The BBC is not, has never been and can never be a newspaper. It is a publicly funded broadcast news outlet which has far less bias (read: practically none) than any US news network you can name, and is a trusted news source around the world.
Then there's the other games, which probably spent a quarter as much time in development than the much better games, and all of a sudden the developer is like "hurr hurr it's in high def and on the 360 it's worth $60"
Clearly you've never seen the requirements MS throw down to even get your game on the 360. It's not just a case of 'get SDK, make game, sell it'. There's controller conventions, UI considerations, bug testing (and jesus, even insane you-would-never-do-these-action bugs still need fixing), etc. Hell, to put it into perspective, the GAME, not the console, has to deal with a memorycard being removed during the write process.
It's never a case of 'hurr hurr high def 360 == $60".
Typically any "real" ISO level on a DSLR is actual sensitivity adjustment, anything past that is post-process adjustment. So for the Nikon range you have:
D3000/D40/D50/D60/D70/D80/D200: ISO 100 or 200 - 1600 (3200 is a post-process adjustment on the D40 only, the D60/D3000/D80 and D200 do ISO 100 as base) D5000/D90/D300: 200-3200 (ISO 6400 is a post-process adjustment) D700/D3: 200 - 6400 (ISO 12800 and 25600 is a post-process adjustment) D3x: 100 - 1600 (3200 and 6400 are post-process adjustments)
Rule of thumb with a Nikon camera is 1 stop less than the highest non-fake ISO is the highest you'll want to go; the D3/D700 are the only exception, where ISO 6400 is very very clean.
The D40 uses a very old sensor (the one used in the D50 and D70). It's now two generations old, so if you upgrade to a D5000 or D90, you will notice a quality improvement, even in the ISO sensitivity. This is where Nikon has been the past few years, investing in decent high-ISO abilities. Now ISO 1600 on crop and ISO 6400 on full-frame Nikon cameras is clean enough to use for large prints.
The 5Dmk2 can only do 1080p for 12 minutes. This is to escape the EU regulation requiring a tax on video cameras, which are defined as any electronic device that can record video for 30 mins in one go. The tax is between 4.9 and 12.5%, and this is on top of VAT/tax you pay for in the EU anyway. Obviously the last thing Nikon or Canon want to do is fall under this tax, as it'd make their camera rather expensive.
If you want to record up to the file-system max, which is about 4GB, then you're limited to a shade under 15 minutes anyway, since the 5dmk2 records 1080p at 4.8 MBytes/sec. The D5000 could reach near 30 mins; recording at the 720p, 24fps option goes at 2.3 MBps which would give you near 29 minutes, if it were not for the artificial limit. The same could be said of the D90, which records at 1.7MBps, giving you near 40 mins; again, save for the limit. (Figures for the D300s are not out yet)
What is it, a checkbox? "I promise I tried it on an SD TV. Really." See above post re: Dead Rising for a prime example of SD incompetence.
It's not a checkbox, it's a tested requirement. The game is played on a SD TV by a third party (typically chosen or suggested by MS). Any problems with the requirements are failures to pass, and without a clean sheet, the game can't progress to release.
Dead Rising would've most likely been the reason why this is now a tested requirement.
I'm not sure where to start picking the holes. I guess from the top:
RTLS, return to launch site, requires separation from the main tank and SRBs. Despite NASA's design changes most of us old rocket scientists think that will detonate the tank. Separating from the SRBs requires a hard pitch down to avoid the SRB plumes, which in real life the shuttle does not have enough aerodynamic command to achieve.
Considering that there are NO abort modes that happen before SRB separation, you're talking shit there. An RTLS, the earliest abort you can do after the SRBs have been ignited, can only be called after 123 seconds (When SRB separation happens) and before 150s after launch, or a call window of only 27 seconds.
Also, the shuttle does not have enough cross-range capability to achieve a Transatlantic landing at any facility capable of handling it. An attempt at TAL will result in a water landing with loss of vehicle and crew. TAL is bogus and NASA knows it.
Uhh, what? Considering the earliest time you can call an TAL the shuttle is 400,000 ft up and 400 NM away from Florida, a ballistic trajectory gives the shuttle more than enough cross-range capability to land at the requested location (for ISS launches that's basically always ZZA).
Abort Once Around suffers from Earth rotation and the lack of sufficient cross-range capability. All viable landing sites are just not available on a once-around.
