I'm pretty sure this story is a very elaborate piece of fiction. That makes way more sense than somebody clearly so smart going to so much trouble to earn themselves a life sentence in prison.

Maybe last year we could expect someone to do this for real, but not this post-1/11 world.

My iphone 3gs is like that too. I figure it's mainly the flash controller working harder as the flash memory ages. I routinely fill it to 99% before purging the camera roll. After 3 years of heavy use I'll bet the average page erase count is way up there, and there are probably more than a few bad blocks by now.

Or it could just be three generations of extra firmware bloat bogging down the primitive CPU.

Never ask why ....

Correction: Always ask why.

The answers are usually pretty interesting.

Probably with electricity from the grid, generated from coal, gas, hydroelectric, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, etc, as usual. TFA didn't actually mention power sources at all.

You're talking about sociopaths.

You're probably right that the president and legislators are sociopaths, because the election process does a pretty good job of weeding out non-sociopaths. Nobody with normal human emotions could possibly do what it takes to win a typical modern contested election campaign.

I really don't get it: more than 50% of the US population is against a tax raise for the 'filthy' rich which only constitutes a maximum of 3% of your population... Why do those (more than) 50% care for those 3%, they certainly don't care for you?....

The answer is simple: More than 50% of the US voting population believe they actually are filthy rich, but experiencing temporary cash-flow problems. That is, they all plan to be in the top 3% within the next year or so.

Ah, the sweet seductive myth of a classless society and economic mobility....

And that's not even the most preposterous thing that most Americans believe.

The sooner instagram dies the better. There are great cameras in smartphones now, it's crazy people want to make their photos look like crap with filters.

How dare they want something that you don't want! They must be stopped!

Absolutely correct! For all we know, the correlation could be the other way around: Violent criminal behavior causes lead poisoning. For example, when someone gets all criminally violent at me I shoot him full of lead. QED, cogito propter unum. In your face, "science"!

I remember the broom exercise at school. Funny, isn't it? Big strong lads can't do it for more than 45 seconds. I thought I'd try it myself given that I'm not 12 any more. I got bored after 5 minutes. Sure, my shoulder aches a little bit, but I reckon I had another 10 minutes of holding my arm out, stock still.

Same here. I'm in terrible shape, haven't been to the gym in over a year. Picked up a broom just now and held it at arms length with one hand out to the side for 5 minutes, which seems long enough to prove the point.

As a teenager I heard a similar challenge involving holding the empty hand horizontally at arms length for five minutes. After 25 minutes without the slightest tiredness I got bored and quit. I figured I was just too skinny or something -- twiggy nerd arms must be easier to hold up than big muscly jock arms.

I'm pretty sure this "can't hold arm straight out for n minutes" is pure myth. Strange that so few people actually bother to try it.

If it is on XP you have a lot more security issues than this card though.

Such as?

I have a few XP systems that are still getting regular automatic patches and updates from Microsoft. You seem pretty confident that all XP systems are vulnerable, so you must be aware of something specific. Care to share?

1 PFLOPS is an arbitrary threshold or milestone. It's not a barrier because nothing special happens at that point. The speed of light is a barrier. Even the speed of sound is a barrier. 10^n somethings per whatever is rarely if ever a barrier for any positive integer n.

It says it uses the Android kernel and drivers to be compatible with the hardware, so will OEM(s) shipping devices with this OSes fall foul of Google's anti-fork rules[1] for Android?

The Android kernel is a derivative work of the Linux kernel, so it's GPL and Google can't prevent anyone from forking it.

Post on Wikipedia without logging in, and unless you have something really productive to say, you'll probably be reverted

More succinctly: "Post on Wikipedia, and you'll probably be reverted."

Seriously, change "virii" to "viruses" or "loose" to "lose" and watch your edit get reverted because "either spelling is acceptable" and your edit doesn't "focus on content". Even the simplest, most obvious and least controversial corrections raise the hackles of writers/editors who have staked their wiki-territory and will defend it to the death.