From the PDF, the implementation mistake is to give the attacker feedback on whether the tried key is correct after the first half of authentication (phase M4), and then after the complete authentication (phase M6). Since the PIN is only 8 digits, and the last one is a checksum, the problem is reduced to guessing 1 number in 10000, and then 1 in 1000.

The document states that there are few possible mitigations for the problem. However, it skips the obvious one: do not notify authentication success/failure until the response to the M6 message. This would restore the 1 in 10,000,000 guessing complexity of the PIN code, without changing the protocol. It should even be a new issue tested by the compliance suite the vendors need to pass to get the WPS certification.

This is the idea behiind Ribbon Hero, a game designed to learn to use the ribbon interface of Microsoft Office.

Cursive is not easily legible, and clearly the wrong choice in a world where you are not going to write long texts with a quill. Like other antiquated handwriting scripts, it is obsolete and should be reserved to specific cases.

Just teach the kids to spell correctly, and write legibly with block letters. If they want to learn calligraphy, let them learn it during art lessons, instead of basic school training.

A comparatively small country will always be able to set lower taxes for enterprises than their larger neighbors. This is because it only needs to attract a small percentage of the larger countries taxable income to offset the loss due to the lower tax rate, whereas the big country only lowers its income when it does this. Fiscal competition in an open market is a fraud against the people of larger countries, preventing them to set the tax rates of the companies that do business there.

You may be interested by the latest demo board from Freescale, which is less powerful than the Samsung, but very comparable to the BeagleBoard: i.MX53 Quick Start Board.

At $150, it is a good bargain, and it's a Linaro target as well.

Note that it's an ARM Cortex-M3 chip, which means that the assembly is Thumb 2, and that the exception and thread model is different from the ARM7 chips that were common for this use in the past.

And really, when your choice is between some old 16-bit C166 variant and ARM, I can assure you that engineers rejoice in getting rid of a lot of kludge. Such as 'multiplication' functions and far pointers.

Last time I checked, you can add multiple sources to the Linux implementations. For example, Google's repository for Linux contains Google Earth, Chrome, etc. And it's usually not the only way to install an application.

When was the last time you added a third-party provider to Apple's implementation ?

That's because Steam doesn't always display this kind of message. Any info corresponding to a game not available in your country can be hidden, as if it never existed. You can search for it, but you will find nothing. Yet, if you go to the 'Achievements by game' page, it is there all right in the list. But you can't buy it, you can't even see the store info for it.