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The key doesn't have a battery. It's usually RFID.

Some cars, like my VW, require the key fob to be in the car or the immobilizer shuts the car off after a very short distance. I believe all VW cars have this now, even the ones without keyless entry/ignition. This of course just slightly complicates the hack.

You would still be in the secure area. The problem is that coming from an international flight you wouldn't necessarily be groped for explosives.

It's a good assumption that if they have explosives on a plane flying over the US, they are going to use it before they land.

That was my thought a week ago. The kinect is limited in that it can only see the front of your body. Some movements obscure your body and it basically just freaks out.

Radiation is cumulative. Saying that you will absorb more radiation in flight is not a justification for accepting radiation from another source. You will still absorb more total radiation. It's a lot easier to avoid the scanner, than it is to find an alternate mode of transportation across long distances.

It's exaggerated because he's intentionally trying to provoke a reaction. It's better that you just let them act unprofessionally all on their own, and then go file an official complaint and another with the ACLU here: http://bit.ly/9KOipo

It's not any less invasive, you're just being abused in a different way. The difference is that they don't want you to make more work for them.

Request a supervisor and or second agent be present for your screening to ensure you waste as much of their time as possible.

sadly, sexual harassment has been a common enough occurrence in the open source community that countering it has been a major topic over the past 2 years. Open source communities as a whole have only 1% women, much lower than IT in general. This is because you must choose to join one of these communities, and women are choosing to do something where they wont be harassed.

If i lined my pants with tinfoil would it be enough to block their view?

(not a joke post, serious question for someone who knows how these machines work)

This is like saying people buy water pipes for tobacco

They might be entertained by the fantasy of winning money, but the real intent is for winning money.

The initial point of the article is faulty. The federal government was running a deficit before the bailout and stimulus bill. These bills were deficit spending, something you can't do to pay down the debt.

It is well researched by I find the logic justifying warrant-less search specious:

"It has long been established that border crossers’ reasonable expectation of privacy is lower at the border because they generally expect border guards to search persons and property for contraband. Because this is common knowledge, border crossers are put on notice when approaching a border that a search may be imminent, and thus their privacy is “less invaded by [border] searches” when they occur."

More generally that means: We blatantly violate so many people's rights that they're not really being violated.

as i understood it you can patent improvements on patented technology even if you don't hold those patents. You just can't ever use your improvements without a license.

If that really is true, then Paul Allen isn't infringing, the people who are licensing from him are.

At this point we don't even have accurate models for most proteins, let alone knowing how to predict what they do.

My current project is a search engine for protein chain geometry. We only have ~20% of the known proteins in our database because the data on the other 80% isn't accurate enough to be useful.

I look forward to seeing this integrated into boxee.

correct. This is obvious due to the list of shsh versions on file at 0:28 in the video.

The fact that the phone isn't shown, and he's on a canadian carrier doesn't help the case either.

I've loved this plane since I read about it in popular science as a grade school kid. I still remember this line from the article, "after it lands it so hot you can fry an egg on the fuselage".

The premise of net neutrality is that the internet is a limited resource. The physical space required for building infrastructure is limited, effectively making the internet a limited resource as well. Most cities have already leased out the space for building networks, or let companies own the poles and conduits outright.

This is why i took issue with his car showroom example. Its a big difference when there are plenty of places to build a showroom. There's only one easement behind my house. The poles are owned by comcast, the ground has sewers.

If you keep a connection open it drains battery life because the chip can't power down.

What i don't agree with is that he focuses on the older generation, his mom, when the problems he describes won't exist as much for younger generations. His mom started using a computer past the point where it was hard for her to learn things. Of course it will be confusing to her.

Coming generations grow up with easy access to computers, and will know how to use them well. Eventually we will get to a point where very few people are computer illiterate.

Some anecdotal evidence. It took my mom 3 months to figure out how to make an itunes account, another few months before she figured out how to install an app. My 3 year old son had to show her how to play movies, on both the iphone and on boxee.

The Open Source Lab has been working on the 2nd revision of our dashboard software that we use within our network operations center, and outside our server room.

http://trac.osuosl.org/touchscreen

This is misconception that is being repeated over and over. They ARE going after Google. It's very clear.

It's also silly to think that HTC is in this alone. If HTC loses, Google loses. They'll throw whatever money/support they need to to back up HTC.

he didn't mention anything about the morals of it. Just that your plan is likely to backfire.

The incentive is that they will have coverage when they need it. Everyone will need coverage eventually because everyone gets old.

That incentive can't exist as long as insurance companies exclude people for pre-existing conditions, change rates, etc. Noone wants to pay into the system that they know is setup to not pay out.

Thats what they originally stated in the 60 minutes story. $3000 isn't bad. If what they are claiming is true then you would pay it off in less than 5 years and then have reduced electricity afterwards.

Throw in an electric car and you've seriously reduced your fuel costs.

Even Real [Networks] figured out how open source the majority of their code base while retaining support for closed technologies such as h.264.

The only reason Adobe can't open their code is lack of effort.

warp drives.

Its a very simple bug, and will be fixed via an update not sure when that will be though.

"as opposed to portable GPS devices with more storage."

The droid is rumored to come with a 16gb SD card, which can be replaced with a 32GB card. Pretty sure thats as much, if not more than any standalone GPS device.

Oregon State University launched a balloon to commemorate 100 million downloads of Firefox. They used a disposable camera with a simple timer wired to it. They didn't include a GPS unit though because it was "too expensive", the camera has yet to be found. The cannon would take better pictures, just pointing out that its not the cheapest route.

http://lug.oregonstate.edu/events/firefox/sky