It sounds like this is a dump of data from an application vendor to the FBI: Apps have (in the past) used UUID for identification, and the push-notification tokens also suggest application, not apple, as the source.

So which application is responsible?

OS-X is almost entirely free of OS-derived graphical gunk. You have the desktop (which can be blank), and the doc (which can be hidden), and a few things along the menu bar in the upper right hand corner (which can be hidden).

Other than that, it already meets his "graphical gunk free" ideal.

Paypal is reversible. If someone tries to rip you off by not delivering the goods, you can usually get your money back.

Reversibility is a feature in a payment system which has trusted third parties.

A steel box is a perfectly good Faraday cage. Its a small antenna cross section, so you'll effectively get no effects inside the box.

So if you are paranoid enough to care, just keep a backup of your data in your safe. Which you want to do anyway, since that helps mitigate many many many more risks to your data than a big solar storm.

Sorry, Jamie: your company has become largely a parasite. For the average American, you provide no more benefit than 10 banks 1/10th your size: when you get so big, you have negative economies-of-scale.

But your salary is dictated by being big.

If you were serious about preventing such disasters in the future, you'd reform your compensation schemes and endorse restoring Glass-Steagal.

This wasn't a major publisher, but a very small independent, Lazy Fascist Press, which is an imprint of Eraserhead Press.

Looking at their catalog, they really seem uninhibited by such notions as well, taste. That they greenlit the cover is not surprising.

The initial posting by the author was much more along the lines of "Goodbye Beautiful Cover Art", and didn't include the whole letter with all the politeness, explaining why Jack Daniels was writing and their offer to help change the cover early, but just the top.

And actually, IANAL, but it is my understanding that you need to protect your trademarks. Jack Daniels does do books, they do merchandise, etc. So they need to play "protect their trademark". Since the cover was not a parody of Jack Daniels, parody is not a defense. Nor is fair use in this case.

The problem with SUVs are the mass and aerodynamics, neither of which get fixed. Look at the piss-poor mileage of the very sophisticated Escalade hybrid design.

The Escalade hybrid gets 20 city/23 highway, while the normal gets 14/18. So throwing all the sophisticated technology possible at a big SUV still only gets you to ~20 MPG.

Let alone the cost of batteries, generator, and motors necessary to drive said big-A#@)( SUV, a hybrid conversion would be a total loser...

Any remote p0wn jailbreaks get squished very quickly by Apple. They really really don't like p0wn the phone attacks.

This is in strong contrast to Android, which has a great security model, but that security model is trivially bypassed when a user says "OK" to an incomprehensible permissions list provided by a random application that displays cartoon kitties or tells you what color of nail polish works best.

Proper propaganda link, silly me, forgot the http

And in fact its non-disableable. The remote wipe is, in fact, "kill key store".

Apple's propaganda, err, whitepaper on the subject

But a flatbed is expensive, and often hard to steal (they aren't parked out on the streetcorner)

This is done with a couple hundred bucks of stuff.

Apparently not, because thats 6 people and 2 hernias to throw in a van... that thing is HEAVVVVYYYYY (having had to pick it up once)

The basic design flaw is how key duplication/recovery is handled.

On my motorcycle (a Concours 14 with keyless ignition), to program a new key you need an existing key. The disadvantage is, naturally, if you lose all your keys, you need to replace the computer!

But its better than the alternative. On the BMW, all you need to do is plug into the OOBDII port and tell the computer "Here is the new key". This means if you lose all your keys, you don't have to buy a new computer... But it also means that anyone who can break into the car can create a key and drive off.

Which is a greater attack on user freedom?

a) Not being able to change the bootloader?

b) Not being able to install on new systems without changing EFI settings because the signing key got revoked?

Canonical chose "A". Fedora chose A, too, btw, because they didn't sign grub, but built a "pre-bootloader-bootloader" to load Grub.