Comcast would have a vested interest in having customers use Apple's services.

Lawsuit on line 1...

That seems to be the foreign policy he's following, actually.

People have been cloning mammals for 20 years now.

So used to typing "user" in various contexts. I meant "/usr".

A lightweight one with X and xfce. Put /user on a USB drive and you're set.

I wonder how hard it is to hack the bootloader?

the act of deleting the data will also delete the evidence that would be used to establish a citizen's grounds for suing the NSA over its illegal data retention.
That's what the NSA said when they asked for permission to hold the data for more than 5 years.

Maliciously cracking into systems so you can violated the privacy of rich, powerful and/or famous people is, well, still wrong, but not really much more wrong than papparazzi-ism in general. People who resent those higher on the social ladder are gonna have sympathy with--even if not outright endorsing--anyone who makes trouble for those on the top. Those on the top are going to be absolutely enraged by them. Thus you have internet commenters who glorify hackers, and government leaders and the wealthy who absolutely crucify them in response. I don't know what will happen to Guccifer in Romania, but if he were arrested in America he'd probably be looking at decades of time--for a 42-year, probably a life-sentence. What he did was wrong, but he doesn't deserve to lose his freedom for the rest of his life.

It was only while scouring a database that contained the registration cards of naturalized U.S. citizens that a Satoshi Nakamoto turned up whose profile and background offered a potential match. But it was not until after ordering his records from the National Archives

Guess the Privacy Act doesn't apply to individuals.

How hard is it to set up a router with the network ssid "xfnintywifi " and gather up all the username/password combinations that people use to log on? Not hard at all.

According to Janet Yellen

The Federal Reserve simply does not have authority to supervise or regulate bitcoin in any way

After all, it's not a legitimate currency, is it? So no reason for the Feds to get involved! Which is also what her Japanese counterpart is saying.

From the AP Story

a weakness in the exchange's systems was behind a massive loss of the virtual currency involving 750,000 bitcoins from users and 100,000 of the company's own bitcoins. That would amount to about $425 million at recent prices.

The reactions of the various Japanese government officials are interesting. Essentially, there was no "theft" because Bitcoin is not a "real" currency. Which is an interesting attack. Anyone can steal your bitcoins and you have no recourse to the law because it isn't actually theft.

From the AP Story

a weakness in the exchangeâ(TM)s systems was behind a massive loss of the virtual currency involving 750,000 bitcoins from users and 100,000 of the companyâ(TM)s own bitcoins. That would amount to about $425 million at recent prices.

The reactions of the various Japanese government officials are interesting. Essentially, there was no "theft" because Bitcoin is not a "real" currency.

IIRC, the bug was introduced (fairly) recently. iOS 5 doesn't have it, either.

As banning online gambling did. And we all know how well that worked.

It worked pretty damn well, actually.