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Insecurity is taken for granted far too often and the defaults often don't help either.

For those who used to use Google Reader I can recommend www.netvibes.com

Does this mean we can finally get a form of Zoom-and-enhance seen on CSI?

I find the recruitment information page on that domain rather amusing: http://www.infradead.org/recruitment.html

Excellent, it may be a better way to provide spare bandwidth/storage similar to their https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-warrior

Internet Archive should look into distributed models such as IPFS for storage of the archived sites.

Replaceable battery on Note 8 (I hope!).

Looks like they've halted production as well: http://ausdroid.net/2016/10/10/psa-samsung-halted-note-7-pro...

I am guessing that the culprit here is Samsung's shift to directly compete with iPhone 7. All other Note releases were standalone and received very little announcements.

Hopefully this means that a replaceable battery makes a comeback in the next Note series.

Some cloud providers provide bare metal machines (eg. SoftLayer).

A vertically integrated public cloud platform where the provider controls both the hardware/firmware/hypervisors/OS/applications/middleware. As far as I know this is first of a kind platform.

What will ultimately determine it's success is adoption and not the technology potential itself. Let's see what happens it'll be interesting to observe the impact of this.

The deployment part of OpenStack is why some companies have ceased having multiple solution offerings for their customers. Instead they now offer a single uniform OpenStack distribution that they know can be supported more so than 2+ other distribution and deployment variants of it.

There are a lot of on-premise workloads which cannot be moved to someone else's remote cloud (for varying reasons). This is where OpenStack fills in the gap and provides something better than an ad-hoc brew-it-yourself cloud platform. That being said it still requires a good understanding of the requirements as well as a well chosen distribution to match the foreseen use-cases.

And less megapixels for the camera, although this is not a conclusively bad thing...

UV light sensor which for some reason needed location data to measure correctly. I've never understood why this is required as it should be able to read raw data based on incoming light.

Unfortunately the last two release cycles of the Note series have been feature downgrades ever since Note 4.

Fun fact - this is not a maths error, Samsung skipped Note 6 branding and went straight to 7 to match their S7 release names.

You’ll have to wait a few years for Linux to be announced...

It would be interesting to set this up on FreeNAS. Developers should look into providing this as a plugin to FreeNAS users.

If anything this shift to software based networking is a reflection the Intel's CPUs have reached the 'fast enough' mark.

Here are some of the relevant articles for those who may not be in the datacentre loop:

NFV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_function_virtualizatio...

SDN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_networking

Regardless there is still place for time-critical network segments where you'll find the likes of QNX.

I've seen some older Cisco storage switches which utilised Pentium 4 CPUs and SAN-OS instead of the usual custom built Motorola processors for the non-ASIC components of the device.

This is the 'Good Enough' inflection point, much the same as with PCs (minus the gaming and virtualisation crowds).

Summary: it's all about the bandwidth.

This correlates with XE.com currency converter website being down at the moment. Probably due to the pound value fluctuating...

Unfortunately it does not pass the W3C Validator: https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkshir...

Does this mean we can finally have an app that'd invert the input from the microphone and play it back on the loudspeaker effectively performing surrounding ambient noise cancellation?

I find it quite interesting that nobody has yet mentioned "The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference"

http://web.archive.org/web/20120127023739/http://j-walk.com/... http://www.stearns.org/fun/nigerian-email-conference.htm

An oldie but goodie.

You may enjoy an interview with the tetris man himself: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzsTvqyBRGv0-uyjDuQD1...

Some of the technological history he mentions is quite interesting.

I've always wondered how much cheaper the devices would be without such hardware functionality being built in. Surely a good portion of the cost is offset to the consumer for stuff they'd arguably not buy otherwise.

Those creatures have evolved on their own tangent. Quite interesting to see how different they are compared to the creatures outside of the cave.

On another note an well hidden cave like that would be great for preserving man made historical artefacts.

For those interested in seeing the hardware behind this service, have a look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7D8snlsnQ

When one is exploring domain specific command sets.