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Sounds like it might be a scam: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1q2law/inputsio_hacked_and_shutdown_4100_btc_stolen/

the success of the PS4 will depend on the early adopter, hard-core gamer, the type of person who has likely put together a home-grown PC gaming system

Do you think a member of the PC Master Race would become such a peasant?

Note: I'm a former master race member who went to consoles, but not for the specs. I wanted the social interaction of multiplayer gaming on the same screen & couch, or with my friends that were console peasants as well.
If I were going to drool over specs, I'd go back to building my own rig.

I don't think there is a State in the country that requires presenting a State ID before having sex.

Actually, even checking ID will not protect you from the courts.

Better check that they have a valid BC matching their ID if you like to fuck teens

Here, sorry I was a lazy bum before. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1puk1a/arxiv_paper_majority_is_not_enough_bitcoin_mining/

Not always.

And, of course, this subreddit wouldn't exist. Guns are used for good far more than for bad.

It is missing the proofs, and you are asking exactly the right questions. Some people with the relevant experience have looked at parts of them and found nothing. Here is one link: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1pm66y/meet_badbios_the_mysterious_mac_and_pc_malware/

Thank god you're not in charge of this stuff. Mirrors don't reflect nearly enough.

Good job, though, you've turned Slashdot into Reddit.

Full disclosure upfront: I am an early Kickstarter backer for Pebble. I do try an not let that make me biased in this comment.

My requirements in a smart watch are the following:
-Fully customizable watchface which can be displayed at all times (it's a watch; I shouldn't need to do anything just to see the time)
-Battery must last more than a couple of days. The longer the better. A whole week is a good start.
-It must be able to be fully submersible in water so I may shower and swim without any care
-The band must either be made of a durable fabric that is easily cleaned such as nylon or user replaceable in available sizes (skin condition)
-It needs to be able to provide useful alerts with contextual text to alleviate the need to pull my phone out of my pocket or run to it's location
-Further interactive functionality with my phone is a bonus

Why I prefer the Pebble:
The Pebble is by no means the perfect smartwatch. It even has a manufacturing flaw that I doubt will ever be addressed (rainbowin display in the sunlight). That being said, it ticks all of the above boxes. My phone is either in my pocket, near by, or on the charger up stairs. When ever I get a text message, phone call (Caller ID with the option to send to voicemail), e-mail, IM, meeting notification, reminder, or any other alert of my choosing, it displays on my watch. Through a 3rd party app, I can choose what app alerts to send to my watch. If I get too many alerts from an app, I can just have it not send to my watch. In many cases I get an alert that I just need to read and not respond to. When I'm on-call for work, I can see who's calling and whether it's worth running up stairs to my phone or getting out of bed to answer. I can also change music tracks or stations from my watch and they don't need to directly support Pebble either. In the car, I can change without taking my eyes off the road. Doing the dishes, I can change without getting my phone wet or it be near the sink.

The fact that an application doesn't need to natively support Pebble is a big plus. Any smartwatch needs to have an accompanying SDK and should leverage the existing APIs from the phone's OS to be able to integrate. Another cool thing I've got working is my phone security goes from a simple swipe to PIN requirement to unlock whenever my watch is out of range or the BT turned off; if someone happens to pick up my phone and walk off, it will lock with the PIN regardless if the screen is on and they're using it. Lastly a cool feature I should mention is I just need to flick my wrist in order for the backlight to come on so I can see what it says in the dark or use as a low light short range brief flashlight (I do this about once a week).

I have looked at the other smartwatches out there (here's a good list) and all of them had something missing or a poor attempt from my required list. Features like being able to take voice memos, use it as a headset or speakerphone, take pictures, and have a full color touch display are nice, but not one of my requirements. I'd wager the simplicity of physical buttons is better on a smartwatch than a touchscreen since one doesn't need to look at it to execute a command; a couple of examples would be glancing at an incoming call and dismiss it or changing tracks without looking.

I think the Galaxy Gear is a cute initial attempt from Samsung, but they have more work to do. Only getting text messages on the watch is silly. I don't need to be told I have a new e-mail since my phone already did that; let me see at least a snipet of the e-mail to determine if it's worth my time. I'd say Samsung has more work to do to open it up to other apps and phones not built by Samsung within the past year.

You make it sound like my doctor can't treat me. That there is some procedure he would recommend but can't because of the evil insurance company.

