If you want funnier stuff, find/compose/post funny stories. Try to make /. funny instead of crying at poor April's fool posts.

And don't forget that they're also among the most corrupted. And remember, when you're a Quebecer and want to participate in a contest, you're excluded, just like Iranians and North Koreans. Banana Republic of Quebec.

Obligatory fun: The Shii

Well, at least, changing the bacterial flora to make him crave for healthy foods would have been a hack. What the guy did is not a hack in any way.

I thought there was really something we didn't know about, cause hacking something is like doing something cool by twisting the rules in ways most people wouldn't think about. In his case, he lost 30lbs doing nothing more than what a nutritionist and a gym coach told him to do. I personnaly lost 100lbs over 5 years doing all that by myself, cutting the crap and exercising more. I didn't "hack" anything, I went by the rules: less calories input, more calories output.

Hacking would have been like: I changed nothing to my habits but took (whatever pill/electrode/juice/miracle crap) and BAM, I lost 30 pounds in a month. These things don't work, and reading the title and summary, it's like the guy found some crap that actually works at losing weight without efforts with no side effects.

Well, maybe you're right and Cisco want to put a false feeling of "anonymity" to compromise more high profile targets with their preinstalled backdoors. Or maybe it's just a way for Cisco to make more money on the back of its customers. In any way, their method cannot guarantee anything, since the shipment is just the last step of an order, and the order can be compromised at so many earlier steps.

If you RTFA, you would notice that "boxen" is used in the original article. Also, "boxen" can be used as the plural for "box", but it is uncommon.

If I check their annual revenue report ($47BN between July 2013 and July 2014), well, some people buy Cisco gear...

I think "safe browsing" depends on your paranoia level. You can always be more paranoid, but until I see this BIOS flashing attack grow to a large scale, browsing to serious, public, common websites seems to be still pretty safe. If you think you can be targeted by GCHQ/NSA-esque organisations, then you can increase your paranoia level.

Well then, let's just make your system secure enough so you can't be compromised in the first place: Firewall, up to date base OS, antivirus, antimalware, and do your crappy things in a sandbox (VM). Use your base OS for safe web browsing, documents editing, email. Use your VM for TOR, torrents and all other unsafe things.

If you read TFA, it says the attacker has to already have access to the remote computer to root the system, so being cautious in the first place should be OK, or at least sandboxing your hazardous activities in a VM could do the trick.

More like Picard's implants. Even after removal, he still can hear the Borg...

Talks about liability of self-driving cars are already taking place, and it appears that when a self-driving car being in self driving mode has an accident, the car maker would be held responsible. Now does this means lower insurance costs for people who have self-driving cars? I doubt it, but car makers will sure have to have pretty expensive insurance coverage...

I think a big part of the traffic jams is because of the slow reaction time of humans. If, when a light goes green, all the cars release the brake and push the accelerator at the same time, traffic would be incredibly better. However, I love driving my car, so it's not a question of "is it better to have a human or a computer behind the wheel" for me, it's just that "I love driving, period."

If you want anonymity and/or privacy, just don't go with the big companies. Period. I use openmailbox through TOR and using email addresses with false names, this does a better job at anonymity. As for privacy, I f**king keep my personal info to myself.