Please join us on coreboot.org. We especially need more laptops.

Ok. But there aren't very many AAA open source games. How do we go about changing that?

Games still tend to be locked to Windows (annoying, I know), so here's hoping AMD stays alive long enough for Valve to port Steam Linux to ARM.

I'm a technical person. To quote you: "I'm not really that bothered" that someone like you doesn't believe that I am.

Why should I have to ask Microsoft for permission to create my linux distro? You are pretty ignorant to think that this is not important.

What Linux distro do you prefer?

Not trying to flame here, just would love another data point.

After I read the summary and all the links, they could have just put up http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/14/microsoft-has-failed/ and a period!

You say that like it's funny, but their Bay Area office had an explicit "no Linux installs allowed" policy. Maybe they've changed that now (I got sick of it and left), but developing iOS was a nightmare.

And you wonder why the commands are so brutal...it's nearly impossible to write them.

Ok, never mind about the AOAKN: http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/11/02/dead-pigeon-sparks-ww2-cipher-mystery

And decryption efforts are being coordinated here: http://en.reddit.com/r/cryptography/comments/12jipi/ww2_pigeon_carried_an_encrypted_text_here_it_is/.

(Thanks, by the way, for the info about all WWII German spies in the UK.)

http://www.bletchleypark.org/news/docview.rhtm/675670 says the red capsule attached to the pigeon is an Allied capsule, so if the code is German the message is from a German spy.

It's more likely the code is British. It has "AOAKN" twice - once at the start and once at the end, and from the digraph frequency (below), "AO" "FN" and "AK" stand out. I think that rules out any Enigma-based codes (e.g. the British TypeX), as well as the US SIGABA - the AOAKN would not be repeated at the beginning and end. I haven't found a description of BAMS yet.

Digraph frequency:
2 AR
2 DJ
2 GH
2 JR
2 ME
2 RZ
2 UA
2 OA, 2 AK, 2 KN (this is AOAKN twice)

3 AO
3 FN

If it is either of these ciphers, that means it was a message encoded using a German encryption scheme.

I think that means the message was from a German spy in England or for a British spy in Axis territory. (And the pigeon's number on the band was an "unregistered" number.) Either way, it should be a very interesting message.

Can I ask --

What good books? I'm always looking for good recommendations!

Just out of curiosity: have you ever wanted to go sneak a power cable to the repeater and surreptitiously charge the battery? :-)

That's funny... I recall the judge cleared that all up. What kind of stretched strawman are you trying for here?

The kernel devs already have a legally tested copyright to the Linux kernel source. This is NVidia trying to license their API and failing. Why defend them? Oh and it's rich for you to call Alan Cox a hypocrite while you incorrectly tell him what his chosen license means.

A little homework is all you need.

The low-grade radioactive byproducts have short half-lives. They still need to be held on-site for the time it takes to reach a safe level of radioactivity.

The same stuff that is radioactive for millenia is the same stuff that is useful to new generation reactors, so ship that off-site.

Yup.

But we're talking about the US here, so that usually ends up being stamped "un-economical" and the investors might actually sign off on the alternative: selling the spent fuel (thus being freed from a huge risk), so the spent fuel is bought by a separate company that actually thinks it can profit from buying it.

In other words, the economy is routing around the damage caused by US regulations.