I have a scanner and periodically listen to HAM and GRMS channels, and my opinion is that licensed operators have killed the platform. In my area conversation is about *absolutely f'ing nothing of interest to almost anyone*, some douche periodically transmits junk to annoy everyone else, and any time someone with an interesting use comes along someone who knows all about the rules scares them away - doubtlessly feeling like they've just done everyone a great service. And perhaps keeping the airwaves clear for emergencies is one idea, but having those airwaves there and nobody using them for anything useful most of the time is such a waste.

I realize Slashdot is full of HAMs waiting for the next disaster so they can save us all with their radios as our last bastions of hope, but there is my anecdotal personal opinion for you. Maybe traditional HAM would be more popular vs e.g. encryption/packet radio if traditional licensees weren't so anal.

What makes Sony relevant as a company are it's people, their skills, their connections, the power they have to move the industry, the content rights they own, the technologies and products they develop, their brand, etc. etc.

100tb can leak today and be irrelevant within 12 months because life continues and projects move on. I'd say in the wake of massive disclosure employee morale may be the biggest factor in the recovery.

And you feel that this is equivalent, do you? What % of Sony employees do you believe actually had a hand in the decision to use the DRM, knew how it worked, and knew that it had a backdoor?

If I had to guess, it would probably be fewer than 50.

I would also guess that most people involved in shipping off the Jews knew they were doing something pretty bad.

I've just been reading some of the articles, and it seems that in fact Sony has unfortunately been storing a lot of communication that contains discussion of medical issues amongst other things.

This is an example of where a company could have done a better job of assessing the risk of retained data becoming a liability and applied suitable retention policies and other risk mitigation strategies like encryped storage (some articles suggest most files were not meaningfully protected).

IT folks and legal departments in today's climate should be asking themselves what is being stored, what are thr benefits, what is a liability, what is the actual business need, what are the mitigation options.

That's what I thought. I guess "insurance information" doesn't have enough scare factor for a story.

Bearing a grudge against a company for the decisions of it's higher-ups is one thing, wishing horrors upon the majority of employees who are probably everyday folk earning a living - many probably sharing your view on the matter of the rootkit saga - might be going a little too far...

What is Sony doing with medical records?

I also suspect moderation has slowed down. I suspect more generally long-term members with good karma and mod points have been coming here less due to the content and the beta site.

Assuming the manufacturer hasn't stuffed major functionality of the car inside the radio/nav system and you're willing to risk a hit on resale value by losing some of the standard features.

So you're really saying unless you want to run out of fuel it has a maximum range of 150 miles from a fixed location. Doesn't seem to threaten Tesla too much...

To put this in perspective, California is aiming for 100 fueling stations by 2024 and as of May this year only 9 actually existed.

"California, Oregon, New York and five other states pledged to put more than three million zero-emission vehicles on their roads by 2025"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb...

I haven't really been following this too closely so this may be entirely impossible, but if Philae is located, could Rosetta be positioned to reflect enough sunlight onto Philae to help power it?

Google do everything with Wallet quietly. I bet a good chunk of Android users don't even know Wallet exists because Google never market it, which is a shame because it actually works really well.

Flashing the factory image will do a wipe if you follow the instructions on Google's download page because it has you unlock the bootloader, which causes the device to erase itself. There's also a command argument in flash-all.bat that causes a wipe.

Usually someone will capture and post a link to the OTA download (who knows why Google won't just post it themselves...) and you _can_ "sideload" that fairly easily using adb without losing all your user data. This is by far the easiest method if you don't need to update right this second but you don't want to wait until Google finally gets around to allowing the update for your device.