It happens all the time. In fact, it seems to be so unextraordinary that most of my search results are turning up questionairs about how to deal with it rather than news stories about how outrageous it is. A good doctor will consider your coverage when they make a recommendation, so they'll try not to recommend something that you won't be able to pay for, but it doesn't always work out that way.

This is how it's been for a long time, and it won't change with the Affordable Care Act. The only difference is that private insurers are required to provide a certain level of coverage. So there'll be fewer surprises.

Speaking of that level of coverage, there's also this. One of the biggest features of the Affordable Care Act is the requirement that people with preexisting conditions can't be excluded.

Your other points are supposition. What I've seen so far are stories about how the health care exchange is cost-effective (once you can get past the technical glitches), and stories like this one. But these are just anecdotal. The Affordable Care Act is expected to save us money in the long run, but we won't know exactly how much for a while.

They can do 160km/h safely, bumper to bumper.

This makes a lot of assumptions about the level of maintenance that people put into their cars.
And at the same time, a lot of assumptions about the quality of work that mechanics put into fixing cars.

This should provide some enlightenment: http://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop
If you don't understand what you're seeing, there's usually an explanation in the comments.

( for the resident's sake I tell Google that the 7's are 1's or the 1's are 7's; some other switches pass too... )

And this doesn't ultimately work, and may be drives down your "humanity index" or whatnot on the reCAPTCHA's side.

IIRC, how recaptcha works is first it shows unOCRed image to a bunch of people and looks for consensus, then it uses this image and confirmed answer to weed out bots and bad faith answers.

Unless you get majority of reCAPTCHA users to do it, and do it in consistent manner - you're up there with these guys.

I've gotten a lot of hits, and that's a good thing. As I noted in another post, I got hit by reddit earlier this year. In general people are becoming more interested in protecting and verifying build environments, as this post about Tor demonstrates.

So please take a look at my Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC) page!

Don't be a nitwit.
Google is your friend. That page links here, and here's the damn "reputable peer reviewed Scientific Journal".
And just so you know, Contrary to what the mainstream media would have you believe, Men's Rights Advocacy isn't for hate-mongers, its memebers are frequently also Women's Rights Activists, and many vocal members are Women. It's actually the opposition that's hateful. The feminists have a majority voice in media and politics right now, so I don't blame you if you adopt their easy to believe lies without wondering why they're not based on any science, but untestable opinionated ideas instead...

Interestingly, ABC also brought us D is for Dad and Dumb" the weekend of this past Father's Day... Wha? But isn't that kind of... anti-men? You wouldn't have a segment like that on mother's day eh? Interesting that I made this comment on the 20/20 article page about the "manosphere", and provided a link to the source of some of their material that proves that they were purposefully factually wrong about A Voice for Men -- They cited "hate speech" that's an example of will get you banned...

Protected by the anonymity of the Internet, men feel free to post hateful and violent comments. Posts such as "I really wouldn't mind shooting a [expletive] dead in the face, they are evil, all of them," and "Women are the natural enemies of men" are commonplace on sites like "A Voice for Men," a Manosphere blog run by Paul Elam.

Search that quote, the page it appears on AVFM is here, where he says this about that comment:

No Redpill, fuck this kind of post. It has been sent to the trash where it belongs, and I am willing to do the same with your username if you ever post this kind of garbage to my website again.

As expected, all of the comments that demonstrate the ABC article as biased and factually wrong have been deleted from it.

Oh, but this is Slashdot, so of course you and the mods can think for your selves, eh? You don't need help "tracking" any information "origin to its roots".

+1 redundant please, and thank you.

Maybe you should post some of your concerns to this reddit group that has people who actually work with D-Wave boxes.

Then that's anti-theism, not atheism.

It's like trying to say someone is an extreme non-sports fan. So extreme they'll go out of their way to ban all sports!

Just because someone doesn't see the benefit in playing golf (an ateeist) doesn't make them into a anti-golfist

Wasn't there some discussion about how the NSA couldn't really store "zettabytes" of data at this site as claimed?

Maybe they really do have all that capacity. Them transcapacitors are power-hungry, I hear.

Well the $400 is what the consumers would have (at a minimum) due to the console launch prices. Remember though that they'll have to plunk down $60 for a game if these releases are like the last gen (no pack in games).

I'd guess the Steam machines will have a target price of $400 to $500 (then again there will be different hardware vendors, so there will be *choice*). I don't see $100 extra being a hard up-sell considering the benefits I pointed out above (particularly cheaper games, more launch titles, free online play, and the option to turn it into a full fledged PC).

