"...but it seems like a bit of a bad design to have the edges exposed like that."

They're not.
I'm looking closely at the edges of my iPhone 4 and there is a black band around the front and back glass. (Anodized aluminum?)
The band provides a very tiny raised lip around the glass, so if the phone is dopped on a corner, it likely won't hit the glass.

really no different than sniffing the fire hydrant.

Just a bit past the point where you blow chunks.

Yes it is. Just staring at some hexdumps, it's not a hole in the browser, it is a hole in PDF Type1C font loading. Escalates to kernel space via an IOSurface allocation bug. A malicious PDF (think iBooks...) could do far nastier things than jailbreak for you.

CAPTCHA: "clothing" ... Wolf in sheep's, that is.

Not all 70s (or 60s, 50s, 80s, 90s) music is widely listened too. The good stuff is widely listened to. If you look at the percentage of what is still listened to vs. all music produced, it is probably the same across all genres and decades. The percentage might be declining these days, but only because there is a greater quantitiy of music being released, not less "good" music.

But you hit the nail on the head with the term "culture". Music that gave rise to a culture will always be remembered by the people who are influenced by that culture.

Nothing, unless it's an unopened "first edition" and the value is on the CD as a collector's item. The music itself will still be easily available, for sale or for free, pirated or maybe in the public domain. As for if people will still listen to it? There's a good chance they will, because it's so easy to keep tens of thousands of songs in a personal collection and share them with others. Even if the music is unremarkable, it will come up on shuffle.

Yeah, but Youtube is a lot more than just video on demand. You can put anything up there for everyone to see. If we're going to use a TV analogy: Youtube is an on-demand public access channel anyone can get on.

Sure, I can consume traditional media via the internet when and where I want it, and that's cool, but that's not the point. Overall, the biggest difference the Internet provides is the bidirectionality.

signal strength is in -dBm, where every -3dBm down means the signal is only half as strong.

so, if they use a linear -dBm scale, they are already using a log scale of actual strength.

a log -dBm scale would be VERY biased towards 0dBm. You wouldn't see less than 4 bars until the signal was very weak.

this is a fascinating comparison chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm
Your wireless phone and wifi network is functioning on less RF power than the Earth gets from a distant star.

Now you know most of the whiners don't actually have an iPhone. And besides, there's always going to be a poor signal down in their parents' basement.

First, the good: I've found the iPhone 4 does seem to have superior sensitivity compared to the 3GS. I have a very marginal signal at work. (I'm kind of not supposed to have any at all...) Once it locks onto 3G, it is solid enough to stream Pandora. At this point I'm showing anwhere from 1 to 3 bars.

The bad: Any phone will lose a marginal signal depending on how you hold it or what's near it. At work, in my pocket there's no signal. On my desk, laying flat or in a dock, it works. However, my 3GS would drop to EDGE or completely lose the signal if I touched the screen or even hovered over it for too long. I have yet to see the iPhone 4 be that touchy. I will only lose signal if I touch that lower-left spot. There's no question bridging the antennas degrades reception, but it only degrades enough to affect already marginal signals.

The ugly: Signal bars are meaningless. I've seen it work just as well at 1 bar as 5. I've seen dead spots where I'll have 4 or 5 bars but nothing works, and If I toggle airplane mode it does not get the signal back until I relocate.

Has anyone ever considered the idea of graduated speed limits? 65 MPH in the right lane, then 70,75, up to 80 MPH in the left. Print the speed limits in the lane every 1/4 mile or so, and enforce them with respect to the flow of traffic. If you're doing 55 MPH in the wide open left lane, you get a ticket, same if you're doing 85 MPH in the right.

Not exactly a sign in the yard. That's clear public advertising...

and not exactly a sealed envelope in a closed mailbox. That's equivalent to WEP, I suppose.
Both are easily defeated, but at least in the case of mail, privacy is the intent and the expectation, and the letter of the law.

I grab my camera and go down the street, snapping pictures of each house, including whatever is happening in the windows, and recording the GPS coordinates.
Just a few dozen pictures per house, and then I move on.
Most of the time there's no one in the windows, but here I see someone writing a check, and I can read the account number.
here's someone talking on the phone (and I can read lips),
here's someone walking by their window naked.

What am I doing with those pictures?

Well, all I'm going to do is build a database that says, if you see a house that looks exactly like this, you are here.

Not to mention the dolphins and sea lions likely consider the training exercises to be a hell of a lot of fun. It's a game to them. What a job.

I'm wondering if this is more of a Man-in-the-Middle attack on the ATM's communication with the EFT network.

The ATMs I've seen that aren't stuck right in a bank building's wall use some form of dial-up, be it a land line or a GSM modem.

And remember, they are the Electronic Frontier Foundation, NOT the Electronic Freedom Foundation.

It is all about their agenda, which is attested to by their "legal Victories"... all cherry picked cases where something incredibly stupid is happening, and any half-decent attorney could set things straight... but ultimately, cases where an individual is being wronged, and cases that will set no precedent.