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What t a gift to the NSA!

Or not.

Outlook.com and OneDrive have also been updated to use perfect forward security (PFS). In PFS, the keys used for each connection are randomly generated on a per-session basis. This is important because it protects against bulk data collection. Without PFS, if a law enforcement agency or hacker can demand or steal the long-term key used to secure connections, they can use that key to decrypt all historic, recorded sessions. PFS prevents this; compromising one session's key only enables decryption of that session.

This will secure Web access, the OneDrive mobile clients, and the OneDrive desktop clients.

Microsoft is also using certificates with 2048 bit keys on both the Outlook.com and OneDrive Web front-ends, another change planned last December.

Microsoft expands the use of encryption on Outlook, OneDrive [July 1, 2014]

Read this review from Ars Technica of one of the recently released Firefox OS phones.

After reading that review, I don't see how you can suggest that Firefox OS has been "optimised for devices of 256MB or less" when, according to that review, it's an absolutely dismal failure on a device with 128 MB of RAM.

I couldn't even have made up most of these problems if I tried. Seriously, these are just a few excerpts from a universally negative review of Firefox OS:

It's perfectly possible to hit a Web server and pull the correct time—most desktop OSes do that—but Firefox OS doesn't.

In theory, Firefox OS can multitask, but thanks to a combination of failings in Firefox OS and in the hardware, you'll never have an app run in the background on the Cloud FX.

The other problem is that when Firefox OS does run out of memory, it closes apps without doing anything to preserve their state or to keep critical background tasks running.

Solitaire, for instance, is "pre-loaded" in that there is an icon that ships with the OS, but it's just a Web app that needs an Internet connection.

You won't find much in the way of apps for Firefox OS. There's basically nothing "custom made" other than a small handful of utilities. Most "apps" in the Marketplace are just bookmarks that users could make themselves.

You would think Firefox OS would have a killer browser that could easily run browser-based benchmarks, but they all crash. Even Mozilla's own Kraken benchmark doesn't run on the Cloud FX.

The performance isn't just inconsistent; rendering is too. Firefox OS seems to cut loading short sometimes, and the above screenshots show three attempts at the Ars homepage, all of which are "finished" loading. The first one is missing images and CSS, the second is a little further along but still unrecognizable, and the third is mostly loaded but missing lots of images. In general, Firefox OS is full of bugs like this, where things just stop working and need a reboot.

Firefox OS has a recent apps screen, but there is never any free memory, so nothing other than the current app is ever open. During particularly slow freak-outs, the screen will just turn black. If the phone falls asleep, or the alarm pops up, or a phone call comes in, your app closes and you lose your progress. Even something as simple as opening a folder of apps has a load time measured in seconds.

Being able to disable images and JavaScript in the browser would be a great first step, but Firefox OS offers no way to do that.

The problem is that Firefox OS just isn't the right choice of operating system for this device—it's trying to do way too much with the limited hardware.

But Firefox OS has no alternative browsers that we could find.

When Firefox runs out of memory, it should do something other than crash.

Low-end smartphones need a low-end-appropriate operating system, and Firefox OS isn't up to that task.

Firefox OS was a totally inappropriate choice of operating system for this hardware. There are literally zero considerations for the speed and memory of the Cloud FX, and most of the device's really serious problems come from running software on hardware that feels well below the minimum spec.

Firefox crashes all the time.

Pay no attention to the fact that Apple has sold an entry-level Mac Mini for $499 for the last 9 years.

They have sold the entry-level Mac Mini for $499 for 1 week. Before that, it was $599.

It used to be $499, then went up to $599 for a few years, now back to $499. Which is all beside the original point: there is not a high barrier to entry for the Mac. And it has a lot of additional value to a lot of people: simple for the beginner, and an entire open-source UNIX for the advanced user, combined with high-quality parts and great service, a big ecosystem of software and services, and almost no viruses or threats to worry about, and a lot of folks (me included) think life is too short to deal with Windows at home.

Pay no attention to the fact that Apple has sold an entry-level Mac Mini for $499 for the last 9 years.

They have sold the entry-level Mac Mini for $499 for 1 week. Before that, it was $599.

If you want a significantly modernized UI that hasn't been designed for dummies, have a look at KDE Plasma 5. Kubuntu was simultaneously released in 14.10 flavor, and there are tech preview ISOs available now with the new desktop. It has a new wallpaper, also.

Obligatory Ars Link. From what I understand, fake towers work by forcing you to downgrade to 2G. Will this obviate that risk?

