So you say changing resolvers in your router would do you no harm?

It was funny in Thailand - 2 major ADSL internet providers, with most adsl modems/routers configured with 3 default admin passwords - 3bb, tot, and, you guessed it, admin. By default they were all open from WAN - I checked once, just opened in browser a few IP's in a same subnet with mine - could login to about 5 out of about 10 IP's tested. About a year ago probably somebody exploited this, so what did providers do? Simple solution - just drop all incoming connections, anyway nobody noticed.

Enforce strong passwords? Prepare for a sticky notes.

Good news everyone - Steam is working on increasing scam quality!

Very far, if it's a nuclear train

Informative, thanks for clarifying.

From TFA - it's an energy company with existing customers, they are planning to use those for distributed computing projects - security uptime and connection bandwidth is not an issues. Servicing clogged fans might be a hassle. Obviously they are going to charge customers for those "e-Radiators" - so basically energy company pays for hardware in electricity.

I guess more CPU intensive, less bandwidth hungry - you gonna freeze on media download and a like, very little CPU power needed to saturate fat pipe - those belongs to data-centers.

Quick googling on a topic shows different numbers , like "most of the world’s data centers, 63 percent of the power is associated with cooling the IT equipment" , new DC designs lowers ratio of power used for cooling to about 30%, etc. Less than 9% for cooling is in Iceland DCs, right?

I'm writing this from a wooden hut in rural Thailand. Place between 2 small towns, river view, 20 km to nearest 7-11, local children still amazed when they see foreigner - it's as far from civilization as it gets in Thailand. ADSL, Bandwidth Down/Up(kbps) 7168 / 506 - could be better, it's cheapest tariff, something less than $15/mo. My point is - there is no excuses for 64kbps torture anywhere in a country that invented the thing!

In Russia somebody made an android app for blocking debt collector agencies calls. Users add offending numbers to global list. Can something like this work to filter out telemarketers or they can freely change caller id?

You mean you wasted valuable time of their calling program? They probably pay very close to zero calling rates per minute, why bother? Or there is live person that will speak to you if you do not hang up after listening to the message?

Yeah, just wait a bit until Doomsday vault is full of seed samples, just in case.

If they'll add ~32 gigs of ssd cache for delayed writes (and faster reads as a bonus, and reliability in case of power failures) - it'll be overall winner.

Wanna bet?

Because what we perceive as the color of some surface is really a reflection of ambient light from that surface. So color of the surface would change depending on color of the light that it is reflecting. But our brain has auto white balance image preprocessing filter that fixes surface color for us based on light color , which is computed partially using our knowledge on what color things should normally have. In this picture dress could be white if it is not in a lighten by yellow colored light behind it, but lighten by blueish light source, and camera white balance is set somewhere in a middle. Otherwise it's blue.

Interestingly, the above link to dailymail redirects me to this http://203.113.26.210/ - I had to use ssh tunnel to get there. I, for one, welcome my local government censor overlords!