Yeah sure we all love to hate on Facebook, but think about the real implications here. What happens with Russian employees working for FB? will they be labeled as terrorists? Does that pose a security risk for them now or in the future? What about Russian employees working in countries with an extradition treaty with Russia?

And don't come saying "well, they deserve it for working at Facebook". No one deserves this for going into work everyday to a company which, as much as you dislike it, is conducting legal business.

What are they researching specifically? is this any more than a mere curiosity that anyone could do? How come university professors are spending time and being paid to do this? No wonder higher level education is so expensive in some developed nations.

How is this discrimination? there is a benefit that you decide not to use, period. It's available to everyone who wants to use it and they will even cover all the expenses to be able to use it y you have trouble doing it naturally (adoption, insemination, surrogacy, etc.)

By your same logic any benefit is discrimination, I don't want to save in a 401k, so I should get the matching money anyway. I don't like the food that is given for free and I decide not to eat it and should get money instead. I don't go to the gym, so that paid gym benefit is discriminatory.

I can't believe the weird logic people get to use to complain about everything.

Or because it's much more likely that the user that is willing to pay won't have a clue on how to send money using bitcoin so they risk using paypal and getting some money before they are discovered?

Permissions in Android are seriously broken. Much better the way iPhone does it, it doesn't ask for any permission at install time, when the app needs to use whatever, it will ask the moment it needs it. This way as a user it's much easier to identify the reason why the app is asking for this permission. For example if a text message app uses the microphone for phone calls, even if you didn't know this was a feature of the app, the first time you discover the feature it will ask permission as opposed to Android which will ask for access to the mic and you may not be aware of this feature, in which case you'll just think it's a dubious request, even if it's 100% legitimate.
Another nice thing about this is that you don't need to give any permissions to an app that you don't want, so you may use all apps with location disabled for example, and use the rest normally,

This is the true "for nerds" approach. I've got into model railroading recently and one of the most interesting problems I've got into was "how do I make all this work automatically", this led me to rocrail. To fully create and automate a layout, I got into circuit design, programming, modelling, etc. Very interesting hobby that can go as far as you want it to go in terms of abilities.

That said, getting into the hobby and specially DCC was a real pain. There are so many competing technologies to do the same thing and so much terminology that everyone references as if it was obvious that it was complicated to get a clear idea of what are all the components needed when approaching a design.

Yes, that's how it works. They already have cellular service but not necessarily data services, so they provide data services for free to certain sites. Or in the case that they may already have data services, these sites don't count towards total usage.
On top of giving access to these sites, it's a way to enable data services for users that don't have it and that may never get to it due to the upfront cost and can now use data to access other sites (for a fee) if they desire it.

Providing Access to Free Basic Services
The Internet.org app provides free basic services in markets where internet access may be less affordable. It allows people to browse selected health, employment and local information websites without data charges. The app is currently available to Airtel customers in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia, Tigo customers in Colombia and Tanzania, and Reliance customers in India. It will continue to expand to other parts of the world.

http://internet.org/projects

You mean 30% heavier

Can someone in the know explain how does this work? are new documents being leaked constantly or what? how is it that we see new stories like these so frequently?

If new documents are being leaked, by whom?

Not quite... the summary is implying that interstellar travel may take significantly more time than the actual wait, so waiting for something to get closer may make sense. Assuming you just want to get to A star, not to a specific one.

>whilst i find the practices of apple absolutely deplorable - forcing people to sign up for an ID in order to use hardware products that they have paid for
They don't in laptops. I've been using macs for 5 years and never logged in into app store, icloud or any of that.

Only caveat is if you want to upgrade OS you have to ask someone else to download it for you or find it "somewhere else"

But I agree with you in that I don't like it and I'm not sure how long will it last without being a requirement, by how it's evolving I guess not long :(

I'm a mac user but far from a fan boy, I just think the combination of software and hardware is the best you can get right now (used Desktop linux for 10 years before switching to mac and at some point in life I decided my time one of the most valuable things in life, still use linux for many things thou)

Now, what baffles me is that people in slashdot complain about new shinny software having bugs. I'm not saying it's not a problem, but why are you (supposedly knowledgeable slashdot people) upgrading to a .0 version in the first place? I personally don't see any reason to do it, and every time I've upgraded I've done it in the last stages of a certain version, right now I'm using 10.9.5 in three different machines, it's rock solid for me and I don't plan to upgrade to Yosemite any time soon. Main problem is when you buy new hardware and you're stuck with the latest version.

Braid
Limbo
Lone survivor
Hotline Miami

With people like you that can't even decipher OPs comment why do we need encryption?