You only need to do a Google search for "new civility" (include the quotes) to see the hypocrisy behind HelloThereRacists. But don't expect to see Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, or Scott Pelley saying anything about the threats of violence and murder against Romney and Ryan. The "objective" news sources were silent this time around, just like they were four years ago.

An ACPI command sequence which either sends a reset signal to the CPU or puts the hardware into ACPI G2/S5/D3 state.

Meeting the #1 influence on your childhood aspirations is indeed an amazing experience. Been there, done that, in my case with Jack Tramiel.

Twelve US states are all-party consent states:
California
Connecticut
Florida
Illinois
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Washington

Another possibility is that the store had seen "incidents" recently, and a bit of stepped-up security was in order (more than the mall rent-a-cop could provide). Four years ago, a local grocery store had a couple customer assaults in less than a week, and there was a city cop there from sundown to close for the next week, on the city's dime. I'm a city taxpayer, and I have no problem with that.

After watching the first link, talking about "why," I found Mr. Rogers at the top of the related videos, demonstrating "how" to dream big, in the "Garden of your Mind." It dovetails with Neil deGrasse Tyson surprisingly well.

Given the near-omnipresence of time services (via cell tower signals, GPS, or pool.ntp.org), obtaining time as part of the system boot is trivial. The simple reason the Raspberry Pi has no RTC, is that the chip and battery would have doubled both the PCB size, and the price.

I would like to build a custom-soldered board with LED's. I know that I may do something wrong, and overload the GPIO pins on the Pi. Who knows, I might hack up something on the display to go with it, although 1080p might be a bit beyond my needs. ;-)

So, you ask "what kind of project do you need a cheap system and 1080p video for?" Believe me, if I fry the hardware, I'll be glad it's built cheap. I'd rather fry a Pi than an Arduino. That's the whole point of the Raspberry Pi: a system that won't set back an experimenter (or a kid's parents) big money if somebody's voltage calculations were wrong.

As someone below points out, it also makes better sense for schools: for a student taking an electronics course, having parents pay a $35 deposit on an RPi (refunded at the end of the year) makes for a lower entry barrier than a >$150 deposit on (name your other device).

Someone was (accused of) making a bunch of copies of something, without permission.

The accuser's lackey hands over information, before the Court decides if it's appropriate to enter it into evidence. The Court decides it isn't (yet) appropriate, and orders all copies of the evidence destroyed.

IOW, the accuser is now accused of making a bunch of copies of something, without permission. They just got a taste of their own medicine, at the hands of an unhappy judge.

One doesn't defend stupid beliefs with firearms. One defends, with firearms if necessary, the right to hold those stupid beliefs.

To paraphrase Jefferson, does it twist your arm or pick your pocket if your neighbor's beliefs are (in your view) stupid? Your neighbor probably thinks the same of your beliefs. So what? It's that little thing called the First Amendment, guaranteeing freedom of conscience and dissent. If you have a problem with that, then I suggest you work to rescind it. Just remember, once you take away your neighbor's freedoms, you've also lost those same freedoms for yourself.

He didn't just attend; he graduated with a Bachelor's and a Master's in engineering.

Maybe his beliefs are ignorant, but it's a safe bet he knows how to defend them.

Stephen Chu, the whiz kid who's now being named as a "person of interest" in the mis-management of the Dept. of Energy loans to so-called "green" companies.

Sadly, given the fact that Oracle has sued Google over nine lines of standard library code for the Java language (developed by Sun, bought out by Oracle), it wouldn't shock me at all to hear that Apple has sued over Objective-C.

I know, the parent comment is funny, but the best humor has a grain of truth. In this case, it's a grain of sand in a shoe.

That makes about as much sense as measuring the slope of a sidewalk wheelchair ramp as centimeters of rise per feet of run.

ARM-based CPU's are out-selling x86 by a fairly hefty margin, thanks to the mobile/embedded market, while the desktop x86 kingdom has been nearly saturated for, well, forever as these things go. And until Intel gets a clue and makes a chipset that renders on-screen for less than 5 times the mA-h required by a comparable ARM, it's going to stay that way.

Based on that, it's only good business sense that Intel brings in ARM business for their fabs.