Here in the UK, this has been completely normal for many years. We find the fact that you Americans only have these for bathrooms and not at your distribution boards, protecting every circuit, old fashioned and alarming.

I don't mean to be a stereotype here, but as a British person this shocks me.

Here, free tea and coffee isn't precisely required by law, but it's a basic expectation in every workplace. I've worked everywhere from minimum wage jobs to tech giants, office jobs, outdoor jobs, and it's absolutely universal. It's normal for managers to send someone or even drive themselves to purchase more if the office runs out. The average British worker would literally quit in disgust if there was no tea, or they were asked to pay for it.

I imagine it'll go much like when I call the bank and get a robot: "Please tell me what you are calling about today" "speak to operator" "sorry, I didn't catch that, you can use phrases such as 'check my balance' or 'order a replacement card'" "speak to operator" "sorry, I..." "SPEAK TO OPERATOR" "sorr..." "FUCK OFF" "sor..." "FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF" "I'll connect you to someone who can help"

How useful, to be able to reach my data limit in just over 30 seconds!

What a terrible article. For two reasons:

1. Isn't at all clear on what the vulnerability is. It is in fact a bug in the kernel (presumably a device driver for this SoC). I only found this out by reading a different article. This one makes it sound like some sort of problem in the silicon.

2. Isn't news. This vulnerability is already known.

We're all becoming sadly more and more used to articles that try to make a story sound bigger by relating it tenuously to some possible impact (every article about some incremental improvement in battery technology needs 4 paragraphs about electric cars, grid storage and longer battery life for phones), but this really does take the piss by not even attempting to cover the actual story and only going on about the potential impact on IoT security.

Sure, we all need to be aware of the dangers of IoT security (or lack of it), but this is not the way to go about it.

> Can you fake the physical dimensions reported in the EDID block when the connection is using HDCP?

The EDID is unauthenticated and transmitted over i2c. You can simply cut the cable and stick a few cents worth of microcontroller (or i2c eeprom) on the i2c lines.

So there is no reliable way to determine screen size on a remote display. Could work on devices such as smart-tvs (but security is usually woeful compared to set top boxes).

How many people were young/technical enough to use ceefax/teletext yet are not enough so now to have digital television?
Only a handful of elderly people remain using analogue TV services, let's assume an age range of 80+ covers almost the entirety of this group. Ceefax began in 1974, so this group were 42+ at the time. This technology would have been utterly unfamiliar at the time and provided no information that couldn't otherwise be acquired (in contrast to the internet, which eventually became the only source of many types of essential information), so uptake of it by people in this age range was probably relatively low.

Bootleg DVDs fund terrorism. At $5 each, that's 20 to get a shoe bomb past security.
THAT DODGY SIMPSONS BOX SET COULD KILL HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE!

I recently switched to windows 98, figuring that virus writers wouldn't bother with backwards compatability.

My computer desktop is basically empty.
My real life desktop is far from it, it's chaos, hardware and paperwork everywhere.
I've had to invest a lot of time in learning keyboard shortcuts and in switching to non-gui apps, because there's rarely space to move the mouse.

I'd show you a picture, but my camera's under there somewhere.

Now the global economy can collapse, plunging the world into chaos and darkness, all in the blink of an eye

This leads to the spooky possibility that the driver in the car behind you might die at the wheel, and their car follow you home with their corpse gazing lifelessly over the steering wheel at you...

It makes perfect sense. If you can see meat then the hunt is over.