In case someone were wondering, Iapetus' equatorial surface gravity is about 2.3% that of Earth's, or 1/43rd as strong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_(moon)

I see... So we can expect a Microsoft Chromebook with Microsoft-only enhancements that get users trapped into the MS ecosystem? Cunning.

But but but... I thought Chromebooks weren't "real" laptops and were useless because they didn't have Windows or Office!

No, I was replying specifically to the compromised/vulnerable confusion regarding affected versions of OpenSSL, not to the clearly hyperbolic and incorrect statement that indicated that all SSL-based communications were vulnerable.

It's "Pedantic Man", not "Basic Fact-checker Man". Different line of work.

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).