This is hilariously dishonest.

Conventional taxis don't have to go out of business - that's a strawman/misnomer. Why don't they provide their own apps to provide service to riders? Oh, right. Uber is doing what taxi services refuse to in a lot of instances. Uber isn't the problem here, but old outdated legislation is.

Taxi services don't operate 24/7 with 100% coverage, that is and never can be the case anywhere. Meanwhile, uber is opening up to other competition and enabling better coverage than the taxi services themselves provide.

here in OZ they are pushing the boundaries of what is legal for "taxi" services, so I would be very surprised if that were not the case in other countries/states juristrictions.

I won't say hobbling. I have both the fx-8150 and the fx-8350 and they are both de finally behind on the curve when it comes to technology. Both of these processors where gifted to me by a friend who was sick of always being behind on the curve when it comes to AMD. He hopped over to Intel with a couple of i7's last year.

I'm convinced unless something changes an AMD gets on the ball with this release, my current AMD systems will be the last AMD systems I own.

If Google can't even make Lollipop work on its own hardware, how much of an endorsement is that for other manufacturers to put their efforts into Android? Clearly it's not because Google is underfunded.

If Verizon is in fact breaking a contract it has with ESPN then all I can say is that it is a horrible contract.

I don't watch TV, haven't for more years than I can remember, I don't care for commercials and I don't care for the content. I have 0 (zero) interest in watching any sports on TV whatsoever, never had any interest in watching sports, never will have any interest in watching sports.

Just saying, forcing somebody like me to sign up for a service that provides sports information as part of the package is a 100% way to have me avoid that service.

Google Streams of piss ......

How about launching a product and sticking with it for 10 years or more, you fucking clowns?

Nobody in their right mind chooses a Google product as part of their critical infrastructure ..... because Google keeps closing its products down.

You're right that we don't have enough renewable energy yet to make this a useful technology. But hopefully that day is coming.

Re synthetic diesel, it's like I've always said: screw the "hydrogen economy", hydrogen is cryogenic, low-density, and difficult to work with. You'd be better off joining those hydrogens to some nice stable carbon atoms to create a storable, pumpable, relatively safe room-temperature liquid fuel.

Is it more efficient than just using the electricity to charge up batteries in an electric car for example?

Maybe, maybe not, but I guarantee you it has a higher energy density than batteries, which is super important for vehicle applications.

You're a fucking moron. How does "access without authorization" warrant a 35 year sentence? Rapists and murderers get less than that. That's the whole problem here. Fuck you.

Seems to me like this is a pretty solid way to identify most of what's wrong with our political structure so that we can fix it.

Unfortunately it will probably just be used as a "how to" manual.

How about California stops growing almonds. Water crisis averted.

they're jealous because they want to be successful snake oil salesmen?

so according to you, the only reason to oppose snake oil salesmen... is because you want to be one?

Your first comment is close. Yes, a serious attacker has many better ways than cracking your password. In fact, I've given another speech on this a few months ago where I basically said that we should drop brute-force as a threat scenario from our password strength estimations, because any software that even allows a brute-force attack to be run is fundamentally broken and needs to be discarded.

Same for cracking hashes, btw. If your software does not properly salt and hash, it's broken. It's 2015, not 1995.

Your second comment is totally wrong and one of the reasons we have so many bad passwords. We tell normal human beings to use a different password for each of the 200 or so sites that they have an account on, many of which they use once a year. That's idiotic, and users are telling us we're insane by ignoring it.

I use 3 different passwords for 90% of the accounts I have. One for all the various forums, social sites and other crap that is of absolutely no importance to me and if it gets leaked and you use it to log in as me on one of them, you can post comments in my name - omg, the sky is falling. One is for sites that I have some stakes in, like accounts in online games and such, where you could do some damage in the sense of destroying something that took me time to create (delete my GW2 characters, I'd hate you for it, but no real damage has been done). And one I use for sites where you could do some damage that I could probably reverse, but it would take effort and might cause me real-world inconveniences, such as shopping sites where you could order something in my name and I'd have to go and cancel the order or send it back or whatever.
My PayPal and banking accounts have their own passwords, as do my user accounts, database accounts and such. But for 90% or so of accounts, you don't really need a seperate password (and using password managers ties you to them, which is why many people don't do it).

And I'm a security expert giving speeches at conferences about these topics. I'm just not a blind one-trick-pony who knows all about cryptography and nothing about anything else. If you begin to figure in psychology, HCI and other topics as diverse as design and linguistics, a lot of what's wrong with IT security begins to emerge more clearly.