When you install iOS updates, iTunes verifies the update's checksums with Apple's servers. If there's a mismatch, it won't let you install. Up until that point, modifying the iOS update file was a common jailbreak method.

What's to stop the NYPD from getting awarrant and finding out out his email address?

Sheesh, what the heck is wrong with people? This trend is like a decade old, and is still not safe.

Yeah, and what if they poison the food, which would kill even more people that way!

This was wonderful. I wonder if the people they were trying to interview them assumed this was part of some sort of prank. Ever since The Daily Show and some other YouTube pranks, I feel like politicians are afraid to get into unscripted stuff lest it go badly. It's a shame really.

James Randi has spent his life debunking psychics, cold readers, etc. He has a $1 million prize for anyone who can accurately do the paranormal stuff they claim in an actual science lab. Dozens of people try every year in his lab and fail.

I think thieves are getting smarter and putting the phone in Airplane mode so that they can't be tracked post-robbery. Even so, I turn on Parental Restrictions on the iPhone so that you can't disable the Find My iPhone feature.

You mean Apple's Find My iPhone feature? It's been built-in for years.

Will this mean they finally make the editions uniform? The problem is that Newsweek tends to censor the US version and run fluff pieces as the cover story while the rest of the world sees actual journalism.

But what makes it superior? I pore over the feature list and nothing seems so exquisitely better that I'm willing to ditch my iPhone and re-buy all the apps I want on android. NFC doesn't seem useful to me, and the cameras aren't that different.

Facebook is all but rolling up their checkin service. Foursquare was always better.

I actually like the new Maps. Vector based maps look great IMO, and I wasn't a big user of Street View (which wasn't available in my hometown anyway). Improvement for me.

This really shouldn't take that long to get a basic app out the door, sans 3D and turn-by-turn GPS features. Google's servers do most of the heavy work, and Apple's original google maps app is basically a scrolling app that loads more tiles and drops pins with search. Using the right dev tools, they could make…

Probably flooded from all the traffic

It's better to hold down Option (or Shift for Windows) and click Check for Update, which will upgrade the iOS device rather than erase and restore.

When the first iPad came out, one of the reviews said it was a great device for consuming, but not for creating. Apple worked to change that, and now the iPad 2 is very big on creating; taking notes, editing iMovies, creating Powerpoints, etc. The Kindle strikes me as a consuming-only device, and that puts it at a…

No, student suicide is not a big problem at NYU. There was a case where a student on drugs jumped, then a depressed student a few days later was inspired by the first to do the same. The school put up plexiglass years ago, this is just a new design.

I still don't know if I can trust LastPass. How certain are we that someone can't get ahold of your master password list, either through a hacker breach or a warrant?

There was a pause, a flash on the surface, then the vacuum began

I have my own theory on why Muslims search for "sex" on google more than any other group in the world (and depending on who's writing, therefore are more repressed or horny).