a sticky situation.

Apple disables the on the fly defrag if you are using an SSD

http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-2050.7.9/bsd/hfs/hfs_readwrite.c

No, no... It's because we've now given the Martians what they need to make PU-238 space modulators.

There is a LOT more to Siri than just a bundled app. The Siri technology is deeply integrated into the OS now.

The innovation with Siri isn't the voice recognition, it's the personal contextualization that it's applied with.

How is Apple stealing from the open source world for OS X and iOS?

So how were they planning on playing video on a Kindle touch?

I also turn on the service that gives me a "New Terminal tab at folder" contextual menu in the Finder.

That's just clever obfuscation.

First time accepted submitter ZombieBraintrust copy and pastes from CNN.com

Sure, for things that can use ssh keys it works great. This is how I connect to various git servers.

But in the case of this hack the services that were compromised were Amazon, Gmail, and iCloud web pages. All things that authenticate with user/password and not SSH keys.

How would SSH agent help here? They used social engineering at Amazon to get common account info, then further used social engineering to get the password reset on his Apple ID.

Once they had his Apple ID they logged into the iCloud service and issued remote wipes on all his devices that he had activated the wipe option on. Since he used the same credentials everywhere they were able to get into Twitter and Google as well.

As for loosing all his data, he should have had a backup. Apple makes this super easy on iOS using iCloud and on OS X using Time Machine.

You can get a Mac mini to use for around $600 and it works just fine for development.

Not sure if you are joking about the USB thing or not. You just plug the device into a USB port and then can run the debugger, profiling tools, packet capture and all that directly on the device.

Oh we never had those, but I gave them at birthday parties a lot.

Getting them stuck in the roof of a nearby house was always awesome!

I had the Viper that would shoot the dart all the way, before the recall.

Also, this. http://www.theonion.com/articles/fun-toy-banned-because-of-three-stupid-dead-kids,290/

It's because they are EFI32 and not EFI64. I have a 2,1 as well. Without a soldering iron these aren't going to become EFI64 logic boards.

You can complain about it here or head over to http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,1123.0.html , install a 64-bit boot loader, and be done with it.