All the proponents of various "-isms" have a tendency to do that. Libertarianism included.

Probably because the price vs performance vs power triangle is focused almost entirely on power. Which is ok for something like an overpriced macbook air but datacentres would want more of a balance.

Your exact version of chrome combined with the exact version of various plugins you used (flash, pdf readers, add blcokers etc) can all be reported to the server and when combined they lead to a lot of bits of entropy. Tor won't help you get around that.

Learn engineering!

Parental controls are a good thing if they're optional.

Oh you were talking about the subnet portion. Fair enough, that is a mere 64bit.

IPV6 is 128bits. So 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses.

Actually, Chromes built-in page inspector is great. No plug ins required and all the functionality of firebug right there by default.

What about those with Aspergers? One of the original diagnostic criteria for Aspergers is a lack of empathy. Same goes for Autism too. Shall we ban these people from management?

Or perhaps we should just accept that individual choices can allow people to overcome any lack of anything? Empathy or not, everyone has a chance to be a good human being. We're getting dangerously close to labelling people here not based on actions or life choices but simply a pre-determined judgement that can be made at a young age.

It even uses the same parts of the spectrum as the well established Zigbee devices that do exactly what's described here.

There's also the Chinese.

China's Loongsoon CPU (funded by the state run Chinese Academy of Sciences) is currently nowhere near the performance level of AMDs offerings. They clearly want x86, the newest Loongsoon3 includes some hardware x86 emulation, they just need better performance.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences tends to fund buyouts of tech companies if it's in their national interest. They had a hand in the buyout of IBMs laptop division, they helped buy out defense research company Magnequench, and they've helped buy out a number of smaller startups.

It really wouldn't surprise me to see them put in a bid here.

To be fair he did say "usually" it's only on the Xeons. Those i3's listed are a minority of all i3's.

I recommend watching this video of Sketchpad narrated by Alan Kay. You have to remember this is from 1963. It demonstrated copy and paste, rotation and scaling, a pointer based graphical interface, and more. Pretty damn impressive.

Well the new synapse drivers have Facebook and Twitter integration. I'm not kidding - open the mouse configuration page and down the bottom right there's a row of social media icons.

Hell not just that. SMS is one small step of internet banking. You still need the banks userID and password to log into online banking before you even make use of the SMS transaction confirmations. There's also a lot of requirements for number porting as it is too - accountID and details with the old provider and there's SMS notices sent when the porting is attempted too.

So this woman was socially engineered out of the following - Her real name, address and DOB (fair enough, this is publically available), her old mobile providers details and accountID (someone go through her bin?), her banks clientID and password (she fall for a fake bank email?), she didn't notice the SMS announcements that she'd be ported to a new provider next month (wtf?) and finally she didn't notice a lack of calls coming in.

At some point you have to say fuck it, there's no way to protect people like this. Even if it was made more difficult to port numbers she's clearly stupid enough to give away any and all information asked of her.