So, do they have a large insurance policy? If the re-orbit goes wrong and it smashes into other satellites or space debris, who is liable?

I'd have a glowing plant night-light as that's all I could see glowing plants useful for. Things like road-side markers, very low intensity lighting etc... I doubt you could use it for reading or finding your way around in the dark.

It's always been my standpoint that in order to be a competent EE, you need to have intermediate coding skills. Unfortunately it seems that most graduates pick one side or the other. An EE graduate with no SW skills is no better than a technologist and will have a pretty tough time finding work.

Low power and massive amounts of parallel cores is alright, but does it compute? How do these low power servers benchmark against EC2 or equivalent? This article didn't talk benchmarks. Maybe you get all these gains in consumed power, cost, space etc... because it is 90% less powerful than competitors.

From TFA:
"Japan's transport safety board said in a report that the battery for the aircraft's auxiliary power unit was incorrectly connected to the main battery that overheated.

According to Reuters Boeing sources claim to have a fix to their battery problems that involves increasing the space between the lithium-ion battery cells."

Which suggests that they don't know what the cause is. How does separating the cells fix an incorrect wiring problem?

I've made sure the phone number for the local data recovery services is taped to the side of the server.

What's the catch? Nothing really is free...

While not a OS GUI, RoboBOARD (I remember it being robo-bbs) was a revolutionary BBS GUI back in the day. Also dos shell was pretty sweet, but that's already been mentioned.

rm -rf /

from 2005... but whatever. it's old news

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/09/1411242

I'd say that in the case of Stuxnet, malice was the main objective...

did you forget your tinfoil hat this morning?

This is true... but you can minimize the damage and reduce avenues of attack with security updates

Can you provide a virus writing scenario without malicious intent?

You really need a new monitor... you could resolve to get a better resolution!