I used to work on location tech back in the 90s, and one project in our group was getting location of a sat-phone handset (I think this was relating to the newly launched Iridium network). A handset might be only visible to one satellite, but obtaining location was still possible, due to the satellite moving (this method doesn't work with geosynchronous sat-phones). Over a period of time, the satellite moves w.r.t the handset, so with at least two round-trip-time readings, and if you know the location of the satellite, you can get the handset location. Unfortunately that doesn't work for a moving handset in the same way, so this single-tower-location must be using something else (as said, probably beamforming to work out direction + RTT for distance).

WFIW, triangulation is literally taking three angles...

You used to be able to run Minecraft PE/Bedrock edition on Chromebooks using the Android Apps subsystem (actually you still can if it was installed before MS pulled it). It's an android app and it runs perfectly on a chromebook (even has mouse and keyboard support). They pulled it as they want to push people over to MS hardware and see Chromebooks as a threat. Sure, they never released education edition on Android, but it would be trivial to port it since it's basically PE plus a few extra bits inside the world. But the education market is a big one for both Google and MS; I guess that's their decision, but currently my students can't use Minecraft EE since the school (not me or my students) has made the decision to go with Chromebooks.

BTW; you can run some Windows apps on Chromebooks via Crostini (Linux) and Wine, but ymmv.

Here's a link with some actual info: https://foundation.mozilla.org...

Look into 'fluid democracy' whereby all issues are voted on, but you can delegate your vote to someone for any or all issues. You might give your vote to someone because you trust them to think things through, or because they pay you, or perhaps you pay them to act as a representative for you. For issues where you feel strongly, you can make the vote yourself. It looks like an interesting mix between representative and direct democracy.

It was available in quite a few countries for several years, but they pulled back to just US a couple of months ago

Yet each time someone has failed at it, it has become a little bit more real.

I now to about 70% of my work through a web browser; the main one that isn't there is development, yet there are quite a number of promising projects making this real.

Actually, when we were recently purchasing VM infrastructure, we were advised it is best practice to virtualise the management console. Perhaps there was a misunderstanding somewhere along the way.

I would be surprised if the googlebot didn't try everything to appear to the server like a normal user browser. Even better would be to crawl a site while in disguise, then again while not disguised. Differences would affect the sites ranking negatively.

They did it for their iPad Star-Trek ads: http://i.imgur.com/huWri.jpg

They probably figure if it's subtle enough, they can get away with it, but most people won't notice.

Indeed; there is some evidence that this co-evolution decreased humans' smelling abilities as the dogs made up for them (not sure what purpose this serves...)

At least for RFID, this would be much more fun:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/cyeiz/reddit_i_present_to_you_my_superfun_idea_for_rfid/

Vast indeed. The only problem being they (tar sand oils) require more energy to extract than the recovered oil provides. Which still makes them useful, and may become economically viable when oil prices are comparatively higher than other energy forms.

Oil only contributes a small (I think in the order of 10-20%) of greenhouse emissions. If oil ran out today, there would not be a huge impact on carbon emissions.

For security purposes, perhaps. But for productivity purposes, failing closed causes people not to be able to get anything done. Failing open is not necessarily a bad thing as long as it is noticed before too long.

Certain a feature, if by feature you mean a remotely exploitable root vulnerability. Yes, definitely a feature. For crackers.

For the rest of us it's a pretty critical flaw, namely one that can 0wn yr ph0ne by visiting a malicious website.