That's how they did it. They didn't exploit TOR directly, all they did was planting a 'tracking beacon' on the target computer, then wait for the target to reconnect outside of TOR

Except they just gave the other 135 people a free pass with this. All they have to do is demand the source code as well.

After a certain height, the hanging weight of the water at the bottom causes the pressure at the top of the water column to drop below the vapor point, and all you get is near-vacuum water vapor going into the pump.

When it sees a police car, does it change to an advertisement for donuts?

(the mention of Russia made me think of this, because of the police-detecting bus-stop billboard)

Yeah, I agree that its a system that doesn't actually account humans, and probably never would have worked the way he thought.

My biggest issue, though, is that everything that happened afterwards was not only not his fault, but also tainted public perception against anything even remotely similar, and it has pushed the US farther in the opposite direction than we might otherwise be.

Nationalized health care is a perfect example, most 1st world countries have it, but the US doesn't, because it's considered too much like communism.

Is there an H in there somewhere too? And lets just drop the lower-case 'o' entirely.

(I hope someone understands this really convoluted joke)

There was once a visionary, all the way back in 1848, who foresaw that this day would come. He witnessed the the early attempts at farm automation and realized that machines would someday make human labor redundant, and knew that a new economic system would be required to handle it.

Unfortunately, over the following century, other people would co-opt and distort his ideals for the sake of personal gain and public suppression, giving his system an unfair and undeserved bad reputation.

His name was Karl Marx.

No, the radiation makes it to the southern hemisphere eventually.
It makes for a miserable 12 months, waiting for certain death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Do you get those speeds to the rest of the world, or just within NZ?

It doesn't have to be open-source, or even in an unencrypted format.

How do you think smartphone OEMs provide firmware images, despite containing proprietary licensed code?

If Apple and Samsung can do it (legally) than anyone else can too.

I picked up an old Asus netbook for like $50, and it it had a bios setup password. Asus refused to tell anyone how to clear it (pulling the cmos battery doesn't work) and insisted the only fix was to send it to a service center.

I did eventually find a way to clear it using a command-line bios update though.

Sounds a lot like ink cartridges.

Where does it say that the " firmware to revert an electronic device" has to reside on the device itself? All they really have to do is provide the files for download (like they do for most smartphones) and a method to re-flash everything using a PC.

Carbon credits are garbage, I agree. It basically allows one company to pay another company to pollute less, in order to allow them to pollute more.

That doesn't mean we can't mandate carbon scrubbers, catalytic converters and other devices to at least reduce the amount of crap we put in the air each day.

This is where it gets political, because the companies who would have to install these devices don't want to pay for them, and would rather put that money towards convincing politicians that the problem doesn't exist.

Record high temps, record low temps. record rain, record drought.

In other words, the weather is getting more extreme and less predictable. Our only options are 1) accept it, and build bigger reservoirs, flood canals, and levees. 2) try to fight back. or 3) ignore it and hope it goes away.

Refusing to accept weather record data falls into the 3rd category, BTW