I assume the satellites themselves have minimal delta-v so how do you end up covering "large swaths of earth" with a bunch of satellites launched at the same time from the same craft?

As art its kind of neat. The technique used in the shot of the 42nd street/grand central platform I could easily see used in normal movies. There is a market, he just needs some advertising...

It's a thing. iPhone theft is the number one crime in NYC see http://www.uproxx.com/technology/2013/11/14-crime-nyc-iphone-theft/ among many others. As someone who lost an apple device to a mugger... this still seems like a horrible idea.

There were a few copy cats IIRC... but they didn't make much of a splash. Since BIOS and OS vendors have been of the issue they didn't for 20+ I'm fairly skeptical that on the breadth of the claim. Plus since we would know they didn't force upgrade everyone's BIOS, and we would know about it if there was a patch to fix the issue in the Linux kernel this is most likely an OS specific issue.

In other words they probably turned over a 0 day Windows exploits to Microsoft that would have allowed writing to the BIOS because there became aware that some other nation's NSAlike agency had become aware of it.

What happens at a lot of places is that whatever is required to balance the cashier's till is taken out of their pay. So you likely aren't stealing from the store, but from someone who makes minimum wage.

Must have been post lawsuit. When I tried to cancel after getting a real ISP my experience pretty much matched that in addition to pretending to cancel the account on the second call they also gave me two free months of service so that it wouldn't be on my credit card bill the next time I checked. Ended up canceling the credit card instead, which solved the problem.

IIRC one of the elements of the lawsuit was that whoever they outsourced it to was comped based on cancellation rate.

Not likely. McVeigh's manifesto got 0 attention and Kaczynski's only got published because it was demanded at a point where he had already killed and promised to stop if it was published.

Read carefully. The leaked doc suggests that the NSA broke in to the links between data centers and Alexander is claiming that they didn't break into their servers. Both things can be true.

Tbqh this doesn't pass the sniff test. More likely scenarios: 1) its a hoax/false flag and piracy nuke is the target. 2) He got a c&d and thinks that pretending that it was an anti piracy thing all along will help him with the lawsuit.

Your friend is to dumb to not enter his email address/password into random websites... don't be surprised if this isn't the last of the spam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster

Win 8 is not that bad once you get used to it, but adding the start button adds nothing. What we really want is a start menu or at least a start screen that doesn't take over everything.

Unfortunately no, we still have to do it due to issues with Microsoft's CORS implementation... if you look at the workaround (uncheck use compatibility list) it seems even more unclear if this is a MS or Google problem.

A quick Google search is only bringing up superficial stuff. Do we know what they broke/changed between IE10 and IE11 that broke google?
It looks like the OWA thing is because exchange is doing UA sniffing and IE 11 no longer sends the MSIE string.

It comes from a friend trying to differentiate between new agey religions and new agey cults.
Mythical creatures are obviously not founders so the statement applies not to Mr. Frum, but to whoever invented him as an object to be worshiped.
looking at this I don't think that Sikhs or any of the "medium sized religions" have an army or a navy which makes that definition somewhat problematic.