Well usually in ransomeware attacks they hose your backups too. So make sure you have some sort of backups that aren't connected to your main systems.

Sounds like they are using their old hardware but just wiping and reinstalling ChromeOS on them. So they're still going through all the hassle of wiping and re-imaging everything. I'm guessing the old system was something they bought 10+ years ago, never paid maintenance licensing for, and all of their workstations were still Windows XP. They're installing ChromeOS because Windows 10 won't run on their old hardware and it was cheaper to move to a hosted hoteling solution than buy and setup the new version of their old software.

The names of the 3 companies. That might be something that would be helpful as a concerned consumer.

I'm still hopeful that one of these days they'll stop letting people recline their seats. You get precious little space on a plane to start with and then you have someone recline their seat into that space. Just plain stupid.

My wife has a Prius with keyless entry/start. The keyfob hides a physical key that you can use to unlock the door and you can insert the keyfob into a socket in the dash if you need to (if the battery dies). Works great. Plus the batteries in the keyfob are readily available and easy to change.

I love being able to unlock the doors and start the car without needing to get the keys out. Makes it that much harder to lock my keys in the car.

Agreed. I'm backing up almost 1TB (most of which is my music/movie library). The only downside was the amount of time that first backup took. Almost 2 months on my crappy Charter Cable connection got my to 80%, switched to a fiber connection and it finished in 2 days.

I mean seriously, how many products have they had to rename in the past few years? Metro, SkyDrive, etc...

Maybe they should try Googling these things before they announce them.

Sorry, Goose, but it's time to buzz a tower.

And how exactly do you create playlists this way?

iTunes is nothing but the backend of my Apple TV these days. I can't remember the last time I played something directly on the computer. I just wish the AppleTV interface had a fast scroll option. When your library has 17,000+ tracks in it, it takes forever to scroll through it to the bottom.

So they're going to try to use the Xbox model to try to get as many devices out there as possible. Unfortunately for MS, Android already beat them to this. Sure, it's possible to late to the game if you have a way of upping the ante in the market, but when you come to the table with a device that is at best on par or slightly below what is already there, then you can't hope to break into the market.

They should have spent more time/effort getting a foothold in the phone market. Windows Phone was DOA and hasn't gone anywhere lately. Do they even still make it? Both Google and Apple were smart to get their foot in the door with a device everyone carries. Then they expanded to the middle ground devices that people weren't convinced they needed. Why would buy a Windows tablet if you have an iOS or Android phone?

I guess no one does.

You're doing something wrong if you got though 1 per year. I've only had one router die on me in the past 13 years. And that was after about 7 years. My WRT-54G lasted for about 7 years with no problems until it died. But at that point I wanted to replace it with an N device anyway. Been using a WRT160N ever since.

Additionally we purchase about 9 WRT-54Gs for work in 2004. They were just now being to have issues when we replaced them in the fall of 2012. But the issue they had were with load due to a massive influx of iPads, not because of hardware failure. And the few we had that began having software issues, worked perfectly after replacing the default firmware with DD-WRT.

Keep looking, the problem isn't your consumer grade routers.

...if you don't have a connection? I'd rather sacrifice some speed for reliability.

Me too.

Not only that but they don't pander to one side of the political spectrum, you get articles with view points from both sides (since apparently no one does any impartial journalism anymore).

But what will happen to all of those "Take a penny, Leave a penny" containers?