If I had known this existed I might just have been tempted to get an iPhone. I just don't do paid software.

Lekker gezond!

Back when UEFI came out people were saying how things weren't so bad. Now MS has done exactly what 'tinfoil hat wearing alarmists' said they would.

Next time, "things will be alright"-folk, dont tell us we didn't tole you!

As people abandon Microsoft operating systems and at the very least abandon paid versions of pre-loaded McAfee crapware to protect the said OS. That and McAfee's possibly murderous past might catch up with him yet..

They must have learnt this trick from the neighbours

Air travel requires an absolute shitload of fuel, which is fast running out. Trains can run on whatever renewable source of grid power is available at the time

Just had a look at TFA and begorrah this stuff is dire. A pet tracker with a fuppin subscription fee, a few lousy Bluetooth gadgets from China, a board game, a dead boring run of the mill USB battery charger extender pack. Real ground breaking stuff :)

Would have been better use. At least that way a homeless person or a sewage worker might find some of it.

Yes it probably my own uninformed tinfoil hat conspiracy but I'm glad the kind folk of Slashdot are willing to debunk it for me

I'm tired of what's been going on pretty much since the IC was invented. Intel is king and has a stockpile of 30 years worth of technology that it can put into production at relatively short notice.

Each time someone like AMD turns up the heat on Intel they say "No, lets skip this box of technology we made ready for ourselves back in the day and move straight onto the next one, no harm done." then when the competition is stumbling they say "We'll see how long we can get away with selling the current stuff, then we'll open the next box and sell it way overpriced". Fcuk it Intel probably have the processors that are 'coming out' in 2017 already laying on a shelf in a warehouse somewhere by the millions.

Pity Eamon Gilmore and his lower ranking party pee-on Sean Sherlock don't understand this

This should come as no surprise though. In these modern times of recession and people being made unemployed due to robots it really is a buyer's market and employers can pull as much "shit" as they like and still have a queue of people outside the door looking for jobs.

No matter what it is they're trying to censor. Banning citizens from having access to certain technology and equipment serves only to preserve a despot's grip on power. There is no shortage of ways to kill 20 kids in a primary school and unless you're going to pour all your energy into creating a fully childproofed totalitarian big brother state where people in general aren't allowed to do things like North Korea then restricting people won't prevent these tragedies from happening.

You can get 200HP from an ordinary 1.6L I4 petrol engine now, like the one they put in the Peugeot RCZ.

The new F1 cars will also be using 1.6L petrol, but they rev much higher.

I don't know why they are even allowed to buy A123, I can't buy a Chinese company even if I had the money. The Americans that allowed this to happen are fools, giving their future away to China.

Not sure if electric is the way to go until suitable capacitors are developed. A fuel injected high compression ratio combustion engine burning methane, ethanol or hydrogen only emits a bit of harmless CO2, I'd stick to that until supercaps go above 30Wh/kg. I'm aware of problems with current ethanol and hydrogen production but there are better and less wasteful ways of making the stuff.