They were vulnerable to attack, that is to say, the security was compromised. He didn't say they were hacked, stolen, eavesdropped, or surreptitiously recorded.

I've noticed that a lot of TV sci-fi confuses "compromise" with "breach"; as in hull, shields, defenses, etc.

It's rare that I can't tell if a Slashdot comment is earnestness or sarcasm. Well done, sir.

I see what you did their.

(this is US-centric obviously)
So the IRS and income tax have restored economic power to... cotton growers in the south? I'm not sure I follow your point. Maybe you're trying to claim the modern slaveholders are big business, but I think the traditional slaveowners were more like small family businesses and estates. I don't think the real "big-business" tycoons came until after slavery was abolished.

Could you elaborate?

If that were the case, then you'd expect them to think the older, more valuable one sounded better right away, not the newer, less special one; so this seems to be a statement against confirmation bias.

Here's your killer app: an online database of battery covers for remote controls. No more duct tape holding your batteries in!

You need the parametrics if you have an extrusion lasting more than four hours.

Then you'll have a backup plan for failure scenarios, and most certainly will not allow the OS access to the internet. Or you're crazy/suicidal and are fine with the consequences.

It's more likely that they'd make Windows subscription-only, charging by the month or year, with a feature that causes your product to stop working if you don't renew your subscription. Which for an OS is crazy, but that's the incentive this requirement would create. Microsoft might even prefer this business model, but would never think they could get away with it, unless there was a rule that essentially mandated it. And perpetual free support would pretty much mandate perpetually charging for a product.

How this would relate to XP EOL is that they wouldn't renew any licenses for an OS past it's expiration date, and when the terms of your license agreement explicitly state you can't use the product, they can't be forced to support it any more.

No, he's saying that if you want to do assignment in the if clause, use

so the inner parentheses explicitly return the value of the assignment (showing the compiler that you meant to do that). As for

he's just saying it looks bad and is harder for human readers to intuitively understand. See this random blog post that I just found for some commentary that echoes the GP's sentiment. I tend to agree - readability is more important in this case.

Can I Sream.It is a must-have smartphone app (or website). Anyone who makes one of these streaming boxes should just license a version that searches the catalogs of whatever services you've installed on the box. That alone would make all of these boxes tremendously more useful - it's really the missing key to this puzzle. That and more content, although a lot of progress has been made on this front - compare with Netflix's initial pitiful streaming selections.

I know Roku supports centralized search for some of their "channels" (apps).

I bet it's due to a single equals sign.

Android is sufficiently powerful for certain tasks, and TV's typically have a good (easy and intuitive) UI.

We've been hearing for a while about how casual games are the new norm, at the expense of the serious gamer/console market. We're also seeing "internet TV" functionality on high-end consoles. So this seems to fit that niche perfectly. It's less expensive and power hungry (as if anyone really cared about that - do they?).

I could see this working nicely for someone who wants to replace cable, and likes casual games more than OMG Graphics or Super Violence V, as long as the games are good. If the games are crap, then it's just an expensive Roku or Chromecast.

Steam, the distribution platform, is a closed garden. SteamOS, and the Steam Machines, are not. See http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/.

I'd recommend 240+. My work PC has a 120GB drive; and Win7, four versions of Visual Studio, SQL Server, and a few other apps pretty much fill it up. I've had to continually shuffle data including some source code to my secondary platter drive (slower compilation, boo) just to keep some space free (currently 3.3GB).