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UPNP can be an absolute security nightmare however, it's the sole reason so many IP cameras, NAS drives and IOT devices are internet accessible. It's your network of course but it …

What's the minimum they can charge?

Did you intentionally ignore the malware injection point?

HP Chromebooks are exactly the same. It's all down to the driver.

Could be because of the insane THC levels in street cannabis. At least if it was legalised it could be regulated to be under a certain level.

Port mirroring on most managed switches will allow you to pick up TCP packets for another device.

Miners don't have the ability to 'print' more Bitcoin. They can release blocks with whatever transactions they like in but they will simply be rejected by the network. The fact tha…

You can make 1 Satoshi payments on the Lightning network already at a cost of $0.00007.

This especially does not work when you need a large network effect like Bittorrent does. People know how it works and how to use it and that is why it will be very difficult to ove…

They can borrow against the property at the stated rent instead of what the market would actually pay. As soon as they accept lower rents they can no longer claim it's worth as muc…

> Which country came to the aid of Britain, and all those Western European nations when they were faced with the existential threat of Nazism? Russia mainly, from where an estimate…

> BTW, Cisco and a few others have been forced to develop 'lawful intercept' technologies on their routers for the three-letter agencies for years, I think. There was a big controv…

It's not end-to-end if Facebook can read them after they are delivered. Facebook only have access to the metadata.

Whilst creepy, I love the idea of a proof of work system like this, something that anyone can participate in. I just don't see how it could be achieved in a way that couldn't be ga…

Without access to the data we don't know how useful it is full stop.

If they're using the T6 platform they will kit it out however they like.

That's like saying Linux hasn't figured out updates yet. It's a false argument.

You've reinforced my decision not to have kids, far too much responsibility.

To be in the position of being able to do a bitcoin 51% attack however you would have had to sunk enormous costs into buying ASIC miners. The minute everyone finds out that a 51% a…

Classifying produce only helps the consumer. You'd be a little annoyed if every week you went to the supermarket and they had a varying quality/size of produce but the price remain…

Neither do scooters to be fair.

Electric cars don't really have a 'running' state. The motors are either engaged or they are off.

At which point you may as well put the transactions in a SQL database and call it Paypal.

You need a second layer(and possibly more on-top of that) for several reasons. How do you expect to propagate and store 1GB blocks (hell, even 100MB blocks) every 10 minutes for th…