laptops and desktops don't have the space restrictions and hence heatpipes and many other cooling solutions are readily available and already in use.

I would be shocked if they could site a study that shows less than 90% fail!

Who told you FLOSS doesn't have those problems? they lied. many FLOSS projects fall apart because of the "virtual teams" of people with different goals and aspirations. I would not be surprised if the failure rate is even higher than 70%

If you remove the blackberry android references it sounds like they are describing a windows tablet, complete with Bitlocker, applocker, MS store and hooked up to active directory. Is android really that far behind in security and flexibility that this requires a such an expensive service?

barter agreements aren't always as trouble free as many think. you run the risk of not just the other party reporting the income but also someone else finding out and reporting. My brother ran afoul by the person he had bartered with deciding he had a loss on his business so it was in his interest to report the income and costs in the exchange and he did so without telling my brother leaving my brother with a nasty letter from the tax department of please explain.

Citizens ARE allowed to trade in whatever means you desire. however those that operate businesses have reporting and legal obligations. you can trade in potatoes and Spanish onions as your currency if you want, but even then expect regulations if you make transfers between people and in and out of other currencies possible.

This looks like a simple case of a blogger not knowing what the fuck he is talking about. Nothing being banned in the legislation, seems to merely be trying to ensure virtual currency is regulated in the exact same way as dollars. If anything you could say this is a positive for bitcoin, but it seems the tards that support bitcoin look at anything that takes away there opportunities for fraud and tax evasion as the government stomping on their god given rights.

Perhaps this time they will get Robocop right!

Not suggesting we have a better alternative. But so many things that seemed like good ideas at the time look bloody awful with 20-20 hindsight and a lack of understanding of the true costs. For the record I am all for harnessing wind and tidal power, but I still wonder whether we are just painting another coat of lipstick on the pig and praising it for its new found beauty.

I wonder if in another 50 or 100 years we will have people screaming about how thoughtless this generation was in taking energy out of the earths natural winds and currents thus altering long term climate. I know it is such a tiny proportion that is extracted, but still I do wonder. nothing is free, the cost is just not as visible.

of course it doesn't mean they are secure. That doesn't make it ok to try and break their security. Try going to the backdoor of banks and looking for a way to jimmy the door open to see if you can steal money, it won't matter whether you give the money you take back if you find a way in, or even if you didn't take any money, you will go to jail. If you want to help them do vulnerability scanning for free then approach them with your offering, if you can show you have the skills and background most will take a free offering of your labour, if not you can always out them as not even being willing to have their security checked.

reporting vulnerabilities doesn't get you put in Jail, however manipulating sites without permission to look for them does. incidently the guy you linked did a lot more than "just" tell then just discover and tell them of a vulnerability, he exploited it and extracted a ton of information from their systems.

hackers constantly trawl github for morons that leave keys in their code. So many organizations have been caught out now, especially ones that host on amazon, that their is simply no excuse for this happening anymore.

how the hell did you get marked insightful, even on here. This is EXACTLY the sort of welfare programs that government should be investing in, investments that lead to jobs for members of the public, investment that leads to higher income and the ability for the state to attract other corporations and investment.

go check some of the things people have been admitted to hospital attached too, inserted in them or stuck on them. People will fuck anything, living, dead, animal, vegetable, inanimate.