Oh, here I come in the thread for aged started-on-TI people. Started on a TI-57. That was fun. Amazing what we could do with 50 steps of machine-language like code...

Exactly, and Magic Lantern has been doing that amazing work since the 5D II. Tried it on my 5D2, it's a really good piece of open source software.

Yet another win-win (for her) situation: a guy hacks and is prosecuted. a not-that-famous-but-hot-singer gets a lot of publicity. all the geeks arounds search google for that singer.

Most of people do not really weight the consequences of taking and carrying such pictures in their phone/laptop/google glasses/... Everybody is used to the consumption era where information circulates quickly and broadly... and what is not published (eg on FB) is kept private. Unfortunately, it is likely that many people do not have the necessary background to protect themselves / act geekfully and a lot of private data is stolen from various places. It only makes the news when the ungeek person is famous...

Not only. If you take the math.stackexchange.com you see that they put an extra effort to have mathematical equations displayed properly on the site.

Indeed
Domain Name: XBOXMINUSONE.COM
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 21-may-2013
Creation Date: 21-may-2013
Expiration Date: 21-may-2014
but that was a week ago...

better... and compatible! Because are usually writing docs to be shared with other people. I doubt in 30 days he was able to make that possible, especially when you look at openoffice and how much it took them to make something really useable.

No, he says he used Netbeans to justify the 30 days. Otherwise the whole development process would have taken only 15.

Good. As always in our Universe, things tend to converge to a certain equilibrium. There are more and more satellites in the upper sky, thus the probability of a collision increases exponentially. Collision => less satellites.

Yes but the picture is what pros would call a bad picture: to give a relative idea of the height / width of the thing, they should have included a man for instance into he picture..

This remind me of an old Office file where the MS copyright text was encrypted thanks to a simple XOR value (a few bytes). (There is also that funny story at the time of a Linux tool that only needed the `-d` option to decipher a whole XLS, without providing any password...). Anyway, what was said at the time: while XOR encryption seems very week, if the key itself is as long as the text to be encrypted, and if the key is based on reliable random values (and the key is kept secret), it is indeed a very strong encrytion.

Offtopic? This is not a secret that RIAA and the like are not investing any effort in building faster infrastructures ( quite the opposite ). If history was made based on their whims, we'd still be using vinyl records, without even a cassette to make a copy... At 40Gbps, a HD movie is copied within a second...

...for RIAA, SACEM and the like...

In a way Youtube beats time... but that gives an idea of the bandwidth available upstream (downstream being even more monstrous)