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Are the map pins ever cleared? As I continue typing a long place name, I can see the 'shadow' behind the pin getting darker and darker with each keystroke.

It's 'neat' but I don't think it's useful, per se. Possibly no more or less useful than YouTube Instant though.

True, but if the rear lights suddenly stopped working then you'd expect the manufacturer to replace those under warranty regardless of what you did to the engine, wouldn't you?

Note that I'm not necessarily saying Apple have done anything wrong in this particular case, but making any modification (a sticker on the back?) shouldn't automatically void any warranty claim on the whole device. IMO.

As the bug report mentions, the sleep(1) call appears to be wrapped in a #define that (I assume) won't be active in normal OpenSSL builds. At least in v0.9.8o (the only one I checked) the only references I see are:

ssl/s2_pkt.c:

    #ifdef PKT_DEBUG
        if (s->debug & 0x01) sleep(1);
    #endif

There are two references like that to PKT_DEBUG (read and write); the only other is:

ssl/ssl_locl.h:

    /*#define PKT_DEBUG 1   */

I suspect this is a non-issue. Interesting though.

Interesting post, thanks.

I find 512-bit RSA keys interesting because they seem to be in occasional use but are within the realms of amateur factoring.

From my limited experiences of smaller keys (high 400-bit range) I'm actually slightly surprised you didn't get there in 70 days on an 8-way machine. How many relations did you find?

It's probably best not to look if you're Austrailian...

Ah, thanks. To be honest, in the UK in my experience the "within a few hours" thing only seems to apply when the transfers are between accounts at the same bank.

Transfers to other banks are the same process, they just take days; especially if it's a weekend or a public holiday. I'm sure all of that's just an excuse to hang on to your money for as long as they can.

How does it work in the US?

Oh, possibly. The entire conversation with Apple was based around the author of the post purchasing an application though. He repeats that point several times.

Perhaps the situation has been clarified since then.

That's not what Apple say (if you believe this blog):

http://ursecta.com/wp/2009/08/anything-but-games-are-illegal...

A quote from one of the linked articles (The Register) at the bottom:

"Apple is reminding customers that applications sold through the iTunes store are strictly for non-commercial use: business use is forbidden, which makes one wonder what that section of the store is for."

Just don't do any work with it:

"(ii) You shall be authorized to use the Products only for personal, noncommercial use."

http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html

It's currently available from Google's cache (though probably not for long).

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:http://x264dev.multimed...

Interesting as it is, I think "fails" is a bit of an exaggeration. It (gcc, icc, "others") misses a semi-obvious optimization.

This reminds me of a YouTube video I saw a while back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiLoANg6nNY

I assume it's fake though... if only because that's my default position on these things!

Doesn't work in Firefox (3.5.3)?

Hmm, or IE8.

Still, all those Chrome users will be loving it, I'm sure.

Excellent! Took me a while to work out what was going on there. I'm going to blame it on the apparent removal of the comment that started it though.