It doesn't matter who revokes the keys. Right now only Firefox and Chrome ever check for revoked certs, and Chrome at least has this disabled by default. If you are running iOS or Android, your browser doesn't check the CRL before trusting the cert. So it's great if web sites revoke certs, but it doesn't actually change anything on the end user side, for the most part. I'm not saying anything about Windows platforms because I don't have access to any; it's possible that they do support CRLs. You can check whether your browser supports CRLs by going to this test URL. If you don't get a warning from your browser, your browser isn't checking CRLs.

A properly locked-down Chromebook doesn't let you do stuff like that. You have to enable developer mode. Presumably the point of using chromebooks is that they're easier to maintain, and that won't be the case if they aren't locked down.

How does that contradict what the previous poster said? Segregation is a bad idea. Your anecdote supports that conclusion.

I am not thrilled that this is considered a good idea. In principle I suppose you _can_ learn to program on a Chromebook, but only in a very limited way. If this is the wave of the future in education, some thought needs to go into how to design a programming curriculum that can work with these devices.

No offense, but us bleeding hearts also blither on quite a bit about income inequality. I think we blither on about that a lot more than we do about gun control, actually.

No, the bombing came after they'd annexed Tibet, as part of the Destruction of Four Olds campaign. Religion as a whole was explicitly targeted for elimination. The rhetoric was explicit in targeting religion as the reason for destroying the monasteries, killing monks and nuns and sending other monks and nuns to concentration camps. Soldiers forced monks and nuns to lie with each other at gunpoint so as to break their vows. Twist and spin all you like: this was very much done in the name of atheism.

Unlikely. Easier to use video cameras to do the overlay. Less worry about matching light levels. It would certainly be cool if we could get a version of this that was more like a pair of Oakley shades than a giant set of opaque goggles, but I'm skeptical that such a thing will be useful.

I actually ordered a DK2 after the facebook announcement on the theory that it will be less likely to be broken by facebook than later models. It remains to be seen of course, but July is a pretty early timeframe for Facebook to have completely destroyed the company.

Excuse me, but suppression of religion in favor of atheism is _exactly_ why it was done. Otherwise they wouldn't have bombed the monasteries—they would have just taken over the country.

What the hell does this have to do with high performance 3D graphics cards? And which would you rather eat: oil, or food?

I do agree, but a communist personality cult isn't communism. It's a personality cult that uses communism as an excuse for its existence. North Korea is nominally, but not actually, communist.

Yes, they were done in the name of atheism. Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses. A lot of religious people have been killed or tortured in service of that claim. Hard to see how that's not atheism.

The Chinese bombed most of the major monasteries in Tibet and killed about fifty thousand monks and nuns. Just because it's not happening at the moment doesn't mean it's never happened nor that it's not possible for it to happen.

What you are talking about, "God/Jesus" and "Allah/Muhammed" being incompatible, is only the case for fundamentalists. The core of any religion is the part of it that makes it work to the benefit of society and of practitioners. That tends to be the same across religions. I have no trouble at all relating to sincere Christian and Muslim and Jewish practitioners. Indeed, I quite enjoy talking with them about what they believe and what they practice. It's only the fundamentalists who pick fights.

Yup. I'm tempted to speculate that what's actually causing these reductions in numbers is the self-evident hypocrisy of the "christianity" we see in the media. If I were a pastor or a priest who still followed the old ways, I would be very discouraged.