken iPhone users could point their phones to alternate IOS app stores which would be sure to pop up should Apple start behaving like you describe.

The Allwinner A10 has an incomplete 72 page summary of features that calls itself a datasheet compared to a fairly nice 205 page peripheral datasheet for the Broadcom BCM2835 SOC in the Raspberry Pi.

The Allwinner A10, like the BCM2835, uses closed source proprietary libraries to access 3D features of its GPU. The MALI 400 GPU is being reverse engineered which is why there is a preliminary open source GPU driver.

The Allwinner A10 CPU/GPU are faster but less efficient and use more power than the Raspberry Pi's BCM2835.

The Rhombus Allwinner A10 has no final cost yet unlike the Raspberry Pi. They are hoping to hit a $15 price point if they purchase 100,000 units. The Raspberry Pi is available today at $35 which was achieved with only an initial 10,000 units purchased.

Judging is exactly what he is doing.

The judicial branch has the power to interpret laws written by the legislative branch. The U.S. Patent Act does not specify software as patentable. Since the legislative branch has not amended that act to be more specific, with regard to software, it is up to the judicial branch to interpret. Even the 2010 Bilski v. Kappos rulling by the US Supreme Court left many questions unanswered on what is patentable or not with regard to software.

In case you were unaware, this is what title 35, Section 101 of the United States Code says about what is patentable

35 U.S.C. 101 Inventions patentable.
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.

If you are curious about the history of the courts conflicted rulings on what is patentable with regard to software I recommend you check out this link: http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/bilski-and-software-patents.html

To my knowledge there is no publicly available datasheet for the MALI 400 GPU which is why there's a group trying to reverse engineer the chip to write an open source driver instead.

Also that thing you're calling an A10 datasheet is more like a summary of capabilities. Have you actually compared the 205 page Broadcomm BCM2835 Peripherals datasheet vs the 72 page Allwinner A10 datasheet? The A10 datasheet contains very little information a programmer could actually use to program that chip. The BCM2835 datasheet actually contains information a programmer can use.

For example let's say you're a programmer who wants to use one of the many GPIO lines the BCM2835 or the A10 have available? The BCM2835 datasheet covers that in pages 89 through 105. It starts by giving you a block diagram to show how they're used. It then documents 41 register addresses used to interact with those GPIO lines. It documents each bit of those registers to tell you how to select the operation of a given GPIO pin (input vs output vs function select). How to setup interrupts with those GPIO lines for detect on rising edge vs falling edge and how to read or write to those GPIO lines. All information a programmer who wants to interact with this BCM2835 chip for GPIO will need to know.

On the other hand look at the A10 datasheet and what it says about GPIO lines. It's covered, if you can call it that, on half of page 67. The A10 datasheet only has a summary of how many GPIO lines an A10 has. Nothing else is listed. No information on how to use the GPIO lines is given at all.

I don't believe it's a Linux distribution because it's intended to be installed on Fedora, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

http://wiki.openstack.org/InstallInstructions/Nova

I don't think it's even a Linux distribution because the install guides for the different types of OpenStack nodes start with instructions for Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, RHEL.

http://wiki.openstack.org/InstallInstructions/Nova (Compute node)
http://wiki.openstack.org/InstallInstructions/Swift (Storage node)
http://wiki.openstack.org/InstallInstructions/Glance (Image server)

OpenStack runs on Linux.

Looking through the code it appears to be linux/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c and linux/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c

> 1 by federal law require that all routers (even the rockbottom cheapo ones) be able to deal with IPv6 when sold after %date%
What in the US Constitution gives the US federal government authority to regulate the protocols supported by routers?

> 2 require that all ISP provided equipment be IPv6 capable by %date%+15 days WITH NO CUSTOMER COST
What in the US Constitution gives the US federal government authority to regulate ISP provided equipment with regard to network protocols?

> 3 require that the ISP backend stuff route IPv6 by %date%+45 days
What in the US Constitution gives the US federal government authority to regulate ISP backbone protocols?

Furthermore, ISP's don't have FCC licenses so there's no license to be pulled.

Because your single player character and its items can be used in online multiplayer play. The randomly generated maps, AI and item drops are server-side in order to prevent hackers from cheating. In Diablo 2 this was big problem. In addition now that there's an online auction that allows people to auction in game items for both game gold or US dollars and other currencies. It's imperative that people not be allowed to duplicate items or otherwise cheat.

You keep saying this but it's not true. Motherboards have several 12V rails because 12V is highly needed by motherboards and the peripherals directly attached to them. For example a dedicated 12V rail is used by a VRM (voltage regulator module), or multiple VRMs, on the motherboard just for converting that 12 volts to the small voltages that a CPU uses. The PCI Express bus also requires 12V (and 3.3V) so the motherboard provides 12V to the PCIe devices. Most CPU fans run as 12V and are supplied via connectors on the motherboard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpu_fan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pci_express
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_regulator_module

That's simply not true.

Have a look at your ATX power supply's manual concerning the 20 or 24 pin power supply connector for your motherboard or get a multimeter and test it for yourself. You will see 12V, 5V and 3.3V. Not -48V.

The ATX power supply we all use in our computers is really called ATX12V because it provides 12 Volts to the motherboard. I'm not talking about the 4-pin molex connectors for hard drives. I'm talking about the 20-24 pin power connector to the motherboard. On a 20 pin connector pin 14 provides -12V and pin 10 provides 12V. On a 24 pin connector pins 10 and 11 provide 12V and pin 14 provides -12V.

Here is a wiring diagram that shows this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_supply_unit_(computer)#Wiring_diagrams

In addition newer motherboards have extra dedicated 12V cables just for the CPU often called a P4 cable. http://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnectors/connectors.html#atx12v4

Some motherboard require an additional 8pin EPS8 cable to provide even more dedicated 12V rails to the motherboard for the CPU.
http://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnectors/connectors.html#eps8