Most of them. Windows 7 is no longer offered for retail sale, but big companies with bulk deals can get a downgrade option.

Little squares. That's the future of computing.

Well, yes. Why should Google give you free bulker hosting?

It's not "WW II", technology, it's late 1950s LORAN-C technology. LORAN-A was WWII. It's good to have this as a backup. Many aircraft still have LORAN-C receivers. It's good enough to find an airport.

from the summary:

Now Kimberly Hefling reports that for-profit colleges who are not producing graduates capable of paying off their student loans could soon stand to lose access to federal student-aid programs.

A secret about those private "not for profit" colleges which the Department of Education exempted from that regulation. They are for profit. Huge profits. The distinction is not that these institutions do not earn profits, but rather that they are exempt from business taxes on those profits and the income accrues to the administration and faculty instead of to business owners.

So I had a friend in college who worked part-time in the payroll office and had access to the campus salary database. From her dorm room. So one evening she asks if I want to know what any of my professors make. Looked them all up. In 2014 dollars the mid-level salary for recently-tenured faculty was about $300,000 / year. Deans, provosts and presidents made much more.

Subsidized college loans have created a glut of education dollars and "not-for-profit" educators are raking them in. They are not opposed to earning huge profits themselves, the just do not want competition from other colleges which are run as business. So they lobbied Arne Duncan to enact a regulation which, for no legitimate rationale, applies only their competition.

Don't believe me? Universities try to keep this information locked away tightly but occasionally it leaks out. Here, for, example, is what Treasury Secretary Jack Lew received as severence pay from New York University:

President Obama’s nominee to lead the Treasury Department, Jacob J. Lew, got a $685,000 severance payment when he left a top post at New York University in 2006 to take a job at Citigroup.

NYU is a private "non-profit". And, as that link indicates, as such they receive additional benefits from the federal government beyond tax exemption.

A proposed internet tax is the least of problems with Hungary's current government. Selected headlines from around the web:

The Guardian: Hungary's rabid right is taking the country to a political abyss

The Tablet: Meet Europe’s New Fascists

The Telegraph: Inside the far-Right stronghold where Hungarian Jews fear for the future

Aljazeera: Hungary: Towards the Abyss Investigating why critics of Hungary's authoritarian government believe it is leading the country towards fascism

The Tablet's, tagline is "A New Read on Jewish Life" and of course Aljazeera is Islamic. The Telegraph and Guardian are respectable British publications. They all agree that Hungary is leaning fascist.

from wikipedia

Franchise fees are governed under Section 622 of the Cable Communications Act of 1984.[2] Section 622, states that municipalities are entitled to a maximum of 5% of gross revenues derived from the operation of the cable system for the provision of cable services such as Public, educational, and government access (PEG) TV channels.

Franchise fees are fixed at a maximum of 5% of gross revenues. So how do municipalities maximize revenues from franchise fees? By maximizing cable company gross revenues. And how do municipalities maximize cable company gross revenues? By creating monopolies! By awarding exclusive license to one provider to extract monopolist profits from the public.

Note that there is nothing inherently wrong with permitting local governments to charge cable companies fees. That is justifiable to the extent that local governments incur costs of infrastructure repair with damage from cable installation. All that is needed is a single addendum to the law, one prohibiting local governments from creating monopolies. The law could simply mandate that municipalities must offer franchise licenses to all ISPs if they offer licenses to one and that all licencees must be be charged at the same rate.

The only reason we have cable monopolies in the U.S. is because the Cable Communications Act of 1984 created that perverse incentive. Other countries without such laws have much faster service at much lower prices.

If federal law permitted local governments to do this sort of thing with groceries, computers and cars we would have regional monopolies for those products as well. Be grateful that your town council is not permitted to sell grocery, computer and car franchises.

all it requires is that users sign in

Or, all your base is belong to us.

It's not clear if this will work post-Jobs. Jobs was able to get people to wear dweebish white wires hanging out of their ears. Tim Cook can't do the Reality Distortion Field thing.

Hulu recently pulled an interesting stunt. The've been running WGN's "Manhattan" series, about the original A-bomb program. Anyone could watch it free, with ads, after a few days.

Then, for the final episode, they forced people to register with Hulu or sign in with Facebook to see the episode. Their message says "This video is intended for mature audiences. Use your Facebook or free Hulu account to continue." I checked with WGN. Hulu is lying; the last episode is not for "mature audiences". WGN says they'll try to get Hulu to fix it, but it's been over a week and it hasn't been fixed.

Hulu is learning from the cable companies how to put their boot on the user's face.

The pill transmits to a wrist sensor. Of course, that will transmit to an Android phone, which will upload the data to Google's servers. You'll need a Google account, of course. All that data will be available to you (and, of course, Google's "affiliates") via a newly reactivated Google Health.

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That was done in the 1950s and 1960s. I give you the Youth Fitness Song, sent to every school in America in 1960.

When your credit card is compromised, the bank takes the loss and gives you a new credit card. When your phone is compromised, does Apple take the loss and give you a new phone?

Or are you just trying to be cool?

If you can live with an HD 4400 graphics enigne, you can get a Small PC iBrick, which is an Intel Mobile Core i3 processor in a sealed, watertight box with cooling fins.

There are industrial cases available for fast food restaurants. Those can handle routine pressure washing.

This attack on binaries requires a MITM attack. The attacker must be in a position to intercept and modify the data. SSL only prevents that if it's end to end SSL. Using SSL over Cloudflare doesn't eliminate the possibility of an attack on binaries, because Cloudflare is a MITM itself. The exit from Cloudflare is vulnerable in exactly the way the exit from Tor is.