Yes, a single USB-C port CAN do everything. Not only do many of my colleagues use this feature on a daily basis, but here's a handy quote:

Furthermore, dual-role devices that implement USB Power Delivery may independently and dynamically swap data and power roles using the Data Role Swap or Power Role Swap processes. This allows for charge-through hub or docking station applications where the USB-C device acts as a USB data host while acting as a power consumer rather than a source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C

Of all the keyboards I've used in recent times, The Dell XPS series has the most comfortable keyboard and the most positive key engagement. As to the key spacing, it is a chicklet keyboard, in keeping with the current fashion. But that's where the similarities with most other brands end. Dell seems to have gone through quite a bit of effort to make the keyboard nice. It's the closest thing I've felt to typing on a proper keyboard.

Again, I said it was a philosophical motivation. Philosophy is the place where the reasons for things matter.

RTFA.

For the last several years, we’ve been operating the Facebook fork of MySQL 5.1 with most of our production environment running a build of r3753. We’ve been pleased with its performance; Facebook’s MySQL team contains some of the finest database engineers in the industry and they’ve done much to advance the open source MySQL ecosystem.
That said, MariaDB’s optimizer enhancements, the feature set of Percona’s XtraDB (many overlap with the Facebook patch, but I particularly like add-ons such as the ability to save the buffer pool LRU list, avoiding costly warmups on new servers), and of Oracle’s MySQL 5.5 provide compelling reasons to consider upgrading. Equally important, as supporters of the free culture movement, the Wikimedia Foundation strongly prefers free software projects; that includes a preference for projects without bifurcated code bases between differently licensed free and enterprise editions. We welcome and support the MariaDB Foundation as a not-for-profit steward of the free and open MySQL related database community.

It's part performance and part philosophical. Given that wikipedia is a strongly philosophical enterprise, this seems reasonable.

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but "tips" != "heard about the plan". I'm just asserting that the OP's statement makes the whole thing sound a lot more cloak & dagger than it likely was.

That's not what it says. The article says this:

Toronto Imam Yusuf Badat, of the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, told CBC's Evan Solomon that RCMP officers said they received tips from the Muslim community that led to the arrests.

This is not the same as:

A few men, in the Mosque that they went to, heard about the plan and reported it to the RCMP.

There go my plans for a LiDAR, RADAR overlay HUD to provide better visibility in snow, fog, low-light, etc. Baby, bathwater both defenestrated.

Watches have some kind of an allure, much like fountain pens. Just take a look at the Tread 1. It's a beautiful watch and I want one, but I can't have one because it's $20,000. Some people like Rolex's too. Personally, I don't get that one, but that's fine.

If you have a smartphone, you surely must have had at least on occasion where it alerts, but it's awkward to get at it. You'll fish it out if it's important, but you'd like to know if it's important before you do that. For me, this has happened in a few ways: 1) it's raining and I'm outside. 2) it's winter, and the phone is in my pants pocket, which my coat covers. Finding out what the alert was requires removing a glove, and fishing it out of my pocket. 3) I'm in a meeting.

There's another use-case: Suppose you have bluetooth headphones. If you also have a smart-watch, you don't need to get out the smartphone to: 1) see who is calling and/or answer a call. 2) check which track is playing. 3) read a text message or email. 4) skip tracks, adjust volume...
The list goes on. Some of these functions are also covered by the bluetooth headphones, but not all.

Is it necessary for the smartphone to fulfill its purpose? Absolutely not. Can it be convenient to have a tiny UI strapped to your wrist? Absolutely.

K&R ANSI C is the only usable C reference. If you have a prof require a book other than K&R for a C course, you need to file a complaint with your CS dean, alleging incompetence.

C++, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a similar significant tome. I tried reading Stroustrop... it's just not the same. There's also the problem that while C is effectively a static language now, C++ is evolving constantly. (See c++0x, c++11)

In addition, many of the C++ concepts are libraries, rather than the actual language syntax, e.g. use of the STL or other container classes to prevent rewriting commonly used containers is almost as important as being able to write said containers if you need them.

