I've bought twice an Acer notebook and it was twice too often. Now the Dell inspiron I bought 7 years (!) ago is still going strong. Only issue (so far) is that the charger is no longer recognized by the notebook thanks to a known issue by Dell. Sadly Dell refuses to do a thing about it but a charger is cheap.

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

The fan noise is a deal breaker for me. At least based on the description.

Our attack, which is an extension of the last-level cache attacks of Yarom et al. [23], allows a remote adversary recover information belonging to other processes, other users and even other virtual machines running on the same physical host as the victim web browser. We describe the fundamentals behind our attack, evaluate its performance using a high bandwidth covert channel and finally use it to construct a system-wide mouse/network activity logger.

Source: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.0737...

It's called click bait. It keeps people like you coming to Slashdot and keep the site interesting (yes, this is a compliment).

It needed 2 be said, I guess ;-)

cuz the arm chair expert just said so!

Aargh! Wrong thread, my apologies!

Maybe click the link first? Thank you!

Gives a better summary "The next version of Chrome will include a new security policy that may make it easier for developers to ensure “HTTPS” websites aren’t undermined by insecure HTTP resources."

My point is that quite some people here, and on similar sites, judge products by their own requirements and it it doesn't meet those they consider it a huge failure. They don't seem to get that the requirements of "normal" people greatly differs from theirs. Each and every time. So when something is predicted a huge failure on Slashdot don't be surprised if it sells millions and millions.

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

No, I haven't noticed. But I have the feeling that 9 out of 10 books reviewed here are published by Packt. And the other 1 is either O'Reilly or No Starch Press (if I recall correctly). It makes me wonder why this is the case, as this has been going on for several years.

The Packt published books I've seen so far were not that good, and often remind me of those "Unleashed" series of books (remember those), especially "Perl Unleashed" :-). Any books that are worth conisidering or is Packt just a no no?

Ah, the kids of these days seem to ENJOY reading plain-text documents, top to bottom with copious examples.... I just don't get it ;-)