You're wrong, I know from experience that sending an iMessage to someone outside cell network range causes it to fall back to sending an SMS.

Also, I had a friend who would constantly receive double messages, because she had poor cell network coverage in her home, phone/sms worked fine but data had huge packet loss. iMesasge couldn't reach her and would fallback to SMS 50% of the time. When she reads the SMS the phone would connect to wifi and she'd receive the iMessage while reading the SMS, hens the regular complaints about double messages.

The fallback to SMS is enabled by default. You must have turned it off.

Or just have high enough Karma that they'll let you turn the ads off for free.

I don't know about Sweden but in most countries any business can refuse to server any customer for whatever reason they want, so long as it isn't race or gender or something discriminatory.

Here in Australia shoplifting will probably just get you kicked out of the store and told never to come back. The reason is the person doing the shoplifting (often a kid) might simply tell the cops that they're innocent. From then on the store will have to either drop their accusation or take it to court, which involves sending many thousands of dollars to your legal team, for no gain at all. You already recovered the stolen merchandise, so are not eligible for any compensation.

Unless they're a repeat offender, a judge will probably let them off with a slap on the wrist. Sending some poor kid who doesn't no better into the prison system over a stolen CD is a bad idea —inevitably that will lead them to commit more serious crimes later in life.

Since $15 per month is apparently enough to cover a $180 fine, they must be going on the assumption fare dodgers will be caught less than once per year.

That's how it works. The "reasonable amount of time" is 5 minutes. And any message sent within those 5 minutes will automatically be re-sent as an SMS (which unfortunately means the recipient will receive the message twice... once the iMessage finally arrives).

And there can't be any bugs, because in order to acknowledge receipt of a message you have to decrypt the message, and the decryption keys cannot be copied off the device the message is being sent to. Part of it is stored in a dedicated corner of silicone, which cannot be read by software.

Apparently Apple knows less about their own products than I do as an Apple developer. You can't trust a random support employee to know how iMessage works, it's a complicated system.

It's very simple. If you send an SMS to a number registered as being an iPhone, it will be encrypted for that phone and sent over the internet. If the phone does not decrypt the message and send an acknowledgment within a few minutes, it will be sent as an SMS instead. Repeated delivery failures (2 or 3?) will automatically disable iMessage.

According to the article, the iMessage is sent and status immediately changes to "delivered". That means he has at least one device registered to receive iMessages at that phone number and it is turned on and received the message. His claim to have logged out of iMessage on all his devices is bullshit. He forgot one.

Yes but a key part of the show was nobody else could cook blue meth. Walt had power over the drug dealers because he could give them something unique.

If all it took was an additive, the story would not have worked.

If you wanted to be really nasty you could just drop a bunch of Irukandji in the tank.

"I didn't think it was possible for anyone to endure that level of pain without turning into a vegetable." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

Homeopaths I know charge $8 per vial. And $4 of that is just for medically certified empty bottle.

If it's $30 per vial where you are, I suspect more than half of that is going to the retail outlet.

You're making the assumption that all the bad stuff is outside the firewall and nothing evil ever gets in.

An example of how I use my firewall, is I block my email program from making any network connection other than imap/smtp. If it tries to make any other network connection (eg: downloading images from a web server), the firewall blocks it.

Which means if we can capture 5% of it, that would be enough energy to power the entire world's energy needs.

Since this was clearly a well organised operation, it's likely the passengers had their electronic devices confiscated immediately.

They could be anywhere that doesn't have a strong military radar system.

I'm pretty sure anybody who flies into Iran without authorisation will be told to turn back or be shot down.

I've only ever developed in PHP (well, I tried ruby for a few months then ran away screaming in frustration), but I know of things in python/perl that PHP is missing.

For example PHP doesn't begin executing your code until after the browser has sent _all_ of the post data. This makes it impossible to create a file upload progress bar in PHP. You can do it in modern browsers with javascript now, but previously it had to be done server side and only languages like perl can handle that - because they begin executing the code before the browser has finished sending all the post data, allowing the perl script to communicate progress updates back to the browser.