Sounds like it is an exploit of an issue with a windows component, but it is currently only known to be exploitable through Safari. Kind of like you could hotwire a car (windows) if you happen to have replaced your windows with Saran wrap (Safari), and can get right through them.

So far you must use Safari under Win7 64bit to exploit this. But we would never want to say anything bad about Apple, only about Microsoft...

Well, CNN updated the article at that link to point out that Hands-free devices WOULD be banned as well... The original version of that article stated the opposite...

It would surprise me if a ban of hands-free would pass in Congress. However, I know of at least one study on Scientific American Frontiers (PBS show with Alan Alda) concluded that driving while talking on a HANDS-FREE phone was the equivalent of driving after three drinks. (How they calibrate three drinks I don't know, cause the effects of alcohol vary based on weight, metabolism, and chronic use).

No doubt. Drivers should be required to re-take the driving test at least every ten years, every five years once over 65...

According to CNN here: http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/13/us/ntsb-cell-phone-ban/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 the proposal would NOT ban the use of hand-free devices, or passenger cell phone usage.

Must be the pull of the North Pole influencing their moral compass...

Tablet and cell phones are becoming the new post-coital cigarette. How many of you have reach for your phone right after getting laid? Oh, wait... this is Slashdot... Of the twenty of you who actually get laid regularly how many of you have reached for your phone/tablet right afterwards?

I meant $5k per figure... not $4k...

I did indeed read TFA, and it was rather ambiguous as to whether the $5k per figure was for the manufacture of the figure itself, or the cost of getting it into space, or both. $4k per figure to manufacture custom figures from a material Lego does not normally deal with (aluminum) is not at all out of line. So perhaps you should take your sarcastic tone elsewhere and read the article carefully. I do agree the publicity is probably a good thing. However, perhaps not so much when a lot of people are questioning the necessity of a space program at all. While we geeks understand the needs, and think this is cool, the guy on the street who lost his job last week may wish those extra dollars went his way.

I assume Lego Group will provide the figures for free. Not sure if they will reimburse taxpayers for the cost to put them into space.

Assuming each of those figures is about 1 cubic inch of aluminum, and aluminum weighs in at 0.098 lb/in^3, and it costs about $10,000/lb to put something in space... then... 3 * 0.98 * $10000 = $2940 taxpayer dollars to put these things in space. I am all for the space program, but this seems like little more than a waste of money, even if it is cool.

Like Region codes for DVDs... Everybody loved those! It doesn't seem fair to pay more "because you can."

It's true... The market will only bear a certain price. Apple made their songs 99cents (to begin with), and broke through most of the barriers to online music sales. People can only afford so much. At some point they may resort to theft to get what they want; the rate at which they do so is also influenced by the ease with which the theft can occur.Much less risky to pirate software then to steal a car, for instance...

Oh, wait... do I have a mugshot?