@Chamele0n said:

@mlnews said:

is Google Wireless the next big step

Google has been providing WiFi to Silicon Valley for quite some time, I would think with their fiber rollout the next big step could be to use the fiber as a backbone and provide WiFi.

From the Article it's not going to be Wifi but, more like cellular with a new frequency spectrum. Which is odd to change it up either way, especially since their target is cell phone users.

Kinda like a hosted Hadoop cluster.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

You've been on iPhone so long I wonder if this is really an issue?

Just over a year. Not all that long. But does anyone actually provide support for a rooted phone? Do you get them replaced when things don't work? Like if I have a battery issue I expect a new phone. If I root the phone, will that still happen?

Yes. Rooting a phone in no way voids manufacturer warranties or support from the carrier.

That's a great idea, and so cheap. The resolution on phones today is so high that you can start doing some really interesting things with them. This was brilliant!

I was getting Fibre to my house before the last election 😞 pitty they were bad at cost management. Now we have a different set of clowns and I'm not geting Fibre to my house anymore 😞

I would have voted for the other lot but the fibre was their only positive for me.

The third one is "running Crouton in a window inside ChromeOS"

@Reid-Cooper said:

Whoops, lol. Fixed.

Someone had Apple on the brain...

@Dashrender said:

@thanksaj said:

@Dashrender said:

I haven't tried letting all of that stuff connect on my Android device.

Does it allow the use of your real phone number, not a google voice number?

You can text from your phone with your real number via Hangouts but not from your PC. When you SMS from your PC with Hangouts, it always uses Google Voice. Your phone just uses the last number that sent a text to the number your text as the source. You can switch back and forth and Hangouts aggregates it all into one thread in Hangouts. It's nice.

The other side could be confused though if they don't have your google voice number in your contact, or worse, it can't aggregate sources.

Hangouts goes by contacts, so if you have someone who had 17 cellphone numbers and you had them all saved in your phone under one contact, all texts would be aggregated into one conversation. But yes, if someone doesn't have an SMS client that aggregates, it will make your texts via Google Voice and texts via your cell number as separate threads.

@scottalanmiller said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary:

@jmoore said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary:

that's a nice french word, maybe that's why.

It's a French origin, but so is resume. It's a word in English for a very long time.

all true but maybe they have a cutoff somewhere before it is recognized. I am just guessing though.

@thanksaj said:

It's on Netflix, and it was so stupid!

I just heard today that Netflix has it now. I'm sure that it is really stupid, all of their movies are. Pineapple Express was downright painful.

@Carnival-Boy Well that is truly disappointing!

Also, @PSX_Defector , this is my test box. They let you pick whatever OS you want to run on here and run it, be it Windows or any flavor of Linux. They don't put any blocks on it. I just use Google for DNS because it's faster and more stable as a rule.

Hopefully they release it as an update for the S4. Otherwise, I may be rooting!

@coliver said:

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse said:

Sorry - some reason I'm wondering what I could use this for.....

Well it is a small, quad core, low power desktop computer that you can run Android, Linux or Windows on. So mostly anywhere that you need a low cost, low power desktop.

I guess since I haven't followed the technology much, I am missing something. My take is that it's a USB device,.. But it's a desktop. But it doesn't make sense to plug it into my desktop to run a desktop... sorry.. Seems like a dense question I know.

It is actually a HDMI device that plugs into a monitor and is powered via USB (at least from what I am seeing).

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse said:

Sorry - some reason I'm wondering what I could use this for.....

Well it is a small, quad core, low power desktop computer that you can run Android, Linux or Windows on. So mostly anywhere that you need a low cost, low power desktop.

I guess since I haven't followed the technology much, I am missing something. My take is that it's a USB device,.. But it's a desktop. But it doesn't make sense to plug it into my desktop to run a desktop... sorry.. Seems like a dense question I know.

Only looks like USB. That's the monitor output that you see.

AH! - Okay. That makes a tad bit more sense. Hmm.. I'll have to make a note of that,.. and see. I have the 32" TV at the house that doesn't get much use...

Anyone else adding Chromebooks or Chromeboxes to their lineup recently?

It makes sense as both have a lot of stack in the Chromebook game. Intel wants to move processors and AMD is currently weak in the Chromebook space (but for how long) and Samsung is very strong in the CB space while being weak in the traditional laptop space. So they both want to see Chromebooks succeeding for their own reasons.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

So how does a site get an SSL without knowing? "CT’s intent is to prevent CAs from issuing public key certificates for a domain without the domain owner’s knowledge." I assume that means if the site is hacked.

No, it does not mean that it has been hacked. This is really easy to do. I'm not sure at what stage you think that there is a verification for this currently but generally there is nothing.

But it has to be used at the domain it's issued for or else it will throw a mismatch error.. Unless it's a whild card cert..

That's a completely different piece of security. If you hijack DNS you completely bypass it.

@art_of_shred said:

Sorry if I ruined anyone's night. No, there are no nude pics of me on my phone, so don't waste time trying to hack my accounts.

Well then, I guess I am off to porn.com.

So they did. I had not seen any talk or mention of it anywhere.