In our case, about 20% of our servers are outdated and not kept as well maintained, as they used to host some important service, but their new replacement was built and that service was migrated, but nobody's 100% sure if there were any other latent, less important services running on that machine. So it stays on because everybody has more important things to do than find out what else is running on there, and perhaps more importantly, nobody wants to be the guy who shuts down the server that's still running some process someone relies on. So one or two servers of each type stays on, indefinitely, or until extended support finally ends. And yeah we have some physical redundant servers but for the most part everything is a VM now and we just have a one or two redundant VM hosts at our DR site. And an idle old server doesn't consume much of anything besides a gig or two of ram.

In theory you could run a mumble server on a private VPS. When I did it I used a VPS of the most minimal specs I could purchase at the time (1cpu, 1GB ram, linux) for about $7/month. I ran a mumble server for a community of about 3000 users for a couple of years and we would have 200 concurrent users with no latency issues. Voice and chat go over TLS. Mumble does not offer video chat however.

I would imagine that the number of 11 year olds who review past Illinois Supreme Court decisions in their spare time is vanishingly, vanishingly small.

When he finds out the commenter was an 11 year old middle-schooler on his lunch break in the library, and not the great political adversary that he's making it out to be.
 
Not only that, but it's exceedingly difficult to make an example out of an 11 year old, to other 11 year olds, and not looking like an out of touch politician who's been expertly trolled by someone one fifth his age. This seems like a huge waste of resources, politically and judicially.
 

If you pay full price for Win 10 you still get the full ownership experience. This option will always exist as they have to support enterprise users who require that kind of control over the machine. I have Win 8.1 pro running classic shell and I still have full control over my PC without having some crazy hotmail login, why would that change for Win 10?

He's avoiding imprisonment in Sweden because Sweden has an extradition Treaty with the US, and once he walks out the front door of that embassy and walks on that plane to sweden, it's about 50/50 odds he ends up in US custody.
 
That said, thanks for the tip on Jozsef Mindszenty, I am going to have to read up on that.

That list is about 100 titles shorter than I would have expected

I plan in 2015 to build a computer that I will use at least until 2022.

 
Absolutely. I'm rocking an i5-750 on my desktop from about the same era (early 2010) and I'll be replacing it with an i7-skylake when they come out this fall, which I expect to ride until the end of western civilization.

Well they do in California, which is where the uplink and downlink would be happening. So there's that.

Wind and Solar are already lightyears cheaper than fossil fuels in remote areas like islands and the third world. Remember how we skipped providing land lines to Africa, and everyone there got cell phones instead? How Facebook has a mobile app specifically directed towards those mobile users in Africa? Solar and Wind will come from the bottom up (Africa, SE Asia) and from the top down (Germany, Netherlands, Sweden). As capacity increases and price decreases you'll start seeing middle-tier economies like the United States and Canada finally adopt them. Taking a train through the countryside you'll see hundreds of houses with solar panels on their roofs already. While the legislative push isn't needed, it will help move other countries in that direction, as the G7 acts as a leader and weathervane for countries worldwide.
 
TL;DR Solar and Wind will drive the price of fossil fuels in to the ground in 20 years, anyways.

If you can dump your 80 year old brain in a healthy 18 year old body, I would imagine a good number of people would take that option over death, at least until they sort out the whole "connecting the brain to the central nervous system" problem.

Mars' gravity is well less than half of Earth's gravity. It's not a lot larger than the Moon. To put the same stress on your skeleton on Mars that an obese person does to their own in Earth gravity, you'd need to add about 250 to 350 pounds of radiation shielding.

Seriously? You move my poll and don't give me a Cowboy Neal option? Slashdot, you are dead to me...

Argentina was a special case where an investor rolled the dice on buying up all their debt and then somehow taking them to court in the US and winning a judgement that crippled them financially. Previous to that, Argentina has had a long track record of failing to pay back their debt going back decades without repercussion. So do most other countries outside of western europe. Spain and Greece are two of the biggest examples of what happens when you join a currency union and your economy is not in sync with the strongest players.

Yeah I was going to say, I wrote a crude flight simulator, including the display drivers for my Arduino and SSD1306 OLED display, that weighs in at 31KB. A piece of code to focus a laser should be less than that.