Posts by Nimby

US credit repair biz damages own security: 111GB of personal info exposed in S3 blunder

Basic Security 101 - Failed

The problem is that companies don't even follow basic security practices for handling this kind of data. The cloudy bitbucket is bad enough, but even then, had the data been properly encrypted, hashed, salted, with important columns separated into separate databases on unique servers / buckets, then the damage of exposure (whether hack or just bad configuration open to world + dog) would be minimal.

How many more decades do we have to go before companies are held significantly liable just for the fact of not storing the data according to basic security practices defined ages ago?

I'm not even asking for anything interesting or advanced. Just Basic Security 101 would be a massive improvement over "one server, one database, unencrypted, unprotected, open to world".

Microsoft to rebuild Redmond campus, including cricket pitch

Hotel (North of) California

You can opt-out any time you like, but you can never leave!

Its been downhill ever since (Win8)

If you think that Windows 8 was where Microsoft went wrong with Windows, might I point out the definitive failures Windows Vista and Windows ME?

It's been a fairly standard practice that every other version of Windows should be avoided. The jury is out on how to count 95 vs 95a vs 95b, 98 vs 98SE, and 8 vs 8.1 and how Service Packs should be counted. The jury is also still out on whether 10 fits the rule or not. (And this is only counting the desktop consumer line.)

Long story short is that approximately half of Microsoft's releases of Windows are so ridden with bugs that you almost forget about all of the features cut from the releases and leave you waiting for the next Windows version to replace it with something that actually works. So really, MS is still pretty much par for their course.

Microsoft Bob

I can't believe that no one has recommended they rename their campus to Microsoft Bob. How is this not a poll option?

Personally, I'd like to go to their campus to grab a pastrami sandwich at the Control-Alt-Deli and then catch a show at the Blue Screen theater. Afterward I could down a few brews at the Ribbon Bar where things only start to make sense under the influence of copious amounts of alcohol.

...And then wake up from the nightmare that is Microsoft and go ~.

The End of Abandondroid? Treble might rescue Google from OTA Hell

Sanity check failed, back to Land(roid)fill as usual.

Frankly, I'd sooner expect to see a startup company based on a legacy Android buyback program used to make cheap distributed computing servers (with built-in UPS) to make a bigger dent in the Antiquedroid problem than Treble ever will ... and I don't even expect said imaginary startup to ever exist!

Meanwhile, I'll be duct-taping a collective eBay extravaganza of an Intel Compute Stick, a 4G USB modem, a USB touchscreen, and a battery together to make my own full-OS phablet before I buy any of the latest "smart" phones. At least that way I'll have proper security, OS upgrades, software that actually does something ... and still have the same lousy battery life.

Shame no one can be bothered to make a product worth buying these days.

Container ship loading plans are 'easily hackable'

Too much effort.

Considering the number of human-error accidents and nature-related losses that happen all the time, who needs malicious activity? That's what insurance is for.

Besides, on the open seas be pirates. Yo ho ho and a cargo container of rum!

Frankly, I'm surprised that the system works at all. Is it secure? No. But it's the kind of insecurity that doesn't need hackers to exploit, so who cares how hackable it is?

Chainmail tires re-invent the wheel to get future NASA rovers rolling

My old glasses

The frames of my old glasses were a titanium alloy, super light, super bendy. 3D print a frame, powder coat, cinter up a wheel of titanium (alloy) foam, and there you go. Replaces bones. Replaces tyres. (On Mars rovers.) An expensive modern solution. (Kind of obvious if you ask me, and probably better all around than a memory-metal chain-mail tyre.)

Or do what an old Mennonite friend did, weld a bunch of rebar to reinforce and add traction to old tractor rims, sans-tyre. It may or may not climb a rocky hill, but it'll last forever. If it rides too bumpy, soften the suspension or drive slowly. Should be fine for a Mars rover. (Except maybe for the whole weight thing.)

Crypto-coin miners caught toiling away in hacked cloud boxes

Reverse-Cloud: Distributed Computing Service Provider

Sadly, these days I am not surprised that no one takes security seriously. No password protection? Sure! Saves time logging in, right?

I am however surprised that companies don't reverse-cloud with a distributed-computing client installed on every PC in their network in order to sell the processing power of unused cycles to world+dog. (After all, no one cares about security anymore, so why not...)

Sadly, I can even see companies running a reverse-cloud (on all of their PCs that were turned into thin clients when they moved all of their corporate systems to the cloud) in order to help pay for their cloud services.

