Mod up parent, please.

The email Verizon sends an Android upgrader includes a link labeled "Prepare and Activate". The page clearly explains how to deal with this. This ENTIRE ARTICLE is about somebody who didn't RTFM and got bit in the butt.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/how_to_use/cpo_activation.html

Which is the authors point. A programmer, not just a person who programs, has a special way of looking at the world and its systems. The conversation she's having with people is designed to separate those two kinds of people. Systems are generally more complex than they appear on first glance--and a real programmer is very able to visualize, define, and describe the system to whatever level of complexity is required. That being said, a GOOD programmer (and his manager) is able to keep feature creep in check by not getting distracted by out-of-spec parameters.

In that same spirit, here's the ' you missed out of "it's" ;)

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So turn it sideways so that one slightly non-tiny object can destroy the entire ribbon? :-)

To be useful for windshields, I think it would be necessary to allow light in from the outside (into the car) regardless of wavelength. I watched the video but it wasn't clear to me that they could make the reflection only occur on only one side of the surface.

Narrative authentication has been used by the military for years to authenticate the identity of soldiers found in the battlefield who are able to communicate but don't have any form of identification.

In the new design, the bullets in the articles don't have bullets! This makes for some weird looking posts. For example, check out this same article in Beta.

Your first paragraph is already implemented in something called SPF. It already works using the existing DNS infrastructure. The problem is that creating SPF records is effectively voluntary, so operators of mail servers are only able to use existence of the records as a way to increase trust, and not using the absence of the records as a way to decrease trust. Until everybody is on board with it, unfortunately, it's usefulness will be limited.

And, just for clarity, a POP3 "server" doesn't accept mail. POP3 is a protocol for retrieving mail from a mail server that likely received the mail from another mail server via SMTP. SMTP is the problem, not POP3.

And no, it won't solve the NSA problem, or the Google problem. They'll just build bigger and faster computers to decrypt the emails.

So, I paid a couple thousand dollars for my SQL Server license, but I get a more feature complete, more stable product that does exactly what I need it to do. I'm a bit glad I didn't adapt the apparently unstable MySQL. As a business person, and not as a developer, MySQL (and it's forks) seems to be turning into a train wreck that is best to avoid.

I agree a defense fund should be started. Not because I think he's innocent, but because spending more time in the courts about the broader subject of privacy and the limiting of the government's grasp is important. He fell on the sword--he's brave wrong man.

Does this article suggest that all other messaging that are operational in Saudi Arabia are being monitored? Would something like Facebook chat, if it's transported over SSL, be considered encrypted? If it's operating in SA (not sure if it is... just asking) does that mean that the SA government has been given the "keys to the castle" so to speak?

Perhaps they mean "Hurtling"?

"Random fan" probably doesn't have nearly as many followers as the media tweeter. So, no problem.