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Here's 5 seconds worth of googling. Several links available in the article. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/scanners-part3/

The compensation should be a complete refund for the original purchase price of the PS3 system and all games possessed, for anyone who owns a PS3, no receipt, no questions asked. And a notarized letter that every bit of identifying information about you has been wiped from Sony's servers and backups.

In Silence in the Library set many years in the future.

I hope the feds don't come down on you for illegal access to a computer for violating Facebook's terms of service.

You should be fine as long as you don't live in one of the states covered by the 9th U.S. Circuit Circuit Court of Appeals.

Apple is raping developers and Google is raping your privacy. Never thought I'd consider moving back to Windows Mobile :(

You think Apple isn't raping your privacy? Why do you think they locked down reporting user data in the iOS? It certainly wasn't to protect user data, it was so Apple can charge for that information.

Wired spells it out pretty well.No company outside of Apple can gather data or metrics from an application. Do you want to use that kind of data? Enter iAD. Who do you think is collecting money from iAd?

Mod me down, put a tinfoil hat on me, doesn't make it any less true.

Now now. People were similarly sceptical when Nokia promised to continue to support Symbian and Meego despite the deal with Microsoft.

Phillip.

Were did you get that information? The opposite was surprisingly clear from the first announcement and following comments. From Wired: "Nokia Kills Symbian, Teams Up With Microsoft For Windows Phone 7"

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/ Cool tidbit (well I think it's cool): I personally worked on all the ST820s when I was at Cobham. I'd have tested that unit!

Here you go: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/01/dreamliner_security

Better Place says they've had their battery swap system do changes in under 40 seconds. The video on their site shows it happening in just over 1 minute. Not bad for the first gen (wow, that robot moves slow), but they're stuck in that place where they have the idea, and have invested in the technology, but need to get all the players on board or they'll get nowhere. Unless car manufacturers get on board, it won't matter how many swap stations they build. Unless they have swap stations, no car manufacturers want to join. Right now, they've opened one in Israel, but only some demo vehicles can use it so far, since the Renault Fluence Z.E that is supposed to be the flagship battery swap electric vehicle isn't on sale yet (or wasn't in March when that was written). It will be interesting to see what happens. I like the idea of charging my car's battery at home most of the time, but having the option to swap it at a road-side station if I want to go on a long trip. We're a lot of infrastructure away from that day, though.

There are plenty of geeks working on that right now...

They're already working on it:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/obama-online-security/

Ehh....not so much.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/no-navy-seal-dogs-dont-have-titanium-teeth/

You kid, but that's actually the rumored nickname of it.

The only image I could find was a drawing depicting what it might look like compared to the Blackhawk.

Full Wired Article

The only image I could find was a drawing depicting what it might look like compared to the Blackhawk.

Full Wired Article

This is precisely the reason that anarchic groups like Anon are very good at tearing things down, but very bad at building things up where you need to work together and follow a single voice or a common plan.

I disagree. Anonymous has certainly demonstrated their willingness and ability to use their coordinated numbers for both good and evil

This from this twitter makes me think it wasn't an apache or php vulnerability, though 'application server' is a broad enough term that it could mean almost anything.
Some random security researcher posited that because they had outdated apache server versions (with no known exploits) that it might have been an apache vulnerability. News sources elsewhere repeated that nonsense.

I'm a PostgreSQL contributor. Oracle can't buy my copyright. ...

Sorry, but I call bullshit.

Are you raising a family? Have any plans to?

If Oracle wants your copyright, and thinks they can use it to make a lot of money, they could cut you a check that would go a long way to helping your kids get a better start in life.

And you sit there and say, "Oracle can't buy my copyright." Like your so much better than those who "sell out".

Again, I say BULLSHIT.

And how is this any different than the school system in Philidelphia that spied on students? http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/webcamscanda/

Dr. Who uses macs. In fact in the (Dr. Who) future everyone uses mac. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/06/doctor-who-uses/

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/stick-on-joypad-upgrades-ipad-gaming/

Wired had a nice bit on it: Hacking Las Vegas (Written by Ben Mezrich, I think it may be an excerpt from his book).

