Yup, it's always been there.

Plenty of people know where all the international fiber endpoints are. I can think of a dozen buildings that if they were isolated, it would cripple Internet service in the US. They don't even have to shut down entire datacenters, only the power in the meet-me rooms. I think DHS can find 2 dozen agents in the US who would go to those buildings, shut down the rooms, and the Internet is gone.

As we've seen before, a problem with just one tier 1 provider can make Internet service crawl. Dropping a few major peering points would effectively shut the whole thing down. It's not even hard to find them, if you've been doing business with them. I've been to a few.

They could probably have it ready to shut down simultaneously with a 30 minute lead time to give enough time for the agents to drive to them. Internet and phones would be dead everywhere in the US, and severely interrupt international use. Any remaining links and private peerings would be saturated beyond use.

There are maps and lists readily available.

http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_points#North_America
http://www.bgp4.as/internet-exchanges
http://www.datacentermap.com/ixps.html

Fair use cases are very fact specific. If you start monkeying with the facts, Judge Chin might not feel the same way about it.

I don't know but please hire me as your lawyer when you do.

The Zoe is an electric only car that is marketed at European "company lease" users. Actual drivers don't "own" the cars, nor do their employers. To keep costs nice and predictable, Renault had to do this. Even the few private "owners" of these cars got scared of battery replacement costs of several hybrids we've had for the last ten years or so in Europe, but lease companies have started demanding warranties for the full duration from manufacturers to even consider the cars in their programs.

The fact that a manufacturer can remotely shut down your car using GPRS/3G is scary and not something you'd want. However, given the financial model and the amount of things that can go wrong in such an "experimental vehicle" it may be for the best. Failing throttles and brakes and no way to shut down the car is not what you want. Maybe Renaults *will* catch on fire spontaneously, who knows?

Thatswhatappealscourtsarefor

For some /.ers that's going to mean they have to do grunt suppression.

My understanding is that the false positive rate is so high that it's essentially useless at determining if someone is lying. As others have alluded to, it is the subject's belief that the interrogator with his machine that can somehow determine lies from truth that counts. Since even innocent people accused of a crime and interrogated in this fashion will have high stress levels, the machine itself has absolutely no technical capacity to determine truth or lie. The secret to beating a polygraph boils down to knowing that it's all smoke and mirrors and pseudoscientific BS.

Try those in the UK legal system. They are absolutely horrible laws, since you can even sue someone and win if they have only stated facts. Just because you actively did something to make them look less good, not by slander or falsely claiming they did something illegal, you're committing a crime.

I'm on DSL, you insensitive clod!

"Flawed in principle" is putting it rather mildly. I'd put it as "complete and utter bullshit." Polygraphs are on a level with dousing and voodoo dolls.

While your theory is sound, in practice, you never hit an exact identical car exactly head on. Statistically, smaller, nimble cars with attentive drivers tend to be more able to avoid you than big trucks and school buses. This leaves the amount of big vehicles in distraction-caused collisions larger than you'd expect from the amount of them on the road. The amount of failed avoidances is also pretty high, when you're in multi-vehicle crash statistics. That means that almost all crashes in which you hit another vehicle while being distracted will have acceleration forces of both cars play a role. A lot of those will even each other out, but you will also see that the forces will make things worse. Think of cars going sideways hitting other cars and objects, flipping over and even rolling because of "whiplash" effects.

Apart from that, frontal crashes tend to be a significant portion of the result of distraction, but they are hardly the only thing. There are plenty of other scenarios where you get into a seriously life threatening situation, like rolling the car a few times or flicking something and doing a sideways slide into a tree or lantern post. At speeds over 35 mph those can easily be lethal since air bags can't protect you effectively. Think of the added anxiety of not knowing what sort of crash you are going to be "simulating" to teach people not to fondle their phone while driving.

Basic research is the sea out of which major new technologies grow. Perhaps you think the West should just cede its technological dominance because it costs money to get there, but some of us see that as a form of cultural suicide.

The US is at absolutely no fucking risk of going broke. The sheer value of its human, industrial and natural resources make that just about impossible.

How are we ever going to get the amount of helium required to fill such a large tunnel? The LHC is already using a large amount of all the helium we have on this planet. It is going to become awfully expensive at least to get that much helium together, if we can manage it at all.

The "well known" paid for and free porn sites try hard to keep their servers free from malware. It's the ad servers they use to generate income that usually get infected. The other way to get malware from going to porn sites, is going to malware sites that use the promise of free porn to get you to click on stuff.

The best way to prevent this from happening if you can't do anything about the browsing habits of your users, is to block all ad servers, regardless of what site they serve ads on on your firewalls and web proxies. We all have seen regular stories of some big "normal" web site spreading malware because the company they use for serving ads has slipped up or got hacked. As long as ad services aren't careful enough, they deserve to be blocked. That may mean that websites that have a business model that provides content paid for by ads, will not have any income. They can solve that by selling ads served on their own servers again, until the ad serving businesses get the message and start paying serious attention to malware.

That still leaves you with people going to malware sites. There are filter lists and appliances for that, but they are never 100%, just like virus scanners are. It takes people getting infected and the industry reacting to those before some form of block can be established. If you can't educate your users, this will always remain a problem, until someone comes up with some smart technology to prevent it.