What artist is going to live long enough for this to even matter? Sounds like another way for companies to wring a few more euros from the public.

I've tried upgrading with beta a few times, and it can be pretty dicey, especially if you have customised config files or packages from non-Ubuntu repos. Net upgrades have never gone off without some major hitches in my experience. Plus, it's kind of nice to wait for the official release and do some spring cleaning. Net upgrade may be a good idea if you have a box just for experimenting, but I wouldn't recommend it for your daily driver.

Makes sense. Guess I should have thought that one through a bit more.

the government force you to take down posts on the internet? I know little of the Italian legal system, but even if he was pretending to be an expert, wouldn't that fall under some form of freedom of speech? We have pseudo-experts on /. all the time, wouldn't this fall under a similar "just ignore him" sentiment?

That's good to know, it seems a bit more reasonable (if somewhat inane). I'd like to see some number estimates of the potential benefits of such a law. The pdf linked to in TFA is totally vague.

Hmm, so instead of peers we could have: Jury of our seeds, Jury of our leechers, Jury of our users, or worst of all, Jury of our superusers. Cue XKCD joke "sudo make me a sandwich".

I dunno, I figure arguing about it here is pointless. I just thought that factors like fatigue would become more of a factor over time. I also think that a piece of technology becoming outdated also has something to do with, well, time. Of course human error has its place, but these machines are, in fact, old. Old in design, perhaps more than old in materials. It's still valid to call it old, and I think it's still a good idea to develop a new orbiter.

I'm sorry, but the things have been going for 25+ years in some cases. You can't keep hauling the same hardware into space and expect something not to fail that wasn't anticipated. I get preventative maintenance on my car, that doesn't mean it's going to run for the next 60 years.

Thanks.

I hope there will be no footage of blown O-rings or damaged tiles. Shuttles are getting old. On another note, where could one get data on when the ISS will be overhead? I live in North-Eastern America and would love to catch a glimpse.

Glad to hear it. The bill sounds like government data mining, and the earlier /. article made it clear that the data could make it to the public sector. Nice to know that public outcry can still make a difference.

"One special point we found out when studying those algorithms is that all of them work with images that have already been digitalized and gone through image processing. Consequently, we think that this is the weakest security spot in face recognition systems, generally, and access control system of the three vendors, particularly." (From the article) Doesn't sound like you need an amazing quality photo.

A recipe for disaster? Sounds like a pretty easy way for people to start making some nasty superbugs. I know all scientific innovation has that kind of risk, but I don't think I want my neighbor hacking E. coli next door.

How would this work with a Linux machine? Would the inability to install the driver result in not being able to charge the phone?