You're thinking of individuals, but the very first sentence of the summary says "for the enterprise". Lots of companies have tons of data that they could store on something like this. Since many nerds work for such companies, this seems relevant to their interests.

It should only take a few seconds of access to plug something into the CAN bus. I'm going to guess that whatever security protocols the police follow, there are times when someone forgets or doesn't have time to lock thier car.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=6.49+mill...

I'm not clear on how knowing it in square furlongs will help you. I'm not even sure if anyone has ever used square furlongs as a unit of measure. But people who post messages like this don't actually want to know the answer, they just want to be snarky.

TL;DR 14.9 square furlongs, 0.6 km^2

1 ton = 3.5 KW
82000 tons = 290 MW

A refrigeration ton is the power required to melt one ton of ice in one day.

We need metric conversion bots for slashdot.

Shockingly, AWS allows you to configure your servers in an insecure manner. Clearly, the cloud must be insecure.

In a small business, the owner/manager may well be sitting at the POS terminal to help customers, but also doing other business tasks in between. It would be great if they had different computers for this, but there may not be space/budget for that.

In a larger system, there might be general purpose computers sitting on the same network as the POS system without proper firewalls between them. So the malware hits a general purpose system first, then uses that platform to attack the POS.

The light from the most distant objects we see has travelled about 13 billion light years to reach us. During the intervening 13 billion years, the expansion of the universe means that those objects would now be 46 billion light years away. So which number you use depends on how you want to define the size. I like the 13 billion number because it doesn't depend on any definition of simultaneity.

Source: http://www.space.com/24073-how...

I hate geographic restrictions also, but you are taking a very narrow definition of "unavailable" that defies common usage. If there is no legal way to acquire something, it is not available. The fact that this is a choice Amazon is making and could make differently does not change the fact that it is not currently available to you.

So you behaved like an asshole and got fired for it. But fortunately you can force your employer to officially forget all the ways you subverted their interests and only remember the good things. This is supposed to make people feel better about the right to be forgotten?

I looked at http://www.amsc.com/pdf/PM3000...

The spec sheet claims "power density of up to 130 W/in. (7.9 W/cm)"

But I also see:
Dimensions 38.2in*19.8in*18.7in = 14100 in^3
AC Power 690V * 750A = 520000 VA
Density: 37 VA/in^3 (also an upper bound on W/in^3)

What is the justification for the 130 W/in^3 claim?

But Dishonored also had several different sets of in-game bonuses depending on which store you bought the game from.

Right, because they fly enough that they can get free uprades on almost every flight, or worst case they can afford to pay for the upgrade out of pocket.

Getting a signature on a piece of paper is a bit impractical in the internet age, don't you think?

Would this prevent sites from counting how many visiters their site received? How about the number of visiters using Comcast? How about the number of visiters using Comcast in Dallas? The number of visiters with IP 142.14.8.63?

Would this mean that Amazon's fraud team would have to shut down, because they look for suspicious pattens of activity? For that matter, would credit card companies be able to do fraud analysis on your purchase history? Would they even be able to send you a bill?

The right to be forgotten is a good goal, but there are a lot of messy details to be worked out.

As I understand it, for regulated services USPS is not allowed to offer any negotiated prices to any company. Sunday delivery is presumably an unregulated add-on, but for normal weekday package delivery Amazon has to pay the same prices as any other shipper. One way Amazon gets around that is by using their own trucks to move packages as close to the consumer as possible, then mailing the package only a short distance. The post office can also unofficially rebate money by doing joint advertising.

Of course if we start schools later, parents will want their work schedules later too. And if we do that, stores will need to adjust their hours to accomodate both employees and customers, and evening entertainment will probably want to start later. Coordinating all of that sounds tricky, so what if we just get together and chose an arbitrary date on which we will all start things an hour later?