Do they still have the straitjacket?

Another password vault that encrypts and stores locally is Codebook. Yes, itâ(TM)s closed source and must be bought for a modest fee, but I thought worth adding to the discussion here.

I have no relation to the developer except that this company also maintains an encrypted extension to SQLite which is open source and has been around a while. My team used that encrypted database in a desktop app we developed about 7-8 years ago.

Totally agree. Did you know the Evernote web clipper plugin for Chrome still has a "Simplified article" view? It's meant to help you simplify the page content before you clip to Evernote, but often I just use it to read the article without clipping.

One caveat: that plugin displays an overlay that you can collapse but not entirely hide, because it's the UI for clipping the article to Evernote. It makes sense in the context of what the plugin is trying to help you do, and it's still better than nothing.

Intel never had the right product focus for these IoT devices. Overall cost was too high for hobbyists, and the main product differentiation was basically "we're Intel instruction set compatible" in an age where others are offering JavaScript compatibility. I'm afraid as long as Intel makes their architecture out to be their main selling point they're going to be out of tune with these emerging markets. Same reason they missed the phone and tablet market, in my opinion.

So then, develop a "repair" tool to fix it for Firefox users.

In fact, just deliver it directly from mozilla's website. That way, you can post the URL on big billboards up and down the peninsula.

Because, you know, Windows users can then point their brand new Edge browser at that URL, load the ActiveX component and ... Oh wait.

Imagine what they could have done with a million dollars in books, art supplies, lab equipment, musical instruments, ...

No, I don't think so. More likely they already own outrageous capacity to handle the December retail crunch but don't use anything close to that capacity in any other month of the year. So I doubt there's any additional investment in capacity for EC2. EC2 utilizes what Amazon already owns.

If you read Werner's blog entry on this new feature you'll see they reserve the right to interrupt a Spot Instance and essentially restart it later on. You need to make sure whatever you're doing with that instance you can checkpoint and resume. I think that means Amazon is not trying to "fire sale" underutilized resource. More like they're filling in the cracks between larger "full price" instances in order to maximize utilization.

According to the OLPC wiki the concept is more than simply giving computers to children "to somehow make them learn more." Instead they write: "While the technical aspects create a platform for change, the real benefits will come from improved educational practice enabled by immersive access to connected laptops." So, no claim that simply giving children laptops lets schools off the hook.

The OLPC advances an idea (to me somewhat orthogonal to basic educational practice) that connecting laptops connects the students together in ways that gives rise to other beneficial effects. Since we're all sitting here reading Slashdot it's an easy analogy -- Slashdot creates a community with a shared common interest, but with diverse opinions on those interests, and at the end of the day it's that diversity that is of interest. We read to learn what others think. So OLPC (ought to) create a means for children to interact with other children with the same effect, but on many other topics besides "news for nerds." And that sounds like a fine idea to me.