Depends on who is searching. Depends on the on site equipment they have to conduct the search. There are a lot of factors.

For example, if I wanted to see most recent documents, and I had appropriate workstations available, in about 10-15 minutes, if I though you were worthy of a deep search, by looking at date stamps and sector sparing tables for las sectors pared, and which files they are attributed to, I could likely find everything that changed on the disk from 5 days before you booked the ticket, up to now.

Even if things are encrypted, that's information, and there are exposed timestamps that could tell me if I should copy/confiscate for further examination, and/or find something incriminating to hold you personally on, or hold you on the suspicion of having done.

I'm sure colorblind people will appreciate the color-coded maps.

When internet connectivity is ubiquitous and free.

And not before.

Until then, streaming won't dominate, because everything else is still needed to deal with the gaps in, and cost of, Internet connectivity. When cars start coming with radios which will no longer play music from AM, FM, or SirusXM, don't have CD or DVD drives, even for navigation data, and will only play streaming, THEN streaming will have dominated the music business(*). Not before.

(*) I am well aware the article is about revenue; revenue is, however, not the question the headline asks.

Tell me you did not just claim that Nokia Adam Osborne'd themselves and killed off their feature phone sales in a market which could never afford a Microsoft smart phone by announcing the were going to sell a Microsoft smart phone?

Nokia: "We are going to be building something you can't afford."
Shepherd in Namibia: "Well, there goes my plans to buy a Nokia feature phone!"

I guess it makes sense in the universe where Spock has a beard...

You didn't hate your daughter enough to give her "one big piece of suckage" and take the good stuff for yourself?

sorry to ask the obvious, but... So why is this taking more than a day to solve?

Method A:
(1) Put the Apple Camera driver in IDA Pro
(2) Disassemble it to see what it does
(3) Do what it does

Method B:
(1) Throw a logic analyzer on the camera connector
(2) See what the host pokes
(3) Poke the camera the same way

Method C:
(1) Set up two machine kernel debugging
(2) Build a kernel that does early entry debugger (there's a place to uncomment in bsd_init.c)
(3) Set breakpoints
(4) Step through the load of the camera driver initialization
(5) Step through the camera driver operations you want to be able to duplicate
(6) Do the same things

Even if it's downloading a wad of firmware to the camera, this should be pretty blatantly obvious from any of these three methods, and if you have a Mac, you obviously have a license for Mac OS, and therefore a license to use the blob.

Is it just that no one who can do this care about the camera working?

Exactly. Windows is famous for doing this. I have to rewrite my viruses, trojans, and worms each time they release a new version of Windows. Why can't those assholes maintain binary backward compatibility? I mean, what's *ACTUALLY* stopping UEFI from having been designed so that my MBR + TSR virus couldn't still run on modern hardware? Are these guys idiots or something?!?!?

Sizable market?

I suppose this is why Nokia *didn't* go practically bankrupt, and have to sell itself to Microsoft. Oh wait, it did.

Having a sizable market that wants something, and having that market be able to afford to pay for that something are two different things. The average monthly wage in that "sizable market" won't allow the purchase of the device in numbers to make it sufficiently profitable, or Nokia would not have found itself in trouble in the first place.

To paraphrase Feynman, the situation is not as symmetrical as it first appears.

It also builds political capital for the prosecutors and law enforcement, etc., involved in pursuing the case, making it more likely to be pursued vigorously, and it's part of what gets written off the taxes as capital losses. It also moves the crime up the penalty ladder to "teach 'them' a lesson". All benefits to Sony.

Again, this is voluntary on your part, not the company flooding the job market with people. And yes, contracting is not the same as having a full time job, and requires the ability to sell yourself. The original article was not about sales skills, it was about "Hey! Come move out to the boonies! The water's fine!", when in fact the water is *not* fine for stereotypical job seekers in stereotypical jobs.

"Voluntarily" is disloyalty on your par, and generally has only the downtime you choose to have, since you tend to explore all your options, then pick up the new job before you leave the old job.

What I was talking about was employment risk. Employment risk is the risk of your employer *leaving you in the lurch*, and what happens when that happens. In that case, it's typical that there are other people from the same company, and you are all looking for jobs at once.

