Apple AirPort (all models) support IPv6 out-of-the-box. I'm running one myself. Works nicely.

As far as I could tell from some while of hunting around on the net, it's the *only* router that advertises such support, and might well be the only one that has it at all...

*facepalm*

Flashblock!

Err, Slashdot has always held a "ZOMG M$!!!" attitude. More so in 2001 than in 2011 in fact, I think...

That's a personal preference thing. I found many of Asimov's stories really dull. Have you read the early Foundation books, for example? They're just pedestrian chronologies. This-happened, and-then-this-happened, and-then-100-years-later-this-happened.

(He wrote some gems too. "Pebble in the Sky" is my favourite. And the Foundation books he wrote when he was older are much better, especially Prelude.)

Contrast with a good sci-fi TV series? There's a lot of plotting, and indeed philosophy, going on in Babylon 5 at its best, for example...

Gratuitous pedantry: There's no way any cloud-booted computer will use either PXE or TFTP. Those protocols are designed for trusted networks and are far too insecure to operate across the Internet.

They might have invented some secure protocol to do the same thing. However, I reckon it's probably integrated cloud storage support rather than cloud booting, as other posters suggested earlier. Cloud booting or display rendering in the cloud sounds too likely to give a bad user experience due to ISP issues.

I bet this test has just as much real world meaning as Mensa's IQ test though...

"86 percent do not check for a secure connection when accessing sensitive information when using unfamiliar computers"

Seriously, now. A website with "security" in the title really ought to at least try to present credible security analysis!

*facepalm*

Oh my goodness; nice troll (I hope!). This is pretty much a "worst case scenario" for the PC enthusiast community. It's on a par with Apple buying ARM in end-user doom.

Hopefully if it is true, Intel (of all companies) will arrange to block it, for the same reason that they don't lower prices enough to push AMD out of the CPU market (which they could do if they really wanted to): being pursued for being a monopoly would be seriously bad for them as well as the rest of the ecosystem and they know it...

No, it does not.

The first thing that the cleverer worms and other malware do after getting a foothold on your machine is disable the AV. You might get a bunch of warnings out of it if you're lucky, but its cleanup routines won't work any more, and it won't warn you about any further infections. You still need that backup, because the only way to be sure you've got the malware off is to wipe and reinstall.

That's not even considering malware the AV hasn't heard of yet.

Because of the forced collaboration. Doctors, lawyers and teachers are often producing individual work, or working in very small groups. In software particularly, the individual work of one engineer is irrelevant unless it integrates successfully with the work of dozens or sometimes hundreds of other engineers.

When the success of your own piece of work depends, in an immediate and pressing manner, on the success of the pieces of work of many other people, frustration and bitching quickly ensue if one of those other pieces of work is causing problems in yours!

I agree with you except, please don't lump indoor smoking in with the others there. Passive smoking causes cancer; the law should give me the right to insist that my coworkers don't kill me slowly!

Interesting idea, but it wouldn't work. A machine can't work out what a human is doing (and thence whether or not he is "working") -- it doesn't have a brain.

To pick on the CPU example: what constitutes "work", exactly? Not a 100% CPU graph: that probably just means that the employee in question has his feet up and is waiting for a build job to complete. Or has sussed out the system, and is running a low priority CPU eating process in order to fool the SNMP thingy into thinking he's "working" all the time. Regular small spikes, indicating typing, clicking, saving, etc? Can be faked just as easily.

You could install a screen recorder -- the equivalent of CCTV for the desktop. That would require a lot more resources, and thence be more expensive. Fooling it would be harder, but still possible in various ways. (The how is left as an exercise for the reader. I conducted a security review of one once...)

In my opinion (as a security specialist, not as a lawyer, mind you), none of this evidence would be admissable in a court of law: if a company fired someone based solely on evidence provided by things like this, the employee in question could sue for unfair dismissal with a solid chance of winning. Therefore, it has negative value to the company -- it's useful only for generating pointless monitoring work, and for harassing employees and making them feel unhappy.

