But I don't think the competition of the official prize with the black market is relevant at all.

Right now a big proportion of exploits come from security researchers, partially because they're looking for exploits, but also because they do have a strong incentive to find and report vulnerabilities. I don't think a cash prize is going to change their calculation much.

The place a prize could make a difference is in ordinary developers. I suspect a lot of bugs are partially discovered multiple times before they're officially reported. Some developer is working with the software, notices some weird behaviour, but doesn't follow up because they lack the incentive. A cash prize increases the incentive and potentially turns some of those dev hunches into new bug reports.

The way the black market comes into play is the devs are competing against the black market. If the bug discovery rate goes up the price of zero-day exploits goes down (since they're shorter lasting) as does the incentive to discover them (since good devs are competing for the same bugs). So you can significantly impact the black hat market without approaching the black hat rate.

The police should refuse to obey the orders from a mayor to follow an illegal order, but most won't do it because they either don't know the order is illegal or because they know they will likely get fired if they refuse depending upon how much power the mayor has in the town.

64-bit CPU with Ultra-Low Power (runs off 3 AAA batteries)

HP preceeded ARM by years but like everything else they do, don't know how to market it.

Free trade is great if you're a rich capitalist (e.g. someone that makes their living by owning capital). What about the rest of us? There's plenty of evidence to show NAFTA has been a disaster for everyone on both sides of the boarder except a few wealthy factory owners. Google a little and you won't find much to encourage you.

Karl Marx predicted that capital flowing to where labor was cheapest would result in a race to the bottom, but all anyone can remember about him is that a couple famous dictators happen to use his books for their rhetoric. Not that it's hard to predict that.

Three years ago would make it about the right age to qualify for Apple's recall to fix fault SSDs. It's also about the lifetime of the battery pack; even if you had it plugged in the whole time the Air comes with an underpowered PSU and uses the battery to meet peak loads, and heat slowly kills them off anyway.

I thought you were supposed to piss in the tank and use that to wash away what's the bowl... no?

Organization (via Unions) is the only solution I can think of to this. Sure, we could call it something else, but it's basically Unions.

Un-Organized workers are too weak to demand or get better wages or a better way of life. Life basically stunk for everyone but a few kings thousands of years. It still stinks if you're not in one of the countries with a strong, well organized pool of labor that has solidarity. Sure, a few on /. might "Got Mine, FU" right now. But the powers that be are coming for you too....

It is hard to do, and in this case might not even have helped. The problem was a custom implementation of a common memory management library function that behaved differently from more secure variants. The original reason for making the custom version was performance of the some of the standard ones that were more secure.

To even begin to diagnose that kind of problem the compiler would have to know about the target OS, the C library implementation and possibly even the behaviour of other pre-compiled modules linked at run-time. That wouldn't protect you from issues stemming from run-time libraries either, and it's hard to see how a compiler could deal with those.

Years ago someone would have paid him and published this article in print. Now we have videos of cats doing funny things on the internet so they all went out of business.

If you force them to finance clean up you make nuclear even less profitable. All they will do is spend the 50 years until decommissioning lobbying to be let off the hook. 20 years down the line they will be telling you that if you don't subsidize it they will shut the plant down anyway and the lights will go out.

Emergency cooling was available at Fukushima. The lack of pumps early on was widely publicised but actually they had emergency vehicles with pumps on-site that were working just fine. They would have been enough to avert the meltdowns and explosions, but due to damage to the plant and a critical valve being in the wrong position most of the water the pumped in was diverted to storage tanks.

Onagawa was the closest to the earthquake and was badly damaged. It lost three of four external power lines and temporarily lost cooling for spent fuel pools. The sea wall was not high enough to prevent the plant flooding. Some radioactive water also spilled.

Onagawa-3, where this all happened, was built in 2002.

What a joke. A 28kWh battery for a minivan. The smallest one you can buy a Model S with is more than twice that size. Just shows how far, far away Mercedes is from delivering an EV to rival Tesla's.

Most people don't need that. Gas tanks are sized the way they are because you have to go to a special filling station to put more fuel in, not because most people need to drive 300 miles without stopping. With an EV you can just top it up at home or at work, rarely ever doing a full charge. On a long trip a 30-50 minute break every 4 or 5 hours is necessary for your own health and safety, so charging doesn't really add anything to your journey time.

(cue responses from people who claim to drive for 8 hours solid with a only 5 minute gas/bathroom stop perfectly safely five days a week, as if that somehow matters for a mass market consumer product)

That seems to be the case already.

(cue responses from some people who found a route that an EV can't do, as if it matters for most drivers who live places where the Tesla can get them pretty much anywhere)

The Model S is cheaper than similar sedans, when you consider fuel and maintenance costs. At worst it is similarly priced. The main issue is the up-front layout, and you do have a point there.

Common mistake when thinking about EV charging. Most people very rarely fast charge their vehicles. Most top-up over night at home, or while at work, or in the car park when out shopping. Most people make short journeys anyway. It's not like petrol where you can only fill up at a special filling station and only go there when you are on empty, instead you can top up almost anywhere and rarely need to add tens of kilowatts in a short space of time.

In other words we will never see millions of cars fast charging at the same time. As the infrastructure gets better the need for fast charging will decrease even further. If you need to drive 200 miles to your destination but then plan to spend several hours shopping or stay overnight, in the future you will be able to use that time for charging so no supercharger required. Right now you can't be sure if charging will be on offer, but in a decade or two it will be pretty much universal wherever you park cars.