QSIITurbo

You're overestimating the significance of material left behind after death. What'll happen is children or anyone left behind will harvest the photos folder of your laptop and then throw the computer to trash. It's extremely unlikely that they'll find the time to go through your digital documents otherwise, let alone figure out passwords or continue your life work. Life goes on, assets will be sold, money distributed, and so on.

Lithium (carbonate) is a very old drug, cheap to manufacture, and non-patentable. It is essentially the lithium (metal) salt of carbonate (bubbling water). It is super cheap everywhere.

While you might think so, I don't think it's a fact that the psychiatrist would run out of patients without this child being diagnosed with bipolar.

What do you find confusing about these different medical conditions? Hydrocephalus is a condition that can arise from various defects in the brain, Dandy-walker is defined otherwise. Do you think that a CSF cyst is required for an individual to develop autism and if so, wouldn't the link be kind of obvious to medicine at this point?

No wait, now I can :)

As you can see, the linked article concerns treating intracranial cerebrospinal fluid cysts when treating hydrocephalus (and is effective as far as I know). Now: what does this treatment have to do with the cyst presented in the original blog? The purpose of the shunt in your link is to allow venting of cerebrospinal fluid. Is the cb-fluid flow somehow blocked in the case of the autistic brother in the blog or is the cyst located in a place where shunting does not make any sense?

The article does not ctrl-f to cysts, but I would be more interested to hear how you'd go about removing or treating a cyst in a developing brain 20-25 years ago. Any suggestions?

I'm under the impression that Marfan does not necessarily imply valvular defects. So are you certain that your doctors missed the Marfan (which is very easy to recognise in severe forms), or just that they did not bother to mention it (since there is no cure / need to treat)? The valvular defect was detected aurally, I presume?

It should be pretty obvious: rape is like any violence, but it also involves the victim's sexuality. Now imagine fucking someone and getting flashbacks about being raped... Yeah, not so funny anymore. "PTSD" from regular beating is pretty easy to overcome compared to that and in any case does not taint lovemaking, which is a very important feature in most of our lives.

Yeah. While they're at it, why not change every function to return "int". Then just cast to proper type at usage. /s (And no, bool is not the proper way to go either.)

But seriously, I'm amazed that code this critical uses sloppy typing. I mean, they might as well use Python ffs. Maybe it's historical burden?

As far as I can tell: He is extremely easily amused and has a terrible case of urinary incontinence. The former will heal with age, but the latter will get worse.

Well you have the right to feel offended, but he really didn't "follow logical steps and make a fair enough point" as his idea was completely wrong when it comes to signing installation packages.

Meh, just admit you didn't realise how packages are signed and move on. TLS shouldn't and cannot be used to sign installation packages. After all, TLS stands for _Transport Layer_ Security...

That's not how signing works. Also, if the signing is indeed implemented correctly, then the updater cannot have been compromised earlier.

This and the fact that they didn't release the OS X patch at the same time as the iOS patch constitutes a total FUBAR: The mistake they made was so basic that one wonders why on earth some junior / non-sec developer was working on a critical security component. Heads should be rolling.

If I understood correctly, they were also intermixing tabs and spaces (the web view implied so), so they also have that problem. (Just require spaces and ban tabs automatically so you know there's no way anyone can fuck things up).

The app in this article is rubbish, and there are several others like it already in the app store. This was probably just an advertisement for the company, and since HN has knee-jerk reactions to anything containing the word Apple, it seems to be working.

"Still doesn't mean the authentication side is secure though."

It doesn't mean it cannot be made secure, either.

Some keycards are even completely disposable (paper / cardboard), though most of them are reprogrammable (plastic). I've seen hotel personnel swipe the card to grant me access to my room (with a new and/or unique key, etc.)

"mechanical lock vulnerabilities are preserved"

I've never been to a hotel that uses an ordinary key since those can be easily replicated, so that point is moot: all the electronic locks (most common these days) already have this "vulnerability" ("so why put a lock there in the first place?").

Second, since this system is being developed to use a smartphone, the security is easier to manage than a PIN code (such as 000000...). One can use centralised key-servers, etc.

Third, the company making these locks (the physical part) is ASSA Abloy, which is an extremely reputable lock company instead of the one in your link.

I would feel more safe buying second hand iPhone than I would feel when buying an Android. Sure, the iPhone can also be compromised, but it is less likely.

In any case, it's not Apple's responsibility to make open hardware, since there already are open alternatives. It's not economically viable for a company to support non-inteded purposes of use.

I'm not sure I follow you. ADB was ahead of its time, and a precursor to USB, but nobody's claiming it was an open protocol. What was important from an electrical engineer's POV was that the connector could be replaced using off-the-shelf parts. That was because the connector was standard. If you wanted to develop for Apple, you had to own a company and strike a deal with Apple. Not so easy, but certainly possible.

Now, if you just wanted to hack peripheral hardware at the time, you would have invested in a lot cheaper (expendable) computer with a standard serial / parallel port, so I don't really understand what you are saying.

So what? Being a standard connector made it easy to repair the connector. What more would you want? Implement the ADB ASIC? Why on earth would you have done that instead of licensing from Apple?

True, but DIN is about as standard as it gets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-din