... read this and thought this was a hacking-related article

I think china tried both prohibition and non-prohibition, sometime back. The latter didn't work out so well for them.

Try putting a load balancer (Cisco ACE, Citrix NetScaler) on a virtual IP and load balancing the UDP packets across several nodes behind the balancer.

No, I don't think so. RMS worked at MIT for over a decade.

" Very useful! "
- Mr. McAfee and friends

Planes and runways have lights.

You know Russell Peters is a comedian, right? :-) I'll wait for the meta-episode where Peters makes fun of people who got suckered into believing what he said.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/...

True. He may not even be able to.

No, read it as....
"Normally, stiffness and strength declines with the [decline in] density of any [single] material;" ...because of that follows next:
"that's why when bone density decreases, fractures become more likely."

Me too! :D Ignore the cowards.

The IRS probably still has Exchange server logs with message-IDs, recipients, timestamps and message sizes.

Some mail recipients may still have copies of the 'lost' emails filed away -- either emails themselves, or portions forwarded, replied to, or otherwise quoted in some manner. Server logs will make this known.

... Its a covert transmission channel, not an attack...

A camera pointed at a computer monitor slowly shifts its average hue (a la 'f.lux') is another such example.

Thanks - I suspected that this was the case, but wasn't sure.

Location tracking stays turned off in my iOS device. A nuisance when you want a quick look at the streetmap of the area you're in.

I suspect this entire ploy is so that iBeacons can be marketed more effectively.