As part of the demonstration, Cui inserted and removed a small external circuit board from the phone's Ethernet port

Seems like it'd be easier to just slap a traditional bug under the filing cabinet if you're going to need physical access anyway. And maybe leave behind a hardware keylogger while you're at it. Possibly also an annoyatron. :)

Uh-huh. You're going to index the internet with a Raspberry Pi. Good luck with that.

If I was one of those people who put amusing quotes from the same message board in his signature, this would be my new .sig.

Damn it, that takes away my plausible deniability. :)

They've got robot soda machines at the drive-through already. Those things are neat.

How crude. Clearly, you should be doing it with shell builtins directly instead of spending all that time opening a new filehandle and forking a child process. ;)

while c=([0]=/ [1]=\\); do echo -n ${c[$((RANDOM%2))]}; done

(actually, I really like the tr version)

Or, you could use fewer characters and make it faster by not creating an array reference every iteration. ;)

print while $_=qw{\ /}[rand 2];

Someone can inherit a salary where you live? Neat! I'm leaving my current job to my 6 year old nephew.

Thank heavens I wasn't the only one who read it that way. I was wondering if there was some roundup of older women named Sandy, and thought "that name can't be *that* popular"...

I'm still trying to figure out how an "idiot" and "turkey" was retained for long enough to have any significant impact. Usually an "idiot" becomes pretty obvious as soon as he tries to do anything complicated enough to justify asking this question.

Next they'll tell me that it doesn't actually cost $84 to activate a replacement cell phone on my existing cell phone plan.

As I understand it, if you voluntarily disclose information, the Miranda Rights are irrelevant. So, public postings would definitely be admissible. Never mind that Treyvon's not on trial, and you don't usually Mirandize the prosecution. :)

I like writing java with vim. :)

As a Unix sysadmin, I know that all developers - full time or not - are way too full of their perceived abilities to do things correctly. ;)

Damn it, where's the "Like" button on Slashdot? I guess I need to post more often so I'll go back to getting mod points.

Winnar!