I will switch to the next browser that's fast and supports tree-style tabs to the left of the window. (No, not in a separate window.) (And Firefox isn't fast.)

Jolly good.. Now the name + the birthday is the secret needed to unlock any identity fraud? Not even including social security (which wasn't secret either)?

Waiting 248 days on the tarmac before flight... Improbable. I hope.

Oh, so they can make it fine for 497.10 days by changing the type to unsigned!

Great that someone is providing tools to counter this plague...

...I just think it taste bad. I rather have a cola with _no_ sweeteners.

Then again, the point of cola for me is sugar + caffeine. If I don't want that, I drink something else.

This was going to be my question. I'm happy with a 10mm or even 15mm phone if I can get a few days battery time out of it instead of today's 3-4 hours screen time (or less when gaming or using GPS). I don't even get a boring office day out of it. (On a non-boring day I'm not using the phone that much.)

But milling weapons is ok? Like, the normal traditional way of making rifles that's been in used for some hundred years?

3d printing seems a bit ineffficient compared to a CNC mill.

"Where No Smartphone Has Gone Before

Wednesday, April 01, 2015 1:30:00 AM

TAU researchers move Star Trek's fictional "Tricorder" into the real world" ...yeah.

Imagine what we can do now when we know how old they fake they are in their passports.

So the data leaked, is that secret or just personal?

I suspect auditors is behind a process I noted at a large American company I worked at for a bit:

In the engineering office, the engineers were using laptops. The laptops were managed by a third party, which bought new parts from a fourth party through a fifith party.

If one engineering laptop broke, it could take 2-3 weeks to get it repaired.

In the meantime the engineer can't work, and just costs money. This happened, in my office, to a consultant - costing about a laptop a day.

But in some budget somewhere I'm sure it looked cheaper than having a hired IT-guy in the office with a pile of spare laptops.

Wait, 30 people have cost $9 billion?

Do they eat gold? :)

As far as I know network synchronization has been solved in many different ways already, and is not a problem. Can you give some example on where it hasn't been solved?

Z-wave, Zigbee, 802.11*, BLE have all solved that. If you invent more (mesh) networks you'll have to solve it for your stack. But it's not like solutions doesn't exist. Or that these protocols have anything to do with IoT. (Timing on networks like ethernet or CAN or radio protocols like GPS or 4g/LTE have all been solved as well, and have even less to do with IoT.)

I'm not saying it's easy, I'm just saying that these problems are solved and there's no "endangered by inaccuracy" here.

How will I get my laptop when they start doing that? I need Linux for work.

I don't want to lock down to expensive Dell laptops.