Uber also turned it off once they read the news and instead gave everyone free rides out of the city, paying the drivers out of their corporate reserve.

From what information the police have released since then, it looks like you're right on the mark. The guy is a violent nutjob that also happens to be an Iranian Muslem; and he has lived in Australia for almost 20 years now. I doubt he has much connection with Islamic State beyond their chat boards.

It's really the same mechanism. In one case the high energy rays impart enough energy to charge or drain a gate, and in another high energy rays impart enough energy to break a DNA bond. The parent was talking about being continually hit with enough high energy rays to instantly crash a normal computer, which is well above the amount you need to kill a person.

It also sucks that every astronaut we send up there dies in like 3 days from radiation poisoning from the apparent containment-core levels of radiation the ISS flies in...

After the patch my box started complaining endlessly that it was not genuine windows, but when I went to activate Windows page it said I was already activated and just told me all of the great benefits of having genuine Windows and that I should install MS Defender.

It non-activated dialog box wanted me to install some application to double activate it or something? I've had a tough time figuring out exactly what's up with it. The links all point to genuine microsoft.com websites, so it doesn't appear to be malware, but I'll be damned if it's not acting like malware.

The big reason for the huge price drops in the past couple of years is a whole bunch of the patents expiring. At this point the primary limitations to making them cheaper are technical, not legal. This means we shouldn't expect to see the same magnitude of price reduction going forward that we've seen in the recent past. The only area where I expect to see significant movement is on the filament, which still strikes me as overpriced for what it is. It's only a matter of time till some factory in China is spitting that stuff out by the ton and undercutting everybody.

I've never seen a subpixel rendering system that didn't allow you to account for different pixel configurations. Even the default windows one allows you to set the configuration of your pixels.

In general: avoid TN displays if you intend to rotate the screen. IPS displays are much better for this.

It doesn't help that the Raspberry Pi foundation finally released an update after 2 years...and left the specs almost completely unchanged. Not even a badly needed speed bump on the CPU or an ARM architecture update that makes it less of a pain in the butt to support. Not even a RAM bump, even though many many apps (XBMC included) bump into the RAM limit on the Pi constantly, severely degrading its performance.

The situation is so ridiculous that overclocking is officially supported on their default distro (Raspbian) in the installer. It really helps too. Even a little 300Mhz clock bump makes the Pi feel twice as fast (mostly from the increased clock on the RAM). Unfortunately, in my experience the built-in "turbo" mode is generally over aggressive with the Core and GPU and you'll eventually get crashes when doing 3D games or hitting the USB controller (and remember, the networking on the box is all USB).

For what it is worth, if you have Samsung memory (Hynix sucks), I've had good success across several Pis with the following config:
arm_freq=1000
sdram_freq=600
core_freq=400
gpu_freq=333
avoid_pwm_pll=1
over_voltage=6

This setup plays Quake3 smoothly (mostly) at 1280x1024 and runs Chromium reasonably well if you don't have too much other stuff open (beware hitting the memory limit though, swapping on the Pi makes it nigh unusable--no more than 2 or 3 tabs open at once). Another caveat: The analog audio will be crackly with this config, use HDMI audio or remove the "avoid_pwm_pll" line and reduce core_freq to 333 to match the gpu_freq. I don't have any of the B+s to try it out, but given the extra couple of years they've had I expect them to overclock even better than the old model Bs. If you are one of those poor suckers with a Hynix Pi, you are probably going to have to remove the sdram_freq line as well, it just doesn't overclock for beans.

The Pi is actually surprisingly good at streaming video, but with a big list of caveats. The biggest is that it is only good at streaming 2 (3 if you pay a little extra money) formats. Luckily one of them is mp4 so it's not a complete disaster, but anything it can't do on the GPU is too slow to be useable. XBMC's interface is also a poor choice for the Pi, as it is not GPU accelerated on the Pi and quite slow as a result.

The Broadcom chip on the Pi is really designed to stream video. The CPU is almost an afterthought, and is mostly there to service the USB controller and feed data into the GPU.

Because CRLs suck and using them is a last resort. Plus, Sony has to re-issue the certs first or it will break existing consumer equipment. There is a chicken and egg problem where you want to push down the new certs securely before you invalidate the old ones, otherwise the consumers will get a warning about an improperly signed server trying to mess with the security on their machine.

Or they have to wait for some third party (Windows Update for instance) to push it out, which takes time.

Valuation is a bullshit number though. That's just what the stock market is currently betting you'll be worth. It can appear and disappear in a flash and has little connection to the actual health of the company.

Nothing that could have been done? That's not true. They can ban any potential competitors to the existing entrenched business interests in the name of avoiding rapes.

Interesting concept, however I'd tweak it in two ways: 1. You would probably want to do it on a rolling year basis (i.e., annually on your hire date) to smooth out the cash outflow a bit, and 2. Make it mandatory to do when someone leaves as a YTD calcluation. I've seen enough places that want to cheat you out of a bonus because you left/were laid off a couple weeks before the payout day, even though the work you did to earn that bonus was already done over the last weeks/months/year.

You mean the biggest wear item on those trains? What don't they want to hear?