It is entirely possible to encrypt a hard drive that once powered down the data is "lost". It's called TrueCrypt System Disk Encryption. Where the decrypter is a boot loader and the decrypted key gets stores in ram. Power off, no more key. The key is needed again to unlock the drive after reboot. To take it to the next level one would put an encrypted file container inside the encrypted system that requires a USB key to unlock. It would take a very long time to decrypt both keys without some very very heavy computing power

Geez, what I would give for 50 sq ft of cubical space. My "cublicle" is 6 ft wide by just over 6.5 feet long. I have an L-shaped workspace that is 2 feet deep, by the entire length of 2 sides, which takes up about 22 sq ft of my 40ish sq ft of space. also notes, my cubical only has a full height dividing wall between me and the person next to me, in front of my and on the other side I have walls that come up to my waist when standing.

I thought the same thing... My first thought was, "Why is NASA allowing people to bring strong, small magnets in space. Surely this will mess up some electronics" My BuckyBalls are safely attached to the side of my fridge where they cant do any harm

I'm pretty sure this is easily fixed... Any authentication system I write queries the database for both the username and password at the same time(all passwords stored as MD5 hashes) and only checks to see if a row was returned. If it is, the credentials are correct. If nothing is returned, the credentials are wrong. I never tell the user which was wrong, thats up to them to figure out.

$query = "SELECT uid from users where username='" . $_POST['username'] . "' AND password=MD5('" . $_POST['password'] . "') limit 0,1";

Of course if something is returned I write to another table a session ID and the user's unique ID (uid) which is simply an auto_incrementing # which is row in the DB the info is found.

A Buddy of mine did this using HTML 4 and Javascript. In fact, he rewrote Mario Bro's, Monopoly and a few others are proof of concepts.

http://www.googin.getproxied.com/games/

This guy's scrolling shooter is of course better, but the tech has been around for a while.

He is correct. Motorola and similar DCT's do not pass the Closed Captioning signal to the TV and you do have to go in to the boot menu of the DCT to turn it on. Similarly, you go in to the same menu to set the aspect ratio of your tv and how the box should handle non-hd content. //Worked for a cable company that uses the boxes for the past 2 years

I wish Apple would build an update for profiles. I have a Jail broken phone and have a profiles add-on that allows me to set configurations for different things.

For example,
When I am at work my ringer turns off, vibrate goes on, WIFI turns off, 3G turns off, and notifications turn on.
When I get home, my WIFI turns back on, 3G turns back on, notifications turn off.

All that, and more happen based on time of day and GPS coordinates. It would also be great if they could make icons disappear based on profiles. When I let my girlfriends kid play with my iPhone I want her to be able to play games only, I'd love for apps to be hideable on-mass as part of a profile.

Password protected apps would be nice too (Also a feature in the JB world). If I am at a party I have no problems with people using my phone for music, videos, games, but my work e-mail, text messages and phone feature are passworded for obvious reasons.

I've had both the 3G and 3GS and have never had an issue with "forced" upgrades... iTunes doesn't even force upgrades on me it asks me if I want to upgrade, I say no. problem solved. You sure your phone just wasn't buggy?

I'm not sure how true this is, but if I'm on 3G my battery life drains at an alarming rate during high data transfer, audio streaming etc... When Im on WIFI my battery lasts substantially longer.

Anyone else notice this too?

Buying the iPad rendered it useless :-) The solar storm will just put it in to an grave...
Plus, your iPad won't last that long anyway... My bets are on it falling in 8-12 months and smashing the fragile glass screen..

IMHO I do not think Google did anything "wrong". People, specifically home internet users are stupid and willingly provide open networks to anyone who drives by and connects, a lot of them have file sharing turned on to share stuff between computers which makes the problem worse for the end user because anyone can get their crap...(Little bit off topic)

But this is hardly Google's fault. Instead, lets blame Linksys, D-link and any other router manufacturer who's WIFI default is no encryption instead of making it a mandatory setting.

So if anything, Google should take this opportunity to educate the public on WIFI security, create their own super awesome secure router that "anonymously" reports your activities to Google by using Google DNS and provide it for free.

Why drag us lovely CDN's in to this.

Agreed. You can either change the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor and/or deny anyone who is not an admin access to the following files in the NTFS %SystemRoot%\Inf\Usbstor.pnf and %SystemRoot%\Inf\Usbstor.inf and they wont be able to mount a US drive... Password protect the bios and disable the USB storage there too.

Of course this only works for Windows, linux users and Mac users can simply be denied access to the device chain in /dev/

Flash Magazine got their stats from Opera.

If there is no flash, there is no point. A good chunk of websites (est 30-40% Cite) use flash which Apple blatently alienates. I'll stick to my laptop and my tethered iPhone and get better results.