Again, what? An AOA means the shuttle enters a low orbit that is not stable with the express means of doing two OMS burns giving it the re-entry profile of a normal end of mission re-entry. An AOA can only be called after a TAL can't be done but before an ATO is called. This is a window of just a few seconds, so the chance of needing to do an AOA is slim even if things are going wrong. Since an AOA is still technically an orbit, the cross-range capabilities of the shuttle are that of anything orbiting the earth; anything is reachable within 90 minutes.
Now, about the Crew Escape System (CES), which are "tractor" rockets that pull the crewmen out one at a time. The shuttle reaches 25,000 feet in under a minute. At 35,000 feet its breaking the speed of sound. It seems the only way the CES will work is if you shut the main engines down.
This just highlights how clueless you are about shuttle abort modes and procedures. The CES would only be used if you could not land the orbiter, but after you had either pulled an RTLS, TAL or AOA. You could never exit the shuttle during launch, so I'm not even sure what you're thinking about shutting the main engines down. An RTLS, TAL and AOA have a flight profile that allows the CES to be used if required.
Back in the the 1960's, the F-111's entire crew compartment ejected.
The F-111 seated two. Next to each other. The shuttle seats six or seven on a normal mission, and only four are anywhere near each other. The other seats are in the mid-deck, with a substantial amount of shuttle around them. An ejector system like the F-111 would be impractical due to weight, be unusable at launch and only usable after a successful re-entry. Thus of the two shuttle accidents that have happened, such a system couldn't have been used. For either
NeoThermic
P.S. Mexico City isn't a landing site and never has been.
I've done development for the Xbox 360, and one of the submission requirements is to have the game properly tested on SD hardware. You can fail a submission if this has not been done, and for that MS do not release the game. It surprises me that it appears there's no such requirement for PS3 games...
It doesn't matter how the Challenger actually failed. The shuttle has no survivable launch abort scenarios.
This is incorrect. While an RTLS, TAL and an AOA have never been performed, an ATO has. Of which, depending on the severity of the abort condition, a TAL or AOA is perfectly survivable. An RTLS is the only one which is a major risk. RTLS aborts are flown in simulations (all abort modes are), so in simulated returns they are possible, and mathematically they are, but the real question would be if the chips were down could you fly an RTLS.
Don't forget, you don't need to *land* the shuttle in an RTLS to survive, there is still the option to use the ICES if the shuttle is unable to land but is able to keep a sufficient profile after a successful tank drop in an RTLS. You can use the ICES at 25,000 feet as long as you can bring the shuttle back to 200 knots.
Just to put a huge hole in your rant, the passwords in question *were* md5'ed. They were only in md5 format because they were passwords left unconverted since the hash algo changed in phpBB3. To convert them, it requires the user in question to log in just once post-conversion. The accounts cracked had not done that and were thus very unused accounts.
Actually, it's called Cross-Site Request Forgery for a reason; if it's post just link them to a page which uses JS to auto-submit a form to the original site doing whatever it is you require. It's very easy to get people to click a link when they are not expecting such an attack.
Sure you are, you just don't realise it. Go ask the NSA what ECHELON is.
arrested for trying to sell Nazi memorabilia
{{citation needed}}. In most EU member states you're allowed to sell any kind of historic item as long as it's legal to do so and the context under which you're selling it is also legal.
being video recorded on every street we walk/drive
See, this is where we diverge. We know we're heading to 1984 quickly, but we can see it. You, however, can't, and by the time you realise, it'll be too late.
having 66% of our income taken to pay for socialized medical care
Haha, no. My last pay cheque only 1.95% was taken for socialised medical care. The percentage taken is no where near the 66% you seem to think. I ask you how much of your income goes towards medical insurance?
giving our unemployed people "paid vacation" time
In the UK at least, that is a problem. So far you're 1 for 5.
arrested for speaking out politically
That's quite a dangerous street to walk down, and for the sake of this/. topic, I won't walk down it.
We're all entering a time where our governments want more control over what we do. If you don't believe that your government is doing this, then wake up before it's too late.
I run two forums. Each has a unique way of dealing with trolls:
Forum A has strict rules, with a three-strike policy. A team of moderators deals with offenders by giving warnings when the rules are broken only after notifying them of the rules (one free pass only). Most trolls stop after the rules have been linked, and for those who persist, we ban them. If they keep coming back after being banned (say, switching IPs), then we'll call the ISP and have a chat with them (I've yet to see a TOS that doesn't include talk about harassment over the internet). This only happens about once every three years; most trolls give up after being banned.
