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I don't have a Netflix subscription so I haven't tried it properly, but the integration with TiVo is good. If you're browsing an actor and find a film, as well as any upcoming TV showings it will give you the option to launch it from Netflix.

It's obviously a big move away from the major TV channels, but (in the UK at least) I think the big money is in the sports channels and Netflix isn't competing with them there.

Unfortunately my Facebook related recipes never go quite so well, but I think that's Facebook's fault really.

I know it's limited compared to the full x86 version (I've only played with one briefly), but I suspect it fills a gap that the Chromebook can't for people who aren't comfortable using "office" web apps.

Desktop browsers are smart enough to find the intermediate certificate and then verify the chain, but technically I don't think this is part of the spec.

[1] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=blog.afoolish...

But you could, for example, be an evil network admin near the LastPass servers. That would let you MITM almost everyone who connects.

Ah, true. But the encryption algorithm is much simpler to implement than most :-)

In real-world implementations I think the security is probably based around a large number of men with guns.

There are plenty of issues with internet freedom in the USA, UK and Western Europe but I don't think they're on the same scale. I'm happy to criticise the government from my UK connection[2]. Would you want to do the same from a Chinese, Syrian or Saudi ISP?

[1] Probably http://12mars.rsf.org/2014-en/ , but the list of countries looks clearer in their 2013 report http://surveillance.rsf.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/20... [2] David Cameron sucks!

A piece of software might be supported for 5 years. But perhaps it's 4 years into that period before the new version is available and considered stable enough to use. That gives you less than a year during which you have to upgrade - including any other changes, integration testing etc.

There is a network of number plate recognition cameras to enforce the congestion charge. But there were initially assurances that this wouldn't lead to a blanket database for policing, they can just request particular images.

Pretty rapidly there was an exception for "national security" purposes, and more recently the mayor has proposed giving the police full access to the camera network[1].

[1] http://www.london.gov.uk/media/mayor-press-releases/2014/02/...

It's definitely a shame that things are fragmented, I was considering adding audio to my old Pi. But at least they're cheap enough to justify buying a second one :-)

[1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1929

A reliable fast connection is still very expensive, and there are several other considerations. When we looked at offsite backup a major consideration was restore times. Even if you can do differential backups, in a disaster you might need to get everything back ASAP and even the best internet connection can't get near the throughput of onsite disks/tapes.

Personally I find this quite useful and it definitely improved the way I use email.

This is simple on the client and avoids any security warnings. It's supported in quite a few firewalls and even squid, so it would be very easy for a carrier to roll out tomorrow if they needed to.

The non-human-readable things like MACs, IPs and auto-increment keys are easy. But when I have to come up with a short, memorable and non-confusing name for something like a script that can take me longer than writing the code.

Unfortunately my grandmother never quite figured out email but she's very comfortable with Facebook.

I use this to send emails to a couple of older family members who are happy using Facebook but don't use any 'real' email address. Is there any chance they'll keep some forwarding option around?

It's definitely interesting. I can remember people in the Notes community wondering why IBM didn't either take CouchDB and use it as a new Notes backend, or alternatively push the existing Notes bits as a mature document-based database.

The end quote from Katz's "Formula Engine Rewrite" post[1] is interesting:

"But ultimately IBM killed Iris. In late 2001 IBM folded Iris Associates and converted all the employees to IBM. All the energy the Iris building had was seeping out. Really it was more pushed out by the BS that IBM management kept trying to sell us..."

[1] http://damienkatz.net/2005/01/formula-engine-rewrite.html

The keys are managed by Google and obviously this won't protect against them getting at your data. And any external attacker who gets into Google's infrastructure could (in theory at least) get the keys as well. It presumably protects against someone stealing the hard drives from the data centre, but that doesn't seem like a significant threat.

I'd expect this to be implemented by hardware encryption, probably at the storage layer, with minimal speed impact.

it is possible that the attacker used only a single server running on a network that allowed source IP address spoofing

So perhaps one technically adept attacker, which isn't quite so surprising.