Why would they call the cops? I doubt that "This guy is listening to a conversation I'm having in public!" would go over very well with a 911 dispatcher...

The spec is outlined in RFC iProtocol which is actually just a list of Apple stores...

No, the person that finds a drug that will allow people with a broad range of cancers to live for about 80% of the average life expectancy for people without cancer, but live that 80% with a comfortable standard of living, will make billions. Provided the patient has to keep taking the drug for the rest of their life, of course.

How have fault lines in Alaska (AK) been shaking Oklahoma (OK)? I'd figure a quake from Alaska strong enough to shake Oklahoma would level most the western parts of the US and Canada...

Arkansas is abbreviated (AR)

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When I was repairing computers for a living a couple of years ago, I saw BSODs daily on XP SP2, SP3, and Vista. I think it's a BlackSOD on Windows 7, but a kernel panic shows the error, it doesn't just reboot. I've also seen a kernel panic screen or two on my Macs throughout the years. I've personally never seen one on a Linux machine, but I'd bet that they show the error as well.

And the data they gathered was data that people chose to broadcast in plain text to a public street. They might as well set up a PA system that broadcasts everything they're doing on the internet. Google didn't do anything wrong by sniffing those packets.

If you're broadcasting your personal data in plain text to the public street, you deserve to have it harvested.

I agree that it's likely she was using Facebook, and at any rate she should've been driving more carefully. Her excuse is that the sun was blinding her- I say if the sun is blinding you then you need to slow the fuck down so you can stop quickly. The point I want to make is that you keep talking about evidence but there's not really any of that around yet. She apparently lives about 2 miles from where the accident happened, so it's entirely possible that she send the post from her driveway before she left, put her phone in a safe place, and then drove like a maniac for 2 miles and accidentally killed some guy (who shouldn't've been talking on his cell phone in the road, but I digress...). Just because the Facebook post time matches the time that the guy was on the phone doesn't prove that she was using Facebook at the time because of the objections I raise in my last post.

This is a screwed up situation. The guy should have been standing somewhere safe while he was chatting with 911 about the fender bender. The girl may have been using Facebook on her phone, but the bottom line is she wasn't being careful enough if she hit a guy in a populated area because she couldn't see well due to sun glare. If you can't see, slow the fuck down until you can see far enough ahead that you can stop if there's something in your path. However, unless we can see packet headers with an originating IP from her phone and a destination IP to one of Facebook's IPs within a few seconds of her hitting the guy, there's no real evidence.

You keep saying the evidence shows she updated within one minute, but I haven't seen anything to convince me that is true. The Facebook timestamp is in the same minute as the call timestamp. Assuming that Facebook and the 911 call had clocks in precise sync at that moment, and that Facebook's timestamp for the girl's post is the moment she hit submit, the best you can do is say that she hit submit within 60 seconds of the crash. I don't believe it's reasonable to assume that Facebook and the 911 call timestamps were perfectly synchronized, and I especially don't believe that the timestamp on a Facebook post is the precise moment a person submits it from their cell phone. Facebook is one of the most visited sites on the internet. It's not uncommon for a post to take several seconds or several minutes to actually show up on the site, especially from a mobile phone. Unless there is record of a packet header with her cell phone as the originating IP and one of Facebook's servers as the destination IP at the precise moment of the accident (or within 10 seconds or so before the accident), I don't think you can claim that the evidence shows she was using Facebook at the time of the accident.

However, unless the cell phone company stores the packet headers for every data transmission to and from her phone, it will be impossible to prove the precise time that the Facebook post was submitted from her phone. Without a packet header that shows a destination IP of one of Facebook's servers and a timestamp precisely at or just before the accident, it can't be proven that she was sending data to Facebook at the time of the crash.

Were the cell phone records for voice/SMS or for data? If the records were for data, did they show the packet headers or was it just (x)kb sent at (y) time? If she was updating Facebook on a smartphone that didn't send the update via SMS, it would be critical to see the packet headers to prove that the data was heading to Facebook by checking the destination IP.

Watson doesn't have speech recognition, it receives the answers in plain text. It is, however, recognizing complex speech patterns in real time and is definitely interesting.

We live in a republic, not a democracy. It is true that we elect leaders to represent us, but the central difference between a democracy and a republic is that, in a republic, it is not the job of a representative to simply do whatever a majority of their constituents want on every issue. That would be a democracy. In a republic, we elect representatives and trust them to use their own judgement to do what is best. We then evaluate at regular intervals and decide whether or not to allow someone to continue representing us.

Did you write a script that randomly chooses from a few different anti-gun tirades and strings together a post? I've read several of your posts in this thread and it seems like you have a handful of paragraphs that you copy and paste into each new post in slightly different orders. If you haven't written a script, you might want to. It should greatly increase your trolling efficiency.

That would've been a hell of a geek. Srivastava found the flawed cards in 2003. It would've been pretty damned hard to write an iPhone app several years before the iPhone was even invented...