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richijon Linux can now run on UEFI Windows 8 PCs

As the idiot who originally wrote that headline, I object to my creative wotchamacallits being corrupted in that way...

richijon NASA building satellites with Android phones inside

Aside from the obvious comeback of "the Android kernel is Linux"...

The reason NASA wants to use commercial phones is because it wants to use off-the-shelf hardware. That provides it with an already-extant platform with mature drivers, which doesn't need much custom engineering.

I'm not aware of any mature, free-as-in-speech Linux phones with the sort of power and sensor arrays of the Galaxy Nexus. I guess NASA isn't either. Are you?

richijon Breakfast is the most important meal of the day

What utter tosh. Those 'data' prove nothing of the sort.

richijon Facebook to be UK gov's "primary channel" for communicating cuts to public

Title misleading: "communicating with public about their suggestions of what to cut" is not the same as "communicating cuts to public."

richijon Post from "weev" (AT&T/ipad data hacker) on his arrest and treatment

Not to mention that Weev is on record as opposing said agenda. http://weev.livejournal.com/384838.html

richijon Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman: could GOP do worse?

Not sure what it would "tell" if t'were true.

In fact, I gave a qualitative and a quantitative argument about each candidate. Assuming you care about the issue, feel free to check back at the story and read it again.

richijon "Hacker" Gary McKinnon's fight with U.S. extradition

In my humble opinion, McKinnon needs to be given the opportunity to be tried, by a jury of his peers, in the United Kingdom.