If someone was claiming they hacked the Xbox/Live network and got access to credit cards, the comparison might be accurate. In this case, they're claiming they got credit card information from a device that doesn't have it.

And even if it did have it, I think there's better ways for bad guys to get credit card numbers then buying an Xbox one at a time, using a modding tool, grepping the filesystem and pulling out numbers.

It also sounds like there's no evidence from the article that the numbers were actually credit card numbers. I know every Discover card starts with 6011, but not all 16 digit numbers that start with 6011 are Discover cards, as an example. You also can't assume that any 16 digit number that starts with a 3, 4, or 5 and ends with a valid check digit is a credit card number.

Very true. And since Microsoft only appears to accept Visa, Mastercard, and AmEx (not Discover) for xbox live makes the chance that the investigators recovered a previous owner's Discover card number even less likely.

Wonderful, when the inevitable errors in the database occur you'll be stranded at some random gas station. Nothing in that article about how you could prove their database was incorrect or out of date.

At least if an officer ran your plate and stopped you you could provide proof of insurance, showing their database entry was wrong.

I'm with you up to 5 buffalos, but then you lose me.

"Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo" = "Bison from the city of Buffalo trick Bison from the city of Buffalo"
Please explain the last three Buffalo.

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

So the last 3 are "who themselves trick Bison from Buffalo"

"I see your prohibition is against 'liquids'. Can I carry ice onboard?"

The agent didn't know. Asked his supervisor; she didn't know

That may have befuddled a particular agent, but it shouldn't have.
The TSA website lists a clear policy on frozen items

Frozen liquid items are allowed through the checkpoint as long as they are frozen solid when presented for screening. If frozen liquid items are partially melted, slushy, or have any liquid at the bottom of the container, they must meet 3-1-1 liquids requirements.

So those looking for surefire ways to befuddle TSA agents (for fun and amusement?) should probably look elsewhere.

This is a well known covert channel that has been covered in many security engineering books. One of the design principles for military computer networks is to keep the bandwidth of such a channel below 1 bit per second, although for very sensitive data it may need to be even lower.

Of course that type of leakage rate limiting defense can lose its effectiveness when dealing with encrypted data. If the encrypted data is output and can be recorded then all the bad guys need to sneak out is the corresponding key which is tiny in comparison.

At the rate you mentioned it only take about a minute to covert channel out the largest AES encryption key (256 bit). But that key might have been used to encrypt all the traffic sent in the last day (which you could've already intercepted and copied).

Even the largest common RSA key size (4096 bit) would only take a bit over an hour to output.

Don't most current methods of generating electricity pretty much break down into somehow generating heat to boil water to force steam to turn a turbine etc etc? Except for maybe hydroelectric, where you have gravity acting on water turning turbines AFAIK.

That depends on how you define "most current methods". In terms of watt/hours produced you're probably right; but in terms of number of methods not necessarily.

Nuclear, Coal, and (most?) Oil, are used to boil water to run steam turbines.
Natural gas peak load plants are usually gas turbines, no intermediate water boiling step.
Hydroelectric, as you mentioned, is water turbines
Solar thermal is boiling water (or other working fluids)
Solar-voltaic is basically direct electricity generation
Wind turbines obviously don't use boiling water, and neither do tidal power plants.
Geothermal plants are (mostly?) steam turbines.

Diablo 3 will have PVP. You can take your 'single player' character and pit it against your friends. Your single player character is your multiplayer character. There is no difference.

That's a design change that Blizzard choose to make.

Diablo II had PVP but there was still a difference between the online multiplayer character (battle.net) and the local character (single player/lan play). If you wanted cheat protections you played on battle.net, you're character was hosted on their servers and you had to have an active internet connection to play. If you wanted to play locally or just lan play with your friends you could use a non-battle.net character but you'd lose cheat protection.

You could never mix non-battle.net and battle.net characters so the only people affected by character or equipment edits were you and friends on your lan.

So Blizzard removes all that non-battle.net functionality in diablo III and tries to sell it as an improvement. And they wonder why there's a backlash...

The fact that they are discontinuing the roadster seems peripheral, although one may ask why they would discontinue them if they were profitable

I heard that the Roadster was always going to be a limited production run. Tesla got the frame and body from Lotus; paying them to run an production line that otherwise would have been temporarily surplus. But Lotus now has their own uses for that line so Tesla can't buy the chassis / body from them anymore.

Continuing roadster production now would drain their cash because they'd have to license the right to built the frame / body from Lotus then fund a new production line for it. Instead they want to focus on their next step, making a production line for the Tesla S sedan.

It could be any number of things. It's only intuitive because you know how to use iOS, much like the iOS on/off sliders. Why not just have the word "Add..." on that button? You've got "Edit" on the left, after all. Really an odd paradigm switch, from text to symbols.

For what it's worth, that picture only has the 'Edit' button because the user's already set one alarm. (The one for 5:02 am that is currently set to 'on'.)

If no alarms are set you open the clock, clight on the alarm clock icon at the bottom of the screen (labeled 'alarm') and get a screen with only the '+' button on the top and some text in the middle saying "No Alarms".

Since the only buttons on the screen are to change back to clock view, stopwatch, timer (all labeled icons) and '+', I think you, at least, would try the '+' button.

Nuclear!? What about tsunamis?

If you converted that power into a weapon would you have a wave motion gun?