The annoying facet of this topic is the repetitious use of belief rather than actual data on whether this even works. Surely this regulation exists somewhere. I neither have, nor want, a phone.so I have no horse in this race. Ask yourself how many phones are going to be remote wiped and/or killed by silly users who "think" they have "lost" or had their phone stolen. Be interesting to see which groups are pushing, and who financing, this service. Cynical much? Why yes.

I can totally see mounting one of these on my Intel Galileo so it has awesome storage for a serious drone AI package and a ton of capacity for recording video and sound. Whether by air or ground. Give it IR, radar (EMCON'ed of course) and LIDAR. Wrap it all up in some RAM (Radar Absorbing Material) and they'll never 'see' it coming. Yeah!

OK, so I'm not serious, still neat though! On second thought, except for the aerial vehicle (lowest price I've seen is $699.00) it really is doable.

I have ten drives here: 2 x 60 GB, 4 x 128 GB, 3 x 160 GB, all 'normal' SSD's, and one 240 GB PCIe. All of them are backed by an UPS. Oh, I forgot the ones in the portables and tablets which also count as battery backed since they also do an orderly shutdown when the batteries are nearly drained. Still I do not expect any hard drive to operate without loss of data when the power is ripped out from under the device, whatever storage device is under scrutiny. Sorry, but many operating systems cache writes and data loss happens even with journalling. You can turn that off at the cost to throughput. That's why I used device quick disconnect option on systems with no UPS elsewhere. I imagine having capacitors is nice as an added level of protection. Hell, I almost certainly have them on the PCIe at the least as defense against power-loss is a feature. Still, expecting total loss protection from just the drive, mechanical, solid-state, even tape or or optical disc is not entirely rational.

Properly setting up a mail-server is not for everyone and, from far too many (tens to hundreds of thousands of) examples, properly secure. Frankly, even with this audience, I wouldn't expect everyone here to be able to do so either. Sorry folks! Sure sounds nice right up to the point reality slams a blacklist on your server, even assuming your ISP hasn't blocked it or isn't on the blacklist to begin with.

I've never considered Microsoft 'evil.' Self-centered and only looking out for only it's own interests,ya but that's pretty much par for the course with most corps and people. I still hold corporations and people accountable. I always have. Just as with Yahoo giving the PRC the contents of an email account resulted in the closing of my accounts with them, so that is what has happened with Microsoft. These weren't the 7 GB freebies either. I'll wait and watch to see if their is an actual behavioral change, are corresponding change in the ToS/EULA. Promises don't mean a thing here. Change.

That thought immediately occurred to me as well.

Been there, done that, burned the stupid T-shirt. The main difference being that I used C. The component library was based on Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming." And given my background in engineering (a dozen fields) it actually was decent especially as I've been using structured (and object-oriented) constrained designs since the mid-70's. However, I could see the handwriting on the wall so I didn't take it to release.

There are GUI tools that you can use for the design side that actually provide nice code out the other end (Embarcadero is good for database design) especially if you have a lot of constraints. It's just not a generic tool and given how diffuse the target (coders are NOT generics), it will never happen. Sad since over in EEE we have shelves full of component catalogs while over on the software side we resort to cutting&pasting and then trying to refactor our was into a solution. Blech!

Actually, it's been common practice for as long as I've lived and that tops half a century.

That's one bad-ass plane although my favorite in that category is the Grumman X-29.

That's been my preferred method since the mid-90's. It also makes fingerprinting the device more difficult if you are jiggling the values between sessions. Now if it were as easy on my Nexus 7s as it's been on the desktop/servers.

Sadly, a spell-chucker (int. sp.) gets you only so far; some need grammatical help as well. I've yet to see that as a browser add-in.

Sorry, but if there's nothing executing in the background, SQL Server Enterprise will see a 3% hit every three seconds on a dual-core Core 2. Even with largish loads it still doesn't spend much time, or effort, just 'hanging-out.' It's when you put it under strain (heavy transactional loads) that it can chew up your resources. And I sure as heck wouldn't be doing load testing on a dual-core Pentium. Load testing should always be done on the target. Anything else just doesn't make sense. In Real Life engineering.

Quite literally, freedom of the press meant the right to own and operate a printing press. There was also a separation in the treatment of libel and slander by printing press owners as opposed to speech. Which is why you still see distinctions in their treatment by law today. And for today, everyone pretty much has a printing press (as I, or at least Slashdot and their hosting company) at hand. Nearly everywhere you want to be (that's a joke).

It isn't open standards, it's that someone is attempting to extract monopoly rents (revenue) from the market using IP; expensive IP at that. Another player enters the market using "good enough" capabilities at a much lower price and whooosh....

Apple is to Betamax as Android is to VHS. [Unlikely I'm the first to posit that historical correlation.] As to the Android tablet vs. Windows Desktop, well that's small 'a' apples to oranges. The price may be comparable, the performance is nowhere the same. Yet. [And never will be which is why I'm trying all sorts of techniques to come up with seamless integration and dynamic loading across the platforms. Pipe dream, but still fun. For certain definitions of fun.]