If a crook has to say, "Oh, by the way, don't unjailbreak it", that's as good as saying its stolen. Most people don't want to knowingly buy and walk around with stolen gear that includes a GPS transceiver. It would also be possible for a cell phone company to write a unique serial number into the (non-flashable) ROM.. Which could be passed to the carrier with each phone call. Doesn't seem like magic.

The cool part will be the GPS location of the stolen phone... even if the user tries to wipe it... Even if jailbroken, if a call is made with a stolen phone, it should be easy to tell its stolen. This should lead to craigslist postings where it says, iPod Touch for sale, do not attach to iTunes, do not update the firmware, and do not attempt to use the phone.

Its pretty hard to find legal downloads on the PirateBay.

Hey, semi-related.. If you type Jacquard loom into the search bar on audible.com (through 6/12) you can get a free copy of Jullian Assange Cypherpunks book.

If you enjoy programming and computers, don't let poor math skills stop you from doing what you like. I sucked at calculus and do very well as a programmer. Logic is the more important skill.

The end user should always buy with a warranty and a rated guarantee of performance. With microinverters and the like, each solar panel's output is available to the user on a browser. So... any defective panel can be swapped out and replaced. A small hassle for the installer and wholesaler, but its built into the incredibly low prices anyway. ($3/watt installed and warrantied for 10 years). This is a non-story. Who cares if a few solar panels need to get shipped back to China every month? Container ships leaving the west coast are usually empty anyways.. we only export our waste products and defective goods.

I bet this kid already has the money and an apology from PayPal. If not now, within the hour.

Humans crave information. We take hits of data like the best junkies. First thing I do when I wake up is look at whats new in technology, stocks, world events, and local news. I also check facebook and play a few "with friends" type games.. Then I'll write code or work. Then I repeat throughout the day. This is by choice.. and it is voluntary. People do what makes them happy. And in most cases, that means being wired in to work and their favorite sources of data -- sports, news, politics, work, or social media. If given a chance, people would never trade their smart phones in for electronics-free "solitude". We're just not built that way.

If Rossi or DGT demos a free-running 10kW electricity generator, which I think they can do... you would be wise to not invest in your local electric company. These will be decimated when their most profitable clients go off the grid and leave them with a huge aging infrastructure that can't be paid for.

So switch to the business plan. Jeeze, still a super deal. I have Comcast business and its worth the extra $50/mo for static IPs and much higher bandwidth.

Rossi has claimed the following: He had a prototype that produced excess energy and would give a demo. He claimed to be working on a 1MW plant. He claimed to have created a high temp version (hot cat) that works on natural gas. He said he would get a 3rd party report signed by several scientists. Every one of these claims were doubted by skeptics.. and so far, all have been delivered.

In 3 years of his work, not a single report of a dissatisfied investor.

Rossi now says he is very close to a system that produces electricity.

Why have so many people lost the ability to believe there are new concepts in physics left to be discovered?

Yes, I got the glow wrong.. but 480C is still impressive and impossible to do chemically-- especially without a loss in mass. There was a dummy run that showed completely different results than the "active" run, including different heat up and decay graphs. The IR camera was not Rossi's and was calibrated on boiling water and the temperature was backed up with a K thermocouple. High frequency AC would be discovered with a light bulb or any delicate equipment plugged in to it. 100 hours is a long time to leave 7 trained scientists complete run of the lab to try to detect something fake.

Read the actual report and see if you really think a few chemicals could really do what you suggest -- keep the temperature steady and glowing hot for 100 hours. If so, that would be amazing.. especially since the weight of the reactor did not change!

The people doing the test were not untrained. They are experts in the field who have put their professional reputations on the line. Being too good to be true is a red flag rule of thumb, but it isn't a scientifically reliable to refute a claim.

Generally you can take any claim of free energy and bet against it and come out looking like an expert... But consider this would be the second time the release of unexpected nuclear power surprised the world. I've been following this for two years and no one has found a hidden battery, a stash of chemicals, extra wires, bogus measurement equipment... But plenty of tests have been unconvincing. This one was the best -- a black box test done by university level professors and experts.

Rossi has filed a number of patents and many could argue that they're not detailed enough to let a lay person recreate the technology.. however, the fact is that the technology remains unproven AND there is NO evidence of a scam.

When Rossi heats a 1 meter cube of water N degrees in X minutes using P power that is less than any other known way to heat water, what then? Eventually, I hope, the blubbering from the peanut gallery will subside..

Another company, Defkalion, uses the same technology. They have plans for a public demonstration of their work at NIWeek 2013 this August at National Instruments in Austin, Texas. link. Proof might start getting harder and harder to deny... Don't take it to the bank, but if you're heavily invested in oil stocks, you should be watching the saga.

Of all the tests Rossi has demonstrated, this one is by far the most convincing. Just look at the input of 360 watts, and tell me how you can heat up the reactor to the glow that you see using conventional means. Since it can't be done conventionally, you have to assume there is a hidden extra energy input of at least 500 watts-- but the experiment is so clean that there is essentially no way to add extra power to the system (the most creative ideas is an IR laser, another suggests an altered high frequency added to the normal 50hz 240VAC. Both are can be ruled out by looking at the report and using common sense.)

At some point in the very near future, we will see an even more convincing demo using flow calorimetry-- essentially heating water-- with an even more isolated electrical input (for instance, a UPS outputting a perfectly clean sine wave AC.) And then what? Eventually the skeptics are going to have to come around and admit that they were wrong. I'm looking forward to that day.