Would this defeat existing robo-CAPTCHA breakers? Yes. Is this easy to break? Yes.

But you notice that Apple doesn't advertise their specsheet like everyone else? The only people who have any idea how much RAM iPhoneX has are people who read tech blogs. I think it will largely go unnoticed. They will put more RAM on the phone when they have a compelling need to do so.

Everyone talks about the tracing aspects here, but the flipside is that presumably all the unsecured cash make drug dealers prime theft targets and in Western culture, using lots of cash is presumably 'suspicious'.

Finally? This research has been around for more than 20 years, and with humans to boot...

I get that Giz reaches far and wide and doesn't pretend to hide bias. And I don't mind. But this is straight up trolling.

Physical access is ALWAYS king unless you're encrypted. If you're running around with your laptop or not in a secure area, simply put a sleep/saver password on it. I use Alfred and option+space and then typing lock locks my computer.

Flamewar in 3, 2, 1...

As someone who does this for a living, let me tell you there is certainly a use it or lose it aspect to it. A skilled engineer that isn't familiar with their code could pick things up quickly, but this stems from being familiar with the core concepts on a frequent basis, which Zuckerberg is not. And doesn't need to…

Nah. Many of those people will be able to find new jobs pretty easily. It's every other HP employee that is freaking out because management is clueless. HP is on a death spiral. And by the way, I was at IBM when the Lenovo thing went down. I guarantee that HP's offices are in chaos and likely being ransacked, pilfered…

Most wine isn't stored nowadays, so the breathing thing doesn't really matter for most wines; ergo hermetically sealed screw top is mostly a desired quality.

Wait? Who's the software tycoon that is the much lauded philanthropist? OH yea....

Unfortunately, there's a lot of technical hoops to this whole case. The thing that's irritating here is that it's some broad brush stroke that says Java. But my understanding is that the question here are some very specific *pieces*. Dalvik is not Java, and Java itself has open source elements to it.

Mosiac was my first browser; '94, Win 3.1. I found Usenet newsgroups and IRC to be the compelling Internet applications in those days though.

"How a new Stonehenge could be found at 285 feet below the surface, I don't know." - There are man made stone structures under water around the world. Like Japan [news.nationalgeographic.com]

Eco? Seriously? Glass is a traditional recyclable, AND you can just rinse it out and use it again. Something you can't do with those suckers. And to top it all off, you still have to have the paper in the first place? Which means cutting down trees. And lining that thing with God knows what chemicals to keep the booze…

"That being said, let's establish two giant, plump caveats: it's an imperfect technology, and you should always be able to opt-out of it." - Operative word here is "should". Good luck with that.

Delivery of foodstuffs to people who are starving usually comes in the form of something non-perishable. Also, most places where people are in need of food relief are disaster areas and third world countries; places notoriously slim on refrigeration.

I use something similar for Amazon Web services.

Let's just can the "is it good for the government to be involved here" debate for just a moment. The problem that I see as a non-starter is that all of this talk seems to originate with bureaucrats and politicians. Now, I'm sure Mr. Grant is a nice guy, but from the NIST website: "He graduated with distinction from…

What fuckedup duality is this? If I'm not attracted to women of race X, it's because I'm narrowminded? Would you call a gay man that doesn't want to date you narrowminded? A man can't CHOOSE to find black/asian/white/latin/etc women attractive any more than a gay person can pray away their gay.