Well, to be fair, that story was immediately below the one they presumably intended to link.

Although now we have a definitive answer to "do the editors bother checking the stories being linked to when they post stories."

But what would that possibly accomplish? Or right, it can run Windows.

A few weekends ago I read about someone that can bootup Windows 95 on their smartwatch.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...

Note that this is coming from the country where public employees are paid to spread lies on the internet. How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations, GCHQ’s “Chinese menu” of tools spreads disinformation across Internet

Of course they're exempt from the law. Why are you people as a UK wide collective not outraged yet?

According to the excellent John Siracusa review of Yosemite, diagnostic and usage data is sent to both Apple and third-party app developers by default.

WHAT. THE. FUCKING. FUCK.

This is why I'm still using Snow Leopard.

Same review:

Among the biggest curmudgeons, Mavericks may even become the new Snow Leopard: the last "good" release before Apple ruined everything.

Exactly.

According to the excellent John Siracusa review of Yosemite, diagnostic and usage data is sent to both Apple and third-party app developers by default.

WHAT. THE. FUCKING. FUCK.

This is why I'm still using Snow Leopard.

Same review:

Among the biggest curmudgeons, Mavericks may even become the new Snow Leopard: the last "good" release before Apple ruined everything.

Exactly.

Note that this is coming from the country where public employees are paid to spread lies on the internet. How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations, GCHQ’s “Chinese menu” of tools spreads disinformation across Internet

Arstechnica quotes some unnamed Google guy. Haven't looked at ARChon yet. But implementing an Android runtime for Chrome in PNaCl is a no-brainer, now that Android's native ART runtime uses LLVM bitcode somewhere inside (which "coincidentally" is what PNaCl can consume, with some limitations). You just have to provide some API libraries for to link the Android app against.

Actually OS X IS certified UNIX. At least, Leopard was, and we can presume the successors are, too.

For example, few kernel developers get paid for their efforts.

That's not true.

A new Linux Kernel Development report (informally known as "Who Writes Linux") released today by the Linux Foundation names Samsung and Google as the seventh and eighth most frequent corporate contributors, behind Red Hat, Intel, Texas Instruments, Linaro, SUSE, and IBM. The report covers almost 92,000 changes to Linux from 3,738 individuals since version 3.3 in March 2012. Most Linux developers contribute to the kernel as part of their employment.

Only 13.6% of code contributions are from people who are not paid by employers to do so. Those who are working for companies are devoting time to the kernel because both they and their employer see it's worth doing. If they were uncomfortable with the process, they are certainly in a position to demand changes.

Green plus: Only maximizes windows in Yosemite. Schizophrenic behavior is gone.

The review disagrees. In windows that don't support full screen, the green + still does whatever it is that it does, and if for some reason you want to do that on windows with real fullscreen support, you can Option-click the green dot.

Which means that in Yosemite, clicking on the green dot will either take you into fullscreen mode or do who even knows when it's a plus and not a pair of arrows. I'm not sure that's really an improvement if you want to remove "schizophrenic behavior."

The memo you missed is that after some fracturing among the various open versions, they got together and formed the OpenZFS group, which does some sharing of plans and code as updates are made. Since that time, the open-source versions have matured from promising curiosities into really great implementations. The older open-source version for OS X has died, and been replaced by a derivative of the Linux version, which is a strong piece of work.

You're right, of course.

When I looked into ZFS on OS X as a way to do an ultra-fault-tolerant RAID for a friend's massive media collection (after I painstakingly recovered the data on his Buffalo RAID, as per my original post), the state of the state wasn't very promising, and so I ultimately punted on the idea. But it most certainly looks like the situation has MUCH improved, thanks in large part to the efforts of the OpenZFS Group.

Maybe now Apple will come around and take another look at full-support of ZFS, like what was going to happen in Snow Leopard Server, before Apple got cold feet.

Fortunately, Apple tends to listen to its Userbase pretty well, and there appears to be renewed interest among Users for full-on ZFS Support in OS X. At least we can hope...

At least OpenZFS is now compatible with the newly-released OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).

The memo you missed is that after some fracturing among the various open versions, they got together and formed the OpenZFS group, which does some sharing of plans and code as updates are made. Since that time, the open-source versions have matured from promising curiosities into really great implementations. The older open-source version for OS X has died, and been replaced by a derivative of the Linux version, which is a strong piece of work.

You're right, of course.

