It says in the article that configuration changes must be made on the WiFi access points as well.

That might be the first thing you would do. Thieves often aren't techies. They'll just boot it up and see if they can get it to work, and then pawn it or sell it to someone else.

If you want to be able to track your machine after it is stolen, just make sure it is easy enough for anyone to get to a web browser (easy-to-find guest account with restricted permissions, but can still connect to the local wifi?). Then run some software like Prey. If you have sensitive data, encrypt it but make sure the machine is still bootable.

Just thought I'd throw this out there since I was just testing it today. I have 802.11n gear (Airport Extreme, the 3x3 version with advertised 450 mbps speed). From 50ish feet away through a few walls I get 8 MB - 10 MB per second to my home server. That's getting up near 100 mbps which is good enough for me on wireless, but obviously nowhere near the 450 mbps that Windows claims my link speed to be.

This is of course normal for wireless networking but I'd hope that 802.11ac gear would be able to do a bit better.

Feedly is cloning the Google Reader API and implementing a new back-end as part of their "Normandy" project, so it's likely that other clients will turn to it to keep their apps working (and synchronized). Naturally, the official Google ones will be left out.

Or maybe they can keep the bandwidth the same (or not lower as much as they could) and instead take advantage of higher quality at the same bitrate... so that the channels don't look so terrible with compression artifacts all over the place.

Mis-interpreted the article title and though that someone was building a supercomputer that is three miles tall. I bet that poses unique challenges too.

One of the changes in the new set of documents is the removal of this community voting process. Ars Technica has a brief article on the changes.

For most of the world it's already Monday, so tomorrow is Tuesday. :-)

We've all moved to LibreOffice, but I still know a number of people who use or are interested in using OpenOffice, just because that name has been around long enough. If you don't follow sites like this, you might not know that LibreOffice exists. When I mention that they should look at LibreOffice instead, they say "Huh?"

OpenOffice development was somewhat stalled for a while after the LibreOffice fork happened. If development is going to continue, I hope they pick up the improvements from LibreOffice so that everyone can benefit.

Can I use the iPad to develop fully featured iPad apps? No? I don't think you can bill it as a development platform, then.

Not necessarily better than OpenGL, but better than 270.6 fps.

Valve's blog post, near the bottom, indicates that they plan on fixing the hang-up with Direct3D, now that they know that the hardware can do better than 270 fps.

Google has a project going along these lines, called Swiffy. Looking at the demos, it appears to work pretty well.

I see that you mentioned Google Docs, but have you looked at Google Apps for Business (runs on a domain of your choice)? There's a free version for up to 10 accounts. Otherwise, I think it is $50 per user per year.

It supports calendar sharing and company-wide contact sharing (from the web UI anyway). Though I think that the global contact list might be missing from the free version.

This is for a home / family network?

Has Facebook turned on SSL by default yet? I know that Twitter has, and Facebook has the option, not sure if they've thrown it on by default yet?

In any case, if they haven't, I imagine that it is coming, and then sniffing out contents of messages will not be so simple. You'd have to install a man-in-the-middle service with a fake SSL certificate and install said fake certificate as trusted on all of the client machines. (Good luck doing that on the iPhone.) And that's just to be able to see them in clear text. If you're trying to scrape them out, you're going to be constantly fighting with Facebook every time they change up their interface. Are you going to be tasked with updating this every time a new social service or game comes along?

It seems like the better approach may be to just have them learn some basic Internet safety.