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The picture depicts one car though. That would likely imply that you could send multiples though the tube, kind of like rail cars are sent along the rails.

The big thing is that these will travel much faster.

The one thing people seem to be glossing over is, why or how do all these lost phones and people share the same geographic element between them?

Would there be any logic in solidifying NaCl for fuels or for burning to drive electric generators?

Keeping track and sticking buttons all over the place is going to be an "early adopter" feature. Once we get to an overwhelming number of "buttons" it will make sense just to put up a couple cameras similar to the Microsoft Kinect and use hot zone + gestures to do the same thing. RFID in boxed products might help out but the buttons will end up being a mess right quick.

I just can't seem to figure out where you are coming from on this. My first question is, why would you plug a device with transfer rates in the 20-40GB/s range into a SATA3(6Gpbs) port? Next is although we can wax poetically on what exactly is the best case for every ones use cases how are you going to guarantee that the micro controller will work the way you want it to? Databases with properly configured indexes will retain the important data in RAM with out further modifications, and again how would you ensure that the records you feel should be cached are cached since the small micro controller would barely have the resources to analyze the data stream to begin with.

Lastly if you do care about data retention during power outages and sags then you would likely want an APC/backup battery. Even though the data stored in the SSD/RAM hybrid might have enough backup power to flush to disk how about the data that is currently in RAM waiting to be flushed as well?

By relying on closed software on the Drives controller chips wouldn't it just get more complicated? With the price of RAM being as cheap as it is, why not just build a series of systems with 100GB+ of RAM and cache away?

Relying on a drive controller might seem the right way to go but especially for corporate installations I would believe it would be beneficial to have the fine grained control a dedicated server could provide.

If the malware came from the Police computers then wouldn't that likely taint all the data supplied, to well everyone? Every defendant for at least the last year will be taking a shot at this and why not?

When you are dealing with a city of millions does it really seem right to fish one wire at a time? That means terminating the wire at the home too. With multiple ISP's how many of them would need access to the "Main St" section at a time? The cost of booking a time, sending a worker out to fish and terminate possibly kilometers of wire per customer as each customer signs up would be a logistical nightmare. Then what happens when the customer leaves you for the other guy? Never mind the cost differential of running one wire vs bundle of wire.

Even though their TOS might state that, it's extremely poor PR to go after the end user rather than the distributor. Most people won't even know that they have a counterfeit chip. Even though it may be well within their rights the customers will eventually find out what they have done and bear a grudge.

May cause more problems than it fixes.

"Law = A written order issued by your rulers. "

Don't be so obtuse. A law is a written order, adding the remainder is just an inflammatory accusation that undermines the public at large.

You may believe that the public or those governed by which ever particular law you select are too scared or ignorant and have the law imposed on them from outside interests but the greater numbers always win in the end. A particular rule of law may be arduous today and for many more consecutive days but one day the rule will change.

This is evident throughout history and will continue to be.

Each device sends beacons out at an interval. By sorting all the probes by these intervals (10Hz or what ever) each will likely be slightly different from each other. So my device sends probes out at 0s another will send it out at 0.5s. Also by co-relating these beacons by signal strength well the random MAC doesn't really matter.

True but wouldn't the landing pages of most of these services be able to document the OS, browser, resolution, type of device(tablet vs laptop and IOS vs android) and likely a lot of other stuff.

I can narrow down a huge list to a very short list using above information along with the probes being sent out co-related to the signal strength. Timing of each probe can also be leveraged in uniquely identifying,most probes are sent in interval from each device. Those probes that come in equal intervals are likely from the same source, leveraged against signal strength you can likely identify a small crowd. To take it even further you can calculate the signal as absorbed through the store to signal congestion and possibly other metrics.

Now that the MACs are random does that really solve the problem? A probe request sends out the real MAC of the AP it's looking for as well as the AP ESSID. By using anyone of many translators you can get a map of each ESSID with GPS co-ordinates. While many people will be probing for Starbucks and McDonalds they will always have a unique probe for their own home AP. So now there is no "neat" way of using the MAC as a primary key you can still infer the user by the AP least in common with anyone else, i.e. which probes are NOT McDonalds et al.