When I looked into ZFS on OS X as a way to do an ultra-fault-tolerant RAID for a friend's massive media collection (after I painstakingly recovered the data on his Buffalo RAID, as per my original post), the state of the state wasn't very promising, and so I ultimately punted on the idea. But it most certainly looks like the situation has MUCH improved, thanks in large part to the efforts of the OpenZFS Group.

Maybe now Apple will come around and take another look at full-support of ZFS, like what was going to happen in Snow Leopard Server, before Apple got cold feet.

Fortunately, Apple tends to listen to its Userbase pretty well, and there appears to be renewed interest among Users for full-on ZFS Support in OS X. At least we can hope...

At least OpenZFS is now compatible with the newly-released OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).

With that silly requirement, those recruiters could not even hire the father of the language. FTA:

In July of 2010, coincidentally a month after my Copland 2010 revisited article was published, Chris Lattner, creator of Apple’s LLVM compiler infrastructure and then senior manager and architect in Apple’s Developer Tools Group, secretly began work on a new programming language.

Four years later, Lattner, now director of Apple’s Developer Tools Department, appeared on stage during the WWDC 2014 keynote and shocked thousands of assembled developers—and quite a few Apple employees—by introducing Apple’s new programming language for OS X and iOS: Swift.

FreeBSD 10.0 will boot on ZFS, after an easy installation where you do shit on the command line but it's very easy due to the documentation. No idea about doing it on a Macintosh though. That was just a quick try in a vbox VM.

Thanks for the info!

Well, at least a few ZFS (albeit non-bootable?) versions that work at least up to Mavericks (10.9) seem to be alive and well on OS X, as seen here and here. And here is an informative forum thread from someone who has been using ZFS as his primary filesystem on OS X for over 2 years.

However, to answer the GGP's concerns about not supporting ZFS on a boot drive: If you are truly running a "Server"-type of setup, why, oh, why would you be keeping your main data stores on the System (boot) Drive, anyway? And once you are past that point, then it seems like ZFS is pretty much as "supported" on OS X as it is on most *NIX-based systems. That is to say, to a somewhat greater or lesser extent, depending on your needs/expectations.

But if does seem like ZFS on OS X is anything but a "dead" issue, at least as far as the F/OSS community is concerned. Yes, it would be very nice for Apple to take another look at full-support of ZFS, now that it has matured. Let's hope they get serious about it again someday...

http://arstechnica.com/uncateg... This started during the Bush administration. Bush was illegally spying on americans. Illegally because there was no such thing as the patriot act when Bush stated the NSA spying.

But only when a game designer's jilted ex-boyfriend posts hearsay about it. AAA publishers were doing worse shit all the times but there was no uproar of this intensity.

You must be too young to remember the uproar over the Kane & Lynch/Gamespot incident from a few years back. There have been plenty of other similar explosions over the years, and none of them involved sexism that I recall. But you keep believing all the embarrassed game journalists who keep saying "The ethics of game journalism are just fine, no need to...HEY LOOK OVER THERE, IT'S SEXISM!!!!"

Google has confirmed the older Nexus 7 is getting the update. I actually just read this earlier today. I actually have the Nexus 7 (2012) so am looking forward to the update.

Searching brings up Intel, MediaTek, Broadcom and Nvidia.
The Blackphone uses an Nvidia modem; which supposedly doesn't need to share memory.
I'm assuming the Nexus 9 will use an Nvidia modem as part of their SoC as well.

This is on the heels of the City Council in Lexington, KY voting recently to oppose the Comcast/Time Warner merger.

Story on Ars: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/kentucky-city-threatens-to-block-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger/

Well, I was about to post this to the Firehose submission in the hopes that it wouldn't be posted because this is basically a non-story. It means nothing.

As Ars Technica's version makes clear this is absolutely meaningless: Comcast will almost certainly be allowed to take over for Charter over the city council's objections because they don't actually have the power to prevent it. It's local political theater and nothing more.

You are correct, except the Sony Z3 compact (they put the high end stuff in a smaller design):

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...

We just have to wait and see if we can actually buy it.

In theory it is, but in practice "Love is beautiful, like birds that sing." is more likely to show up in a dictionary attack than a random string of gibberish. Just because it's nearly impossible to brute force doesn't mean it's necessarily a good password. Popular pharses, lyrics, Bible verses, etc can be substituted in a guessing algorithm just like using "$" instead of "S". Here's an interesting article about some of that:
http://arstechnica.com/securit...

Perhaps, but I think that's why the xkcd comic stipulated four random words. It's the human mind's ability to see patterns or visualizations in words ("It's a battery staple!" "Correct!") that makes such phrases easy to remember.

