Darathin

Add in Bubb Rubb and you'd have an epic meme quartet.

I don't know the answers to the "why" of all of these, as during the Win8 development cycle I was on the display management team, but I can at least help with some of your issues :).

In 8, you can manage wireless networks using netsh wlan commands.

You can also manage network profiles using gpedit.msc.

It's not as pretty, but I know that those things are still possible at least.

I bought the Miele S8 cat & dog after your last AMA. It's awesome, thanks for recommending the brand and convincing me to go canister (our house is 1/2 shag 1/2 hardwood, and we have stairs, the smaller vacuum means our stairs are really clean for the first time in a long time).

Regarding your "maintenance" list - how do you clean the bearing caps? I don't find any info online. I'm not in front of my vacuum right now, so I can't look, but do I just pop them out and pull anything that has gotten in there out? Do you recommend adding some dry lubrication to them?

Also, on your last AMA you mentioned something about hacking your Miele for more power. Can you explain what that entails?

I worked on implementing tools inside Microsoft investigating these issues. The reason that we used hedge words like "seem" when describing analysis is both legal and technical in nature. Legally, the wording of the privacy policy carries significant weight in terms of legal remedies for violations. Technically, even if you actively use the app in a contained environment that logs system and network activity as well as run static analysis tools that look for code paths that lead to data exfiltration, you can't say with certainty that there isn't code that can breach privacy in the future. If we could have said that, I'd have collected a pretty big prize for solving the Halting Problem ;)

I was a bad college student. My last nine months of college I was using aircrack to get onto wifi (lots of the AT&T/2wire access points around, all with 40bit WEP. It was a five minute attack, tops) after moving out of a place with it. After doing that, I'd usually update the router firmware and make sure it ran smoothly (the people who were on it obviously didn't know nor care how to).

Sometimes I feel bad about it, because I wasn't that hard up for cash. However, I think that the proliferation of aircrack and various distros that included it really did shape wifi. Seldom do I see access points that are turned to WEP, and your tool is really what I attribute that to.

In many ways, I miss the days of open wifi everywhere, when you could tunnel your connection to a trusted server with a known SSH key for your security (or just roll the dice and hope "linksys" was clueless, not malicious 0.0). However, with the consequences of unscrupulous people who warez/download child porn, and all the other costs of insecurity coming back to bite those with open/less than secure wifi, I think you're ultimately due thanks.

So, thanks. For almost a year of free wifi without having to go to a coffee shop, and for increasing overall customer security (even indirectly).