It does matter, because if Operative A is in Indonesia and sends a message to Financier C in Yemen requesting funds, then that email is going to leave the local Google server farms (I believe they have some in Bali and another few sets in India, NZ, and AUS that are "backup") and can be recorded/intercepted even if they end up on another set of Google server farms to be retrieved later (I believe Israel, Egypt, Turkey and a few others have the ones that serve most of the Middle East).

What is disturbing, is that NFC/RFID chipped cards are basically just a band-aid, and fall to the exact same pitfalls of being able to be read and copied with relative ease using parts you can purchase and assemble at your local equivalent of Radioshack as your average NFC/RFID employee badge or door keycard.

The funny thing is, is that some of these parts are illegal to sell to the general public in the EU, but Canada, AUS, US, Mexico, etc all have them widely available.

There's already been demonstrations by university students & their professors, etc about the dangers of relying on chip & pin for anything (witness the fiasco a few years ago when they showed how easy it was to ride the tube in London for free by exploiting the inherent weaknesses in this particular combo).

I believe it may be because they use Apple's native player for iOS when the Netflix app detects an iOS device so it bypasses the normal Silverlight/Windows Media Player requirement for VC-1 (VC-1 is also supported under Apple's native media player on iOS due to cross-licensing from MS).

I know the player itself seems to work a bit differently between my Nook (Android) and my PC or laptop for instance (and the load/seek times are vastly different as well).

Back in the late 1980's, the USC stood at over 300 (and grows by an average of 25 volumes per year) hardbound volumes of regulations, laws, and suggested penalties of around an average of 800 pages per volume. The indexes themselves stood at 26 volumes of a bit smaller size, and included the names of the Congress members who submitted, amended, voted for/against/abstained each as well as vote totals for each by party.

On a sidenote: The books are of such a size, that if laid end-to-end at that time, they would have gone from Washington DC to New York City, New York. The volumes are not the typical size of your average hardbound novel, for sure.

The did it to Something Awful (haven't been there in years, and from all accounts, glad I haven't).

And Dawkins refuses to speak on stage at any event she attends. This has already led her to being uninvited to a few things.

When you are looking at that total cost, for most buildings older than the late 1990's, it would end up being cheaper (and better in the long run) to tear down the entire building and rebuild from scratch with DC, solar, and the new energy efficient windows, paints, etc they have now.

Keep in mind, any house built before 1980 probably has to be checked for lead paint and asbestos before any rewiring or demo work can take place legally anyhow.

China & Taiwan had zero interest in these islands or the areas around them until Japanese prospectors found natural gas deposits in the seabed nearby.

Now all of a sudden they both want them, while Japan has had small fishing villages and whatnot there for a long, long, time now (much earlier than WWII).

This is complicated, and I don't see Japan easily giving up a potential source of energy replacement for their nuclear facilities.

Actually, that amount on a NIC would be a great boon in keeping all network processing on the NIC instead of having to CPU/system memory-offload, especially when you turn on the bells and whistles like jumbo frames, etc. I can also see it helping out quite a bit when processing HD video packets when streaming video where it's pretty important to get them processed as quickly and efficiently as possible before passing them off to the main system. These packets tend to have a decent amount of overhead, etc and being able to process quite a bit of them at once due to increased RAM on the NIC should help quite a bit smoothing out the entire process.

Questions:

1) Does the viewer in Chrome lack all of the JS and other nonsense shoved into all of the "traditional" PDF programs (and yes, every other viewer developer is starting to throw this nonsense into their viewers, including Foxit & Sumatra)?

2) Will this change make it easier to just click on the PDF link in Chrome and have it automagically open in a new tab instead of me having to jump through hoops?

I ask this because the only two times I've used it were for a pair of device technical/warranty manuals which (USUALLY) don't come with any added cruft so I didn't notice anything in question 1.

Essentially, I just use PDFs for quick and dirty things like warranty/manual reading. I don't do forms or other corporate buzzword bingo nonsense in them.

I can confirm the T1s where for I live. While somewhat rural, even the nearest 100K+ population city doesn't have (and probably won't have) anything 4G/LTE in the foreseeable future. Maybe by 2024. Maybe.

Let me tell you, they roll those things out in very select and specific areas to make it appear they have great coverage with this, when in fact they do not, and aren't even close to covering the numbers they are claiming on those maps.

Put it this way - if it isn't going to be a population center of at least 500k or more, it won't happen anytime soon, and even then it will be as cheaply done as possible to save on the fiber rollouts and lease fees.

I've had to remove that nonsense - make sure you dig into your browser settings and check both the extensions and plugins sections (it installs to both, and also changes your default search engines, etc). Conduit also installs itself into more than one directory, so make sure you triplecheck your ProgamFiles and ProgramFiles(x86) folders if on 64-bit Windows. This particular bit of spyware also tries to reinstall itself when you remove it.

You'll also need to check under Users/Appdata/Local and Users/Appdata/Roaming AND under services.msc as sometimes it tends to install a service (and this service does two things - handles calling the mothership and the self-reinstall mechanism).

This particular bit of software can install itself silently and it can completely bypass UAC due to more certain undocumented stupidity by Microsoft (aka they have a mechanism by which you can use a certain switch in certain signed installers to A) elevate privs for the installer process and B) bypass UAC while C) not asking for permission for the first two).

I take it you've never actually read the lack of useful comment lines in the kernel source code.

They already have this. It's called Steam + Big Picture.

What we are waiting on, is the official Steam Box to hit retailers, and the official SteamOS for those of us who want to dedicate a specific PC of our own making to games instead of shoveling it all into one system like we do on average now.

With the performance drag between ECC and 'normal' RAM almost entirely vanished nowadays, I am seriously considering a gaming/movie server build for my next system that I can leave parked in a cabinet under my tv, and official SteamOS releases will be a big part of this.

When they decided to start hiding or removing useful settings while adding so much bloatware into it that they might as well have renamed it FireIE 6.0, I quit using it for daily browsing habits.

Now that it is up to version 25+ (which is fucking stupid in its own right, trying to play version catch-up with Google just because), I still find that I don't use it for anything but Twitch.tv and Disqus.

For some reason the chat interface for Twitch never loads in Chrome no matter what I do, and Disqus comments never load in Chrome no matter what I do.

Not that I interactively use the Twitch chat, since it requires a Facebook account to post, but I can at least read the commentary and maybe send the developers a more full-fledged response via email when I am watching something from Digital Extremes or Trion for instance.

As for Disqus, I can't figure out what it is - it may be Chrome mangling the Disqus cookies in some way or hating the number of redirects the Disqus system itself uses when logging in and loading comment sections, but it just sits and spins and never loads. Loads instantly on IE10 or Firefox though (yes, I use Windows 7 exclusively at the moment).