I agree that common phrases may not be good choices. But I'm pretty sure that "gopher banana rim plunger" would be fairly immune to attack, although perhaps unpleasant to visualize.

At least the evidence so far implicates recipients as playing a pivotal role, rather than senders.

Wrong. As I speculated, a 3rd party app that sends the images of recipients to a 3rd party website may very well also send images of senders to a 3rd party website.

"SnapSaved was a Web-based client built for Snapchat that allowed users to access “snaps” from a Web browser. However, the service, which according to DNS records ran on a server at the hosting company HostGator, apparently kept all images received or sent by its users without their knowledge."
http://arstechnica.com/securit...

It really depends on the quality of parallel construction needed and what has to be presented in an open US court.
"Feds reviewing DEA policy of counterfeiting Facebook profiles" (Oct 9 2014)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
"Twitter says gag on surveillance scope is illegal “prior restraint”" (Oct 8 2014)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
US says it can hack into foreign-based servers without warrants (Oct 8 2014)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
It seems the NSL aspect is just one aspect a very complex, hidden way of getting and using data for later use in the US legal system.
In the past other surveillance programs like FAIRVIEW, OAKSTAR, RAMPART-A and WINDSTOP could bring in the data locally, globally via friendly nations and tame trusted big brands.
The NSL seems to just fit in between a global sorting and direct use in the US legal system.
It really depends how this plays out. Will the classic GCHQ view of not going to court so people feel like nothing telco related is going on?
Or the new US idea that surveillance is now of such a global reach and low cost that US courts can know and and will have to just understand "collect it all"?
The keys to a server and all users over time are now in play even if its just for legally finding one user for one case.
Once your servers are part of a case, who can legally say that case has stopped? Weeks, months, years of no crypto and all logs. All very legal now? Soon?

It really depends on the quality of parallel construction needed and what has to be presented in an open US court.
"Feds reviewing DEA policy of counterfeiting Facebook profiles" (Oct 9 2014)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
"Twitter says gag on surveillance scope is illegal “prior restraint”" (Oct 8 2014)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
US says it can hack into foreign-based servers without warrants (Oct 8 2014)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
It seems the NSL aspect is just one aspect a very complex, hidden way of getting and using data for later use in the US legal system.
In the past other surveillance programs like FAIRVIEW, OAKSTAR, RAMPART-A and WINDSTOP could bring in the data locally, globally via friendly nations and tame trusted big brands.
The NSL seems to just fit in between a global sorting and direct use in the US legal system.
It really depends how this plays out. Will the classic GCHQ view of not going to court so people feel like nothing telco related is going on?
Or the new US idea that surveillance is now of such a global reach and low cost that US courts can know and and will have to just understand "collect it all"?
The keys to a server and all users over time are now in play even if its just for legally finding one user for one case.
Once your servers are part of a case, who can legally say that case has stopped? Weeks, months, years of no crypto and all logs. All very legal now? Soon?

It really depends on the quality of parallel construction needed and what has to be presented in an open US court.
"Feds reviewing DEA policy of counterfeiting Facebook profiles" (Oct 9 2014)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
"Twitter says gag on surveillance scope is illegal “prior restraint”" (Oct 8 2014)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
US says it can hack into foreign-based servers without warrants (Oct 8 2014)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
It seems the NSL aspect is just one aspect a very complex, hidden way of getting and using data for later use in the US legal system.
In the past other surveillance programs like FAIRVIEW, OAKSTAR, RAMPART-A and WINDSTOP could bring in the data locally, globally via friendly nations and tame trusted big brands.
The NSL seems to just fit in between a global sorting and direct use in the US legal system.
It really depends how this plays out. Will the classic GCHQ view of not going to court so people feel like nothing telco related is going on?
Or the new US idea that surveillance is now of such a global reach and low cost that US courts can know and and will have to just understand "collect it all"?
The keys to a server and all users over time are now in play even if its just for legally finding one user for one case.
Once your servers are part of a case, who can legally say that case has stopped? Weeks, months, years of no crypto and all logs. All very legal now? Soon?

Well, who is currently in court with Microsoft about these patents ?:
Samsung
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

Who is not on the OIN-list ?:
Samsung.
http://www.openinventionnetwor...

I do see HTC, but also no Huawei, ZTE, Acer, Viewsonic, Quanta or Compal *

I also see Google (thus Motorola ?), but I don't think Microsoft has a deal with them.

* they have a list here:
http://www.dailytech.com/Of+La...

