Siri, open the pod bay doors.

I have been using these guys since 1999 and have had no problems. Maybe they are more expensive than the cheap services, but I have no complaints.

"NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Android Lollipop Update Performance Explored"

This headline has meaning for many of the people reading it on this website, but imagine the average non-technical person trying to parse this.

This has a familiar ring about it. We discussed this same story two years ago.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...

I still have a couple of Bigfoot drives running strong in a Windows 98 machine. Most reliable drives I've ever had. Slow, yes, but for my application, fast enough.

When I used to have a Nintendo (NES), I would hook it up to my cheap TV and the picture was fuzzy, edges were clipped, etc. Then I connected it to an Amiga 1080 (?) NTSC video monitor. The improvement was dramatic. Same (theoretical) resolution, but much sharper and better color.

The headline is meaningless without also including the number of cases actually involving encryption. Looking at the article, that number appears to be 41.

This sounds like a bad idea, and not just the reasons others have already posted.
In order to make use of this system, drivers looking for a spot, by definition, are not parked safely off the street, they are driving. And they are looking at their phone/tablet/whatever, not at the road.
San Francisco is notorious for the high number of pedestrians injured by cars.
How many will die thanks to this new app?

I had a FTA receiver connected to a small dish that was mounted on the roof of the house when I bought it a few years ago. After some fiddling with the receiver settings, I was able to detect several dozen channels, only a few of which were unencrypted. The best one was the NASA TV channel, which I watched quite a lot until one day it went encrypted like the others. I tried re-aiming the dish a few times, to see if I could pick up other satellites, with no luck. Without proper equipment, aiming is very difficult if not impossible. For a casual TV watcher like me, it wasn't worth the time and effort.

At work, I use almost all Windows based applications, none of which are open source At home I use FreeBSD for a lot of things, and that's all open source. I also use a lot of software I've written myself, some of which is open source, but mostly not.

Have them:
Dismantle a desktop PC.
Take apart a video monitor (CRT or LCD).
Tear down a hard drive.

Congratulations -- they're qualified to be a computer recycler.

How many people have actually used and can make a valid comparison of all these distributions?

(cough, cough)
640K

Touchscreens are OK for applications that you need to use for 5 seconds, like a kiosk where you would look up some information and then go on your way. But for continuous use, they are not the right interface.

My high school (ca 1972-1975) had a computer lab with 3 or 4 desktop programmable calculators. I think they were CalComp or Monroe. They had a system where you could write a program on one to three punch cards that the calculator would read in and execute. The punch cards were standard IBM size, but they had pre-perforated holes that you would push out with a stylus on a special card holder. You could fix a mis-punched hole by gluing the chad back in place.
I spent a lot of time learning all about those machines and exploring their limits. I wrote many programs that used the maximum number of instructions possible, and learned a lot about program optimization that way. I discovered some undocumented op codes that allowed some interesting printer operations and wrote a program to print sideways banners on the tape printer.