No, not funny. Go write a better init replacement yourself then, no need to even joke about violence.

With Bluetooth 4.0, hopefully the Wahoo Blue HR can now be supported by runkeeper et al.

That is a strange argument.
Do you mean that they taken the test and failed?
Or maybe they are just not interested in measuring their IQ, although they would pass if they did.

With the same specs? With hot-plug drives, true hardware raid, iLO/iDRAC lights-out management, secondary bios if flashing fails?

Get a refurbished HP gen 5 or 6 server instead of building your own. Perfomance will be sufficient, don't worry. It's well below $3000, and you get enterprise quality hardware.

Scatholm? Almost makes you think it was misspelled on purpose.

The researchers ("they"?) physical access to one chip. Presumably the key is the same in all other chips of the same manufacture.

A proof of concept on laser pointer networking was done two years ago, if you are interested see
http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=4&pid=diva2:325270 - Fulltext at
http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:325270/FULLTEXT01

So what is the carbon footprint for powering the laser?

Ah, electricity from nuclear power. Zero emissions. Unless for the Germans, who are dismantling their nuclear power stations and burn coal instead.

In Sweden, this is standard health care. Well, maybe not the most expensive equipment, but what is deemed required, along with nursing.

Severly disabled persons can even be nursed in their homes, 24x7, by their relatives, getting an average salary by the state. This costs the tax payers million SEKs a year, per disabled person (~USD $120k), covering three full time "employees" (3x8 hours=24 hours).

One of the reasons why we have some of the highest taxes in the world.

Point being?

The company iZettle, which provides "personal payment" via credit cards (chip reader that plugs into phone+app),
requires not only traditional autentication and a bank account - but also your facebook profile with an established social network. I.e. you must have friends as a voucher for your identity.

No facebook, no service. True, they dont base credit reports on your profile, but I find it a disturbing development where traditional identification and bank account are not enough (especially here in Sweden where we already are tracked since birth with the personnummer supercookie).

My car insurance has a lot of provisions like "... void if vehicle is driven under the influence ...", "... void if vehicle is used in criminal activities ..." (i.e. smashing while being chased by the police gives no relief).

I would assume most insurances have exclusions if a crime has been involved. Copyright violation is theft, right?

Can you elaborate how TCP "slow start" got its name.
Since the congestion window is exponentially opened, it's not exactly slow.
I mean, congestion avoidance, with additive increase, that's what I would call slow in comparison.

There was physically no room for discrete graphics if they wanted to go beyond core2duo. This was discussed last time the 15 and 17 models were refreshed.
See http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/why-the-13-macbook-pro-didnt-get-a-core-i5-upgrade.ars

You can use YubiKey as hardware token.

http://vimeo.com/4163662