...they didn't gain control of an otherwise stock computer using heat over air gap. stop saying "hack"....
Stop saying "heat" as well. Heat in this context is nothing but low-frequency light.
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So the headline should read...
Malware that was installed on computers uses light to send data to other computers similarly loaded with malware.
But that doesn't make for a page-hit-generating headline.
...Who in their right mind would design a medical system that synchronizes with anything other than the patient's own body rhythms?
If you need to understand how external stimuli affect a patient, you need medical event timestamps that are sync'd to an external agreed-upon clock.
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Who cares. If it can drive for six months out of the year that's still an improvement...
You make the huge assumption that people will still know how to drive. And, if they do know how to drive, that they will remember enough after six months of not driving to be able to drive safely in the winter.
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People who drive year-round still have difficulties driving safely in the winter.
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Show me a self-driving car that could navigate the snow-choked roads of Boston this winter.
... Just because the "platform" isn't "innovating" doesn't mean that people don't run nifty software on it....
I agree. When I asked if innovation in Windows was relevant, I was referring to innovation in the Windows OS itself, not the apps that run on it.
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With Windows 10, it's like I'm getting a half-functional OS if I choose to have a local account and not to log in to Microsoft.
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I'm sure you can find one horror story or two or three about any business out there, some
of which may even be true and not planted by competitors. If you really "steer clear" of a business because of one bad review on the Internet, then you must not buy anything....
Here are a couple of reviews that use more than one data point:
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