Remember, you're talking to nerds and geeks. Boogers are more easily available to them.

And yet, here's the "Anti-Dog-eat-dog rule" come to life.

Next up, sharks.

And good luck recovering when a Gentoo update hoses a library needed by GCC. In my case, it was "libffi.so". That was the end of Gentoo on my system.

Then you might like Slackware's absence of dependency tracking.

Their job can be dangerous, and they're only human.

Which is all the more reason to allow citizen recording. When some flaming asshole decides he's going to accuse the police of excessive force, brutality, what have you, third-party record of the incident will be the police officer's best friend.

You only need to do a Google search for "new civility" (include the quotes) to see the hypocrisy behind HelloThereRacists. But don't expect to see Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, or Scott Pelley saying anything about the threats of violence and murder against Romney and Ryan. The "objective" news sources were silent this time around, just like they were four years ago.

An ACPI command sequence which either sends a reset signal to the CPU or puts the hardware into ACPI G2/S5/D3 state.

Meeting the #1 influence on your childhood aspirations is indeed an amazing experience. Been there, done that, in my case with Jack Tramiel.

Twelve US states are all-party consent states:
California
Connecticut
Florida
Illinois
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Washington

Another possibility is that the store had seen "incidents" recently, and a bit of stepped-up security was in order (more than the mall rent-a-cop could provide). Four years ago, a local grocery store had a couple customer assaults in less than a week, and there was a city cop there from sundown to close for the next week, on the city's dime. I'm a city taxpayer, and I have no problem with that.

After watching the first link, talking about "why," I found Mr. Rogers at the top of the related videos, demonstrating "how" to dream big, in the "Garden of your Mind." It dovetails with Neil deGrasse Tyson surprisingly well.

Given the near-omnipresence of time services (via cell tower signals, GPS, or pool.ntp.org), obtaining time as part of the system boot is trivial. The simple reason the Raspberry Pi has no RTC, is that the chip and battery would have doubled both the PCB size, and the price.

I would like to build a custom-soldered board with LED's. I know that I may do something wrong, and overload the GPIO pins on the Pi. Who knows, I might hack up something on the display to go with it, although 1080p might be a bit beyond my needs. ;-)

So, you ask "what kind of project do you need a cheap system and 1080p video for?" Believe me, if I fry the hardware, I'll be glad it's built cheap. I'd rather fry a Pi than an Arduino. That's the whole point of the Raspberry Pi: a system that won't set back an experimenter (or a kid's parents) big money if somebody's voltage calculations were wrong.

As someone below points out, it also makes better sense for schools: for a student taking an electronics course, having parents pay a $35 deposit on an RPi (refunded at the end of the year) makes for a lower entry barrier than a >$150 deposit on (name your other device).

Someone was (accused of) making a bunch of copies of something, without permission.

The accuser's lackey hands over information, before the Court decides if it's appropriate to enter it into evidence. The Court decides it isn't (yet) appropriate, and orders all copies of the evidence destroyed.

IOW, the accuser is now accused of making a bunch of copies of something, without permission. They just got a taste of their own medicine, at the hands of an unhappy judge.