Sure, this is why the sale of old fashioned alarm clocks should be banned too. [For those who can't be bothered following the link: short version is OMG, terrists!, longer version is that someone thinks that RFID passports could be used to trigger a bomb.

As a bonus, the app that the hotel has forced you to install to get access to your room can also be used to advertise the chain's other properties.

All he does is pushing corporate interests with the money he "earned" exploiting a monopoly.

Before he got into health issues, I'd agree - mostly he invested in pushing developing countries towards using Windows PCs for education. But more recently he's investing a lot into healthcare issues that are important to the developing world, and without his money, unprofitable for the drug cartels to research.

Richard Branson once pledged $3 billion of the profit from his airlines over ten years towards efforts to combat climate change. If his airlines didn't make that much profit, he said he would take it from other parts of his business empire. When someone checked up 8 years in, he'd managed to give $200-300k over those 8 years, and the forecast for the next 2 years was not looking good. Two things to take away from this - 1) that Steve Jobs' 10s of millions is not bad compared to his peers, and 2) that so far Bill Gates has said he will give $500M for this particular cause, but what really matters if you're going to compare this with Steve Jobs' donations is what he actually gives out in the end. (not that I think Gates has as bad a record as Branson).

Fortunately I got mine issued in those last couple of months before they went RFID, but my wife's renewal is RFID-equipped so we had to get a faraday cage sleeve for it. Mine will expire soon enough that I'll probably also have to get a faraday cage sleeve soon.

You do realise that the information on the RFID chip in your passport is the same information that is in the passport, encrypted, and to decrypt it, you need the passport number and name, so you're going to need to have seen the inside of the passport already?

I blame human nature.

Is it though? Or are some humans allowing their nature to be influenced a little too much by Fox News?

The last option would result in the current version remaining on user's machines. If a dependency for an update is not available, apt will hold the package back.

Even more so when you consider the question of how many of those 1 million units, were "sold" to their marketing division to give away to NFL and others for promotional purposes.

I expect the predominant use pattern for editors (in a console) is to be fired up to quickly to edit a file, save and exit, e.g. to commit files in source control. Longer term activity has moved out to the desktop and editors / IDEs running there - the likes of Eclipse, Notepad++, Sublime Text, Gedit etc.

And since that was an issue with Emacs around 20 years ago, emacsclient exists, to load the file into an already running instance of Emacs, but otherwise act as a console editor is expected to (hanging around until the edit is finished). But on any modern machine, Emacs starts pretty much instantly with a warm cache, and in a couple of seconds at most with a cold cache, so starting Emacs for a quick edit really isn't the issue you think it is any more.

...and if you'd looked at the preview, you'd have noticed that all it does is uses a fixed-width font , no indentation or line breaks as you'd expect when looking for a tag for formatting code samples.

They are extraterrestrial miles. Somewhere between a nautical mile and a terrestrial mile.

Or if you work on projects with different coding styles, use a .dir-locals.el file:

((nil . ((tab-width . 4)
(c-line-comment-starter . "// ")))
(c-mode . ((c-file-style . "bsd")
(c-basic-offset . 4))))

PS: where's the help link that tells you what "allowed HTML tags" are for Slashdot comments? I'm sure there used to be one, and I'm sure you used to be able to format code properly.

Or you can put it in .dir-locals.el to cover a whole directory (including subdirectories that don't override it).

Emacs, like every other text editor I've ever seen, actually does (2). A tab character always indents to the next tab stop. By default, there is a tab stop every 8 characters. When all your tabs are at the start of a line, as is typical in a programming environment, the effect may look the same as (1), but try typing the following key sequence in Emacs, or any other editor which you think does (1), and see what the result is:

TAB x ENTER
SPACE TAB x

So, what you're saying is that you want to add a package manager?

The package manager was added back in 24.1. 24.4 makes it safe to use, by allowing packages to be digitally signed.