Grammar is important. "Don't just confuse it" means something rather different from "Just don't confuse it".

Most Russian ISPs will be implementing DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) to block the content. We're not talking DNS anymore here, we're talking ISPs inspecting and logging everything you send over the wire unencrypted. Be careful about what you type in Google now, the russian Register is watching.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/russia-surveillance/all/

He wasn't saying anything about iOS 6 maps.

Um, you see no privacy implications involved with having to put your chocolate bars in a metal box in order NOT to be tracked?

Sounds to me like you're already part of brainwashed society.

I personally wouldn't mind patents becoming restricted to a 6month lifetime.

That way the innovator has 6 months of head-start until the rest of the world is free to compete.

The exit code of true?

I was wondering whether anyone sensible was awake on slashdot.

The list contains APNs Tokens (NOT "DevToken ID"s, whatever the heck that's supposed to mean). Which means the information comes from an APN-enabled application. Any app can get the device's UDID. Apple isn't explicitly involved. There wouldn't have been any APNs Token.

Whether the information was collected by the FBI, or obtained by the FBI as part of some investigation or whatever other means remains unknown, but I for one am really curious WHO BUILT THE APP that collected all of this information. If you want to point fingers, answer that question instead.

The point here is that while placebos may have an effect when taken, the extent of that effect should be no greater than that of targeted medication.

If medication designed to cure depression works better than a placebo does (ie. MORE people are cured, or symptoms are reduced FURTHER), then the medication is considered to "work". If the medication doesn't work, it will either be AS effective as a placebo (likely the case for homeopathic medicine) or LESS effective (adverse effects).

It really doesn't matter that placebos have an effect. Because if homeopathic medicine doesn't work, it effectively becomes a placebo. So yes, it's perfectly fair to compare against placebos.

And that's exactly why you shouldn't store your passwords anywhere.

This tool/algorithm will generate passwords on demand so you don't need to upload them to the cloud or save them on your failure-prone hardware.

There are a few problems in your line of thinking:

1. You seem to think that "ideas" are somehow unique enough that only one person can ever think of them and all others can only acquire the same by "stealing".
2. You seem to think that any great new ideas that have not yet been implemented are "new ideas".

The amount of registered IP today probably covers nearly anything anyone could possible come up with, unique or not, just by the mere fact that ideas are inherently very generic and most registered IPs are very badly evaluated.

Anyone talking about "intellectual PROPERTY" or "innovating" by registering new IP, makes me sick. Turning intellectual products into property is the death of intellectual innovation, and anyone that thinks otherwise has deluded themselves or hasn't thought it through.

Innovation would happen when LOTS of people innovated using the SAME intellectual product. Then there would be competition. Customers could choose considering things like price and quality. This choice would drive implementers to innovate more than their competition. It would drive the whole economy.

Turning intellectual products into property denies it from the competition and effectively breaks the whole foundation of capitalism.

The researchers know full-well what kind of company they're getting payed by. If they don't want to be affiliated with the crap the company does such as by the parent, they can go work elsewhere. They're still working for SONY, which means they didn't care to make that moral choice, which means they fully deserve the affiliation.

Talk like yours is what convinces people that "it's OK" to do evil crap. "The customer will forgive you", eventually. "Find someone to blame and throw them out".

That isn't going to stop the next idiot with an overzealous plan at SONY's board.
Customers sticking to their principles will.

[citation needed]

Might I point out that this is not a destructive tendency at all? Contrary to if people were to choose much more permissive licenses as the default without understanding them.

At least the author can at any point relicense any of his stuff. If you want to use the code and the license isn't permissive enough, contact the author and see whether he's OK with it. Problem solved.

If the author defaults to a very permissive license, there's no going back. Once the permissively licensed code is out there, it's too late to license it more restrictively later once the author finds out what his license really means.

It's actually not. Master Password doesn't do any encryption of passwords. It doesn't store anything. It just takes a master password, does some clever hashing seeded by a site name, and calculates a password for the site from the result. Meaning all you need to reproduce your passwords is your master password and a program that can execute the algorithm.

The biggest issue I have with all of these solutions, 1Password, LastPass, KeePass, the OS X Keychain, browsers storing passwords, et al, is that they basically just all store all of your passwords in their own custom ways, often on remote stores beyond your control, while leaving you with the mess of creating the passwords and keeping them "in-sync" between all of your devices. What if you're not behind your laptop? How do you log into your email?

Thought I'd mention Master Password which aims to address this issue by letting you remember a single master password (which you already do for each of these solutions anyway) and then calculating your password for a given site from it. The algorithm is completely offline, uses no inputs other than those remembered by the user and others documented by the algorithm, and the output will pass most any of those pesky "password policies".

It basically means all you need is a calculator and your password to get access to any of your sites. And if you loose your device, no data lost and you've got your identity back just by picking up any other device.

The actual app is currently in beta and only for iOS, but the algorithm is fully documented for anyone to reproduce and a Mac version is already planned.