So you are saying it wasn't north korea as the US government has been claiming and it was actually someone on their local lan? where did you find this information?

I like the concept but absolutely HATE the implementation/reality, everything the government does costs exponentially more than what it would cost in the real world, the hideous waste in government makes me resent every cent I hand over to them.

your maths really really sucks. at 10gb per second you to 1.25 gigabytes per second or as the OP said, less than 2 seconds for his 2gig quota.

The right answer is actually very simple. The US government should be following well established international conventions and request the information it wants through the appropriate courts, which in this case is Irelands court. There is no grey area, The US government are trying to stomp on the laws of other countries so they can avoid due process.

IBM makes chips!

Not to excuse the disgrace that is Abbott, but the reason this got pushed through is because BOTH SIDES supported this legislation. Labor have had a hardon for getting internet censorship in for years and had repeated failed attempts while they were in government. It is truly sad that now both sides have sunk to this level.

Microsoft have an official OS cycle of 1.5 years for interim builds and 3 years for major releases. they have been lax in meeting that goal in the past but this seems to be pretty well sticking to normal release cycle (assuming end of 2016).

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.