Slashdot continues to publish Promoted Stories, which could cause some serious outrage from users who feel that CmdrTaco is attempting to deceive them.

Anything thing that removes a selection pressure is going to increase the rate of evolution, not decrease it. By removing that pressure, you have reduced the punishment for a bad mutation. Therefore, any new mutations are more likely to be passed down, increasing the observed rate of genetic change.

Another shameless plug: I've got a thread going on here about what I've found - how to get a terminal, what packages are installed, keyboard shortcuts etc. Just a little bit more detail than what techcrunch and gdgt have been saying.

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Perhaps the network is congested with traffic going to other continents travelling across the same networks as used for this experiment. Once the fiber is installed then this international traffic will be routed more efficiently to the outside world, lowering network congestion and allowing higher speeds to transfers between peers in SA.

I thought Ares died?

Don't forget that the BIOS can act as a vector, and even that fairly exotic CPU rootkit that made the news a few months ago could be used. These are possibly lucrative targets - high enough up to get juicy information, and perhaps the malicious party imagined that they wouldn't be quite high enough up for them not to use the laptops.

Chromium does have flash support if you start it with --enable-plugins. It works pretty well, although admittedly I haven't tested the latest 4.0 builds or the x64 version.

So you could say that you're the only plumber in the vil-lage.

I came here from my RSS feed purely to moan about this. Glad to see several beat me to it.
Also, in what must be a Slashdot first, TFS has actually been corrected!

Another case of life imitating Onion.

This thing can nuke itself from orbit?

Impressive.

VLC supports hardware acceleration on nVidia G80 and higher hardware using VDPAU on Linux. As soon as ATI releases a XvBA driver, hardware acceleration should be possible through VAAPI.

Mod parent up and grandparent down...

Luxury!