I have only an anecdote as a retort to this, it'll have to do. My point seems blindingly obvious, and I suspect my situation is not uncommon.

My productivity would *plummet* without Internet access at work. I spend a lot of time looking up information on the web -- mostly online documentation. If I didn't have that connection, I would be constantly purchasing paper documentation and industry journals, and so would all my peers -- at great overall cost to the company, without even considering the additional cost of the delay incurred every time I needed to wait for a new publication to arrive. (Simply put, product releases would not come out on time.)

In addition, no internet access would kill my ability to work remotely, because I need to be able to access my own systems at my desk remotely in order to be productive while out of the office.

(Yes, I am a software developer.)

Rant mode on, but it's on topic.

I live in the UK. I used to get cable internet service from Virgin Media (the only cable provider in the country, because they bought up all the others). I would *love* to have had the quality of service that you guys above are complaining about from Comcast et al.
Understand that Virgin Media works great until it breaks. Up to 50Mbps wherever you are, low latency, dropouts rare. When it breaks though, getting it fixed is a nightmare. And it *will* break. They don't keep track of what models of modems they've given people; they never send existing customers new hardware to replace obsolete models; they change the wire protocols without notice; they push broken firmware updates.

Tech support is outsourced to India. It's manned 24-7, but wait time is at least half an hour at all times. The "people" at the other end of that phone line are barely more sentient than M-x doctor. Diverge from their script, even the tiniest bit, and they'll tell you you're not supported and hang up on you. To get through their script, you must either lie to them or unplug every single piece of gear you have except for a Windows PC connected directly to your cable modem. You then spend half an hour having them tell you to unplug and re-plug all the connectors and reboot it five times. At the end of their script there's still a 50% chance that they'll tell you your PC must be broken and just hang up on you, rather than agree to do anything about it at all.

If you're lucky, you'll get sent an "engineer". He won't have a 4 hour window of arrival -- oh no, it's all day, any time between 8am and 6pm, and his best trick is arriving at 9am THE FOLLOWING MORNING. When he arrives, he's woefully underprepared, with only about a third of the equipment he ought to have (he will complain about this). He will fiddle with your modem, attach a meter contraption to the cable, and possibly change the little widget they fit inline with the cable to make up for the signal strength being too high. If you're unlucky and this does not work, he'll spend a few minutes using *your* phone to ring someone and explain to them that he doesn't understand what's going on, he'll noncommittally say "they'll look into it", and he'll leave. If you want to chase up (and thence have a hope that they'll sort things out), it's back on the phone to India, but the goon at the other end doesn't seem to understand the concept of records -- so you're back to square one!

Last year I was unlucky, and had a problem that was slightly non trivial. I counted. After three visits by these "engineers", SEVEN hours on the phone to India, one whole week waiting for second level support to ring back -- and they rang while I had something on the boil on the kitchen, I asked them to call me back in ten minutes, I never heard from them again -- they still had no idea what was wrong. After a month of no service despite constant chasing I rang the sales line, and cancelled, and told them precisely why. My call got escalated immediately, and the manager offered to send along one of the engineers who handle their much more expensive business service to take a look, but in a further two weeks' time; I cancelled my contract anyway, but accepted the engineer appointment since it was free.

Seven weeks after my connection had originally broken, and one week after I had DSL fitted -- slow, but with real support (www.aaisp.net.uk -- they're very good) -- the proper engineer arrived, picked up my cable modem, fiddled with it for a couple of minutes, and said "yeah, there's a return path fault on the modem. I can replace it if you'd like." I spent some time staring at him open mouthed before I managed to explain to him why I wouldn't like him to do that. I think he was pretty shocked at the quality of service I'd received.

Never, ever, ever use Virgin Media.

However, when you install Ubuntu, if you find that there isn't a package for a particular program within the standard repositories, you can go and compile it from source and run it. Heck, you can even add third party repositories.

On iPhone, if there isn't a package for a particular program, you can't run it, unless you jailbreak the phone (at which point Apple starts actively trying to brick it for you.)