And then complaining about how their voip phones all suck, oblivious to their networks not being able to handle the load of cloud + reverse-cloud + voip.

Apple slapped hard with $440m patent bill in VirnetX FaceTime spat

pTroll vs iTroll = viTriol

I sure wish there were some way that they could both lose. Why are so many battles these days only between evils? A lesser of evils is still evil. What happened to actually having likable choices with positive outcomes?

Sole Equifax security worker at fault for failed patch, says former CEO

It's 2017 and NO ONE practices basic security yet.

It's sad, but like every breach before it (and undoubtedly every breach after) by every major company and/or government agency, basic concepts of security that are industry-known were just plain ignored. Every single one has been and will be a "WTF?!" moment, and this one is no exception to that by any means.

Of course with limited-to-no accountability, is this really a surprise? Expect much more of the same in the future. As long as the government does so little, so will the children it herds. We have ridiculously complex building codes for planning/building a house to keep people safe, but we have next-to-nothing for critical life-impacting data storage.

What makes this one worse than all of the others is that it did not even involve "customers", as that would imply people signed up to something. No, this is a company that you can't even opt out of. They nom nom nom all your data to provide a questionable "service" and too bad to you.

At last, someone's taking Apple to task for, uh, not turning on iPhone FM radio chips

FM is Forever

Personally, whenever I shop for a new phone, having an FM radio is at the top of my must-have feature list. But then I spent a lot of years in the company of Madison's Solid Rock, 94.1 WJJO. So maybe FM only matters to people who have (or had) access to good music through it.

Still, when aliens invade and enslave humanity and radioactive hamsters from a planet near Mars nom on the datacenter cables, I'll still be able to listen in to the rag-tag gang of freedom fighters broadcasting from their mobile ad-hoc pirate radio.

So would activating FM save lives in a hurricane? Some, but probably not many. Would it certainly help people pick up the pieces after a hurricane has torn up the infrastructure and left people with absolutely nothing First World? Definitely.

I'm all for forcing everyone to include FM in phones for all NEW phones. And for companies choosing to push a software update IF their phone is capable. But forcing all existing phones to retroactively turn on the chip when proper connections to the headphone jack, USB port, or a real antenna has not been done? When real physical limitations make the chip useless, well that's just stupid.

Drunk canoeing no longer driving offence in Canada

"ignition unlocking devices and vehicle impoundment"

This needs some clarification.

If they mean to your car, why would tippy canoeing (Tyler too-ing) result in your automobile being impounded? The canoe I could see, but the truck / SUV / car / whatever that the canoe rode in on, that seems both rather inappropriate and excessive.

But if it goes the other way and they mean to impound your canoe, then what ignition is there on a canoe to (un)lock? Maybe you could handcuff the paddles together or something, but that's still a very inaccurate description.

And are kayaks also covered? What about rowboats in general? Dinghies?

I think this needs further study. I think it's time for a field trip to Canada and a ___load of beer.

Angst in her pants: Alleged US govt leaker Reality Winner stashed docs in her pantyhose

Have monkey, need typewritter...

I sure hope that when one day the NSA nabs and interrogates me, the transcripts of my captivity read a tad more intelligently than hers. Surely she does not talk like that in real life? The NSA injected her with something, right? Or maybe it was the nonstop Fox...

Dyson to build electric car that doesn't suck

Hate to beat a dead unicorn, but...

(Who are we kidding? I'd love to beat a dead unicorn!)

For some reason I keep imagining that the Dyson EV will look like the Chryslus Cherry Bomb.

On a more serious note, the only thing that I can think of where a new player could truly innovate would either be to:

A) Give us a decent frikken "battery". (Caps are a-okay too.) Tesla, WTF? You were supposed to make this happen and at an economy of scale. THAT never happened. Maybe Dyson can do what you couldn't.

B) Give us a novel idea of what a car could be, instead of what cars are. Such as what could be done with 4 independent wheel-hub motors, without any steering rotation on the front. (Or something else equally weird.) EVs don't have to play by the same mechanical rules ... but they ALL do anyway. Why?

Otherwise, in my opinion, Dyson's Folly will be just another me-too unicorn on wheels for people too lazy to pedal a bike around.

Scared of that new-fangled 'cloud'? Office 2019 to the rescue!

Can I just buy the MS-approved LibreOffice plugin please?

