I use TurboTax for various reasons. The amount of upselling is pretty fierce. Her pointing out obvious reality doesn't seem like it should be controversial.

>Transmission speeds were extremely slow at 0.54 bits per second, but still good enough for text message and phone call encryption over a distance of 30 km (19 miles)

At half a bit per second, how is that good enough for phone call encryption?

Twice in his comments and writing he says something along the lines of, "There is a reason, but it's not a good one, and not one that will be publicly disclosed"

So, disclose it! Put it out there plainly so everyone can read it and has to think about it. Enough innuendo. Since YouTube won't, people in the know who aren't happy have to.

Did anyone read the DOJ records?

It sounds like a bunch of people followed the procedures they were given. When they left, they turned in their phones. An officer reviewed the phones to be sure there was no confidential or classified information on them. After they were reviewed they were turned in for reassignment and completely wiped (reset to factory settings) before reassignment for other people. Only later did someone (Guilliani) show up complaining they had wiped phones and "destroyed evidence". If you read the file, it's a bunch of people saying, "Um, we did what we were supposed to do. What's the problem?"

It's Vegas! You are *supposed* to gamble on untested infrastructure.

> Suffice it to say, mistakes like this don't typically happen in the well-to-do, perfectly manicured world of Silicon Valley startups.

Um... have you ever been to Silicon Valley? It's all seat of the pants fixes to last-minute crazy error all the time...

No, the chart at the bottom of TFA shows they've made profits for several years and except last year and this year, used to pay (very small) taxes on those profits. they've just been getting better at playing the system as their profits are rising.

It is time for all biologists to pay for a century of torturing planaria! Go forth legions of wormy vengeance!

Reading the comments, it seems clear everyone has deep scorn for people using the Mac OSX Server.app services anyways as they can all be replicated better and faster and easier using mumble mumble for the price of a sandwich.

So, what are the details? For those of us who do in fact use the Server.app services, what specifically do you recommend?

I use:

Websites: to serve small internal websites for myself and my collaborators to share non-secret internal info.
Mail: to set up temporary email addresses that people can use to sign up for events and then are destroyed once the event happens.
Calendar: to sync all of the iCal users in my group to the group calendars.
SFTP: to let internal users send files to the group server when they are in the field.
File Sharing: for storing backing up our main file systems.
etc.

Nothing complicated; nothing that requires vast configuration. Just services that OSX Server has provided us for years on machines we already have. (We're a Mac based shop in general.)

So what should I replace these services with?

You also have to be careful about who is teaching and how they are doing it. Plus how that's different from the environment where you actually use this knowledge.

Otherwise, you end up with the situation in Starman:

"I learned how to drive by watching you! Green means go, red means stop, yellow means go very fast!"

>Does no one else think cars + computers + network connectivity = bad?

Not half as bad a wireless pacemakers.

It's long, but that transcript is really worth a read. First the judge thoughtfully skewers every argument the government presents, and tries to get to the fundamental principles involved. Then he thoughtfully skewers every argument Apple presents and tries to get them to throw away all of the marketing nonsense and just say what they think the actual issues are. Then he takes it all into consideration and says he'll go try to find the proper balance in his ruling.

No matter how that case comes out, that's one judge who is doing his job.

On the other hand, the media is often sensationalizing a few outlying cases. A single research group was caught falsifying global warming data? A few dozen others were publishing real data.

In this case, 100 papers were retracted for fraud. The most recent two issues of the planetary astronomy journal I frequently publish in which few of you have even heard of comprised 100 articles total. 100 articles retracted is a *tiny* tiny percentage of the reliable peer reviews published.

Fraud is bad. When found, punish it. But this single incident does not signal the end of science.

Actually he does have a right. He got into the shareholder's meeting by being a shareholder. It's his company too. Let him express his views to the board.

Finally a stable wormhole for our FTL travel needs. Now, since Sagitarius A is 26,000 lightyears away, all we need to do is build some sort of wormhole network to get us there, and then FTL travel will be ours!