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This can be harder to do than it looks at first glance - the electrical cable "snake" that follows elevators up and down their shaft is frequently implemented with only POTS/cat3 grade …

Also of historical interest, particularly for the American south: "The Negro Motorist's Green Book" Locations of "sundown" towns, where to get a meal at a restaurant, where yo…

For group use it's really not competitive with AT&T's own-brand Cricket MVNO either, you can get five active LTE lines/SIMs with 2.5GB data each (not a shared pool) for $100/mo…

The $3/month for an active SIM with billed-as-you-go data in $ per GB rate is a great deal like the "Ting" MVNO: https://ting.com/rates For something like emergency OOB…

Anecdotally I know somebody in Seattle who absolutely freaked out a bank branch manager by moving their entire account after being treated poorly... You never know who fits in the venn diagram of: a)…

> I wouldn't be in the least surprised if companies will use your previous buying behavior to give you a custom price. Amazon already does this for a lot of items based on your account, cookie…

It's because people crave social approval at a very basic mammalian level. If you live in Portland and are a vegan political science major, your Facebook news feed will reinforce your world view …

They made the move because walled gardens are much easier to use, require far less effort and have nicer friendly UIs built by large teams of UI/UX people who have the goal of keeping people capt…

I am in complete agreement with you. If you care about something, publish it yourself. The sad fact is that Facebook's walled garden allows people with literally no technical clue whatsoever to s…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor corollary: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by a automated abuse-prevention system (in this case…

If you're not paying money to publish content on somebody else's httpd, and have no contractual relationship with them for services, you have very little recourse if the publishing platform …

More like an example of how their provisioning and documentation process is broken, you can absolutely have critical things on SIP (and PoE powered security cameras, etc), just don't forget to do…

Most large cities' building codes mandate auto-start/auto-transfer backup generators for elevators in buildings over a certain height. It is sometimes possible to put critical equipment on a…

Oh I'm very much aware of it. Anyone's relationship with Facebook is governed by their TOS, nothing more. Because it's a 'free' service, you're not owed anything by it. I…

Hey, you know, Facebook isn't obligated to publish anything. It's a 'free' service. If you want to publish something run your own httpd. There is absolutely nothing preventing anyo…

That is true, though I have met a number of Icelanders and they do any serious science in English. They also have the benefit of extensive educational and university exchanges with Denmark and Norway.…

Maybe they'd rather learn Chinese? I don't care what they study nor do I want to "colonize" their desert. Anything that improves their standard of living and political self determi…

$1349 is not totally nuts, 2560x1600 displays requiring dual link DVI appeared at the same price point in mid 2007.

The 3rd and 4th step will break a lot of compatibility. But requiring TLS1.2 works with any browser shipped in 2011 or later. I'm betting way less than 1% of usersgents these days cannot do TLS 1…

Force them to learn English? It is the defacto language of science and technology. For a population of less than 500,000 they're not going to develop locally created curriculum for, for example, …

I'm guessing the 6700 in the NUC is very thermally limited vs a full core i5 or i7 desktop CPU which can have a TDP of up to 85W.

Where are you getting two SSDs from? I never said that.

For $699 you can build a Skylake based mini-ITX system that uses a real, PCI-Express 3.0 x16 video card (in the $225 price range for the video card alone) that will kick this thing's butt in ever…

I wonder if the biometric fingerprint thingy can be defeated with a gummy bear. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_f... http://www.da…

This is unfortunate, but I can sort of understand why. Customers are frequently mistaken on what's wrong with their connection, example, the customer thinks they're seeing 0.5% packet loss a…

incredibly inefficiently, and only for loads of 5-10W max... phone wiring is not thick enough in gauge and 12V has very high voltage drop over distance for any appreciable amperage. there is a good r…

It might be the first one to pass some sort of critical mass of consumer adoption, and within a few years have 10x the market share of Amazon Echo. Depends how much Google subsidizes the hardware and …

Whenever I see one of these things, and the people who happily purchase it without giving even two seconds of thought to the privacy implications, it makes me realize how important organizations like …

How many months from release until the FISA court issues a secret order to turn one of these on 24x7x365 in a suspect's home, and stream the audio to the FBI "counter terrorism" people …