Comment Re:The farmers are gonna be mad (Score 1) 584
So if some other state fancies being first why dont they pass their own state law that says that? Surely Iowa and New Hampshire laws dont apply to other states?
Comment Another motive (Score 5, Insightful) 295
If I were some non-american government then I would prefer people to use Linux. Not because of any backdoors that I could put in it, but because I could be reasonably sure that there were no backdoors put in it by the US government.
Comment Re:What about wget ? (Score 1) 196
Sounds like you need a simple proxy server whose only job is to insert the cookie. Then direct all your clients to use the proxy server. Could even be a transparent proxy in your router.
Comment Re:Encryption (Score 1) 102
The only thing that's worse is that they might feel secure when they're not.
That is exactly what an ISP would want. You would have the correct URL, the correct IP address and everything would look correct. But your traffic would be monitored by the ISP (in some kind of transparent proxy).
Being able to save a certificate and not having a message pop up every time it is seen would be useful. The first time you came across a certificate you should get a warning message. But if you can manually verify the certificate then you should be able to silently accept it in the future.
Comment Re:Thermodynamics 101 (Score 3, Interesting) 324
But the engine in a truck or bus is not fixed speed. It varies according to driving conditions, and there is a loss in efficiency due to the need to allow for the flexible load. If you use an engine merely for charging the battery then it can be a fixed speed, fixed load engine - I.e. it can run at peak efficiency whenever it is running, and the efficiency can be higher than a more flexible engine.
Comment Re:Encryption (Score 5, Insightful) 102
It would be very easy for an ISP to perform man-in-the-middle attacks on supposedly secure sites which use self-signed certificates. Self-signed certificates provide some security against eavedropping by third parties, but almost none against a malicious network. They can only be useful if you have some independent method of verifying them, and very few people would know how to do that. (Of course, that also applies to certificates signed by many certifying agencies - it is probably quite easy to get a fake certificate that will be silently accepted by browsers)
Compressed-Air Car Nears Trial 173
DeviceGuru writes "Air France and KLM have announced plans to conduct a six-month trial of a new zero-emission, compressed-air powered vehicle. The AirPod seats three, can do 28 mph, and goes about 135 miles on a tank of compressed air. Motor Development International, the vehicle's developer, expects the AirPod to reach production by mid-2009, and to sell for around 6,000 Euro. Initially, it will be manufactured in India by Tata Motors, and distributed in France and India."
TiVo Wins Appeal On Patents For Pause, Ffwd, Rwd 215
Lorien_the_first_one writes "After years of wrangling, TiVo has won its day in court against Dish Network, formerly known as the EchoStar, when the Supreme Court declined to take up Dish Network's appeal, forcing the satellite television company to pay $104 million in damages. According to the article, 'TiVo originally won a patent infringement case in 2004 against Dish, which was then named EchoStar Communications. It charged that Dish illegally copied its technology, which allows people to pause, rewind, and record live television on digital video recorders.' Despite an injunction, Dish continued distributing its set-top boxes in the belief that the work-around they had implemented avoided infringing TiVo's patents. Now the case goes back to the lower court for review to determine if they did indeed steer clear of those patents."
Theo de Raadt Details Intel Core 2 Bugs 442
Eukariote writes "Recently, Intel patched bugs in its Core 2 processors. Details were scarce; soothing words were spoken to the effect that a BIOS update is all that is required. OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has now provided more details and analysis on outstanding, fixed, and non-fixable Core 2 bugs. Some choice quotes: 'Some of these bugs... will *ASSUREDLY* be exploitable from userland code... Some of these are things that cannot be fixed in running code, and some are things that every operating system will do until about mid-2008.'"
