I thought that they still relocating entire offices to third world countries, and staffing them with people making $3 an hour to do your tech support calls. You can't get H1B's for that cheap!

What... you still want tech support that can actually understand English and isn't just navigating through a troubleshooting flow chart to "fix" your problem? You better pony up for the Gold level Enterprise support package for $$$$$$ a month.

Or beating the daylights out of a dark skinned person with their police baton.

There was even an episode in The Walking Dead where Walt's signature blue meth made an appearance in Merle's drug stash.

I think that he means that the iPad is underpowered compared to any Mac product made in the last 5 years.

Either that, or he's complaining that the iPad software is too overly simplified. The software selection on the iPad is OK, but what you can actually DO with the software still pales to what you can do with a real computer. I sure as hell wouldn't want to write a manual or edit a film on one.

When did Slashdot become conservative? After seeing all of those posts supporting Mozilla for firing their CEO a few days ago for supporting anti-gay causes, I figured that most Slashdotters were left of center.

Instead of building a giant floating barge as a sales tool, perhaps Google should have think about building a giant floating apartment buildings out in the Pacific for their employees.

The cost per square foot would probably be lower for their employees than a San Francisco apartment, and they wouldn't have to put up with San Francisco's ridiculous tax laws and building regulations. Besides, the commute to Mountain View by boat would beat taking a bus on the 101!

Which is great, until the update breaks XOrg and then you spend the next hour in single user mode editing configuration files in vi to get it working right again.

True Ubuntu story... thanks to those wonderful nVidia "Optimus" drivers.

Yeah, but he'll probably be able to keep his job as long as he wasn't dumb enough to publically say anything bad about gays.

Seriously, now is time for businesses to get OUT of Bitcoin and not be trying to get more of it.

In case you haven't noticed, the value of Bitcoin has dropped by more than half over the past three months. Between the MtGox scandal, the Bitcoin bans in Russia and China, and the draconian new IRS regulations, I'm amazed that it's still trading in the $500 range. It sure as hell don't see it coming back to $1,000 soon, that's for sure.

So, you're trying to tell me that the dozens of ATM manufacturers out there ALL decided to make the same bad decision and use XP Pro instead of Embedded, which has longer term support AND has a cheaper per seat license? I doubt it. I'm sure that some did, but I'd like to think that most of these guys would be smarter than that.

It's not. These systems are probably using XP Embedded, which is a hardened version or Windows XP with longer term support. Hell... I'd bet that almost all of them have explorer completely disabled and boot right into the ATM application. They probably wouldn't be Internet facing, either.

Last I heard, XP Embedded is supported until the end of 2016. It's not time panic... yet.

I don't really think that they got that close. The OLPC was supposed to be $100, and it never got down to less than $200 after several years after the initial promise.

That said, it help to launch the $300 netbook trend, soon followed by $100 7" Android tablets and cheap Windows based laptops. All of those caught on far better than OLPC did, and probably helped to get technology into low income households far better than the original project.

Even the creator of the test admits that any average user will probably not come anywhere close to 500 TB of writes during the lifetime of their 256 GB SSD.

Someone like Backblaze might if they used the SSD as a cache drive for a RAID array, but using a TLC based drive for that purpose is pretty foolish.

I guess that IBM's customers can now stop worrying about the NSA planting bugs in their servers and worry about the Chinese government doing it instead :)

Or (more likely) you're a nerd with a small horde of Bitcoin who wants as much positive publicity for the currency as possible.

I'm thinking that Slashdot should start requiring Bitcoin article posters to disclose how much Bitcoin they have before publishing the article. CNBC requires someone to disclose that their firm owns 5,000 shares of stock XYZ when they go on air and proclaim how great stock XYZ is... why not require the same level of transparency here?