Don't count on it. There's still plenty of demand for no-contract iPhones, even if they are last-gen.

They knew his name and that he had a Facebook page. Shouldn't be too hard to contact him from there...

The problem with this is that the scammers can send just out another mail calling him the scammer and 'reassuring' the customers that everything is okay and keep the money flowing. Who are they going to believe, originalguy@gmail.com or admin@originaldomain.com?

He needs some way of proving who he is. He may have to resort to calling each customer directly to convince them, perhaps by referencing details of their relationship and past transactions that the scammers shouldn't know.

You've made a mistake; RockYou Live is in their "penalty box", not RockBox. The two are totally unrelated; RockBox isn't even a webapp, it's an (excellent) open source firmware for portable music players. They don't ask for your personal information at all.

I voted for pure math because it was the closest thing, but what I'd really like to know better is statistics.

Once again, the Slashdot title has got it wrong. TFA doesn't say that Google's overall cost for bandwidth is zero, simply that their transit costs are near zero, which specifically refers money paid to a network provider to carry your traffic.

I can't speak on how to get them digitalized, but once you do, look to the web to get others to help geocode and get them into shape for overlays. Put them online in a liberal CC license and invite other people to use them. Given the popularity of google maps and the community that's grown up making mashups and apps, I'd be willing to bet there already existing communities of people good at, and interested in, doing this.

That sounds like an iPod touch plus an app. And I wouldn't be surprised if the app already exists.

Worse yet, it appears that 14 of the 32 bits of the ESN are fixed for a given product (emphasis mine):

Source

You raise a good point. Any time you ship with a dummy/example/default value that should be changed, you need to make it blindingly obvious to the user--or better yet, require it be changed on first use. Being excessively tolerant to bogus data often just hides or delays problems until a later time.

You must be joking. Side mirrors are made to allow the driver to see out of the car, not to let others see in. Trusting your safety to a glimpse, taken at speed, of a reflection in a six inch mirror at least ten feet away is madness.

The latter option mentioned in the summary - each monitor being a distinct X session - is sometimes called Zaphod mode.

I have opted for it myself, but the downside of not being able to drag windows is sometimes a real pain. You can mitigate this to some degree for text programs using screen or dtach. I am interested in trying out xpra, which promises to be like 'screen for x-windows', but I haven't had time yet.

Another issue is that some programs, like Firefox, don't like to run multiple instances. So if you fire it up on one session while it's running on the other, it will try to connect to the existing instance but fail because its on a different session. I work around this with a small script that detects what screen firefox is running on and prepends the appropriate DISPLAY variable.

But what if I need iPants now because iShatMyself?

Or, as of last week, you can have YouTube give you H.264 videos with HTML5.