It's heartwarming that Moto finally has a sales growth. My first phone was a StarTAC, and it was really sad to see the brand fading away over the past years. I know quite a few good Moto engineers (they're all there, if you dig under the layers of Dilbert-grade mismanagement), and they were really waiting for good news for quite a few years now.
I hope Google keeps control over the user interface, though.
That's a really good idea, and at least in my house it's working out wonderfully well. The OP had in his mind that the users are somehow going to be "improved" if they get good reading material about malware, viruses, etc. It's well known that it doesn't work that way - they'll keep making mistakes (perhaps only half as much, but so what). The best solutions are those that keep the user out of the loop - that is, installing a different OS, lockdown policies, etc. etc.
I've never heard of Steadystate before. It sounds like a brilliant idea.
Take a look at the home page for the European counterpart of this contest:
http://www.sdeurope.org/index.php/eng/PARTICIPATING-TEAMS
Count carefully, and you find only 19 finalists, and not 20. Why? Because the 20th was from Ariel University Center, an Israeli university located in a settlement:
http://spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=6022
Somebody made some noise, and they got disqualified from the contest on political reasons (just like Leonid Levin's Ph.D. in 1972 Soviet Russia).
I can't comment on the AUC team's chance of winning, but I can comment on the sheer stupidity of ignoring scientific work because you dislike the political leanings of its authors.
According to a very long article on AppleInsider:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/09/exclusive_pink_danger_leaks_from_microsofts_windows_phone.html&page=3
MS was misleading T-Mobile about the state of Sidekick support, and apparently charging hundreds of millions every year for, and I quote "a handful of people in Palo Alto managing some contractors in Romania, Ukraine, etc". This is apparently because most of the Sidekick devs had either moved to Pink or quit out of disgust.
I tried searching for this phrase (don't ask why):
"six seven eight triple nine eight two one-by two"
Google gave me the correct results, Bing gave me something totally bizarre about the Oshkosh Titans.
I can add bells and whistles to the results myself using Greasemonkey, thank you. The server's responsible for good, relevant results, and this is not happening right now.
Um, actually AES does hurt steganography since steganalysis tools have an easier time finding uniformly distributed payloads (such as AES ciphertexts) than somewhat biased payloads (such as standard text).
So, it would be easier to know that you have some data in there, but harder to know what the data is. Your call.
Take a look at this tutorial:
www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/practical.pdf
The App Engine cluster is not just a big dump truck of cycles you dip into on demand. The processing power is quantized into discrete machines. There's actually a nice scheduler there that checks how busy your app is and assigns new processors to handle it. This isn't a real-time process so there are transient periods with overload. On the long run, GAE will scale fine.
There are some nice vids about the architecture on the Google developer youtube channels.
"Excellent Hardness is Easy" sounds like an ideal title for a TCC submission if I've ever seen one. They're at home with stuff like:
"Semi-honest to Malicious Oblivious Transfer - The Black-Box Way"
"On the Complexity of Parallel Hardness Amplification for One-Way Functions"
"The Ultimate Male Package", well that one's actually from my spam folder.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~tcc08/
Is your job running? You'd better go catch it!
