+1. Automation is one of the prime reasons Microsoft made powershell and actually now makes a lot of (server) programs for powershell before making the GUI.

Next we know, companies like BMW have to lay off people because their incomings on overcharged replacement parts have plummeted xD (would serve them right, daylight robbery for some pieces of ABS smaller than a coin)

Lawyerese is designed to make you fall asleep, that's when they try to screw you over :D

http://news.techeye.net/business/google-sued-over-snaffled-street-view-data

Privacy laws? Mapping data on private networks without the owners' authorization? Coming with an opt-out excuse where people have to change their SSID to opt out is complete BS.

The F-117 was never a real fighter but a bomber. The sole reason it received F-designation, is because the brass would only let the best fighter pilots in it but fighter jockeys would refuse to fly anything not designated a fighter. The F-22 is America's first true stealth fighter jet capable of engaging in air-to-air…

I bet there's hundreds of EU privacy violations they could be fined for. Just like Apple, but we all know the EU uses double standards.

Just like Google did for years with other engines until they finally got around to actually writing their own search algorithms?

Truth be told, I think that if mankind is capable of nudging a ball of ice hurtling through space at a far greater velocity than our homeworld, colonizing mars should be peanuts.

At least then they have access to a world they can actually destroy.

Naturally mankind would have to start with structures, perhaps even under-surface habitation. First get a stable "natural" (for as far as terran vegetation on another planet can be deemed natural) source of breathable atmosphere running for habitation on Martian colonies, perhaps with greenhouses on the surface to use…

Why should it be a straight trip from the Cape or Baikonur to mars? Why not use the ISS for staging & assembly of a modular ship?

They could use that shit (pun intended) as fertilizer on the surface, so in a few years astronauts can grow "fresh" crops and other plantlife on Mars. First steps towards terraforming & all.

Battery life, screen resolution, strength, cooling, easy to "dismantle" (just open for dust cleaning really), build quality.

What that copper claimed is the biggest load of hogwash I've ever heard. Owning stolen goods, be it knowingly or unknowingly, is a felony in a huge amount of countries. Knowingly usually means you can be considered an accomplice, unknowingly usually just means having to return the goods to the original owner. Computer…

Go troll elsewhere please. This is Lifehacker, not Gizmodo.

Linux logical volumes are my preferred way.

Personally, I'd go for paying off the loan. You don't start actually making money for yourself (and no-one else) until your debts are gone.

Does it come with a dashcam pre-installed?

"ass backwards jibberish" you say? You clearly don't know anything about software development whatsoever. Standard Windows apps have been compiled to binary code for x86-64 processors or to use an intermediary layer (like the Java VM for Java programs). ARM processors cannot directly run x86-64 binary code. The…