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And I think that will happen when 4k TV takes off. I don’t hear anybody talking about shipping physical media for that format.

No way will this work. Bandwidth caps as they are today will prevent people from downloading 4k video. Here's a reference to a 4k documentary that is 160GB. Does that sound like something that's going to fly with the ISPs we currently have?

Gizmodo article on it from earlier this year.

I'd gladly pay for secure email that I knew was beyond the reach of the upskirting creeps in the NSA.

Would you?

How much would you pay? It seems the going price is around $10/Month.

http://gizmodo.com/why-kolab-might-be-the-best-secure-email-service-still-1171618005

That's OK, we can't really feel temperature anyway. We really only feel the ability of objects to change the temperature of our skin. A piece of metal will feel colder than the air around it, even if it's the same temperature as the air itself.

> This is actually something *very* new.

Is it? How long has your phone had a camera?

2008: http://gizmodo.com/5092582/digital-photos-act-as-unique-fingerprints-in-finding-criminals-with-digital-cameras

2006: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/digital_cameras.html

Doesn't seem very new, most phones have pictures they took already on them, those that don't, its not terribly hard to make them snap photos usually. In fact, other malware apps have been developed to do exactly that:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2211108/Could-phones-camera-secretly-taking-pictures-right-Hackers-use-lens-steal-private-data--build-3D-model-home.html

Renewables, because of their inherent low energy density, will force us either to conserve or use most of our available open land for energy production.

(BTW, I don't have solar, and it might actually not make sense for me because of my already low energy usage....)

Your roof isn't "doing anything". In fact, covering your roof with solar would make use of otherwise unused space, and doesn't it potentially help keep your house cooler? (Not heating up the roof which by convection heats the attic and the house.) And if you live in an area with snow, doesn't the heat from the solar *slightly* reduce snow buildup? (Seems like it could be combined with solar water heating to do even better snow melting on the roof.)

Plus, "most of our available land" is not true. From:
http://gizmodo.com/5350191/how-many-solar-panels-would-it-take-to-power-the-entire-world

Just 496,905 square kilometers. That's really nothing compared to the total world area: Less than the surface of Spain (504,030 square kilometers) covered with solar panels, distributed across deserts and areas with almost 24/7 sun, all year around.

http://gizmodo.com/196551/lexus-self-parking-car-video-and-review

Lexus did this first in 2006. its entirely plausible Ford just licensed their technology as they did in the past with Toyotas Hybrid Synergy Drive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Synergy_Drive#Ford

Okay... Allow me to counter with:

Apple Guilty of Price Fixing

Where did that goalpost go? The one with "breaking the law in the same industry" written on it?

And that's not even going into Apple not actually setting prices like Samsung did.

http://gizmodo.com/5174640/israel-has-nukes-us-army-confirms

Okay... Allow me to counter with:

Apple Guilty of Price Fixing

I'd like to see how he implemented his back-end. Did he rely upon tor's anonymity and get lazy in the private messaging system?

Tor won't help you much against an enemy that has many global taps into the Internet as the NSA has. They'll soon know exactly where messages originate and remove any "anonymity".

There's every reason to believe they can break the encryption, too.

http://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-can-probably-break-tors-encryption-keys-1273299782

MPs in the UK already tried to ban anonymous wifi hotspots. http://gizmodo.com/5482141/uk-bill-would-outlaw-open-public-wifi-hotspots

Though it was included in a bill mostly relating to copyright infringement, child porn was also a commonly cited justification. It failed, but if it had passed it would have required anyone operating a public hotspot take measures to verify and record the identitity of anyone using it - probably by contracting a service provider to run a captive portal and SMS unique activation codes to people before allowing them on, so their phone number becomes a record of identity.

They only way you could intercept something like that is to accidentally hit it.

Yes, brilliant.

To bad we have never invented something that could bounce sound waves off of objects in or under the water so that we could find them even when we can't see them.

To bad we haven't invented a way to cloak objects from said bounced sound waves... oh, wait...
http://gizmodo.com/5729554/this-device-makes-objects-invisible-to-sonar

Here's a nice summary, though you could have Googled it yourself (that still works).

Basically, to put it somewhat humorously, this tablet keeps touching itself.

You mean like only allowing official Microsoft-branded memory?

DOJ didn't do shit.

I'm gonna go with Western Electric, pioneers of the one-click operation and rotational gesture control.

He already did that.

Sorry, link here:
[1] http://gizmodo.com/how-the-iphone-5ss-fingerprint-scanner-works-and-what-1265703794

Google has gotten lots of $$$$ from the NSA and the CIA and is in complete bed with them. Google gives -everything- to the NSA and CIA

Things that make you go HMMMMM...

http://gizmodo.com/confirmed-nsa-paid-google-microsoft-others-millions-1188615332

http://www.infowars.com/googles-deep-cia-and-nsa-connections/

http://www.pcworld.com/article/217550/google_watchdog_white_house.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/10/palantir_denies_powering_prism_spy_system/

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-nsa-secrecy-upheld/

http://www.prisonplanet.com/nsa-funds-new-top-secret-60-million-dollar-data-lab.html

Where do you pee?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/nasa-osmotic-water-bag/
http://gizmodo.com/the-sweat-to-water-purifier-real-life-dune-still-suit-826806326

Well. The whole point of Mega was that not even Mega would know what you are storing on their servers. "The end to end encryption means that Mega pretty much can't narc on you, no matter how much pressure it's under. It won't know what you're storing on its servers, by design." gizmodo. Thus there's a reasonable expectation that Mega cannot find out what you are storing on its servers. Now it turns out there is a ridiculously easy way for Mega to find out what you're storing there: all Mega has to do is run some JavaScript on your computer. Which it does anyway.

I suppose either way you'd have to trust that the website is only uploading encrypted stuff to Mega and not the file itself. But now it turns out even if they're doing that, they can still decrypt your stuff. And also any website on the internet.

Well I suppose that the JS client could also have just sent the keys it generated to Mega as soon as it generated them.

Ok, basically there's no way this security model can work. I just feel a bit foolish now. But I'm glad TFA made me think about it for the two minutes it took to figure out that there's no real expectation of security here. Other articles (like that gizmodo one) painted quite the misleading picture.

Yes, it was in snow leopard. It is still cutting edge, as no other OS has anything similar throughout the OS.

GCD might be cutting-edge, but it does not itself make Mavericks a cutting-edge version of OS X, given that it dates back to Snow Leopard, and it doesn't belong in a list whose other members are features new in Mavericks. In the list "interrupt coalescing, memory compression, grand central dispatch, app nap.", at least one of these things is not like the others, as the saying goes, and, if by "interrupt coalescing" you mean "timer coalescing", exactly one of those things is not like the others.

(As for "interrupt coalescing", I have no reason to believe that, for example, jerbun's comment in this Gizmodo story:

My best guess is that they are essentially doing this:
Interrupt Coalescing
This taken from the "Time Coalescing" statement from which I am making the assumption that they really mean "Interrupt Coalescing."
The basic idea is that instead of waking up the processor every single time some sort of I/O needs to be done by a peripheral, they let some of them wait a little longer. Not all I/O is latency dependent, and as such the wake-up time can be postponed. This means that a series of interrupts can be handled all at once, and then the processor can go back to sleep.

More in depth explanation:
Anandtech on Haswell 6/10/13 5:21pm

is a good guess.

I'm more inclined to go with Apple's own description of it in their "OS X Mavericks Core Technologies Overview" document, which indicates that it shifts the times of events scheduled to happen sufficiently close together in time so that, instead of happening at a time as close as possible to the scheduled time, they happen at times further from their scheduled time in a fashion that allows more of them to be handled within one timer-based wakeup. One consequence of this might be that fewer timer interrupts occur (as I remember, XNU was made tickless at least as far back as Lion, so there aren't periodic timer interrupts), but that particular bit of interrupt coalescing - it only concerns timer interrupts - isn't the main goal, and is arguably not a goal at all, just a side-effect of reducing the number of timer-based wakeups from sleep.)

There's a specialised market for phones of this size in the UK - if they make a version without the strap lugs, they could be on to a winner!:

http://gizmodo.com/uk-moves-to-ban-phones-designed-to-fit-up-prisoner-butt-1178815285

In order for a person's point to be stupid the person must also be stupid or behave stupidly.

Not necessarily. Smart people can believe dumb things. Look at Linus Pauling turning total crank over vitamins despite an absolutely brilliant career that earned him two Nobel prizes, or how many wonderfully, quotably wrong things Lord Kelvin said about the future of physics.

Heck, smart people are the *best* at defending dumb ideas because they turn all the tools of rationality to rationalization, and they have come to expect that they are usually *right* in any given scenario. Plus, smart people are more susceptible to cognitive bias.

