It doesn't really matter where you are; there is no real competition in the US broadband market. Sure, DSL exists, but old copper lines can't handle nearly the bandwidth that coax can. I live only a few blocks away from the CO, but due to the age of the wires, I could barely get 1.5 mbps.

Part of the trailer shows a TI SmartRF 802.15.4/ZigBee sniffer. It's probably unrelated to the traffic prioritization signals.

The summary says it's "a converter box that allows cable subscribers with older televisions to receive digital channels," but now that the FCC allows cable companies to encrypt ALL channels, it's pretty much mandatory. Sure, you might be able to convince them to give you a CableCARD for your compatible TV, but I've heard that they make it difficult to get.

In Capitalist America, news agencies control the state!

This was required in Oregon when I was in high school. I was amazed to discover it wasn't mandatory everywhere.

What about ARM executables? Windows RT ships with most of the Windows utilities ported to ARM, as well as Office and .NET.

If you increase VLC's gain too high, it will begin to clip the audio signal (just like anything else would). Speakers do not like clipping. While VLC's volume control makes it easier to distort audio files than, say, Windows Media Player, Dell really should have some hardware protection in place. In this case, it sounds like the speakers were under-spec'ed with respect to the audio amp. Sounds like a design flaw to me!

Well, that explains things like US-VISIT and ESTA. The US government has become increasingly hostile to tourists.

Encrypted PINs and the magstripe CVV, which is different than the CVV2 on the back of your card.

I'm pretty sure it was hiring Edward Snowden as your SharePoint admin.

I believe Spotify operates under compulsory/statutory licenses, so you can't really pull your music from the service.

Well, strictly speaking, you can already explore all paths of an NFA simultaneously. You simply convert it to a DFA, which each state representing a potential subset of states the NFA could be in. It requires exponentially more states, but the running time is equivalent.

One of the problems with that is that sometimes your real IP can leak out. For example, if you visit a page that installs the FBI's CIPAV malware, it will bypass Tor and report the real IP. If all traffic is routed through Tor by another device, this won't work.

High bitrate (128+ kbps) streams are almost always strictly better than FM. FM audio is band-limited to about 15 KHz so they have bandwidth for stereo (the 19 KHz pilot and 30 KHz of bandwidth around 38 KHz for the stereo signal).

One other dirty little secret of the radio industry is that many studio-transmitter links are just 128 kbps ISDN links -- most of which are MP3, although newer equipment supports AAC as well. Additionally, while the exact codec of HD Radio is a trade secret, it's thought to be very similar to HE-AAC running at 96kbps. Even 64kbps HE-AAC sounds pretty good.

Back in May, Google announced that they would be making changes to their SSL/TLS certificates in the coming months: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/05/changes-to-our-ssl-certificates.html

If you use Chrome, Google's SSL certificates are pinned, so that gives you some additional assurance.