Passwords often evolve into a form of muscle memory.

Give her a piece of paper and ask her to write down the password could easily result in failure to remember it, especially when someone doesn't have much inclination to try to remember it.

Give her a keyboard and ask her to type the password and she might just remember it.

Regardless, she should be able to remember at least a portion of it, which would drastically reduce the search keyspace for a brute force crack.

Well, I've got a few years invested in Android usage, and a bunch of Android app-store apps, so I guess it'll take a lot to move me from Android. I'm sure the same goes for many other Android users (what else was that 10p an app promotion for over Christmas for, if not locking in users to the platform for a couple more years - over the next phone upgrade), and of course the same goes for iOS users.

So you would have to not already have a smartphone, or be really cheesed off with your current one, to want to look elsewhere for the next upgrade you get.

So the market for WinMo7.5 phones is mostly new smartphone users. And you are fighting against the iPhone, and Android devices that are available at a wide range of pricepoints. And people aren't saying bad things about those devices - whereas people remember their old Nokias and the old WinMo, and they associate the name and platform with feature phones at best, and stress and anger at worst. Couple that with lukewarm responses to the first WinMo7 release, and hardly anybody they know owning a WinMo phone so the recommendations they will receive will not be WinMo, and it's just going to be a really couple of tough years for Nokia.

It's sad about the N9 not being sold more widely and showing the board and shareholders where they should be going. Not too late to drop WinMo in my opinion.

But where will you find 100,000 Americans within 30 minutes of a mega-factory that can hold 100,000 people on an assembly line?
Where those Americans are willing to work 60 hour weeks on a shift basis doing extremely repetitive assembly work?

The fact is that the scale of production required cannot be done in the west right now. People aren't willing to work in these conditions any more. So improving conditions will also increase the assembly cost. Dealing with the union's pay demands, high staff turnover, building the factories, logistics, etc - Foxxconn and China has them all sorted out.

Then you get to other issues - for example the UK has a tax on component imports but not assembled devices. Until this is reversed you actually have the situation where your own government is against the desire to create work and growth in the menial assembly of products industry in their own country.

Clearly someone has to make a go of it, even if it is only 10% of production for a few years. Let's see the consumer put their wallet where their mouth is.

Because singling out one company would be stupid when all the other companies are also using the same companies to assemble their products as well. Often without the checks that Apple is doing - which are also clearly not enough to stop abuses in the name of profits (for the manufacturer).

The solution is to assemble the products in your own country, which has several issues - (1) the cost of the goods would go up; (2) how many people want to work doing this type of role in the West, doing fiddly, repetitive factory work? Unions would inevitably occur, and then it's all rubbish; (3) Hundreds of thousands of people are employed to make Apple's products alone. What western city can provide that level of labour force within a year?

(1) isn't an issue if all companies have to do the same, as it results in a level playing field, even if every computer/tablet/phone gets 50% more expensive. That isn't going to happen without government intervention, namely an import tariff on Chinese-made electronics. That's not going to happen either because of politics.

And how much performance per clock are you going to get out of a 22,000 transistor chip, with what looks like 3 registers (and 3 shadow registers)?

One of the issues they had to deal with was that DRAM is usually made on a 3 metal layer process, whereas CPUs usually take a lot more layers due to their complexity.

This will have to compete with TSV connected DRAM, which will be a major bandwidth and power aid to conventional SoCs.

Of course a lot of the houses remaining from 1860 are the houses that were built well.

Again, it doesn't mean that every house built in 1860 was built well, it's just that with such a lot of redevelopment and some destructive wars, a lot of the shoddy buildings aren't around any more.

Solid walls - yes, but the lack of an air gap means water can penetrate straight through, and insulation is rubbish. Furthermore screw that wireless signal.

And enjoy having mice running behind those 1ft high skirting boards, because to save money they didn't plaster behind them, and with an inch or more of plaster those mice are having parties.

Good things: Cellars. Quality Floorboards. Period Features (unless stripped out by some nobber, turning the house into a faceless, boring, cold, unappealing thing).

Personally I'm moving from a Victorian villa (converted into flats, screw sound protection, insulation, etc) into a decent 60s house.

Europeans use Polish workers (and other East European nationalities) for building work. Not Arabs. Where did you get that from?

The reason they're used is that they get the job done quickly and efficiently, and they do it well. Due to a lack of investment in construction workers by the government the home-grown 'talent' is few and far between.

Unfortunately a large amount of the cost of a house is the land it is built on. Hence why cities have apartment blocks - the land they're on is tens of millions, so they needs tens of houses on that land, and you would only fit a few houses on that land area. This solution isn't meant for that type of development - at least not now.

Admittedly manual bricklaying work does take time and money which this could reduce - although I expect that the cost of hiring the machine will probably come to the same overall cost. Also I'm unsure as to the cost of bricks versus concrete as a raw material.

This will be useful in disaster zones, where you want to rapidly build a lot of small dwellings (of the 200sqft variety). I also wonder if the printers can use a mud/concrete mix, or adobe - I guess you don't want fields and fields of empty hard-to-demolish concrete huts ten years after a disaster. Alternatively, if the disaster buildings are created to be a useful 'base' of a home that can be extended later on then this shouldn't be a problem.

Well, it isn't the usual techy website video with logos that "slam" onto the image whilst burning, etc, I guess.

But, what early 80s voice synth did they dig up there?

Javascript benchmarks test software, not hardware. They are useful for comparing the same software on different hardware. Anand has fallen for Intel's marketing again.

Samsung are making 32nm Exynos chips now, so Intel's process isn't even going to be better than the ARM chips it will be competing against.

And the figures Anand is presenting are a result of his own tests? Nope, they're from an Intel marketing slide.