Yeah, maybe I will start a multi-generational cult whose most holiest quest is to seek down these kinds of hipster projects and return them to the chaotic elements from whence they were forged. A portable laser could vandalize the mechanism through the quartz glass with a slashdot symbol, couldn't it? Most certainly.

Considering each clock is using orders of nanowatts when you have almost a milliwatt to play around with, a wireless time on demand circuit could be designed to be powered by the excess power generated by your U235. How about a transmitter that would occasionally beacon with the electromagnetic signature of something uncommon, such as 294Uuo which has a half life of under a millisecond. Now a flash of that would stand out, eh?

For a real working clock, I would power it with U235, kilogram produces about 1 MW of power, half life 770 million years, use custom designed sub-threshold MCML circuit that uses maybe 5 nanowatts of powers, suitably redundant and protected against, trace migration, micro thermal cycling, micro accelerations, cosmic rays and so forth and boost it into an orbit outside of geosynchronous so that it will take a million year plus orbital decay.

Amazon books-especially Kindle books-just as in the iTunes music store uses the "long tail" business model: the vast majority of the products listed make very few, if any, sales. But semi-automated listing, marketing support, royalty aggregation and payment can encourage publication of works that would be too-long bets in the physical world of editing, design, tree-chopping, and trucking copies around the world.

I am quite happy that my young children's work, Spinners, is listed at Amazon for $0.99; it gets me a spot in Amazon's Author Central, it is a working introduction to both self-publishing and electronic publishing, and most importantly, immediately delivers a creative original work before millions of readers in the UK, DE, and the US. And, too, no one can predict which works may go viral and sell many orders of magnitudes than expected. But even if that does not happen, for $0.99 you are making available an illustrated book delivered in seconds that may be a wondrous ten minutes of quiet sharing between a harried father and his daughter before her sweet dreams.

http://www.amazon.com/Spinners-ebook/dp/B00571B9LQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308869902&sr=1-1
"Two blind spiders, Spencer and Spike, show the rest of the spiders in their tree the value of friendship and cooperation over sight."

A couple of the bullet point reasons in the article on why iOs is more secure:

-- patches can be rolled out quickly

-- iOs isn't as big a target as other OS's

Idiocy. Don't cite this cretinous article.

I can hook up a locked iPhone to a PC with DiskAid and suck the contacts, photos, and everything else of importance out without knowing the key.

People here are posting for karma arguing that BitCoins are worthless?

a public oral recitation in Inuit from Braille faxed copies of a iPhoned'ed JPGs of ASR-33 Teletypes output of BINHEXED screenshots of the emails, sorted by their number of vowels.

But they couldn't find a blind Inuit with a strong enough Ebonics/Scottish accent.

Until the entire iPhone or iPod Touch is by default fully encrypted based upon the user-supplied key so that an application as DiskAid can't bypass the lock screen, then iPhone security is only epsilon better than nothing.

And don't get me started on the limitations on the escrow keybag, vis a vis law enforcement, Apple corporate, and third party access. And of course closed source means that the security is faulty from the original specification to each and every implementation.

Almost twenty years ago I published a large compilation of cliches.

I thought people would use this database to help quat their cliched writing.

It turned out that its principal use was to search for and to verify the spelling of cliches that writers wanted to add to their writing.

*face palm*

Marketing is not limited to persuading customers to purchase product. It also applies to persuading third-party developers that working as if they were an employee without benefits, or an contractor without a contract, makes good business sense. It works because Apple is rich and shiny enough to provoke greed, overcoming rational thought.

Since 1977 Apple has led technically proficient but socially naive developers to produce third party products, software accessories, services, you name it. Virtually without exception, if that product or service became profitable enough, Apple co-opted it shutting the developer out in the cold.

The only way to thwart this is to learn enough--while developing for Apple through NDA revealed facts--about every part of Apple's business that you can create your own start-up or expand your business with a true partner of capital or leadership. Without of course violating the NDA, or at least arguably not until your net worth is a few billion so as to be a major opponent in an intellectual property lawsuit. Thus Adobe survived although it was a developer of postscript for the Apple LaserWriter, or Microsoft although it was a developer for Office, Apple Basic, etc.

Think about it. The very fact that Apple's business model is being discussed here on Slashdot, rather some technical innovation like booting over the cloud or an Ive's brain fart, it a sign that Apple has captured mindshare of people who can be victimized by it.

I can envision a future with pervasive encrypted permissions in which a glitch or attack will cause us to lose access to a significant part of our writings and media for an indeterminate period of time.
A world without open source books and readers will be like giving us Harkonnen heart-plugs.