Or if you want a Hollywood Bastardization (Based on the True Story) there's 21

At the time, the casinos made it easy to stay liquid. This was before the era of the CTR — the cash transaction report — which obligates the casinos to report any transaction greater than $10,000. "In the old days," Tay explains, "you'd win a quarter-million dollars, and they'd give it to you in cash. On New Year's 1996, I walked from the Mirage to the MGM Grand with a paper New Year's hat filled with $180,000." Back in Boston, Lewis and his friends kept the money in cash, declaring the winnings in the "other" category on their IRS forms. "You'd find $100 bills all over my apartment. Dig in my laundry, there would be $100,000 under my socks."

That question has been answered years ago. Production or possession of pedophile art is a crime.

(And also art of people that have hit puberty and older - the FBI incorrectly classifies prepubescents, pubescents and adolescents all as "children". "Pedo-" means "child" and only a prebuscent is a child in the medical/biological sense. Once puberty starts, you're biologically an adult. The FBI conflates legal childhood [below age of majority - 18 in the USA] and biological childhood [before puberty starts])

I can take a piece of paper, draw/paint pedophile stuff and go to jail for years/decades and maybe even "indefinitely". And of course if they do let me out, I will forever be branded/tracked without the possibility of ever leading a normal life. I will not be able to leave the USA for another country because I am guilty of a serious crime. Until the day I die I will be a 2nd class human being basically living in the underworld.

Yes, this is thought crime. And, yes, welcome to the USA - the country previously known as the land of the free, currently running on inertia, about to hit a brick wall.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/manga-porn/

http://comipress.com/special/miscellaneous/down-the-slippery-slope-the-crime-of-viewing-manga

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_Act_of_2003

I wonder if it is simply that they don't understand the market and at the same time trying to trump the iPad without understanding what the users want. It could also be because they are scared of cannibalizing the markets they already have.

While not Android, Microsoft for the moment, seems to be failing to capture the market because they see tablets as hand held PCs, rather than a totally different type of device.

I think to understand the iPad you need to understand where Steve Jobs is coming from. An interview/a in Wired back in 1996 makes it clear. Essentially the computer of the future won't feel like a computer and would feel intuitive. I think the iPad does that well, even if there is room for improvement. Hardware manufactures don't get that and Google doesn't seem to be providing that direction either. The dimensions of some tablets also don't work because while they are good for one thing aren't good for others. In many way a National Geographic sized device makes a lot of sense, since is an acceptable format for reading magazines and is not a hindrance when watching movies. On the other hand, the Playbook for example, feels optimized for movies, but doesn't feel like it is comfortable for other uses.

Oddly enough I feel that HP actually has the potential to do something really good with WebOS, with regards to the tablet space, but only time will tell. They might surprise us yet.

As for other ways that tablets could be used, you only need to look at science fiction films and TV series' for ideas. Star Trek and Earth Final Conflict for example.

Reviews on the whole weren't positive. Citing poor usability (no excuse for this on a big screen tablet) and shocking lack of email capability.

http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/04/blackberry-playbook/

QNX is a great OS. But then so is a Linux distro, but many people tend to slate the available user interfaces on Linux distros as being too clunky and amateurish compared to Windows 7 and OSX.

> ... you know that binding agreement you enter into that you and your family will be the only users on that connection. It then gives my ISP the right to revoke my connectivity because I broke that TOS agreement and they are not obligated to provide me with Internet connectivity.

Then pick a better ISP. Even Best Buy's ISP allows bandwidth sharing ( http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2007/03/best_buy_swallo/ ).

Your ISP should sell you bandwidth.

Not dictate how you're "allowed" to use your bandwidth.

Last time I checked, there were also a few clauses that basically say that you may not pretend to be an ISP, resell bandwidth, or sublet bandwidth, should you be a Verizon/Charter/Clearwire/whoever Internet subscriber.

That just depends on how badly your ISP sucks.

Even corporate giant Best Buy's ISP allows bandwidth sharing: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2007/03/best_buy_swallo/

Speakeasy will operate as part of the Best Buy for Business division, which caters to small and medium-sized businesses. Speakeasy’s existing customer policies, such as the liberal bandwidth-sharing policy, will remain in place

I think the saddest thing about all this, is that if I started a store that sold apples (the fruit), I couldn't call it an apple store without being sued.
Apple Store, no. Apple Mart, no. Apple Shop, no.

