Pithy.

I'm sitting in Chicago's O'Hare airport right now, and we could use a coyote. I'm watching a mouse run around the empty first class lounge. TSA didn't touch my junk.

My absolutely puny hardware (all 5+ years old, or netbooks) does not experience this problem at all running different releases of Ubuntu. I did notice that Transmission sometimes chewed up too much processor when I had 10+ torrents going, but my bulk drive was NTFS. After I formatted it to ext4, even that went away. I routinely copy multiple GB files intra-drive, inter-drive, and intranetwork while browsing, youtubing, etc.

Maybe you're using an NTFS filesystem that isn't as efficient?

Again, my hardware is majorly obsolete. My only "multicore" setup is on a hyperthreading Atom.

One day, in the not so distant past, I had a PS3 that has Other OS and could play games online.

Then, Sony made me choose. This made me sad, because I liked them both. Today's news made me sadder, because it seems the reason that I had to choose, was moot.

I chose. It still sucked.

What is pimiping?

That is a pretty slick piece of kit. Did it work in linux without too much fuss?

Honestly, this is why I first installed Ubuntu on my old IBM laptop. As the windows installs went down, the linux installs went up. Linux spread through my whole family this way; First me and my wife, then my brothers, then my mother-in-law.

Worked fine in Chromium, with moonlight 2.3. No spoofing required.

The hatred for silverlight seems irrational, as most of us also have the adobe flash plugins installed too.

I wouldn't accept this either. These high frequency trading algorithms serve no market purpose except fleecing the little guy. The fact that the algorithm is making so much money would make me sick too.

The entire lot of them should be unemployed.

Why should NBC strip the captioning data that is already encoded in their OTA broadcasts when streaming it over the internet?

If the data is already available, they should be required to display it. IMO, NBC's refusal to display this data, when they already have exhibited the capability to do so, seems to be a deliberate middle finger to the hard of hearing.

Video that is streamed over the internet, that would be required to have closed captions if transmitted over the airwaves, should be required to transmit those captions.

Eg, NBC captions all (or almost all) of their content when broadcast, but only a limited selection of NBC content is captioned on hulu.com.

Even worse, Netflix (www.netflix.com) transmits content that almost universally has closed captioning data available, but transmits none of it when internet streaming.

With a 20 ms period, the frequency (f = 1/T) is 50 Hz.

You seem to be also confused about the units.
1 second = 1 second. Once per second is 1 Hz.
1 second = 1000 milliseconds (ms). Once per ms is 1000 Hz or 1 kHz.
1 millisecond = 1000 microseconds (us). Once per us is 1000000 Hz or 1 MHz.
1 microsecond = 1000 nanoseconds (ns). Once per ns is 1000000000 Hz or 1GHz.

Me too. This is the exact setup I use at home.

The difference is due process of law, with oversight and consent of the people, versus totalitarian law.

FTFA:

One can hardly expect Google to do much more than that, beyond hiring their own mercenary army to keep law enforcement out of your free web-hosted email account.

It's holding my ability to play games online in exchange for my ability to boot into linux and make this reply.

I carefully considered the meaning of the word, and I'm pretty sure that it applies in the literal sense (although not perhaps in the popular vernacular).