This reminds me of the time I was in a high school electronics class and we were bored so we started hooking up random stuff to a variable power supply. We "discovered" that if you hook up a piece of graphite from a mechanical pencil and slowly apply voltage it produces brilliant and stable light. Other than being…

THIS JUST IN: Man creates speaker out of only the parts that people have been making speakers out of for over 100 years.

it's called disinformation. No way this was unplanned.

...because he's never been convicted of anything?

AFAICT the article is trying to point out, with the usual click bait hyperbole, that the microcontroller in some USB devices can be reflashed into something malicious. This is actually easier with some SD cards: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

Atmel alone makes about a hundred devices that they market as being usable as a USB device controller, and another fifty that can act as USB host. That's one company whose product line I'm familiar with (used to develop on their devices.) So, yeah, there's thousands of different USB controllers out there; any attempt…

And yet, over my 16 year career as an IT professional and working with dozens of Fortune 500 companies, I have never once seen an infected USB device.

I think this is one of those "it could be done but in reality it isn't that common" deals.

Actually I think Sam hit the nail on the head.

USB is a communications protocol... this is like saying that a telephone is a fundamental security threat.

The difference is that the pain transmitter uses millimeter waves that only burn dead skin cells, while a microwave magnetron heats up water molecules and will make your flesh explode. Getting the frequency correct is very important.

I'll repost my thoughts to you. Battle Royale and THG are not that similar and neither invented the concept of the powers that be forcing young people to kill each other in an arena (the Minotaur also had young tributes forced into sacrifice and fighting, for example). The Minotaur's Labyrinth also had zones with…

I think the books are too new to say whether they are highly influential (beyond a recent burst of YA science fiction). I would also say the same of The Windup Girl. Way too new.

Suck it, whiny Battle Royale fanboys. We Steven King fans were into deadly televised sports as entertainment or the populace of a fascists state way before it is cool. It wasn't a new idea then, because it dated back to Roman gladiatorial games and other competitions (which The Hunger Games calls back to with the…

Well, gentlemen, I'm from Ukraine, and I've seen some "pro-russian rebels" in person. If you think that they are just poor people who do not agree with Kiev's politics you're totally wrong. That bastards consists of two kinds: bandits who get paid by Russia to destabilize our country and Russian soldiers undercover.…

We KNOW where the damned rocket came from because the damned murdering Russian-Putin-backed rebels were stupid enough to proclaim that they did it.

Spot on , Sir. Except that Russia won't pay. Maybe a few more sanctions but I doubt the European or American leaders will do much else. It's unfortunate but no one has the stomach to stand up to Putin.

She doesn't deny any of it and makes excuses all throughout her reddit post - which she is the one who made public.

Because that's her right if she's not in the mood. There's nothing on a marriage license that says you're entitled to sex whenever you want. If you feel you're being neglected in a marriage there are better ways to communicate than a spreadsheet.

You are the one suggesting that any emotional and self esteem issues that need to be addressed are the province of this woman only. The guy couldn't possible have any issues arising from constant rejection. He should just suck it up, becuz feelings - but not his. You are projecting that it is somehow pressure on his…

She doesn't deny that she is shooting him down. Legitimate reasons every once in a while - sure. 90% of the time is on her.