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I disagree. It took me a while to put my finger on it, but I finally worked it out. 3D printing is not a revolution, it's just popular. You can put a CNC mill together for between 1.5x and 2x the price of a hobbyist 3D printer. It will work with metal and it will produce a smoother and more accurate final product. Why is 3D printing being singled out when CNC mills are a much more viable problem?

This simply isn't true. Home CNC has been around for over a decade, in the $2000-$10,000 range. The more DIY you want to get, the lower it goes. The software is open source (LinuxCNC) and the electronics are simple.

This is a good question. The problem, though, is that the ship has sailed on controlling the printers. There are so many plans available from so many people (see file sharing) and the printers themselves are cobbled together from hobby electronics and parts you can buy at Home Depot.

You may be right that someone in government will try and crack down on the printers themselves (Think of the children!), but it won't be long after that happens that someone with a CNC mill starts producing "controlled" items. The technology used is irrelevant.

Yes, I do. The problem is that passwords are fundamentally broken. They are broken in several ways.

1) The password must be hard to guess. This, generally, makes it hard to remember.
2) Many implementations restrict the number of characters that I can use for a password. This is downright stupid, as it prevents xkcd/936 compliance.
3) Every service which uses a password must have a different password to prevent password reuse attacks. This exacerbates 1).
4) I need a way to recover the password if I lose it. This exposes a secondary attack vector on my password.
5) There needs to be a guarantee that the password will never be transmitted or stored unencrypted.

OAuth fixes 3) and mitigates 5) and 2).
Two-factor authentication fixes 1): guessing my password can be easy provided that attacks on my service provider are slow and that I can report my token lost/stolen in time several orders of magnitude lower than the time required to guess the whole solution space.
Biometrics can be used to mitigate 1) and 4), but they expose additional flaws, such as lack of revocation. If someone ever gets your fingerprint, they have access to all your fingerprint secured data/possessions, unless they are additionally secured by something else.

Using most OAuth vendors, however, exposes an additional security hole: tracking by the OAuth vendor (see Google, Facebook privacy concerns).

Ultimately, it seems to me that the solution is probably private OAuth vendors with support for smartphone-based secure keys. The problem is getting service providers, such as banks, to implement OAuth via a username + domain (OAuth vendor) + token approach.

This should allow users to choose their OAuth vendor, thereby allowing flexibility in the market when a particular OAuth vendor does Bad Things with users' data. This makes the required password complexity minimal. If the engine which processes the token and password were rolled into a secure smartphone application and transmitted to the OAuth vendor via a back-channel, it would also prevent password scraping.

This is the thing I still don't get about cloning extinct species. The mitochondria are also part of the organism, but they don't seem seem to ever get taken into account when there is talk of cloning. If you take the mitochondria from one species and the nuclear DNA from another species, what do you get? You could easily argue that you get a sort of hybrid species, which is not quite the same as either parent species.

For Security!

No, I'm serious. Vague handwaving about "security" seems to make all kinds of human rights abuses "okay." So UEFI secure boot is clearly good for everyone. I mean, it has "secure" right in the name! That must make it good! We should all thank Microsoft for making our BIOS's "secure"! After all, once the BIOS is "secure," we can use it to make the whole system secure! Right? Right....?

Microsoft can get away with UEFI Secureboot right now because it's for security. But it happens to coincide with a move in the industry away from PC's as PCs. People are buying tablets as entertainment devices (you still can't do real work on them) instead of PCs. I don't think that the anti-trust courts are really going to pay much attention to this one.

All this is true, but it ignores SSD-caching solutions, such as Intel SRT. In that case, you get the same deal as the hybrid hdd, but instead of an 8GB cache, you get a cache the size of an SSD. However, this does not mean that you get the reliability benefits for SLC+MLC. If you really want the SSD-caching solution, you should look for a SLC SSD, which is even more expensive.