Ah, you're right. In my mind I had "terminal" and "concourse" combined into the same term. I thought the summary was saying they shut down, say, Concourse C entirely.

If you read the full article (I know, I know, it's Slashdot) you'll find that only a portion of one of the two baggage claim areas was shut down from foot traffic, as well as the MARTA entrance near it, for about half an hour. Not even a full terminal was shut down, and certainly not the entire airport.

Talk about exaggerating the truth, jeez.

You jest, but someone actually did a cross-country Bitcoin-only trip in 2011: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BitcoinRoadTrip

I'm not sure which story is more funny, to be honest

"They should learn from Apple"

Apple has released 5 iPhones in 5 years, usually with an accompanying iPod Touch model to go with it. Nintendo has released 6 "DS"-branded consoles in 8 years: the DS, DS Lite, DSi, DSi XL, 3DS, and 3DS XL. I'd say they're doing something quite similar to what Apple is doing. Apple releases two versions of the same product depending on if you want the addition of the phone functionality or not; Nintendo releases two versions of the same product depending on if you have larger hands or not.

Now I'll concede that the DSi models don't really differentiate themselves from the original two DS models as much as they should have, but the 3DS is enough of a complete change that I would say it's a brand new machine.

The idea here is to use the Raspberry Pi's GPIO ports rather than using USB as a go-between.

Yep. When Google acquired Motorola Mobility, I knew that Zumodrive (a service very similar to DropBox that had recently before been acquired by Moto Mobility) would be on the chopping block, and sure enough, after a couple of months I got an email telling me that I needed to download everything from their servers before they shut down completely. At least they gave me the option of doing that though, which was nice.

Sadly, we already have AOL Keywords reborn. It's "Go to Facebook.com/AOL_Keyword_Here for more details!"

It took a few re-readings, but to my best understanding, they stole valid debit card numbers, not prepaid ones. They only had the numbers and expiration date though, so full-on identity theft would be difficult, and this article is explaining how even having only the number was enough. They bought some cheap pre-paid cards (probably with cash), re-encoded the mag stripes with valid stolen debit card numbers, and used those to buy more higher-value prepaid cards (via a signature-based transaction so no PIN needed), which they then used to buy expensive stuff. I'm just curious why you would be able to buy a pre-paid card with another pre-paid card in the first place.

I had forgotten about the original story on this incident, but that would explain why I got a new credit card in the mail a week or two ago...

Quite frankly, I don't know what it is. After so many articles on /. I assumed it to be sensationalism akin to the likes of Bitcoin. I have not RTFA, or any "full articles" on this subject to be honest. Is it the next evolution of the "One Laptop Per Child" project?

The US Supreme Court has recently decided that AT&T is legally allowed to put "You can't form a class action suit against us" in their license agreement. Now all the ISPs are rushing to add that clause to the mix. Even Netflix is joining in on the scramble.

Pre-emptive defense: replace "at all" with "nearly as much" in that second paragraph.

If you're talking about torrents, then I have one word: BitcoinTorrentz. Cheaper than a VPN, you get your torrented files over a standard port 80 HTTP connection (though it is NOT encrypted, if that makes a difference), and hey this is Slashdot so LOL ANONYMOUS MONEY for whatever that's worth.

For all other normal web traffic, yes your school is being very Draconian if they're blocking the likes of Hackaday. I mean hell, that's pretty much "Great Firewall Of China" levels of censorship there. I frankly don't know what you can do as a single person to try and change that, but know that most colleges in the US don't filter Internet traffic at all, so your IT admin is almost certainly on a power trip if he's implementing these sorts of policies.

Science isn't broken after all! Or at least, thousands of experiments are still fundamentally "correct" to the best of our current scientific knowledge.

(note however that they still need to re-do the neutrino test, according to the last sentence of TFA; at the moment they have merely found out that "data" sent over the fiber-optic cable arrives 60ns earlier then assumed)

And fifty cent pieces too, though I see those in circulation less rarely than the dollar coins even.

It's great that they managed to extend the Corona jailbreak to the iPhone 4S. But unfortunately, very soon all their hard work will be rendered useless once iOS 5.1 hits release. As 5.1 is already in the beta-testing stage, there's only a window of a few weeks before it drops. Unlike iOS 4 and below, there is currently no way to downgrade any iPhone to an earlier version of iOS5. The SHSH method does not work anymore because of something new on Apple's end (I believe involving something called an "AP Ticket" but I honestly haven't looked into it very deeply).

The point is, if you want to make use of this jailbreak, you must go to iOS 5.0.1 RIGHT NOW and jailbreak or you won't get another chance until 5.1 is hacked, which is of course never guaranteed.