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Folding@Home and SETI@Home have been popular with people wanting to advance science, I'm sure that mining for charities (i.e.: BitCoin@Home) would take off with the OxFam-style crowds. I'm dead against companies building mining into software that's supposed to be doing something else - that takes the decision away from users and is nothing better than a botnet for scammers/spammers.

From TFA:

Stop hosting it on Lotus Domino servers and you won't have to worry about how many people download the damned data.

iThingies have had hardware encryption for years. That's why a device erase is so quick - it only needs to erase the master key and everything else is toast. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4175 and http://images.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_May12.pdf (page 7 onwards)

This, plus if you're intending to limit the number of concurrent installs for your product *also* allow for a given install to be DE-registered:

1. provide a de-register menu/setting using the same "call home" service - people periodically upgrade or replace their machines, or
2. using a web interface on your site to delete a registration - sometimes machines crash and can't be restored from backups.

No more Alt-Tab problems, OS X uses Command-Tab to switch between programs.

Yes, they have a responsibility but that doesn't make them responsible.

This is exactly why I don't buy anything any more from sites that don't support escrow services. This happened about ten years ago, but... a couple of weeks after using my visa card to buy a book on Xbox hacking my card details were used to buy about US$500 worth of stuff from the Harvard University book store. It took me about 9 weeks to get my money back from the bank, I had to cancel my card, etc.. Being my only credit card at the time it was a huge inconvenience and I was still liable for interest on the funds despite it being a fraudulent purchase (wtf?). Nowadays if a site requires a credit card to purchase something I'll shop elsewhere. And forget about putting correct birth dates and tax file numbers online.

My answer for Dyson: fucking overpriced.

Oops, I got suckered, it's not HDMI. It's MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link).

First Apple doesn't own the VNC technology, so they can't legally enforce that.

Second, although OSX's "remote desktop" software listens on VNC's tcp/5900 for incoming connections, for remote OSX clients it uses Apple's custom Type 35 Diffie-Hellman authentication/private key exchange and then switches to an AES128-encrypted link to run Apple's own RDP protocol. i.e.: it's not even VNC protocol.

It's a USB-[thumbdrive-]sized device. If you looked at the picture it's got a HDMI connector on it.

Second this. I work from home two or three days a week, using a Linux or OSX client (depending on what I have with me at the time) to RDP over a VPN link over ADSL to my Windows-based development machines at the office. Quite usable as a desktop environment, although it cannot be used for anything remotely video-intensive like games or YouTube.

That said, even for just desktop use there are huge speed/latency differences between various RDP clients. I've tried several on Linux and haven't found one that works as well as the one built into OSX.

From the "Upcoming Advisory" page, http://www.defensecode.com/article/upcoming_cisco_linksys_remote_preauth_root_exploit-33:

Yes, worked perfectly on the Windows Vista and 7 machines at work. Was barely audible under linux, even at full volume.

Have you used Jockey with AMD drivers? It's fscking painful.

Agree. It took me about a month to find a pulse audio command line mixer tool to adjust the headphone gain (as opposed to overall volume) for a Plantronics USB headset, because none of the dozen or so GUI mixer tools I tried even realized it had a gain control, let alone allowed me to adjust it.