Try the source at http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/05/22/weather-satellite-fails/2351927/

Satellite logs are at http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html, it looks like the satellite failed to return imaging two days ago and is now being put into a storage mode.

The forking was fixed within a few hours. Mining pools were notified of the issue and alerted to the recommendation to revert mining activity back to 0.7.x, which was a simple fix to grow a blockchain compatible with all mining pool Bitcoin versions. The majority of miners ignoring the incompatible fork (which caused a "Lock table is out of available lock entries" database error on Bitcoins compiled against certain BerkeleyDB libraries), let the new fork grow longer and all is fixed.

Almost all transactions are expected to be included in the new chain, so there is little opportunity for malfeasance. If you sent someone money for goods, your transaction sending money will likely be in both the new chain and the old.

The people already doing this would qualify as prior art, and it is obvious to anyone educated in the field:

Transfer data over audio (download the code) (2009)

Sound for mobile communication ala NFC (2011)

Transferring data using audio in android.(2012)

He probably got the idea by reading about what Bitcoiners are already doing.

Some of the finest minds in tech didn't graduate from there.

No, it must be -994. And I've been waiting for VII to to come out for years, so I can finally stop pirating Pico.

What it means is that if you want to verify someone's work history, you call up that company, and they will give you a third-party service to call to verify employment at their company. Negotiate a huge phone tree, and you find out you have to sign up for that service in order to verify employment. Seems like a scummy way of preventing your employees from changing jobs, getting loans, etc. by outsourcing something you should be mandated into doing to a fee-charging company.

I guess Oregon doesn't research foreign languages well, knew an Indonesian who had "CIMENG" (slang, google image search will reveal a meaning now), and "ANJING" (means dog, but it an expletive when yelled out, like "fuck!", when you are mad).

You should have a look at the website of the company actually selling the turnkey technology that is prepackaged on multiple brands of retail-oriented wi-fi routers.

Notable is that the information doesn't just stay in the store, it is collected and aggregated by the company's cloud service. Conceivably they could track your movements to and between any location using this service, with no advertising or warning of it's presence at all. It can be another Google Analytics, where the service represents itself as provided for free to stores to help market to your customers, but it is actually part of a larger data gathering campaign.

There is privacy-regulation-scale potential here, they can collect metrics that a particular user went into the mall, walked by Radio Shack, went into Bed Bath and Beyond for about 15 minutes (tap your phone here to pay...), went back into Radio Shack. Then they came back to the mall a week later, after going to the library, the mall across town, the coffee shop, in this motel in another town town, and in a hotel in Hawaii. They paid for wi-fi service in the coffee shop and in the hotel, so BTW, here is who they actually are.