So, let me say that despite strongly disagreeing with the sentiment that we should all fear self-driving cars as a future tool of oppression and state monitoring, I don't think you're an idiot. I just think you're being a little paranoid and that you (perhaps deliberately) misinterpreted the top post in this discussion which said that he was hoping he could take his car when incapacitated to twist his words into a more short-sighted statement for the purposes of painting a nightmare scenario in total contrast to what he was wishing for, which was to legally be able to do so.

I will state that I try to avoid it, but I am human and like all humans can have emotion in debate.

Yeah, me too. I got up to high on my horse in my first reply for the same reason. Sorry for the escalation of tone.

You know, I'm not really advocating for the state. I'm actually angry almost to the point of fatigue over the growth of the police state apparatus in English-speaking countries every time I think about it. I just really, really hate driving and have high hopes for a technology that will remove the tedious and life-threatening chore from my day.

posted annual 2014 tuition of $3333 x> 4 years that is only 13,333.

And he's clearly leaving out books and fees, which will conservatively add another $1500 a semester, as well as the cost of supporting yourself in school. It's still $20,000 to $30,000 of undischarable debt upon graduation, and from a "cheap" school.

I'm sorry, but that's incredibly doable and can be paid 100% for working a decent summer job/internship, or part time year round.

Then I'm sorry, but your as far from reality and the economy as the parent poster. The decent jobs - i.e. ones that can actually support yourself while paying some of the cost of going to school - are all going to be taken by people who have already graduated and thus have experience and more flexible schedules.

That's a manageable student loan of 50k (or one year's entry level graduate salary in many industries).

Like I said, far from reality.

There are 18,000 parking lot attendants in the U.S. with college degrees. There are 5,000 janitors in the U.S. with PhDs. In all, some 17 million college-educated Americans have jobs that don't require their level of education.

I think the problems with oversharing should be fixed if possible. Of course, some of the problems are more difficult or impossible to fix, but we should try to fix as many as we can.

Done, and done. Emphasis mine. Some of us folks have had this over-sharing online BS wrapped up since the BBS days.

I over-share to the extreme, but it's all just unsubstantiated lies and grandiose claims. "Guerrilla Marketing for my Fictional works", is my story and I'm sticking to it. Sure I said all life on the planet should be eradicated.... The alternative is to move the Earth out of the Sun's orbit before it goes red-giant. I also said I wouldn't save the planet unless the world leaders paid me One Million Dollars!

Honestly though, since you want to keep the iceball Earth through the Andromeda Merger, just to have as a frozen origin-of-life museum, half price is fair for a charity case, innit? I mean, it's not like convincing folks global warming is a myth was hard... Slashdot posters get an additional 100b% off, Act now for this one time limited offer!

See? You'd be a fool to bring any of this crap against me in court. Who do you think fixes as many iCraps as we can for Judge Troglodyte? Magical Geniuses? Ha haha, oh you are silly. Why, we do such a good job for our friends in high places, I bet they wouldn't even worry about clearing their browser history before ringing us up to fix their iTunes remotely via TightVNC...

Is Bloomberg's buy-in going to get Ubuntu to add any "custom" features that will help spy on people? http://gizmodo.com/bloomberg-reporters-used-sketchy-terminal-access-to-col-503232014

Tungsten? Oops, http://gizmodo.com/5221787/army-stops-making-eco+friendly-tungsten-bullets-because-they-cause-cancer

Maybe you would consider intentionally hosting a child porn site something legal? That happened inside US, after all.

Anyway, lose any hope to find justice in US, you are part of them and then outside law's reach , or you are not, and you can be labeled as terrorist, jailed for decades under any excuse, or eliminated if you cause trouble to their protegees.

That "fine article" is paraphrasing other sites, which are paraphrasing other sites. They're claiming the searches were for pressure cooker bombs based on statement from the police, which conflicts with that of the couple, but their slapdash editor didn't even notice.

This is the site owned by the wife, where she explains from her perspective: https://medium.com/something-like-falling/2e7d13e54724

This is the original breaking story from Gizmodo that Wired is just paraphrasing:
http://whitenoise.gizmodo.com/yes-the-fbi-is-tracking-americans-google-searches-981986667

But haven't dozens of people already done this over the years?

I reckon this demonstrates French waiters may have the same technical prowless as US private pilots
(and heaps more than a bunch of /.-ers how call themself geeks but all they can do is attempts of lame humor... vous defier dire ce n'est pas comme ca...
G'day, mate, good on you!)

