I've never payed a dime to expert sexchange, but I have, on occasion, gotten good answers (they're batting about .133, for me) from their site. You don't have to pay to view the answers (as long as your referrer header is google.com) you just have to scroll all the way down.

Well said. I've just noticed that Pioneer One has finally released the second episode of their series, and am torrenting the mkvs of episodes 1 and 2 as we speak. I've already seen the first episode, but it's been so long I need to see it again to be caught up.

With a Dremel, you could turn a pentalobular screw into a slot head screw. Although, given the size of those screws, it wouldn't be particularly easy.

While it's admittedly been a couple of years (and OS revisions) since I've seen it - I have seen both Mac OS X Server (10.4.11) and Linux (specifically CentOS, forget the version) machines with rootkits on them that were put there by a remote exploit (ab)used by an automated attack (in smb, in the case of the mac server - yes, the machine had the smb port open to the wild. I'm not sure how the linux box got exploited; again though, it had more services exposed to the open web than it should have). They were both part of the C&C network for two different botnets (at least, that's my guess, judging by the IRC bot artifacts I found). So while there may not be any _viruses_ for those platforms, the security track record is far from perfect. Interestingly enough, the exploit pack that was used to attack the Mac server was a dual-platform toolkit, targeting both BSD (not entirely sure which flavor) and Darwin.

Swype didn't autocorrect "sm" to "am"? That one seems like a no brainer - the only other reasonable word it could be is "em", and aside from web designers and people who like to spell letters, it has a low probability of being anything other than "am". Personally, I was more amused by "pidt", but that's primarily because I didn't immediately auto-correct it in my head; it took a sec.

Speaking of auto-correcting in one's head, am I the only one who still, on occasion, reads the word "of" in a text message as "me" (regardless of context)? If I am, I guess I can thank T9 for breaking my brain.

Like many other laws, intent is key. It's clear that Dan Lyons' intent has no malice. He would therefore be in the clear (if he decides to restore his FSJ mantle should RSJ return).

Because a fan-less computer is such an unreasonable goal...

With AMD CPUs left and right, how is AMD posting a loss?

Does the same apply to these guys?

Agreed - a password manager like Password Safe, or my personal favorite 1Password is the answer to the password problem. Knowing only how to get a password, rather than the password itself, is also less vulnerable to a certain class of social engineering attacks (noticing that your password manager is suddenly unable to autofill the password on a site that looks just like your bank's site might clue in even the dullest people on the internet).

Fortunately (as is mentioned in the blog post), (working) knowledge of college level calculus is not actually required. You can pretty much plug and chug with wolfram alpha - it's got Mathematica baked into it.

Regardless of how long it takes, there is no reason to search laptops at the border. Anyone truly interested in slyly transmitting data across the US border would never be foolish enough to accompany said data on the trip. It is _trivial_ to transmit data undetected into the US (nice to meet you, internet. how long have you been there?); what justification is there for searching laptops in the first place?

Well really - on the space station, everything is falling at the same rate and in the same direction, thereby neutralizing the iPad's greatest enemy, a 9.8 m/s/s acceleration vector pointed at a concrete floor.

Fragmentation is something that can be handled with proper spec'ing and testing, but equating the fragmentation between exactly 9 different iOS devices (well, 11, if you split the 3G/no 3G ipad, and count the Apple TV), and the veritable cornucopia of hardware that runs Android seems a bit cavalier. The strategies for managing those two markets (and the volumes of capital required for proper testing) are quite distinct, in my opinion.

Strictly speaking, they weren't in the same sentence. At any rate, the iPad's greatest weakness (in terms of durability, at least) is damage from falling, which isn't really an issue on the space station.