They already did a lot of work to identify every single item and determine what each and every bit has been used for (using mission photographs and radio transcripts, plus clues like bits of paint). Link from summary: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a1... - click each item on the clickable map to see what it is and what role it played during the Apollo 11 mission.

The "disassemble the computer" part was only for the initial analysis of how the whole system works. Only one person needs to do this and can then sell the information. With the information from that one single disassembled box, it is possible to remote attack (without physical access other than standing within a couple hundred feet) any other BMW car with the same "connected drive" feature. That is (as described in the article), walk around with the cellular network emulator to trick vulnerable cars to connect to your cellular network, identify vulnerable cars via IMEI, figure out the VIN via the helpful error message the car sends out, activate remote services on the car (if not already active) via a faked message and then you can send the "open doors" command to the car. All of which can be done without physical access to the car other than standing near it, which you would need to do anyway if you want to take advantage of the open door.

So - yes, skript kiddies (or, well, any car thieves) surely can do this, since I am sure that the assembled hardware necessary together with a small instruction manual "how to open any BMW" is available on the internet somewhere.

Reminds me of Norio Wakamotorcycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

So you say software in the camera can summon up image detail which was lost due to crappy lenses which e.g. produce an unsharp image in the corners of a picture?

Barrel distortion - yes, something like that can be fixed, if you measure all the possible camera body/lens combinations (e.g dxoptics). Loss of detail? Nah, that only happens in movies when people say "enhance picture!".

Look e.g. at the differences in sharpness in this test (e.g. the newspaper pictures), and these are all high end primes (yes, some of them are specifically for low light shots). Now imagine what a cheapo lens will do.

http://3d-kraft.de/index.php?o...

Not true for current Samsung devices (S4 onwards) with the KNOX-enabled firmware. If you root those, you will trigger an eFUSE which flags your phone as "warranty void" forever. So yes - you can root even those phones, but you WILL lose the warranty. http://omegadroid.co/wanted-kn...

Yes, it might be that the whole "gamers bought C64/Amiga, Atari XL/ST and ZX Spectrum" thing was mainly european. I just looked at the Wikipedia article for the NES, and it says about the sales numbers "Worldwide: 61.91 million, Japan: 19.35 million, Americas: 34.00 million, Other: 8.56 million". So the whole of the world, except Japan and the US, bought only 1/4 of the number of consoles the US bought. Like I said - I do not know anybody among my friends/relatives who bought a Nintendo console. Around here in Germany, the usual transition was C64/... to Amiga/ST/... to PC and back in the 80s/90s, trading disks on the schoolyard was huge.

Did they? At least around here in Germany, everybody in the 80s had a C64/Amiga (or maybe Atari ST) for gaming (because you could trade disks at school). Anybody with a console would have been pitied as the poor kid who cannot play the latest games. And from '93 onwards (when Doom arrived and LAN parties started) gaming changed forever, anyway. Maybe it was different in the US, don't know, Nintento consoles apparently were more popular there (I actually cannot remember any of my friends EVER owning a Nintendo console).

Since in the n-tv article, they mention both Saxony AND Bavaria, I don't think it's from the uranium deposits.

In Germany, even this year, 40% of the wild boars which were tested in Saxony (hunters are required to check animals they killed for radioactivity) showed radioactivity higher than the limit of 600 becquerel/kg, which made them officially unsuitable for human consumption. Some animals even showed radioactivity as high as 9800 becquerel/kg. Articles (in German) here: http://www.neues-deutschland.d... and here: http://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Wild...

This radioactivity in the meat is caused by the boars eating mushrooms and other plants in the forest. If plants and animals in eastern Germany are still contaminated after all this time, I'd rather not eat anything from directly next to the chernobyl plant, or live there.

As the author of the popular "trim enabler" software (which patches the original apple drivers and so causes the original drivers to fail the kext signing check) puts it:

"all of Apple’s AHCI SATA drivers are closed source and undocumented, which makes it impossible for me to create my own Trim driver and get it signed."

Which is also the reason why there are no trim drivers available from hardware manufacturers like Samsung, etc. No access to Apple's driver documentation - no signed trim drivers.

I fail to see how "all the experiments on board the lander had a chance to run and return information back to Earth" (from LA times article) makes this mission a failure. Philae did everything they wanted it to do, the "charge battery and stay in contact" was just an optional extra.

Considering the official statement was that just LANDING there had only a 50:50 chance of succeeding, this whole thing was an incredible success.

Dead birds -> biomass -> energy. Sounds like an added bonus to me :-)

More serious reply: According to an article on the website of German magazine "Focus" http://www.focus.de/wissen/kli... the bird observatory Brandenburg has a database of all recorded cases of birds killed by wind turbines in Germany. Since 1989, there have been 681 dead birds on record. Other researchers more critical of wind turbines estimate that by far not all dead birds are found, though, due to other animals eating them, the birds not dying right next to the wind turbine etc. and so they think the real number is more like 10000 to 100000 birds killed by wind turbines per year - which still would mean only about 1-5 dead birds for each of the 20000 wind turbines in Germany, per year. That does not sound TOO horrible to me.

From what I read there, stuff like https://lists.debian.org/debia... (trying to make technical decisions via politics when there actually is no disagreement between devs which needs any help with the decision-making) also contributed to his decision to quit.

Nope, I actually was surprised about this a couple times, too. For example, on the German amazon website, there are quite a few sellers which offer cheap 1-2 euro stuff (like e.g. USB adapters, ink cartridges for pens, ...) with free shipping, from china or japan. I needed a USB OTG cable for my android tablet, so I bought one from such a seller. And indeed, one week later, I had a padded envelope with that cable, from china, in my hands. 2 euro item with free shipping from china, the profit on that sale cannot be very high, even if the cable itself cost only a couple cents for the seller.

Funny. In my circle of friends, anybody who would insist on communicating only via Facebook would be the "weird guy" (actually, as far as I know, most of them do not even have a Facebook account, specifically because of privacy concerns). We communicate via e-mail, or, if we need to talk to someone Right Now, via telephone. It works, try it.