Considering that NSA definitely had the source code and configuration (otherwise they would not use Cisco stuff themselves) they knew about this shit. And leaving such a huge hole in nation's security while it's NSA's main responsibility is unacceptable. And after that recent data breach fiasco, one has to wonder, why the fuck we keep paying their salaries?!

Smart ones should not push it. In fact this decision might be a boon for republican party. By stopping using gay marriage as a talking point they are stopping alienation of large chunk of young voters.

For what it's worth: I've got good old T41. It's running 1.6MHz Pentium M on 2Gb RAM. I've installed SSD and Lubuntu 14.04 (with forcepae). Works great! Funny thing - I've already got rid of much more up to date notebooks, but this one is such a pleasure to use, it's still sits on the side of my desk, powered 24/7 for quick lookups, experiments and what not.

Couple of things: first, disk never gets near full because of root reservation. Second - there is implicit trim when you overwrite a block with new data (think about it). So my point still stands. Additionally it is confirmed experimentally - at some point I used a trashy usb stick as the only drive on a 24/7 microserver (with a lot of writes) for over a year with no problems. And you are wrong about reserved blocks - they are not only for bad blocks. Read some reports on Intel enterprise drives.

That's why i've added overprovisioning to my message (you've read it right?). And, by the way, all drives have reserved blocks to counteract things like scenario you've described. And I actually do use BTRFS on a very write active drive - works like a charm.

Use BTRFS or any other COW file system (with modest overprovisioning) - and you won't need trim. That's due to absence of random writes (in case you're wondering)

By the way, that report was not picked up by most news agencies. BBC had it on their front page but since removed it. It seems that they smell a rat too.

Or maybe they plan to do some poaching and want to know who's the major talent.

Folks, you are missing a major point: if the hack was originated from China, then the grunt of consequences will be on cleared Chinese Americans. You see, most of them still have family members back home thus they're incredibly exposed to manipulation. And U.S. is well aware of that. So government might start dropping those clearances - people's jobs will be in jeopardy.

Only parts that are vital for the organism are preserved (more or less). Everything else is trashed or/and cut out completely.

... AMD has a chance for survival. I think.
Basically every few additional percentage points in performance cost untold billions in investment. Thus it is possible to tailgate market leader by producing something only a little bit slower by spending half the money. As long as performance/watt, performance/rack are not outrageously bad (so data centers will not shun you) AND Intel does not engage in monopolistic tactics (big question mark here) it's possible to make a decent living.

My understanding is that Microsoft is still fighting that one. Let's hope they will prevail.

Simple - wolves are useful even in untamed form for defense: put one on a chain (well, rope) to growl at everybody approaching. Then allow captive ones to breed because capture is labor intensive. Then ask your kids who are playing with pups which one to keep (cute, friendly and cuddly of course) . ...and BAM! You've got a dog!

It took only 50 years to domesticate fox in that russian experiment

Thus it would be a surprise if dog domestication happened only once.

Does it throttle under heavy use? My concern is that it's rather small and without heat sinks...