sure it does. Once you're in prison, with no income, you don't have to pay taxes.

and of course it either has to not run on a processor without baked in encryption or it's vulnerable to emulation. (Heck, if you can emulate an encrypting processor it's still vulnerable to emulation...)

TFA mentions that JTAG can work, but assumes the tools are too pricey for pirates. (Which of course both overestimates the price of the tools and underestimates the resources of a dedicated pirate who expects to be able to actually sell the fruits of his cracking for money...)

good point; I hadn't thought of those. So this'll really be an extra layer of obfuscation (though perhaps harder to get around; I'm not sure what approaches exist for analyzing polymorphic viruses, but this is likely to block them).

and viruses/trojans that are immune to signature-based scanning. Better get serious about process privilege and running stuff in revertable VMs.

I have heard that there are. There's a post above about a guy who won a TV in a raffle and can't use it because he can't put it on the net to accept the TOS.

That is in fact why I no longer have a projector. My wife isn't as big a fan of having the lights off to watch TV.

Goto is being used safely (relatively) now, but would have the programming practices that cause that to be true become so prevalent without his warning that it had potential for problems?

sounds like a market may be developing for a kit to replace the smarts with something that just drives the display. (not, mind you, a _large_ market. Unfortunately.)

I think you're underestimating his physical abilities (understandable, the movies don't really emphasize them as much as they probably should). At one point, Spiderman was listed as the 4th strongest character in the marvel universe (behind the Hulk, the Thing, and Thor). Admittedly, the marvel universe was less populated, but he's still above Captain America (20 tons vs 1200lbs). He's also got reflexes and balance about as good as Cap, plus spider sense... he doesn't have Cap's experience (though he's probably closer than most, given how many issues he's had) and he doesn't have the shield (but can do a lot with webbing). He definitely lacks Cap's leadership skills. He's probably not suited to be a member of the Avengers for a number of reasons, but he's in that league.

I dunno, he's got a point. Since railgun slugs are intended to damage by kinetic energy instead of carried explosive (I assume... I wouldn't want to put an explosive in a rail launcher) it has to go faster than old style shells, which results in a flatter trajectory, which may make it harder to use arcing shots.

Of course, at this point, we have enough experience with guided unpowered ordnance (smart bombs) that adding some "go this far and then tilt down" to a railgun slug shouldn't be impossible.

I would expect there's supposed to be a distinction between making content available from a server inside Comcast's network and having one site not in Comcast's network pay to get better traffic shaping than another site not in Comcast's network. If nothing else, "a server inside Comcast's network" is a rough description of any of Comcast's business customers. Of course, how it actually gets implemented (and how the little details of difference between netflix colo pods and business customers get handled) may vary.

but were they healthier on bread than they were in the thousands of years before cultivation of grain began? You can _survive_ on stuff that is much less than optimum.

"if the bidder never pays". Last I heard, if the winning bidder backs out, the seller can _offer_ it to the second bidder, but they don't have to accept. The seller may just be SOL.

After going and looking, it appears there's a way for a seller to file a "bidder didn't pay" complaint to ebay, so they're not entirely without recourse. But I don't know how easy it is for a seller to tell that a bidder has previously been a pain.

I assume you mean "not to have the seller renege", since you assume that you won the bid. You're also assuming payment arrives. Is there a way for a bidder who refuses to pay after winning to get dinged?