Too bad you must pay the shipping...

He knows what he is saying. He said that if you are targetted in a high-skill, high-focus attack, it's basically game over.

It's like defending yourself from a random mugging on the streets and surviving a professional hitman. You can make it harder to be attacked by a random hacker or a unfocused hacker, but it's impossible to defend yourself from all kinds of attacks of a very skilled hacker focused on attacking you.

No, this will not solve the problem. The main issue is at protocol level, not cellphone level. Even with a secured phone, the attack can be silently executed.

The only defense is using encrypted calls and encrypted text messages.

You go to the gateway (there are two banks in the US, IIRC), and get your money.

It's because you are using the cryptocoin wrong. They are not means of holding wealth, but as means of transfering wealth.

If I need to transfer EUR from USA to France, I will have to pay my local bank in USD, convert to EUR, pay the transfer fees, and my counterpart will have to pay some fees there too. Depending on the amount, we both will have to explain something to our governments too.

Using bitcoin I just buy some coins, send them, and my counterpart sells them. Nice, easy, fast, and no taxes, fees or government explanations to give.

People keeps bitcoins on hand because it is increasing in price, but they were not intended to be used like this. You can use as you wish, but if the market breaks down, it's all your fault.

Surprisingly nothing!

To things explode, you need combustible and oxidant. You have only the combustible, and the oxigen from air is not enough to make the shipo explode. And if you look closely, the well are deep underwater.

A very mutable virus paired with a lethal one. Used in a spray. Ok, go ahead.

Sorry, I meant "every one voting for Roundup Ready"...

Round-up ready? Are you serious?

Every one voting on this never ever saw a coffee plant on his whole life!

I once worked on a coffee plantation, and we used Round-up to kill weed, and the coffee plants never noticed anything...

Yes, you are missing something...

I am a Linux desktop user since 2001. Things now are way better than then, when ./configure && make && sudo make install where required to almost anything. When drivers where a problem, and other quirks.

But the Year of Linux on Destop will happen when Linux marketshare hits double digits. When you see hardware with stickers featuring a small penguin and "Linux compatible" bellow it. Before that, there's no Linux on mainstream desktop.

When Linux ceases to being "nerd's operational system", we would be there. But not yet.

But with Microsoft messing up with every OS release, tablets and phones dominating even the console area, web apps doing almost everything, and the PC market disappearing, I think we will be there soon. As soon as we realize that the desktop market is not that important anymore...

Quick if you live in an area with lots of cloned Windows around.

Not that quick if you have to call a few friends, ask they Windows' versions, get a match, grab a pendrive, drop by the friend's house, copy the files, use the friend's computer to download and burn a rescue disk, drive home, and proceed to step 2.

I don't think this is FUD.

If any government gets to know that you have an exploit for a very secure system they are targeting, you will surely be contacted and will earn a lot of money. Disclosing the vulnerability to the mantainers will destroy a great part of the value.

I would tell it's FUD if the vulns were advertised by some competing Linux distro.

No, it's not paranoia. It would be accidental, not some nasty action from any government. EMP can arise from some special situations.

Several years (decades) ago, a design error on a computer power source created an EMP every time you turned it on. If you left any storage media around, it would corrupt data.

Where I live, there are some devices used to demagnetize smart tags on supermarkets, they create a small EMP too, and could cause problems to the chip.

I have read the same news from another source, and was discussing it with my coworkers. I can see at least four downsides:
1 - We still have to transpose a barrier on implanted chips. People don't like this idea.
2 - It can and will be interfered with, and make women pregnant when they don't want to. Even they trying to make the chip hard to interfere with, everybody working with tech knows that is not always possible. And a small chip on the hands of thousands of people will be a valuable target.
3 - It can malfunction. Like the above, things go wrong, and a recently implanted chip going crazy and releasing all its hormones on the body of a midterm pregnant woman will be nasty. It is made to not be removed even in the event of a pregnancy, so it's possible to happen.
4 - It can be damaged by an EMP pulse. If it's implanted on the arm, the body will get in contact with a lot of sources of electromagnetic radiation, like microwave ovens, cell phones and other transmitters, car ignition systems, and so on. Those sources can interfere with the chip.

If you keep your refrigerator open for long enough to the incandescent bulb heat the inside, you kept the refrigerator open long enough to heat the entire room...