RTFA; that won't help.

The problem is that before you can connect out to use your VPN, you first have to get provisioned by the hotel's wifi. This involves at a minimum checking a box that says "I won't try to hack or do bad things," along with either authorizing a charge, giving the webpage your hotel frequent traveler info/name and room number, or authorizing a charge for the Internet access. Those pages are what put you at risk; the attacker hacks the router that serves up the page, adds a nice little bit of extra code to serve up malware (that he also uploads to the router itself, so no need for outside Internet to get it), and boom...everyone with a vulnerable system that connects in that hotel gets pwned.

And that's beyond the risk of the machine serving as a jump-point for deeper penetration into the hotel itself. How is your using a VPN going to protect the hotel's keycard system from being hacked? Or protect your private information that resides in the reservation system?

Jordan has access to enough water. Just because it's in the middle east doesn't mean it's a desert. Power plants go near population centers, and population centers exist near water. Even more importantly, there's a difference between "drinking water," with all of its sanitation, distribution, and monitoring needs, and just plain "water," which can be found in any lake. Heck, lots of power plants have man-made lakes to supply that water.

But you're missing the real point. Modern nuclear plants don't need that much water. The Fukushima reactor is the oldest design there is, and its dependency on water is one of the reasons it's no longer used. Passive cooling towers (the big bong-looking cement things that we associate with nuclear plants, but which can also be used on other non-nuclear plants) massively reduce the water requirements of a nuclear plant, and are almost certainly what would be used.

Not true. A lot of religious fundamentalists also consider imag...oh. Uh, yeah...that's right...good point.

There is when it's totally off-topic and entirely irrelevant. It doesn't matter that Google is involved; this is about China and spying on their own citizens. Google's business model has nothing to do with it. Disliking Google has even less to do with it...because Google is, to date, the only tech company that has ever stood up to China over things like this. In this situation Google is actually the good guys.

And, for the record, every company wants a monopoly. That's why monopolies were outlawed. I think it's you that should use your brain.

"What do you mean, you can't come out to fix my hard drive until next week? Don't you know how cold it is outside?!?!?"

And if you live there, China wants a monopoly on knowing your private information...plus incarcerating you and even killing you to harvest your transplantable organs should it find that it doesn't like something it learns about you. Like that you think Tibet should be free. Or if you worship the wrong god.

Please do try to keep a sense of perspective?

That you live in Florida?

The site was really just the same software/format as The Pirate Bay, only it didn't use any text...

Now, now, now. It's not actually true that all frats are racist. In fact, even the most racist of frats aren't even racist all the time.

When they're committing date rape, race is of no concern to them.

Actually, they seized 1.2 petabytes of data, not child porn.

The situation is that this is a data center. So that means SANs and virtual hosts. SANs mean that you don't just have a 1-to-1 relationship between a hard drive (or even a hard drive array) and a computer. And virtual hosting means you don't have a 1-to-1 relationship between a server and a website. So I'd bet my paycheck that they went in with a broad net, grabbing every SAN that they thought contained child porn. In essence, they grabbed the whole data center so that they can figure out just how much of it...and which of it...is actual evidence.

Dude, did you SEE the video? It was awesome! Never has the back of someone's head looked so incredible! HypeHypeHype! WantWantWant!

This kind of tech has existed for a while; it's primarily used in surveillance gear, so that the earphones being worn by someone working in the field can't be seen. The downside of the current state-of-the-art, however, is that the wearer needs to have the induction coil under their clothing, around their neck. I'm really curious how this would work in stereo, personally, as all the solutions I've seen are only mono by requirement; there's no easy way to partition the field into two segments, to separate left from right.

Billy Rios sums things up interestingly with this sentence:

"If [a hacker] shuts off a heater, it's not so bad. But if there are moving parts, they're totally going to hurt [someone] and do damage," says Rios, founder of Laconicly.

The trick with control systems...which is what the computers controlling this car wash are...is that logical actions result in kinetic effects. And you can't reboot physics, or restore solid objects from backup.

I think it's interesting that Lenovo posts not just the "Automatic Removal Tool," but also the source code to the tool. What I want to know is this: has anyone compiled it, and managed to get their compile options/environment such that they came up with a binary that matches the downloadable tool?

Here's an experiment that will illustrate the answer for you.

Buy a Parrot drone, and fly it. See how easy it is? It's very stable, and quite straightforward.

Now, buy a small but decent (i.e., big enough that it could carry something like a GoPro) R/C helicopter. Try and take off; don't forget to wear eye protection. Tally up how many times you have to go back to the shop for new rotors and other parts, as you crash again and again. Or, in the alternative, just watch the Mythbusters episode where they take on the myth of a helicopter crashing because its rotor blades were destabilized with a little bit of tape, so you can watch them go through this exact process.

And yes, it's technically possible to add technology to single-rotor design systems to automate the corrective actions to keep them stable. But by using an octocopter, you can do it a lot more cheaply and more easily.