For example, I was working in Tucson, Arizona when the company basically ran out of money (the new CEO had spent all of the company's buffer on telephony acquisitions, because he thought that was the next big thing), and a company that had been operating for over a decade suddenly became insolvent. Suddenly, there were 400+ people looking for work in the same job market, with roughly comparable skill sets to their peers. Tucson is a limited tech job market. I was lucky, I had an existing network, and an industry reputation. Some of my peers were not so lucky.

I didn't mention industry reputation before, because it's simply not possible for everyone to have one, and these people tend to have standing offers, even if it requires the company pay relocation for the person to take advantage of them. They're kind of irrelevant to the idea of Joe Shmoe, techie, who answers a billboard ad and moves to Omaha, only to be competing with 10 former coworkers for the same *small* set of jobs within a largely non-tech region.

So I will claim non-applicability of your case, based on (1) voluntarily means you avoided the "flash crowd" problem, and (2) You demonstrated use of a small network, and (3) it was not a case of company disloyalty to the worker.

Great strategy for Sony...

(1) Retroactive tax write-off
(2) Increased damages claims against the perpetrators
(3) Marketing opportunity
(4) Increased sales due to putative discount, front-loaded into the post-Christmas slump quarter

What's not to like about this for Sony?

You can if you have standing offers. Many people have multiple standing offers, at least one of which would qualify as "good". How often do you get "hit on" by a recruiter? If it's once a week, chances are good they will have a job in inventory that's to your liking. If you just hang up on them when they call, rather than maintaining an amicable relationship, then yes, it can take you a while to find a job.

You can also do it if you have the friends network that I mentioned in my first posting; put the word out you are looking, and you will likely get multiple offers. The quality of the offers will likely depend on the connectedness and quality of your friends, and whether or not they are connected in the domains where you want to work, but this is why you cultivate a network.

Both of these bring me back to the original points of why you go into a tech Mecca, rather than going to Omaha: (1) Standing offers are generally "for someone in your geographic area", and (2) Your friends network's ability to help you out is dependent on connectivity to a large enough base of companies that cover some at which you'd want to work.

But, yes: if you are in Omaha(*), it can take months, at best.

(*) I picked Omaha more or less at random, so sorry if you are a tech company in Omaha trying to hire, it was not a personal grudge.

No. Reciprocal loyalty is dead.

If you work in SV, you can likely walk away from a tech job you can't stand and have another tech job inside a week. Some people can do it the same day.

If you work in Omaha Nebraska, you can walk away from a tech job you can't stand and have another job inside a week. At Pizza Hut.

There's a huge benefit to the worker to being able to switch loyalties quickly in an industry which is notoriously disloyal to their workers; some people's notification comes in the form of them coming back from a trip and finding that their badge no longer opens the door.

There are also economic factors. First, it's very east to relocate from San Francisco to Omaha, because it's an economic downslope. It's very hard to migrate from Omaha to ... well, anywhere ... because it's an economic upslope. The equity in your house or condo will convert out nicely, going one direction, and will end very poorly going in the other.

Finally, there are the social aspects; I'm not just talking about nightlife, or the bar scene, or sexuality issues, I'm talking about having a group of friends and acquaintances with whom you can maintain face to face contact, who are able to help you out in a job search, which simply doesn't exist, if you're looking for a tech job, but don't live in a tech Mecca. It's just not going to happen. So when your company is disloyal to you (read: let go, RIF'ed, laid off, temporarily cut back, or any of the other euphemisms), there's no reciprocity.

Gone are the days you could move to Southern Utah, go to work for Browning Arms, and write IBM 360 assembly code happily until you hit retirement age, and then collect your pension for the remainder of your life, in happy retirement. Even IBM has moved to a cash-balance pension plan, instead of a fully funded pension plan. Jobs for life are a thing of the past. And relocation, when it happens, is generally a long term thing. IF jobs don't last as long as the relocation does, and there are no alternatives: no thank you.

gethotbyaddr + getpeername + gethostbyname

Try configuring your DNS correctly; the reason it's fast with Google as a remote host is that their DNS is correctly configured.