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Nice summary. I recently picked up an ESP8266 for a project, but yet to start farting around with it. Excited to find some spare time.

Hmm. Really needs a way to save and resume editing a "shred" I was in the middle of selecting some different portions of a bunch of videos and accidentally quit. Seems like an app …

Sort of related to this post; I recently read Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima [0]. I was not expecting much fr…

Interesting, glanced through your paper. How do you find real devices behave at constrained channel widths (<20Mhz in 2.4, <40Mhz in 5)? I have a feeling those are not well tested …

Hmm, I have not read his paper, but based on the article's mention of "divided into 13 channels" this is clearly speaking of the 2.4Ghz spectrum. Rather than try to distribute that…

This only occurs for 'hidden' networks. If you do not have any hidden networks in your known network list than you will not be broadcasting SSIDs. This is yet another reason to avo…

I stuck with lynx for the longest time. Somewhere around 2007 the web became COMPLETELY unusable, even on the subset of sites I would visit. Sad times we're living in. :)

On iOS 7 you have to explicitly trust a computer from the device before data is allowed over USB; before that it is in a charge only mode. To trust a computer you must unlock the d…

I think cbhl's point is perfectly valid, in the presentation of the feature, Apple states that about half of people leave their phones w/o a PIN. Touch ID is for these people and i…

Cool. Reminds me a bit of http://aichallenge.org/ which was TONS of fun.

802.11w adds encrypted management frames, but in practice this tends not to be a huge issue and not many vendors implement it yet.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0001193125130... Dividend perhaps? edit: I suppose that doesn't come out of operating expenses

This is awful news. I haven't been in touch with Aaron for several years, but I had a brief encounter with him in 2008. I was between jobs and decided to help out with his watchdog…

"Xiaomi has already sold 300,000 of its latest phone model, launched in October." It doesn't even look like the phone sold well; it sold out, but not well. Numbers like that will n…

I was thinking the same thing. The key to a vibrant app ecosystem is making profit for developers. Possibly these apps are making ad money, but yet to be seen.

Maybe for an individual user "3g" is sufficient, but my understanding is that it is a poor use of spectrum. One big motivator to move to LTE will be in congested areas where everyo…

I don't know ... Some UI/UX is subjective. For instance, my willingness to put up with an initial learning curve vs working with an "intuitive" interface. You may call these "desig…

I wish they shot something with motion in low light... From pictures my friends post online, my biggest complaint about most point and shoot (and phone) cameras in low light is not…

It would be more interesting to check ngrames to see how frequently you must hit a key on the same hand twice. Qwerty was designed to prevent jamming typewriters, IIRC.

1. The attack is to brute force the shared secret (password). This can be done offline because by capturing the exchange you have the ANonce and SNonce and all other information re…

Completely agree, just to add a few of my points... Designers are also ruining the web because they are removing choice in how I view content. HTML pages used to be designed such t…

This is true, but you would expect that "hacker employees" would make their products compatible with "hacker users." My thoughts when reading Zuckerberg's letter (and I admit I onl…

The HUGE advantage of "everything is a file" is that if you make a tool that works on one "thing" and then want to use it on another "thing" it is quit possible that it will just w…

If the USPS wants more usage, rather than marketing, they need to "innovate" just a tad. There is a value-add service that I really wish the USPS would provide. It is very simple t…

Exactly! This feels like a "scam" to skirt the rules of the SEC. > “The IPO market is dying,” he said. “You see companies achieving robust valuations on the private market but bein…