It's irrelevant what the password is, how hard it is, or anything. There are ways hackers have of getting into the company's records and simply uncovering the account names and pw's. There are way hackers get the company to reset the pw and send the new pw to the hacker. Key loggers that simply record what is typed…

Absolutely. There is no other machine in this price range that has a true Wacom stylus with pressure sensitivity and can run full x86 art/photo/graphics programs. And these programs with that stylus make any similar programs on iOS or Android look, literally, like finger painting.

You can slap a pancake on and have something that fits in your coat pocket. Then you can slap an e mount prime or zoom on and have something half the size and weight of a DSLR. Then you can slap an old prime like my Nikkor 24 f/2 and have fun with it without too much crop factor . . .

Even a Microsoft enthusiast (with a brain) would have to cast a jaundiced eye at the RT version. Losing x86 apps and gaining what? I though battery life was the whole point of ARM - but this only gets 7.5 hrs on the tablet? Screw that. Different, okay, but generally there might be some advantage to being different.…

No kidding. I looked a couple of times on Youtube for a good intro to the Win 8 start screen and only found a lot of cruft. Surely MS would simply produce a 2-3 minute video showing someone with a touch screen picking up W8 and navigating around, just the basics, here's how the live tile work, here is the Charms bar…

Now imagine this machine with a touchscreen and a Wacom stylus that converts into a tablet. That's pretty much what we're looking at with some of the new Win 8 convertibles. And it cures the touchpad blues and a couple of your other gripes

Agreed about the APS-C. A full-frame sensor size no longer has much if any advantage. Back in the old days, film had grain and noise, and bigger film was better. These days, when you can get a 24mp APS-C sensor with incredible high ISO - not a problem. The only real advantage today to a larger sensor is a bit more…

It never would have happened with a print book. Maybe a typo here or there. You would never ever see anything on this level in print.

I hear you, but it's actually kind of funny. What's your cell phone bill? It's got to be bare minimum $40 or more likely like $60-70 a month. I probably spend less than $5 a month average on Google Play store stuff. Lots of times zero. Honestly? It kind of sucks to see so much money going to the freaking wireless…

No bugs of any kind, all year round? Now that would be nice. Here in LA area, much of the year we would not need screens. Except for summer. It's not bad, but at various times, mosquitoes, flies, bees, wasps, june bugs.

Has anyone mentioned this? Fans. We haven't had too many mosquitoes this summer, but the flies have been bad. Except when it's breezy . . . Flies and mosquitoes are deterred by air that's moving fast enough. And that's the theory behind those air blasters over the doorways of shops and restaurants. A couple ceiling…

We have a whole house fan, and ceiling fans. And a couple of portable fans. And we survive Pasadena CA summers pretty well. It's really only 90 plus for maybe 6 weeks here. A whole house fan is good but needs help. We generally need fans in at least two windows or doors blowing cool air in at night.

Plastic? I would think that the inner container would be more reliably water proof and just as effective if it were a plastic or metal box. Also being thin walled there would be a bit more room for food. Also a box shape rather than a bowl would be more convenient.

Paper, shmaper. This is actually a good solution to strapping a rubber band around anything. Rubber bands are great but have one flaw - they're closed loops. You can't open them up and then joint the ends back together. But this trick makes them an open loop with a quick connector. for instance, sometimes I want to…

Of course if you really want to shoot 5k, you can do that. It's a TREMENDOUS user of resources and incredibly demanding to edit, store . . . you're going to need to invest in a small suitcase full of hard drives or preferably SSD's. And of course virtually no one anywhere can actually display it . . . Meanwhile most…

Awesome. And seems like a great alternative to something like a Raspberry Pi - much more powerful, with much better connectivity - and a built in monitor! Battery backup! Bluetooth! etc etc. And you will be able to pick up an old used phone for cheap even if you don't already have one lying around.

I've had a HTPC for about 5 years. It really surprises me that you don't see this concept ready built for sale more commonly. With a full PC hooked up to your tv you can basically do anything, watch anything, stream anything, rip your own discs etc etc etc. Why don't PC companies sell this exact setup? Weird.

Definite on live TV. Our box has a tuner card, plus we added a wifi connected dual tuner called the HDHomeRun, which has worked well for about 3-4 years now. The nice thing about that, in addition to not having to put anything inside your box, is that any computer on the network can also use it to view/record live tv.…

You know, we used a bluetooth mouse and kb for a few years with our MC-PC. It's now gathering dust. It was replaced with my Android phone running remote control software which is brilliant. The KB-mouse tends to be large and in the way, often out of range of the crummy bluetooth receiver, often low on battery, and…

This belongs at the top of this article, which would stop a good deal of head scratching: