I'm with you, and am glad that someone else posted this first. I can't stand Ticketbastard, and they have exclusivity agreements with most of the venues in my country. This means that they will receive a fee for ever live performance that I want to attend, regardless of whether or not I want to use them. Fees on top of fees on top of fees that are already included in the ticket price. They haven't done much to curb the secondary market; there is no incentive for them to do so.

They add absolutely no value, and have done little to bring ticket sales into the digital age. Thanks for nothing, Ticketmaster. You guys suck more than any other company in the country.

But there were batteries and electrical tape. Anything with batteries and duct tape must be a terrorist plot...especially when Mooninites are involved.

To answer my own question, my assertion was correct. With physical access to the device, brute forcing the PIN protecting the disk encryption is trivial. The million dollar question is: how to sufficiently protect a key in a manner that can be quickly and conveniently unlocked by an average user?

Admittedly, I have never used Android device encryption and do not know the specifics of how it works. However, reading the article, what is the big deal about brute forcing a 4-digit PIN on a device that one has local access to? Could the encrypted FS be dumped and brute forced in software? What am I missing?

I see what you mean...not that N. Korea isn't a humanitarian disaster right now - I personally find (what I know of) the conditions in N. Korea absolutely deplorable. I understand that China is not stuck with it entirely (at the moment), but they're certainly kicking the can down the road by providing the political and financial support to N. Korea that they are...not to mention providing tacit approval of N. Korea's activity by their actions. Do you think that China sees regime collapse as an eventuality? What kind of bad behavior would N. Korea have to exhibit to provoke China to abandon support?

Further, could S. Korea still be considered a "puppet" of the US if there were no longer a threat from the North, under declaration of war? If unification happened, how long would the US military bases in (future-former) S. Korea remain? I do not think that it's in America's best interests (or within the scope of the mission) to maintain those bases after we are assured peace.

IMO, this is on /. because some of the Slashdot discussion has a shot at being more insightful than mainstream coverage does.

Try "password1". It's uncommon, and nobody will ever guess it.

Ha! Bash.org reference FTW!

This is the hardware device. There is more information about CDN deployment (as well as some specs) available on that page as well.

Yes. I'm surprised that nobody else has read into this. All Netflix is doing is localizing their content in a small, 4U appliance inside of the ISP's.

From what I can tell is that this has potential to be a win for everyone. As you say, this is a win for ISP's, as it cuts down on internet traffic at their peering points - where things tend to be the most expensive - it keeps traffic inside of their network. This is also a win for the consumer, as it can deliver higher quality video. This is also a win for Netflix, because they can lower their internet bandwidth costs by moving their content to these localized (or regionalized, as the case may be) appliances once and serve streaming content to all customers on an ISP's network.

...or perhaps I'm missing something. Feel free to educate me if I am.

Cybercrime: what rational people refer to as crime.

FWIW, I *loved* the Newtonian physics in Frontier. Sure, it was tricky, and less arcade-like than other games, but this was one of the things that set Frontier apart for me. It was difficult, it was dark, it was cold, and it made me feel like I was flying a ship in space. There are plenty of space combat games with jets-in-space combat...further, there is room for both, since there is potential gameplay in atmo. Perhaps some ships can have aerodynamic lifting bodies. Of course, this is just my $0.02.

I prefer "non-proper nouns".

I never suggested that hypocrisy didn't exist in America...and while I agree that your Tommy Chong example is a valid example of misdirected justice, I'm not really sure how this is relevant to a discussion about political corruption.

However, I suggest that you go to a country where, in order to get a drivers license or building permit, a bribe must be paid. Go to a country where you have to carry a little extra cash, just in case you are stopped by the police. Then tell me how bad America's corruption is - and that it's just as bad as the corruption in the rest of the world (corruption is corruption, as you say). I, for one, have never had to bribe an American official in my life. Have you?