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Yup, let me tell a story.

Last time I was in the US, back in May, I found myself staying in Murfreesboro (Civil War buff here!). But I wasn't right in the city center, such as it is, but rather on the outskirts, the suburbs. There were about 50 restaurants within half a mile of the motel, but to get to them, you either had to take your car, or take your life into your own hands walking across a six lane highway, which was the major access road to the Interstate. Of course you cross at the lights, unless you're completely suicidal, but here's where it all goes bad.

There were no pedestrian lights at the intersection.

There were no islands in the middle of the intersection.

At any given moment for the half of the road that was leaving the intersection, there was nearly always traffic flowing (no pedestrian lights you see)

That meant that you could cross the first half of the road, whilst that half was stopped waiting to get into the intersection. Tricky, what with turn right on red after stop, turn left on arrow and so on, but it could be done. But now, when you go to cross the second half, you have to watch behind for cars turning left into your road, as well as watching forwards for cars turning right. Both need to be clear, both rarely are. There is often not a gap between those cars running the amber light, and the cars from across the intersection starting, which means that a pedestrian can find themself stuck in the middle of a six lane highway with flowing traffic going passed on both sides of them. Fun!

Even after having run the gauntlet, you get to the other side, the one with the shops and restaurants, only to discover that there are no sidewalks - you either walk on the unpaved verge, unlit, with holes dug by groundhogs and rabbits, and metal stakes put into the ground for some long forgotten reason but never pulled out, or you walk on the road.

So much for walkability in the suburbs.
ICANN is not "American" necessarily, other than it's incorporated in America. Transition of ICANN from the US government to a fully private organization happened years ago.
"Olacabs": Cabs service in India, also faced similar deterioration of service after rapid expansion. Makes me wonder if startup-growth issue or public-transport culture problem.
Because in my experience the heavily politicized transport trade unions in india, do cause lot of trouble for initiatives like these.

src: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Meru-threaten...
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In the UK you insure (driver,car) pair by default. Fleet drivers, special vehicle drivers, valet workers, etc. will have a different deal.
Sure it's reasonably safe, not perfectly safe.

In diesel engines, if there is a runaway and it isn't stopped the shaft can get overstressed and literally explode.

Jet engines are specially armored not to let any part of the turbine escape the casing in case things go wrong (yet it still happens
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quite a lot one might say). And quite a lot of R&D was put into it not happening.

Is there enough R&D being put into the flywheel not failing?

EDIT: my point is that stuff that is OK in a racing car might not necessarily be safe enough to put on a bus or a tram
Because it would be more expensive and the space gain would be very small.

Battery geometry is mostly dictated by physics and economics, even though a flat plate battery would be denser the gains in density would be off-set by the increase in cost and in the end the wasted space doubles as a cooling channel so you might end up having to separate your flat plates by periodic air channels anyway.

The reason why flat plates are better in some applications (for instance, for starter batteries in cars) is because those batteries are optimized for very high current during very short bursts of time. 300 Amps @ 12V is 3.6KW out of a very compact little box. The power generated from that little package is extremely impressive (if you pull the distributor cap on your car (if you have an old car) you can actually move the car for a bit on the starter engine in first gear or reverse!) but because of the short duration the power absorbed by the battery is relatively small (current is absorbed by the internal resistance of the battery during charge and discharge leading to a warming up of the battery).

But it does not last for very long so heat removal is not usually a problem, and the charge currents are reasonably low, so again no big problem in removing the heat (low current, longer time).

With electric vehicles the situation is reversed, the discharge time is relatively long (hours) but the charge times are getting ever shorter which means packs have to be actively cooled to avoid overheating, and the easiest way to do that is to flow air through gaps in the cells.
So Rackspace wants to compete with the EC2 Free Tier and get developers hooked on their platform. Those developers should consider how much they will have to pay after the first year.

It's a pity that Rackspace is taking away its cheaper, smaller sized instances. Oh well - at least Linode and Digital Ocean still want my money.
So in the coming days we'll be hearing a lot more about 'Las Malvinas' and how Britain is an evil colonial power and stole the islands?

That usually seems to be what happens when Argentina has internal problems that need to be distracted from.
> So instead the US is the only country that "owns" domain names, since ICANN is an American company?

