I'm wondering if they let the hackers 'steal' deliberate misinformation. They could really do themselves a favor with supplying the hackers with 'secret' that are completely bogus and result in buggy/faulty chips. It was reported that the formula for the faulty capacitors was "mis-copied", absolving the hacked company of any responsibility.

Juiceweed. There. and b.t.w. we live in the Juicyway galaxy.

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Is the robot required to be Muslim? AFAIK non-Muslims are not allowed to hold Saudi citizenship.

Wouldn't it be more beneficial for them to work with companies that are already producing electric cars? Instead of trying to develop an entire car, how about producing and perfecting their electric motor. Be the supplier to Tesla; seems like it would help Tesla get their cars out faster. With that capital, produce, supply and perfect the batteries. Then other components one by one until they produce the entire car.

Wouldn't it be better to use roller balls instead of wheels to stop this behavior?

... and DVD sales really cut into VHS sales.

I have my router in my basement. I've covered the LEDs with black electrical tape because otherwise, after a few months, I have spiders and all sorts of other little bugs hanging around and trying to get into my router. I'm not sure if the bugs caused any real performance issues, but it's nice to not have to clean the thing for every hard reset.

I bought a Panasonic microwave oven from CompuServe for my parents in 1984. This microwave is still working. Used pretty much every day for the last 30 years.

I recently built a system for my mother-in-law. It's as close to near-silent as I've ever built. It's more than she needs to browse the web and watch videos.

• MB: GIGABYTE GA-AM1M-S2H AM1 2 x SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
• CPU: AMD Athlon 5350 Kabini Quad-Core 2.05GHz Socket AM1 25W AD5350JAHMBOX Desktop Processor AMD Radeon HD 8400
• MEM: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Memory Kit Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9R
• PSU: Antec NeoPower 430
• drive: Corsair Nova 2 SSD
• Running: 14.04.1-Ubuntu

The thing uses such little power I actually had trouble with it rebooting. Initially I thought I had a buggy MB. The best I could tell; there wasn't enough current being drawn to stabilize the voltage. I swapped PSUs (with an identical Antec NeoPower 430 I had in my son's machine), re-organized the modular cables to be plugged next to each-other to possibly move both to the same rail, and the reboots stopped. What I really want is a quality power supply that is rated for something below 200W. From what I can tell from the UPS, the power draw is between 15W and 90W.

Wouldn't this be akin to attempting to copyright a book title? Each API is a title for the implementation it describes. You can not copyright titles, names , short phrases and slogans. An API seems to fall squarely into all of these.

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I've never had a Twinkie, and I'm fairly certain I qualify as a geek. I just wish they'd bring back Spaulding Kruller donuts.

The first two games I ever played from LucasArts (Lucasfilm Games at the time) were Rescue on Fractalus and Koronis Rift. They were two amazingly well done pieces of work considering the hardware that it had to run on (Atari 800XL). I always had high expectations from LucasArts after playing the crap out of these two games for years.

I had a similar bug but on different hardware. Eventually I ended up manually installing lightdm 1.3.3. It fixed the hang problem.