Sapphire screens aren't new.

http://gizmodo.com/337529/asus-ls201-resists-crossbow-arrow-impact

No one, apparently.

Mind you, this doesn't seem to be limited to Apple. In my experience (from the few retail jobs I had in my younger days), the managers were always crooks. One of them stole enough merchandise to start up his own store.

The story here, as usual, is that Apple is no better than anybody else. And everybody seems to know this except you.

Next step is to realize that Apple is actually worse than the others. Ever heard of the Apple Police?. Make no mistake about it, Apple didn't fire him because he did wrong, Apple fired him because he got caught.

Then there are the lockdowns. A company accustomed to abusing its own employees obviously does not bat an eye at having a contractor abuse their own.

I wasn't talking about artificial sunlight (why wouldn't you use a transparent/mesh ceiling?), but investment in infrastructure and maintenance. At any rate, indoor crops are high-yield, like mushrooms and pot. 14 High-Tech Farms Where Veggies Grow Indoors - Gizmodo

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/16/dirty-little-secret-orange-juice-is-artificially-flavored-to-taste-like-oranges.aspx
http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/how-do-they-do-it/videos/how-do-they-do-it-how-is-orange-juice-made.htm
http://www.foodrenegade.com/secret-ingredient-your-orange-juice/
http://organicplanet.blogspot.com/2011/08/citricy-secrets-truth-about-orange.html
http://gizmodo.com/5981057/the-secret-algorithm-that-controls-everything-about-orange-juice

Who wants to be a pilot and put your butt on the line every day as you enter enemy territory when you can be a drone pilot half way across the world and go home to your wife and kids every night.

Who wants to drive something dangerous like a Ferrari P4/5 when you can drive something safe and dependable like the Mack Terapro garbage truck? The Ferrari is expensive, has hardly any room for passengers of the opposite sex, is difficult to maintain, and says you don't watch your spending. The Mack truck, on the other hand, is much cheaper, has much more room for members of the opposite sex (even if they have to ride in the back), and maintenance is a snap at many conveniently located dealers. Nobody will question your spending habits if they know you turned down a Ferrari for a Mack. You'd be a fool not to go with the Mack.

Air Force Drone Operators Report High Levels of Stress

Non-drone aircraft pilots love to fly, even if it is dangerous: The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird

I value something that doesn't require a license, whether you're running a free "e-reader" on Linux, there's probably the only thing that won't have much in the way of tangible strings but even Linux has dropped the 386 processor from support.

Yet Linux still runs just fine on 386 processors; just not the current versions. Here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/

Just like sharing music? Or sharing copyrighted material that the MPAA considers theirs if you somehow copy it to another format? Ever here of thePirateBay? Just ask Kim DotCom how it feels to host material in an electronic form. You think the Supreme Court has your best interests at heart? All it takes is the right justices or the right set of laws and your rights are gone here in the US and it's getting worse every year. The Media distributors and publishers are a huge lobby in this country pushing what is and isn't fair copyright and it will get to the point that they'll push for single use e-books that you can't own, share or read more than once unless you're willing to keep paying for it.

Breaking DRM != sharing content. It's a completely different kettle of fish. In particular, it happens only inside your machine, instead of being broadcast to the whole world.

As for the Supreme Court, as a I said, I'm not under their jurisdiction. But they did vote for the student selling textbooks, in detriment of the copyright holders.

How long do you think it will take for e-books to get the same treatment as a movie or a piece of music.. "It was distributed electronically." Therefore some intermediary who owns the rights will go after somebody for downloading an e-book they didn't pay for that "wasn't free." Unless Authors are willing to give their stuff away royalty free, just like some musicians are doing or selling it and saying it's "yours" then you can say it's yours but the lines are getting blurry.

As I said, I don't care. I wipe my ass to their claims that I don't own it.

Again on an operating system that's not tracking you? Linux perhaps? Good, that's an alternative perhaps but again, I consider that transient, more transient than good old fashioned bound (as in book binding). Call me old fashioned but that way if I lose it, it's because of something that I did or perhaps someone overtly did or by accident, not because some company or someone with less than stellar motives took it from me using a license model, yes "free" books aside but 9 times out of 10 you're reading those probably on an O/S that will track your habits and report them back to somebody. It's not fiction, it's a fact now unfortunately. Reading that on an iPad? Guess again.. http://gizmodo.com/5951173/apple-is-tracking-you-again-in-ios-6-and-how-to-turn-it-off

Calling ebooks bad because some particular readers are bad is like calling paper books bad because some publishers use rubbish paper.

