How long will it take before that virus scanner has cost the company 36 hours of lost productivity? Sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease. You'd be better off make sure everyone is saving files to a network drive with automatic hourly snapshots. Eg connecting via samba to a linux box running btrfs, or freebsd running zfs.

Interesting ... thanks for the tip, since it's just an easy card swap I'll find another card and try it out.

Or sails, perhaps? (only half joking, there's a lot of research into modern-technology wind-powered ships)

Nice projects! I also have 3 Pis, though only one is currently in use, as a RaspBMC media center. Works great, 1080p is indeed perfectly smooth. I've found the interface improves a lot if you use the fastest SD card you can, say a 30MB/s SanDisk Ultra or something similar (it pays to test the cards, not all "Class 10" are created equal it seems. Disappointingly mine wa slabelled 48MB/s, but tests at a bit over 30).

Bingo, Google have a policy of turning their competitors products into a commodity. Webmail, Office docs, Browsers, Phone OS, ...

I've been playing a fair amount of Dota 2 and TF2 on Debian testing, out of the box. The frame rate is good enough that I haven't noticed the difference between the proprietary driver, or booting into windows (ew).

The sentence is slightly ambiguous, however;

Worse problem; VM server farms. If you can run arbitrary code, you might be able to flip bits in the hypervisor or another VM.

Government spending is only part of the picture, and it isn't the biggest part. Sure debt is a problem, but government debt is no worse than business and household debt.

And what checks that signature? Code running from ROM perhaps?

So then the hashtag spread like wildfire?

So build a wiki / forum -ish system where "accepted" papers are published. Anyone can submit a paper, or criticism, or a review, or a meta-review... With a collection of editors & "reviewers" try to keep the whole thing honest.

In other words, a wikipedia that *only* accepts original research.

But would the snake die? That question is still potentially interesting either way.

Visual Studio keeps forgetting that it is primarily a text editor. Never, ever, ever do stuff in the main thread that would stop me from entering text. I suspect this is mostly because they allow 3rd parties to run code within the editor process.

Well the Great Depression set us up for one. An angry out of work population, looking for scapegoats and easy answers.