Comment Re:Old ipod Shuffle cable... (Score 1) 663
The cost of replacement parts is a different issue.
Most of the cost for spare parts comes from the company having to sit on a huge pile of them for years taking up space in their inventory.
Compare the cost of your car when it was new with the cost of all the replacement parts you would need to build a replica of it.
Comment Re:Okay, stupid question. (Score 1) 280
Thanks!
The fact that the court case occurred certainly adds a lot of credence to the blog post, although I still wonder why Apple - which has replaced 1,000s of logic boards like his - decided to give him trouble over this particular one.
Comment Okay, stupid question. (Score 1) 280
I asked this on reddit, and got no answer.
All this hoopla is based on an anonymous blog. I've googled around and I can't find anyone reporting this story who isn't just pasting details from the blog. No one knows the guys name. No one knows the court docket #, the date the case was heard or even what court heard the case.
Do we have any evidence that this incident actually occurred?
Comment Re:Cash Flow... (Score 1) 511
They might be "making millions" but they're certainly not turning a profit.
Comment Re:Cash Flow... (Score 1) 511
Not so much.
In a Guardian interview in May 2008, Mark Shuttleworth said that the Canonical business model was service provision and explained that Canonical was not yet close to profitability.
Submission + - ARIN Implements DNSSEC (arin.net)
wmbetts writes: On 27 April, ARIN placed Delegation Signer (DS) records into in-addr.arpa
and ip6.arpa. Now DNSSEC validation will occur from the root down if you
properly set up your DNSSEC-aware recursive resolver.
For most DNSSEC-aware recursive resolver operators, nothing needs to be
done for this change to be in effect as long as you have configured your
DNSSEC-aware server to use ICANNâs trust anchor for the root zone. For
those who have used ARINâs trust anchors (in place since 2 July 2009) to
take advantage of DNSSEC before the root or in-addr.arpa was signed, you
MUST remove them within the next two months of this date. Otherwise,
DNSSEC validation may fail due to a KSK change to ARINâs zones.
Additionally, ARIN will also coordinate with Internet Systems Consortium,
Inc. (ISC) to remove ARIN's delegations from their DNSSEC Lookaside
Validation (DLV) registry after setting up these records in in-addr.arpa
and ip6.arpa.
The DS records will remain the same as the current trust anchor for the
next two months. After that time, ARIN will begin rolling a KSK for its
authoritative zones, which will cause any DNSSEC-enabled resolvers that
use ARINâs statically, configured trust anchors to fail.
For full details on DNSSEC at ARIN, refer to:
https://www.arin.net/resources/dnssec/
and ip6.arpa. Now DNSSEC validation will occur from the root down if you
properly set up your DNSSEC-aware recursive resolver.
For most DNSSEC-aware recursive resolver operators, nothing needs to be
done for this change to be in effect as long as you have configured your
DNSSEC-aware server to use ICANNâs trust anchor for the root zone. For
those who have used ARINâs trust anchors (in place since 2 July 2009) to
take advantage of DNSSEC before the root or in-addr.arpa was signed, you
MUST remove them within the next two months of this date. Otherwise,
DNSSEC validation may fail due to a KSK change to ARINâs zones.
Additionally, ARIN will also coordinate with Internet Systems Consortium,
Inc. (ISC) to remove ARIN's delegations from their DNSSEC Lookaside
Validation (DLV) registry after setting up these records in in-addr.arpa
and ip6.arpa.
The DS records will remain the same as the current trust anchor for the
next two months. After that time, ARIN will begin rolling a KSK for its
authoritative zones, which will cause any DNSSEC-enabled resolvers that
use ARINâs statically, configured trust anchors to fail.
For full details on DNSSEC at ARIN, refer to:
https://www.arin.net/resources/dnssec/
Comment Yup. (Score 0) 511
I use linux professionally but I use OS X personally, simply because I got tired of having to manually hack/bash/configure everything to work with whatever hardware I was using.
Of course, I inevitably put MacPorts, Fink or Brew on my machines so I can put all the missing packages on.....
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Submission + - Hackers Tried To Sell Credit Card Data To Sony (ibtimes.com)
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Submission + - Sony Hints At Compensation for PSN Hack (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: "In the latest of a series of blog posts, Sony said it is 'evaluating ways to show appreciation' to users affected by the PlayStation Network outage, now in its 8th day. The PlayStation Network is offered at no charge to users, so compensation is unlikely to be monetary. A subset of users do subscribe to the PlayStation Plus service, which offers access to beta versions of games and other perks for an annual fee. The blog post also said subscribers to Sony Online Entertainment's MMO games 'DC Universe Online' and 'Free Realms' would also see something from the company."
Submission + - Mistakes In tech that vaporized billions (businessinsider.com)
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Submission + - Obama's PDF: Tech Breakdown (youtube.com)
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