Most people seem to have this mindset that using RAM is bad, and the more memory you have free and unused the faster your computer will be. These are the same people who think they're increasing their computer's performance by turning off superfetch, etc.The problem with this perception is that it's completely stupid.

Programs load data into memory because memory is fast and your disk and the network are significantly slower; hundreds or thousands of times slower, and pointlessly unloading the data from memory increases the risk of having to go back to the slower disk or network to retrieve it later. If you still have RAM available, it is actually detrimental to your system performance to free this data.

If it were possible for programs to allocate caches that work like the filesystem cache, where old items get discarded automatically to make room for anything more important, then this would make sense. But in real life, when a program written with that "unused memory is wasted memory" philosophy has filled up RAM and you start another program, the first program will have to go to the swapfile. Return to it later and it'll take forever to become usable again, while it gets re-loaded 4kB at a time. (I'll usually just kill the firefox.exe process and restart it when this happens, because that's actually faster)

That's all well and good in a corporate environment, but do you really expect every home user to have his own personal IT department?

If you think Apple software is inherently secure, read up on some of the past Pwn2Own contests.

Don't kid yourself - the only reason OS X doesn't have much malware (yet) is that Windows is used by far more people and is therefore a juicier target.

The few people who found out about bitcoin back in 2009 were able to mine a very significant percentage of all the bitcoins that will ever be created, just because there was no competition yet (back then you could create a block with on average 4 billion sha-256 hashes; now it's about a quadrillion). If they hold on to their bitcoins, and bitcoin trading becomes big, they'll be filthy rich just because they found the website before slashdot did.

I'll be staying away from doing any bitcoin transactions. Humanity does not need any more undeserving elites.

I care that my tax dollars are going to be used to keep people in this country's expensive prisons just to benefit a select few corporations. You can boycott the RIAA/MPAA all you want, but you can't boycott the IRS.

IP laws basically state that ideas are private property and can be traded just like any other type of private property.

Physical property: If you build a car, you own it. If I independently build my own car, I own that one.
Intellectual property: If you come up with an idea, you can patent it and thus own it. If I independently come up with the same idea, the government lets you sue me.

Yeah, no difference whatsoever.

HTML5 is sooooo the next thing- just a few questions

- then why haven't any large video sites chosen it for video?

YouTube isn't large enough for you?

None that you know about. You can hide a lot in a closed-source binary.

The only "security" iOS has is that you have to shell out $100/year to be a developer. Gives great protection against hobbyist programmers, does absolutely nothing against the Russian mafia.

Nobody is confused. everybody just wants to pretend we can compete with that. We can't.

Either we have to lower standards for our workers, or they have to raise theirs.

Or, we could bring back what we used to have before the globalists took over circa 1970 and the standard of living here stopped growing: tariffs.

Although, I suppose throwing the globalists out to do that would probably require an armed revolution too.

This might have been a good point in 1987, but today most serious malware spreads by exploiting bugs in legitimate software. Why rely on the user to run your evil program manually when buffer overflows and such are so abundant?

Having an "execute bit" doesn't do anything to stop that (unless you mark all your programs non-executable, of course; that'll make sure you're secure ;))

Guess what, America? If someone else is willing to do your job for a quarter of what you are, well, they are going to get the job and you aren't going to.

I would gladly do the job of the CEO of Goldman Sachs for one hundredth of his (8-figure) pay.

But it doesn't work that way, does it? The ruling class doesn't have to worry about losing their own "jobs", simply because they're the ones calling the shots. Capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich; that's what we have in this country.

That's what you get for pricing yourselves out of the market.

Yes, clearly it's all our fault that a Chinese or Indian salary won't even pay the rent here. Do you seriously believe that in America, a worker gets to set the price of all the things he needs to live?

America has made it's choice

The tiny portion of Americans who control the country have made their choice. The rest of us get to suffer the consequences.

Of course they're going to make sure the US gets near the top.

The two photos were taken 0.363 seconds apart, and showed an average speed of 35 mph. If you think the tickets, which alleged he hit 50 mph, could still be valid, you're saying his car is capable of accelerating from 20 mph to 50 mph in those 0.363 seconds, which is equivalent to 0 to 60 in 0.726 seconds. Now that's one damn fast car!

Why is it that this is common knowledge on /., yet this seems never to end up on the nightly news shows?

The corporate media isn't going to educate the masses about our system of legalized corruption, because they benefit from it more than anyone. Not only are they giving bribes (and get laws like the DMCA passed in return), but they are also indirectly a beneficiary of them (expensive campaigns = more demand for TV advertising time = more money for the media co.'s)