On the opposite end of the scale, there's Forum B. This forum is run by anarchy. The admins only weigh in on spam by deleting it, other than that everything else is game. What you get is a core group of about 100 or so users who can hold arguments rather well, be it with each other, or with trolls. They subject trolls to a trial by fire (most popular being the "Welcome to the internet list"). Trolls that give up never return, while those who survive become fantastic community members.
Obviously you'll have to ultimately find your own balance. There are places where strict rules fall down, and places where anarchy falls down. However, if either is used well, it'll serve you well.
>All this ignoring the fact the O2 masks are useless. They ahve never saved a life. Any aircraft incident large enough to cause deployment means the aircraft will desend rapidly, preferably under control, but not always.
I was on a flight to California from England. After we had entered Icelandic airspace, we had a tail fire. Smoke was pouring into the cabin, and the oxygen masks were deployed. It took us 10 mins to land at Reykjavik, Iceland.
10 mins of exposure to smoke will kill you. I'd go as far as to say that the oxygen masks saved lives that day. They have more than one trick (i.e. they serve a purpose other than just being deployed for decompression incidents)
Steam is used as the distribution method. The game was already out for a few months before Steam even became an option. It does not make them any less independent, as Valve were not controlling the development.
Not really. For video encoding or just outright FPU performance, the latest Xeon range will crush an Opteron. Even on price the Intel is cheaper; an Opteron 2222 (at £447.99 each) vs a faster Xeon E5345 (£300.09 each). Ok, so call me unfair for pitching a dual-core vs a quad core. The highest quad-core Opteron is the 2347, £275.70 each. Picking the same one at the price range Xeon side gives you the E5335 at £213.35 each, and it'd still be faster.
So, with Xeon you can have performance and cheap prices at the same time. I see no reason to go to AMD, do you?
The parent has a point. For example, if you buy a newspaper, you don't have to read the adverts in it, just the bits you want. If you load a website from someone, you are under no obligation to display it the way they intend.
For those using phpBB2, as long as you're not using an obscure PHP5 config, it will work fine. We just don't officially support it as phpBB2 was written for PHP3 and PHP4 only (since those were the only versions out when it was released). Or, get them to move over to phpBB3, which not only supports PHP4 and PHP5, but will actually run on PHP6-dev versions. (Although if you're running -dev on a live server...)
You can also enable parallel fetching in the make.conf to force emerge to keep downloading packages while compiling takes place. This is handy as if your first update is a bit large (say glibc/gcc/anything else over 20 mins), you'll have the rest of the updates already fetched; almost as if you specified -f. Just put "parallel-fetch" in your FEATURES line. (or add a FEATURES line if you don't already have it: FEATURES="parallel-fetch")
Portage will remind you that it has an update and you should install it after you `emerge --sync`. Updating portage should be the first thing you do before you `emerge -NDu world`
If you're getting to the point that you're getting incompatible updates with your existing setup, then you can always try `emerge -NDuep` and look at the resulting list it'll give you (p is for preview). From that, `emerge -C` anything you don't use any more, and then drop the 'p' from the command above and re-run it. It'll re-compile everything on your system with the latest packages, meaning that you should hopefully avoid the incompatibilities you're referring to.
Then again, if all that looks too much to do, Gentoo might not be for you?;)
With a decent set of rules, mod_security isn't a joke. Who's to say that a nice 0-day won't pop up during that time you've decided to be out of the country? If your site is popular enough, boom, you're exploited before you have a chance to patch. There's a few rules that you can make that are generic enough to stop most basic automated attempts and simple POCs. These could give you enough spare time to patch the required item(s). Don't ever forget that security is an onion concept. Many layers helps, as if someone gets through one, there's another waiting right there. It's like the same reason why cars have seatbelts, airbags and crumple zones. Just one might save you in some instances, but there just might be one day where you're going to need more than just one.
The whole point of that feature is to allow someone to use the phone in an emergency if they either do not have the time to unlock it or figure out how to unlock the phone. Why waste 10 seconds or such unlocking a phone when you could already be speaking to emergency services?
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"Or has this large growth served us well, exemplified by no successful terrorist acts on US soil since 9/11?"
The day after 9/11 I found a rock. I've kept this rock with me every day since then. Could it be more that this rock prevents terrorism?
