Misleading article is misleading. The entire network itself handles 54Tbps. The WiFi network, to quote TFA, "will be distributed using about 2,000 802.11n access points across the Olympics Game sites; including inside the stands for the first time."

Not even 802.11ac.

There's talk of ASIC scrypt miners coming out. The general consensus is that ASICs aren't generally strong at memory bandwidth and are unlikely to make GPU mining completely obsolete for Scrypt.

Google bought out Motorola Mobility a while back and I got excited about that. From a buyer's point of view, I haven't seen anything cool come out of it. I don't expect much different with this.

..and I'm thrilled that when Scrypt miners dump their GPUs on eBay en masse (like SHA-256 miners did with Bitcoin), the market will be flooded with a nice supply of Radeons.

..and yes, while I am concerned about the stress the cards are put under for 99% of their life, most miners seem to peg their card's fan speed at 80-100%.

It's fairly accepted that just because a car is left unlocked doesn't mean anyone's allowed to go in and take what's inside it. Even when you do lock it, there are ways to get in. The fault isn't the owner's for not locking it, it's the attacker's fault. I don't see why online services are any different. The interruption of service and potential loss of data is enough incentive to keep them from leaving it insecure in the first place. If not, they'll sure be taking a look at security after.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Damn. You beat me to it.

For people who can't help but "rm -rf /"

I believe the news here is that it doesn't veer off in funny, hard to predict directions when it bumps in to something. Yes, toy companies have cages around their flying RC offerings, but having that fling thing be able to maintain stability is new. Check the video at ~48 seconds in.

Nope. I still run away until it's over.

Isn't this just the basis of evolution? Did we not all learn this in high school? Snakes may kill you. Any genetic advantage to avoid things that may kill you tend to propagate through the species over time.

I thought everyone knew this.

...as soon as they hear back from that Nigerian Prince.

As a Ubiquiti user as well, we haven't tried their 900 MHz offerings, but I'm starting to wish we did. I'll have to make a better push to get some in.

We use it for important links, in congested (urban) areas, or, of course, when we need a really good SNR to keep modulation high. I'm not involved in the licensing process, but I don't know why we don't use it more often.