I think these guys missed the mark by a long shot.

People aren't just "searching" any more. People have "apps", "portals", they have go-to places to get things. Google isn't where you go any more. People know what websites they want to use or they use the iPad or iPhone apps to find things. I believe it's the "app" revolution that changed the dynamics. People go to wikipedia to research stuff, open one of their apps to find a recipe for dinner or ask siri what to get for lunch.

Any machine being used for purposes outside of the intent of the owner should be shut down. Owners should be notified and given time to respond, but if they are unaware of the additional traffic their computer is spewing then they should be shut down until corrected.

Unfortunatly service providers probably don't care, they would probably rather have the $29.99/mo customer rather then shutting them down until it's fixed.

Ya whatever. We have constantly been living within different wifi standards such as 802.11a/b/n/whatever. Non techies understand the differences, but joe blow just listens to whatever the bestbuy guy at the store says. Bestbuy guy hands him a router and a card or whatever and pats him on the head and moves along to the counter. Same thing with 3G compatibility for iPads or what have you. People understand that not all 3G is compatible. People don't even know what 4g is yet. But it's all just marketing crap and at the end of the day people ask the techies what to do and hopefully they tell the consumers to get the correct stuff.

Having developed many projects, I personally can attest that I don't get anything productive done until everybody is asleep or if I decide to tune everybody out. It seems like there are too many real and "potential" distractions that my mind is chewing on instead of coming up with solutions to problems.

I have found it helpful to come together as a group once I have had plenty of time to think about what I want to do, along with the others having that same opportunity. That way we can have a discussion about ideas that have been thought through instead of just winging it.

Yah, that could make for a problem buying used phones on ebay.... you'd never know why someone is selling a "perfectly good and working phone" for a discount.

Maybe coat all your batteries independently and the device without the battery in .... that would solve that I would imagine. Good question.

My friend knows these guys and had his iPhone done. I didn't believe it, but it's legit.

The reason is that the price is setup to pay for the "movie going experience", paying for the theater. But the reality is that a film that was less expensive to make should cost less to see it. That would be a good idea for the industry to embrace to combat feeling like they need to have a huge block buster, huge budget film to make any traction.

Security for a web app is about understanding that people will be breaking your system and hacking your system, so the goal is to reduce what will be able to be hacked, control the fallout at each stage, control the separation of duties between the web developers, database admins, and says admins with root, and alerting when anything happens on a system.

Security is only as good as your ability to make it work without any one person trusting the other. The system has to be built on lack of trust of any one person in the system. You have to assume that some new-hire is going to a potential problem.

Social engineering or internal crime rings are way worse of a problem for "secure sites" then a hole in some java code.

But with that said, the way you make a secure site starts with a multi-tiered approach having web front ends, an application tier, and a backend database.

Separation of the web front ends, which you assume will be hacked. You remove any and all potential vulnerabilities, services, processes running unnecessarily, compilers, and anything else not necessary to run your web application. Put in place a high alerting system triggered whenever anything changes on a system and potentially rebuilds the servers upon reboot at the most extreme end of things. Have the network rules setup to only allow the single application port from the web servers to the application servers. Don't allow any other traffic.

Next the application layer has a similar lock down removing anything and everything not required to run your app. Only allow the network traffic for the specific ports for the database from the application server.

On the database server maintain adoquite backups and lockdown proceedures for all data.

With all that said, your application needs to go through a security review with several people making sure you're not doing stupid stuff such as: making system calls leveraging variables supplied by end users, make sure to verify every one of the users inputs scrubbing any potential SQL injection, and make sure to double and triple check any time input is leveraged by the user along with a system call, database call, and of opening files or pipes or anything of the sort. The use input is where the hacking takes place.

Anyway, that's how it's done by the big boys. Good luck.

Um, no duh! Of course Google would prefer to get rid of all patents. If you look at their business model it's all about 'ad revenue'. What do they care what software or hardware you run their ads on? The more software and hardware that hits their ads instead of other people's ads, the better.

So if they abolished all apple's patents (and everyone else for that matter) and people could make the best mobile device for free and not pay homage to any license (ie. java, or other), then there would exist more, cheaper mobile devices running android, and thus, hitting their ads.

So Google has nothing to loose and everything to gain if the patent system were dissolved over night.