TFA has just been updated saying it's MotoBlur with an automatically created Blur ID - it doesn't even ask you to create an account any more

I guess that was Motorola's way of "removing" MotoBlur from phones - remove the account creation UI, generate the account secretly without any prompting.

Whatever, Motorola deserves to be bankrupted over this. If I was a class-action lawyer I'd be getting in touch with this guy right now.

News sites are by far the worst for that. The number of sites some of them them pull Javascript from is staggering.

It's more of a MTBF than a garantee. Some of them fail after a much shorter time.

A truly intelligent design would have built-in redundancy in case the main pump fails.

We've got two eyes, two ears, two lungs, two kidneys ... why not two hearts?

Riiiiight. Apple never spied on anybody.

I think it might be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoblur

Lots of phones/providers sync your personal data for you in case you lose your phone.

(And I'm sure there's an option somewhere to turn it off, although you never know with big corporations...)

I hope you compiled your copy of GCC by hand using pencil and paper.

Using any precompiled compiler on any precompiled file system or OS kernel would break the chain of trust.

Quantum computers don't work against AES.

The 128-bit version remains secure. The 256 and 192-bit versions are believed secure but have shown cracks (they should really have had a couple more encryption rounds).

The 256/192-bit versions are just re-fiddlings of the 128-bit version, made to fulfill the NIST requirements for key sizes. This was largely a waste of time since 128-bits can't be brute-forced with any imaginable technology.

(My advice to any potential cryptograpy coders out there is to stick with the 128 bit version).

This is often quoted as an example of NSA's supposed superiority in cryptography but that happened back in the '70s when there were hardly any cryptographers or computers in the world.

The knowledge gap between the NSA and independent cryptographers has closed a lot since then.

There's a huge list of test vectors for AES published by NIST (among others): http://csrc.nist.gov/archive/aes/rijndael/wsdindex.html

The chances of being able to write some code which reproduces those values but ISN'T AES are less than the reciprocal of the number of atoms in the universe.

The solution to "cyberwarfare" is extremely simple: Don't connect your power stations and nuclear missile silos to the Internet.

What's a "Window" key? I don't think my Model M has one of those.

Maybe, maybe not ... but there's definitely a lot of privacy and distracting-advertising issues.

Who says it would be bad press? I'd be much more likely to choose theaters with zero tolerance polices. I think most people would actually switch off their phones if there was a big on-screen announcement that they absolutely WILL be booted out if it rings or they try to use it in any way during the movie.

If not ... watching somebody who's that self-entitled being told where to get off is probably better entertainment than what's on the screen. They can always pause the movie while they do it.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/movie_theater_layout

Another idea is for each seat to have a row of red LEDs in front of it which gradually light up when people talk. If it reaches LED number three, out with them.