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Submission + - Security flaw in Apple iPhone 4 iOS 4.1 (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by lazyforker
lazyforker writes: According to a story in The Guardian a Brazilian man found a flaw allowing a partial bypass of the PIN code lock screen. Using the "Emergency Call" feature in combination with the power button allows one access to the 'phone, Contacts, call history, voicemail. Colleagues and I confirmed it works! Try it for yourself: in the lock screen slide the unlock bar, tap the "Emergency Call" button, enter ### as the emergency number, tap the call button and immediately hit the power button on top of the 'phone.
The Internet

Submission + - Tea Party win spells doom for net neutrality (thehill.com)

Submitted by GovTechGuy
GovTechGuy writes: Experts say the Republican takeover of the House means a likely end to the campaign for rules to enforce net neutrality. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski could still reclassify broadband as a telecom service, but doing so may cost his agency now that the GOP is holding the purse strings.

Comment Re:'Not replied to' != 'ignored' (Score 1) 192

by lazyforker (#33859258) Attached to: Of 1.2 Billion Twitter Posts, 71% Are Ignored
You subscribe to a newspaper or return to the page, or look at other stories with headlines adjacent to the first story etc. You are paying attention to the content in some way. You are "engaging" with the author/editor. Similarly - Slashdot attracts an audience that might not always comment or moderate a specific story but the audience does pay some attention to the site. Conversely - the authors of the study are finding that most tweets are simply not interesting enough to generate discussion, or are intended to be one-way announcements. Twitter seems designed to appease narcissists who are convinced that everything they do or say is of earth-shattering consequence.
Hardware Hacking

The Hackintosh Guide 453

Posted by CmdrTaco from the because-you-can dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A 'Hackintosh' is a computer that runs Apple's OS X operating system on non-Apple hardware. This has been possible since Apple's switch from IBM's PowerPC processors to Intel processors a few years ago. Until recently, building a PC-based Mac was something done only by hard-core hackers and technophiles, but in the last few months, building a Hackintosh PC has become much easier. Benchmark Reviews looks at what it's possible to do with PC hardware and the Mac Snow Leopard OS today, and the pros and cons of building a Hackintosh computer system over purchasing a supported Apple Mac Pro."

Comment Re:"Exersize"? (Score 1) 341

by lazyforker (#33391660) Attached to: Sit Longer, Die Sooner

I was searching the comments to see if someone has already commented on exercizzzze... LOL

Thanks for the update, I was just wondering what you were doing.

Relax. It's just an example of /.'s new Twitter integration. You can now post your mundane, narcissistic, self-absorbed comments directly from Twitter.

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