The probably think Wang Laboratories is/was a penis enhancement company. :P

That's what I wondered, and clicking the logo to filter by stories marked with it shows a lot of stories that neither have the logo or a tag of digital, bug perhaps?

My vape uses medical grade nicotine in the liquid, I wouldn't call that a tobacco product. Even then the nicotine is completely optional, I've been decreasing how much is added to my liquid slowly and expect to completely wean myself off nicotine eventually. Vaping is how I quit smoking tobacco products (cigarettes) and thanks to a locally owned vape shop chain I now spend hundreds less on my nicotine addiction with much less danger to my health. (yes there is still the danger of the flavor additives and nicotine itself) So are they now going to regulate vapes and liquids? It sure looks like it...

I tried both with and without an ad blocker and I see zero ads. Any wonder that I prefer reading articles there? Compare to Forbes, who won't even let me view an article without disabling my ad blocker or whitelisting it, which means I usually just skip the article or load it in something I don't bother installing an ad blocker on, IE/Edge. Which leads me to wonder, how is Medium doing it the "right way" for my preferences? Any money changing hands? Build now monetize later?

Was a photo also found of a someone making a gun shape with their fingers and holding a note making no demands?

Long polls? I don't think you realize how long the polls would have to be.

You are also mistaking the buildings these things are in for simple, flimsy structures into which one can simply drill a hole and drop a cable.

http://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent...
https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

Nuclear Material in/near Reactors Secure's Itself.

Dry fuel pellets are harmless.

Fuel rods are made by welding dry pellets into steel I-Beams or similar big, heavy, structures.

Used (wet) fuel pellets are _fantastically_ _dangerous_ to handle, so much so that they have to kept wet at all times to keep them from roasting everything while they cool.

Back in the seventies my father (nuclear engineer) said he'd love to stage, and televise, a "raid" on a nuclear power facility... The _months_ necessary to get the stuff off the premises (let alone ground up into nuclear dust) would have probably lost its audience. But the "Fast As Possible" "Smallest Crew" version of the raid that the anti-nuke people were putting in movies and scare politics would be thoroughly disproved.

Even if I installed a pebble-bed reactor in your garage (and one _would_ fit), any attempt to turn it into a "dirty bomb" would fatal to the person attempting it. Someone could blow up the pebble-bed itself, but that would move a few of the "pebbles", if any, a short distance. Someone with a radiation counter and a radiation suit could then just go pick them up with tongs.

So the terrorists "want{ed} to build a dirty bomb" is about as likely to lead to that end as my personal desire to own all of Google _and_ Tesla Motors outright as a pure proprietorship.

Crap slashdot stripped the pronunciation special symbols, oh well you get the point.

called nEmesis

emesis /emsis/ noun technical the action or process of vomiting.

Someone has a sense of humor at the University of Rochester!

A public key block would flag a back door very obviously. The data has a unique look. It also has a unique profile of use, in that someone would have to initialize a cipher session or whatever. Even a trivial code review would find a fully encrypted back door.

Hiding the public key block within an obfuscation generator adds a huge block of code instead of data, followed by the same need to invoke the cipher system.

To function as a "back door" the door, by definition, has to be pretty damn simple and innocuous enough to go unnoticed.

So "creating a back door that only you can use" is actually creating a separate front door with all the trappings, which kind of moots the point of sneaking it in.

Back doors are, pretty much by definition, mechanisms that only implement security through obscurity.

Fully secure ingress is way too hard to sneak into place and remain hidden.

Moving forward, WhatsApp will only support the latest and greatest iPhone, Android and Windows Phone platforms.

They didn't say that, they are actually supporting older versions, just not REALLY old versions

So, by the end of 2016, we will be ending support for WhatsApp Messenger on the following mobile platforms:
Android 2.1 and Android 2.2
Windows Phone 7.1

Create a master key, keep it to yourself. We won't ask you to give it to us, we promise. We don't care how you do it, we promise. It's only this once, we promise.

But whatever it takes, you go ahead and do it.

As a bonus, you will perform this work using people and equipment you get to pay for all by yourself. I'm sure it will be no burden at all and you should be ready to pay these expenses now because you didn't have the foresight to compromise all your products proactively.

And of course we'll never use this a precedent to force you do to this for all other products you make, and we'll not be forcing all the other companies to do likewise. ... we promise.

It's such a simple request... and besides "Teh Terrorestors!"

Time travel, natch!

I've followed Docker with some interest, and as an admin who primarily works with Windows running on VMWare I've yet to see any way to make use of it. If I want to test an app in a clean environment, I spin up a new Windows server as a virtual machine, play around, revert as needed, and destroy it. Production servers are basically the same thing. Is this just for the *nix folks?

I used it and advised my friends to use it, mainly due to one feature. If you are sharing a file with multiple people, the size of the files counted against your quota was divided by the number of people it was shared with. Share a 4 gig file with 4 people, each of you only had 1 gig of it counted against your quota. Guess it made too much sense and not enough cents....