TPM is hated by Slashdot because the mobo manufacturers have a dirty habit of preloading the Microsoft keys and not allowing you any way to remove the Microsoft keys or use your own, effectively making it useless for any real security purpose (beyond vendor lock-in to Microsoft).

In fact, the ARM Windows RT tablets were required by Microsoft to force Microsoft's TPM SecureBoot keys only.

Microsoft's dirty tactics and motherboard manufacturers with their head in their ass are the reason TPM is shunned.

So upstart has some things that need to be fixed (mostly the clean shutdown thing)...
Systemd is a monster that gets to infect more of you packages over time, plus you get the benefit of binary log files!

I hope they choose upstart and just fix it up a bit.

OpenRC has been proposed by some too, which seems like a nice sysvinit replacement, but event driven startup and shutdown of services (think laptops and hotswap stuff) is more important than just a fast startup time.

Rather than making them all point at 127.0.0.1, I like just killing their dns lookup when using dnsmasq (this only looks in /etc/hosts for the dns entry instead of a 127.0.0.1 response)...

local=/zedo.com/
local=/infolinks.com/
local=/intellitxt.com/
local=/vibrantmedia.com/
local=/kontera.com/

It's faster / less resource hungry then 404s hitting myself (since I often run a local apache for some static content and development).

I mostly KILL WITH FIRE the stupid "textual" ad providers... I HATE when I hover/highlight over text and it pops up crap.

Was it the same hotel bathroom perchance?

For homes, I think in-ground mag-lev flywheels would be a lot better solution than trying to generate and store hydrogen reliably.
Something like this: http://www.power-thru.com/

Not that Joda isn't great, but generally Apache Commons' DateUtils provides most of what I need.

Impossible.

What would really happen:
Small development company sued over and over by large company who wants to prevent them from competing with ridiculously broad software patents until small company goes out of business. Large competitor has 10's of thousands of dubious patents...
Just dealing with a single assertion from large corporation costs $200,000 http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Cost_of_defending_yourself_against_patent_litigation

In Chrome, Firefox, and all Android browsers, just enable "click to play" for all plugins, instantly 99.9% of your vulnerabilities are gone.
Bonuses: no flashing ads, fewer CPU or RAM chugging browser tabs, no random audio ads, better battery life.

On the few sites where you want it on by default (youtube for example) it's just a two click "enable permanently" whitelist.

WHY isn't this the default on all browsers by now?

To be fair the Delta Clipper DC-X accomplished a lot... It was about 40ft tall (compared to the Grasshopper's 109ft I think). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9n9Casp1o

It is horrible that he picked out the single most profitable company in the world for an example - how dare he!

We have one here in Las Vegas called "The Pinball Hall of Fame" that is a beloved destination by all: http://www.pinballmuseum.org/

Definitely check it out sometime :)

They're especially annoying when you're on a tablet or lower resolution device and the close button is off the side where you can't scroll to it because of the stupid absolute / fixed positioning.

Maybe a startup test would work, but dunno how consistent that would be... if you tested more often, you'd impact performance badly.

Current iPhones don't have 4G yet either. In June when Apple announces the next "magical" phone with 4G, it can have hardware WebM decoding if they want... most of the fanbois will upgrade right away.