Has the defense presented any actual evidence that the site was hacked?

The Ars Technica article says: "Experts suggested that the FBI didn't see leakage from the site's login page but contacted the site's IP directly and got the PHPMyAdmin configuration page. That raises the question of how the authorities obtained the IP address and located the servers." ... but that doesn't make sense. If having the IP address was all they needed to identify that it was indeed the droids - sorry, server - they were looking for, well, that's easy enough these days: there are less than four billion routable IP addresses, so try them all. It might take a few days or a few weeks or even a few months, depending on what resources you can throw at it, but it's no big deal. So what am I missing? Or are the defense just blowing smoke?

All the major providers provide a *very* DMV like feel to them if anything goes wrong. I have spent upwards of 5 hours 'waiting' for some sort of response out of my provider. My experiences are not uncommon.

I returned a piece of equipment last year to my current provider. They acted like I had dropped trousers and blasted a big harry shit on their counter. Rude does not begin to describe how these people act. They do not have to care. They know they are the only game in town.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

What should have been a simple 'cleanup the account' refund a bit of money and maybe a perk service for the inconvenience. Has turned into a 100k lawsuit. All because about 10 people did not at any point say 'hey this is messed up let me fix it'.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/c...

These educational achievement studies are mostly crap. There was a much better and more carefully done study looking for genes behind intelligence that found almost nothing. There are both genetic and environmental influences on all behaviors, but it's behaviors that create intelligence, not an intrinsic property. Just learn to use your brain better.

Uh...no. You do know that's not how it works right?
Apparently not, or you wouldnt have said somehting so stupid.

So let me educate you: THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS.

What, you think scientists are out of work and have to go learn a new trade if they can't find anything to research, so they make stuff up?
JFC...how dumb are you?

http://arstechnica.com/science...

> Oh-so-special Google services, like Google+ Hangouts,

There is a gynormous API that is part of google services, better location information, better 3D rendering, gaming, etc. Lots of apps have a dependency on google services nowadays.

I presume you're referring to the interglacial warm periods, as shown in this graph.

We have a very good idea of what causes those - they align nicely with orbital variations (Milankovitch cycles). And we're not due for another one - we just passed the peak of one a few thousand years back. The temperature had been dropping slowly since then (up until a century ago).

Going from boot to login is one metric, but overall usability is another.

http://arstechnica.com/staff/2...

Hfs+ is a fucking dog. John Siracusa isn't some Johnny come lately to the Mac world. He's been one of the faithful since well into the classic days.

And here we go again.

http://arstechnica.com/science...

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/surprise-ios-7-1-jailbreak-for-most-iphones-and-ipads-uses-year-old-flaw/?comments=1

jdale Ars Scholae Palatinae

Quote:
FTR: if pangu team releases a public jailbreak with vulnerabilities disclosed to them during my training I consider this in no way okay.

...

So finally after 1.75 years of being known to me, having tought it to 50-70 students a "friend" takes the bug and sells a jb based on it.

I'm not even an iOS user, but in my opinion if he discovered an exploit and has sat on it for 1.75 years, I consider that in no way okay. The fact that he also shared it with other people makes it worse, even if it was only a small and supposedly trustworthy group. You cannot control a secret you've shared with 50 people, that's absurd. And any exploit you find is likely to be independently discovered as well, especially more than a year later.

countcracula Ars Scholae Palatinae

I am not involved in the scene at all but have watched from the sidelines while all of the petty arguments are tossed around and drama is happening. Stefan Esser has been a part of pretty much all of it. So I share this sentiment. You can share a secret with three people when two are dead.

The entire continenet is losing mass.
It's simply several magnitudes larger on the western subcontinent beacuse of the weather patterns and ocean circulation (etc) that side is exposed to.

And again: WHAT MONEY?!? There is no money money rolling in.
I direct you to: http://arstechnica.com/science...

The OS X BASH vulnerability patch is still not available as an automatic update whereas most Linux repositories had one available within 72 hours of the exploit. Studies of operating system security show that vulnerabilities in OSX persist the longest without being patched (assuming you discount big server OS's like Solaris) while Windows is patched the quickest. [1]

It shows a huge difference in attitudes, in my opinion. Microsoft is enterprise focused, so they take security vulnerabilities very seriously. Apple is consumer focused, so they consider security to be a luxury that few of their customers care about.

[1]

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2...

for what purpose?

To stop malicious content injection by third parties (which has happened) such as the NSA and GCHQ (which has happened).

