Wow even if it was still April first this would be just plain aweful, but on April second it is just really REALLY sad

yes it is pretty amazing, normally they actually end up paying them to take the stuff away rather than get anything back for it.

windows will run more than fine in 2GB, it will run fine in 1GB with win 8.1. it really comes down to applications and as it is a tablet 2GB is probably fine for most users that will use it for web browsing and consuming media.

older atoms were far too slow, last gen atoms were ok for grandma machines. this gen of atoms looks to be quite suitable even as a desktop replacement for the average user that doesn't do much more than office apps, email and web surfing.

silk road was a LOT more than just recreational drugs. you had gun dealing, paid assassinations and money laundering. If it was just recreational drug use then I would still think of him as a scumbag, but one that is probably not worth chasing down.

the vast VAST majority of actors and actresses never make anything. You could pick a whole range of big budget movies where the actors and actresses have never gone on to anything else of significance. Any person that would throw away such a massive opportunity in a movie because it "might" stunt there future prospects had better already be famous and making a fortune as most likely they won't actually have any future opportunities.

There were a LOT of agents and far more evidence. I don't get why the /. crowd are so desperate to find an excuse for him. He is the sort of scumbag the police should be chasing down and sending to jail, it is sad that there are also some scumbags in the police as well, perhaps they can all share a cell.

Almost in Europe? what weird ass map are you looking at? it is close to some European countries, most of which are not really indicative of Europe. Russia has plenty of pretty good cities, include Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Pskov, Vladimir and quite a few others, though I have not spent enough time in others to truly judge them. You are heavily focused on the western mentality and propaganda and forgetting that most of the wests wealth is centred around a very select minority (happy to admit I am in that minority). Whilst Russia is very similar in this respect china is NOT, it has a middle and upper middle class that vastly outnumbers the entire population of the US and this group is rapidly rising in wealth. China are already only second to the US in the official number of millionaires, china has half a billion middle class.

They are all pretty much scumbags. Not even most environmentalists vote for the greens anymore as they are little more than an extension of the labor party, focused on short term thinking and power plays.

yep and I think even that is a polite way of saying how bad the greens are today. I think the biggest indictment of them is the fact even my highly pro environmental friends refuse to vote for them as they see them as only a destructive force towards environmental sustainability and see either coalition or labor as a better choice for the environment.

So your doing enterprise level syslog aggregation and archiving on consumer level hardware? really?

64GB and 128GB ram is already available. You just don't see them at the consumer levels as their is no need or demand for them. a consumer benefits more from persistent storage, the advantages of ram drives is really non existent for all but a very small niche of users. Server side we have had this for a long time. The two servers I am currently playing with have 4TB of ram.

I would add a few bad points. generally you should not be watching your speed anyway, if you have trouble estimating and maintaining your speed then you probably lack driving experience, you should be staying at a safe consistent speed as the rest of the traffic, significantly slower or faster regardless of the actual limit is dangerous. I also absolutely hate the idea of not having speed when it is required, shit does happen where you need to be able to react quickly and any system that may limit my ability to do that with artificial limits is something I am not keen on.

As much as I hate the patent system CSIRO DID create/invent critical parts of what Wi-Fi is today, would someone else have solved the problems had they not done so.... probably, but at the time it was them that solved them allowing for it to move forward.

desktop Linux had a far smaller share of the market when everyone on Slashdot was screaming that developers should be supporting it. MS are targeting write for a single platform for them. they may only be 3% of phone market and 5-10% of tablet but they are still 90%+ of the desktop market. An app that with little or no effort runs on all 3 is a win win for developers.