Will people ever learn that correlation does not imply causation?
Look at the source -- it's a British newspaper.
The BBC is not, has never been and can never be a newspaper. It is a publicly funded broadcast news outlet which has far less bias (read: practically none) than any US news network you can name, and is a trusted news source around the world.
Calling the BBC dubious is... dubious at best.
Then there's the other games, which probably spent a quarter as much time in development than the much better games, and all of a sudden the developer is like "hurr hurr it's in high def and on the 360 it's worth $60"
Clearly you've never seen the requirements MS throw down to even get your game on the 360. It's not just a case of 'get SDK, make game, sell it'. There's controller conventions, UI considerations, bug testing (and jesus, even insane you-would-never-do-these-action bugs still need fixing), etc. Hell, to put it into perspective, the GAME, not the console, has to deal with a memorycard being removed during the write process.
It's never a case of 'hurr hurr high def 360 == $60".
Typically any "real" ISO level on a DSLR is actual sensitivity adjustment, anything past that is post-process adjustment. So for the Nikon range you have:
D3000/D40/D50/D60/D70/D80/D200: ISO 100 or 200 - 1600 (3200 is a post-process adjustment on the D40 only, the D60/D3000/D80 and D200 do ISO 100 as base)
D5000/D90/D300: 200-3200 (ISO 6400 is a post-process adjustment)
D700/D3: 200 - 6400 (ISO 12800 and 25600 is a post-process adjustment)
D3x: 100 - 1600 (3200 and 6400 are post-process adjustments)
Rule of thumb with a Nikon camera is 1 stop less than the highest non-fake ISO is the highest you'll want to go; the D3/D700 are the only exception, where ISO 6400 is very very clean.
Ok, a few things to note:
The D40 uses a very old sensor (the one used in the D50 and D70). It's now two generations old, so if you upgrade to a D5000 or D90, you will notice a quality improvement, even in the ISO sensitivity. This is where Nikon has been the past few years, investing in decent high-ISO abilities. Now ISO 1600 on crop and ISO 6400 on full-frame Nikon cameras is clean enough to use for large prints.
The 5Dmk2 can only do 1080p for 12 minutes. This is to escape the EU regulation requiring a tax on video cameras, which are defined as any electronic device that can record video for 30 mins in one go. The tax is between 4.9 and 12.5%, and this is on top of VAT/tax you pay for in the EU anyway. Obviously the last thing Nikon or Canon want to do is fall under this tax, as it'd make their camera rather expensive.
If you want to record up to the file-system max, which is about 4GB, then you're limited to a shade under 15 minutes anyway, since the 5dmk2 records 1080p at 4.8 MBytes/sec. The D5000 could reach near 30 mins; recording at the 720p, 24fps option goes at 2.3 MBps which would give you near 29 minutes, if it were not for the artificial limit. The same could be said of the D90, which records at 1.7MBps, giving you near 40 mins; again, save for the limit. (Figures for the D300s are not out yet)
What is it, a checkbox? "I promise I tried it on an SD TV. Really." See above post re: Dead Rising for a prime example of SD incompetence.
It's not a checkbox, it's a tested requirement. The game is played on a SD TV by a third party (typically chosen or suggested by MS). Any problems with the requirements are failures to pass, and without a clean sheet, the game can't progress to release.
Dead Rising would've most likely been the reason why this is now a tested requirement.
NeoThermic
I'm not sure where to start picking the holes. I guess from the top:
Considering that there are NO abort modes that happen before SRB separation, you're talking shit there. An RTLS, the earliest abort you can do after the SRBs have been ignited, can only be called after 123 seconds (When SRB separation happens) and before 150s after launch, or a call window of only 27 seconds.
Uhh, what? Considering the earliest time you can call an TAL the shuttle is 400,000 ft up and 400 NM away from Florida, a ballistic trajectory gives the shuttle more than enough cross-range capability to land at the requested location (for ISS launches that's basically always ZZA).
Again, what? An AOA means the shuttle enters a low orbit that is not stable with the express means of doing two OMS burns giving it the re-entry profile of a normal end of mission re-entry. An AOA can only be called after a TAL can't be done but before an ATO is called. This is a window of just a few seconds, so the chance of needing to do an AOA is slim even if things are going wrong. Since an AOA is still technically an orbit, the cross-range capabilities of the shuttle are that of anything orbiting the earth; anything is reachable within 90 minutes.