I'll see your Drupal and raise you one better: how about using Drupal/OpenAtrium?

You may recall the previous Presidential administration made headlines by replacing the Clinton administration's IBM/Lotus Notes Domino email/groupware servers with MicrosoftExchange (and presumably SharePoint also, but I'm not gonna go there).

The current Presidential administration of course had to ditch that Microsoft crap as fast as it possibly could. Obviously, continuing to use it would become a political and legal liability. They chose to use Drupal/OpenAtrium. Using OpenAtrium2 on Drupal 7, you too can enjoy a smartphone-enabled responsive intranet, with a minimum of development and budget.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a Drupal OpenAtrium developer (and am looking for my next project, so am available for private discussions). In fact at the same time it went public that The White House uses OpenAtrium for their project management and collaboration requirements, I delivered a similar collaborative project management intranet to NYSE Euronext. It was used by teams at the Amsterdam, Paris, and New York Exchanges while I was there. Before others also realized, I ascertained my assignment put my development efforts (and bug-tracking/feature requirements) in direct competition with Atlassian JIRA, so I took JIRA head-on. Just before Christmas a meeting was held, and I was told a Sr. VP at NYSE had decided my OpenAtrium development of a few weeks was superior and thus more desirable than JIRA, and I won(!) the competition. I was told then NYSE would use my OpenAtrium, and ditch JIRA, because my OpenAtrium Atrium development after only a few weeks could clearly beat JIRA requirement per requirement, while being much more user-friendly, and with a (dare I say) sexier GUI.

Alas, it was not to be (for me), and ultimately JIRA won, and I lost, and was soon out of a contract also. But still! I was a contender, dammit! All I got to work with was a bunch of Microsoft Office tools, Windows, and we were graced to also use FireFox. I delivered a Drupal application to NYSE overnight using my own VPS at Linode, with zero budget out of fear of job-loss. Previously, NYSE loved their 2-D spreadsheets and email, for project management. I requested early-on to be allowed to import their spreadsheets into a 3-D relational MySQL (drupal) database early on and was told "No". After several weeks passed, of no progress made by me to answer the report-requirements/questions posed of me by NYSE bean counters despite my best efforts with Microsoft Excel and %$#@! pivot tables, I asked my boss again, can I import the data into MySQL? I was then told yes, because that info was due weeks ago, was very late, and I was otherwise about to be fired. I worked all night and less than 24 hours later, all was imported into Drupal and I was able to report on and answer every question posed upon me. A week later, that Drupal database became a Drupal/IOpenAtrium intranet, and evolved into a very popular project management and collaborative tool. The #1 feature was: MULTITASKING. No longer did all my colleagues have to take turns updating the single spreadsheet, one at a time, with their totals at 5 o'clock, before they could go home! This was a huge hit from the staff. Meanwhile NY loved the spreadsheet import/export feature I implemented for them (HAD to have that to get approval). The Drupal (spreadsheet) sheetnode module is better (and sexier) than Google Docs IMHO. NYSE thought so too. For awhile there, I beat JIRA at NYSE using Opentrium, and I'm very proud of that.

FWIW, I have code for responsive video content-types about 85% finished, based upon the video.js open-source player.

Smugglers are probably wringing their hands in anticipation, but hell, every advancement seems to have some tangential consequence.

Already done. http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

After all, TV shows are way more important than structural evaluations, aerial photography for site planning, roof inspections, and the myriad other commercial applications that are actually useful and safer than the way we currently do it. Sigh.

Not to mention they grounded search & rescue drones. http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

It's obvious it's all about the money, not about anything else.

You must have missed:

This Or This (or countless others), any one of which is vastly worse than the things you list - only one of the items you list is a security issue. And the last one you list affects Android devices also (wow, a large flat object can be bent! How amazing!), not to mention the iCloud brute-force attempt was not even used to gather data, meanwhile Android has no real backup solution for users AT ALL. Way to spend a hideous weakness into a strength.

Simply put, using Android is noting the very real threats to security faced on that platform, recommending it to a non-technical person is ethically the same as giving them walking directions through the worst part of town and laughing at they head off.

I'll let you have the last response as you are blind to all weaknesses in your platform, just as lemmings are blind to the cliff ahead...

And yet, NFC payment schemes up until now have been fraught with problems including significant security lapses. Google Wallet requires Google to hold your credit card numbers on their servers.

Google has had so many extremely embarrassingly large security lapses with Android and yet Apple gets disproportionately dinged.

For example: http://arstechnica.com/securit...