The locked bootloader issue is a good point and is something I've mentioned to friends. I'm an "enthusiast" myself and have an unlocked bootloader/custom recovery/etc. on my tablet, which rarely leaves my house, but my phone is locked.

This. RDP is a way better performer especially in cases where there is little happening on screen. Although 10 years ago when I was still in college, my friend (using RDP) was streaming The Daily Show on campus from home perfectly lag free with sound.

There are other FDE systems that work on the Mac like PGP, CheckPoint, and WinMagic but they all face compatibility issues whenever new hardware or software is released.

It didn't get mentioned here, but I'll give a shout out to Remote Utilities. I recently started evaluating the software as an alternative to Logmein and TeamViewer and, while the learning curve is a bit sharper that either of those two, I've found it to be very powerful and fast. It's also free for commercial use for…

The latest UI :-) Smart and slick.

This is good to know. I didn't realize that at the time. I prefer set it and forget it though. It's convenient to be able to say "leave the PC on and just turn off the monitor" and I'll take a look tonight instead of "let me know when you're not using the computer."

Vote: Remote Desktop Connection

Vote: Chrome Remote Desktop

Vote: Teamviewer

Well, that's just perfect, isn't it? John's recommendation of Cloud9IDE is one of them. Pretty useful!

Do not travel by air in the USA, since unreasonable unmotivated search and seizures in airports are considered legal and they infect your equipment when they do it...

PHP is a great languages for teaching bad habits to people new to programming. There are lots of other languages that have all the advantages of PHP without the numerous and dangerous disadvantages.

Firstly I'd ask myself why do I want to learn a programming language? The preferred language to start might be different depending on the answer.

Still, I'd say PHP is the worst language to learn for a beginner because it does not reinforce any good practices. What I mean by that is that it's very easy to learn to…

While I can't fault your vote for Python (it would definitely be in my top 5 and probably top 3 with a strong argument for #1), I think you're being a little too hard on Ruby. Yes, it was built on OOP but you can do everything you would find in a Hello World type tutorial without even knowing what an object is (and in…

More public DNS resolvers supporting dnscrypt would be great, especially resolvers doing DNSSEC validation.