If you read the article instead of responding to the title, you would recognize that ICANN is saying no one "owns" ccTLDs, because they aren't property at all.
But you're 100% on point there. That's a side benefit from having those cylindrical cells.
From another article linked in the HN comments, it seems that this is really a finalization of the 2001 default. Argentina is not able to pay the (current) bond holders only because the courts won't let it do so.
Also see

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/in-hedge-fund-argenti...

"The hedge fund firm of billionaire Paul E. Singer has about 300 employees, yet it has managed to force Argentina, a nation of 41 million people, into a position where it now has to contemplate a humbling surrender."

"Argentina on Wednesday failed to make scheduled payments on its government bonds. The country has the money to pay the bonds. But a federal court in Manhattan has ruled that unless Argentina settles its debt dispute with Mr. Singer’s firm, Elliott Management, it is barred from paying its main bondholders." (...)

"“We’ve had a lot of bombs being thrown around the world, and this is America throwing a bomb into the global economic system,” said Joseph E. Stiglitz, the economist and professor at Columbia University. “We don’t know how big the explosion will be — and it’s not just about Argentina.”" (...)

"It is legally challenging for American investors to sue foreign governments in United States courts. But in 2012, Elliott achieved a stunning breakthrough in the Federal District Court in Manhattan. Judge Thomas P. Griesa ruled that whenever Argentina paid the exchange bonds, it also had to pay the holdouts. Argentina could not ignore the ruling and pay the exchange bondholders because Judge Griesa also ruled that any financial firm that distributed payments to the bondholders would be in contempt. Argentina placed $539 million with the Bank of New York Mellon in June to pay its bondholders, but the bank did not transfer it."
Really sounds like the author just needs to move to Europe or Asia...
You've described Celebration [1], the town developed by Disney.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida
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If you plug in a usb stick and it pretends to be a keyboard/mouse, it can do anything it wants to your system [within the context of a keyboard and mouse] as soon as it's plugged in. Hardened drivers do not prevent this. Granted, this is less dangerous if a machine is locked, but you can leave it plugged in and wait for someone to log on.

It does point out the most glaring flaw in the lack of a security model, though: you should be able to approve or deny a new peripheral connection before the drivers are loaded or DMA is allowed.
I don't agree. As much I know, they lent Argentina no money. They bought bonds (I think that's the correct term) that already lost nearly all of their value since the land was already in trouble then, for pennies and now they want the full money back, that they never spent. As much I remember the profit would have been 16x the money spent. So, they lent no money to the country .... the papers already lost their value since the risk was high of total loss or a haircut.

I guess, even with the haircut settlement, even then they would have earning a lot of money -- but they where very greedy.

Our financial system should not foster poor greed!
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What technology generates the current has nothing to do with whether or the GPs concerns are valid. It's all about transportation, not just generation.

Grand parent mentioned the grid, not the plants.
I have, and yes, they say that, but since they are an American company and thus can be compelled to do pretty much anything by the American goverment (through secret courts even, which we've been hearing more and more about) it seems reasonable to say that America owns them, and their bookkeeping.
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They are American much in the same way that Google and Facebook are American, are they not?
In the context of driving in the UK - that's not how it works. People will cross at red light right after you pass, and will impatiently wait at the edge of the road, leaning forwards, ready to go. This doesn't have anything to do with respecting the pedestrians rights.
To the skeptics here -- the problem is that malware can turn one kind of USB device into another kind of USB device, and that creates a massive attack surface given the scope of USB.

Check out all the things that a USB device can claim to be.[1] You don't just need your OS to be secure against a malicious storage device; you need it to be secure against a malicious keyboard and mouse, speaker/microphone/sound card, printer/scanner, CNC machine, webcam, ethernet or wifi adapter, bluetooth adapter, infrared adapter, RNDIS adapter (whatever the heck that is, but it's supported by BSD as well as Windows), an ActiveSync device, a smart card reader, a fingerprint reader ...

As I understand it (and I wouldn't mind being wrong), a hostile USB stick could claim to be a hub running all of these at once, and orchestrate them in an attack. Consumer-oriented OSes will happily load up standard drivers to talk to most of them in an attempt to be user-friendly, each with their own hooks into the OS. And the hostile device can detect what OS and probably specific hardware it's talking to,[2] so it can target an attack at the drivers that are likely to exist.