It's the same thing with Amazon. They want a name that reflects the purpose of the store.
They sell apps. It's an app store.

Then again, Apple did sue someone for using the word "pod" in their product name, so we can hardly be surprised by this (link)

This is precisely why I don't give most companies this information -- because I don't trust them with it. Not to keep it safe, not to use it as they say, and not to provide it to someone else.

We are Internet. We know who you are. Resistance is futile.

Thanks to browser fingerprinting, flash cookies, ad network beacons, content beacons, and traffic bugs we put in every web page (digg, stumbleupon, facebook 'like this', twitter), you cannot escape our eye, we know every site you view. We also know your ip address and where you live.

Oh, and we already know your real favorite pet, you sure were naive back when you had that geocities account. Lying at this point is futile.

I think the fact Sony has left the PSN in a completely disabled state for the past week could hint at some internal problems with not knowing what the hell they're doing in the first place. Their servers have been compromised and can no longer be trusted. In my world, that's a perfect time to re-build your systems from a pristine backup. So why doesn't Sony patch the vulnerability and deploy new servers? Perhaps it's because they don't have a clue what the vulnerability is...

FTFY.
Sony said it has temporarily shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and hired an outside security firm “to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened,” but refused to offer details on the hack.

TFA: "Borosilicate glass, also known as soda-lime glass..." That's like saying "Bronze, also known as brass..." The two are compositionally quite different.

Pyrex (R) is Corning's trademark for the borosilicate type and it is commonly used for laboratory ware, oven windows and such. It was also used for the big 200 inch (a bit under 5 meters) mirror at Mt Palomar.

Soda lime glass is the more common type used for windows and beer bottles. You can quickly tell the two apart by looking edge-on into the piece, soda lime glass has a greenish cast.

GSM is not secure. Don't reveal important information over a cell phone, any more than you would a landline (which has no encryption whatsoever).

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/intercepting-cell-phone-calls/

does that answer your summary?

Don't bet on it - The Typewriter Keyboard

That's not what apple told Congressman Markey and Barton http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2011/04/applemarkeybarton7-12-10.pdf

the data stored on those iPhones which are not even transmitted to Apple.

Yes, it is: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/iphone-location/

Every 12 hours, an iOS deviceâ(TM)s stored geodata gets anonymized with a random string of numbers, and it gets transmitted to Apple in a batch.

You mean besides the link to Apple's privacy policy, where they explicitly tell you that they collect a "unique device identifier" and "location" as "non-personal information -- data in a form that does not permit direct association with any specific individual?"

Or the part of the policy where they "collect, use, and share precise location data ... to provide and improve location-based products and services?"

Really, I can't think of a better source than Apple themselves. But if you'd rather, how about Wired's "Gadget Lab" blog?

Jailbreaking is distinctly different from circumventing a copy / rights protection mechanism. But of course Apple DID object to it and cited the DMCA amongst other laws. They failed because their case wasn't strong enough.

what does MS do to non commercial pirates? nothing. (except for the genuine advantage check)

People have extrapolated that because MS privately prefers pirates to be using their desktop OS than a rival's somehow it applies to consoles or other matters. It doesn't. Indeed they took down cryptome.org using the DMCA. Used it as the basis to bring criminal charges against modchip importers. And even used it to shut down a popular "homebrew" modding site JTAG hacks. In other words MS has been as active in stamping on modders / homebrew as Sony ever was.

And of course Nintendo is as active at prosecuting hackers / cart importers.

People seem to think that Sony is acting out of turn here when it isn't. It's actions are precisely in keeping with other console manufacturers, stamping on the hackers / importers and banning end users who mod. Colour me surprised. If you buy a closed system where copy protection / DRM is implicit to the model you can expect the full weight of the platform holder to come down on anyone who threatens that model. And in most jurisdictions they'll have the law on their side.

Jailbreaking is distinctly different from circumventing a copy / rights protection mechanism. But of course Apple DID object to it and cited the DMCA amongst other laws. They failed because their case wasn't strong enough.

what does MS do to non commercial pirates? nothing. (except for the genuine advantage check)

People have extrapolated that because MS privately prefers pirates to be using their desktop OS than a rival's somehow it applies to consoles or other matters. It doesn't. Indeed they took down cryptome.org using the DMCA. Used it as the basis to bring criminal charges against modchip importers. And even used it to shut down a popular "homebrew" modding site JTAG hacks. In other words MS has been as active in stamping on modders / homebrew as Sony ever was.

