If you want to game on it, you can do that too if you use a KVM install and a video-card with passthrough.

Apparently to siphon money off the employees and potentially any investors stupid enough to invest?

I'm pretty sure older windows will for the most part *work* on those chipsets, just that it might not support all functionality (acceleration, or possibly a lack of drivers for some controllers, soundcards, etc).

I tend to prefer aligned braces (e.g. following-line so that it matches the closing brace).

It seems that lately programming courses are teaching the "following the function-definition" version.

I'll admit that I sometimes do a hybrid. Inline for the function definition, next-line for any operators etc

sub foo(){
    if ( $bob == 1 )
    {
            #do something
    }
}

If the batteries weren't embedded, then they wouldn't need a recall of the whole phone (assuming the issue is the battery itself and not some part of the charging system).

All they would need to do is recall the battery and have users bring them in to swap for a good battery. As a bonus that's a *lot* less of a pain-in-the-a** for users who will now need to migrate all their data to a new device, or be out a phone in the interum.

Personally, I prefer spaces for indentation, and tabs for alignment.

That's funny, because I've tended to see that as the opposite in most cases (not saying it's better, just the coding-style I've seen and it seems fairly clean), e.g.

sub foo
{
    $var = 22;
    $anothervar = 23;
    if ( $var == $anothervar )
    {
        return $var1;
    }
}

Nope?
This guy did commit crimes. He also committed them against powerful people. It's not at all surprising he's going to be spending a fair bit of time in prison. The interesting part is more in regards to the extradition, and possibly that he didn't suffer an "accident" on his way to the US for trial.

I've used a couple editors which pretty much represent a tab as a certain number of spaces at the line beginning, but as a tab later in the line. It looks *beautiful* in the editor.

Then I opened it in vim, and discovered that it was still inserting actual tabs but just visually formatting them to look nice and uniform. I'm pretty sure people wonder why my code looks like ass.

I do like the idea of space-from-the-left, tab-on-the-right though

e.g. spaces for function/comparison/loop/etc indents, tabs for things like lining up variable definition as

function somefunct {
    $bob = 1;
    $sam = 2;
}

p.s. Next coding holy-war, brackets in the function definition or the following line?

To transfer 40M without going through a chain of command/authorization is absurd, even with an authenticated email (after all, the boss could have had a machine stolen/hacked/etc).

You don't really wake up on fire, but you do have to start worrying if burns when you pee...

And if somebody buys a Satellite phone and then turns out to be an ISIS member, who then speaks in code so he's not detected, do you then go after the phone provider?

You want info, get a warrant. But the fact that the service exist doesn't mean it does so for the purpose of servicing a terrorist organization.

Choose 2
* More product
* Less overhead
* Better quality

Guess which one is losing out in many of these cases...

the premise of the book is decent and increasingly applicable to daily life, but frankly the writing itself is dated and rather lame. Yes, it's a classic. That doesn't make it interesting or mean that it's not overly verbose in many places.

Parallel construction, aka "a conveniently timed and helpful anonymous tip"

Another thing encryption helps with: making it harder to plant evidence on digital devices...

Yeah... I'm in the "go f*** yourself" camp on this one.