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Comment Re:Were Tesla and SpaceX customers? (Score 2) 152

Is this a reference to some specific quality issue with those companies' products?

SpaceX had a rocket that exploded because of a faulty metal strut, and they found several more in inventory didn't meet spec (failed at about 10% of rated spec).
If I recall, they started making those themselves after that incident.

Comment Re:Masquerade (Score 1) 234

Not a single one spotted the reference

I had no idea wtf you were talking about, so I googled it, and it's from a 1930s Marx brothers movie.
Of course nobody got the reference. I would guess 1% of people actually saw that at some point in their life, and maybe 1% of them would remember it.

It also looks like Terry Pratchett referenced it once in some book I've never heard of, and neither has anyone in your office.

Are you choosing to ignore the 2001 movie named "Swordfish" then?

Comment Re:It starts with... (Score 5, Insightful) 83

That can be done for any car - how do you think dealers make a new key when you misplace your original keys?

It may make sense to have that capability. But there's no reason for the whole database to be replicated anywhere outside of some secure vault within Jeep's corporate headquarters in Italy. Dealers should send authenticated individual queries to the central system as needed.

Since they could track it down to a specific dealer, it sounds like that is exactly how it works.

Submission + - Police violently drag man from United plane after reportedly overbooked flight (foxnews.com)

Mr.Intel writes: On Sunday, a United Airlines passenger was pulled from his plane seat and dragged off the aircraft — because the airline had overbooked the flight. Several passengers captured the scene and the disturbing footage appears to show that the man was left bleeding from the mouth after his face was smashed against an arm rest during the scuffle. Security are seen wrenching the man from his seat and then dragging him down the aisle and off the plane.

United Airlines gave us this response:

“Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked. After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate. We apologize for the overbook situation.”

Comment Re:Hardware Access (Score 1) 170

Not only that, but it does not affect most phones with lollipop on it. It only works on phones that allow copy and paste from the emergency dialer (most do not) only then is it vulnerable.

    http://www.extremetech.com/mob...

I'm guessing that since I've set mine up so that the phone needs to be unlocked to access the camera, then I should be safe as well.

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