I was a bit surprised to see C and C++ but no Objective-C support.
If Blackberry is really hoping to get those "killer apps" ported over, supporting Objective-C would seem like a no-brainer.

I'm especially happy for npppd and OpenSMTPD. I have them both on running and find them simply excellent. Now that they are 'production worthy', more people can use them without jumping through a few minor hoops.

npppd works very well for getting a VPN working with a stock iOS device.

For a moment it sounded like Steve Jobs going on about a rejection.

... the Higgs data will show the universe is only 6,000 years old!

Guess my vote for calling that black hole "Goatse" was for nothing.

2GB for a full Slackware install? Try nearly 8.

And yeah, I'd like to put it on a diet, but once something is already included it becomes quite entrenched. It's extremely difficult to remove anything large enough to make a difference without causing rioting in the streets with torches and pitchforks. I suspect it's the same for any Linux distribution.

"so there may be some hope of making UEFI more Linux-friendly"

The only hope is to make Linux distributions more UEFI friendly. UEFI and Secure Boot is certainly here to stay.

What were the terrible effects of that agreement? I'm having trouble remembering any. Everyone ran around screaming that the sky was falling, but it didn't fall. Just sayin'.*

* it is necessary to end with "just sayin" when replying to any statement that begins with "not to be a dick"

The NYT review has now been seen by at least an order of magnitude more people than would have had any awareness of it had Tesla's CEO made no comment about it at all. The vast majority of Telsa's previous reviews have been of glowing, fanboy type. Now they've completely countered those reviews by causing this article to become the most prominent one on the Internet.

In the digital age, when the press gets something wrong (especially in an opinion piece) it's just usually better to walk away.

"It's really, really not hard to max out on karma on slashdot."

My karma was maxed out but then some trolls started hammering down every post I did a while back and I'm now in the can. C'est la vie. Will just have to make some Funny posts to get my karma back. Oh wait.

I have a stellar credit rating and use virginmobile.ca for our two unlocked iPhone 5s. They're cheap as a basic service, using pay-as-we go data, and can switch at anytime being not under contract.

Their customer service blows the hell out of Rogers.

They have so many other ways to screw people, would they really resort to this?

The scale of the scam is what makes it so lucrative.

... something like multicast BitTorrent. Not sure how it would scale with all those clients feeding into it but if it worked, holy moly would that be fast.

This introduced a lot of people to 3-D rendering, and the free-enough license led to widespread adoption.