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This might be a good time to switch off main SSID and exclusively use Guest SSID which is a feature in many routers. At least it would help to isolate wired computers away from the common wifi network. One could then safely use weird computers for sensitive communication.

It might also be a good time to invest in NIC dongle manufacturers considering how many systems only ship with wifi.

Spoofed yes but they're hard to guess in advance without prior knowledge of the device's MAC address.

Here is a good summary of the situation right now: https://www.alexhudson.com/2017/10/15/wpa2-broken-krack-now/

Extensions are the new "Let's play find the download button on a webpage" that's been around for years. [1]

So many users download replicas of uBlock and find it hard to install the original uBlock Origin extension. Countless times have I had to send them direct link to Chrome's extension site just to make sure they're installing the right one. This is the case especially as the genuine extension in this case has no direct author website and instead lists a repo on Github (average users feel this indicates a knockoff and look elsewhere).

[1] https://www.pcworld.com/article/2012958/how-to-avoid-fake-do...

This is the illustrated version of the discussion:

http://www.projectcartoon.com/pdf.php?CartoonID=2&PaperSize=...

This reminds me of AWK Music http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/

For anyone interested in multi cloud deployments at the IaaS layer I recommend looking at https://libcloud.apache.org/

Yes, tools like Comodo firewall by default are set to be quiet and prevent end user prompts as much as possible.

Regardless the amount of components (whether it be OS, software or website elements) which attempt connecting is overwhelming for even a non-average tech savvy user.

For example install https://pi-hole.net/ and you'll no doubt realise that most of the DNS queries traversing your home network are not directly made by the end-user.

Interesting to see Melbourne Australia in some of the maps.

Hierarchical web browsing navigation is something that's been around in NetSurf for a while, more browsers need it:

http://www.netsurf-browser.org/documentation/guide.html#Hist...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKCzWJrUQAAaMK3.jpg:large

Interesting nevertheless, appreciate your reply.

This is the first time Apple have given in to OLED displays and wireless charging (and a standardised one even) - both relatively old technologies [1] which were at their disposal during Steve's time.

From what I've seen the corporate secrecy at Apple will make such conclusive investigation next to impossible. What I often think of is NeXT and Steve's return that saved Apple in the 1990s.

[1] http://www.gsmarena.com/qualcomm_taunts_apple_list_android_f...

Things become really fun when you're trying to figure out why that command fails when you've copy/pasted it from another application window.

Often it's the quotes which have been silently (automatically) converted to a visually similar (but functionally incompatible) character variant.

Would genuinely love to know the reasoning behind the negative votes. Steve's departure has certainly changed the company in the past.

I am guessing this had something to do with Steve Jobs no longer being there. More freedom for choosing technologies.

I find it fascinating how hard Apple make it to find the battery capacity (mAh or Wh) for iPhones.

My understanding is that they do not want people to make a direct mAh capacity comparison to competing phones on the basis that iPhone can "squeeze out" more out of the smaller battery thanks to optimisations.

In Australia this concept is widely recognised as 'fair go'.

With the higher density flash cells on the same surface area, one wonders about the heat dissipation (especially in mobile phones). This and the associated workload (read vs write) ultimately determine the lifespan of these cards.

This is to some extend implemented in Samsung's screen edge feature found on phones with curved screens (although it is not context aware by default):

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00047881/

I feel that recognisable and consistent tactile feedback is so important for developing and executing muscle memory. Today on most devices this element is largely overlooked (eg. compare a walkman with physical buttons to an music application on a flat screen surface).

Touch screen devices with vibration hardware have not really addressed the haptic positioning and behaviour of tactile feedback.

All of this to me is a loss of opportunity to exercise an additional "input method".

In the future I expect to see somewhat of a non-flat screen that's able to reposition the height or texture of its area to facilitate the do-not-have-to-look precision requirements of today's on-screen buttons. Somewhat of a 3D holographic surface which you can touch or otherwise feel.

I guess if one was interested in monitoring traffic of example their mobile phone, one could fix the phone to connect at 2.4GHz only. This would allow a capture to be made using this device.

Regardless 5GHz would have been handy to include.

Energy efficiency relative to the same compute power for newer devices has been a major factor for not using old computers to perform computations. Maybe this principle carries over to low powered mobile devices, certainly some basic economic principles between computations per power consumption prevail at different orders of magnitude.

It's worthy to note that the buildings of the Volkswagen factory near Bratislava were build during the old eastern bloc days (BAZ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Bratislava_Plant

VW would have moved their equipment right inside those buildings during the 1990s period without having to build most of the facilities in use today.

In fact the whole place took years to be rebranded (logos changed to VW).

Thanks this is the first time I have come across https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokogawa_Electric

Also it's refreshing to see that they mention "seeing" IR light from a remote control via your mobile phone's camera. This trick has been around for years (thanks to cameras tendency to colour shift) however it is rarely known about. The author is indeed a practitioner.

Those desks on the renders don't look like standing desks, but rather height adjustable desks.

Here in Australia all new offices are equipping standing desks for OH&S laws and workspace regulation compliances.

It may be useful if they trade the space saved by removing the headphone components to accomodate more battery capacity. This assumes that you're already using BT for your phone audio needs.

Price per TB would be the more important measure for this kind of storage equipment.

For reference and to put things in context one has to look at LTO generations. From what I see their invention would fall beyond the LTO-10 standard (unless the market forces and manufacturing change dramatically by then).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Generations

Thanks for reminding me, a series I completely missed out on. Time to revisit them.

This needs to be done for Empire Earth series as well which seem to have been forgotten and obstacled by Civ, AoE, AoM franchises.

Operational innovation is maybe the term you are looking for.