I imagine the team(s) that responded to the security threat didn't know it was a drill. I think the idea was to create the situation using a real security hole but with the cooperation of an engineer that was playing the part of a "tricked" employee to allow the vulnerability to be exploited in a realistic way. I ASSUME that the team members responsible for the creation of the exploit program were not part of the team(s) that responded to the incident.

I love Star Trek, but this isn't Star Trek. Although we should prevent accidental contamination of another ecosystem, I don't think we should freak out if it happens. Natural cross-contamination (meteors, etc) stand a good chance of being the reason there is life here on Earth.

Maybe is was an R/C plane as others have suggested and possibly it had accidentally gotten out of range of the transmitter. I know technology has changed a great deal since I was in the hobby but it used to be that if your plane/buggy got out of range of your radio the servos would stay in whatever position they were in at last contact. Even at that time there were devices available that would put the servos in a pre-programmed position in that event. I assume this has probably been built into newer hardware but maybe not and certainly a failure is not out of the question.

Does it distinguish between true criminal intent and the desire to smash the display for being so nosy?

I think Groupon is GREAT, if you're a consumer. For businesses not so much, Groupons are expensive to offer, if I'm not mistaken the vendor pays 50% of the discount value to Groupon as a fee. So if you offer a Groupon that entiles you to $100 worth of stuff for $50, then Groupon gets $25 from the vendor for each sale. From the vendors point of view, you just got $100 worth of stuff for $25, pretty straightforward. I'm sick and tired of reading about businesses that lost money by offering a Groupons, if you did then you don't have a grasp of simple math. You simply CAN'T offer a Groupon where you lose money, if you can't meet your costs in my example for the $25 you will actually keep, then you can't make the offer.

Well, when speaking about haptic and textured feedback I think "devices" was the wrong word, I think he should have said something like "cat".

True, but the bottom line is you should think hard about who you trust to protect your privacy. You can put nude pictures up on facebook and set the permissions as strictly as you want, but if facebook has a security breach (it happens), then what are you going to do? The ONLY way to keep naked pictures of you off the internet with certainty is not to take them in the first place and by that I don't mean "don't post them on the internet". I mean do not bring those images into existence, if you take digital pictures (or paper ones) and the media they are on is stolen, then you lose control of them and you have no idea where they'll wind up. Basically anything that exists either as data or as a physical object can end up "public". People would be a lot better off if they thought of the internet as having no expectation of privacy.

He's not facing 105 years JUST for what he did, but for HOW MANY TIMES he did it.

Is this going to make my penis bigger?

It seems to me that if Lenovo goes through with this, they're going to get burned. I don't think many businesses would trust China not to peek into the data going through those Black Berrys and the devices will be dropped like hot potatoes. If Lenovo's strategy is about getting their hands on patents, then that may be an acceptable consequence to them.

"The Arch Linux distribution has been modified to run off the FreeBSD 9.0 kernel as an alternative to using Linux. The developer of Arch BSD explained his reasoning as enjoying FreeBSD while also liking the Arch Linux philosophy of a 'fast, lightweight, optimized distro,' so he sought to combine the two operating systems to have FreeBSD at its core while being encircled by Arch. The Arch BSD initiative is similar to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD."

Well, if you want it "encircled" you're gonna need another Arch. Or maybe some cowbell?

Is there anything in there saying you will be told exactly what caused their system to flag your account? I mean in detal such as what a firewall log might show, not some general "infringing activity" at such and such a time crap.

I don't think you understand Apple's business model. They've got a loooong list of bullshit patents ready to unleash on anybody who dares to compete with them. Samsung is the most successful Android phone maker, that's why they're being picked on. When Samsung defeats the 'rounded corners' lawsuit Apple will just pick another one from their list. So it goes...

Well, it seems like a very VERY good thing that there are companies like Google and Samsung willing to put out the cash to fight Apple. Imagine for a moment what your smartphone choices would be in Android were not in the hands of a company with the resources Google has or if handsets were not being very successfully manufactured by a company as big as Samsung (and others). The more Apple sues (hopefully) the more if its patents get invalidated and the weaker their position becomes. The fact that this "war" is being waged over devices and technology that the average juror actually uses every day and may well have in their pocket during the trial helps more "average" people see how hurtful these outcomes can be to average people because they actually use the technology. It's not like were talking about patents for technology that controls satellites or some more exotic and seemingly distant technology.

I think the point here is that for example, you have the right/freedom to tell me to go fuck myself, but that does not mean I won't punch you in the nose for it. I agree and defend freedom of speech, but those speaking need to understand that there may be consequences to their expression separate from their right to make it.

I recall the Germans thinking that same shit in the 40s. It didn't turn out the way they expected, and I seriously doubt it would for Apple.