If this were real, which is obviously not in this video ... but probably technically feasible ... Everybody will be able to read your emails and the pages you visit when you go to someplace like Starbucks, so there is nothing cool about this effect

@pmx: yo tampoco vistito la version en español, y por lo que veo la mayoria de nosotros no lo hacemos... sino mira como estos post se fueron al carajo de tema.

@DeLarge: PMX es argentino, entiende perfecto la diferencia entre podria y pudiese. El decia que los de MTVLA son los que la tienen que aprender.
Aprender español no es mas dificil para alguien que habla inglés que aprender inglés para alguien que habla español, es inutil entrar en discusiones al respecto ... Preguntale a alguien que estudie/enseñe lingüistica.

If what you want is to "jailbreak" (ie run 3rd party apps) this tool is not for you, you are better off with this one [download.ziphone.org] just plug your phone shut down itunes and select jailbreak. Then follow the instructions. Its pretty much a one click deal.

pwnage does this too but its like using a cannon to kill a fly.

posted mirror for the tool is:
[iphonebigboss2.com]

OSX only for now.

It is the real thing, no joke. I wont post a link to it, as i dont think Giz allows that, but it's easy to find in TPB (hint search for 5a225c)

@mms1648: yeah me neither, the whole theiphoneproject.org site is down.

Strangely enough not even the website for the "event" says what it means. I guess its only for hip fanboys .. err people to know

This is nothing as the Gov of NY case, he is not an appointed official using official funds to buy his vices ... he's filthy rich, let him do what he wants, when he wants, how he wants it done with his money.

I fully agree with georgejetson, the real wrongdoer is the asswipe who filmed this and sold it to the tabloids.

And texting while driving on an iphone sounds like something out of a SF movie ! I miss 1 in 5 keys while sitting down at my desk... just thinkg of doing it driving, holding the steering wheel with my knee makes me laugh.

Have a full screen background image art divided in 4 by its diagonals with next / prev top and bottom (or vol up/down) and rew/ff left and right ... making the buttons 100% transparent when not in use (BUT STILL USABLE) and having them @ say alpha 50% when in use for a couple of seconds ... not too hard to do at all.

The best keyboard app for the iphone i've seen is HapticKB by two students (welsh was it?) that makes the iPhone vibrate on key press/change and vibrate differently on release. Just a tech demo app but VERY cool.

If i had to place a bet, it's be that he did it with an image with some "payload" in it that got interpreted by Safari, similar to the old jalibreakme (?) site for the iphone.

So the exploit is really cool actually, just visiting a website made your macbook pwned. I wonder if this was run behind a corporate firewall too ? i think it would probably work as nothing was downloaded to the mac.

And to those thinking he hacked the MacBook air for "value" you are waaaay off. He hacked the one he knew better in the fastest way he knew how, the bragging rights of this are worth 10 MacBook Air put together.

The speed of the hack makes it almost plain that he knew about the existence of this bug before hand. a derivative of the original iPhone safari exploit ?

Contrary to popular belief, M$ did its homework securing Vista, there obviously are still some exploits for it but most require some interaction by an unaware user, like downloading a malicious DRMd WMV ...

Nevertheless cool as sh*t

@nutbastard: Not to nitpick your math, but 12 tons = 12.000.000 grams :D

@D.LYTE: Just as governments dont rule in what is not educational for you (As an adult) and not ban, for instance, stupid reality shows. They should not rule in what is not healthy for you. You should be able to buy FDA approved Cocaine, MDMA, Heroin, LSD, etc. With recommended dosage, and over dosage cautions etc. There are a lot of deaths and o.ds every year for bad cuts/batches.

I also agree that "they" ban these chemicals because of the detrimental effect on a "productive" society, because a LOT more people die every year from lung/throat cancer than drugs and cigarettes are not banned, you can't smoke them almost anywhere, but the government still collects taxes on their sales instead of just baning them. Same goes for alcohol. Hell, even cholesterol kills more ppl than drugs and they don't ban McDs do they ?

It has to be temporary as its one, if not the, most known structures in the world. To alter it permanently would be almost sacrilegious.

And as twoeightnine said, just how do you think the rest of the tower is held up? yup 120yr old bolts (ok there were obviously maintenance replacements, but you get the idea).

:S

Errrr... they tell me, that usually you get better pricing for stuff like that. At least in my country.

Nextel is pretty hard (not impossible) to mess with, as are satellite comms (á la iridium)(also NOT impossible) tho obviously both parties need to be using the service ie: nextelnextel SatSat.

There are several "anon" voip (skype) services you can use, provided you connect to them thru one of the open or payed vpn services (relakks). These could be used by only 1 party, but obviously no CC can be used to purchase the voip->landline minutes.

Compression is not a bad thing. Bluray is compressed, so is HDDVD, so are DVDs. It would be impossible otherwise. Do the math for 720p:
1280*720*3(24bits color)*24(fps)* 60(s)*60(min)= 238,878,720,000 bytes/hour (239gb/h) for 720p uncompressed video alone.

Size is meaningless, this is not a puny desktop player you are talking about, but full-blown computers. The important things are frame-size, bitrare, audio bitrate, audio channels. Compression is the keyword.

The problem is HD space and DRM, I buy a movie i want to keep to watch when i want, how i want, how many times i want, sadly with most of the (legal) downloaded content this is not so.

Its not too original, but fun nonetheless. Wiping the screen with her top would improve this 100%

I wonder what medium they are using for saving that amount of infromation... Quantum memory?

Tried it once on a country road on a night with little moonlight and a night-vision camera ... results were not good. You cant use an ir illuminator because it just reflects off the windshield and whites out the image.

This is a cool toy tho

@bender: as nutbastard said, they DO have a scale on them more times than not, it obviously depends on what they are selling, E or Blotters no scale ... blow or mdma scale.

@complainers: next year at CES a company (JV of Moto and Panny?) announced they´ll be presenting a VR simulation of what's like to have a sense of humor.

@lunarstreaker: Of course you are free to think any way you like, but why do you believe you are qualified to judge that their way is worse than "ours", that their religion is worse than yours or mine? Anyway, those were really nice holiday sentiments, basically what Christmas is all about. Racism, lack of respect for other people´s beliefs and customs. Say... jews don´t eat pork either maybe you could stuff them too while you are at it.