This just highlights how clueless you are about shuttle abort modes and procedures. The CES would only be used if you could not land the orbiter, but after you had either pulled an RTLS, TAL or AOA. You could never exit the shuttle during launch, so I'm not even sure what you're thinking about shutting the main engines down. An RTLS, TAL and AOA have a flight profile that allows the CES to be used if required.
The F-111 seated two. Next to each other. The shuttle seats six or seven on a normal mission, and only four are anywhere near each other. The other seats are in the mid-deck, with a substantial amount of shuttle around them. An ejector system like the F-111 would be impractical due to weight, be unusable at launch and only usable after a successful re-entry. Thus of the two shuttle accidents that have happened, such a system couldn't have been used. For either
NeoThermic
P.S. Mexico City isn't a landing site and never has been.
I've done development for the Xbox 360, and one of the submission requirements is to have the game properly tested on SD hardware. You can fail a submission if this has not been done, and for that MS do not release the game. It surprises me that it appears there's no such requirement for PS3 games...
It doesn't matter how the Challenger actually failed. The shuttle has no survivable launch abort scenarios.
This is incorrect. While an RTLS, TAL and an AOA have never been performed, an ATO has. Of which, depending on the severity of the abort condition, a TAL or AOA is perfectly survivable. An RTLS is the only one which is a major risk. RTLS aborts are flown in simulations (all abort modes are), so in simulated returns they are possible, and mathematically they are, but the real question would be if the chips were down could you fly an RTLS.
Don't forget, you don't need to *land* the shuttle in an RTLS to survive, there is still the option to use the ICES if the shuttle is unable to land but is able to keep a sufficient profile after a successful tank drop in an RTLS. You can use the ICES at 25,000 feet as long as you can bring the shuttle back to 200 knots.
Just to put a huge hole in your rant, the passwords in question *were* md5'ed. They were only in md5 format because they were passwords left unconverted since the hash algo changed in phpBB3. To convert them, it requires the user in question to log in just once post-conversion. The accounts cracked had not done that and were thus very unused accounts.
NeoThermic
Mine's divisible, it just has a nice remainder... ;)
Actually, it's called Cross-Site Request Forgery for a reason; if it's post just link them to a page which uses JS to auto-submit a form to the original site doing whatever it is you require. It's very easy to get people to click a link when they are not expecting such an attack.
NeoThermic
It looks like a troll but I'll bite.
We aren't used to having our internet snooped
Sure you are, you just don't realise it. Go ask the NSA what ECHELON is.
arrested for trying to sell Nazi memorabilia
{{citation needed}}. In most EU member states you're allowed to sell any kind of historic item as long as it's legal to do so and the context under which you're selling it is also legal.
being video recorded on every street we walk/drive
See, this is where we diverge. We know we're heading to 1984 quickly, but we can see it. You, however, can't, and by the time you realise, it'll be too late.
having 66% of our income taken to pay for socialized medical care
Haha, no. My last pay cheque only 1.95% was taken for socialised medical care. The percentage taken is no where near the 66% you seem to think. I ask you how much of your income goes towards medical insurance?
giving our unemployed people "paid vacation" time
In the UK at least, that is a problem. So far you're 1 for 5.
arrested for speaking out politically
That's quite a dangerous street to walk down, and for the sake of this /. topic, I won't walk down it.
We're all entering a time where our governments want more control over what we do. If you don't believe that your government is doing this, then wake up before it's too late.
NeoThermic
I run two forums. Each has a unique way of dealing with trolls:
Forum A has strict rules, with a three-strike policy. A team of moderators deals with offenders by giving warnings when the rules are broken only after notifying them of the rules (one free pass only). Most trolls stop after the rules have been linked, and for those who persist, we ban them. If they keep coming back after being banned (say, switching IPs), then we'll call the ISP and have a chat with them (I've yet to see a TOS that doesn't include talk about harassment over the internet). This only happens about once every three years; most trolls give up after being banned.
On the opposite end of the scale, there's Forum B. This forum is run by anarchy. The admins only weigh in on spam by deleting it, other than that everything else is game. What you get is a core group of about 100 or so users who can hold arguments rather well, be it with each other, or with trolls. They subject trolls to a trial by fire (most popular being the "Welcome to the internet list"). Trolls that give up never return, while those who survive become fantastic community members.
Obviously you'll have to ultimately find your own balance. There are places where strict rules fall down, and places where anarchy falls down. However, if either is used well, it'll serve you well.
