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I tend to worry more about microphones, for which there is seldom an indicator light, and which cannot be shut down by a piece of tape, than cameras. Cameras are visible and you ne…

Funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing this afternoon. The absence of physical switches for wifi/microphone/camera is probably due to a mix of lowering manufacturing cost and…

Holy shit. I did not expect this to ever happen, but I am mighty glad it did. And thank you for C&H, Mr. Watterson.

I'm getting tired of young designers who use things like "this feels so 2004" as an insult, and then proceed to reinvent the mistakes of the past.

Google+ made it just a little too clear that Google is in the business of remembering everything about those who interact with it. The attitude of "Google knows best what's good fo…

It was a common quip a few years ago to say: "Apple mice have three buttons, just like PC mice. It's just that two of them are on the keyboard".

Usenet never stood a chance. It was invented in the days when net access was something of a privilege that could be revoked if a user did not behave in a socially acceptable way. A…

For French, he's probably referring to the word "émail", which means "enamel". To my knowledge, the word "email" without an accent does not exist in French.

When I teach calculus 1, I usually put a "high discrimination" question at the beginning of every exam. Student performance on that question is usually very well correlated with th…

A terrorist would have to put a single bomb on a single train to drastically change things. The TSA would then step in and do all the heavy lifting for them, creating terror and re…

If I were a sentient network and wanted to cause panic among the humans, as a prelude to full-blown warfare, this is how I'd start. Let's send all those Xerox copiers to Guantanamo…

As a teacher, I take strong issue with dvt's comment: "We'd get some material that was non-trivial to figure out on an exam. That's just bad teaching." Exams are supposed to be non…

The LEAP keys are supposed to be under the space bar, so that they are easily held down while your fingers are in the home position. Try it, it's surprisingly comfortable. I would …