Photo Stream is on a one month loop. After that they're gone. They're not recoverable, even if Apple is not actually deleting them for some reason.

The rumor is a brute force password attack through a path that didn't limit attempts. However, it seems unlikely that all these celebs would have guessable passwords and that the attacker would know their Apple ID.

The details that are slowly emerging don't add up so well to an iCould (in particular) breach, but rather it's the emergence of a large collection gathered slowly over time through a multitude of sources and devices and techniques.

I have a pretty good opinion of the Oracle eBS suite, mainly because it puts money in my pocket

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

You make it sound like the only purpose of the project was to take these photos.

My cynical expectation is that you will now reply belittling the rest of the project as well, simply because to do so supports your silly notion and therefore you're not "wrong."

I knew one very talented programmer in the 90's who was taking every short-term consulting job he could find. There was a shortage of talent and he had built a great reputation for reliability, so he often took on several jobs at once and was good enough to get them done properly and on time. He commanded crazy-high rates and sunk everything he made into the markets.

Then one day in late 1999 he said "You know what? I have enough." He cashed out everything and retired at 39. He readily admits there was no foresight in it, he just got lucky and cashed out at the top.

Apparently there was also to be a class on film processing, but only if he could get enough students to take it. Somebody took a video of his recruitment drive.

You sound a little like Bob Ross, the guy who used to do the painting show on public television.
But what is that you're doing with the names? Is that numerology? Seriously?

Did they dogfood it?

You know what companies never eat their own dog food? Dog food companies. Go figure.

"Algorithm" is the distinction. Otherwise you're basically saying "What's my algorithm for doing X? I just demand X be done." Perhaps you could call it The King's Algorithm.

You realize this is very different from "people bought X," right?

Good one! Apart from 'solder' English pronunciation is so consistent that this is absolutely shocking.

It would have been more impressive if you'd posted your analysis *before* the suit was withdrawn.

Then they claimed they were from M$

Did he actually pronounce it that way?

I've commonly heard a rumor that artificial sweeteners impact insulin somehow

A rumor without any reasonable evidence to support it.

Pretty much the only way to avoid that in most cases is to eat so little that you aren't meeting your daily caloric needs, which means you'd need to starve yourself to death in order to avoid taking insulin.

Well that's certainly not true. You can eat plenty of meat, eggs, spinach, broccoli, olive oil and much much more.

What do you eat? Serious question, not an argument.