This doesn't sound much different to any other anti-virus removal. Microsoft almost certainly used the Microsoft Security Essential update to kill Sefnit, as they do with so many other viruses.

"the total number of computers on the Tor network ballooned from 1 million to 5.5 million as Sefnit spread"

These weren't dedicated Tor nodes that were taken offline because they were being used for malicious purposes, these were infected PCs with a virus that used Tor as the communication protocol. An outdated and vulnerable version of Tor was hidden in a "location that almost no human user would"

If a PC was infected with Sefnit and had the signature old version of Tor in the hidden location, Tor was removed because it's logically the case that Tor was just part of the virus payload. Because of the unique install directory, there wasn't even a remote chance for false positives. Publicly available tools that can be used for good or bad are hijacked by viruses all the time, and it's never a surprise if an anti-virus removes that tool when the virus specific files are removed.

CFLs aren't $30. I recently bought my first ever CFLs, and I'm positive I paid less than $30 for a 5 pack of them.

Your point stands but accurate numbers would make it stronger.

"Really, if you are riding a bike watching a screen, you deserve your lacerations."

Perhaps you didn't even read the article, but the device shown has no screen and is basically just a turn signal.

I remember back in the stone age we had these things called stone tools that we would kill Mammoths with. Now people go to the market just to get a bite to eat. It's fuckin' pathetic.

That's simply not true.

Traditional corn subsidies are historical about 3-5 billion USD, while the total size of the corn market is 50 billion dollars [12 billion bushels ('12-'13) * 4.31 (bushel spot price)].

The subsidies go to 10% of the corn producers. Killing the subsidies would tank the profit margins of some mega farming corporations, but it will hardly change the consumer cost for corn. Corn is legitimately cheap to produce in the US, and the climate and soil is perfectly ideal for it in large parts of the US.

We don't have computers that can process information like the human brain can.

Humans have 10 billion neurons, each connected to 10,000 other neurons for a total of 100 trillion connections.

The brain is also far more parallel than computers are. Supercomputers are also quite parallel, but the "architectures" of the brain and silicon are still so different that studies of the brain must emulate neuron activity through software, which is very inefficient and incapable of running anywhere near 100 trillion synapses concurrently.

The crisscrossed nature of neurons and synapses creates a pretty nasty situation when scaling up to more and more neurons. It's certainly not a linear increase as you add more neurons, it becomes exponentially more complex to model and is one of the worst layouts for computers to simulate.

Yahoo Finance is very good.

The dev behind Super Meat Boy (comically difficult side scroller with a cult following) put up a nice synopsis of his experience testing the controller:

http://tommyrefenes.tumblr.com/post/62476523677/my-time-with-the-steam-controller

Pretty good review for a 3d-printed prototype. Importantly, it seems like it's not fundamentally flawed, and the touchpad based control system works fine in practice.

Probably not.

If the data traffic was higher, it would make acquiring funding (the real objective of this operation) even easier.

The NSA already gets 50 billion dollars a year, more than triple NASA's budget.

NAND is going to be 3d stacked, and it's going to at the very least provide another 10 years of life to NAND before resistive RAM or another technology finally takes over.

Even 1 single process tick (whether it be reducing size below 20nm, or stacking a layer of NAND with a 3D process) will bring the cost below the so called "$1 barrier".

"Samsung has big plans for future iterations of the V-NAND tech, including 3D chips with up to 24 layers, all connected by using "special etching technology" to drill down through the layers and connect them electronically."

It's an ignorant article, and it provides no content beyond stirring up all of the slashdot commenters who can clearly see that there is no credence to the "article".

Due to the nature of TOR, their actions are very grey area.

If the FBA wasn't running the exit nodes, the traffic would just be routed through another exit node. The CP was going to be delivered regardless of the FBI's involvement.

But on the other hand, this (arguable valid) line of reasoning isn't how the law sees it. Perhaps the FBI will get a taste of its own medicine, but unfortunately it's hard to imagine that this will actually get a comparable trial to what an average US citizen would get.

Germany has a very advanced military, it could certainly get photos of the roof of a building more covertly than sending out a helicopter and making a public statement.

Elon Musk founded PayPal, Tesla, and a company that flies TO SPACE. I'm sure he has the supply strategy for the #1 component of his cars worked out. What a non-story.

Given a long enough time frame, the human race will either inevitably fizzle out on our single planet, or move on to be an interstellar civilization for at least some period of time. If the second possibility is to happen, utilizing the moon will most certainly be a stepping stone there. Whether it's covering the surface in solar panels, mining it for helium 3, or something entirely different like simply using it as a staging area for longer range launches, we can't say, but it's virtually guaranteed that humans will be all over the moon in some capacity if they are to expand beyond our planet/solar system. On another note, the moon is a boring bland rock compared to Earth. I bet the moon is incredibly desperate for us to do something interesting on its surface... "please, let something, anything happen aside from getting smacked with another space rock and getting a 15 millionth identical crater!"

That's true, but in this case it looks like it is simply a broken version of a benchmark that Intel latched on to for marketing purposes: "At a certain point, it runs a loop that's meant to be performed 32x just once, then reports to the benchmark that the task completed successfully."

You honestly think that's the result of a commodity exchange? Lots of PC components are commoditized, like RAM/Flash and practically all of the cheaper components like voltage regulators. Deutsche Borse doesn't want to further a conspiracy, they want to make some profit from transaction fees. As for the actual premise, that's pretty interesting! For one, that would mean that all systems on the market would need to be interoperable. As in one day you could buy your cloud power from one provider, and the next day you could put up a bid and get it filled by another who would do the exact same job on the same code, transparently. This would be impossible for the major players in the cloud market as they're all on vastly different platforms and can't take the same jobs. Either the announcement is sensationalized and it won't actually be a "commodity" exchange, or it's going to be a fairly empty market.