MS, I don't want your cloud. I don't even want your user interface. I just want to be able to save a "Word" document in LibreOffice and have a colleague using MS Office actually see it the way that I wrote it. I'll even pay an MS tax for this "feature". Come on. Twenty bucks for an official plugin from MS that makes File->Save actually work "right". (And by "right", I mean reproduces all known MS file format bugs in correct order to duplicate Word's results.) I have money! I just have no interest in, well, pretty much anything that you sell, especially if it involves anything that you claim makes it "better" than the previous version. Come on MS. Just meet me half way. Please!

Twitter reckons Trump's Nork-baiting tweet was 'newsworthy'

At least now we get to see if nuclear waste makes zombies.

Personally, I think this is exactly the correct behavior for world leaders who are looking to solve problems like global warming and overpopulation. A little nuclear winter will sort things right as rain.

Yes, sometimes it does concern me that this is the best that a democratic super-power has to offer the world, but then I remember that he actually lost the election, by popular vote, and that at the rate things are going the whole flawed system will soon self-correct. Then I sleep much better.

Now if you'll excuse me, I simply must scuttle off to my private under-mountain bunker...

Welcome to the future: Bluetooth jackets you can only wash 10 times. Gee, thanks, Google

Stop! (Hammer Time)

When the heck did it become socially acceptable again to wear jean jackets? (Especially by anyone not old enough to have been there.) That was one fashion faux pas (of many) that I didn't think was EVER coming back! Do they come with a free pair of stylin' Glasshole shutter shades? Oooh, what about parachute pants? (Not to be confused with Hammer pants....) It's no wonder a millennial won't wear a smartwatch. They must already have a giant clock suspended from a gold chain around their neck. Go get 'em Google and your spiffy jean jacket! I'm sure it's a brilliant idea with absolutely no obvious flaws.

Brit military wants a small-drone-killer system for £20m

These watermelons aren't going to hammer themselves!

You Brits are out of luck. In the States there's a simple solution. If we're talking about dealing with explosives smuggled on-board flying craft, then the answer is simple: employ the TSA. I figure a cannon designed to fire a TSA agent at a drone kills two birds with one stone. And when they run out of ammo, use FAA rank-and-file as the replacement. If it doesn't solve the problem outright, at least it makes it a better place. ;)

NASA, wait, wait lemme put my drink down... NASA, you need to be searching for vanadium

Just like us.

I'm still lost at the point where we assume that all life in the universe just so happened to evolve in exactly the same way as it did on Earth. Space is a pretty big place full of all sorts of weirdness, and the evolution of life forms is by definition adaptive. We don't even need to leave our own planet to find a few OMG! WTF? lifeforms. The oceans are full of them, and deep oceans don't get sunlight, but somehow life evolved there. I guess we need to start somewhere, but to me it seems like a pretty shaky premise to expect life to have been similar, even if our planets are so close. And it only gets less likely the further away you get...

Orland-whoa! Chap cops to masterminding $100m Microsoft piracy racket

Oh the humanity!

Just think of all of those Chinese pirates running on insecure Windows XP copies that could have had licenses for Windows upgrades, if only Liu hadn't stolen them and sold them to the US. It's a tragedy, I tell you!

From the Dept of the Bleedin' Obvious... yes, drones hurt when they hit you in the head

All about the Benjamins.

How is this any different than a hobbyist pranging the powerlines with their RC airplane? Or little Timmy hitting dad in the nerds with his Christmas helicopter toy? If you hurt someone or damage something you are liable for the damage and/or in the clink for assault, manslaughter, or whatever you did. Simple as pie. Easy as cake. Have a nice day. Hope you were insured.

You don't need more laws to cover something for which there are already clear laws.

Oh, right, but that has no fancy buzzwords to get more research and/or campaign funding.

GNOME Foundation backs 'freedom-oriented' smartphone

Eh?

I'm completely lost by the price point. The hardware seems ... not quite right either. The apps? Also a likely problem. The world of independent and/or secure phones with their new innovative OSes is literally littered with totally dead projects, one-off phones, and OSes that no one could update today if they still had the phone and wanted to. And I'm really not a fan of the latest Gnome interfaces. But uh ... yeah. Sounds like a real winner. I can't even begin to imagine why there's a crowdfunding shortfall...

I would love to see someone identify the issues and actually address them with a real plan for how to make a secure non-Apple non-Google phone with a lifespan longer than a pet hamster. Such a survival plan document would be way more interesting than phantomware specs for an overpriced piece of kit.

Mobe reception grief turns LTE Apple Watch 3 into – er, a dull watch

without its paired iPhone, the Apple Watch constantly tries to connect to nearby Wi-Fi

I can understand why this was never caught during testing. What Apple fanboi/grrl has ever been caught out without at least one iPhone on them? Surely Apple's fix to this bug is to buy an extra iPhone...