I wouldn't be surprised if Valve didn't already set a minimum spec for Steam Machines which makes a great target for developers (your game should be playable/enjoyable with a PC with these specs but can obviously have features enabled for higher versions of the Steam Machine.

I am hoping they give the machines benchmarks to reach and assign them levels (so at launch they sell Level 1 Steam Machines for $400, Level 2 $500, etc) so that years down the line (think 3-5) they can release higher levels and just update game requirements with a blurb like "Minimum Steam Machines Level 2, works best on Steam Machine level 5". Steam Machine Level 0 could be a box that can only play old ports, simple indy games, and is mainly intended to stream from a high level machine or a home gaming PC.

Regarding the hardware profits, that's for the partners to worry about. Valve just wants to sell games. That's where they make money from. And surely the hardware vendors are stoked to find a way to save the fledgling PC hardware business.

These builds are substantially cheaper than the piston and closer to the $400 mark above . Surely a hardware company buying parts in bulk can squeeze an even better deal.

Now, onto how he got caught... An agent involved in the investigation ("Agent-1"), found the first few references to SR on the internet from somebody only identified as "altoid", attempting to promote the site in its beginning days, in January of 2011.
In October of the same year, a user also going by the name of "altoid" made a posting on Bitcoin Talk titled "a venture backed Bitcoin startup company", which directed interested users to "rossulbricht at gmail dot com".
That email address is what led to DPR's downfall.
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After identifying "altoid", they started connecting the "DPR" identity to Ulbricht pretty quickly.
Ulbricht's Google+ page and YouTube profile both make multiple references to the a website dubbed the "Mises Institute". DPR's signature on the SR forums contained a link to the Mises Institute.
DPR cited the "Austrian Economic theory" along with the works of Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, all of which are closesly associated with the Mises Institute.
Server logs show that someone logged onto the SR administration panel from San Fransisco around the same time that Ulbricht was staying in San Fransisco.
Multiple fake IDs were intercepted by U.S. Customs & Border Patrol while on their way to an address which Ulbricht was living at the time.
These IDs all carried photos of Ulbricht but had false names and details. This was around the same time that DPR stated in a message that he was acquiring some fake IDs to buy new servers.
When questioned by Homeland Security about the fake IDs, he refused to answer any questions but then stated that anyone could purchase such things using "Silk Road" and "Tor".
The address which Ulbricht was staying at was being rented in cash and he was living with housemates who knew him under a name which corresponded with one of the fake IDs.
He posted on StackOverflow using his real name, inquiring about how to use curl/PHP to grab things off Tor, before quickly changing the name to "frosty" (with a fake email: frosty@frosty.com)

Thought my money is on NSA and parallel construction.

Actually, on Reddit. Panos and team announced that they do have an LTE version coming later this year.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mz20e/hi_im_panos_panay_corporate_vp_of_surface_at/ccdyjsd?context=3

Why are you all pre-supposing that the threat has to be about something you actually did? If $ENEMY calls you with threats to reveal that secret child-pornography studio you have hidden away in your house, it doesn't matter if it isn't actually true - they can still ruin your life with just the accusation. Really, blackmail doesn't rely on you on something you did that you try to hide, but instead preys upon people who have something to lose, such as your family or job.

A traditional way isn't even to go after *YOU*. They just see to it that your parents -or kids start losing their jobs or are subject toother threats. To quote from a particularly well-written reddit post (which everybody should read!)

With this tech in place, the government doesn't have to put you in jail. .... they can email you a note saying that they can prove your dad is cheating on his taxes. Or they can threaten to get your dad fired. All you have to do is... report back every week [and rat out your friends], or you dad might lose his job. So you do. You turn in your friends and even though they try to keep meetings off grid, you're reporting on them to protect your dad.

[...]

Everyone walking around is scared. They can't talk to anyone else because they don't know who is reporting for the government. Hell, at one time YOU were reporting for the government. Maybe they just want their kid to get through school. Maybe they want to keep their job. Maybe they're sick and want to be able to visit the doctor. It's always a simple reason. Good people always do bad things for simple reasons.

To answer some of my own question, this is their response in their Reddit AMA:

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We are in the process of setting up a nonprofit to foster the open source side.

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There are no plans to close the source for things such as device support and work done in the community. We do need to build value for the company, and there are various things we are working on that require significant time and capital to develop- these may be proprietary but we won't pervert/close the core OS for this to happen.

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Our strength is that we have a strong open source community behind us.

