The Time Lords granted The Master a new set of 13 regenerations. There's a lot of implication in on-screen dialog (e.g. The Brain of Morbius) and implicit statements in the Big Finish radio plays that the 13 regenerations is something that's imposed by Time Lord society to prevent stagnation by having some turnover in population. Given that the technology exists and that he's no longer bound by the social obligations of a dead race, there's no reason why he'd continue to be limited to the 13 regenerations.

The only reason for the limit is that if it's unlimited then it makes the character invulnerable. This is why they portray the regeneration as something traumatic and like a death. Making the technology to grant him another 13 something that was difficult (and dangerous) to access would fill this - he can have another 13 any time he wants, but there's a danger that he'll die trying to get them. The other suggestion was to have someone else take over as the main character. I think they wanted River Song, but that probably wouldn't go down too well. I'd like to see them find Susan and have her inherit her grandfather's TARDIS.

How about him in previous Doctor Who? In Children of Earth, he's a very different character from Malcolm Tucker: someone who cares about his family and is forced into doing things he personally despises to protect them. Or his character in The Fires of Pompeii?

You can stop there and still be right.

Most of the invitations I get from social networks are from people I've never heard of (most of my friends know not to send me spam), so if someone's using this for datamining they'll get a very strange view of my social graph...

The NSA can do it cheaply because of the existence of companies like Google and Facebook that have centralised systems that a lot of people trust. Google and Facebook only exist because of various economic incentives in the US (some resulting from government incentives, some due to historical accidents), which are not exactly cheap - trying to replicate these conditions in another country would be very expensive. If people were using decentralised communication systems, PRISM would have been a lot harder.

Exfiltrate isn't a very uncommon word in computer security. The grandparent's post, however, was largely meaningless. More of a 'hey, I've just learned a new word, now I am going to use it in a sentence' sort of thing.

Why former? In the end, they didn't have to spend the $125/question, and they did get articles about it splashed all over the tech news. And most people will blame the PR company, so Samsung is relatively free of the negative publicity, leaving you with a load of geeks who are now more aware of the Samsung thingumabob. Sounds like a win to me.

...that lead to efficient code? Sticking it in a shared, system-wide library is a lot more efficient than the current solution of every app that uses the NDK reimplementing it.

Take a look in Android libc and count the number of FreeBSD copyright notices. They've recently been talking to us about upstreaming some of their changes and adding slightly cleaner layering of the kernel-specific parts so that they can reduce diffs. They're also thinking of pulling in a load of stuff that they stripped out over space concerns, as devices with 512MB+ of RAM really don't have to worry about the extra 1-2MB that locale support in libc adds...

The PS4 doesn't use a stock FreeBSD install, it uses something that incorporates a lot of FreeBSD code. So does Android (although not in the kernel) and so does OS X, but neither of them use the same driver model for GPUs either.

I'll just go back to using the radio transmitter TESLA designed that works based on a large spark gap. Sure, it's expensive to run, but no one need to tune their receivers...

No, I don't, but I missed it by 1 haha.
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Oh well.

So if your friends like webmail and want to be secure, set up your own community mail server using SSL protected RoundCube backended with whatever IMAP server you like. The UI is easily as good as most webmail providers, and they get the added benefit that all mail between them won't leave the server and SSL ensures that the mail is protected.

SSL protected RoundCube is the easiest way for a group of friends to securely communicate.

Self-signed certs and trivial user training for all those who care about privacy. Anyone cluey enough to know privacy is a problem is cluey enough to be able to add a cert to their browser.

The answer: Don't use cloud.
OwnCloud. Zimbra. Jitsi. OpenSIP. All of these allow for strong encryption.

What do we need commercial cloud services for again?