You're seriously saying the Greek army could repel anything? Have you ever been to Greece? The army is just as dysfunctional as almost every other institution there. All you need to do is invade before about 9-10am and the entire armed forces will still be either asleep or gradually getting round to breakfast.

And that's something that's hard to explain to people who haven't lived in Greece, just how badly broken the entire country is. Nothing works. The tap water is so contaminated that you can't do anything more than wash your clothes with it (you'll get sick drinking it). Every toilet in Greece has a little bucket next to it for used toilet paper because the sewage system can't take it (I probably don't need to paint a picture of what that ends up like during a hot summer day). Raising taxes won't have any effect because payment of taxes is optional, and most people choose not to. I could go on and on and on with further examples, but to understand the Greek problem you first need to have lived there and seen how totally broken everything is. It's a lovely country and all and the people are great, but I've never been so glad to leave and get back to somewhere where things just work.

I'd have said NASA, because then you'll never actually get launched, and will live to a ripe old age on earth. Your launch will be funded, de-funded, delayed, studied, re-studied, a design analysis done, the design of the launch vehicle will be changed 32 times (none will ever fly), it'll go back to being studied, and then you'll die of old age still waiting for them to get their thumbs out of their asses. Still, at least you won't get blown up in launch accident.

Oh, are they for narcissists? I thought they were courtesy items carried by selfie-takers to allow annoyed bystanders to beat them to death. I have personally beaten at least five selfie-takers to death with their own selfie sticks. If you go to the large fountain in Buda Castle, the one that people like to take selfies in front of, and look for the blood stains on the cobbles, that was me.

The ITU have spoken, 20G is the new 5G,

Perfectly good way to manage your passwords when you're in Burnt Scrotum, New Mexico and your opponent is in Pudong, China.

Treating this like "Shuttleworth's problem" is losing sight of the big picture. The SA government is desperate to prevent money leaving the country, because if it was easy to get out, a significant chunk of the population would (SA, particularly in the large cities, is not a fun place to live). They may have eliminated the apartheid-era controls, but they've introduced far stricter ones to prevent capital flight from the country. Shuttleworth's case is just one of the more visible ones, there are huge numbers of people who would leave if they could get their money out.

Yeah, but does it tech the tech? Everyone knows you need to be able to tech the tech to the warp drive to fix serious problems.

I've actually got a Gen 1, bought long after the Gen 2 came out, specifically because the keyboard is sane. It is a *really* nice laptop, as long as you don't make the mistake of getting a Gen 2.

You're right. Initially I thought it was up in the uselss-wank row of keys that vendors like to put above the function keys, but it does appear to be replacing the Esc key. Assuming they then follow the Lenovo Carbon Gen 2 model of keyboard braindamage which is... well it's hard to describe in words, see for yourself (yes, someone actually did that on purpose, which is why you can buy Gen 2's on eBay for much less than the older Gen 1's), there'll be a quick subsequent release of a Model n+1 that undoes it all again.

You've asked all of them, I suppose?

I use Skype on a tablet, and I want it as a background app so I can chat while I'm doing other stuff. I don't want it taking over the entire screen, or doing anything else more significant than a notification area icon to tell me it's still running.

That's because China sees a trade agreement as being about trade and making money, not a means of furthering the global agendas of whichever megacorporations pay the people writing it the most money. I'm from a country that has a free trade agreement with China, negotiated openly and available for anyone to check (heck, there's even a web site set up to tell you all you need to know), that basically says "you sell us your stuff, we sell you ours, the rest is up to you". That's a free trade agreement, not the stuff US corporations are trying to force on the world.

I think it's a sign that there's something seriously wrong when people are requesting a regular release cadence to fix all the security holes in the software that's supposed to be protecting them from security problems...

ObXKCD.

That's Wellington's secondary wind farm. The primary wind farm is called The Beehive.

"No! Shut them *all* down, hurry! Listen to them, they're dying R2! Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough, it's all my fault!"

From TFA:

Actually it's very like Mozilla, at least the Mozilla from the last five years or so. You sit there, you take what we give you, and you LIKE IT, dammit!