And of course Nintendo is as active at prosecuting hackers / cart importers.

People seem to think that Sony is acting out of turn here when it isn't. It's actions are precisely in keeping with other console manufacturers, stamping on the hackers / importers and banning end users who mod. Colour me surprised. If you buy a closed system where copy protection / DRM is implicit to the model you can expect the full weight of the platform holder to come down on anyone who threatens that model. And in most jurisdictions they'll have the law on their side.

Here in my part of the world Pacific Bell squandered money earmarked for infrastructure without actually improving it more than was absolutely necessary to provide government mandated minimum service limits

For our information, he's talking about California (which contains the complete service area of PG&E), which is working hard to become yet another third world shithole. So why are you complaining when Pacific Bell does what it is paid to do? Don't put those incentives in place and Pac Bell won't do them. Common sense really.

Meanwhile PG&E has done the same and not long ago we had a gas main explode in an area which PG&E had marked for further monitoring and service, and then done neither monitoring nor service.

I'm so surprised when a business doesn't do stuff that's not in its interests to do. In a place like California, monitoring and service increases your liability in case of accident.

I was going to say something comforting about nuclear power. But where you live, you probably shouldn't have a technology that dangerous especially with the incentives and disincentives that California provides. So sure, get rid of those nuclear plants. You probably don't have a society that can responsibly run one.

People being what they are, I can only imagine the same is true in Japan. You can't tell me that a privileged few didn't profit from making the idiot decision to split Japan's power grid in two in the first place, either. I would bet almost any amount of money that someone or someones has profited greatly from simply not updating Japan's infrastructure. It's true here, why not there? My perception is that Japan set out to learn all they could from us after WWII.

Maybe you should read up on what caused the power line split. Basically, it started that way in the late 19th Century because one side used European systems and the other used US. It's just an example of how long term standards can persist even when it's clear that full adoption of one standard would be better.

My perception is that Japan set out to learn all they could from us after WWII.

That's been true since around 1853, when the US forced Japan to trade with the rest of the world. Japan's progress since that time has been remarkable. But Japan is not California. While they do have serious problems dating from their Keynesian-like attempts to recover from their serious recession of 1990, they don't have the Californian melodrama that comes about when politics mixes with business.

This Wired article is a bit more detailed.

Ironically, the mastering techniques of the day limited CD recordings to 72 minutes. The unusually long Furtwängler "Ninth" was not released until 1997.

Which ones has he ended? Oh yea, Iraq is over -- I forgot. Obama officially declared the end of hostilities or something stupid like that some time ago -- a bit like Bush with the "Mission Accomplished" thingy. If you think Obama is anything other than an extension of Bush's policies, you're not paying attention.

Obama asserts the right to execute American citizens without any kind of trial, charges, or judicial oversight based on nothing but allegations, i.e., Obama says your are a terrorist -- you get murdered and don't get a chance to defend yourself. Look up Amendments 4-6 to the constitution to see just how breathtaking this is. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/10/02/assassinations/index.html

Then of course there is the refusal to prosecute the illegal wiretapping of the previous administration, but rather to immunize the evildoers: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/obama-sides-wit/

Closing Gitmo? Not. But worse, since the procedures at Gitmo have been declared unconstitutional, Obama is merely shifting operations to Bagram, as if the place in which one denies Habeas Corpus is of such great import: http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/05/no-habeas-at-bagram/

Obama uses the state secrets doctrine to prevent civil lawsuits against American companies complicit in the plaintiffs' torture under Bush's rendition program: http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/09/suit_alleging_cia_torture_dism.html

Moral: If you hated Bush, you need to be hating Obama because he and Bush are brothers.

Believe it or not, I've actually seen those and they're battery-powered. I wasn't looking you understand, but did notice it in a certain section of a local "smoke shop". There was a brightly-colored blurb that said "BATTERIES INCLUDED!", among other things.

BTW you do know that it's the right-wingers who are into wild, uninhibited kink right? The lefties tend to be pretty vanilla. Though as a leftish person I happen to know for a fact there are exceptions.

