BMW for one. Germany has been very aggressive in pushing green energy.

Please, like any one of those persons would lower themselves to use anything less than first class.

Where are the CLang release notes? They are not where I expect them to be. I was really hoping they've implemented C11's _atomic keyword, but I have my doubts.

Man, if only there were some way to look up information you don't know. Some service you could type a clearly easy to search for string like "llvm" into to get as much information on the topic as you need...

Are you reading Slashdot in print form in some place with no internet access? Do you have to call your secretary so she can type out the comments on a punched card to feed into the internetotron?

It sounds from the writeup like most of the sites in question are defunct and that's why they're using out of date crypto. Few sites that people actually visit would appear to be affected.

The only thing I did for thermal management was start the thermal monitor applet in the tray. The processor never gets above 60C or so with the stock (lack of) cooling, and that's within its threshold. I even have it in a little plastic case with poor ventilation.

Nothing is more 90s then having to reboot just because you applied a patch to an application. The only thing you should need to reboot for is kernel upgrades, and it seems like that is exactly what happened here.

But even at 4k resolution you're still using textures designed for a 720p display, because it's a port of a game that was optimized to fit on a single disc and run a 720p.

For what its worth, I've been doing work where I have to run Wireshark, Libreoffice, and Chrome on a Pi all at once and it handles the job admirably. Everything is a little pokey like you might expect, but it's really quite usable. One thing I cannot recommend enough: Make sure you go back to the raspi-config program and make sure your board is configured for "max factory OC", which allows it to run at 1Ghz instead of the stock 700Mhz. My board has remained rock solid, and thanks to the OC also bumping the memory clock the board is nearly twice as fast. It makes a huge difference in day to day use.

No doubt that Midori was horribly out of date and mostly worthless, but Pis have had Google Chrome in the repo forever now and it works just fine. Can you compare Chrome and Epiphany for functionality and speed? I do most of the browsing on the Pi with Chrome and other than needing a couple of seconds to render most pages it works just fine.

Having used both the Beaglebone and a Pi, I actually prefer the Pi. There is just more developer support and thinks work better. The BBB has a bunch of annoyances, like Angstrom Linux (blows), and that the on-board memory is just too damn small (2GB is not enough). Booting off of external SD works, but you have to go through this annoying contortion of holding down a button while plugging it in to make it work. Even once you get Debian booted off of the SD, it is missing stuff that the Pi has, like Google Chrome. Once you use the factory overclock option on the Pi, it is just as fast or faster too. In my benchmarks of a somewhat weird application I wrote the Pi with the standard OC (scale up to 1Ghz) was actually slightly faster than the BBB. I would overclock the BBB to make it more fair, but again there isn't the developer support and I didn't find a way to do it.

Add in that the BBB is like 60% more expensive on top of that and it's just not a good buy. If you need a bunch of PWM channels or it's far superior general I/O capabilities then yeah go for the BBB, but if you're looking for a small Linux box for more general use then the Pi is better.

I guess it depends if they classify the Scientific Method as a "political theory", like creationists like to do.

The "irreversible" part is talking about Ice Sheets that can't reform unless we have another ice age. Even if we got the average yearly global temperature back down to pre-industrial levels the ice sheet won't reform because the winter snow would be falling at a lower altitude where it will melt in the summer. So either we get this climate change situation under control in a hurry, or we start building a whole lot of seawalls around our coastal cities and just learn to deal with flooding.

Expert spin doctor site, yes. Just don't confuse anything on there with reasoned analysis.

I see stories about bills like this all of the time, but they usually die in committee after fulfilling their purpose of giving the guy a bullet point for his next campaign poster. Is this one expected to actually have a shot in hell at passing? Sometimes they do slip through the cracks, especially in the bible belt.