businesses are allowed to do business in Tunisia, isn't this just a piece of anti-microsoft fud? We (the USA) trained Afghani's to fight the Soviets, it worked pretty good until the tactics were used on US (USA). It's not the training that is the issue, its the application; just say what you want to say and be done with it;

You think Microsoft training is evil.

FUD.

I find it somewhat amusing that they would choose to invalidate the snake, apple, adam and eve bit because it couldn't happen in the 5-6k range without crazy 5 assed monkey mutations.... it would be simpler to throw out the 5-6 thousand year old universe bit, which is even more difficult to ignore....

but this is all hypothetical and likely to be called heresy by those who give lip service to the flying spaghetti monster :)

Now thats funny :)

I pay my ISP for a connection to the internet; essentially I will be paying for this 'service' to the RIAA and the MPAA, this is not what I consider customer service, I predict this will increase the use of encryption, which will in turn spawn legislation that deems secure encryption illegal. Pretty soon they will want 'virus and copyright compliance software' installed on all systems non-supported operating systems will not be allowed on public networks, etc... tin-foil hat folks don't have to be wrong, they just have to wait long enough to see their 'crazy' views realized.

do you want to get high with me?

hey, this is a web page claiming that your infected, click ok!!
umm, you clicked cancel, you really want to click ok, ok??
you know, it doesn't matter which button you push, both result
in the continuation of this racter like discussion.

wow, you clicked ok, wait while I install some software to 'help' you.
oh, while installing I noticed that I will need your password to continue....

wow, you gave me your password, can you google pwn3d ?

works on PC, works on Mac, likely works on every other modern OS.

this isn't an exploit via bug, its an exploit via user, if you drop your pants in front of a glory hole......
that said Apple isn't really helping by avoiding the topic.

a legal document that states leaking our documents will subject you to a fine is leaked.....

The batteries will almost always be the largest part of this, even if the tech gets smaller most devices have limited run time without large batteries; your argument is valid though, an iphone turned on and capture tower/GPS data might be enough to find you. Either way, my point is to make this as public and expensive as possible, 24/7 monitoring should be reserved for folks that are already under a criminal investigation, people that *might* be criminals should not be monitored in this fashion. either way I suspect this will still look somewhat like a foreign device attached to my car. think of it as a gift, much like the flyer placed on your windshield and treat it as such. might be fun to attach a wifi cam and catch them 'servicing' this device.....

So would it be ok to place a GPS tracker on every police car you find, I bet not and while betting I bet that if you were caught trying to put such a thing on a police car you would get shot.

My advise on this is quite simple, if you find a little black box, an antenna and a battery pack on the underside of your car, call the local police and tell them you found exactly what you found under your car, a bundle with wires coming out of it (the battery pack) a black box attached to it (the GPS receiver) and an antenna and your afraid to touch it. Make certain your insurance is paid up.

Call the local news as well, its a bomb threat for certain but this is an economics game, they can't afford to follow everyone with agents so its cheaper to track everyone of interest and sort it out later, make this cost them as much as possible, PR spin isn't cheap, nor is replacing GPS devices that keep 'falling' off the car (rip the wires, leave parts of it on the car) at some point it becomes cheaper to either follow you with Agents, or stop following you.

This is how Oracle supports open source? we don't/won't pay to support it so we 'give' it back to the community.

Given the options this is the lessor of two evils, they could have let it die internally.

How long until this SDK and a Kinect get turned into missile guidance or a AEGIS like control for a chain gun?

Can you fear me? How about now?

Actually I think they would prefer to chip and track us, after all, if you drive my car who pays the tax?

I just didn't need to know that, butt thanks.

I donated $10 to his defense fund via Paypal.... not because I have used any of his code but because I have a PS3 FAT and I (until the stole functionality) used Linux on it right up until the moment Sony decided they didn't evil linux on any devices talking to PSN......

As much as I like Sony's gaming system and despise the XBox franchise, if I were asked today I would tell people not to buy Sony.