One of the core goals of NASA is to discover more about the universe in which we live and how it impacts us. Obviously the search for extraterrestrial life is part of that mission, but if we assume all life (and the planets harbouring them) are identical to our systems then we're going to ignore avenues that might be evident or even more prevalent.
What was a patent clerk doing contemplating the nature of space/time?

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Well as everyone's been pointing out, yes (near-)daily releases happen now. A packaged release happens every six months, and probably will stay that way, especially for Long-Term Support releases. Sound like Shuttleworth's proposing the whole of Ubuntu's user-base move into the Testing role, and to my mind that's just bad for business. The releases, and especially the LTSs have a defined feature set and take their time to iron out the kinks. With this many packages interacting, I have a tough time seeing how this isn't going to be something of a disaster.

Then again, I've been using Fedora for years, and haven't felt like I've been anything but a beta tester the whole time.

The extension forces requests to be sent over SSL/TLS for all communication, as long as the site supports it. Works on Facebook, even Google searches, so yes this is a useful countermeasure. Of course, it is wholly dependent on the site supporting HTTPS in the first place.

I've tried similar extensions, and Facebook gladly connects over HTTPS when manually instructed to, but reverts to normal HTTP on pretty much any click, this just keeps the connection on HTTPS regardless of the link target. The only downside, specifically on FB but certainly similar problems on other sites: no chat. So there are compromises, but probably worth it.

He's suggesting distributing the CA certificates, not the ones shipping with the appliances. And done right, only one (or if you're conscious, two) CA certs need to go into the distribution/build. Very low overhead.
I would even hazard that CRL distribution is not needed if the certs are issued once and all traces (request, key etc) destroyed right away, since then only the Root CA is exposed, and the issued certs are as likely to be compromised as the self-generated ones the appliances have. I know some appliances that won't even let you import private keys, only exporting requests, so even more secure.
It gets me down how complex PKI is perceived to be, but then I'm mystified by my car's cruise control...

Uh, does anyone else have a problem with this thing running on Java? Java causes death

I'm not suggesting this is a JTAG interface, perhaps my title is misleading. I'm suggesting it's "hidden" in the same way these hardware debug interfaces (both standardised like JTAG or other more obscure interfaces) appear "hidden" to people who don't do hardware/firmware mods. As I mentioned in the first line, I'm surprised everyone's surprised, these are immensely complex parts that sometimes need a root-of-roots, this sounds like just the thing AMD or any other manufacturer would have designed in.

I live in Europe, and have lived in other GSM countries. TA is indeed well written, but omits a crucial part of the story: how networks got their spectrum. Sure, GSM frequencies differ between carriers hindering mobility (in the go-somewhere-else meaning, not the look-I'm-driving-and-still-have-si......-hello? meaning), but I suspect it's because they applied for these differing spectra themselves. Of course you're not going to want to cohabit with your neighbour, it congests your frequencies (fallacious argument, European cities are DENSE) and encourages mobility. Funny that Europe should adopt standards that foster competition while North America is happy to indulge these companies and rip off the consumer just a little more.

I'm actually surprised to find out that everyone's surprised. I've been hacking routers and now work for a telco surrounded by disassembled set-top boxes, and both have serial and JTAG interfaces abundant. Many require soldering, so in that respect it's "hidden" from customers. Maybe: - It's often more expensive to engineer these things out of the test systems to ready for production - and just maybe it's still actually useful especially as you peer deeper into the GHz to get more performance from an existing design.