Apple is paving the way for its own music subscription service where it will, surprise surprise, face little to no competition.

So, I take it Last.Fm would allow me to run my own streaming service within theirs, and make money off it? After all, if they lock me out, they face little to no competition.

Gold allows money-based trade, rather than barter. Unlike fiat currencies, it is very hard to counterfeit, and thus devalue, therefore it can hold its value predictably for long periods of time.

That's why he said it's more efficient to do in hardware: no-op = just as efficient as non-encryption. Since you can't even tell it's not encrypting, everyone wins!

A side lesson from this is to avoid standing in the road if at all possible. If you get in a wreck and need to talk to the other driver, do so well off the road, on the far side of your vehicle. Don't stand between the vehicles and traffic.

In other words, this is like shining a laser at a piece of non-reflective black material. I can't even begin to imagine all the uses this will have!

That would explain that gibberish grocery list I found the other day while shopping. Wish I'd saved it.

A problem with full-disk encryption is that it's hard to verify that it's really encrypted on the disk. You have to trust that the manufacturer didn't cut corners and just fake encryption, or botch implementation.

Bah, Chuck Norris would still be able to recover the data just by smelling the dust.

Why does this story have a surveyor's icon on it?

Maybe it would be useful where one is doing lots of bidirectional transfer on the local-only network. As you say, most uses are highly asymmetrical, which ISPs depend on and why they give you so much more downstream than upstream.

...it's the only way to be sure. Searching the web nowadays is like walking in a dog kennel cage: you're constantly stepping in crap.

I'm the exception to the rule.

Yep. By moving obey last, they can define damage to the device as all the usual things not allowed: reflashing, jailbreaking, installing your own OS, whatever. The three laws are ordered that way because only that gives the user control over everything except that which would endanger him.

The company set out specific parameters for what kind of vulnerabilities in which products were in scope for the rewards, but some researchers still submitted flaws that were out of bounds, including bugs in partners' products or in the Barracuda corporate Web site.

Who would complain that people are submitting more bug reports than asked for?!? They're getting reports for their website, without any need to pay a bounty. The problem with this is? Even bug reports of a competitor's product are useful in letting them know what areas are important to customers.

If a bank used an armored car made of cardboard to transport money, would you blame the inevitable robbers, or the bank?

I'd blame the robbers for stealing the money, and the bank for not securing it as I had hired them to do, since I know robbers exist and steal money. That said, it's not like banks are going around putting up money-dispensing kiosks that runs Windows.