True, but an Al-ion battery definitely has potential*, even if this team hasn't achieved it yet.

Al also has ~5x the physical density of Li at ~1/5th the price, so even if it doesn't outperform Li's energy density for a while it will still be better for many applications.

* groan

In a few years we'll have videophiles who buy 2048 DPI screens and $1000 woven silver DisplayPort cables and describe how their new baby produces such a visual canvas with airy colors and edgy lines that add presence to windows and make Chrome seem more forward.

http://www.techlicious.com/gui...

http://gmic2012.greatwallclub.... (I imagine NQ Mobile's Vault is the 'Vault' listed, NQ published a press release about it)

I can't find a free copy of PC Magazine's 2012 best apps, but given the others I have little reason to doubt it. The average reviewer has nary a clue about cryptography, and from an end user standpoint, the app seems well made and has several clever features. It would be easy to assume the app lives up to its claims.

Mind you, it still seems a useful app just for its ability to hide content from casual snoops (the app can even hide its presence on the device), though it is quite overpriced and likely to disappear after this entirely deserved PR disaster.

No, he was pointing out that rewarding teachers for high test scores is likely to result not in better teaching but more cheating and manipulation of the results.

We've been obsessing over test scores for a while now and it doesn't seem to improve the quality of education.

It has the power to go as fast as the Bugatti, but (apparently) not the gearing. At 161mph it'll be using a heck of a lot less than 1MW, so the battery should last much longer than 3m.

The extra power *will* give it crazy acceleration even up steep inclines, which is far more useful on Pike's Peak than pure top speed.

Before the Internet, we said the same things about people who relied on books for knowledge.

Also, xkcd.

The 'real' White House has a lot of valuable antiques (including the building itself), a large number of regular employees, and a steady stream of guests and visiting dignitaries.
Even a simulated terrorist attack could get messy, and they'd have the inconvenience of having to schedule around the President and staff's activities.
A staging site makes perfect sense here.

Apparently the closest chapter is in Pyongyang.

Dotan, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

And I read it as "Portable DVD Player."

I haven't gone back to hard drives since I tried an IBM Deskstar. Windows 7 makes for a lot of floppy-swapping, but at least my data is safe.

Why do people go to the trouble of making an acronym if they're going to screw it up anyway?

Sorry, I was confusing CVC1 and CVC2... though some cards include CVC2 as well, and you don't need to provide the CVC2 or any other data when you use the magstripe, so it doesn't really matter.

Yes, magstripe cards are insecure by design, but we hardly need to make fraud easier. It's a lot safer and simpler for a criminal to stick an antenna in their pocket than to try to grab legible images of the fronts and backs of cards.

For when you need to spend a penny.

So it amplifies and broadcasts the signal held on the magnetic stripe of an old-style credit card. The completely unencrypted, insecure data that has your card number AND the 3-4 digit verification number.

Why? Because modern card readers will never catch on, of course! Especially when retailers will be tripping over themselves to switch to the new smart readers in a year, since the credit card processors will hold them responsible for any fraud resulting from still using the old gear.

This is a train wreck. Good on LoopPay for convincing some sucker to buy them before their product falls on its face.