mrsebastian

No, that's a mock-up from earlier in the year, made by Foxconn. (It's still fairly accurate, mind you - but the link above gives you a better idea of the socket/connector layout.)

7!

One of the hardest games I've ever played, ha.

I got stuck at 2 for a long time, but then finally something clicked and I got all the way to number 5!

I'd love to do that! But it's just not feasible for me, when I'm writing multiple stories a day, about very disparate topics. If it was a feature about thorium power, and I had a chance to do my research, it'd be a different story :)

(I do have quite a few expert friends who I lean on for domain expertise, but as luck would have it, my nuclear guy wasn't online when I wrote this.)

You're right, I know very little about nuclear reactors. (I'm the author.) Enough to get by, but not enough to be an authority on every variety of them.

Hopefully enough to write an interesting story, though :)

It's usually pretty quick/easy to get stuff approved for in-lab, early human trials. But yeah, much longer until it's available to the public.

I was trying to work out the same thing. The no-communication theorem says that you can't transfer data using entangled particles -- but would that apply to energy as well? Not sure. Need a quantum physicist...

I know that Mozilla struggles with this -- that it's a whole different PR ball game, when tech writers have access to the nightly FTP server.

Yeah, I was wondering about that -- it was in the original story, but I edited it out.

Are Xnu and iOS updated in parallel? I mean, is the version of Xnu that's publicly available at the moment the same as that in iOS 6? Or is Xnu a few weeks/months behind?

Ah, thanks for the info; will update the story.

You edited! So I will edit too!

Thanks for the background info on the iOS 6 jailbreak.

Btw, have we met before? I recognise your name...

Relatively!

For me, the iPad is uncomfortably heavy at times -- especially if I try to hold it in one hand.

I mean, yes, it seems like splitting hairs -- but at some point, a device goes from being 'heavy' to 'light'. Same with thickness -- at some point a device stops feeling 'chunky' and becomes 'lithe'. I just don't know where those thresholds are :) (but I'm sure that industrial designers put a lot of thought into it).

You understand that one of the old authors (Matthew Murray) wrote this story, right? :)

Yes, I agree, that would still be a successful outcome. In the last paragraph, I pretty much state that the web is in such a good state today because of Firefox -- I guess I should've explicitly tied the smartphone OS into that sentiment, too.

From a few conversations with various bigwigs at Mozilla, they're definitely not worried about absolute market share. They see themselves as custodians of the web. As long as everything remains open and free, then they feel like they've succeeded.

Hrm, well, it is Firefox that went from nothing to 25-30% in a few years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Browser_Wars.svg

Yeah, WebKit is old, but it wasn't until Chrome came along that it actually made inroads in Windows browser share -- and let's face it, that was the platform that developers focused on for over a decade, until the recent smartphone/tablet revolution.

Hey! No, no voting ring. But I do submit a lot of ET stories, that's for sure. I only try to submit stuff that I think is new/interesting/pertinent.

I think two or three ads per page is pretty good. I have seen some tech sites with much more than that. (As you probably know, running a free site that makes money from ad revenue is pretty tough at the moment, and isn't getting any easier.)

Apologies if you find the stories lousy. I try my best to dig up interesting stuff. Obviously the quality of the reporting isn't as good as if a professional cryptographer/material scientist/engineer etc wrote it -- but... I do the best I can :)

I've always liked that about my name -- it has a certain amount of ambiguity.

(It is Mr Seb though. Today, anyway.)

Yeah, the research paper notes that they need to implement 'coercion detection'. From page 12:

"Since our aim is to prevent users from effectively transmitting the ability to authenticate to others, there remains an attack where an adversary coerces a user to authenticate while they are under ad- versary control. It is possible to reduce the effective- ness of this technique if the system could detect if the user is under duress. Some behaviors such as timed re- sponses to stimuli may detectably change when the user is under duress."

Yep, from the research paper, page 4: http://bojinov.org/professional/usenixsec2012-rubberhose.pdf

Yeah, this came up the first time we wrote about OAM [0]. There's a pretty informative (and heated) discussion about it in the comment thread -- Bo Thide defending his work from attacks made by other scientists.

[0] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/120803-vortex-radio-waves...

Was wondering about this too, but presumably that might impact other people using the range? (If the ISP owns it, rather than TPB). I don't know the specifics of the various court orders/rulings though.

Well, it would be possible, but it would be slower, clunkier, more prone to errors, etc.

As soon as you store some data locally, you have to do a lot of sanity checking, and synchronisation is a pain, and so on.

Personally I think you should have the option of making an 'always offline' character, with no access to the AH, but I think that would involve Blizzard putting too much data on the client side -- which it obviously doesn't want to do.

Any idea what the tech behind it is? They're very vague on the website, and my patent searches are turning up empty.

I guess some kind of infrared thing?

Better start working on my arm muscles...

The Reuters article cites a source (a Korean newspaper) saying that the S3s are being made at Samsung's South Korea smartphone factory (which is in Gumi, I think).

Hrm, interesting.

Maybe I can go back to using the proper version, then!

Yeah, it matches up with how Americans pronounce it, too. British English speakers (like me) pronounce it 'ren AY sonce', while Americans pronounce it 'ren uh sonce'.

Yea, I was going to try and scale it accurately, but the S3 is in the foreground, so there's perspective to deal with as well -- so I decided to just leave it as-is. Maybe I should've put 'image is for illustration purpose only' at the bottom...

As much as I'd love to spell it "renaissance", it's an American site, so I have to write in American English :)

God save the Queen!

Good point, re: RAM!

I don't know what the plan is, re: non-volatile storage. I guess you could plug in a USB memory stick (v. cheap), or use the PCIe headers.

Makes me wonder how cheap Intel could make a computer, if it really tried, though. I guess profit margins are the only thing stopping it from building something cheaper/better than the Rasp Pi.