NeoThermic
>All this ignoring the fact the O2 masks are useless. They ahve never saved a life. Any aircraft incident large enough to cause deployment means the aircraft will desend rapidly, preferably under control, but not always.
I was on a flight to California from England. After we had entered Icelandic airspace, we had a tail fire. Smoke was pouring into the cabin, and the oxygen masks were deployed. It took us 10 mins to land at Reykjavik, Iceland.
10 mins of exposure to smoke will kill you. I'd go as far as to say that the oxygen masks saved lives that day. They have more than one trick (i.e. they serve a purpose other than just being deployed for decompression incidents)
NeoThermic
Steam is used as the distribution method. The game was already out for a few months before Steam even became an option. It does not make them any less independent, as Valve were not controlling the development.
NeoThermic
Not really. For video encoding or just outright FPU performance, the latest Xeon range will crush an Opteron. Even on price the Intel is cheaper; an Opteron 2222 (at £447.99 each) vs a faster Xeon E5345 (£300.09 each). Ok, so call me unfair for pitching a dual-core vs a quad core. The highest quad-core Opteron is the 2347, £275.70 each. Picking the same one at the price range Xeon side gives you the E5335 at £213.35 each, and it'd still be faster.
So, with Xeon you can have performance and cheap prices at the same time. I see no reason to go to AMD, do you?
NeoThermic
The parent has a point. For example, if you buy a newspaper, you don't have to read the adverts in it, just the bits you want. If you load a website from someone, you are under no obligation to display it the way they intend.
NeoThermic
For those using phpBB2, as long as you're not using an obscure PHP5 config, it will work fine. We just don't officially support it as phpBB2 was written for PHP3 and PHP4 only (since those were the only versions out when it was released). Or, get them to move over to phpBB3, which not only supports PHP4 and PHP5, but will actually run on PHP6-dev versions. (Although if you're running -dev on a live server...)
NeoThermic
Everything you quoted points to the fact that Kentsfield is a single chip:
"For example, the QX6700 consisted of two E6700 chips connected together by a 1066 MT/s FSB on one MCM"
MCM is Multi-Chip Module, or basically many chips in a single unit.
"The Kentsfield was one socket processor sitting in a LGA775 socket"
"Kentsfield comprised two separate silicon pieces, called dies, (dual-core each) in one package constituting its quad-core"
Two cores, one package, one LGA775 socket. I make that Pimms o'Clock.
NeoThermic
You can also enable parallel fetching in the make.conf to force emerge to keep downloading packages while compiling takes place. This is handy as if your first update is a bit large (say glibc/gcc/anything else over 20 mins), you'll have the rest of the updates already fetched; almost as if you specified -f. Just put "parallel-fetch" in your FEATURES line. (or add a FEATURES line if you don't already have it: FEATURES="parallel-fetch")
NeoThermic
Portage will remind you that it has an update and you should install it after you `emerge --sync`. Updating portage should be the first thing you do before you `emerge -NDu world`
;)
If you're getting to the point that you're getting incompatible updates with your existing setup, then you can always try `emerge -NDuep` and look at the resulting list it'll give you (p is for preview). From that, `emerge -C` anything you don't use any more, and then drop the 'p' from the command above and re-run it. It'll re-compile everything on your system with the latest packages, meaning that you should hopefully avoid the incompatibilities you're referring to.
Then again, if all that looks too much to do, Gentoo might not be for you?
NeoThermic
With a decent set of rules, mod_security isn't a joke. Who's to say that a nice 0-day won't pop up during that time you've decided to be out of the country? If your site is popular enough, boom, you're exploited before you have a chance to patch. There's a few rules that you can make that are generic enough to stop most basic automated attempts and simple POCs. These could give you enough spare time to patch the required item(s). Don't ever forget that security is an onion concept. Many layers helps, as if someone gets through one, there's another waiting right there. It's like the same reason why cars have seatbelts, airbags and crumple zones. Just one might save you in some instances, but there just might be one day where you're going to need more than just one.
NeoThermic
The whole point of that feature is to allow someone to use the phone in an emergency if they either do not have the time to unlock it or figure out how to unlock the phone. Why waste 10 seconds or such unlocking a phone when you could already be speaking to emergency services?
NeoThermic
Has it really though? Divide TFLOPS by CPU's, and the PS3 isn't top.
NeoThermic