I specifically mentioned readers with no networking, so mentioning the iPad is specious at best.

Call me old fashioned, but anything electronic is transient. Your jpegs, your images. Yeah you can back them up certainly but unless you keep upgrading or shifting with the digital times, it'll become so much like the Betamax or MFM or RLL hard drives.

The physical storage is transient; the content isn't. Conflating the two is misleading.

Yes, you need to upgrade, but you're on Slashdot, so clearly you use computers, so you need to upgrade them anyway.

Maybe yes, maybe no but I don't want anybody to know what I read or why I read it. It's none of their fucking business. Again, I don't want to have to worry about battery life sometimes or form factor or bookmarking something electronically or covering

Easier to lose it too, or to get it destroyed. And harder to loan it to more than one friend at once, or read it yourself while someone else has it.

You may prefer paper books, but it's a subjective choice dependent on how much you value some things vs others, not clearly better either way.

I value something that doesn't require a license, whether you're running a free "e-reader" on Linux, there's probably the only thing that won't have much in the way of tangible strings but even Linux has dropped the 386 processor from support.

So, physical books just appear in your shelf, right? No time required to go to a shop, or pick them up? Well, personally I don't have such magical abilities, so getting a physical book takes me orders of magnitude more than un-DRMing them. Or would, if I bought DRM-ladden books, which I don't.

Good for you, I go the Library and they magically appear too. Or I buy them at book sales, flea markets and such. The publishers would love to take that secondary market away too.

Yeah, I print those agreements and wipe my ass with them. Who the hell cares?

Not that I live in the US, anyway, but even there, when was the last time someone was convicted for breaking the DRM of their own books? I'm guessing "never".

Just like sharing music? Or sharing copyrighted material that the MPAA considers theirs if you somehow copy it to another format? Ever here of thePirateBay? Just ask Kim DotCom how it feels to host material in an electronic form. You think the Supreme Court has your best interests at heart? All it takes is the right justices or the right set of laws and your rights are gone here in the US and it's getting worse every year. The Media distributors and publishers are a huge lobby in this country pushing what is and isn't fair copyright and it will get to the point that they'll push for single use e-books that you can't own, share or read more than once unless you're willing to keep paying for it.

How long do you think it will take for e-books to get the same treatment as a movie or a piece of music.. "It was distributed electronically." Therefore some intermediary who owns the rights will go after somebody for downloading an e-book they didn't pay for that "wasn't free." Unless Authors are willing to give their stuff away royalty free, just like some musicians are doing or selling it and saying it's "yours" then you can say it's yours but the lines are getting blurry.

Yes, sometimes paper is the best option. I certainly don't disagree with that, nor did I ever, so I'm not sure why you're saying that.

As for ads and tracking, it takes five minutes to find a reader that has no ads or networking (kinda hard to track you with it).

Again on an operating system that's not tracking you? Linux perhaps? Good, that's an alternative perhaps but again, I consider that transient, more transient than good old fashioned bound (as in book binding). Call me old fashioned but that way if I lose it, it's because of something that I did or perhaps someone overtly did or by accident, not because some company or someone with less than stellar motives took it from me using a license model, yes "free" books aside but 9 times out of 10 you're reading those probably on an O/S that will track your habits and report them back to somebody. It's not fiction, it's a fact now unfortunately. Reading that on an iPad? Guess again.. http://gizmodo.com/5951173/apple-is-tracking-you-again-in-ios-6-and-how-to-turn-it-off

Call me old fashioned, but anything electronic is transient. Your jpegs, your images. Yeah you can back them up certainly but unless you keep upgrading or shifting with the digital times, it'll become so much like the Betamax or MFM or RLL hard drives.

Yeah, I agree that paper books are better

I too ended up installing plain Ubuntu (now Xubuntu) on my netbook. But you and I are outliers; I seem to remember that return rates were far higher for Linux PCs than for comparable Windows PCs.

