If he lived in South Australia, detectives could confiscate his computers without having to obtain a search warrant (they are issued a "general warrant" removing a layer of oversight that most other states have).

Figuring out how to view a website took too long. No obvious way to do after looking at the help pages and list of commands. Typing in a web address results in nothing happening.

Is there a way to get the NSA to disclose how many servers is has? Or Google for that matter? Sifting audio and video data for key words or copyrighted content must consume huge resources.

I was hoping it would be powered directly by the Wi-Fi radio waves and use LEDs. That would be cool.

Windows XP allows me to do what I want (I'm not the power gamer I used to be). Pretty much every PC program runs on it.
Don't have a huge budget so don't buy Apple computers. I would use Linux if there were a similar level of apps to PC. Even iOS might not have a broad enough range of apps to satisfy my needs.

I did not find the Mac easy to use the last time I tried, even something as simple as opening a new tab in the background with the mouse was a nuisance. Maybe I would like a modern Mac if I got used to it but XP/2000 was Microsoft's crowning achievement in the OS arena and I'll keep using it until I want an OS that can utilise more than 4GB of RAM. Which might not be too far off.

I have a laptop that came with Windows 7. I installed Ubuntu but the Wi-Fi driver was vastly inferior to the windows one, only booted it up a handful of times.

...but this was not worth a Slashdot story.

As a late riser living at 35 degrees latitude, I would personally prefer permanent shift to daylight savings time. It helps me to psychologically handle getting up earlier in the day.

I travelled north (in Australia) where there is no DST in late December and the sun set way too early in the day there for my liking, 6:15pm.

Suicide or suicided?

It's pretty cynical that western governments want to tax harmless carbon dioxide (eg. in Australia) and limit our energy consumption through constantly jacking up the rates yet build extremely power-hungry installations in order to crunch all the data needed to surveil the citizens and build a profile of them.

Just read TFA, I suspect he's been drawn into the orbit of the "skeptics" movement (deliberate quotation marks) who have blind faith that the government is only there to help people, that no corruption of regulatory agencies takes place, that there is no fraud in science etc...

On a side note perhaps what he really meant to say is that with the growing population we need GMO food to kill everyone off who is unable to access a strictly non-GMO diet. And the more crops that become GMO the harder that becomes. We could be only a few generations away (60 years?) from the unwashed masses disappearing into extinction. Then that seed vault in Svalbard that was created by private financiers for absolutely no reason whatsoever will be put to use.

I wonder how much was paid for such good PR for companies like Monsanto pushing these untested and unsafe foods onto people. Did this Lynas see the recent long-term Russian study on rats? Now that's actual science, not mere assurances.

It spins me out that he can do this while not in the country in person. But hope he will get elected so there's one less waste of space from the establishment parties (Labour/Liberal) in Parliament.

I definitely think it's a case of people think it's cool to use code as a verb.
Nerds trying to break away the externally imposed stereotype perhaps and make programming trendy.

I remembered that fads and being cool tend to be confined to teenage and maybe early 20s years so I'm guessing that demographic has started this and is on a mission to create a new definition for "code".

Using code as a buzzword seems to have caught in within the last year or so, I now see it on a regular basis. And I always think "what programming language are they referring to?", apparently html is also included.

Now, if we can just use it with missions further than the earth's orbit we'll be cooking with gas.

I wonder how much data can be transmitted with this technology.