Why not Ubuntu instead of Android, to get a more full-featured laptop?

Android doesn't even have official printer support.

But was it for the better? The country might be better off if the criminals are exposed, and the battles fought, instead of festering as conspiracy theories.

"Half truth"? Lie.

> WikiLeaks would not have been able to post the unedited cables, as it ultimately did, heedless of the risk to human rights advocates, dissidents and informants named therein

The unredacted cables were published by accident, with Wikileaks and The Guardian being about equally neglectful. The op-eds claim of "[publishing] heedless of the risk" here is a lie.

I know that it is an op-ed, and therefore not the New York Times' opinion, but the New York Times still have a responsibility to do a basic fact check before posting it.

This is old news; see fx Wikipedia's coverage. Only buy SSDs with a battery or capacitor, or whatever is the in DRAM cache of the SSD will be lost on power failure.

Just right-click the link, copy, and paste into the address line. If the domain name portion of the link is to the right website, you know that the content is controlled by the owner of the domain name (with the exception of sites which permits user-generated subpages, such as google docs).

Or if you think your software is up to date, and your plugins are click to play, just click the link and then check if the domain name is correct.

Links are too useful to not be able to use them in emails.

So since you are also trying to influence politicians (by posting this message), should you also be thrown into jail for life? Lobbying is just telling politicians what your interests are. Which is necessary and healthy in a democracy (in moderation!).

That is not to say that was is going on here is right. But you can't just blanket condemn all "lobbying".

I have always thought a functional language like ML or Haskell would work well in a spreadsheet.

The compact functional code would visually fit well in a cell expression. And functional concepts like map and foldr would fit would work great for aggregating columns.

Also, it is insane that Excel does not have regular expression functions. Regular expression search/replace would work sooo well in a spreadsheet.

For transfers between Danish banks it is free. Don't know about international transfers.

> Not once have I seen one where you could actually use the online system to arbitrarily move money outside the account owner's accounts.

Huh? Just go to "transfer money", write the account number of the receiver and the amount, and off the money goes.

At least that is how it works here in Denmark. Very handy, too. Is the US still using personal paper checks?

> Python IMO is a whole lot easier to learn than BASIC ever was and you can do a lot more with it.

The language you already know every corner of is almost always faster if you just want to get something done.

Since Microsoft got started with a basic compiler, I assume that Bill Gates know BASIC pretty well.

IE10 bundles Flash, so I guess the flash bugfixes can be related.

But IE does not bundle Java - why would the IE bugfixes be related to the Java bugfixes?

This page is your friend: http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

Don't buy a 7xxx (Southern Islands) or (I assume) a 8xxx (Sea Islands) card, since they don't have open source 3D drivers for Linux; a 6xxx graphics card is the best bet (Northern Islands). For integrated graphics, I suppose the 2012 A series trinity should work, since it is based on the well-supported Northern Islands GPU.

Debian is no substitute for Ubuntu LTS. If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Release_history , Debian releases have generally only been supported for 3 years. Ubuntu LTS is supported for 5 years. The extra 2 years of not being forced to dist-upgrade a stable working system just to get security upgrades are very useful!

Surely the bad publicity from a root exploit is worth more to Oracle than $5000? $5000 is peanuts in this context. Why doesn't Oracle have a bug bounty program to avoid problems like this?