I take my hat off to the early adopters, the ones on the bleeding edge of anything new that comes out. But, over the years I've learned that if anyone is going to get hurt with the next new thing, it is the early adopters. Me, I wait a while. But I still thank the early adopters that take the risk the rest of us are too gutless to join in.

Thank you, all.

You can buy a router for 200 bucks that can do port by port VLAN or create different Wifi SSIDs that link to different VLANs.

Put all your internet of things stuff on VLAN 2, then setup firewall rules that allow the hub for the internet of things devices to either communicate directly with a control system on VLAN1 or just go out to the internet. If VLAN 2 is compromised... it will not compromise VLAN 1.

That may have been a consideration in the 80s, but it's not a good reason to do so now.

Don't we all remember banging away on our 300 baud modem thinking it was FAST No, I remember having a 300 baud modem and thinking it was very slow. You can read faster than 300 baud. I had 300 baud for maybe a year before getting a 1200 baud modem. This was around 1985 or so.

1200 baud was a huge improvement. It still took forever to download a game though. 9600 baud was the first modem I actually thought was "fast".

my brother installed some stuff on 3.11 that had what I guess tcp/ip stack(slip probably) and a browser that worked with it, I don't remember it's name but it wasn't netscape for sure and it wasn't trumpet which did the tcp/ip, of that I'm fairly sure. the first real internet was on this one bbs that had early linux connected to internet available for members, later it turned into more of a smalltime isp, moved away from that to different provider for isdn access. why can't web pages be more like they were with around when netscape 2.0 got out? content was king once, not the layout.. also early on, why was everything available for linux so well? realplayers and all - it's like 1995 was the year of linux on desktop.

They said that about vinyl records years ago, but there's still plenty of them being pressed - and there seems to be more and more each year.

I wasn't around for this sort of stuff but wasn't this the sort of thing Radio Shacks customers were doing 25+ years ago?

What a load of guff. In fact, I'm sat in hospital in central London, the largest and most connected city in western europe and I can't get a decent 3g or wifi signal good enough to stream low bitrate radio without breaking up never mind anything else. Streaming will never, repeat, never take over me popping a cd in my laptop or playing my mp3 player unless we have guaranteed super-fast-never-failing broadband connections.

It isn't easy to "pwn" unless you leave it sitting around unlocked and let strangers use it. These are local exploits.

It's called "Pwn2Own": the hackers win the machines they hack.

Everyone wants Macs. They hack them first. The other computers come down minutes later.