If details of a debit card are leaked (e.g. in hacked website) then those who get access to the debit card info can empty your bank account. Once you realize and inform your bank, they will begin an investigation ... which will take 2-4 weeks. Eventually, you should get your money back.

But in the mean time, all your other auto-payments (for rent/mortgage etc.) will fail because there is no money in your account. There are fees from the bank for these, and likely late payment penalties from those you were supposed to pay.

Contrast that with a credit card that is hacked. Once you notify the bank, you don't have to pay the bill for any disputed charges, When the bank finally resolves things the charges are erased from the account.

Yup. Conservation of energy says that if you build the scaled up 10kW version of this, the air coming out of it is going to be very, very cold.

Maybe this is an air-conditioner substitute for the summer months?

Has anyone hooked up these two to chat with each other?

First one to suggest genocide loses.

Sure we may be able to build robots capable of doing all those tasks in a decade. But how much will they cost? If a "go get my shopping" robot costs $100,000 then it isn't going to affect anything. Rich people will still send "the help" to do the shopping. Regular folks will keep doing it themselves.

Neal's book doesn't target the poles. But otherwise this is covered in detail in Neal's book.

Sounds appalling. Concatenation? Likely find the 71st number is always from the first of those sites, so no extra entropy from the other 11. Basing your random numbers on a source that an adversary can also read? Also very bad.

Does that air-flow keep the rain out at 0mph?

"the hackers could make it impossible for people using Linux to download updates, which are verified via PGP"

Red Hat say their update process should continue to work

https://access.redhat.com/arti...

Not sure whether this varies by region, but Hulu has an ad-free option for $11.99/month.

I find it good value for money:

1) Saves time not having ads
2) Saves frustration ... cliff-hanger before ad-break is resolved when show continues ~1 second later.

I got a handy payout after the hi-tech equivalent of this was shut down.

http://fortune.com/2015/09/03/...

Nobody has tried the experiment of silencing all roosters to check. Let's hope they never do.

10 Mbit/s (if it is a real 10, and not an "up to 10") is plenty to stream one video from NetFlix, Hulu, Amazon etc. (unless you are trying for one of the rare 4K streams). But if you have multiple users in the house, you will need to allow for times when they all want something different at the same time.

I'd be happy 99.99% of the time with 40 Mbit/s. If Google fiber ever gets here - I don't think I'd notice whether it was 100Mbit/s or 1Gbit/s more than a couple of times a year.

Airline keeps half. The rest is distributed to the people sitting next to the person making the call.

Perhaps the researchers are too young to have read this 1979 paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17820742

We already have groups of people afraid of wifi, vaccines, and a host of other things that are non-issues. They are also disproportionately afraid that their child will be abducted (by strangers, or even by aliens).

Pretty much whatever you say will either be misunderstood by some subgroup, or deliberately misconstrued by another - and then a school faces the problem of providing a special exception* for some group of students that have been opted out.

* Note that I'm generally in favour of special exceptions in schools because children do have different learning styles and paces - but this would be a crazy addition