Are you picking a single technology to allow your parents to watch movies? Or are you selecting a control point for your parents as they age in place? If you are selecting one technology, I would go for the Xbox. The gesture control will be manageable for them. Learning to use a game controller is going to be very difficult, and frustrating. The push downloads will be acceptable, they expect magic technology to demand some compliance. The capacity for audio and gesture interaction will generally be useful -- obviously I am advocated for Kinect. If you look at the work at Georgia Tech, IU and U Washington on this you will find that alternative modes of interaction, like audio, tend to be preferred by elders. In part because it makes sense as an interaction, and in part because they end to dislike handheld devices. Ok, this is snark but remote changes and handheld devices can be overly complex: http://gizmodo.com/357331/how-grandma-sees-the-remote A general purpose computer is a bad idea unless you want to engage in some serious security management and tech education. Another driver is what you, as apparently the family technologist, use. If you can provide remote support, that is nice. What is really good is when the technological interactions enhance the interpersonal interactions. One very common fear of elders is that the technology can be a substitute, not a complement, to f2f interaction. So if the technology becomes a source of interaction now, then later adoption of technology (for your peace of mind and their health) will be easier. SO, for example if you want a monitor to text you when the door opens if granddad gets a little early dementia, their experience with this technology has a very high degree of probability of influencing later technology adoptions. Ideally, have them over at your house to interact and if you do not have an Xbox, then take them to Best Buy Work with them. Judge their comfort level with various interactions. Do not tell them it is simple. Please do not tell them that because it being simple will shut down their responses. Show them physical and audio interactions. Talk about this "fit" not better/worse. Now, I am basing this on academic studies in design for elders. Some of those studies can be found in the open access journal Gerontechnology http://gerontechnology.info/index.php/journal/issue/archive and some of the Aging in Place and design for elders. While I love the construct of Aging In Place, I have only very strong disappointment for most of the books that use those terms. Also, many of them are wildly overpriced. You might like "Design and the Digital Divide: Computer Support for Older and Disabled People" by Newell. Remember this is a first tech choice. As they become more vulnerable, their acceptance of tech you choose will be informed by this experience. Patience with them now will pay off later.

>> Has anyone open sourced a SOFTWARE reader yet?

Yep :)
sudo apt-get install zbar-tools.
And, use zbarimg.

mint@mint ~/Desktop $ zbarimg code.jpg
QR-Code:http://m.http://gizmodo.com/5969312/how-qr-codes-work-and-why-they-suck-so-hard
scanned 1 barcode symbols from 1 images in 0.07 seconds

From http://gizmodo.com/5969312/how-qr-codes-work-and-why-they-suck-so-hard. The url glitch is probably courtesy of the gizmodo reporter ; )

Now that you gave me a name, just found that it reads normal barcodes and a Win32 release and other notes for later:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zbar/
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/zbar/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Compile_with_MinGW_in_Windows

Thanks!

In terms of their ubiquity in modern marketing, QR Codes are a slightly annoying solution in search of a problem; but as an engineering approach to the sort of problem the OP described, they're fantastic. There are many free and open source QR Code generation utilities and libraries, and the QR Code spec itself was patented, but freely licensed for public use by the Toyota subsidiary that invented it.

QR codes include error correction, and can encode binary data on the order of a hundred times the density of a regular bar code.

So you haven't heard of Microsoft Excel for supercomputers then? What about the Excel RPG?

Remember Apple sells me a device, Google sells me.

Riiiiight. Apple never spied on anybody.

Someone needs to get a 'Johnny Tables' vanity plate.

Here you are good sir.. http://gizmodo.com/5498412/sql-injection-license-plate-hopes-to-foil-euro-traffic-cameras

FTFS

Can we get plate with code to delete the database?"

You jest, but it's been thought of before:

http://gizmodo.com/5498412/sql-injection-license-plate-hopes-to-foil-euro-traffic-cameras

> Can we get plate with code to delete the database?"

Yes. http://gizmodo.com/5498412/sql-injection-license-plate-hopes-to-foil-euro-traffic-cameras https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/sql_injection_a_1.html

http://gizmodo.com/the-surest-sign-yet-that-apple-tv-will-be-a-gaming-cons-513191654

But when the AC comes back on, it has to work harder because now the room is warmer... No energy has been saved in the long run...

No, that's just a myth. You can save 10% by turning the thermostat up 7-10 degrees during the day.

a tall thin peak of energy consumption has been flattened and made wider.

Electricity has been saved during the time of day when it's the most expensive to generate, because to save money, utilities fire up their cheapest sources of power first, and wait for periods of high demand before they fire up their more expensive sources of power. This is how smart meters save us money.

Smart meters help with peak power on a grid which can't handle the demand... It's a cheap way of dealing with a failure to invest in essential infrastructure.

"Can't handle the demand" is another way of saying demand is greater than supply--a shortage. A shortage occurs when the price is set below the going rate determined by supply and demand. A price that's too low encourages overconsumption and discourages investing in essential infrastructure.