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  1. Re:Crack your iPhone? on Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This may give the police some information, but I doubt they could use it in court. How can they prove that they didn't introduce some data during this process?

  2. Re:Consumers will foot the bil for AT&T on AT&T Charged US Taxpayers $16 Million For Nigerian Fraud Calls · · Score: 1

    You can't. The board members have insurance (which customers pay for) to protect themselves. As others have pointed out, the corporation and the stockholders just pass the cost on to the customers.

  3. Wow. Let's rewrite history, shall we? on The Spanish Link In Cracking the Enigma Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to Wikipedia, the Polish cracked the code in 1932.

    I'm always suspicious of "one person" doing anything; usually, it takes a whole group of people to accomplish these things.

  4. Re:What Does It Mean? on New iPad Jailbroken Already · · Score: 1

    The image is the same but was just updated from 5.0.1 to 5.1 so it's possible that previous loopholes were closed.

  5. Re:Maybe Apple Intentionally "Allows" Jailbreaking on New iPad Jailbroken Already · · Score: 1

    Your premise works as long as only a small fraction of devices are jailbroken. If the percentage gets too high (above 5%?) Apple will close a loophole and reduce the number below the desired threshold. This assumes that Apple monitors the number of jailbroken devices. If I were them, I sure would.

  6. Re:And the cycle needlessly continues. on New iPad Jailbroken Already · · Score: 1

    You're kidding, right? Even if the iPad were wide open, people would want to jailbreak it. It's about the challenge as much as anything.

    It's no different from people changing engines in their cars. There may be little practical reason to do so, but they do it anyway.

  7. Re:This American Lie on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 1

    Whether or not you claim to have been wounded in Vietnam does not change the FACT that soldiers were wounded in Vietnam.

    However, it does appear that I confused the explosions with the n-hexane exposure; they're two different problems. Just because Mike Daisy claimed to have witnessed something that he didn't doesn't mean that the incident didn't occur.

  8. Re:Let the paranoid run loose! on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 1

    You and I are on the same page here although I'm not sure the NSA is under the same restrictions on spying on U.S. citizens that the CIA supposedly is.

  9. Re:Not to worry on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 1

    Or a summary which states the opposite of the story, like this one which implied that DC was better in data centers than AC when the story was asserting that AC was just as good as the hypothetical benefits of DC.

  10. Re:This American Lie on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 2

    I'm no fan of Fox News...in fact, I think that if Fox Sports covered sports the way Fox News covers politics, they'd have Michael Jordan winning the Stanley Cup in straight sets against Lindsay Lohan.

    I love it! You mention two people and two sports yet none of the combinations have anything in common.

    You know and I know that there will be no suit from Apple. Apple has countered this and the New York Times article by giving ABC News access to the factories. Apple is serious about correcting the problems in the factories and will get it done. Give them time.

  11. Re:This American Lie on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 2

    Keep in mind that some of the things they couldn't verify still have some truth to them. There were workers killed in a n-hexane explosion.

    The biggest problem here is mixing up journalism with theater. One needs to be factual, the other not so much.

  12. Re:Let the paranoid run loose! on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 1

    You are correct. Let's say you put the packets into a database as a conversation (A conversation could be a person signing on to his/her bank and checking his/her accounts). You still need to decide which conversations to process further. One indicator could be who you're having conversations with. On the other hand, you could work at storing the conversation in case it turns up later that you do want to process it further.

    My point stands: The algorithms for deciding what to decrypt are as important as the decryption itself.

  13. Let the paranoid run loose! on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 2

    Code-breaking your private, personal information. Everybody's a target.

    To target everyone would be a total waste of resources. I would spend as much money figuring out who to target as I would decrypting anything send by that target.

    It's like saying, "We're going to mine the whole state of California to find the gold there."

  14. Re:Intelligence pays for itself on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  15. Re:Does that Apply to Bankers? on New York State Passes DNA Requirement For Almost All Convicted Criminals · · Score: 1, Funny

    The rich in New York don't go to jail, they just make multi-million dollar bonuses.

    FTFY

  16. Re:The first hit is free on New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying · · Score: 1

    Personally, I think the worst content on Facebook are the YouTube videos of songs that get posted every day. I wish I could have Facebook block them from my news feed. I just don't care (and am a little worried about copyright infringement).

  17. Re:The first hit is free on New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying · · Score: 1

    Maybe not, but there is an app for unrolling the toilet paper. The faster you unroll it, the more points you get. It's called "Enjoy Toilet Paper" by Lee Jason ($.99, 3 out of 5 stars). Personally, I just check out Facebook while sitting.

  18. Re:At face value... on New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying · · Score: 1

    I don't think that Apple worries about market share as much when they're shipping every unit they can make. Currently, they are constrained by production, not by competition. And, let's see, how much does Amazon lose on every Kindle sold vs. Apple's profit on every iPad sold?

  19. Re:At face value... on New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying · · Score: 1

    Shipped is not the same as sold. Any number for Kindle shipments or sales is bogus as Amazon doesn't release that information.

  20. Just print on the other side on The Laser Unprinter · · Score: 1

    I bought a second paper tray for my laser printer ($50) and print on the back side of pages already printed for another purpose. It seems I get enough paper heading for the trash or recycling to have enough to print on the second side. It works better than the proposed solution although not as exciting.

  21. Re:This is funny. on NVIDIA Challenges Apple's iPad Benchmarks · · Score: 2

    AT&T convinced Apple that HSPA+ was 4G. That's all.

  22. Re:He's wrong. on Battleheart Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable' · · Score: 2

    Let's look at the numbers: 20% of his development dollars is supporting 5% of sales. And the 5% is declining. Anybody who would keep developing for any platform in this environment is not a good business person.

  23. Quants growing on Science and Engineering Workforce Has Stalled In the US · · Score: 1

    [sarcasm]Meanwhile, quants working on Wall Street to separate investors from their 401(k) funds have grown by 20%.[/sarcasm]

    Seriously, look at the number of engineering grads going to work on Wall Street vs. actual engineering companies. You might be surprised.

  24. Re:First Post on Science and Engineering Workforce Has Stalled In the US · · Score: 0

    Sorry, you missed it by one minute. Anyway, first post doesn't count unless you say something meaningful.

  25. Re:What a shame on Azure Failure Was a Leap Year Glitch · · Score: 1

    Actually, we're seeing this XXXX every year now and twice in leap years. Remember when the cash registers thought 2010 was 2016 because some idiot was considering the year part (10) to be in hexadecimal?

    Ironically, I asked my wife on 2/28 what was going to break on 2/29 because it didn't realize that 2012 was a leap year. I didn't know it was going to be this big.