The "writeup on NFTables" linked in the submission is very outdated. LWN's article from two months ago is a lot more useful. See also this this brief news item (“not ready to replace iptables yet”) and the nftables web page.

I though WA stood for Washington state, not Washington DC. (I'm Australian, so I could be wrong.)

Or did someone get confused by "WaPo", a common abbreviation for The Washington Post?

The 1000+ websites mentioned in the post are (supposedly) part of a "cold-calling investment scam using the name ‘Global Capital Wealth’". The Australian Securities and Investment Commission, the federal corporate regulator, has ordered that their IP addresses be blocked, which also catches innocent websites co-hosted at those IP addresses.

The Australian Federal Police also asks ISPs to block websites listed by Interpol as containing “'worst of the worst' child pornography", apparently via DNS (news reports mention "domains" and "URLs"), but perhaps also at the IP level. Most ISPs have complied; at least one has refused.

[My take: There may be a case for corporate regulation bureaucrats to get some websites blocked, but only at DNS level and only in smaller numbers. Blocking extreme child porn sites via DNS would be next to useless, so I hope they also block at IP level.]

Gingrich says he'll use big monetary prizes to get private enterprises (Bigelow, SpaceX, Armadillo, etc) to build the infrastructure. (He carefully left that detail out while campaigning in Florida.) Mike Griffin and other long-time NASA people would prefer the existing approach: giving NASA lots of money to spend in the sponsoring politicians electorates. (Why was Mission Control in Houston, of all places? LBJ put it there to boost the local economy.)

The current init system is "simple and elegant"? The one with lots of shell scripts in /etc/init.d, and symbolic links in /etc/rc[0-7S].d to those links? Symbolic links with names like "K09dm" or "S51cups", where the first 3 characters are highly significant?

I disagree.

(Moreover, both upstart and systemd are significantly faster than the current system.)

That should be "bunfight" (an old idiom), not "bumfight" (NTTAWT).

RAGE Mobile, as id call it, is not a port of RAGE to iOS. It is a much smaller game using the same technology and the same setting. These distinctions matter ...

Pearson have a page for the book at http://pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Linux-Kernel-Development/9780672329463.page

I think GOG have found the key to getting users to do the right thing:

(emphasis added)

..., well, it works for me

Actually, FastMail have continued to improve things in lots of small ways. They may not have rewritten their web UI again ... but they have kept tweaking an already-excellent system.

The FastMail team have an extraordinarily high level of clue. No wonder Opera got out their chequebook ...

Good news: web pages do require approval (through a permission dialog) to access address books. The extension's author says:

[T]here are two APIs. The internal “importer” API, which can only be accessed by [Firefox] extensions, allows you to perform arbitrary network and OS-level operations to get information into the system. The external “content” API, which can be accessed by any web page, allows you to request access to contact data (and then starts the “permission” dialog, where the user can choose what access to grant).

This website seems to be the place to find out more.

Briareos is talking about Direct2D.

Firefox does not support RT Fact (RT = Ray Trace, BTW) or XML3D.

The HTML5 designers, following Mozilla's lead, are specifyng WebGL, which is a JavaScript API for OpenGL ES 2.0, the current version of OpenGL for Embeeded Systems.

Senator X used Parliamentary Privilege in exactly the way it is meant to be used: to start a discussion about something that the regular institutions may not be handling properly. Note the word "start". Things a parliamentarian says under privilege are not authoritative -- in fact, they're usually trite, and often wrong -- but sometimes they initiate very useful public debates.