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So wouldn't I.

I find the article lacking the most important piece of information: Is this calculation based on a 4, 20, 40 or 60 hour work week?

It has to be Nibiru (or better known as Planet X)!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm#Planet_X

"a cyberattacker must connect the ATM to a mobile phone via USB tethering"

I've never seen ATMs (at least here in Switzerland) which you could just walk up to and plug in a USB device. Do Mexican ATMs come with USB ports on the front of the device?!

Don't forget:

"Law 3: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore." http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.10.security...

... says a guy working for a company heavily invested in an OSS vendor. But please, dear reader, don't expect any bias or even wishful thinking.

(Disclaimer: I use OSS software heavily and admire it, but I'm always sceptical when I read statements like "The time is now to make money in open source")

I agree, I also read the headline in a way that something terrible is going to happen to OSS vendors ...

Why are you referring to the black box at all? ACARS and the Transponder signal the plane's position to the ground, not the black box.

Anybody else noticed that "Keith Ledgerwood" has exactly one post on his Tumbler blog? Conspiracy theorist looking for five seconds of Internet fame?

So you say the pilot does not have switches in the cockpit to turn equipment on or off? They have to WALK through the whole plane to turn devices on or off?! Bollocks.

First of all, hijackers would have threatened passengers to give them their mobile phones.

If the plane indeed was landed on a remote airport with the passengers alive, the hijackers would have stripped the passengers of their clothes to ensure nobody could bring weapons or devices with them.

By now, most mobile phones (even the Nokia developing world ones) would have been out of battery.

If the plane is parked in working condition somewhere on this planet, thanks to the media coverage the hijackers now know that the jet engines will phone home the moment they start them.

But then again, this is hypothetical nonsense. The plane most probably crashed into the ocean.

Like in opening the door at flight level 295 and throwing out a bag full of mobile phones?

This article was posted by a HN account which is three hours old and seems only to have been created for this sole purpose. Fishy.

Further, the author claims to have contacted a specific person at NTSB by e-mail, and this person even dared to reply.

Aside: Guys, it's 2014, 13 years after 9/11. An unidentified aircraft passing over Chinese airspace for hours - withouth being intercepted? I'd consider Chinese Air Force a joke if this really happened.

Shouldn't it be the other way around? Opt-in instead of Opt-out: Append "_map" to your AP's SSID! Idiots.

Does Bluetooth have the necessary throughput to send 1-3 MP of graphics data with approx. 10+ FPS to a car LCD display? Even if this was possible, it would drain your phone's battery considerably, which means you have to plug in your phone nevertheless to let it charge. Aside, attaching the iPhone via cable will be straight and much less cumbersome and error prone than pairing over Bluetooth.

"virtualized"? I'd rather call it "mirroring".

How many people have died in the same timeframe in the Bay Area let's say in car accidents or in homicides?

Let me guess: 1) Add as much items to a list as possible?

Maybe we should switch off our smartphones first? Who cares about OCRing number plates if you can track an individual's EVERY move using his mobile phone data?

I was there when Y2k happened! Alas, nothing happened except I was suffering from a huge hangover the very next morning.

True Beliebers

That's probably the reason why a lot of keys here in Switzerland nowadays have chips on them as well.

I assume European lock smiths are a little bit more suspicious when it comes to copying keys ...

That's common knowledge, isn't it?

Finally, Instapaper for Video!

What are "20K feet" in meters?

Now I'm waiting to hear how deliberating it feels when the computer breaks ... wait, how is one going to blog then?

Never happened before in any other company.

I remember a guy saying the same a few years ago ... what's his name? Linus?

Me too!