So if my home AP ESSID is Einstein, MAC=deadbeef every time I enter a store my home AP MAC is still being recorded as well as the relative movement throughout the store. As well inter-relational data could be inferred by other AP MAC addresses if I visit a friend or family member it's likely that probe will connect us.

TL;DR Relations are based on unique data just because some of the data is 'scrambled' it's reliance on static data is it's weakness.

IMHO I don't think the 'kill switch' agenda has that much to do with government access but more to do with increased sales of handsets.

Right now you can use various software to track down stolen devices, this leads to the owners to pursue the item and try to get back their property. While this method can be dangerous there 'could' be some type of support from law enforcement to help you acquire your stolen items. Instead they just "kill switch it" and now your item is useless to everyone, your only recourse now is to buy the item again.

This kill switch is really only good news for the companies that make these products.

One possible idea that might help is pooling fees similar to an insurance (lets say $20/item in advance or $50+ when stolen) and find private investigators that are willing to get it back for you. The PI will have the resources necessary to get the item back safely and you don't have to pay for a $400+ device.

What do you guys / gals think?

Is this a different implementation of Diffie–Hellman? As far as I can tell (and I am likely wrong) there needs to be one successful connection attempt using a secure protocol, in this case HSTS, to detect if the redirect was indeed to the correct site or a MitM attack.

"Stealing" a number does not exist. Learning what the number relates to by way of breaking the law should be.

Or maybe AMD making an end-run on easy porting from Xbox-PS4-PC(Steam). Thus making their wares more desirable ?

I got on board with the 3GS and IOS 3.0. I can't say that your complaints are justified. The web experience was pretty good because you would 'zoom' in on the part of the page you were reading. It had enough memory to run 1 app at a time but each app worked smoothly. I also jail broke mine and was using ssh to login to my home PC while on the bus to work and it was pretty epic at the time. No other phone could do that kind of thing and now I guess the rest is history.

If it has a repo it could be easily installed via a meta package or a GUI element. Integration of 'apt' and the Steam Store would be cool.

I may be incorrect but I believe most codec patents revolve around the hardware implementations which would be covered through the hardware acceleration components that exist in most modern CPU/GPUs.

If I to play some fantasy football here I might go as far as to say the Win8.x Stores might actually be the reason Valve is ditching it. Microsoft could be aiming for a cut of each game sale a la App Store and try tactics to make it difficult for them to run a parallel store on their platform. When you have a business model like Steam running on essentially the same Win8 store the margins get razor thin.

Of course I don't know for sure but for Valve to back out of Windows the way they did it's definitely a strong possibility. Don't forget "embrace,extend,extinguish".

Those are mainly cosmetic changes. The other 99% was a whole new OS.

I'm curious to know what they took from W95 to give W2K. I've used NT3.5 and up and I didn't notice any w95 influence, unless you mean start button and desktop.

Sprint? Maybe Verizon?

Rent for how long though? One month? With no security deposit and no documented income? If you wanted to rent an apartment for one year it would cost $500/month x 12 months + security deposit == $6500. This does not include food, utilities or heat.

So no a $400 laptop does not approach the cost of rent.

Why not just do the same thing we have been using for years, /tmp. If the program just needs scratch space why do we deem it proper to allow any app to traverse an entire partition so it can set down a couple of files?

You mean this isn't Slashdot?

Lets say I run a mail forwarding service. I get your permission to go to each of your mail boxes and send your mail to where ever you happen to be. Mail is heavy though and to save you money I open all your mail remove a couple of pages / brochures / ads, reseal it in the original envelope and don't tell you.

I promise I don't read your mail when I get caught.

I'm giving the first 3 months free, please provide your information below so I can get started today!

Nokia is a company run by big men and women they could very well come up with an analogy.

Saying it's OK to not tell someone something important because you don't respect the intelligence of the person or people it considers is well, wrong.

An interesting question, if Nokia informed their customers before the purchase would they have still bought the hardware? It's not really quite as altruistic of Nokia they don't put the cards firmly on the table before hand.

I gotta ask. After you wipe you still have your smartphone in your hands don't you.