``just cover the camera with a little black tape and tada, no more spying''

There were rumors that this kind of trick could be done as far back as '08/'09. Black electrical tape was stuck over the webcam lens on my laptop for years.

You know what they say: "Big hands mean a big..."

Anything that MOVES!

Guess maybe i'm not thinking. They do need to verify that cards are correct, so they do need some internet access, though they could do it over the phone.

Well, i guess they will still need to rethink the security of this.

Seems to me they readers only need to communicate with a computer in the store, then that computer could do the verifying. Might be a little slower, but would probably be a lot more secure.

You'd think people would figure out not to attach everything to the internet. Why the card readers needed to be connected to anything but an internal network (with no internet connection to that) is a bad security model to begin with.

Will they ever learn?

... there is no record of a Slashdotter ever having bred with a supermodel.

You don't say.

I'd expect the FBI to use its collection of Bitcoin to engage in a number of sting operations. Buy contraband using their Btc and break up the next Silk Road. I'm sure they are getting set up with their own mining operation which would give them an up to date view of the block chain.

The camera seems the most useless part of a macbook anyway. Just paint over it in black, scuff it with sandpaper, etc. I don't want to see a video of you talking, and you definitely don't want to see a video of me.

The buttons have been move crucial millimetres. They now SUCK.

"get"?

I'm turning off the web server right now!

Now this makes sense. I was trying to figure out how a DNA test would reveal drug or alcohol use. But it makes sense if you look at it like a scam distributed by spam e-mail. Poor grammar, misspellings and outlandish claims serve to filter out people with some critical thinking skills. People for who such pleas would be a waste of time.

If you think a police dragnet for DNA is legitimate for "making roads safer", you are just a data point on how much crap an authority figure can dish out with a bullshit story.

Warrantless Wiretapping was about getting blackmail materials on every sitting member of the House and the Senate, as well as their staff and acquaintances.

Your government fell to a silent coup a handful of years ago, and we're now seeing the direction to which the "winners" want to take your country and our world.