Equifax's disastrous Struts patching blunder: THOUSANDS of other orgs did it too

Security should be commensurate with the consequences.

I maintain a package of 3rd party software used in our company for development, so that all developers (and customers) have exactly the same versions of 3rd party components required by our software. It's simple enough in concept.

In practice, so many times we choose not to update because of API changes that we don't have the manpower to port our code to match. Other times it is simply a lack of management approval for the time needed to test that a 3rd party update does not crash our software before updating our package.

Heck, just ask NASA what their oldest operational computer still is, and why. So I totally understand intentionally not using the latest version of something.

But then our level of security impact is pretty darn low. We aren't storing a database of millions (billions?) of customer data, including highly private information like social security numbers. If we were, we'd be darn stupid not to instantly jump on every security update.

IMHO, to be blunt, if you want to play with Big Boy Data, then it's your balls on the chopping block if you don't properly secure it. If that's too difficult for your organization, then maybe your organization is in the wrong business. We need laws that punish with a severity based on impact. Maybe then a few more companies will take security seriously.

macOS High Sierra more like 'Cry Sierra' for Mac-wielding beta testers

What?

Apple pushes forward with a faulty "protection" mechanism that only serves to protect Apple from 3rd party developers, not to protect Apple consumers from Bad Things? Why I am shocked. Shocked! Surely that has never happened before!

Apocalypse now: Ad biz cries foul over Apple's great AI cookie purge

Hardcoding is bad, mmmmkay.

30 days? So every 31-day month sees weird bugs?

Besides, smart designers would have implemented a slider, letting the user decide what value they want, to go with the on/always-block/off tri-state checkbox.

What's that, Equifax? Most people expect to be notified of a breach within hours?

Equihax

Ah, Irony, if only there was something one could build from you.

Would you get in a one-man quadcopter air taxi?

Would you get in a one-man quadcopter air taxi?

Absitively! Posolutely! I've got a wingsuit, a GoCam helmet and Playlist of "Flight of the Valkyries", "Danger Zone" and "Saints Row Theme" ready to rock. I've been briefed on how to safely escape and clear the vehicle before deceleration. Just give me an f'ing pretense ... I mean excuse. It's time to make some magic!

Auto-makers told their autopilots need better safeguards

Call me crazy, but...

I remember the days when cars might spontaneously combust. You're just tooling along when whoosh! Time to pull over and put the fire out under the bonnet again.

Now we need to talk about secondary CAN bus backups in case a significant chunk of a vehicle is physically sheered off during a collision ... caused by TWO drivers who were not paying attention.

When did it become a requirement for cars to be made so darn smart to protect the people who became so damn stupid?

I'm thinking the only problem with the car was the nut loose behind the steering wheel.

Driving is always a potentially lethal endeavor. Anyone who forgets that driving is dangerous by watching an in flight movie instead of watching the road deserves everything that happens to them when a lorry cuts them off. Better them than the six year old kid running out into the street to get their ball. Driving is a privilege, not a right.

Bluetooth bugs bedevil billions of devices

And?

Actually, I'm a little surprised that anyone ever thought Bluetooth WAS secure.

That aside, it's BT. It's short-range. Most attacks fail pretty badly just for that reason alone. (What are you doing in my house?! I'm haxoring your PlayStation. Nya!) (Dude, stop following me! You're creepy! But I'm totally pwning your iThing. Just let me creepily tail you for another minute...)

So most hacks have to really really know you and super-secret James Bond you to even get at your gizmo without getting punched in the face. Which leaves most situations pretty secure because they are physically secure.

And if that's not enough for you, then just turn BT off. That was easy. And it just added another hour or two to your battery life.

Mobile industry begrudgingly accepts impacts of Apple, Google et al

Take with a Granryd of salt?

I don't think there was a single sentiment, let alone pseudo-factual statement, that I could agree with in that recap of Granryd's MWC stage show. I mean you kind of expect that sort of nonsense, what with preaching to the choir setting the tone for these things and all, but ... wow ... this must set a new record for BS, damn BS, and sales-tistics. Apple would be proud ... if they weren't just dissed.

FCC taps the brakes on fudging US broadband speed amid senator fury

On the face of it, the suggestions seem logical.

Um no, no it doesn't seem logical. Not at all. Not even a little bit. It is, in fact, the very definition of "illogical".

