So perhaps I'm new to this game - but this is a pretty cool hack. Using the sizes of PNG files over an encrypted channel to locate someone is pretty nifty.

For those who know more: is SSL encryption predictable (size-wise)? If I have the same size payload, will it always generate the same size encrypted result?

Your username implies a bias :-)

Honestly, wouldn't a MacBook of some description be the best choice? You "like the Unix/BSD aspect...", hardware working, good battery life, AppleCare-type support, etc. Why switch? Are you looking for cheaper hardware? Philosophical leaning towards Linux?

So is it wrong to goatse someone within a day of them being able to see for the first time, ever, in their whole life? They said they can see shapes after all.....

So is it wrong to goatse someone within a day of them being able to see for the first time, ever, in their whole life? They said they can see shapes.....

So is it wrong to goatse someone within a day of the operation?

My kingdom for some mod points. This might be the funniest thing I see this week. Kudos, good sir, kudos.

How does checking for iodine and silver check for water safety? Also - proofreading would be nice - "which are to used kill..."? My god what do we pay editors for?

Yeah it does seem a little strange that people worry so much about dirty bombs. Surely the toxins in the environment (or hell, diet coke) do more damage to more people....

Realistically, how was this not blindingly obvious?
If you put a bunch of life forms into a high stress environment, evolution is going to happen quickly. Clearly, the gene for radiation resistance is going to quickly become prevalent in a population exposed to large amounts of radiation....

Somewhere, Darwin smiles quietly.

Well, of course he's going to say that - he's not just going to say "well, we're planning on axing 20,000 jobs and kissing bye-bye to the SPARC line". He has to at least maintain the *illusion* that they're going to keep producing SPARC chips.

I love the line about "even Apple" is designing its own chips. One could say "even Sun" sells Intel.

So does that mean skimpily clad cavewomen really *did* ride around on dinosaurs? mmmm...

I'm not sure that your example matches how people buy songs though.

If you go to the bakery and buy, for example, whole grain bread - you can go somewhere else and buy very similar whole grain bread for the same price (or cheaper) for almost the same product (minor differences in quality/taste).

For songs, if you want Song X by Artist Y, no other label sells a product that is the same. No amount of fudging makes them the same. As a result, there really is no competition. Everyone I know (biased sample, etc etc) seems to say "I want song X, let me go buy it" rather than "I want to buy some music, hmmmm, what shall I buy". YMMV.

As a result, I would argue that older songs will probably be even more expensive. If you actually go looking for some song from some obscure 60s band, odds are you really want that song from that band, and are probably less price sensitive as a result.

Thoughts?

Does it surprise anybody that the labels would not drop prices when not forced to? There is no competition between different labels to sell the same product (song) so why would they drop the price on a desired product (song) ?