As the linked article points out, that $15 billion is a simple correlation based on diabetes alone.

When cost savings are almost erased by one disease, maybe someone hasn't thought through the unintended consequences.

I can't replicate it either. The YouTube video claims I double-tap the home button but the second tap is slightly longer? By the end of the first tap it's already bringing me back to the lock screen, i.e. by the time I'm pressing down for the second tap, I'm already being taken back to the lock screen. iPhone 5, updated last night to 7.0 (11A465).

Why would flash memory be non-replaceable? Sure, the stuff that was on it when it failed might be hard to replace, but that's why you keep backups, right?

The ROT13 thing was funny once. It is now just irritating.

Please stop being such stupid unfunny fuckwits. Allowed HTML
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The ROT13 thing was funny once. It is now just irritating.

Please stop being such stupid unfunny fuckwits.

It's only a requirement in the US, and it doesn't use GPS. GPS would be a waste of time for this, because it would either need to be on all the time and thereby kill your battery in an hour, or only enabled in response to an emergency call and need a good ten minutes to get a lock from cold.

Why would GPS be "mandatory" on a phone? It's only in the past two or three years that GPS receivers have got small and low-power enough to fit to phones, without requiring a battery the size of a brick.

If you want to locate a phone, GPS is close to useless.

Great idea! Then not only are you giving away your location but you're transmitting your message in the clear, for anyone to eavesdrop on!

I can't help but think you've missed the point a little...

Surely if you're worried about being seen doing illegal things, you keep the illegal things private or don't do them at all?

Aha, the trick is, only the ones actually carry information - that's when the bit is actually holding a voltage. So, you can compress out all the zeros and get a roughly 2:1 saving on space!

The only downside is that for decompressing, the codebook is necessarily rather large, in fact the same size as your original data. But the compression works well and it's fast!

Wear a kilt. Be louche as fuck. "Yeah, you just keep moving your hand up there until you meet 'resistance', that's right... Yeah, back down there, boy, I didn't tell you to stop."

The "somebody else's problem" is good, but it's expensive.

All you need to do is configure one of the "scrap" machines as a PXE boot server, find a switch from somewhere, and then get your trainee to do all the plugging in and unplugging.

"Here you go, it's a vitally important job, and a big responsibility. Now do this pallet, and when you're done, do this pallet, and then when you've done *that* do this pallet. Then I'll teach you how to drive the forklift..."