Potential reason is that they need see how their tests affect screen burn. They mention they specifically need Mac hardware so this could be why they specifically need retina screens.
It might have more to do with running GPU-assisted tasks through remote sessions. You need to either leave a screen attached and on or trick the device into thinking one is attached and on to take full advantage of the GPU on Mac hardware. You can actually do it with any mac hardware (even headless devices like Mac Mini's and Mac Pro's) but it's not advertised well enough.
For example, with mac Mini's in a server environment, you need to plug in a hdmi enabler to get full GPU performance front the system while using it over remote access.
The HDMI dongle is a good solution for most users. It can also be worked around in software (although it is not trivial). It's kind of annoying that OS X requires jumping through these hoops, but at least there's a few solutions out there.
For those interested in getting a sub 60 second solve time then try learning CFOP. http://badmephisto.com has some very good resources to get you started.
With more practice and learning the correct algorithms then a sub 15 second solve is achievable.
CFOP stands for (C) = Cross = Cross on bottom layer - (F) = F2L = First 2 Layers = Solve bottom two layer edge and corner pieces at once - (O) = OLL = Orient last layer - (P) = PLL = Permute last layer
I don't understand why a user would access a randomly created directory that is only mentioned in the robots.txt file. Can you explain as to why you'd think they'd stumble across this?
This is silly. If you have a user of your site going through your bots file and specifically going to directories listed as Disallow then you deal with that user. Blocking based on the robots.txt for a directory that doesn't exist anywhere but that file is fine. I did a two bad directory ban, it seemed to work fine.
Oh, believe me they only last a few days at most. I don't use an infinite IP blocklist. It has like 100 IP's or so. When one goes in, one must come out. And lets just say there are enough badly behaved bots around that it doesn't take much time for 100 IP's to rotate.
How about instead you discussu a SLA (Service Level Agreement). For example you agree that emails / calls are to be acknowledged or responded within 1 hour during 9-5 Mon-Fri for £/$XXX per month.
You could go a step further any have different levels, so for a higher monthly rate you'd respond within 30 minutes, etc etc.
Any idea on who is responsible for this micro-site?
I find it strange that there's no information on the author, sources, references, attribution, or credits on the page at all (other than the WordPress theme attribution).
In a way I'm in a pretty similar situation. I have a desktop for my day job, and an iPad mini 1 (1st gen) for evening browsing (so that I don't get sucked into work if I use the desktop machine).
There's been 3 updates to the iPad mini since mine, and felt zero need to upgrade. I'm very happy with my ipad, and most certaintly don't think it's meh, it's just apart of my evening cycle that I don't even think about any more.
Totally, but in terms of readability for proof on concept, I can see why the author chose PHP. I think the repo was more for showing the vulnerability rather than an actual tool that could be used right out the box.
I'm sure others will find this reminiscent of the Minecraft in-game sounds, which makes me wonder whether they have similar logic to create on the fly, or just a pre-recorded looped audio file.