That's an urban legend. There may be a few (notable!) exceptions, where right-wingers are merely 'in the closet' about some issue (whether being pedophiles or gay, etc), but most of them are legitimately conservative. Conservatism is based on a genetic inclination to fear the unknown to an unreasonable degree, and therefore most conservatives are not experimental when it comes to sex or any other aspect of their lives.

There have been actual studies proving this. Here's one:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/fearmongering-h/

Here's a Wired article about the rumoured Higgs sighting: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/higgs-rumor/

Here's a Wired article about the rumoured Higgs sighting: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/higgs-rumor/

...bit of a problem or four in it, though:

* Apple is selling pretty much every iPhone they can make.

Then why sue the company on whom, your technology is dependent.

If this is true (which it isn't, the shortage of Iphones is a delusion of Fanboys, I can go out and buy one myself in six hours if I hated my wallet (12:56 +8 GMT, no 24 Hour phone shops here))

* the iPhone (in various versions) is the single top-selling phone model, bar none. While overall, yes Android *phones* are selling equal-to-better, no single Android model is anywhere close to matching the iPhone. Therefore, why would Apple bother to chase just Samsung, and not LG, HTC, or a larger phone maker?

A sign of things to come. It's the same as Windows vs Mac, Windows ran on anyones hardware, providing a standardised environment which could be used to run any application. Android is the same. A single application can be made to run across multiple versions and disparate hardware. Apple are right to be scared, it's the 80's all over again, complete with the "look and feel" law suit.

* Suing over design won't achieve the premise in TFA... phone makers will just make it look/feel different to work around the stated patent(s). If Apple was truly chasing the goal of crippling Android as a whole, they'd be better off going after the *core* of Android (like, well, Oracle is doing. Speaking of which...)

Why?

Becuase Google can defend itself. That alone will scare Apple off.

Why else?

Because Apple and Google were close once, attack Google directly and all kinds of skeletons would fly out of the closet. Why really?

Because they dont have to. If they can scare the manufacturers away, Google will piss away money on the Android project to no avail.

In other words Apple has too much to lose by attacking Google.

* Oracle is already working towards something that would achieve the same thing, but to provide Oracle an income stream - so why would Apple feel it had to do something similar, when Oracle is already doing it for them, and has been running that lawsuit long before Apple fired a shot across Samsung's bow?

But Apple already has something that generates an income stream. What you've unwittingly pointed out is that they are suing to protect that stream from a very advanced competitor.

Apple want to have a competitor eliminated. They cannot do it via technology so they are attempting to use the legal system as a cudgel.

Apple had acknowledged to Congress last year only that "cell tower and Wi-Fi access point information" is "intermittently" collected and "transmitted to Apple" every 12 hours.

Citation? I don't doubt you, but just because you type it does not make it true. Especially in the auspices of someone who decries fanboi-ism, I'd expect to see an avoision of even the appearance of impropriety in fact-reporting.

It is supposed to happen only if location based services is toggled on and an app that requires location data is running. http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2011/04/applemarkeybarton7-12-10.pdf , Page 7.

It doesn't matter if they're unsigned, SoundExchange doesn't have an option for not collecting royalties and as the only register EVERYONE is represented by them. I've wondered why someone hasn't started another non-profit registry for CC licensed music, since the framework which created SoundExchange allows for that. It would have to get approved by the Library of Congress, and there are a few requirements, but it's doable. Note that SoundExchange does offer an opt-out for Polka.

Not to mention that thanks to a letter Apple wrote last year, we know this data is being sent to Apple.

Before it was unknown if Apple was actually tracking users, but apparently hidden in the iOS 4 TOS was the fact that Apple will upload your GPS coordinates and nearby wi-fi networks in order to avoid having to license Skyhook's geolocation database. It's easily found in their privacy policy:

To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device.

Needless to say this only applies to iOS devices with GPS chips - but then again, Apple already knows your location and timestamp if you're using location services on a device without a GPS chip as it queries their database to determine the location anyway.

So, yes, Apple is tracking you if you use any Apple device, and they share that data with third parties!

Apple responded to this issue back in July of 2010. The major fuck up is that the file is not encrypted.

And the fact it's synced to another device. And the fact that they've already altered the EULA to permit them to share precise location data with third parties. http://consumerist.com/2010/06/privacy-change-apple-knows-your-phone-is-and-is-telling-people.html