Uh, make that 64-bit EFI and you will be correct - not every 64-bit capable Mac had a 64-bit EFI, and thus your statement is not entirely true.

Tell me which part of the "spirit of the law" or the US Constitution covers conducting espionage against foreign countries and peoples?

Or did you miss the fact that Snowden also exposed a lot of activities which the NSA most certainly should be doing, and was indeed created to do?

Nice, I have an opinion which differs from yours, so that must make me a "government worshipper".

And that is why its so fucking difficult to have a proper, sane discussion on most topics here on Slashdot.

What about Snowdens leaks regarding all the valid activities that the NSA et al were up to?

Ok, so would you have an issue with "universal jurisdiction" if the Met did this, because its exactly the same... As for oversight, did you miss the part of my post where I say that the CoL Police answers to HMIC, just like the Met and every other police force in the UK?

And id love for you to back up your claims about them being corrupt - its easy to throw accusations around, but I see no proof offered by you.

Your post is nothing more than more bullwhip regarding this particular police force.

The City of London Police Force is not a private police force, its a public body that receives government funding and is the same as any other police force in the UK, bar the fact that it doesn't have an elected police commissioner. It answers to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary just like any other police force. The reason its separate from the Metropolitan Police Force is nothing more than a historical curiosity rather than anything to create conspiracy theories about.

There does seem to be an attempt here on Slashdot, in this story and past stories, to cast the City of London Police in a false light.

Regarding the authority "issue" - the City of London Police seizing a domain name is no different to the Metropolitan Police seizing it, the jurisdictional "issues" are the same. The reason the City of London Police are doing this a lot is because they are highly specialised in economic crime detection, investigation and enforcement, so combating criminal level copyright infringement is in fact one of their specialities.

Really? I can run Roslyn or Asp.Net MVC or ASP.Net vNext or Katana on Mono, no Microsoft OS in sight.

What do you call a "flagship product"? Entity Framework? ASP.Net MVC? SignalR? Kudu? ASP.Net vNext? Roslyn? Katana?

On the developer side, we are very well catered for in the open source arena by Microsoft.

As the other poster says, well rounded is not jack of all trades, its just well rounded in what you do - so a web developer knows about HTTP, HTML, CSS, JS, the Dom, interacting with the server side, and the various aspects of the server side part of the equation, so how to handle requests, state, database accesses, design patterns, data structures etc etc.

What I fear MIT will do is producing someone who graduates from their Web Developer course being absolutely excellent in HTMl, JS etc but knows sod all about caching, state management, design patterns, UX etc.

The point of a structured educational degree is to give you a damn well rounded knowledge set of the topic, giving you a reasoned idea why the individual components of the topical area are important as a whole.

Giving students the ability to pick and choose on a much finer basis allows them to potentially learn the mechanics of how to conduct experiments without covering the ethical considerations of conduction experiments. That isn't going to end well...

Sometimes a students individual educational "needs" (rather, the term in the summary is wrong, it should be "wants" - the student "wants" to study the fun stuff, and "wants" to avoid the drudgery) is not the same as the "needs" of society as a whole as society would benefit more from graduates with a well rounded knowledge base rather than an enhanced specialism straight out of university.

That's a pretty ridiculous circular argument you have there.

Yes, the internet is full of anti-Airbus shite these days, a lot of it centred around the flight systems - and yet Airbus aircraft are not crashing with any more frequency than Boeing aircraft...

When you next get on a Airbus aircraft, ask for a cockpit visit - sit in either of the pilots seats and then look over at the other pilots seat. When you are normally seated, and there is someone in the other seat, you can still see the other pilots control stick, so a quick glance over would be enough to tell you what the other pilot is doing.

Why should the US Government offer any help in an illegal act? That would have legitimised Wikileaks actions.

If its not documented, it doesn't matter what format its in - its proprietary.

The inability for people to read an entire paragraph is simply astounding....

Oh, and the pitot tube icing issue had been highlighted nearly a year before, and Air France aircraft were undergoing staged replacements under an Airworthiness Directive at the time of the AF447 crash.