Ha! I love the humor (or is it mercenary sentiment?)! But the bit about the $9 million is just for the fees for processing 6,000 claims. It doesn't say if any of the moolah went to the claimants. Roughly $1500 per case to the FairShake lawyers. Which doesn't sound ourtrageous to me.

My favorite part of that article is the medical notes that end with denies further magnets.

At least one of the incidents (Connecticut) involved the driver tending to his dog in the back seat. I don't think that one should be counted as "Autopilot Problem" but rather "Stupid Behavior" problem.
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/t...
AP is leaving out the pertinant details to make a splashy headline.

I'd argue that OTP is unbreakable, just that implementing it isn't practical. All the failures are due to the improper implementation. Truly well-implemented OTP wouldn't be useful until problems in quickly generating and exchanging keys can be done.
The wikipedia reference shows that the One-Time Pad was not correctly implemented in every case listed there. In each case they reused pads, or the pads themselves were stolen throw eavesdropping.
When done properly an OTP cannot be broken. In all cases listed they either

• didn't use each pad one-time-only due to poor plan or
• or too much confidence in a kinda-sorta-random key generator. (esp. the example where the machine wasn't 'sufficiently random')
• or the key was compromised via eavesdropping. (which isn't really relevant to the question "broken")

Regardless OTP will never be useful for the kind of encryption commonly needed and used today. Key generation and transport aren't practical for the typical uses.

rrearghr!

Ironically, one of the startup guys mis-used "verbiage". I twitch when people ask me to "change the verbiage" in a document.
( FTA : "It’s always hard to get the right verbiage," )
I've given up and accepted that the word that once meant a collection of meaningless and unconnected thoughts has come to be used as a synonym for "wording" for people that want to sound smartier.
Dictionaries have started accepting the changed meaning, defining it as using too many words. Did it not originate as a contraction of "verbal garbage"?
Either the "old" or "new" definition - the guy apparently used it correctly, though possibly unaware of the meanings.

To be sure you're comparing the same thing - Karma's refuel plan means I pay $10/gigabyte, but it never expires. When it's at half-price special it's $5/gigabyte. So I spent $100 for 20 Gigabytes last August, and I've barely used 2 gig that is still available to me. At the rate I use data it will probably be at least a year or more before I refill, so my monthly cost is trivial, maybe well under $10/month. And no monthly charge.
For someone with moderate-to-low data needs on my phone and laptop and tablet, it makes sense. If I needed more data, like a lot of my friends do, I'd probably do better with some other mobile phone plans

So I wanted to to clarify - do you mean $100/month for the 15 GB, or $100 for 15 GB that doesn't expire?

As for the Neverstop plan - Karma tried it, and the way it was actually put to use turned out to be too expensive for them to maintain. (I never tried that plan btw)

The article never mentions a Non-Disclosure Agreement, and it never said iFixit was referring to the the developer NDA when they referred to Apple's "intent".
So yeah, whole arguments develop over conjecture.
The only thing for sure is that iFixit knew that Apple might not like it. They knew Apple might take action, and they were OK with that.
Puts Apple in a bad position for coming down hard on people for doing exactly what they usually do.

Of the programmers that I have worked with, it's easy to pick out the ones that are not passionate about the work.
They invariably produce substandard work that gets shoehorned past acceptance testing due to late deadlines and overly-forgiving (forgotten?) standards. No one wants to work with them or maintain their leavings because the poorly crafted code shows failings in all ways possible.
It's rarely easy to explain to decision makers the true cost of efforts by the others trying to make up for the poor decisions in design, lack of reasonable planning, lack of analysis.
Oddly I am now reflecting on how many of them will even openly say how much they hated programming but they do it because they're "good at it" (they *NEVER* really are) and they can't afford to change career tracks. It's sad that they're only stuck in it because of their own illusions.
Help her find what she's good at and what she loves, or she'll be miserable.

I guess you should just write about people smiling, dogs running, rainbows. They don't lock you up for making up stories about rainbows.

I just want to ask if anyone else cringes when "verbiage" is used when the intent was "wording"?
I'm frequently asked to "insert the following verbiage..." for web sites, letters etc for customers.
I doubt they'd appreciate someone describing there wording as verbal garbage.