Good luck with that. You can block all IPs assigned to ARIN in the US, but thanks to IP address shortages, you'll find many of those sites with ARIN-allocated IPs are actually located geographically in Europe...and some APNIC IPs are located in the US...etc etc

Limit of 20 years in the United States -- notably, Chinese patents are issued for 13 years (apparently, 13 is a "Lucky number" in Chinese culture). Patents are usually filed with WIPO with priority dates (meaning, date the clock started ticking) dating to the original patent application in the U.S. (or the provisional patent application). This gives them 7 years of a headstart to legally, under Chinese law, start making knockoffs and selling them in states where either the patent hasn't been registered through WIPO, or within China.

How is this different/superior than crypto.cat for web-based ease? Of course, Pidgin/Adium with OTR is already available and likely superior, and can run on top of almost any existing IM infrastructure.

I find it more than ironic that this article was posted on Slashdot, which in 2014..still doesn't support SSL. It'll even redirect HTTPS to plaintext HTTP!

...and no one cares. I think we should however appeal to some sort of internet tribunal as to whether wasting so much space on this, on such a high traffic website like Slashdot, warrants a sentence of an electronic gag device.

Hadn't heard about this, but my model is a 2010 (I got it new in 2010), and has had zero problems at 40k miles. Still haven't had to even get a brake job done. Worst I've had to do is plug a couple tires -- but really can't blame the car for placing nails in the road :)

I'm biased here because I drive one, but, Subarus are known for being "lego cars." They are ridiculously easy to take apart and put parts in, everything is setup very logically, and parts are interchangeable within a few years of the model. Also, there's a huge community at NASIOC that will give you lots of information and people to ask about whatever you'd like to do.

So far, I have (previously having no experience doing work on cars):
Installed Pioneer head unit w/ DVD player + ebrake bypass (no I do not watch DVDs while driving, it's just easier to bypass than connect the ebrake :) )
Replaced speakers with SEAS Lotus
Replaced battery with an optima yellowtop for the soundsystem (stock 90A alternator works great though)
Installed subwoofer in custom enclosure (easy to find custom fiberglass for these cars)
Installed remote starter
Disabled the blasted beeping when a passenger doesn't put on their seatbelt

I'm sure you could do a lot more with one of these, but that's just what I've been able to do in a year or two of playing around with it. I am no longer at all intimidated by opening my car up and doing work on it, if you can put together a PC and do legos, you can work on a Subaru.

If you'e seen videos of him doing the supposed "riding bike down the street," he only gets a handful of meters, slowly, and it is a very painstaking bike ride. They even edit his video to show the more successful parts. I looked into this after seeing his TED talk -- while echolocation seemed pretty neat, it definitely seems like his foundation is exaggerating its efficacy. It definitely does something, his bike riding is awkward at best but I think it's talked up in an effort to encourage others to learn it as well.

I'm pretty sure I'm not the "asshole" here...in that, well, you chime in on a conversation just to call someone an expletive, or insult them..without even bothering to google OTP first. Notice in all my posts in my post history I don't resort to name calling like you have done here -- it's a clear sign logic has failed, and all you have is nonsense rhetoric and insult to offer.

Clearly I should've spelt out OTP to avoid confusion in this context..except, yes, I do PCI compliance audits for a living, and this acronym seems very second-nature at this point. However though, I wasn't the one confusing OTP..it was the readers applying their own cognitive bias to apply the "one time pad" meaning here, even though the context clearly pointed away from that.

Sure they do. It's actually common in security parlance. When was the last time you made it to a security convention?

Here's an example in commercial marketing:

https://www.yubico.com/product...

I'm not confusing anything, One time password is the proper name for the technology.

What am I saying? I think I have some idea.

I've done plenty of PCI compliance audits, CISA certified, yadda yadda.. so you would hope I have some insight here.

What do you know about crpytography? For example, if AMEX cards had a smart card in them that also had a OTP functionality -- like YubiKey, meaning a public key, an OTP (one time password, not pad), and a counter -- they could be made much more secure.

How so, you ask?

• Merchant validation service would validate based on OTP, this could be API-based with only AMEX etc storing shared secrets with the OTP devices
• Replay attacks prevented by counter -- so old OTPs could not work if re-used
• May require information on magnetic strip + RFID/NFC/OTP device, thus ensuring the card is present
• POS systems could be compromised and since the OTP/counter changes, compromise of PAN data stored at endpoints would be far less valuable

This is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the many advantages such a system would have on making fraud a lot more difficult, and thus less profitable/worthwhile.

If you're going to troll at least you give the benefit of the doubt on acronyms. OTP = One Time Password ...NOT one time pad.

Here's a reference so you can avoid further confusion and undeserved insult: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

With OTP and related two-factor authentication technology becoming so widely available, one would have hoped that credit cards would implement some type of solution either using OTPs instead of cards, or augmenting them with OTPs. Millions of dollars in fraud prevention, "credit monitoring" and other such services would be saved by simply using solid cryptographic systems for the payment networks.

PCI compliance would probably be a lot less of a headache as well...