Debian does ship a system with kernel 3.8. It's called "experimental". I'm running Debian with this kernel, all packaged nice and neatly, installed using Debian's standard package commands.

Funnily enough, I hit a problem with it. My wireless card occasionally drops connection. Works flawlessly under 3.2, though. I haven't traced the problem yet, but when using my wireless, I boot up into 3.2 for the moment.

Amongst the other uses already mentioned, I use bittorrent to download Humble Bundle games. Faster for me, less of a load on the host server. We all benefit.

You can always add the experimental repository to your source list, and install Xfce 4.10 from there.

Debian pretty much always has the latest software available. You just have to look further than the "stable" set of packages. You can even have packages installed from different sources simultaneously.

I have my system installed from "testing", and pick various packages from "unstable" and "experimental". It works beautifully, and is very stable, regardless of the source names. I also have the option to revert the package to another source, if it does prove to be troublesome.

The FA (second linked article) matches your first few claims. It doesn't mention anything about the wireless patent. I'm not sure why you claim it is a submarine patent. It's established that the standard body were well aware of the patent when they created the standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Scientific_and_Industrial_Research_Organisation#802.11_patent

The CSIRO has, right from the start, tried to uphold the patent. It tried firstly by discussion. After years of this, presumably to try and keep the lawyers out of it, they got fed up and then started to sue. http://blog.patentology.com.au/2012/04/story-behind-csiros-wi-fi-patent.html

Your Ars Technica article mentions that the CSIRO tried sending letters to "28 different wireless companies", in 2003/2004. The article is very much biased against the CSIRO, but even it does not try to claim this was a submarine patent.

  Awesome! Now we just need someone to create a Vindaloo Monster, which could help to feed the poor and starving. Or have it feed on the poor or starving. Either way, it resolves a need.

  It's the perfect solution. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?!

A comment well deserving of the Anonymous Coward moniker.

As mentioned by someone else, this is because Debian doesn't have libc6 ver 2.15. You have to download the ubuntu libc6 libraries, and extract them to your ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/ directory.

There are debian testing install scripts for Steam which will automatically do this for you. Go forth and search for them.

Also, don't install the ia32-libs package. Enable multiarch support in Debian: dpkg --add-architecture i386
You can now install individual i386 library packages, instead of having one large package.

That makes more sense. You're right, I was trying to match the regular expression to the line, instead of the line as a result of the regular expression. Still, it would have been nice to remove the ambiguity and wrap each clue with ^ and $. No matter how redundant or silly it seems to Anonymous Cowards.

If they wanted to fully describe a line, they'd wrap each expression in start-of-line (^) and end-of-line ($) metacharacters.

What gets me though, are clues like "(O|RHH|MM)*" . That's basically saying: there's an O or an RHH or an MM ... and _zero_ or more combinations of these. Functionally equivalent to a ".*". Essentially a useless clue. The crossword is littered with these types.

That is, of course, unless the charity is the US Govt. I hear they need some money to pay off a few debts. Eric may be doing it this way to give them a helping hand.

The OP makes a good point? I'm not so sure of that.

In the last month, there have been 11 stories tagged with the "Australia" label. Second from the top, the stories have been about: the Pirate Party being registered, monitoring body temperature of firefighters, potential cure for aids discovered, major telescope threatened by bushfire, spy agency seeking permission to hack third-party computers, R18+ classification for video games, insulin's structure being cracked, orbital pictures of bushfires, drones used for bushfire forecasting, and the world's oldest fossils found. Most, if not all, are quite valid news for nerds stories.

There have been 30 stories specifically tagged as "usa", in that same time period. Granted, some stories are a little bizarrely tagged as "usa". Not sure why a story about unemployed chinese graduates is labelled such. Regardless, it's easy to see that Slashdot has a much larger USA bias.

And you know what, that's fine. It's good to read about things happening in the USA, just as much as it is for Americans to read about what's happening in the rest of the world. Including Australia. Stop acting insular. Enjoy learning anything and everything about the world around you. This is what, to me, truly defines being a nerd.

1. Your cynicism is getting the better of you. This is a valid news for nerds story, about how data analysis successfully predicted the majority of a list meant to be kept secret. The story would have been interesting, had it come from any part of the world.

2. The Triple J station is known for playing many alternative and unknown artists. It's a government funded station, but editorially independent from government by law. Your list of known songs/singers/artists are likely influenced by your regional tastes, and also commercial interests of the stations you listen to. These would not match up with an alternative music station.

2a. Have a listen to Thrift Shop, the song that made #1. I'm not generally one for hip-hop, but I liked it. Great lyrics, has some good things to say about fashion labels and stylistic expectations. Interestingly enough, the song is independent of commercial labels, and has had great success in US/Canada/Australia/New Zealand.

He (or she) redefines the standard.

Now all we need are electronic scales that can receive updated firmware via the internet.

I use and know both JavaScript and Perl. I am in full agreement with you.

They don't even need to target a distribution. Statically link the binaries, release them as a tar.gz, under the provisio that they are not officially supported, but issues can be reported in some forum. Let the distributions do the work of packaging it. The world (of warcraft) is your oyster, or whatever other mollusc takes your fancy.