Incorrect - Daylight Savings Time is from March to November... we're leaving DST and entering Standard Time. And DST goes for 8 months, and Standard Time goes for 4 months. Not 6 months apart. I know this because it's my biggest fear- having to testify on stand and have to explain this time offset in front of large rooms of people under duress.

There's a chance this kid can be turned around like Kevin Mitnick and can become an asset to society. He wants attention, you can get that in negative and positive ways. He's clearly found the negative ways. Cyber security is our current battle front- we need pen testers working for society. He's clearly adept at it. It might take work, but will be worth it.

Perhaps I should say decrypt instead of unencrypt... wondering why it kept flagging that for spelling lol.

Seems to be a solid solution if your password list is static, though I'm constantly adding stuff and to do that you have to create a new file every time, or unencrypt it and add, then re-encrypt no? I found out every time I added passwords to my encrypted open office spreadsheet file that it was creating a local, unencrypted, cached copy on my drive (I found my passwords using hxd, in plain text).

Funny thing was, after 15 years of thinking how clever and secure I was with my encrypted spreadsheet (open office), I found out that it was for some reason storing a copy in plain text on my main (unencrypted) drive. It must've unencrypted and cached it locally... ðY¦

Ditto on Bitwarden. Until very recently I just kept my files in an encrypted spreadsheet document on an encrypted drive. But that always made it so I had to be home to get them.

Whether or not Apple would fix it is a bit of a red herring (and Apple wouldn't fix it- it's a decade old at least they say). It was whether or not it was fixable. And there are TONS of ifixit / ubreakifix / etc repair centers all over the place that do just that. I repair devices too. And yes, the issue is about Google finding a better way to allow people access to their accounts, but at the same time people often glance over the fact that Google is a free / unpaid service Google provides to users and given that google isn't likely to spend a lot of money adding customer service agents to fix the account access issue (yes, Google makes money off you, but you don't pay them directly in most cases). So the best bet for this lady (actually, the best bet is this article, which will bring it to Google Exec's attention, and probably get her access) is to fix the device she had access to her account in. And then use that device to do a Google Takeout data dump to get all her Google data and archive it in case of future lockout. Another easy fix is if she somehow makes herself a suspect in a case, and then Officers do a search warrant and obtain all her data for her that way. And then she obtains all her data through discovery, and then the case magically goes away (joking, of course- illegal to file a false police report, but this WOULD work).

You CAN fix many iPad problems. IamwaySmarter it seems your noting that Apple chooses not to repair because it costs less for them to just ship a new / refurbished on than to repair it, but that's simply economics. Just like a car that's "totaled" simply because the cost to fix is worth more than the KBB value, but that car can often be fixed at a cost. And all this Ipad probably needs is a new battery or screen, as long as she didn't drop it, then smash it with a hammer, and then dunk it in acid.

I think it might be more realistic to say that Google and a speaker speaking in a monotonous, robotic way are pretty much indistinguishable from another. They both sound robotic to me. When it can imitate what people really sound like, normal people, then talk to me. Not that this isn't cool, but from the cursory bits I read and heard it seems to over-hype itself.

First line "Appel has been ordered to pay"...think it was a spoonerism of "Apple" and "Appeal."

Post says "...tweeted: "Allow for web is here! ..." Allo, not allow.

There is a great danger in inferring causation here, as this was a survey and not an experiment (with people randomly assigned to either group). The article wrongly states there is causation at play- that going into an internship caused them to be paid less later, rather than a real possibility that those that couldn't get jobs (or well paying jobs) decided to go the intern route instead. And those that got accepted into well paying jobs took them. So the cause might well be that the lesser paid or non-existent jobs caused the internship rather than the reverse.

I think history is gonna show us that we were responsible for the Wana attack. It didn't cross my mind until I heard on NPR that Russia was the county that suffered from the attack the most- even getting into government computers. The Shadow Brokers released this trove of hacking tools a little while ago. This meant the door on using this exploit was going to start closing slowly. We also knew that hackers would take advantage of this exploit. So why wouldn't the US Govt, under the guise of a random hacker, use this exploit to garner as much info as possible on Russia while it was still possible? Remember that Obama told Russia that we would get them back, at the time and date of our choosing. And this would explain why the built in shutdown was hidden in the code- I wouldn't be surprised if that 20 something year old security researcher wasn't tipped off to register that domain name once we'd gotten access to some of Russia's infrastructure, to mitigate collateral damage to the innocent bystanders. That would explain why they "only" got $26k, if their M.O. was to make money there would have been zero reason to include a kill switch in the code.