Point being?

The company iZettle, which provides "personal payment" via credit cards (chip reader that plugs into phone+app),
requires not only traditional autentication and a bank account - but also your facebook profile with an established social network. I.e. you must have friends as a voucher for your identity.

No facebook, no service. True, they dont base credit reports on your profile, but I find it a disturbing development where traditional identification and bank account are not enough (especially here in Sweden where we already are tracked since birth with the personnummer supercookie).

My car insurance has a lot of provisions like "... void if vehicle is driven under the influence ...", "... void if vehicle is used in criminal activities ..." (i.e. smashing while being chased by the police gives no relief).

I would assume most insurances have exclusions if a crime has been involved. Copyright violation is theft, right?

Can you elaborate how TCP "slow start" got its name.
Since the congestion window is exponentially opened, it's not exactly slow.
I mean, congestion avoidance, with additive increase, that's what I would call slow in comparison.

There was physically no room for discrete graphics if they wanted to go beyond core2duo. This was discussed last time the 15 and 17 models were refreshed.
See http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/why-the-13-macbook-pro-didnt-get-a-core-i5-upgrade.ars

You can use YubiKey as hardware token.

http://vimeo.com/4163662

There is no relation to the cracked keys, as it runs in the OtherOS mode. I.e. instead of Linux, you can run FreeBSD in OtherOS.

Sounds just like the École schools in France. http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1292

What is the compression ratio for more interactive communication, e.g. 20 ms sampling time instead of 3-4 seconds?

err, SSN, not SSID of course :)

* Pre-filled tax returns - Check
* All banks require login and signing via OTP pads - Check
* Bank-ID provides electronic signatures - Check
* The SSID-equivalent "personnummer"/birthdate is publically available without posing risks since its not used for authentication - Check

From the article:

Is the product activation clock reset because of Sysprep, or because the SID is changed?

In other words, could NewSID be used to keep unactivated windows installations running indefinately?

<conspiracy_theory> Would that be the real reason for the NewSID retirement? What's the rush of removing the download instead of leaving it unsupported? </conspiracy_theory>

Perhaps due to the fact that there is a performance difference between scsi and ata?

But, with an increased volume of SAS drive sales, the price difference should be smaller.