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The war wasn't over when the preparations for Germany's new secret service began. The material collected about the Soviets survived the end of the war because it was hidden (on microfilm) in sealed canisters buried in the German Alps, with the intent to side with the Americans and start spying on the Soviets again... The plan totally worked. To make it even better, the organization gobbled up high-profile Nazis who wanted to avoid prosecution like nobodies business. Even today, whenever someone wants to take a closer look at the people who work(ed) there, documents vanish and nobody knows a damn thing.

Then there is the entire StaSi. Of course they lost, so we get to point fingers at them and declare them the bad guys.

Germany may have strong privacy laws, but our three branches of secret services are exempt in various ways. Don't kid yourself. We are most likely right up there with France.

But when you do, please leave the earphones at home. And don't jump in a random direction like a deer when you hear someone behind you with squealing brakes. Us MTB'ers will appreciate it.

Every German police officer is armed when on duty. Attitudes are different, and the judicial investigation after the use of a weapon is anything but pleasant.

Yes, this little issue is why Germany will risk the US as an export market. Just to piss off Obama, because das Merkel is sad the constitutional court prevented her party from implementing very similar measures first.

Please be a little realistic. The ruling parties, with the exception of the Minister of Justice, have been so quiet, it's making the news. Mrs. Schnarrenberger (FDP) is not representative of her party, let alone the government.

IMO that would be a too strong a response for a country that heavily depends on export.

So, you think Germany would pretend to be pissed off enough make moves against the US, instead of making their usual hollow threats that go nowhere?

You are operating under the assumption that our politicians didn't know about this before. There's a really really low chance this is true.

It's much more plausible that everyone has been spying on everyone else and countries with restrictions regarding spying on their own citizens have backroom deals to get access to intelligence via other nations.

To give an example how tight the relations are between the US and Germany, start reading how our secret service came to be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization

These bait titles get on my nerves.

Maybe, but that is an industry-wide phenomenon.

Kim is just stretching the limits while other companies keep a lower profile extracting money from the users illegal storage and bandwidth needs.

He is playing the "Megaupload is a legit service with legit users" card. And that may be true for some percentage of his paying customers.

Fighting for his customers data makes him look good and the DOJ/Leaseweb look bad. What's not to like about his strategy?

Other. mutt. Feed by rss2email. Running on a server I can connect to via ssh.

11 years is a long long time, OTOH this is pretty far from a joke gone wrong if the even half of the press release is true.

So do I actually read this right... Your companies piss-poor coding practices expose things to the world you don't want to have exposed, and instead of fixing your crappy code you file bogus DMCA requests?

I would rather stab myself in the eyes with a spoon.

It's a relatively sophisticated static analyser. Nothing new, but quite useful.

Open source projects can register and get reports for free, commercial companies have to pay. Coverity uses eg. Linux to test and compare their product against, and write various marketing pieces such as this one to raise awareness for their product.

http://scan.coverity.com/

Since they have a fan, they don't have to care about hot air rising. It's often enough to get the hot pockets out of the fins and average out the temperature within the case. The case itself can transfer heat to the outside via its larger surface.

Finally, there needs to be some profit made, so this is slapped together as cheaply as possible. Bleh.

The personal opinion of Adam Jackson is the ultimate and only truth.

Also note that public figures have fewer rights to their own image than Joe J. Random. It's fine to target a politician at a demonstration, etc.

If there is public interest in a specific person, pictures of that person can be published (within the limits what's newsworthy to the public) without their consent.

Lawsuits in this area are not uncommon, since it's hard to nail down the specifics.

Laws are not rules written in a programming language. Exploiting logic errors and corner cases does not work the same way. Don't make this mistake.

Whether a court will let your clever workaround pass or not is up to them. If what you do is not in their interest (or there are other forces present, like the government or lobbyists), you may find that the law is _very_ flexible in its application.

It has been more a lack of time and interest than anything else. KDE4 was added just past this release, and will be in 5.4 (unless another meteorite hits the wrong part of Russia).

Where to start. Multiple pins supplying power to a die isn't done because they can't clonk a pair of big connectors in the middle. The resistance within the die would cause different ground levels and voltage drops if supplied at only one physical location. The PCB has much more space for "thick" copper traces (complete ground plane) and buffer caps to supply a stable voltage across the entire die.

Second, CPUs have a dedicated 12V rail on the MB since quite some time. It's plugged in right near the voltage regulators of the CPU.

Third, a GPU die also has multiple power rails and distribution over the die as CPUs. Given the insane power requirements and transistor count, they likely have even more. The same is true for other power hungry ICs, for example high-speed DSPs, FPGAs, image sensors and so on.

Fourth, PCI/PCIe can't carry hundredths of watts, it would not be cost effective to kit out PCs with heavy duty connectors and thick main board traces just because one or two slots may one day be used for a space heater. Thus another dedicated rail from the PSU.

Upgrading OpenBSD is as transparent as it gets. Put a new kernel in place, extract the install sets, run sysmerge to update /etc and X configuration and you're done.

The FAQ has a very cautious explanation of the whole process, pointing out every imaginable pitfall. Once you've done it, it's a five minute job on most standard installations.

Indeed, happened to my very privacy sensitive colleague while setting up his new S3 (he had no prior G+ account, so he got a new one). This may depend on what type of account you have and what terms you have agreed to.

Thinly veiled spam.

Qualcomm, that means no datasheet. Too bad, it certainly looks interesting for the price.

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That was only a rough number, more like a reasonable (upper) limit. As you probably know prices vary depending on volume, energy "source", supplier etc.

The price is around 0.30E/kWh or less for consumers...

Why does Windows render(?) glyphs in the kernel? What's the technical justification for doing something this complex and error-prone in kernel space?

Btw, this attachment seems to contain the real meat (STACK TEXT): https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=77055