Microsoft has a habit of padding their sales results. How many of those 100 million licenses are currently in use? Does it include bulk purchases by OEMs? Does a Windows 8 license get subtracted when a user upgrades to Windows 7 or Linux?

Virus 'signatures" are an ideal technology for dealing with common threats from the late 1990s.

The characters built some stuff on the beach, and now they are wandering around trying to figure out how their world works Their world does not work like our world.

The form of story is unusual, in that one must use additional technology to follow it. Which the reading community developed very quickly. I use xkcd.aubronwood.com/.

Stealing power takes a certain level of knowledge and attention to detail. Quite a few power thieves manage to send themselves to the emergency room or morgue each year. This is far more common in regions where the theft rate is so high that the power companies install the brains of the meters on the pole transformers. They just put a remote display on the residence.

There were 70 units available when I read an article about it this morning. 46 left when I started to order my 2. They probably started with more, but still much closer to 10 than 300k.

I ordered two Model A's this morning. (I saw it in the Raspberry Pi news section of Google News.)

I already have a few Model B's. I will develop on a Model B, because the ram makes a performance difference. My projects seem to either need more than 2 USB ports anyway, so the built in 2 port USB hub on the B doesn't help. I usually have an external hub. And most things I do are wireless, so the built in ethernet isn't useful. So why pay the extra 3.5 watts?

Maybe Google scared Microsoft with the donation of 15,707 Raspberry Pi systems.

Everyone knows the goal is to get users hooked as young as possible. Schools have small budgets, Adding more Raspberry Pi seats is way cheaper than adding more seats with Microsoft Windows. Microsoft may have a hard time.

So there I was, trying to retrieve the video of the suspect for the cops, and it turns out that recording had been turned off on all 16 cameras 12 hours before the incident.

No network issue here, I never connected the system to the network.

One of the last things the system recorded, was the wee little hands of the owner's 4 year old grandson, playing with the mouse. He made all 16 little boxes in the status grid turn black. Just 16 little clicks.

TFA has a link to stupid prior art.

New bad ideas can be patented. It isn't supposed to be possible to patent old bad ideas. The problem, is that old bad ideas are often badly documented, because they are bad ideas. If the patent examiner doesn't find the prior art in the limited time available, then the examiner is likely to grant the patent.