That bared nipple in a cartoon thing? Not an algorithm (at least not one implemented on a computer) -- that was censored by a plain ol' minimum-wage human.

Perth SmartRider does indeed use MiFare Classic, and the cards are indeed insecure. But there's some server-side smarts which will (eventually) notice a cloned card, and deactivate it. I expect it also (eventually) notices if you top up your card yourself for free.

The idea is that although the system can be exploited at a small scale, it isn't worth the hassle. Provided their server-side stuff prevents exploits going commercial and becoming widespread, it's good enough.

TFA neglects to mention whether this Hondo chip is x86 or ARM. Since Windows 8 runs on both, it's a legit question.

(I'm guessing x86, but that's just a guess.)

Is this related to Bill Gates' plan to re-invent the toilet?

Why is this post not tagged "dupe"?

Figure out who, duplicated, would do most good for humankind.

Then ask their permission. And work down the list until I got a "yes". Lists of Nobel Prize winners would appear to be a good place to start.

But in the case where they're suing many different people, it might not be cheaper for any one party to pay for the hit.

What we need is a way to crowdfund assassination of patent trolls.

Hitstarter.

Yeah, the Office of Strategic Services was replaced with the Central Intelligence Agency over a period of a couple of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services#Dissolution_into_other_agencies

Presumably those of us who answered "one shiny penny" are not entirely enamoured of our current jobs.

Yep; that's why I said "oil dug up out of the ground". I agree that there's a very good chance we will continue to use gasoline/petrol and diesel in applications like transport for quite some time, by manufacturing them from something other than fossil oil. That something else might be coal, or bioreactor algae, or some other option.

Liquid hydrocarbons have a fabulously high energy density and are easy to transport, internal combustion engines have a lot of desirable properties, and we've got all this existing infrastructure.

But the stuff dug out of the ground? Gone in a century.

Typically production of a limited resource is approximately symmetric, so you can expect production of oil to tail off over about the same time period that it ramped up. There's no point at which we "finish" the "last" of it, but expect us to be mostly done with oil dug up out of the ground somewhere in the 22nd century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbert_peak_theory

And here I expected a story about changes in the price of something over time would include a chart.

To remedy the lack of charts: http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2012/02/27/how-high-have-gas-prices-risen-over-the-years/

(This is a good link because it includes an inflation-adjusted chart.)

If I were emperor, I'd promote all second-level .com's to top level, except where there were clashes. So example.com becomes example. (But uk.com doesn't become uk, because that would clash with an existing top-level domain.) The existing .com domain would continue to exist, so typing "example.com" would still work.

But this scheme would, of course, not net ICANN millions of dollars.

And the converse: people who gravitate to one another acquire like interests. I used to work for a company that sold both franchises and licenses. On our big map of the USA, the license-coloured push-pins clustered, and the franchise-coloured push-pins also clustered. It was because people had seen what worked for others near them, and chosen the same option.

Similarly, my current workplace features almost entirely iPhones: a few early adopters were happy with them, so most others chose the same option.

It's the slogan of Muppet Labs.