> In the mean time the average life expectancy of a house built in the past 50 years is ... 50 years anyway American house building methods are astonishingly slipshod.

If people don't want modern preservatives, BPA, MSG, GMO, or whatever today's vilified buzzword is, I'm generally ok with it.

What peeves me is when the primary difference is labelling and presentation. It's increasingly a problem everywhere, but Whole Foods does it more than anyone:

* Sugar => Evaporated Cane Juice
* Contains 10% whole grains => Made with 100% Whole Wheat (and other ingredients)
* Raisins => Gluten-free, Vegan, Kosher certified dried grapes
* High Fructose Corn Syrup => High Fructose Cactus Syrup (agave syrup)
* Artificial vanilla flavor => All Natural vanilla flavor (made from fermented grains without any vanilla pods)

Even the cold, hard numbers of the nutritional facts are being gamed through reduced serving sizes and rounding.

I have also been to Nepal. I walked to Kala Pattar from the Rai areas, rather than flying into Lukla. It cost me less than $10 a day.

"there are only two known chromosomal configations ... XX and XY."

This is factually untrue. See XXX, XXXX, XXXX, XXY, XY/XXY mosaic, XYY. The list goes on.

They aren't getting richer, they have committed most of their assets to ongoing projects. As such, they have become poorer in the purely personal sense.

No they don't. As an example, the polio eradication program has continued in all states that have cases of polio regardless of IP laws...and some cynics would say that eradicating a disease does not exactly set up an ongoing market for vaccines.

Cunning hiding it away in things like vaccination programs and other A rated charitable activities? I dislike the MS story as much as anyone, but to say that Gates hasn't used his money for genuine philanthropy is myopic.

Grandparent means that chip&pin transactions are slow, and in the US it's true. They are significantly slower than in Europe.

I don't know if it's the connections, the CPUs or the configuration, but doing Chip&Pin in the US feels like browsing on dialup. When you go on vacation, the difference is astounding.

It has indeed been around for a long time. Some years much, much better than others. Unfortunately, over time, things got much less subtle, and far too repetitive.

No change in her technical competence since she ran HP into the ground, I see.

Probably, but I don't see any secure alternative to glass windows. There are secure alternatives - at little to no cost - for crappy netsec though.

This product is being sold as a replacement for secure products. The company very much pitch themselves as secure from advanced attackers. They've even boasted how their wireless side is secure: https://www.videofied.com/_ass...

The system is actually quite different to a web-cam. It's been built from the ground-up to provide very small clips when a PIR has been detected. It's not really any more broken than anything else on the market. A week prior, I published issues in a much more critical alarm system: http://cybergibbons.com/securi...

If you are willing to share privately, please contact me via the contact form on the website cybergibbons.com What you are describing sounds right up my street.

This is a massive part of it. It's easy, even trivial, to develop a system more secure than this. You can just use HTTPS and any API. Even if you completely forget certificate pinning etc. it is still more secure than this.