Saw it last night and couldn't take my attention away from the movie. It's not about 'hacking' per se. It's about certain people discovering things that they weren't supposed to and then trying to be nabbed by powerful forces.

How about phones with secondary 'erase all' lock codes? Once in that mode they keep erasing (NAND flash memory) continuously whenever they are powered.

Go back to analog phones where you sounded like yourself and friends could tell who you were without a name on the screen.

Our Xerox ColorQube has internet printing protocol built in. We give it a fixed IP Address and print to it from wherever we are, with no extra steps. I'm in a hotel on the road and I just print normally to the printers at home. It was an early concept of the internet and I've been doing it this way since the early…

VHS also had built-in timers first. You could set the VCR to record at 7:00 PM. They had a few other user features first. I favored Sony and Beta but saw why it lost out.

I worked in Menlo Park. The direct route was 101 but I averaged 30 mph. After 2 days of stop and go stress, I took 280. It was twice as long but traffic flowed at 60 mph and was a lot less stressful and was safer and didn't wear my head out just getting to work.

Should make cattle sterilization and tattoo removal easier.

Analog, like vinyl.

Which city? The full moon doesn't occur on the same date in all places. This full moon is on June 12 in California but June 13 in New York.

Uh, yes.

I actually achieved the high scores and took a photo. This was when very few people had an expensive setup with the earliest Photoshop, and I could have modified the scores. I even had a dye sublimation printer that could fake out a real photo, which was what you had to mail to Nintendo Power. I never did fake a…

I constantly had the top score for Gameboy Tetris in the Nintendo Power rankings. It got to where they wanted fresh names in the list and said they would not accept my submissions any longer. So I spelled my name backwards (Evets Kainzow) and changed the city from Los Gatos to Saratoga. Sure enough, they printed that…

With early Apple Laserwriters came a booklet on manuscript design, primarily dealing with fonts. It explained where to use serif fonts (sentences, paragraphs) and where to use sans serif fonts if desired (headings, short phrases, ads). This booklet also explained the reasons. It's like 1 or 2 spaces after a period for…

Anyone should be able to buy a gun as long as they won't ever get mad or careless.

I would never snoop, even on a child's phone. The other person could only wind up hating and distrusting you. I would however press SIRI while they aren't looking and say "set an alarm for 3 AM."

He's an early adopter of the self driving car.

Essential services which are basically monopolies are what defines them as public utilities in need of regulation. It has nothing to do with fees or flat rates. Look at landline phone service. When a utility is granted a monopoly in a geographic area, regulation is needed to insure that everyone within that area is…

So this means that if we donate money to cancer research, we increase the death rate due to heart attacks. And vice versa. And every life we save means an additional death in a later year. Don't worry, be happy.

The cops didn't think it was a gun. Look at their behavior after they had the phone and it was very obviously not a gun. They could have gotten the phone quickly and then returned it after inspecting it.

Coke, or companies that can the coke, must have repurposed their equipment once it became illegal in the U.S. since these are in many countries.