Bingo. Why does a system tray notification require admin rights? Every other software installer I've ever downloaded tells you what it's going to install and only asks for admin rights when the installation process itself starts.

There is also a Crunchbang-inspired derivative for the Raspberry Pi, called PiBang. I find it much more pleasant than the gaudy Raspbian ...

My dad lost both hands and most of his forearms as a child. He has always preferred to use his own stumps as-is, rather than mucking about with prosthetics. But then he learnt to use his arms at an early age, and he was determined to do everything he could.

He can do practically everything you or I could do, except for things he simply can't reach or that require juggling to many things too rapidly. He has the neatest "handwriting" of anyone I know, he types by holding a pen, he can drive a car, develop software, and he's built a house extension. As an adult he's always been a productive member of society.

While you may develop the dexterity to use a prothethic. Don't discount the potential usefulness of your remaining limbs just as they are.

I'd say there's a non-zero risk of an IPv6 connection failing. When something breaks in IPv4, everyone notices and fixes it. But for IPv6, since hardly anyone is using it and applications should fail over, there's a good chance that a failure will go unnoticed.

This recent(ish) talk (video) has some interesting statistics on IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 take up.

If browsers tried both IPv4 & IPv6 connections at the same time, there would be almost no risk to turning on IPv6. But right now, there can be a delay of up to 21 *seconds* before falling back to an IPv4 connection, that's if it does fail over at all.

Which ISP & web host would turn on IPv6 support by default with that kind of end user delay?

I've also seen a number of devices for sale with Windows 7 installed and a Windows 8 license.

Can they put metro apps in one or more windows? That seems like the logical solution for mixing application types on a full sized desktop.

FYI, they're transferring file blocks based on their hash. They aren't doing delta comparisons as this would require you to cache the previous version of the file. So if you insert a byte at the start of your file, expect the whole thing to be re-transferred.

The traditional corporate response would be to blame a rogue programmer and fire them, then claim that they are improving their standards and processes to ensure nothing like it ever happens again. Perhaps the next manager or two up the food chain would also be in the firing line.

[citation needed]

Many bitcoin services have been hacked and lost the keys to their coins. But the bitcoin network has not been hacked, nor has any hack resulting in theft been reversed.

Only 200 sales? Did they even *try* to market this game?

If your primary source of marketing is posting a cracked version to a torrent site, guess who is going to install it the most.

I couldn't remember, nor find it via google. But I found a few other 3.9 release stories that pointed there so I went with that. I was just surprised that TFS didn't include any actual details.

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-9-1845705.html

I live on the end of a fairly long piece of copper, for an urban area at least. The best ADSL speed I can get is around 4.5 Mbit. To get more than that speed what are my options? And if you're going to replace my copper with something, why not replace it with the best, most future proof technology?

$8,500 is a good investment for a technology that should last for the foreseeable future. Just don't ask each person to pay that full price right now.

While at the same time telling their actual developers to make it more difficult;

The ironing is delicious.