The core of the project (hardware support, community contributions, etc) will always remain open source. But obviously, as a company that has financial needs, employees to pay, Cooper treats to buy, and Cyanogen-babies to feed, we will need to make careful decisions about what we open source, and what may become proprietary.

Yes and no. Voyager now is at interstellar space, but it is still on the Solar System. Check the AMA made by the guys at NASA on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1m9wke/were_scientists_and_engineers_on_nasas_voyager/ . And mind you, in no official communication NASA said that V1 "left the solar system", those moments were always created by the press not understanding the science.

You are such a tool Robert

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Keep in mind they vetoed any multilateral UN action to keep the peace in Syria. Russia's involvement is no more humanitarian than the US's involvement.

Good post on this subject from reddit yesterday. And by "good post" I mean "I have ABSOLUTELY no idea if it's right or not, but it sounds convincing????"

I post this every time another MarsOne piece of fundraising comes up. So here goes again....

I really wish people would stop posting MarsOne propaganda. It's a scam, pure and simple. It's been pointed out time and time again that their team is primarily artists and PR people. Just look here for yourself:

http://www.mars-one.com/en/about-mars-one/team

Of the 7 people listed there's: an artist, an editor, a communication specialist, a communications director, and an MD. There's only 2 people who could conceivably have any expertise on getting to Mars.

They did an interview (AMA) on reddit and were torn apart:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ufb42/ama_i_am_founder_of_mars_one_sending_four_people/

They lack any coherent plan on how they're going to even test their technology, let alone actually get people to Mars. Stop looking towards entertainers to do what you know will require a massive engineering effort. These people are after free press and free money.

STOP FEEDING THESE PEOPLE FREE PRESS!

...they arrest gay people simply for being gay, and have threatened to arrest gay athletes.

This man fled Russia because of the reaction to his paintings of Putin in lingerie: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/fearing-retribution-artist-behind-putin-lingerie-painting-leaves-russia/279181/

It's easy to take this as an opportunity to denigrate the US. The level of corruption is far worse in Russia and the civil rights protections a fraction of what US citizens enjoy.

If Snowdon has been Russian and escaped with FSB documents, he wouldn't be alive right now. In case nobody noticed, Russia assassinates inconvenient people.

It's just a shame that the U.S. with it's anti-freedom policies is no longer the obvious opposite to the dictatorship. There's enough doubt in the mind of U.S. supporters to subconsciously equate both countries as being against the people, despite the fact Russia is so much worse.

America used to be land of the free, home of the brave. A place to aspire to, a place to look up to.

That all changed because of an old man living in a cave who killed fewer people in September 2001 (3000) than died on america's roads in that same month (3500).

...they arrest gay people simply for being gay, and have threatened to arrest gay athletes.

This man fled Russia because of the reaction to his paintings of Putin in lingerie: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/fearing-retribution-artist-behind-putin-lingerie-painting-leaves-russia/279181/

It's easy to take this as an opportunity to denigrate the US. The level of corruption is far worse in Russia and the civil rights protections a fraction of what US citizens enjoy.

If Snowdon has been Russian and escaped with FSB documents, he wouldn't be alive right now. In case nobody noticed, Russia assassinates inconvenient people.

The source for the archived daily mail article is infowars, a conspiracy theorist's website. The source for infowars is a hacker's supposed dump of a defense contractor's servers that supposedly included the incriminating email about US backing some chemical weapons plan. Except the emails were forged. See the explanation in the response to this reddit comment.

Agnostic, or a-gnostic, simply means "not knowledgeable", or rather that the person has no knowledge of a god's existence. Every person on earth is agnostic as none of us have hard evidence to prove a god exists or does not exist.

  * If, despite lack of evidence, you believe a god might or does exist then you are theist, possessing a belief, no matter how small, that a god is out there somewhere.

  * If, despite lack of evidence, you believe a god's existence is impossible, then you are anti-theist, possessing a belief, no matter how small, that a god is NOT out there anywhere.

  * If, despite lack of evidence, you don't care one way or the other about whether or not a god might exist then you are atheist, lacking a belief.

All Christians are atheist toward every god in all of history minus 1, and in fact most of them are down right anti-theist in actively possessing a faith that no other gods exist but theirs. I'd like to cordially invite you to /r/atheism/ where you can chat with and learn about actual atheists. Alternatively you could just go to a catholic mass, after all every good catholic knows that god is dead.

