Yes, I get the joke, but joking aside, I've seen this in Canada for a while. I don't know if I'd call it "new". It's always fun to pop up to Vancouver and have the person behind the counter (typically a young Asian girl, being Vancouver) stick my non-chipped card in the reader, become confused, pull it out, stick it in, become even more confused, pull it out, sudden realization, awkwardly swipe the card, start to walk off until I say "You'll need a signature from me".

Makes me feel outdated, tbh. I thought this was America.

Even ignoring any potential spying and just going off a mix of reliability, functionality and simplicity, I've found that cars in the 90s and early 2000s seem to be the sweet spot between having enough electronic management to run well while still being simple enough to fix it with a wrench and eBay parts when something goes wrong.

I'm no expert in the field, but I don't think engine management has made any huge leaps and bounds over the technology used in mid-90s fuel injection.

Anyone else watch those TV Documentaries where the ads for it say "We answer mankind's biggest question. DO. ALIENS. EXIST. Tonight at 5, only on the Discovery Channel." and when you watch it, it concludes with "..so, are there aliens out there? The answer is a definite.. maybe." *roll credits*

Alaska too, but decently good point none the less.

Misleading article is misleading. The entire network itself handles 54Tbps. The WiFi network, to quote TFA, "will be distributed using about 2,000 802.11n access points across the Olympics Game sites; including inside the stands for the first time."

Not even 802.11ac.

There's talk of ASIC scrypt miners coming out. The general consensus is that ASICs aren't generally strong at memory bandwidth and are unlikely to make GPU mining completely obsolete for Scrypt.

Google bought out Motorola Mobility a while back and I got excited about that. From a buyer's point of view, I haven't seen anything cool come out of it. I don't expect much different with this.

..and I'm thrilled that when Scrypt miners dump their GPUs on eBay en masse (like SHA-256 miners did with Bitcoin), the market will be flooded with a nice supply of Radeons.

..and yes, while I am concerned about the stress the cards are put under for 99% of their life, most miners seem to peg their card's fan speed at 80-100%.

It's fairly accepted that just because a car is left unlocked doesn't mean anyone's allowed to go in and take what's inside it. Even when you do lock it, there are ways to get in. The fault isn't the owner's for not locking it, it's the attacker's fault. I don't see why online services are any different. The interruption of service and potential loss of data is enough incentive to keep them from leaving it insecure in the first place. If not, they'll sure be taking a look at security after.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Damn. You beat me to it.

For people who can't help but "rm -rf /"

I believe the news here is that it doesn't veer off in funny, hard to predict directions when it bumps in to something. Yes, toy companies have cages around their flying RC offerings, but having that fling thing be able to maintain stability is new. Check the video at ~48 seconds in.

Nope. I still run away until it's over.