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Comment Storm8 Login sends your phone number + imei (Score 2, Interesting) 149

I don't know if they are doing it like this any more, but all storm8 apps are the same game with different graphics.

1. Connect to storm8 server and send your phone number + imei
2. Server returns a session id you can use for processing your commands
3. basic http queries control the app

This is why when the games first came out you couldn't move your account from one device to another, they used the device id as your user id. They have since implemented portable username but by default they still send all your shit across the network. You can snoop packets and see the phone number of every user that plays on your network.

I wrote a lot of bots for all the games. I haven't played in a few months... Setup an http proxy in your iPhone network settings and all this is very obvious.

Comment Re:Slow news day? (Score 1) 138

I mean shit, there's a lot of trust involved in working for two weeks with the understanding that there will be a paycheck on payday!

That's actually an interesting point. I have a salaried job where I am paid monthly IN ADVANCE. So my first day on the job I was immediately handed a nice big check. In all my years working I've never encountered anything like it but I admit while I have "better" job offers come along every so often I can't see going back to biweekly after the fact paycheck.

Comment It's a matter of context (Score 1) 541

GP post was an awesome if unintended troll.

So many posts about this. Just stop people. The simple answer is you can only prove something is impossible if you completely know all the rules of the domain / universe - like math and logic.

In real life it's not possible because we don't know all the rules.

Comment More anecdotal evidence (Score 1) 357

I use SD cards for distributing software to PDA's. I've gone through several hundred. In my experience they either become read only or unreadable. So far I haven't had any noticeable file corruption. We do wipe the cards before updating them with new data so it's possible there are dead areas on the card that the SD controller is finding and avoiding for us.

We use them more like rewritable CD's rather than hard drives though so ymmv.

Comment Usable Navigation (Score 4, Interesting) 606

Google Maps on the phone is useless for actually getting somewhere. It draws a nice line but without turn by turn navigation or even detecting when you're off the path and re-calculating it's no good for driving.

I know it says it's not meant for that but that strikes me as trying to cover up being inadequate with some after the fact documentation and legalese.

Education

Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows 154

Reader Cowards Anonymous writes with this excerpt from Good Gear Guide: "Colombia will become the second country to use the One Laptop Per Child Project's (OLPC) XO laptops running Microsoft Windows XP in schools after signing an agreement for pilot programs in two towns. Schools in the towns of Quetame and Chia will be outfitted with the small green XO laptops developed by the OLPC. The pilot programs are expected to expand over time."
Portables (Apple)

Top Apple Rumors, Bricks, Low Price, NVIDIA 283

Vigile writes "With the news that Apple will be releasing new MacBook products on October 14th, speculation has begun on what exactly those new products will be. Tips of a manufacturing process involving lasers and a single 'brick' of aluminum are catching on, as is the idea of a sub-$1000 netbook-type device. More interesting might be the persistent rumors of an NVIDIA chipset adoption that would drastically increase gaming ability, allow MacBooks to improve their support for OpenCL and take advantage of the new Adobe CS4 software with GPU acceleration. Will NVIDIA's ailing chipset business get a shot in the arm next week?"

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