It doesn't, but it allows discovery to proceed so the a person can be identified, for instance by subpoenaing ISP records. This part of the case isn't assigning liability it deciding whether there is enough substance to warrant proceeding with discovery.

The single largest source of credit card fraud losses is card cloning either via skimming, or database compromise. Chips will prevent that. The PIN as you mention only stops stolen card fraud which by comparison is a tiny amount of losses and is generally detected quickly. Shutting down a stolen card is easy.

Banks probably did the math and figured that customer support issues and infrastructure for PINs were not worth it, so they'd rather continue to eat the losses on it.

The chip protects from the biggest source of credit card fraud, card cloning. The pin only additionally protects from stolen card fraud which is by comparison a tiny amount of losses.

Calling it little security is hugely inaccurate.

You laugh, but David Mitchell made a point on one of his soap box youtubes about durable goods on a subscription model might yield better quality than the model we have now. The exact example he used was a table I think (or possible a chair, either way link below).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Enough circumstantial evidence will secure a conviction (without something exculpatory in defense), at some point it stops being a just series of coincidences. People do get convicted on nothing but circumstantial evidence all the time. The standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt", not "beyond all doubt".

AES-GCM is derived from CTR mode. CTR mode turns a block cipher in to a keystream generator (thus a stream cipher). I haven't fully read the paper though, so I don't know whether this attack applies to block cipher used as stream ciphers.

This is a unicode code point, 1F602 specifically. Your user-agent doesn't download the resource, it is like any other character and rendered with your local font assuming it has a glyph for this code point.

It also happens to be fake. Generated to stoke tension. The WSJ article you mention does not support your claim, it says nothing about immigrants wanting to cancel Oktoberfest.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://m.snopes.com/ban-oktobe...

What you are describing is basically what Docker Machine does. It creates/controls VMs with a docker host on it and then allows you to run docker containers on that host.

The article is comparing apples and oranges. What happened in the above article was a criminal prosecution brought by the Government, what happened to Thomas-Rasset was a civil action brought by Capital Records. The government employee may still be sued by the actual rights holder. Thomas-Rasset, to my knowledge was not prosecuted, for her copyright violations.

In all seriousness though the article is comparing apples and oranges. What happened in the above article was a criminal prosecution brought by the Government, what happened to Thomas-Rasset was a civil action brought by Capital Records. The government employee may still be sued by the actual rights holder.

This isn't anything new either, you couldn't reliably resell/buy used copies of Starcraft or Diablo II back in the day as you never knew if someone else kept the CD-key (this applies to a lot of online games that used CD-keys).

More to the point, it is what the locals wanted. Nobody in Alaska calls it Mount McKinley it has always been Denali. The Alaska state government calls it that as well and petitioned the US Govt to change the name in the federal government back in the 70s. Had it not been for some twat Congressman from Ohio this wouldn't have taken 30+ years. There is no liberal conspiracy, it just people who don't know whats going on making mountains out of mole hills.

How times change. I just flew IAD to SAN on a 737 (not sure which model but i'm assuming a newer one). I remember when standard equipment for cross country routes was larger planes as well. I miss it, being crammed in to a 737 for 5 hours is not very enjoyable.

I had heard this claim as well. I remember being stated roughly as "If 10% of cars were automated, improvements would be seen." so I decided to do some Google-Fu, I came up with a few articles quoting the linked study on that figure.

https://www.enotrans.org/wp-co...