Well if I understand it correctly, this will actually lead to less revenue for the U.S. Government. They are not instituting a federal Internet sales tax--they are forcing merchants to collect sales tax that is due to the individual state in which the purchaser resides. Aside from the problems this will cause for smaller businesses on the Internet, this will increase the Federal deduction that individuals can claim due to payment of state taxes. Higher federal deductions == less money for the feds (though almost certainly more for the individual states.)

I always wonder how people run across crazy sequences of button presses that trigger bugs while on live hardware. This reminds me of the various iPhone lock-screen bypasses.

With video poker, the house edge is built in to the device. The edge is that the payout schedule beats the odds of getting the hand.

In this case, the machine was defective, which generally voids all plays (this is usually written on the machines.)

The defect was that a player could trick the machine into thinking more money had been wagered than actually had been. This means that the payout schedule could be higher than the odds of getting the hand.

The guy shouldn't be charged with a crime, but the casino almost certainly has the right to demand the money back (unless they failed to post the warning about voiding plays.)

Do you blame the hacker who constructs the packet which causes the machine to operate in a way that it wasn't designed (deleting the database, giving higher level access than desired, etc?)

I don't know why it would, given that Apple devices in general are terrible at time.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/01/apple-iphone-4-alarm-problems-worldwide-clock-app-alarm-broken-3-days-in-a-row.html

But what I want from an iWatch is the ability to access Siri, control music, and receive haptic alerts (since I often don't feel my phone vibrate in my pocket.) Two of those three are available on the Metawatch or Pebble, though the music control is really not great AFAICT.

There are still hardware improvements to be made. The cameras, for example. The battery, too, though that will take an industry-wide tech improvement.

I'll say this, though--at least they ask before taking you to the mobile front page.

I only go to Slashdot from RSS, so while I actually like the new mobile discussions more, they're useless to me until the deep linking/routing is complete. Until then, I'll continue to press the button which dismisses the popup.

Chrome on iOS 6.1. I've been asked over and over. Also, the cardinal sin of "redirecting from a deep link to the front page of the mobile site" was committed, apparently :(

I'm on a discussion page and I get redirected to the front page of m.slashdot.org. Horrible, horrible!

You can edit? For the longest time, you couldn't.

Except that as many pointed out, he won the last game with no feed.

The system is fairly customizable. The only thing you can't change is the type of moderation that people use--but you can certainly adjust the values of that moderation. For example, I penalize 'funny' posts, because usually they aren't.

You should be able to approximate that using Match keywords in sshd_config.

As Patrick Gibson said,

I have no reason to disbelieve the Blue Toad story, but your suggestion doesn't consider all of the quite reasonable possibilities.

First of all, it assumes collusion between Apple and the FBI, which isn't a requirement for the FBI to have 12million UUIDs. Even with collusion, the FBI could have requested only certain UUIDs.

More likely, the FBI has an app (Child ID.) The UUID database could have come from that. Or they could have other apps not branded with "FBI", or they could have colluded with an app developer.

The size of the database really isn't a relevant.

More to the point, though. is that the information in the leaked list isn't very useful. If they spent a lot of effort acquiring it, I feel like my tax dollars were wasted.

Regardless, the simplest, most likely explanation is that the list was stolen from Blue Toad.

Not a troll, but thanks for contributing to the conversation. I know it must be impossible to believe that someone could have found Android to be unenjoyable, but it does happen.