Can we have intelligent, or at least nerdish polls please?

I'm not so sure I like the idea of a 7 year old opening a desktop machine with mains voltages available.

Unless it's a dedicated battery system (say a Raspberry Pi) I would not allow a 7 year old unfettered access to any hardware. Too dangerous.

If the goal is to teach a kid about basic electronics / logic or similar, the Lego Mindstorm sounds like a much better idea.

You can't "send states" either. You measure on your own photon (or electron, or whatever) and if you find a value. The other guy measure his own photon (or whatever) and find a value. The two values, once you communicate with each other (slower than light) will always match (be the same, or be opposite, depending of the way you entangled them). But you don't send the value of your measurement, and you don't even send the fact you did a measurement.

It has uses, for example in cryptography. Or if you want to run a solar system wide lottery and have the people on Mars and Earth follow, exactly at the same time (warning: that's layman speach, it doesn't have any real meaning in GR), the outcome of the lottery, and no one having the result before the other. But not for communication.

From my reading of the FCC's Internet Access Report, that analysis came from people with >200 kbps connections. Basically, for ISPS advertising broadband service, how many are meeting the new requirements. That figure does not indicate how many people only have the option of dial-up.

It took 5 years for the first malicious app to slip past Apple, and even then, the nature of how it all works meant Apple could remove it from everyone's iPhone with a single update. Android can't boast the same, either on the prevention or the remediation side.

Lastpass is an RFID issued for toll road payments along the U.S. east coast. Makes it so they can just deduct your toll from an account instead of having to stop at a boothe.

Updating the summary: "This system will be mandatory for all vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc) and should cost vehicle owners approximately R$5 (less than US$3) and their privacy."

Actually, I haven't. Tried to google it but it seems you are referring to a password manager while replying to a comment abount license plate detection. Care to elaborate or provide a link? Not sure where you live ..

Some companies already do this - Blizzard distributes World of Warcraft and its patches through torrents. The download tool is just a pretty and dumbed down torrent client, with the .torrent file embedded in the downloader's executable. It can actually be extracted and opened with a different client, like uTorrent. Pretty neat system.

http://techie-buzz.com/how-to/what-are-web-seeds-bittorrent.html

It amuses me how your demand for attention is so desperate that you simply HAD to put up something, ANYTHING that had your screen name attached to it, even if it's a considerably pace-breaking killjoy response to something that was very obviously a single-shot joke post, adding absolutely nothing in the process.

It's like you saw this you-shaped hole in the conversation, and, dagnabbit, you just HAD to fill it, because otherwise that's just not right! Imagine, a conversation without your name in it! It'd be absurd!