At least in Firefox, "Zoom Out" is also an option.

Very Medieval, but do you mean something like the "Fourth Estate" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_estate
or the "Fifth Estate" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Estate ?

the other Estates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Estate#Third_Estate

A link http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/newest-attack-your-credit-card-atm-shims?t51hb&hpg1=mp in the original story, entitled "Newest Attack on your Credit Card: ATM Shims" has some interesting information:

"The shim needs to be extremely thin and flexible. In fact it must be less than 0.1mm"

"The shim is inserted using a "carrier card" that holds the shim, inserts it into the card slot and locks it into place on the internal reader contacts."

"Once inserted, the shim is not visible from the outside of the machine. The shim then performs a man-in-the-middle attack between an inserted credit card and the circuit board of the ATM machine."

"flexible shims are recently being mass produced and widely used in certain parts of Europe"

"Diebold released five new anit-skimming protection levels for its ATM devices june 1st 2010...Unfortunately, none of these helps with the shim skimming attack. That problem has yet to be solved mechanically yet."

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/27/2310234

and my comment to the first story: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1213805&cid=27741803

I'm guessing the inventor's statistics "In the office environment, 52% of respondents left their machines on for remote access, and 35% did so to support applications running in the background, of which e-mail and IM were most popular (47%)." are still true.

http://mesl.ucsd.edu/yuvraj/research/documents/Somniloquy-NSDI09-Yuvraj-Agarwal.pdf

Is this the whole "piece" he wrote?

TIA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistically_significant>

"In statistics, a result is called statistically significant if it is unlikely to have occurred by chance. "A statistically significant difference" simply means there is statistical evidence that there is a difference; it does not mean the difference is necessarily large, important, or significant in the common meaning of the word....

The significance level is usually represented by the Greek symbol, (alpha). Popular levels of significance are 5%, 1% and 0.1%. If a test of significance gives a p-value lower than the -level, the null hypothesis is rejected...."

Bandwidth and interference/reliability are good enough reasons for me not to use WIFI when I don't have to.

But, just because "security" is not (or weakly) configured out of the box, and a lot of users don't bother to read and learn how to configure their wifi device, why should security be a one of those reason (assuming WPA and higher) not to use wifi? Is there a new flaw with WPA (and higher? Yes I know about the TKIP weakness.

"In the office environment, 52% of respondents left their machines on for remote access, and 35% did so to support applications running in the background, of which e-mail and IM were most popular (47%)."

Never mind the fact that emails are saved on the server, but is this device is really necessary in case "An instant messenger (IM) client will require the PC to be on in order for the user to stay "online" (reachable) to their contacts."

So instead of telling a significant number of respondents that they really don't have to leave their computer ON to run background applications such as IM and email (unless of course you are running an IM/email server at work or home), the author does a cartwheel while holding a sermon on how to be green.

Now that everybody has get some green in order to be green, something similar but different, here is a bare-bone OS running on a daughter card (PCIe) which allows secure access to the host's hardware even when the host is OFF but the motherboard still has power. http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/drac5/OM53/en/ug/racugc1.htm#31825. Works with Dell. A must if you don't have unrestricted physical access to your servers, and every once in a while the main power cycles but your servers don't boot/reboot automatically.

Small correction to the main article, a couple of the authors are from University of California, San Diego and not University of San Diego.