Or we can just ban these idiotic things, whats next health insurance companies stapling pedometer's onto people get a lower rate?

Insurance is supposed to be about aggregating risk, the problem is the lower end of the risk pool is paying more then the out of pocket they could expect and leave the pool if they can. Auto insurance is harder to leave you have to drive (if you want to live outside an urban envirnment) and it's not optional.

When the news figured out sensationalism and fear sold better than good journalism.

Why bother? Put in something like a homerun and get multiple tuners serving the whole house.

Having a plan can be we have a contract with these guys to do this sort of work along with all the info they need. Along with all the paperwork and checking required.

Using a mix of zwave, nrf based mysesnors, and some x10. Vera is pretty user friendly to start up and you can use it as a modem later as it's logic is pretty weak without addons.

Zwave is great for things going into wall boxes, the logistics of getting a DIY box make it prohibitive. When you can get a dimmer for 35 ready made it's hard to put something together at that price point.

nRF bits great for sensors and more complex bits, putting together a custom device is easy and cheap.

x10 it lacks 2 way communications being required and it's error handling sucks. I had a lot of them from 15+ years back they work and I've yet to have any issues with them.

So pretty much for standard things zwave just works and looks good. nRF comes into play for custom things one off clock, switches, temp, humidity, usb charger, battery fallback, alarm, and general LCD display for the wife, controlling a rgbw strip lighting (there is a zwave option for this now), interfacing with DMX (half a universe at a time or nearly so).

ZWave as in sigma designs they seem to be trying to reign in control over zwave as it gets more and more popular and that is worry some to me.

ESP8266 is a new interesting chip at sub $4 for a module it's got wifi and a 32bit proc, so it has some nice features like a working known security model it's also got a full IP stack with all those risks. The plus side a lot more CPU umph and can piggyback on an existing network.

Around my parts they were charging more for 3rd parties to access a line than they were selling direct. Pretty much meant no meaningful competition since they also had to provision into their ATM cloud and provide transit.

That was because anybody could get into the fray. For that to happen you have to separate the last mile and transit and/or allow more players to build out. They tried badly with DSL.

As to the cutoff no idea.
Move to google voices voicemail to use it as an app. And Shush will let you mute your ringer for a specific time without unlocking the phone.

A major health insurance company still runs token ring in their headquarters. Instead of putting in conduit they put token ring into the concrete. Their upgrade so far has been wifi but they are still buying token ring cards that costs more than the laptop they connect to.

What advantage does wind/solar have over fission/fusion? Radioactive waste seems to be the only downside and that is more a regulatory issue than a technical one.

Last I checked RSA is using a seed in their hardware tokens. That was what the debate was about and thus the assumptions relate to a RSA style seed based token not some other theoretical device.

Use a soft token, store as many seeds and OTP's are you like. The a reason RSA tokens only have one seed is they get $$$ for each one adding some buttons to scroll up/down is a very minor security risk to make it much more functional. Modern phones are putting the seeds in hardware vaults, not quite as good but a decent trade off.

Yes it is as your using the same seed. An attack that breaks e-trade's security can then give them the seed for your bank etc etc. Software tokens make having many seeds trivial, it would be trivial to do the same for hardware tokens to some extent.

Do you understand that using a single RSA style dongle for multiple places is a huge risk? We have standards based ways of doing this, but that does not get RSA a massive paycheck or somebody else that is huge on the hook should it fail. Hell phones are actually getting better at this putting those keys in internally hardened hardware, it's not as secure as a hard token but prevents most we got the keys to the kingdom attacks.

There is they could have sought a warrant in Ireland, since they have stronger privacy protections the fishing expeditions would not be allowed. That is why they are trying to make an end run to avoid that having to show cause etc etc etc.