Apple's been working on the dock port problem as well: IIRC, Recent OS updates will alert the user if you plug into a device that attempts to treat the phone as a USB storage device (instead of a battery), and require the user to allow it. (After unlocking the screen, of course, which means if it's locked and requires a password or fingerprint, you need the password or fingerprint.)

It's not a high-security device by any means, but the obvious pitfalls are being taken care of. I don't expect this bounty to be particularly hard, but it's probably going to be beyond the average thief.

Which would require a from-scratch cleanroom rewrite, probably.

They could probably work on that, but if the current license isn't causing to much trouble, they probably have more important things to work on.

Similar here. I found the performance of the RAIDz array smoothed out with a SSD ZIL drive. (Not the cache, the write-ahead log. The cache increased best-case performance, ZIL helped worst-case.) Most of even my tablet/laptop usage pulls data off the server, but the SSD boot drive on the desktop was a massive speedup, even if I mount the user data via NFS.

Well, then, think of it this way: Shooting yourself in public in front of the police station means they are spared the pain of uncertainty about what has happened to you.

Money - treated properly - is only a proxy for other things. It is a quantifiable measure of time and effort. Do you want people to spend time and effort worrying about whether you have killed yourself, where your body is, what's happened to it, etc., or do you want them to know the answers - even if they don't like them? That's the choice we are discussing. It's a bit easier to discuss in terms of money - but that doesn't mean I'm thinking of it that way.

I've always liked the 'default of a different brand of router' technique myself. Especially if the firmware/AP is homebuilt/customized, and can record people's attempts to get in...

One of these days I'll get things set up enough so that I can run an open AP, but people on it can't get to my internal wired network.

They'd still need to send somebody in, drag your body out, prove there wasn't any foul play, etc.

As I said: it depends on what was important to him. There are logical reasons to choose the street in front of the police station. There are reasons to choose walking into the woods to disappear - but they are different reasons. Apparently this was the statement he wanted to make, for whatever reasons. (Maybe for the reasons I gave, maybe for others.)

Putting a bullet to your head in front of witnesses and the police means there's little to no investigation - or, cost to society. They clean up the street, but it's obvious why, how, and when you died.

Disappearing into the woods could prompt a million-dollar manhunt trying to 'rescue' you, until or unless they find you first. And once they do find you, they'll have to do an autopsy to investigate cause of death - possibly quite an expensive one, as your remains will have degraded. You'll cause a lot of extra cost and grief to society that you could have avoided.

Maybe that was important to him.

People always say this. I don't think they've actually looked at real Ikea furniture, just Ikea-inspired 'modular' furniture from Walmart and Target. There is a major difference.

The La-Z-boy chair is the lowest quality furniture in my living room. And feels it.

Actually, I meant 'muscle car', as a couple of other posts in the article comment thread were wishing it (or electric cars in general) looked more like a muscle car.

All in all, I don't actually see it as ugly that everyone seems to be complaining about.

I'll actually bet that it has a lower friction coefficient than many muscle cars. It's decently streamlined for it's job: Moving people/cargo around a city. It's also short (front-to-back) so it's easy to maneuver and park. I'll bet it can seat four (maybe two with real comfort, but I suspect the back seats aren't bad), or carry a decent amount of cargo.

It's boxy because a box is an efficient shape to contain a large amount of space in a small amount of area. With this thing's range, it is not intended to cruise down the freeway; it's made for short trips inside the city.

On The Matrix: It may have a significantly more complex plot than most Hollywood efforts, but go watch Ghost in the Shell (arguably the source material), and you'll realize that the entire plot simplified and stretched out over several movies when Hollywood got it's hands on it.

IIRC, Windows for a long time used a FreeBSD-derived networking stack for TCP/IP...

Worked just fine on my Android 2.3 device. Of course, one of the first apps I replaced with a free alternative was the browser... If it matters, there are good solutions out there.

He also told the US Attorney's office to look into the possibility of racketeering, and the IRS to look at them for tax evasion. Oh, and he's sending a copy of this to every judge who has a case with them anywhere in the country.

The next time these guys are in court, it's probably going to be as defendants.

Unless they've got the mirrors set up to automatically replicate your mistakes, in which case it's possible to accidentally delete every copy of it in existence everywhere... (This nearly happened to one OSS project recently.)

Mirrors are not backup. They are uptime reliability.