You should read http://redditenhancementsuite.com:8080/wiki/index.php?title=My_browser_tells_me_you_need_access_to_my_browsing_history_and_several_websites,_what's_that_all_about%3F
Also http://www.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/1jskcm/announcement_chrome_users_did_your_res_turn_off/

1) non-Muslems "people of the book" (Christians and Jews): a) convert to Islam b) pay a -stay alive- "tax" c) die!

It depends on the perspective. From Muslim's one it works like this:

a) convert to Islam, become automatically eligible for the draft (and free of the military tax), become subject to the Sharia;
b) don't convert to Islam, become automatically ineligible for the draft (and subjected to the military tax), become allowed to live in a protected autonomous region under your own religion's laws;
c) don't convert to Islam, don't pay the military draft, go live somewhere else.

2) the rest of non-Muslems (e.g., Buddist, Hindu, atheists): a) convert to Islam b) die!

Buddhists and Hindus are people of the book, so no. As for actual infidels (effective enemies of Islam), yes, that's basically it.

By the way: those that kill the Christians in Egypt are Muslims.

No, they're fundamentalist Muslims, members of one of the several sects invented in the end of the 18th-century under the influence of Western ideas (Puritanism back then) which nowadays branched into other sects influenced by more Western ideas (Nietzscheanism, Marxism, Nazism, Heideggerianism etc.). By the way, these guy are so crazy that they work like this:

3) non-fundamentalist everyone else (actual Muslim believers, people of the book, infidels):

a) convert to batshit-crazy fundamentalist branch of pseudo-Islam;
b) die.

* i am a Greek from Greece (never lived in Egypt as many Greeks did in the past few mileniums (Alexandria and other stuff...!) until they forced to leave few decades ago), and i am Orthodox - i mention this because i don't like it how you portray Muslims as defenders of the Christians,

I'm sorry you don't like it, but it's a fact. Islam has very specific rules determining that Christians must be protected. It's a duty of actual Muslims, affirmed and reaffirmed for centuries by the four Sharia schools. The exception to this are the fundamentalists who disregard the four schools of jurisprudence preferring to do their own stuff.

By the way: Muslims Protecting a Christian Church in Egypt. The white clothe is a symbol of Sufism, the traditional esoteric path within Islam where the Islamic equivalent to Orthodox Christians' Theosis is practiced. And note: Sufis are themselves prime assassination targets of fundamentalist pseudo-Muslims.

or the Orthodox Christians as persecuting the Coptic Christians (Coptics actually are native to Egypt, never "fleed" from Europe to save themselves from Orthodox or Catholics)

True, I misremembered the details, they didn't flee from Europe. But you're incorrect in that the Orthodox (or, to be more precise, the still undivided Catholic-Orthodox Church) did indeed persecute the Coptics. From Wikipedia's article:

"Copts suffered under the rule of the Byzantine Eastern Roman Empire. The Melkite Patriarchs, appointed by the emperors as both spiritual leaders and civil governors, massacred the Egyptian population whom they considered heretics. Many Egyptians were tortured and martyred to accept the terms of Chalcedon, but Egyptians remained loyal to the faith of their fathers and to the Cyrillian view of Christology. One of the most renowned Egyptian saints of that period is Saint Samuel the Confessor."

So, yeah.

And then came the Muslims and stopped this particular nonsense, although starting the tax stuff.

Well if that's the case, then you can't trust any of the scores from the NHTSA. On the contrary, the Model S is exceptionally good at avoiding overturns, has a great lengthy crumple zone at the front (due to the lack of an ICE engine), and its side impacts is the safest (or one of the safest) going due to rocket engineers designing the thing. It wouldn't surprise me if a score of 6 or 7 should be given instead of 5.4.

No fatalities or serious injuries in the Model S so far apparently, despite a few accidents. See for example this story where someone was drink driving maybe about 80mph and demolished an electric pole, but survived thanks to the Model S (it employed all 8 airbags apparently).

This and this are two natural experiments.

This and this are two natural experiments.

Before you make blanket statements about communities like Reddit, I would recommend you check out some subreddits like /r/programming or /r/compsci. Slashdot is not as great as you think it is.

Before you make blanket statements about communities like Reddit, I would recommend you check out some subreddits like /r/programming or /r/compsci. Slashdot is not as great as you think it is.

I really wish people would stop posting MarsOne propaganda. It's a scam, pure and simple. It's been pointed out time and time again that their team is primarily artists and PR people. Just look here for yourself:

http://www.mars-one.com/en/about-mars-one/team

Of the 7 people listed there's: an artist, an editor, a communication specialist, a communications director, and an MD. There's only 2 people who could conceivably have any expertise on getting to Mars.