1. "MOBILE broadband" is no more broadband than the "SPECIAL Olympics" is the Olympics. Both may cover some pretty amazing things, given their limitations, but the qualifier makes all the difference. You can't just mix them together like they are the same thing.

2. What people SUBSCRIBE to doesn't mean $#!7 if it doesn't DELIVER. The whole purpose is to protect the consumer.

Boffins hijack bootloaders for fun and games on Android

And?

We design phones around the same concepts as we do computers, then act surprised when they exhibit similar vulnerabilities?

Big Tech fumes over Prez Trump's decision to deport a million kids

Personally, I detest Trumped-Up, and I think he's not only bungled this one badly (par for his course), but focused on all the wrong points. That aside however, I totally agree that ultimately this needed to go back into hands of the lawmakers. That is their job after all. And if you have an opinion, now is your time to tell those who represent you what your opinion may be.

It's important to remember that:

1) Most Dreamers aren't children. They only ARRIVED as children. They grew up. They got schooling. They got jobs. But what they did NOT get were work visas or green cards.

2) There is a huge world of difference between legal and illegal immigration. Having done a lot of the legal kind myself, legal immigration is a PITA, but it's the law, and it's ridiculously unfair to those who go through the efforts and costs to immigrate legally to just wantonly hand out to those who did not.

3) Dreamers were never made "legal". The whole program quantified their ILLEGALITY, but gave them a deferred deportation date, on a renewal basis, to get their $#!7 in order. They were ALWAYS on borrowed time, wishing on a fairy godmother riding a unicorn under a shining star, and they knew it. To pretend otherwise is ridiculous. It was in writing!

4) This whole situation was created by a CIRCUMVENTION of the law, and THAT cannot be allowed to stand. Even if Trumped-Up had gone the other way, it would have been taken out of his hands, for this very reason. So whatever he decided, ultimately, did not even matter in this case.

5) No one has as of yet said that all Dreamers will be deported, only that what was done, was done illegitimately. Now the legality will be correctly stipulated. No one has decided which way that will go or what options may yet be created. (But you would be a fool to sit on your asterisk and wait.)

6) If companies care so much that they will pay legal costs, need we remind them that there is absolutely nothing stopping any employer, great or small, from aiding and endorsing a Dreamer's proper LEGAL immigration, if they truly care.

Google's Hollywood 'interventions' made on-screen coders cooler

Every time I look around the office, I want to cry.

Why is real life never like it is on TV? WHY!?!

Clearly Google hasn't helped enough.

But at least TV/movie computers don't use 100 pt fonts anymore.

We experienced Windows Mixed Reality. Results: Well, mixed

and a Windows key that returns you to the desktop

I love Microsoft. They make everything so user friendly. I sure am glad that Microsoft leveraged their vast experience with Xbox gaming to design a brilliant Bob-Remastered experience that combines some of the worst of Nintendo's ideas (Virtual Boy + Wii-chucks) to make their me-too VR extra-special with added Windows buttons. Because disabling the Windows key on keyboards to prevent accidentally breaking immersion (and sometimes breaking the game) wasn't enough. With so many good ideas, how can MS go wrong here? What's that? Optional extra foot pedals that overlay random cat videos from Teh Interwebs on your Bob2 experience when pressed? I'm sold!

This Virtual Reality just got more REAL

"Microsoft’s virtual 'Cliff House'" "a sort of 3D Start menu" "you can furnish it with your own apps" "the theatre being the default place for films and videos."

Great! And where can I download "Cliff House" skins for my skin theater? It needs to be darker, seedier, have sticky floors, with red lanterns down a dark alley... Where do I "insert" my credit card? Wow, did I just get hacked? I got mugged! Ah, just like real life, only "virtual". This is way better!

Don’t buy that Surface, plead Surface cloners

Size really does matter.

I'm still waiting for a good 5 inch (real 1080p) Surface or clone, x86, with a fully working version of Windows, and GPS. I'd even settle for it being a phone, as long as it worked. (Emulation strictly forbidden.) Seems like a simple enough concept. Would love to be able to retire my ancient Viliv S5.

Patchy PCI compliance putting consumer credit card data at risk

Patchy PCI compliance putting consumer credit card data at risk

I tried feeding my credit card into my legacy PCI port, but it won't read from the chip. What software do I need, and is that how I enter my PIN? Do I need to flash my BIOS to support my credit card? Plz help!!!1 I just want to make sure that my credit card data is secure.

Deputy AG Rosenstein calls for law to require encryption backdoors

Simple ansswer: prove the concept.

