But as C.W. McCall knows...

You can't have a proper convoy without a chartreuse Microbus.

It's Shane Robison, not "Robinson"

Come on, Reg...

Sorry Meg, not buying it

"I supported Proposition 8. At the time, I believed the people of California had weighed in on this question and that overturning the will of the people was the wrong approach."

So you're saying that the majority does have the right to discriminate against the minority, just because they can? I'd say you still don't get it. If you had said "I supported Prop. 8 because I had not yet examined my own beliefs, and I was wrong" then I would applaud your sincere conversion.

Shuji Nakamura needs to be mentioned here

I don't know anything about Naruhito Iwasa, and I'm sure this was a team effort, but the Nichia inventor who has received most of the credit for GaN blue and white LEDs is Shuji Nakamura, who received the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize for this work.

Great subtitle...

... but you're dating yourself :-)

The CPU power available to crackers has increased to the point that salting is no longer adequate; it would not have protected these passwords from being cracked, assuming (as would have been likely) that the attacker got access to the salts as well.

These days you also need to use a so-called "bit stretching" algorithm such as PKBDF2, bcrypt, or scrypt.

But yes, LinkedIn screwed up here badly.

If you're going to use this meme, get it right!

It should be: "All your transistor are belong to us".

It's mangled English, remember?

If the Cylons really had humanoid models

they would look like these pictures.

How can you have a whole article on the Internet Archive

and not mention Brewster Kahle, its creator?

"The company is a stealth-mode startup"

Um, I think once el Reg is writing about you, you're not in stealth mode anymore.

Only 4.4GHz???

Geez, you can get to 5GHz with liquid nitrogen.

Paper is completely wrong about aluminum

This paper makes a ludicrous error about aluminum. It talks about the energy required to make an aluminum can FROM VIRGIN ALUMINUM. But in doing so it ignores the much, much larger amount of energy required to smelt the aluminum from bauxite in the first place! Hello???!!!

Expectation of privacy?

I'm missing something here. How is using an OPEN wifi network different from leaving your windows open so that passers-by, including Google Street View, can see what you're up to? I think people need to get that if they're using an open wifi, anyone could be recording their traffic. This incident should serve as a reminder of that.

Clock speeds wrong??

How odd -- the 3.06 GHz model (left column) is listed as less expensive than the 2.66 GHz model (right column). But the left-hand model has less VRAM. Looks like somebody screwed up which clock speed went where.

Two out of three

Anyhow, Matthew correctly used both "they're" and "their", in the same sentence no less. I've seen a lot worse on these boards...

Silicone oil, not silicon

Will journalists ever learn the difference? Silicon is an element; in its pure form, it's a solid, somewhat resembling the mineral hematite but considerably lighter -- and of course is the primary raw material for the chips powering our industry. Silicones, on the other hand, are compounds, any of a variety of silicon-oxygen copolymers; they can be oils, greases, adhesives, rubbers, etc.

El Reg has it backwards

Yes, AC, it's sequential I/O (particularly writing) that SSDs are usually not good at. With zero latency, they do random I/O at the same speed as sequential -- much faster than discs do.

Texting kills

Seriously -- here in California we just recently had a very serious train wreck caused by an engineer texting. He paid with his life, and the lives of 25 others.