And while Intel will "begin offering 3D NAND drives in the second half of next year" Samsung has been doing just that for a few months. For insgtance, here a review from last June: Samsung 850 Pro SSD Review: 3D Vertical NAND Hits Desktop Storage. But, then again, since when has IT World needed any facts? ;-)

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No. Heartbleed is a security bug in the OpenSSL cryptography library. OpenSSL, in turn, is an open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols vailable for most Unix-like operating systems (including Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X and the various open source BSD operating systems), OpenVMS and Microsoft Windows. See? Not OS specific.

Correct but, again, not OS specific.

True, but the article didn't mention either and, let's face it, a kernel with no applications to run wouldn't be much fun -- or useful.

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Would you care to elaborate? The article talks about Heartbleed and Shellshock bugs which, affecting userland components, aren't OS specific.

Actually, I find it odd that you singled out the BSD family, especially considering that bash is not part of the default FreeBSD install and, even if a user decides to install it, /bin/sh is not the same executable as /bin/bash (or rather /usr/local/bin/bash). The FreeBSD went even as far as to disable the "export function" feature by default on 20140926:

20140926:
AFFECTS: users of shells/bash
AUTHOR: bdrewery@FreeBSD.org

Bash supports a feature of exporting functions in the environment with
export -f. Running bash with exported functions in the environment will
then import those functions into the environment of the script being ran.
This resulted in security issues CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169, commonly
known as "shellshock". It also can result in poorly written scripts being
tricked into running arbitrary commands.

To fully mitigate against this sort of attack we have applied a non-upstream
patch to disable this functionality by default. You can execute bash
with --import-functions to allow it to import functions from the
environment. The default can also be changed in the port by selecting the
IMPORTFUNCTIONS option.

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No, not really:

Earlier today, we reported that we isolated a handful of servers that were detected to have been impacted by a security flaw. After investigating the situation fully, it turns out that the servers were in fact not affected by Shellshock.

Also, are you sure that Yahoo is running FreeBSD on every server? I can't find anything more recent than this piece from 2011, but it would appear that 75% of Yahoo’s Web sites and services run on Linux".

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Did you try Runtastic?

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Where are the mod points when you really need them?!? +several million to you for saying something sensible rather than repeating something heard somewhere -- over and over. I just wonder if the people talking in favor or against net neutrality are as clueless as they are when they talk about Marxism or, for that matter, any other sufficiently complex subject.

Oh, and why did you have to post this as AC? I think it was well reasoned and worth reading, actually.

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Apologies for being blunt, but you are delusional. Have you heard about Ireland? People have "accepted" wage cuts just for the privilege of keeping their job BUT:

1) The labor market has NOT improved;

2) Cost of living has NOT gone down;

In other words: things are tough all over.

And dot get me started about the mythical "law of supply and demand", because we might as well be talking about Santa Klaus, the Tooth Fairy or, since I mentioned Ireland, Leprechauns.

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Okay, time to get up to speed then:

The FreeBSD Foundation

Donations to The NetBSD Foundation

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Worse yet, the article uses the plural "researchers" but quotes none except Mrs Wolf who, in turn, is just relating her own experience rather than any factual research. Examples:

Researchers are working to get a clearer sense of the differences [...]

Before the Internet, the brain read mostly in linear ways [...] researchers said.

Some researchers believe that for many people [...]

Researchers say that the differences between text and screen reading should be studied more thoroughly [...]

But, hey, who needs to refer to any research when you can fill an article with anecdotal evidence from Claire Handscombe, Brandon Ambrose, and Ramesh Kurup? I mean, that should plenty to convince anyone, no? ;-)

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Let's see: the summary mentions that "last September 85% of the NHS's 800,000 computers were running XP" which translates to 680,000 computers. A Chromebook is like $200 a pop, so migrating all of them would cost $136,000,000. Not such a big saving, is it?

Not to mention that being tied hands and feet to [insert any company here] is no better than being tied hands and feet to Microsoft, you'd have a ridiculous amount of local storage and no control whatsoever over how (and where) your other data is stored. And I can easily imagine that they also have lots of custom-made applications that wouldn't run in Chrome OS anyway.

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Speaking of Dungeon Keeper and the flood of "freemium" games I'd like to see less and less of, here's a much a more sane (as in opposite) take on the subject: How In-app Purchases Have Destroyed The Industry

And now, I don't think that what's good good for Apple or Valve is going to be necessarily good for gamers and game developers.

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Except for the fact that Microsoft has extended support for Windows XP until July 2015 -- and let's not forget that in August Windows XP will be 13 years old and OS X Snow Leopard just 5.

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Right so far...

But very wrong about this one. This table says that OS X Mavericks is indeed a security update for OS X v10.6.8 and later (18th row in the table). Also, the issue has been discussed before

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Do we really need complex systems theorists to tell us that "if food prices continued to climb, so too would the likelihood that there would be riots across the globe"?!?

Okay then, where do I apply for D.O.T.O.M.O.O. (Department of the Obvious Made Obviously Obvious)?

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The Hittites (among many others) would have beg to differ:

Deuteronomy 20:17: But thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee;

Deuteronomy 7:1: When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

Exodus 32:2: And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

Love, you say? Well, if there is one thing that I love is how people cherry-pick quotes (from the very same source, no less) to prove the others wrong which, incidentally, it's exactly what I did here -- and no, the irony is not lost on me.

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