FBI Hits Tor Users with Drive-By Downloads of Malware; Investment Giant Bets Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company

Facebook Seeks Devs to Make Linux Network Stack That Rivals FreeBSD | Nearly Half on Watchlist Unconnected to Terrorist Groups To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Investment Giant Bets Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company FBI Hits Tor Users with Drive-By Downloads of Malware Facebook Seeks Devs to Make Linux Network Stack That Rivals FreeBSD Nearly Half on Watchlist Unconnected to Terrorist Groups Verizon Throttles Data to Provide 'Incentive to Limit Usage' Hot Comment: "The entire point of a university degree is to give you a guided tour of your..." From the Vault: Shorter Video Games Coming Soon Watch It: JavaScript-Powered IoT Construction Kit Poll Booth: My degree of colorblindness... Sponsored Resources: App Release and Deployment for Dummies Investment Giant Bets Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company Motherboard reports that "as the cost of solar continues to fall, and more people opt for the distributed power offered by solar, there will be less demand for big power plants and the utilities that operate them." In fact, a major investment giant has now released three separate reports that argue Tesla Motors is going to help kill power companies off altogether. Sound Off>> FBI Hits Tor Users with Drive-By Downloads of Malware Wired is reporting that "the FBI has been quietly experimenting with drive-by hacks as a solution to one of law enforcement's knottiest Internet problems: how to identify and prosecute users of criminal websites hiding behind the powerful Tor anonymity system." Despite successfully busting some bad guys with the approach, it's engendering controversy. Sound Off>> Facebook Seeks Devs to Make Linux Network Stack That Rivals FreeBSD Facebook posted a career application that states the company is "seeking a Linux Kernel Software Engineer to join our Kernel team, with a primary focus on the networking subsystem. Our goal over the next few years is for the Linux kernel network stack to rival or exceed that of FreeBSD." There are a couple of especially interesting bullet points in the listing. Sound Off>> Nearly Half on Watchlist Unconnected to Terrorist Groups According to classified government documents obtained by The Intercept, "Of the 680,000 people caught up in the government's Terrorist Screening Database--a watchlist of 'known or suspected terrorists' that is shared with local law enforcement agencies, private contractors, and foreign governments--more than 40 percent are described by the government as having 'no recognized terrorist group affiliation.'" Sound Off>> Verizon Throttles Data to Provide 'Incentive to Limit Usage' About a week ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asked for Verizon's justification on its policy of throttling users who pay for unlimited data usage. In its response, Verizon explained that customers on unlimited plans "use disproportionately large amounts of data, and, unlike subscribers on usage-based plans, they have no incentive not to do so during times of unusually high demand." Sound Off>>  Idiots "The entire point of a university degree is to give you a guided tour of your ignorance. It's not to teach you everything about the subject, it's to tell you everything that you may want to learn within a subject so that you can then pick the bits to study in more detail yourself. 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