There are so many things wrong with your comment I don't event know where to start. Everything has mass, but light has no REST mass, meaning if it were to stop then it would have no mass, which would be impossible. Electrons and protons for example, and airplanes, do have rest mass so they can stand still. If you take electrons and pump energy into them they start moving faster and faster. If you pump more energy their speed increases, but the closer they get to the speed of light the smaller this increase becomes. There is no limit to the energy they can have, the more you pump the faster they go. If you want to push them from 0.999999c to 0.99999999c, then fine. Also, the mass of any particle is its energy divided by the speed of light squared. That's mass, not rest mass. It increases with speed. For photons which always travel at the speed of light, if you give them more energy they stay at the same speed, but they get heavier. You can also give them as much energy as you want. Finally, if photons had rest mass their speed would vary with their energy just as it happens with electrons. Experiments confirmed with great accuracy that this doesn't happen, i.e. red light from distant stars arrives at the same time as blue light. Please read the Wikipedia article on special relativity, and study the friendly equations, they're not *that* complicated and everything I said is actually very clearly explained by said equations. There's nothing that's unexplained, except maybe why are the equations like that. Answer: because all experiments to date, including this one, fit them. We don't know fundamentally why, that's just how we see the world work when we look closely enough. We keep looking to see if the current equations are possibly slightly wrong and enhance them to fit what we see.

Actually you would experience "local time" at the exact same rate you usually experience it, but you would notice things you fly by go at a different rate, look distorted and maybe happen in a different order. If you go on a fast space trip you actually "time-travel" in the future, as when you come back you'd have the normal age you expect but the Earth would have aged more. That is because your clock does indeed slow down due to acceleration (not speed), but you don't feel that. Special relativity as-is doesn't really deal with speeds greater that c, as that leads to square roots of negatives in the equations.

No. It's a parameter called "c" in Relativity that describes how the universe works, at least as we understand it. Relativity, which is in accordance with numerous experiments, predicts that particles having non-zero rest mass (the mass when they're stationary) get heavier and heavier as their speed increases, becoming infinite at c. That's why matter can't go faster than light. Massless particles on the other hand, like photons, can't be at rest ('cause if their mass was zero they couldn't exist) or at any other speed below c where their mass would also be 0, so they travel at c where their mass is E/c^2. Light, having no rest mass, thus travels at c, which we can conveniently call the speed of light. As far as I know there are no other massless particles (except maybe gravitons which are hypothetical?), so the name is really appropriate. Relativity was developed in a framework where fields are continuous, whereas we now understand them to be 'made up' of discrete particles. The experiment verifies the hypothesis that relativity applies to individual particles that make up a field, not just to the field as a whole, which apparently hasn't been experimentally tested before.

I'm genuinely wondering if there is anything better than lossless coding at 16 bits per sample, 44kHz. Can you honestly hear the difference between this and any high sample rate / bit count? Is it a real improvement? If yes, is it due to poor encoding or poor sample rate conversion in software / hardware? Theoretically you shouldn't need more than 44k samples/s for encoding audio, and to hear the quantization noise of 16 bits you'd have to be in a really really quiet room, or wear some damn good headphones, and have very fine ears.

Yes, I am sure that all modern operating systems where there's a kernel made up of many subsystems, a whole lot of drivers for tens of thousands of equipment types, a lot of standard libraries and utilities on top of that, a windowing system, a graphical shell, et cerea, are written by know-nothing manager types and unenlightened professors. They're a pain in the ass to use and generally idiotic. They'd better rewrite everything as a big, integrated, clean, streamlined, blob. Maybe make each application run on the bare silicon -- "Hey! It's my silicon, and I'll run whatever I damn please on it!"

Because it is advantageous for the US to impose immigration restrictions and it is advantageous for the US to export capital. It is similarly advantageous for your government/legislators to accept foreign capital, event if it might be disadvantageous to you the common citizen. I don't like it either, but it's logical. You should be blaming your government at least as much as the US, after all they're solely responsible for accepting the foreign capital.

There are commercial devices sold as "true random number generators" which use radioactive decay from either a concentrated source or just the natural background. While the average rate of decay is very predictable, the exact times of individual decay events is theoretically unpredictable, at least within our current understanding. Think Schroedinger's Cat. Common electronic noise is also a pretty good source of randomness if processed correctly. Philosophy is enjoyable until one wonders off into complete nonsense, and I wouldn't go into theology.

<pedantic> You also can't plug a current processor made by $HUGE_COMANY into a current motherboard designed for processors from $HUGE_COMPETITOR_OF_A, even though they can execute the exact same code.</pedantic> Regarding ancient keyboards, game controlers, memory cartridges and whatnot, you can't plug them in directly, but you can via a cheap 8-bit microcontroller. Some people do that for fun. One of the nice parts about old hardware is that specifications are often times available and simple enough so it can be quite easily interfaced.

Good. The Internet is non-local. The Internet is everywhere. says me "who have no further comments on the issue".

The term 'mechanical' would be more appropriate, though I guess mechanical is still analog. I hope TFA is about mechanical watches not watches with a digital core driving mechanical hands. Anyway a good mechanical wristwatch is a masterpiece of precision design and engineering and there's something intrinsically cool about it being able to measure time almost as precisely as you could by simply dividing down the signal from a quartz oscillator. I see nothing wrong with it, plus it doesn't need batteries, which can be a plus in a postapocalyptic scenario / finding-oneself-stranded-on-a-mountain-with-no-batteries-nearby-just-as-soon-as-they've-run-out-type situation.

I just knew I'd sense a disturbance in the Force as soon as you predict this.

It's written in C, not C++.

"enabling the attackers to access restricted project material." So? I though it was all about free & open source. Therefore, what restricted material?

think of the children?...

You know, that's what modern operating systems with hardware abstraction layers and APIs, and high-level development toolkits are for. I don't think I care what hardware or even OS my stinky, SQL-injection-prone PHP code is running on. Sheesh.