They did an interview (AMA) on reddit and were torn apart:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ufb42/ama_i_am_founder_of_mars_one_sending_four_people/

STOP FEEDING THESE PEOPLE FREE PRESS!

These people know nothing about space travel and are completely incapable of answering technical questions about the project. They aren't legitimate.

there was a question about open hardware http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j166z/hi_im_mark_shuttleworth_founder_of_ubuntu/ that gives you some of the answers

"This first version of the Edge is to prove the concept of crowdsourcing ideas for innovation, backed by crowdfunding. If it gets greenlighted, then I think we'll have an annual process by which the previous generation backers get to vote on the spec for the next generation of Edge.
So in this first generation Edge, no, we didn't look for open hardware specifically. We can choose silicon with more open drivers as we finalise the spec, but again I think the priority for the CPU / GPU will be performance to hit the goal of convergence.
In future generations, it would be great to see if we can do an all-open device, for example."
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j166z/hi_im_mark_shuttleworth_founder_of_ubuntu/cba2wga

there was a question about open hardware http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j166z/hi_im_mark_shuttleworth_founder_of_ubuntu/ that gives you some of the answers

"This first version of the Edge is to prove the concept of crowdsourcing ideas for innovation, backed by crowdfunding. If it gets greenlighted, then I think we'll have an annual process by which the previous generation backers get to vote on the spec for the next generation of Edge.
So in this first generation Edge, no, we didn't look for open hardware specifically. We can choose silicon with more open drivers as we finalise the spec, but again I think the priority for the CPU / GPU will be performance to hit the goal of convergence.
In future generations, it would be great to see if we can do an all-open device, for example."
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j166z/hi_im_mark_shuttleworth_founder_of_ubuntu/cba2wga

I really wish people would stop posting MarsOne propaganda. It's a scam, pure and simple. It's been pointed out time and time again that their team is primarily artists and PR people. Just look here for yourself:

http://www.mars-one.com/en/about-mars-one/team

Of the 7 people listed there's: an artist, an editor, a communication specialist, a communications director, and an MD. There's only 2 people who could conceivably have any expertise on getting to Mars.

They did an interview (AMA) on reddit and were torn apart:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ufb42/ama_i_am_founder_of_mars_one_sending_four_people/

STOP FEEDING THESE PEOPLE FREE PRESS!
 

I stopped giving your credibility any weight when you revealed your disconnect from the market by misusing "Droid" over and over.

http://naterad.com/blog/2010/03/14/the-difference-between-droid-and-android/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/e6xtf/how_to_use_android_in_a_sentence/

It's a pity that the Surface can't act as a monitor/input device (optionally, while charging at your desk, for example, it could go from a waste of space to an extra monitor) for more powerful computers.

With the right kind of software and a little help from Reddit, anything is possible.

Right now it's to the state where basically you could build a CPU+RAM inside it and the real action of the encrypted virtual computer would be completely hidden from the outside world to anyone that doesn't have the decryption key.

It's not clear to me if it would be possible for this virtual computer to communicate with its host at all, without the host knowing its key, and would be a showstopper limitation on top of the big limitation that FHE is goddamn awful slow, with a likely best hope of being really slow and incredibly power+silicon hungry.

Probably the best fit application (assuming communication with host is possible) is a certificate signer that conceals its private keys and only signs certificates upon some conditionals.

I started a discussion on reddit about this a while back when the last slashdot story about it came out - maybe it would be of interest: http://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/1dl7bl/slashdot_ibm_researchers_open_source_homomorphic/

guessing that they just picked the most "prestigious" source. there's been a lot written about the technical aspects of the battle on reddit - here's the best that i can find at the moment:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1j8sjz/ccp_explorer_says_theres_no_cap_in_6vdth/

the technology and organization outside of the game is also interesting - thousands of people acting in a coordinated manner to achieve a real-time goal using technology (mumble, jabber, irc) is news - even if the goal is (much) less impressive than hacking the linux kernel

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j6qo4/i_am_joseph_bonneau_2013_nsa_award_winner_for/

For anyone interested, here are a couple of valuable Men's Rights Twitter feeds to follow:

https://twitter.com/mensrightsrdt
Which links largely to this Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/mensrights/

And https://twitter.com/manwomanmyth

Some of the information these guys post is truly shocking.