If that's true, I don't see how anyone could be confident that such a stack could ever be secured on the OS side. A secure bulk storage driver is one thing, but your laptop has to be secure against a hostile keyboard working with a hostile CNC machine, sound card, and ethernet device?

At a minimum it seems like devices should be locked at the hardware level to the kind of device that they are. Code signing makes a lot of sense too, although it's sad to lose the (hypothetical?) ability to install alternative drivers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Device_classes
[2] http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~butler/pubs/sadfe11.pdf
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Well, Chile is being in the left, and does not have any problem. Your argument is not very strong.

In true, Uruguay has it owns problems.
Ok, thus, if a similar scheme is being used for the FIFA stickers, the person that put this together (http://fifapaninicode7.appspot.com/) must know the RSA key!
A folder for resources and a folder for source is causing you problems?
> Maybe you can do something similar to replace boarding passes for airlines?

I haven't seen it on Android Wear yet, but Norwegian (low cost airline in Scandinavia) has that on their (iPhone) app. The app is pretty much only that actually: you can't use it to buy, but you can check-in, see gate information and have a QR boarding pass.

Actually, the apps of most companies that I've used in the past year (Air France, Luftansa, Finnair) offer the same.
Why don't experts write articles? Why do I see "my first experience with x" so much more frequently than "I've written large complicated systems in x, here's how I use it"?

I'm in no way criticizing the OP, I just wonder why these sorts of articles are especially valuable.
A large coffee-table book (e.g. 16x24 when opened) beats a tablet or monitor any day. Maybe they'll make a comeback, given all the newly scanned material. Small publishers could crowdfund limited editions for niche audiences.
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typing =/= full control of system.
I am not a lawyer.

My understanding of this type of clause is not that it makes New York the arbitrator, but rather clarifies for whoever does arbitrate that New York laws should be used. This seems important when working across national (or state) boundries do prevent ambiguity as to what set of laws is being used.

I suspect that it is simmilar to copying the relevent laws into a contract and signing that, which is to say that local laws still apply.
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I thought this was going to be a parody article or at least anything other than a story about how Martha Stewart has a drone and loves it. But alas, Martha Stewart is more tech savvy then I have ever given her credit for. That's really awesome Martha, have fun with your drone.
Display which cipher is being used?

2G is insecure regardless of whether encryption has been turned off or not, it can be decrypted on the fly with very modest hardware so the indicator telling you what connection you have is as good as telling you whether it is "secure" or not.

> Detect hidden SMS

Not really feasible - there are tons of different types of "hidden" sms that are routinely used by the network but can be spoofed by a third party.

> Detect SIM card app installations through public APIs

This won't work unless it is rooted and this messages have to be signed from the network anyway.
Which is how debt collectors work.

The hedge fund guys are just debt sharks. They're contributing nothing of value to anyone - possibly not even to themselves, because it's not so unlikely there will be international fallout that massively damages their other holdings.
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2020 is the estimate for full scale production at max capacity, not the estimate for when it will first come on line.
How would the manufacturer know that an individual thumb drive has been compromised?
You are correct - it assumes total conversion, but the numbers don't change if you project some ramp for the transition.

A more reasonable assumption for charging is that it will take place wherever electric vehicles are parked, regardless of time of day; in that case, large parking lot installations for PV may be more sensible than individual home systems. In either case, it seems likely that increased adoption of electric vehicles will change what we consider "peak" electricity use hours, since it could consume half or more of total electricity in the US.
This kind of attack has been around for some time, but so far you needed a special, programmable chip for that. And yes, it can attack nearly every OS, including Linux.

Check out this for more information: https://github.com/hak5darren/USB-Rubber-Ducky/wiki
Huh? It shows practical examples of how to achieve and manage new material features with new API level and old. That's rather useful, especially since it shows just how Android devs THINK those APIs should be used.

It also shows rather well how to manage Android L vs. older Android split on Gradle level in a simple straightforward app.

