Here's what I'm referring to, from AMD's press release:

Seattle

"Seattle" will be the industry's only 64-bit ARM-based server SoC from a proven server processor supplier. "Seattle" is an 8- and then 16-core CPU based on the ARM Cortex-A57 core and is expected to run at or greater than 2 GHz. The "Seattle" processor is expected to offer 2-4X the performance of AMD's recently announced AMD Opteron X-Series processor with significant improvement in compute-per-watt. It will deliver 128GB DRAM support, extensive offload engines for better power efficiency and reduced CPU loading, server caliber encryption, and compression and legacy networking including integrated 10GbE. It will be the first processor from AMD to integrate AMD's advanced Freedom(TM) Fabric for dense compute systems directly onto the chip. AMD plans to sample "Seattle" in the first quarter of 2014 with production in the second half of the year.

Note that this is a FULL processor plus peripherals, not a coprocessor. I don't see any resemblance between this and what you describe.

The consoles use a Jaguar core, which is an x86-based chip; and there's an A5 (fairly low-end 32-bit Cortex) included as a coprocessor. So far you are correct, and I've known about it.

But you are completely wrong about the chip I mentioned.
It's a _pure_ ARM chip not a co-processor, and it's an A57, which is currently ARM's top "aarch64" (64-bit ARM) processor.

By the way, could you point me at the Intel chips that you referred to?

You look at what AMD and Intel have cooking and you can see where the wind is blowing, AMD already has a fanless APU that maxes at 6w with all sectors of the chip maxed out, IRL it uses less than 3w under typical loads and that gives you a dual core APU with a Radeon chip capable of running 1080P over HDMI, and Intel has Haswell and the new Atom is supposedly down to a couple of watts under load and less than 1w in "functional standby" where it can still receive messages and calls.

The simple fact is ARM just doesn't scale well and no matter how many millions Samsung and Nvidia sink into it they just can't fix this fundamental flaw.

Odd that AMD is making an ARMv8 server chip next year then.
I'm talking about the Opteron "Seattle", which is supposed to be based on the A57, with SeaMicro Freedom chips on board.

You haven't been paying attention, have you?

The Debian kfreebsd-gnu port has been available for a while.

Looking at Nugent's proposal:

At the end of the bill (before the short title), add the
  following:
SEC. ll. None of funds made available by this Act
may be used by the National Security Agency to--

            (1) conduct an acquisition pursuant to section
  702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of
  1978 for the purpose of targeting a United States
  person; or

            (2) acquire, monitor, or store the contents (as
  such term is defined in section 2510(8) of title 18,
  United States Code) of any electronic communication
  of a United States person from a provider of
  electronic communication services to the public pursuant
  to section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

Would someone mind explaining where the hole is?
Oh. Nevermind, it's "(8) âoecontentsâ, when used with respect to any wire, oral, or electronic communication, includes any information concerning the substance, purport, or meaning of that communication;"
In other words, the subject line in an email is part of the contents-but not the fact that you emailed or called So-and-So.

I mean... I get that its some type of "CPU card"... or something, and built on the PCMCIA form factor... but ...WHAT is this for? is it a prototyping board, is it meant to micro server clusterable, is it meant for home media pc?

Yes.
It's the main guts of a computer, stuck in something the size of a PCMCIA card, and you can stick that in whatever hardware project you want.
Prototyping board is one (probably the most obvious) potential use.
But that's partly because it's useable for so many uses.

Completely toxic?
No. Every time that I've seen something about Torvalds swearing at someone, it was someone who
(1) Broke something
(2) Had the breakage pointed out (not always by Linus)
AND
(3) Still insisted that their broken change was the right thing.

If there isn't someone answering those who actively defend garbage, how do you expect to avoid the end result being garbage?

Over his garage, last I knew.

Having just completed my research class a few months ago, I happen to still remember what a median is. You found the right definition, but somehow you still managed to botch it up-it means exactly what you're saying it doesn't.

The "higher half" and "lower half" are the higher and lower halves of the data. In other words, take the middle value in a sorted list.
Half of the values are above, half are below. There's your median.
In your list, that's 4.5 (the average of the 4 that takes 8th, and the 5 that's in 9th of 16 values).

+1 informative. I'd mod you up if I hadn't already spent all my mod points on the other thread...

Despite agreeing with you, I have to respond to one point:
Zimmerman's defense cannot stand on what he did not know or have reason to believe.
His own behavior may be informative as to whether his own claims are believable.

But I'll agree that it seemed more like a kangaroo court that the media and politicians tried to ram through.

I thought that at first, but then I noticed he said "...5200 meters is..."

Debian doesn't change things like this until all the license compatibility issues are solved. In this case, that's a whole lot of software to go through.

It's only "compatible" because GPL3 (and not GPL2, note!) explicitly allows combining GPL3 software with AGPL.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html:

A secondary benefit of defending all users' freedom is that improvements made in alternate versions of the program, if they receive widespread use, become available for other developers to incorporate. Many developers of free software are heartened and encouraged by the resulting cooperation. However, in the case of software used on network servers, this result may fail to come about. The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public.

The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community. It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server. Therefore, public use of a modified version, on a publicly accessible server, gives the public access to the source code of the modified version.