Also from TFA, they have made 10,000 samples on their production line. They are initially aiming at the power company market, thus huge batteries with huge price tags. They are targeting $100 per kilowatt hour by 2020. One of the co-founders also co-founded A123. So there is some experience at bringing batteries to market.

Lots of companies fail for reasons besides their technology. I won't be surprised if this one fails too. On the other hand, it is more real than most such slashdot stories.

They are not orthogonal. This should have been titled "if you are going to use Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi, here is how to encrypt it".

Kali Linux is designed for penetration testing, among other things. The logs from a penetration test are valuable to dark hats. The advantage of doing this from a Raspberry Pi, is that they are cheap enough to send to each branch of a company, so each network can be individually tested. Sometimes this means that physical security is difficult to ensure. It would be very embarrassing to lose a system during an internal audit. It could quite easily turn into a career ending event, if that led to a security breach.

Disclaimer: I've never used Kali Linux, nor did I look closely at this technique to see if there is something stupid in the instructions.

I want clean clothes, I don't need something to clean them the way I would clean them. I am willing to buy clothes that are robot cleaning compatible.

I like machine assisted dish cleaning so much, all of the dishes we own are "dishwasher safe" except for a couple wine glasses. They aren't all labeled dishwasher safe, but in those rare cases when the dishwasher destroyed something, I made sure not to buy another dish with that weakness.

Likewise, all of the clothing I use on a regular basis have survived trips through the washer and dryer.

For me, a complete laundry system would take the clothes out of the hamper, wash and dry them, and put them away. In order to put the clothes away, the robot would need to know where they are supposed to go and how to prepare them for storage. I am not afraid of RFID tags, but if I were, there are many other options for creating labels a robot can read.

Folding clothes isn't hard once the clothing is identified, flattened and positioned. The robot readable labels take care of the identification. In exchange for something else doing the work, I am not adverse to having ferrous rings sown into key points, so the system can magnetically grab those points to spread out and align the garment in the folding station. I am not adverse to having clothes rolled up, if that turns out to be easier.

I don't require that a robot adapt to my garage sale dressers. I just need the right clothes in the morning. There are many pick and place technologies. If for some reason it is easier for the cleaning system to deal with cartridges, I can live with that. The cleaning system can load an underwear cartridge. The transport system can load the cartridge into my dresser replacement. Then the dresser replacement can dispense underwear as needed.

Anthem is traded on the NYSE under the symbol WLP.

They should be required to file an 8K form to legally inform all of their stock holders that they have material news that may adversely affect their future stock price, or even company viability.

After having been informed of extreme security issues on our network, Anthem Inc has elected to ignore the situation. Furthermore, Anthem Inc's network is so embarrassing, that Anthem Inc has decided to risk significant fines and legal expenses, rather than allow adults to see just how bad it is.

Translation, shareholder lawsuits may be addressed to Joseph R. Swedish, et al.

This is more than just a selfie, the shadow cast by a known object adds depth, scale, and many other scientifically interesting details about the comet, and about the space craft itself.

And for those who like science fiction... If any aliens are riding the Rosetta probe, they will have to duck while the picture is being taken.

In the days of brick and mortar spying, the people being spied on would send messages that included false meeting times and locations. For example, in a town with underground utilities, announce a meeting to take place in a rarely used manhole. If the manhole cover is disturbed, then you know that the communication channel has been compromised. No math is required.

The high tech equivalent would be to mention a network resource where access can be monitored. When the network resource is accessed, you know there is a problem.

An earthquake might move the ground north of a fault to the west, and the ground south of the fault to the east. The tube has to stay straight enough that the train can come to a complete stop safely. This means a whole bunch of columns will have to bend.

If your data is valuable, you will need to mirror the drives or use RAID. So one limitation is how quickly you can add a drive to your mirror system.

It would take 11 hours to fully mirror from one 6 TByte WD drive to another, if your system can actually manage to sustain 138Mbytes per second as shown on page 5 of the article. Obviously, the transfer will be slower, if the data is actually used for something.

If a disk dies, at best you are looking at half a day before the system is fully redundant again. Probably multiple days in the real world.

They are working with 6 mm samples. They need to improve that by a factor of 5. Only a small percentage of women at risk for breast cancer can tolerate having their breasts compressed to 30 mm for imaging, but it is a large enough percentage to start doing human test trials. Assuming the image quality is high enough.

With existing xray based mammogram machines the more the breast is compressed, the better the image. There is abundant research on breast compression for imaging, just a google away.

Perhaps in a few years, this technique will be refined to the point where it can image through 3 cm of tissue in a reasonable amount of time, and produce a clinically useful image. Then we will hear about this technique again. Hopefully, it will be improved to the point where it is suitable for use on the entire population.

There are rest stops at 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and so on, but 9 is not a rest stop. The first two overlapping sets of six rest stops aren't spaced the same as the rest, and thus don't have the same mathematical properties. The Riecoin compliant prime sextuplets, err, I mean rest stops on the infinite highway are {7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23} and {97, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113}, except they are too small for cryptography.

TFA says that Home Depot expects to pay "$62 million this year to recover from the incident", referring to exposing the details on 56 million credit cards. That's only $1.11 per exposed card. I used a credit card there during the period, so my Credit Union sent me a new card, plus two other physical letters about the incident. That had to cost them more than $1.11 per affected customer.

They are using the same VID, but not the same design. images of real and fake FTDI silicon.

The fake chips that have FTDI stamped on the outside of the package are clearly misusing the FTDI trademark. On the other hand, those that don't cheat with the labels, and only use the string "FTDI" so they will inter-operate with existing software should be legal. I am not a lawyer. My opinion of what should be legal may not match what the courts rule as legal.

Sometimes the variations in reviews is due to variations in the product. Many years ago I worked in a brick and mortar store and resold electronics. I'd buy a small number of units from a supplier and test them. If they were good, I'd buy a bunch for resale. Assuming the customers didn't bring them back, I would buy more of the same, from the same vendor. Customers who were happy with units from the first few batches, were not at all happy with units from later batches.

I dissected customer returns. Again and again, the products in later shipments looked identical on the outside, but were "cost reduced" on the inside. For example, I would see empty places on the circuit boards where the filter capacitors were supposed to go. In one batch of one product, many of the units were dead on arrival, on the ones that worked when I unpacked them, the solder joints only lasted a few weeks. Once opened, I could see that the boards were either soldered at the wrong temperature, it was the wrong type of solder, or badly made solder. Every connection was visibly a cold solder joint. Either the factory had no quality control, or they ignored the quality control.

Other products looked identical inside and out, but based on the failure rate, the factory must have gotten a bad batch of one the components.

Even longer ago, I worked on a product that logged data to a Compact Flash memory card. It was an embedded product that needed to work across a wide temperature range, including in the winter in Minnesota. The big names like SanDisk would randomly swap component suppliers. Our largest customer saw less than a 2% failure rate, but that was way too much. We found a specialty supplier that charged 5 times as much, but they had a rigorous quality control process. They paid attention to the specifications. They tracked where parts came from, and promised that we would be able to test sample units if they needed to switch suppliers. Alas, the 2% failure rate from the earlier parts had already doomed that product line.