To be accurate, the cost increase is for Special Access Lines. This just covers the transport portion of the cost, and it's only for areas that aren't already served by existing infrastructure.

As an example, if you're in an area that there is no form of existing infrastructure to reach your site at the desired data rate, like some place remote enough that existing copper won't support even T1s, then the telco is allowed to charge it as a special access line. If the service is already in the region, nope, standard rates apply, telco is not allowed to charge Special Access rates. So let's say the special access line itself costs $300 a month. And the actual internet service on top of that is $200 a month for whatever you've contracted for. Now the line cost is estimated to go up by 25%, so from $300 to $375, but the service itself hasn't changed, so the total is now $575. That works out to about a 9% increase overall, not the 25% across the board doomsday scenario described above.

Also note this only applies to the incumbent ILEC, AFAIK there has never been any such restriction on cable cos, etc. They wanna charge three arms and twice as many matching legs to run coax 5' to 'reach' a new site, it's always been allowed.

The Anniversary 'update' is essentially an upgrade install hence why it mucked with the bootloader, just like an install.

I remember using it to play Starcraft on a Alpha 21164 using a Win2k beta. First run would be slow, then subsequent runs would get faster and faster...

I'm saying there is a massive difference between backdoor hardware and a backdoor in a software component. OP claimed the first was going on, which is clearly bunk.

So, a little clarification. The issue isn't secret hardware waiting to pop your security. It's a bad piece of debug routines that should never have been left in a kernel that went out in the wild. Don't run that kernel, there are no issues.

As of now, the Pi 3 is running the exact same kernel and binaries as the Pi 2 thanks to the Foundation deciding that 64bit support isn't relevant to their intended uses of the device. Until they or the community figures out a 64bit safe bootloader and ports a kernel, no 64bit love for you. If it'll run on the Pi 3 it'll run on the Pi 2 currently.

(Don't get overly jazzed about the 802.11n support, it's fed by a slightly hotted up serial connection so...)

Nope, full native build and operation. I've used distcc in the past with my faster Seagate GoFlex Net to speed up build tests on it but my Soekris boxes are full standalone setups running code built locally.

Happily running Gentoo on Soekris 4501s and 4801s still...

The AMD Elan / Geode does have CMOV support. I've got Gentoo running on one with a hacked kernel that id's and treats it as a 686 class CPU instead of 486 and so far no issues. I should collect my changes and see if I can get them mainlined...

If F1 stopped using them it may be 'cause they may have been outlawed as a cost cutting measure? They're still in use in MotoGP though.

They're still using cams. The pneumatic side is for closing the valves rather than using springs. Switching from heavy, inertia laden springs allows to penumatic closure allows for higher RPMs and more aggressive cam profiles.

The blob still rules the roost. The blob is what fires up the GPU, which then in turn launches the ARM support CPU(s) in the SoC.

Google does offer email archiving at whatever scale you want to throw at it.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...

Specifically note: (g) It shall not be unlawful under this chapter or chapter 121 of this title for any person—
(i) to intercept or access an electronic communication made through an electronic communication system that is configured so that such electronic communication is readily accessible to the general public;

Analog cellular broadcasts fall under that rule. Now, there are limitations on what you can DO with information gathered from listening to those calls, in short you can't act on it. But that does not mean it's illegal to receive it.

To be more specific, it's not illegal to listen to the 800mhz cellular freqs. All the FCC could do was stop the commercial sale of new equipment that was able to hit those freqs. Got pre-ban equipment, listen away. Make your own, congrats!