True, but what about the all the travelers who have no checked luggage because they don't want to wait for an hour to get it back at the destination (if at all) ?

I often visit the US for 2-3 days to attend conferences with no other luggage than a small carry-on backpack. Depending on the location, the flight takes between 8 and 12 hours - I am definitely not interested in watching 5 movies back-to-back.

Good idea, but unfortunately it won't work in this case. Many of UCBerkeley's lecture videos only show the slides and you hear the lecturer talk. See, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

It's an interesting idea and nicely carried out, but in the real world I doubt this is of much concern. For the attack to be successful, all of the following must hold
1. memory susceptible to rowhammer attack (in itself not trivial - only few and given memory locations can be flipped)
2. VM manager merges physically identical pages of unrelated VMs (i.e., the identical memory pages of different VMs point to the same physical page)
3. attacker VM must know the contents of the page in the victim VM
4. attacker must register a page with the to-be-attacked contents before the victim VM does so that it can somewhat control its physical location and use rowhammer on it

Especially #3 is not easy. In the paper, the authors assume they know all SSH authorized keys of the victim page which seems a bit far-fetched. Pages holding OS contents are easier to guess; I think an attack on those is more probable.

Also, the fix is trivial. Don't buy cheap RAM that can be attacked with rowhammer for your data centers.

Don't forget, this is Europe where people are not scared stiff by topless women and worry that their children become sexual predators because seeing a pair of nipples.

Soon, we will never have to leave Google's "intranet" for anything. IMDB, Wipedia, travel, shopping, weather, calculators, dictionnaries, news, now TV program listings...pages providing a particular service get indexed one by one, context integrated, and then obliterated by Google. The new form of embrace, extend and extinguish, apparently.

This is not a new, but a very worrying approach Google is taking here. Monopolies have never been good for the consumers.

Don't get all hyped up. Your government has been taking photo ID and fingerprints of all (legal) foreign visitors since ~2002. And as of April 1 this year you can only enter the US with a biometric passport which means my data will be stored in electronic form in one of the many databases the US operate and be susceptible to getting hacked.
The only entity that has my fingerprints is a foreign and rouge government - yours. I have been able to get around a biometric passport until now, so not even my government has any biometric identifiers on me - which is how it should be in an ideal world.

Took me a moment to realize that there are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who know how to type powers of two, and those who don't.

True, but to implement 2 or 3 only the navigation app needs that data. You don't need to send it all the way to Google (and TFA says so).

I'm excited at the endless possibilities of this! I bet soon your Android phone will tip off the police if you exceed the speed limit.

The warranty covers 10 years or 150TBW whichever comes first. This should be fine for private use (150TB written over 10 yrs = 40GBW/day) but YMMV.

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I use xfce on Gentoo and have observed similar (not all) of the grandparent's problems: fullscreen is broken for some apps, the theme icons are not correct whenever a second monitor is connected when the X server starts, and so on. And yes, it used to work before.

Granted, xfce on Xubuntu is much worse.

If lawmakers of both houses were considered non-essential we wouldn't have a shut down right now.
It's all fun and games as long as you can play with someone else's income.