It does look a little bit overengineered though. But it's far from being useless as a learning resource.
> truck drivers also serve as a security guard

Only because trucks have to stop overnight. If you remove the driver, they will be able to work 24/7 and only refuel in automated, safe locations.
AFAIK, the mobile apps only listen to the microphone when the app is open, not in the background
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I'm not sure but I bet that a country can issue bonds under any law it wants. It's just more likely to get people to buy bonds if they are under New York law (as opposed to say Argentinian law, where foreign bondholders would hold no sway).
I've seen similar. I kind of view it as "A couple As and a couple Cs are better than all Bs" The one caveat is that you don't want any Fs. For example, to be a great programmer, you don't need to be a great English writer, but if you can't communicate at all, your work will suffer. There's a minimum level after which it's better to focus on programming. If you're a great accountant, you don't need to be a master of spreadsheets, but you need to be good enough to get the job done.
Terrible visualization. George Simenon, with the innermost entry, slept and woke exactly the same as Beethoven, who was near the outside. Beethoven's "line" is therefore several times longer than Simenon's, as is Victor Hugo's.
I think the original creditors also got a "haircut" when they sold to the current bond holders. It's the new owners, who paid about 1/3 of the nominal value, who are holding out for a huge return.
How do you ensure that a malicious firmware is not just impersonating the valid firmware for the device?
With their economic history, they would have had a much harder time issuing the bonds elsewhere.
European "heretics" had the benefit of more practice in book hiding.
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In a transaction like this one, the parties get to choose the law that applies. Indeed, they are free to choose privately-formulated law and have the disputes resolved by private arbitration organizations (there are several examples of each). That said, it is quite popular to choose New York law to govern international transactions, and litigate issues in New York courts, even when the transactions have nothing to do with New York. That's because New York law is well understood, there is a deep body of precedent involving sophisticated financial transactions, and the courts have a lot of experience resolving financial disputes.
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Investor is too kind a term. They did not exactly buy those papers at nominal value.
Also, Brazilian Real was born to be around 1:1 with USD, but the exchange rate was never fixed, it floated from day one. Argentinian coin (don't remember the name) was 1:1 by force, which made the delay even more catastrophic.
It's more like, if you keep defaulting on bonds by saying you don't have to pay them because you changed the rules, eventually no on will buy them unless you let someone else set the rules.
> Brazil forbade domestic contracts in dollar (with a few exceptions, mainly leasing contracts for imported vehicles).

This is an interesting and often overlooked aspect of monetary policy in the US.

In the US, we are used to the dollar being the single currency domestically for virtually all domestic transactions, and even used to it being used abroad (which extends our purchasing power greatly) as well as in most black market transactions (which essentially acts as a free loan to the government).

It makes monetary policy changes that much more effective, because there is no other currency to compete with directly (not by fiat, as in Argentina, but by custom).

If alternative currencies like Bitcoin take off, the US government will have a very strong incentive to regulate them directly or manipulate them indirectly, because their very presence and widespread use would weaken the ability of the government to use monetary policy as an economic tool.
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If they hadn't ceded the legal control to NY law, then they either wouldn't have gotten the money they wanted, or at the very least had a much higher interest for it.

That's the whole point - if you're a trustworthy borrower, then you can get money on decent terms; but if you're like Argentina then every lender needs all the protection they can get, to try to prevent cases like this one.
It's not that simple. If you lend me money and I don't repay, the open market allows you to recover some of it by selling the debt to someone else. However, if there was no hope of getting the money back there would have been no buyer. So if it wasn't for the evil hedge fund willing to shoulder the risk, the people/organizations who actually did lent Argentina the money would have been a lot worse off (being unable to sell the bonds).
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By this logic, if "USB" (the bus) is broken, so are i2c, SPI, etc. PS/2 is equally broken, because a nefarious PS/2 keyboard or mouse can do exactly what that USB thumbdrive can do too. Also your RAM bus. And that IDE/SATA/Whatever Hard Drive. And even that sneaky VGA cable. A microcontroller in the connector could alter your display to cause you to click on dangerous things/delete files/etc. I could give you a laptop power supply cable that will destroy years' worth of your work, along with your laptop. There are lots of attack vectors involving things you stick in your computer, but I really don't think a bus protocol is the problem.
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