So essentially this thing was a real life WOPR.

Doesn't matter. GTK dev's (and GNOME dev's) can't be trusted. I'll use QT from here on.

Android uses Linux as its kernel but I wouldn't say it was Linux based. It's userland is java based. They could easily use another kernel if they so wished.

Unfortunately, the majority of the (now) 75 missing are from Grafton, which has a population of about 200.

Isn't the "Pacific Northwest", ie, the northwest portion of the pacific ocean actually Japan/Russia? California and it's quite clearly geography fearing population (generalization) is actually on the east side of the pacific.

Panic over!

They'll only reanimate the parts that watch TV, rent movies (repeatedly in a variety of formats, buy mobile phones (repeatedly in a variety of formats) and leave of the rest of the dissident free thinking ganglion parts dormant.

Honestly, why do they insist on running such an important backbone infrastructure piece on a no longer support Microsoft operating system is beyond me.

That's in Idaho ain't it?

1) Ban nukes making old style wars valid
2) Start old style war
3) Make loads of stuff
4) Corporate America rejoices
5) Profit

Let's see now. If the spammers and robot makers went outside, done something worthwhile and produced something the world badly needs (food) then this nonsense wouldn't exist, I could surf in peace and the starving millions would live a little longer. The very existence of CAPTCHA's proves the human race is badly in need of a reset.

There's a disabled joystick shown at the top of the article.

Citrix XenServer is built on CentOS. CentOS is built on Redhat. Redhat are dropping Xen like a hot potato and moving to KVM. Guess who's upstream support just went byebye?

Last I knew talking to your patent lawyer doesn't get you free advertising.

I can't believe you just said lose instead of loose! IS THERE NO GOD?!?!