Actually, that reader accepts EMV (chip+pin) card. Insert it in the bottom slot and be done. Most readers sold in the last few years are dual-mode (as the manufacturer also sells them in Canada and Europe) so the cost for businesses wouldnt be that bad.

Be careful.. in england most stores will only accept chip+pin (EMV) cards... especially for "bigger" transactions (in the $100 range or higher). Its becoming harder and harder to use mag-stripe only when travelling to europe.

Its not exactly infinite. Craigslist pays for the hosting services and pays (a minimal ammount but not zero) for its uplink taffic. A scraping website can generate a "significant" ammount of traffic compared to a single individual user. (probably a blimp in the overall craigslist traffic, but nonetheless identifiable).

All the stations on the 14th line (which is driverless as well) have the barriers.

Remember there werent apps. In fact, Steve Jobs was highly against them.. saying they should be html5...

One of the things most 3G/4G PGW/SGW (the terminating equipment of your data session) that "connect" your phone to the internet is known as "http header enrichment" where data such as the IMSI or phone-number equivalent can be added to http headers for requests going from your phone to a particular server. In this…

You could have mentioned the company behind this paper. This is Alcatel-Lucent, with technology out of Bell Labs. And this 400G technology is actually in use in a few links in the field already.

indeed, that's what I meant. But hollow fibers are extremely experimental still and no commercial transmission system uses it (especially for long runs like this)

The main reason why microwave is faster than fiber is not so much the line of sight (fiber can be run, at a cost), through near-to line-of-sight paths. But becasue light itself travels at around 2/3 of the speed of light on air/vaccuum. So Microwaves have that 1/3c advantage.

A friend of mine is a product manager for google glass and we were mocking around with this feature a few weeks ago. Its coming "natively" into glass I guess in a future release.

actually yes, with gTLDs, any company can register the WHOLE TLD (Top Level Domain) as long as they can prove they have the necesary means to run the proper DNS infrastructure for it.

I've had two-step verification for my hotmail / outlook account since quite a while ago. Probably close to a year now. I specifically remember receiving SMSs when someone was trying to access my hotmail account and I was receiving the codes.

a sprint i4s is meant to work on the CDMA side. And the issue is with apple require activations on the iphone. Any unlocked GSM phone works out of the box in T-mobile, but the issue here is the sprint (and KT's phone, which is also CDMA unfortunately)

Even with Selective Availability disabled, the military signal runs on a different frequency band (very different) and is natively more accurate. Differential GPS using the military band can have milimeter level accuracy (which is scary as hell I must say) for lat/long and cm-accuracy for elevation. Yes, differential…

nuclear magnetic resonance scanners are even crazier. Those have a few huge superconducting electromagnets in them (liquid helium cooled to boot!)

The ethernet "orientation sensing" is not a mac-only thing but actually baked into ethernet's auto-negotiation standard. It allows to map tx and rx in software. Since 1Gbps cards actually use all 4 pairs both for RX and TX simultaneously, they already have the transceivers in place, so doing the auto-sensing in…

Actually, lichstenstein. Luxemburg is only "simply landlocked" and not double-landlocked ;)...

Most satellites have an RTG (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator). Its nuclear in the sense it depends on atoms splitting.. but this is the NATURAL decay of a radioactive particle and is not a nuclear reaction. The decay produces heat (not a lot of it) which is then converted directly to electricity through a…

really old phones (think car-phones) took the full-size "smart-card" ....

Not really... in this case, its the access medium itself that is congested. So no use of IPv6's QoS would help.