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This is seriously nice. We keep hearing about how much more powerful today's processors are compared to yesterday's stuff. Here is a project that demonstrates that power.

I doubt the park officers decided by themselves to cover up the bust. I'm sure that they had orders from higher up to do this.

He's more controversial than exalted. Snowden did an interesting interview last weekend with the comedian John Oliver which showed the public's perception of Snowden and the information he revealed. A lot of people aren't aware of him or not very familiar with what he did. But given the types of information collected, people weren't too happy about it when they learned what could be collected.

Very cool idea. It doesn't look too much like Snowden though.

I agree. The response depends on who is in charge. Maybe in a place like Berkeley, birthplace of the free speech movement, they might consider keeping the statue there.

I would be very interested to see performance with networking types of code. That would be of great interest to this audience.

Too late for that. I've installed 14.04LTS, then upgraded to 14.10 when it came out. None of the author's arguments really made much difference to me since I use Ubuntu mainly as a desktop and dev machine. I like to move with the cutting edge, as much as Ubuntu moves forward that is. If I wanted a longterm server, I'd probably use RHEL or CentOS.

This. Once I got used to apt-get, everything worked as well as rpm and is much easier to admin.

Microchip also has a program to assign a free PID to users of their USB products.

I don't think the USB-IF had given much thought to the maker community, and makers weren't as big back then when USB-IF put together this program.

I agree with you and hope as well that the USB-IF gives the open-source maker community a break. Although, recently, the Bluetooth SIG (Bluetooth equivalent of the USB-IF) started to charge fees to anyone utilizing Bluetooth in their products, even if you used a module that was already qualified and paid fees. Hopefully the USB-IF won't do the same.

Sponsored by the NSA?

Very nice. I hope to use it one day.

I wonder how they can do this for free?

Ouch, that hurts just looking at it.

Part of the VA's problems stem from the fact that it was overwhelmed by returning vets from our wars in the middle east, and funding cuts to the VA.

Looks like something that can be useful here in the US.

Great to see a lot of interest and desire to help from the tech community. Most of what I've heard during the last few years regarding the government was a lot of complaints and a desire to get rid of it. I'm glad that there are people doing something positive instead of whining.

Now that the op has published this workaround, I have the feeling that Comcast will take steps to stop this from happening. Comcast's version of "customer service."

Thanks, was down for a long time. Now I have to figure out how to play it. :-)

It's a shame that Arduino SRL is behaving like this. The smart move would've been to make up with the original founders instead of trying to shove them aside.

"Open Source is the environment we want for millions"

In my view, their actions don't seem to embody the spirit of the open source movement.

I've gotten into the arduino environment recently and really enjoy it, even though I come from an embedded background. I hope this doesn't stop the arduino environment and ecosystem.

Wow, doesn't do anything. All I see is a playing field with the orange rectangle in the center. Wish there was more to it.

Nice, glad to see a broad and diverse environment growing up around Go. Also glad to see that some great ideas from other ecosystems are being adopted.

Nice little list. Now all we need is something like 'CPM', the C Package Manager. Got to keep up with the cool kids.

Implementing new tech. Makes the rollout of Obamacare look good.

Umm, where's the fun in that?

I must say, I'm very impressed with all of the open source moves that MS has done lately. I wonder if that will drive more adoption of C# and cause Oracle to open up Java. I'm not a fan of C# because it's basically only used on windows systems, despite xamarin and et al.

I can't wait. I can't use Win8 because the interface sucks so much on a real laptop. What was MS thinking? And I also hope they speed up the startup time, because it's definitely not faster than win7. In fact, all it does is show the "desktop" quicker, but you can't do anything until the little circle stops spinning, and that takes just as long as win7.

You're giving Uber some ideas.

LOL, windows 8 users can't wait.

"It's not just MIT, it's pretty much any college with a 4 year engineering program"

Not at all. I went to a school when engineering was in high demand, and most of the students seemed to be in the program mainly because of the abundance of jobs. Most of the students seemed to disdain people who were really interested in technology and science. Most of the instructors were demoralized by the low quality of the students and had a lot of contempt for the students. It was hard to find a lab partner who could do the work. Most students seemed to be slackers and disparaged students who tried to do things outside of class. The administration was uncaring as well. It was a shitty experience and I had always been envious of the MIT, CalTech, and Berkeley students. I have a lot more respect for the grads from those schools than from my school.