I thought that all 3-letter agencies were absolutely sure that Russians were behind this and other state-of-the-art hacks. And now it turns out there was a basic phishing and illiterate politician. Do they owe Putin a pint for the trouble, or it's OK?

Oh wow. So you think that if Japan is an island, it's not in Asia? So, England and Ireland are not in Europe, as well as Sicily and Cyprus. I hope it's not something you were taught at school.

I've seen many implementations of OpenAuth in web apps. And everywhere I looked, one step was always missing. The verification of the token.

Token is a little XML fragment with information such as your e-mail address or public ID in the service that you are using for authentication. For example, Google authentication contains your gmail address, and Twitter has integer, if I remember right. And it contains the digital signature to ensure the token wasn't created in notepad. Websites will not try to check the signature in it, because all they need is presented in clear text. They choose the path of least resistance, so to say.

In truth, most small software companies usually don't have people who bother to understand OAuth. Large software companies may have such person. But the funny thing - these guys usually don't go further than mocking you on using other ways of authentication, blindly believing that their implementation of OAuth (downloaded from source-sharing website few years ago, at best) is god-given and immaculate. Their use of OAuth code snippets is like praying in Latin - they don't understand a fck about what they do, but it feels like Greater Power is taking a burden of thinking from them.

TFA doesn't disclose the name of the innocent 18-years old man. So let me guess - Mohammad?

Seriously, why did they think it would help? If I would need to find out those who were there, I would compare their location in Facebook with their IP address. So non-Dakota IPs would be filtered away. But even better - get the IMEI numbers of all phones in area and find mobile contracts for them. No Facebook needed. I'm pretty sure NSA can do that.

Not really, but you should see the name and perhaps even photo of the driver, and the name of the passenger. If it's Mbanga Adebowale, then you know it's African guy (I'm not speaking about USA here, in Europe most black guys are actual Africans). When I am calling a taxi using Hailo app (similar to Uber, but works with registered Taxi), I cancel these guys too. In my case - not because I can't tolerate their skin color or think that they are taking jobs from white guys. Simply because I drive too and I know how black taxi drivers behave on the road - they simply ignore all the rules and make the ride too risky. I wouldn't like to be a passenger in such a ride.

Regarding the behavior of non-white passengers I can't tell, but Uber drivers may have some knowledge and experience regarding that. And I am not using the word "prejudice", because I assume that not all Uber drivers are newbies and they should have the experience by now. And cancellation rate tells us something about it. I don't know the details, but I assume that remuneration doesn't worth the risk. They are using their personal cars, which may be used to bring their kids to school next day, so they have more variables in their decision making process, and fortunately they don't have to follow the same rules that are effective in public transportation services.

We don't know yet how to create the infinite source of power. But once we'll figure out, I am pretty sure that this model will be able to use it.

We can't create the real artificial intelligence at the moment, but when we will, this wonderful computer will most certainly be able to host it!

We aren't really there yet to create the sort of coffee that would prolong your life, but as soon as we will - this wonderful coffee maker machine that you can buy today - will make you live longer!

So, when he filmed one Note 7 burning, they brought him another one and enough money to get a decent camera. Apparently they wanted to film sequel, but perhaps "sequel" in Korean sounds like "bribe" in Chinese.

Sorry, but I think this news is from 90s or early 00s. I still clearly remember the effort to decode the sound of the keyboard, but then it was working with a particular keyboard and it was told that application has to be trained to decode clicks of another keyboard.

It would be funny if Russians would buy it. Taking into account the role of Twitter in all the "colored" revolutions and how Russia and her allies are annoyed with it, they could buy it to turn the weapon in the opposite direction.

Frankly, I think that even the role of Twitter in revolts is exaggerated and it's not a valuable asset even for that. Do Chinese think the same?

Not really. The key is - (faster than) "English texter hunting and tapping for Mandarin letters".

Seriously, for Chinese being Chinese means more than being American citizen. And that is so for many other ethnic groups. Russian will stay Russian, Japanese will stay Japanese. American passport is nice to have.

For most people their family means more than their country. And for some ethnic groups Fatherland (or Motherland, since we mentioned Russians) could mean more than you think, even generations after relocation. Don't hire Russian to attack Russia. Don't hire Chinese to investigate Chinese state hackers. It's plain stupid.

That's true. Especially taking into account their support of SOPA and PIPA. That alone is a good enough reason to refuse anything from them, ever.

Indeed, Soviets created many artificial republics that didn't exist before - Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus and mentioned Asian republics. They also created Finland, which gave us Nokia and Linux. So I don't think that their "attempts" were laughable at all.
All of these countries were carved from Russia on grounds of ethnicity. However, I wouldn't say that it's only Soviet experiment, but rather Russian - they always tried to make ethnic groups within Empire content, same as they do now, and there are over 195 ethnic groups in Russia. They created few languages for those who had no written language (Latvians, for example, had no written language before joining the Empire), and invested into developing of languages that could be otherwise simply replaced by Russian.

Perhaps you miss some education. Pyramids of Egypt are over 4700 years old. At that time Egyptians had developed writing, architecture, agriculture, art of war and it obviously wasn't given by God in one day. The history of China was written since over 3500 years ago, and Mycenaean phase of Greek history started over 3200 years ago. The Stonehenge is over 5000 years old... I hope you know what it is and where it is located, and that people didn't appear there, but came from Africa.

Oh, and have you ever heard about hebrew years? Well, jews think it's year 5776 now.