If the SWAT team tried to get in, they would have had more than enough probable cause to round up and detain everyone working for Cyberbunker. Since the only guys actually talking about the raid are the CB guys themselves, I call hoax. The Netherlands is boring enough for a real raid to be picked up by any amateur sleuth or local news agency.

I just read the Wikipedia article, and apparently the sticking point was "that the MathWorld content was to remain in print only". If that's the contract Weisstein signed, he could have known he would get into trouble. Don't get me wrong, the academic publishing business is very seriously broken in many ways, but if this is really just a breach of contract, Weisstein should've known better.

Unfortunately, it sometimes doesn't work. Ask Alan Sokal (troll), Andrew Wakefield (liar and murderer by proxy), Diederik Stapel (liar), Jan Hendrik Schön (liar) or the other trolls, pranksters and liars that got through peer review without so much as a raised eyebrow from the reviewers or the editors.

The Google takeout .zip file has a starred.json file, incidentally. Not sure if you could make that work with Thunderbird.

The XML file has all the original RSS feeds like "http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot"; so I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

In winter Diesel has added anti-gelling/clouding agents. Not sure how much of the cost is actually caused by that.

You mean; did the export/import retain them in Thunderbird? Not sure, I never star items, I bookmark interesting stuff I want to keep around, or I webcite really, really interesting stuff I want to keep. YMMV.

So the actual problem is not the (lack of) repairability, it's how much time/money/effort you're willing to put into it. Then don't complain about repairability, complain about the additional time/effort/money to repair a Mac.

It's like saying natural gas cars are badly designed because there's CNG fuel station near you.

I think the very few people interested in saving these machines would be leaning toward another OS altogether to keep them going - lots of Powermacs have been repurposed as home servers, for example. But it's a spectacular waste to see a well-built, very expensive machine collect dust :-(

After messing around for an hour trying NewsBlur to work, I exported my RSS data from Google Reader and imported it to Thunderbird. Bye bye Google Reader.

Seriously? http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iMac_Intel

You're glad to have be in before the lock - my '06 Powerbook G4 isn't. My 7-year old Powerbook, which cost $2k new, is getting less viable for everyday use by the minute. Time for a Debian PPC install, I guess...

In those times there was simply not enough land to give each son a piece of the family tracts of land, so yeah, venturing out to sea was basically their only option. It is however an astonishing testimony to their persistence and ability to withstand hardships that they landed on another continent. Having to go cross-continent in a modern flying machine isn't exactly my idea of a fun time, even with all my electronic gadgets - I can't imagine what it must be like to be on a wooden ship for a year or more, without any clear purpose or target and very little distraction. Optical compass or not - the Norsemen pulled of some spectacular achievements.

People paying attention to the nukes is a good thing. You don't want those things to go missing like when the USSR imploded. Lots and lots of fissile material went missing...

The HD3000 in my Thinkpad E330 runs 3D games quite well on a 1920x1080; don't see what all the disappointment is all about. If you want something that will run Skyrim at full HQ in Retina quality you shouldn't have bought a Chromebook in the first place.