Until I have empirical evidence, it didn't happen, it's all hollywood, smoke, and big mirrors.

As a matter of fact, it was closer to two orders.

No, it won't. A whitelist of ip addresses helps, adjusting the timing of acceptance helps, but eventually, brute force works.

More likely, they'll use the code to make the next version harder to hack - put in some sort of encrypted data stream that requires a proprietary .dll to decrypt, then cry foul when it gets hacked again.

Wow, that's so simple and backward compatible, or at least backward.

Is war immoral?
If I were to walk up to you and throw a punch, would it be immoral for you to defend yourself?

Interesting sig you have there, do you know what war it was invented during?

Remote disconnect is a bad idea and shouldn't be there in the first place, the power company won't do a remote connect, they require a human be present.
Given that, the only thing the meter needs to do is transmit two things; the current read and some sort of serial number for ID - it can send that as morse code, there is no need for encryption.

Because typesetting hasn't been digital for very long in any real sense. I know companies that still maintain and use hot lead presses to do printing.
I've worked in the printing industry for almost twenty years, seen the revolution, thought it would have been over by now but it isn't.

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It was three factor, you needed to know the domain first, then the specific server, then the specific pathname on that domain/server. Kudos to the press for having the inside information on the first two, then the perseverance to discover the third.

Bullshit

If you had ALL of the information to make an educated decision, you'd spend years reading the tracking information on the product, then the product wouldn't be available anymore.

I bought an EMC Clarion once, it came with hundreds of pages of documentation, which I skimmed. Two years later, we lost a couple drives, EMC replaced them, problem solved, turns out that one of the chips on the drives had a known failure, but it wasn't known at the time of manufacture.

There are hundreds of chips in your PC, do you want to pay the expense of tracking every one? Do you have any idea what that would cost? I buy hundred dollar motherboards, for me to research every product of every sub-company that has a component on that MB would take hundreds of hours of work, it isn't worth it for a product that isn't directly involved with life support

If the energy can be controlled, then there is information in it, seems to contradict the article I didn't read.

I have always been curious what happened with that. Throughout the animal kingdom, the males tend to be smaller, more colorful, and better dancers. Then there's us humans. I mean WTF?

I'm glad things are the way they are, me being fascinated watching the way human females move and all.

Maybe the engineer that built the bell systems that alert nurses when a bed call button is pressed.
It's a form of communication that you get used to and works well, I know a fellow that can talk to one person in English while holding a conversation with another fellow in Morse code. Very cool and rather disconcerting.

Wow, somebody stood up, said it was their fault, and took responsibility - what a rare moment in the business world. I offer my gratitude and wish them well on what will undoubtedly be a perilous journey.

Nuclear reactors do not generate radioactive waste, they take a mass of mater with some energy content, and then extract some of that energy to make my coffee. There is less energy in the stuff that come out of the reactor than there was when it went in.
Don't mess with my coffee!