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Comment Re:Interesting question here (Score 1) 12

That's pretty much what the article is also saying in paragraph 4:

For years, jailbreaks have been held closely to the chest by security researchers, because the ability to jailbreak an iPhone means the ability to hack it. As we've reported several times, exploits for the iPhone can sell for millions of dollars, which means that no one has been willing to release jailbreak code publicly because Apple will quickly patch it.

Comment Money to buy their own products? (Score 1) 143

The clean up money will be used by individual states to cut other diesel emissions by replacing older, government-owned trucks, buses and other diesel engines now in use.

So the older, government-owned trucks, buses and other diesel engines now in use will be replaced by newer VW vehicles? Good for sales, at least!

Submission + - Malaysia Releases MH370 Investigation Report (independent.co.uk)

jones_supa writes: Authorities involved in the search for the still missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have announced plans to release a preliminary report of their investigation, seven weeks after the jetliner disappeared with 239 people on board. Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the report will be similar to the one the government recently sent to the International Civil Aviation Organisation. It will be made public today. Malaysia, China, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Britain and the US continue to assist Australia in trying to solve the most expensive search in aviation history. At least $44 million was spent on the deployment of military ships and aircraft in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea in the first month of the search, about the same as was spent on the whole underwater search for Air France's Flight AF447. Mr. Hussein is heading to Australia to discuss the next phase of the search, which further focuses on going into deep sea.

Comment Re:What does the wasp do with it? (Score 1) 177

From the original paper:

The xanthopterin pigment found within the cuticle has been proven to be a suitable absorber of light for the harvesting of solar energy by a demonstration of its use in an organic solar cell, with a conversion efficiency of 0.335%.

I assume this was just a "proof of concept" organic solar cell, so the efficiency could probably be increased, but 0.335% doesn't sound like much!

Programming

Submission + - Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier 1

theodp writes: Raw intellect ain't always all it's cracked up to be, advises Ted Dziuba in his introduction to Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier, so don't be too stubborn to learn the things that can save you from the headaches of over-engineering. Some sample how-to-avoid-over-complicating-things advice: 'If Linux can do it, you shouldn't. Don't use Hadoop MapReduce until you have a solid reason why xargs won't solve your problem. Don't implement your own lockservice when Linux's advisory file locking works just fine. Don't do image processing work with PIL unless you have proven that command-line ImageMagick won't do the job. Modern Linux distributions are capable of a lot, and most hard problems are already solved for you. You just need to know where to look.' Any cautionary tips you'd like to share from your own experience?

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