I say we let them have their backdoors. But like any good technology, first it must be proven to work. So before the law forces world+dog to use it, first anyone who voted for, signed a dotted line, supported, etc. the backdoor is required to be a part of the Proof of Concept phase wherein all of their phones, bank accounts, emails, etc. are now all replaced with backdoored equivalents. Anyone else who wants to support this can also opt-in to this trial. And this trial must occur for no less than six months prior to forcing it upon everyone else. And there is no opting out or cancelling. You supported it, then are locked in to the trial to the end.

I figure just one week of that and random and sundry hackers of the world will have pwned them to hell and back and generally stolen all their money, pillaged their identity, ruined their lives, and badmouthed their dog enough to prove even to people as mentally deficient as these idiots just why exactly mandatory backdoored encryption is such a bad idea. LOL The remaining five months and three weeks or so is just me laughing endlessly.

When uploading comments to the FCC, you can now include malware

no known malware

Methinks they missed the point.

Couple fires sueball at Amazon over faulty solar eclipse-viewing goggles

A special place in hell, just for me.

I hate to say it, but this is a self-inflicted act of stupidity. I have no sympathy here. Stare at the sun, for an extended period of time? Really? Cheap pair of glasses or expensive, it's a dumb idea either way.

And that's even assuming they actually did, and that they actually suffered any harm whatsoever, and that said harm is not imagined or psychosomatic, which is the first thing that needs proving: the harm. Not to justify the litigation, but simply to know if, in theory, I should feel guilty about laughing at them.

Ice-cold Kaspersky shows the industry how to handle patent trolls

Not a win.

Personally, I am disappointed that Kaspersky didn't finish it. Here they could have invalidated a junk patent and bankrupted the troll. Instead they gave the troll a cheap escape hatch that left the rest of the world open to repeat offenses on the same patent, potentially even by the same troll. So their message to trolls was, "It's okay, we forgive you?" Consider me less than impressed.

Google ARCore brings augmented reality to relatively small audience

It's going to be interesting to see who takes the lead.

In a race that has no winners. Or an audience.

Just because there are theoretical niche uses for some new gee-wiz neato-keen shiny-shiny technology does not mean that it is in any way a money maker. Or that anyone more than 0.0001% of the potential market even care enough to make it a decision point when choosing Product A over Product B.

Phones could all have 3D screens like the ones Nintendo used for it's handhelds and "revolutionized phone gaming"... if anyone had wanted it. Just like how every so often someone tries to sell a phone with built-in joystick/controller hardware. But no one wants it.

Same thing here. Manufacturers, meet the almost absolute lack of interest that is your potential market. Pull your head out of your ARse and you'll see that you're the only one who came to your party. 'Tis a ghost town, my dear.

Tech soap-opera latest: Alexa marries Cortana, will share custody of customers

Alexa, Cortana, Google's Assistant, and Siri walk into a bar...

< Insert punchline here. >

Microsoft's fix for web graphics going AWOL? Disable your antivirus

Microsoft: Improving IT security since...

never.

US Navy develops underwater wireless battery-charging tech

How is this still a thing?

I guess I just don't get what makes this a novel innovation. We've had wireless chargers for how many portable electronics devices now? So we amp it up to do a drone. Underwater. Okay, a little tougher, but same basic premise, no? Now, back when Nikola Tesla experimented with this kind of stuff, that was innovation. Today, can't we just take that wireless power is possible for granted and that doing it in stranger environments (like underwater) can be assumed to be possible with little effort?

So, Nokia. What makes you think the world wants your phones?

Smart(er) Phones

I couldn't give a fig about a pseudo-Nokia "smart" phone. Nokia feature phones were where it was at. If someone wants to revive that Qt-based Symbian hotness, sign me up for two. (One for Wifey too.) Seriously. After years of hating every Android and iPhone I buy, I still keep going back to slotting my SIM into my old C6-01. If anyone could make a profitable niche for themselves in today's ridiculously over-saturated market of crap, its Nokia (or someone renting their name) selling feature phones, that both work as phones, and have usable features. (Something today's "smart" phones have neither of.)

Atari shoots sueball at KitKat maker over use of 'Breakout' in ad

Actually, now I miss my TI-85.

Darn. I miss my TI-85. I wrote (and played) Pong and Breakout clones on it instead of doing actual school work during high school. Between that and putting all of my math and science notes into programs as comments, it made school almost bearable. Do students today still need graphing calculators?

Re: breakout fitting

And Nestle's product does promote a Breakout of pimples.