Grandmother paradox? As in, "Your grandmother wears army boots?"

Maybe Hollywood should be run that way too?

Oh wait... it is :)

I wonder if the Apple numbers factor in jobs for set designers, truck drivers, people who work the cell phone booths in the shopping malls, etc?

Hmm... I was just realizing that this DVD method should also allow for the printing of graphene-based circuits; instead of pitting the foil, the laser would be reducing paths in the disc (instead of the entire thing). I wonder how good the resolution would be using a method like this? Would it work with blu-ray and a blue laser, or would that break down the oxide too much? You should get better resolution that way, and if someone made a multi-layer disc with graphite oxide instead of reflective foil, you could burn your own multi-layer circuit board. Not sure how you'd do the connects and pass-throughs though. Maybe just print one layer at a time, and manually finish off the rest after you're done....

Not to be apologetic or anything, but that's like saying crosswalks don't work because of the number of crosswalk fatalities.

Sure, they're probably not actually getting any useful information from this dragnet beyond the addresses of people who upload/download "extremist" material, and the identities of those people help more in populating no-fly lists and as monitoring start-points to track down their handlers should they actually become "radicallized", but you can't expect less than hyperbole from the gov't organizations and politicians if we aren't willing to rise above that ourselves.

HTML5 much?

Actually, there ARE browsers built on Flash. They've got an entire platform people can use should they care to. However, Adobe's revenue stream comes in mostly via the reseller market -- so they make more money off of things like ADS and being an ePub certificate authority -- hence, no reason for them to focus too much time/money on their actual products.

I guess that's what you get for building with mud.

http://www.rsc.org/chemistrywo...

Maher El-Kady and others at the University of California at Los Angeles have now found a way to fabricate graphene films, and graphene capacitors, without any sticking together. The researchers take a DVD and apply a layer of plastic, followed by a film of graphite oxide. They then insert the DVD into a standard DVD drive, so that the in-built laser chemically reduces the graphite oxide to graphene. Having removed the disc, the researchers peel off the plastic, which is then coated in graphene, and cut it into whatever shapes they desire.

Sounds like Riverside and LA need to team up on this. The method of using a red laser to reduce the oxide should be relatively easy to replicate at an industrial scale. Then the problem becomes sourcing large quantities of graphene oxide. However, since the US creates its own synthetic graphite, it should be relatively simple to apply the next stage of converting it to graphene oxide as part of the synthesis process.

"We understand the value of encryption and the importance of security," she said. "But we're very concerned they not lead to the creation of what I would call a 'zone of lawlessness,' where there's evidence that we could have lawful access through a court order that we're prohibited from getting because of a company's technological choices.

Sorry? This is idiotic. In real life, it (is supposet to) go like this:

1) Find signs that something illegal is likely going on
2) Go to the court and get a court order for more investigation, based on these signs.
3) Execute the court order and get the information.

In other words, there IS a lawful access route -- the police get a court order, they approach the suspect and confiscate their phone, and as part of the process, require their password. Suddenly, there's no encryption issue.

The problem here is when police want UNlawful access to someone's device. At no point does encryption prevent lawful access.

Sorry... go to your local shopping mall/hotel/marina/etc. Notice the flags flying there? Canadian, Provincial and... American.
I never said anything about taking down the Canadian flag (although there's been more than enough argument about scrapping that and getting something more flashy, whether it be going back to the 3-leaf flag, replacing the leaf with a polar bear, etc.)

I think you missed the point -- Canadians don't submit to INSIDE authority, let alone outside. At this point, the US saying they owned Canada wouldn't be all that different from the current Federal government. But canadians don't shout about this and thump their chests -- they just ignore the politicians, nod knowingly at each other, and carry on as usual.

I'm sorry... but you're starting to sound very American here. This is American logic Canadians don't care about "better fit" and don't try to take over other territories -- there's enough unoccupied Canada already. For example, did you know that there have been multiple cases of other countries begging to join confederacy? Newfoundland was the last one that made it in, and will probably continue to be the last. Canada finally learned its lesson: new lands mean new liabilities and new debt to pay down.

OK; I'm starting to wonder who you are actually aiming this at. But for the record, it was the British who went down and burned the White House in 1812; that was 55 years before Canada became a country. And I'm pretty sure you weren't alive then, and your ancestors most likely didn't live in Upper Canada, nor were part of the British garrison that made that sortie.

Now THAT is a good point. I hope the Harper government thinks long and hard about that one.

Sorry, but botnets are already exploiting these anonymous networks, and these neutralization methods are already being used.

This has been happening for over a year now.

I'd hate to have to take the stairs. Maybe parachutes for the upper levels?

Yeah; in this case, the initial mistake at publishing appears to be an honest mistake. As the specs lined up and the tech marketing guys were told that nothing changed on that hardware, they kept the same ROP specs they''d already been using in their marketing materials.

I have to admit that back when I was publishing specs like these, I made that mistake myself a few times.

However, it's what happened next that's a bit odd: I find it difficult to believe that it took 4 months for it to come to the attention of the company -- and it came from an external source. There's usually some engineer that spends a lot of time reading slashdot and looking up the specs of the products he's worked on -- and they'd likely flag it up. I'd expect 2-month turn-around until the company management realized the mistake.

The next bit that often happens is asking engineering "Is the change significant in any way?" to which the answer is "no." So marketing is either not even told of the mistake, or told that it's there, but not worth updating the documentation or issuing any sort of an update.

I find it really odd that they didn't even bother to change it on the website and queue it up for the next round of distribution.

What this really makes me wonder though, is how often this happens with products held to this standard, and nobody notices....

...and we all know, if officer location reporting was removed from Waze, some enterprising soul would just create a plug-in for the Marshal's Extracurricular Event Notation System.

You know: Waze and Meens.