This question is sparked by the controversy in the news lately about Apple being compelled to help the FBI defeat its own iPhone hardware security.
My question is a side one. Apple has described that for every secure enclave in its iPhones (region of the core processing chips), they inscribe...
Hi all -- quick question:
Is a Windows installation on a hard drive specific to the machine that configures and does the installation? Or can it be swapped machine to machine?
I ask because I would like to pre-configure a boot hard drive that I could send someone who doesn't know a lot...
Hi all --
Has anyone come across an interesting article or blog post about how the industry dynamics of the memory (RAM) market, and the way that it's fragmented among different OEMs?
I am sure that the main chip Intel/AMD/TSMC landscape has been dissected thoroughly, but I am interested...
Thanks!
Nope, it doesn't even have to be a phone -- just looking for a cheap video Skype device. If it is a phone, that's fine, but doesn't have to be!
Hi all --
Would you have any suggestions for a cheap Android device that can do video skype? I am totally unfamiliar with the Android world. This would be handy for family members to chat, and helping them diagnose computer issues from afar (if you've ever tried to solve problems by voice...
Hi all --
I wonder if anyone has some quick firsthand knowledge on this simple question:
For electric cars to be successful, charging infrastructure has to be in place. To caricature it, it's like a gas station where the pumps are electric plugs.
But the cars have to generally sit there...
Hi all --
I'm doing a calculation to estimate the bandwidth consumed if, for example, every car in a city transmitted a bit of data to a central location every day via cell networks. I have a rough idea of how to do the calculation, but wanted to know if I'm missing anything peculiar to...
Just a friendly discussion I'm having with a friend --
question #1) what happens to the electrons in a solar panel when it's being hit by sunlight, but not hooked up to a circuit? I imagine they just get excited and decay back to some ground state, and simply re-emit energy in the infrared...
Hi all, this is not highly technical, but more of a basic physics question.
Take a pickup truck, about to be involved in a head-on collision. A few friends and I are debating why the manufacturer recommends that you store heavy loads up against the cab rather than at the back of the bed. I...
and a bit more information that I just discovered in case it helps to identify the vintage:
it has a plain gray cd drive front, and what I think may be a floppy drive (shudder) slot.
Hi all,
I'm a PC user since forever, but someone a few doors down is getting rid of an old Power Mac G4 (from the label on the back). I have never really used a mac besides when I have to, as a linux surrogate for research. I wonder, should I even bother with it even if it's free? What can...
hi all -- I have been vaguely curious about this for a little while --
when you have an encrypted file, and you go to decrypt it with whatever program, it will ask you the key, and begin decrypting if correct. But how does it know if the key is correct or not? I.e. you can decrypt a file...
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