[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/bosnia-flooding-triggers-landslides-unearth-mines-165826726.html"]Bosnia flooding triggers landslides, unearth mines[/URL]

[QUOTE]Beyond the immediate danger to Bosnians, any loose mines could also create an international problem if floodwaters carry the explosives downstream. Experts warned that mines could travel through [B]half[/B] of southeast Europe or get stuck in the turbines of a hydroelectric dam.[/QUOTE]

Grrr... Guess who is [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Gates"]down the river[/URL]... A bit of Murphy Law and the SE of Europe runs in the dark for a while...

Via Bruce Schneier's [URL="https://www.schneier.com/"]blog[/URL]; TrueCrypt has been burned by its author(s):[URL="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/truecrypt_wtf.html"][B]TrueCrypt WTF[/B][/URL][quote]I have no idea what's going on with TrueCrypt. There's a good summary of the story at [URL="http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/truecrypt-is-not-secure-official-sourceforge-page-abruptly-warns/"]ArsTechnica[/URL], and [URL="http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/05/28/2126249/truecrypt-website-says-to-switch-to-bitlocker"]Slashdot[/URL], [URL="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7814725"]Hacker News[/URL], and [URL="http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/26pz9b/truecrypt_development_has_ended_052814/"]Reddit[/URL] all have long comment threads. See also [URL="http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/true-goodbye-using-truecrypt-is-not-secure/"]Brian Krebs[/URL] and [URL="http://boingboing.net/2014/05/29/mysterious-announcement-from-t.html"]Cory Doctorow[/URL].

Speculations include a massive hack of the TrueCrypt developers, some Lavabit-like forced shutdown, and an internal power struggle within TrueCrypt. I suppose we'll have to wait and see what develops.[/quote]

Have suitcase, will travel
 

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27636476[/url]

[QUOTE=xilman;374675][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27636476[/url][/QUOTE]

Nice, but does it have room for [url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7-6nXGflec]this kind of travel accessory[/url]?

[QUOTE=ewmayer;374724]Nice, but does it have room for [url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7-6nXGflec]this kind of travel accessory[/url]?[/QUOTE]

A sincere question: have you ever spent any time out of the United States of America?

I would highly recommend Thailand. Very nice people -- amazing food.

[QUOTE=chalsall;374731]A sincere question: have you ever spent any time out of the United States of America?[/QUOTE]

Nearly a decade in total - but not in Thailand. Was not a US citizen until age > 20.

(Not even gonna bother with a "your point?")

[QUOTE=chalsall;374731]I would highly recommend Thailand. Very nice people -- amazing food.[/QUOTE]My parents traveled to several eastern Europe countries, and twice around the world, during the 1970s. My mother's favorite country of them all was Thailand, by far. (Dad liked them all.)

(Old news)
[URL="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2009/02/prior-fart-legal-stink-up-over-iphone-flatulence-apps/"]Prior *art: legal stink-up over iPhone flatulence apps[/URL]

[URL="http://gizmodo.com/quantum-computers-still-arent-faster-than-your-average-1593365494"]Quantum Computers Are Still No Faster Than Your Average PC[/URL]

[QUOTE]The D-Wave 2 is the second commercially available quantum computer—"commercially available" if you have something like $15 million lying around. Lockheed Martin bought one that is now housed at the University of Southern California, where the current study was performed, for example, and Google bought one too.
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[QUOTE][URL="http://gizmodo.com/quantum-computers-still-arent-faster-than-your-average-1593365494"]Quantum Computers Are Still No Faster Than Your Average PC[/URL][/QUOTE]The first automobiles were slower than horses. The first airplanes were slower than trains.