"I know people with this illness, hearing voices seeing "hidden meanings" etc. It is real it is a problem for them, as well as those around them. If you do not know this from personal experience then you have little exposure to the less advantaged parts of society"

I once met such an individual, used hang round car-parks getting drunk and yelling at passerbys. A classic case of schizophrenia if there ever was one. Turns out he grew up in a small farm house with his mother. Mother dies and his brother came back moved the wife and kids in and got him commitment. After a full course of treatment both chemical and electrical, now he can't find his own arse with both hands nor remember huge chunks of his past, carries round old newspapers in a briefcase, a substitute for his lost memories I suppose. I only know this as I was the only one else who would have a conversation with him.

A diagnosis of schizophrenia is indicated when getting rid of a rival sibling in an inheritance dispute or an obstreperous wife in societies where divorce isn't allowed. Read up on R.D Lang and Thomas S. Szasz, they both state that the mental health industry is bogus.

"To investigate that question, principal investigator Kazuya Iwamoto, a neuroscientist; Kato; and their team at RIKEN extracted brain tissue of deceased people who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia as well as several other mental disorders, extracted DNA from their neurons, and compared it with that of healthy people"

Presumably these schizophrenics would have been on long term antipsychotic medication. I wonder would this account for the increase in L1. How were these 'healthy people' defined as 'healthy', who gets to do the defining and mightn't a number of 'schizophrenics' have escaped diagnose by not having come into contact with the psychiatric profession. Schizophrenics are people unfortunatly disgnosed as schizophrenics by the psychiatric profession ..

"The Coca-Cola company got a range of MAC addresses allocated .. What are they planning to use them for?" ..

To use in their Internet Coke Machine ..

"When thieves broke into the point-of-sale (POS) system at Target, they stole the data from the magnetic stripe on the back of credit and debit cards."

At the time. there were chipped solutions but the banks chose to go with magnetic stripes as it was the cheaper solution, this made it easy to steal the data and to replicate the cards.

"NSA leak was the most damagind and biggest tech fail. They still don't know what was taken".

Given the size of the organization and number of people that have access to NSA 'secrets', I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians don't already have the files ..

Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Sabayon .. link

"Applebaum spoke about why the NSA's program might lead to broader adoption of open source tools and gave a hot tip on how to know if your machines have been owned."

Where could the code be hiding .. the BIOS, the PCI BIOS, the Video Card, the NIC, the PXE ROM or buried in the CPU microcode ...

"To what extent does a CMMI certification determine a successful project outcome? CGI Federal, the lead contractor at Healthcare.gov"

Certs are next to useless in determining project outcome, all they do is generate revenue for the lawyers. How many PCI Compliant Credit Card clearing houses have been knocked off - hundreds. For a successfully project what you need is a small core team of top-notch programmers. Apart from getting awarded certs can you name any large-scale projects CGI Federal worked on that could be declared a success by reputable programmers and the end-users.

'When U.S. officials warn about "attacks" on electric power facilities these days, the first thing that comes to mind is probably a computer hacker trying to shut the lights off in a city with malware'

Just who in their right mind would connect the power facilities directly to the Internet .. oh wait ....

"When it comes to modern firewalls for corporate computer networks, the world's second largest network equipment manufacturer doesn't skimp on praising its own work"

Firewalls are next to useless given todays Oss that require randomly open ports and remotely downloading scripts/code in order to function, the security model is fundamentally broken ..

"Note that I'm not condemning this per se"

It's understandable why you would want to remain anonymous ...

"So do we just mirror phoronix on slashdot, now?"

Since when is news about a LInux distro considered off-topic on slashdot ..

'They are doing this through software emulation. I'm not sure what kind of performance you can expect, but this is their way to try and bring more touch-based apps to the Windows ecosystem.'

More likely a pretext to extend the Microsoft Tax ..