Works fine here, must just be your connection. I don't think Slashdot traffic will be taking The Telegraph's website down any time soon :)

Name a single low-cost micro-controller system that is sold in kit form with stacked BGA components.

Complain to Broadcom, as they're the ones forcing the use of these, not the Raspberry Pi guys.

I'm sure they will release documentation in good time, but even before that it would be easy to add additional custom hardware interfaces through USB in the form of Arduino or other USB supporting hardware platforms.

Also the idea behind the project is not to be a cheap terminal for 3rd world countries (tho it would serve this purpose very well) but as an ultra cheap programmable computer for English school children to encourage more programming in IT lessons and bedroom coding like in the days of the ZX spectrum and C64.

I think the problem is that things with little to no scientific evidence (eg. intelligent design) are being taught as having as much scientific evidence as well researched and universally accepted theories (eg. evolution).

Now climate change is more disputed than evolution, but that doesn't mean that misrepresentations about the science behind it should be taught in schools.

Iraq was heavily supported by the US in its war against Iran, including arming Iraq with chemical weapons and turning a blind eye to atrocities against Iran and its own people. When Iraq consulted the US about invading Kuwait they were told that "[The US] took no position on these Arab affairs", basically telling them it was ok to go ahead and invade.

Your conservative revision of history is appalling. You are the type of person who believes that the USA has never supported tyrants and has never taken part in unjustified aggression.

It's easy, quit threatening people and play nice with the world, quit having a childlike temper tantrum and pretending that you have only ever been a force for good in the world.

There are 2 exploits here, one is in Safari which allows someone to at least crash the machine, the other is in win32k.sys which allows a user space program to take over the kernel (privilege escalation bug)

The win32k.sys bug is far more serious as it would give any program even run under a limited user account complete access to the system

You don't need to use photoshop to [make burgers look good on camera](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUjz_eiIX8k)

Don't forget that this is skewed by the voting system as many people will vote for the lesser of two evils instead of voting for their true preference, so I'd expect under a proportional system for there to be a large increase in votes to 3rd parties.

Define "performs poorly". Many European cities and countries have a very good public transport infrastructure and even in England with it's somewhat neglected public transport system it's easy to live without owning a car everywhere except rural towns.