Amazon's pretty good.

They make it easy to browse and discover content. They also have suggestions (if you like this, you might like that). Certainly they have a top N list, but it's certainly not as important to have your book in the top N as it is on an app store.

This reminds me of a scam I heard about years ago.
1) Pick 1024 victims
2) Pick 1 volatile stock
3) To 512 victims, say the price will go up, to the others, say it will go down
4) Wait 5 days, then pick the half which were right
5) GOTO 2 (ok, you could use recursion instead, or a loop)
6) When you get to 8 victims, point out that you've been 100% accurate 6 times in a row and get them to invest a lot of money
7) Profit!

It's enrypted. Apparently using a lossy enryption sheme.

Mod parent informative.

I bet if the platinum cylinder were in orbit, the weight would be way off from 2.2 lbs. It would still be a Kg though (not accounting for missing mass discussed in the NIST article).

Next thing, it will be making desserts.

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

Apparently, he may turn in his yellow shirt for a political position: Facebook campaign

In fact, even wikipedia references power monitoring attacks. And, yes, that's been sitting in Wikipedia since before March 2008.
I agree, not really headline news.

A Beowulf cluster of exercise bikes. Duh.

On top of which, the guy who made the card also happens to be the guy who wrote the bauble app (only 59p).

Nice way to promote the app (but shame on the /. editors).

$ ls -l /etc/cron.daily/google-chrome
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6562 YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM google-chrome

But you are right, I can't find any app called keystone.

Here's a real world example which came up yesterday:

% man getpagesize

... The function getpagesize() returns the number of bytes in a page, where a "page" is the thing used where it says in the description of mmap(2) that files are mapped in page-sized units. ...

I guess you can decipher this, but perhaps they should use a weaker cipher for writing docs.

A little Python program to help you out:

gb = 1024**3
tb = 1024**4
mem = int(raw_input("Enter your machine's RAM in GB: ")) * gb
cat = 114*tb
print 'The cat has %d times more RAM than you' % (cat/mem)

Yes, I've only seen the problems under the VM (I haven't had the opportunity to install on real hardware yet). It could be that the VM graphics drivers aren't playing nice with KK (or vice versa).

I have run Jaunty, Hardy, Dapper, FC, and other distributions without any issues on the same VM, so my suspicions are that it might be something with KK. But I don't know for certain.

I have faith that the final release of KK will work swimmingly and I look forward to it.

My experience with 32-bit Karmic (running in a VM) wasn't that great.

The changes to xorg weren't picked up in my VM properly and so I ended up with a small monitor resolution which I couldn't change. There was also a lot of instability with X (I think). After copying an xorg.conf file from Jaunty, the VM wouldn't start X properly and I had to toss the VM. I probably could have fixed it, but there was nothing special on the VM so it was easier to restart.

This is running the VMs under a 64 bit version of Jaunty - with multiple procs assigned to the VM.

Windows? I've had better results running it in a VM. But, I only run Windows a couple of times a year.