Keep calm and nuke them from orbit!

Every AI leader in Civ has different inherent values for how they act. Genghis Khan is warlike and aggressive, Gandhi is peaceful and defensive, with most leaders being in between.
There was a bug in Civ I. Gandhi's aggressiveness was set to 1 by the game (on a 1-10 scale). If an AI adopts Democracy as a government, the game notches their aggressiveness down 2. As a result, if Gandhi adopted Democracy, you got a rollover error that led to his aggressiveness being set at 255/10.
Needless to say, he very rapidly turns from peaceful to murderous, and will them attempt to acquire and build nukes at all costs. He'll then nuke whatever he damn well feels like, because he's Gandhi.
The Civ team loved this bug so much, they deliberately programmed similar AI into every game. In Civ V, for example, every leader has a 'Use of Nukes' stat, that is, again, on a scale of 1 to 10. Gandhi's is hard-coded at 12 - even with the +/- 2 random modifiers assigned at game start, Gandhi's use of nukes will always be rounded to 10/10 would nuke again.

http://r2.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1nvj2t/what_to_expect_when_facing_gandhi_civ_v/

ECC RAM

Оказывается, у чортового интела не только проц+чипсет обязаны поддерживать ECC, а и материнка.

Ну и естественно под Z87 чипсет так в итоге и не нашлось материнок которые умеют 2xGbE и ECC RAM одновременно. И с поддержкой >32gb тоже проблемы.

Пичальбидаогорчение. Ладно, закупим 32gb DDR3-2400, i7-4770 и будем конструкцию downclock'ать если сыпать начнет.

Как вообще соорудить подешевле (<$2500) конструкцию чтоб там было, например, 128 RAM, 1-2 ксеона, ~терабайт скажем суммарно SSD и 2+ GbE? В теории пазл решается, на практике какой-то балщит выходит.

Или я отстал от жизни, а все продвинутые пацаны давно 10GE ставят и не парятся?

Government Shutdown

этот неловкий момент, когда вы понимаете, насколько большой процент internet-related инфраструктуры управляется из США.

А вообще, почему time.nist.gov и national vulnerability database не погасили? Было бы весело ;-)