This is less of a concern, this is the wiretaps requiring a warrant (meaning judicial oversight). The bigger concern is the warrantless wiretapping. All international calls, traffic analysis on all domestic calls, and who knows what else. It is safer to just asume everything is tapped. I can't count the number of times I've made a disparaging comment about the government on an international call (friends overseas) and added in a "Just kidding, NSA!" I'm ashamed of what this country has become.

-molo

It sounds like they reinvented JT65.

-molo

NoScript and AdBlock both needed updates.

-molo

I use five extensions, all quite mainstream. One was even produced by mozilla. ALL FIVE of them were incompatible with 5.0 and needed to be updated. What you're saying just isn't true about "poorly programmed extensions". The model is broken.

-molo

I walk on this street going to work, 47th between 5th and 6th. There is no way this guy is getting the equivalent of half an ounce of gold per week from the street. Its not like you look down and see flakes or anything. Insanity.

-molo

For those of us interested in developing financial services using bitcoin, how have you dealt with regulatory issues? It seems like the SEC and FINRA in the US would not be keen on unregistered broker-dealers and agents and owners not having the legally required Series 7 and Series 24 certifications. Have you sought the UK equivalent certifications? The requirements of lawyers, accountants, certifications etc. seem to put a very high capital cost on starting a legitimate business offering services in this space.

-molo

from the WebRTC FAQ:

Does anyone know how well this works in practice? It seems that some external server will be needed for coordination, making this very much less P2P than it would otherwise be.

-molo

Anyone know what Lockheed's plans are for this system? Complex fluid dynamics? Something else?

The press release only says ".. applied to some of Lockheed Martin's most challenging computation problems."

-molo

about:config

webgl.disabled = true

-molo

Has anyone had any good experiences with programming-centric training courses that they would recommend? Please, no introductory stuff.

Thanks.
-molo

Only if you use iTunes, which doesn't run on any libre OS.

-molo

Okay, you are correct on the MRZ. I thought those were mag printed characters like typically found on a US banking check, but apparently they are designed for OCR-reads, not magnetic reads. As for RFID, that is mostly semantics.. the important part is that it can be read over RF.

-molo

They don't have a mag stripe, they have mag printed characters. See the bottom two rows of text in this photo, the "http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Passport_inside_(Biometric).png

RFID passports are currently in production from several countries. I've personally seen one from Japan, and reportedly new US Passports also include them. See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport

-molo

Isn't this what the current passport system already provides? Passports already have unique numbers, and there are existing standards about reading the mag printed strip and RFID tags in there now.

-molo