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Btw, how reproduce it? I can't find any technical details about this hack


The last paragraph in the article:

"The researchers say they have warned Apple of the error, and are refraining from releasing technical details about it until after the company has issued a fix. Apple did not respond to a comment request ahead of publication."


They haven't disclosed technical details publicly.


What a shame. This would've been a neat prank at work (I'm the only Android user in an office full of iPhone/iPad users).



Because why not?




Nice idea. But in this case, i need to verify, that this is the same robot, because robot can do nothing, or play like a noob in first 9 games, but last game will be played by user through UI.

And you can't verify this, because there is different "worlds" and robot can be not so good, for solve some game problem in some random world.


One possibility is to drop the best and the worst results, like in a diving contest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving#Scoring_the_dive

> To reduce the subjectivity of scoring in major meets, panels of five or seven judges are assembled. If five judges then the highest and lowest scores are discarded and the middle three are summed ...

Also, make them play 100 games, and drop 10 of them.

This may work if it is a fast paced game. If it is slow paced with a complex strategy, then a good player may play like in a chess simultaneous exhibition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_exhibition


>I follow 30,000 accounts on Twitter

oh God why?


I use Twitter as a broadcast medium. People follow me for news and very short form analysis. 80% of the hits to my blog and column come from Twitter. Of course I have a lot of followers and it is rude not to follow back.


Rude not to follow back ? Is it rude to be honest ?


OK, set aside the judgement on rudeness for now. Twitter limits the number of people you can follow with daily limits and rate limits and a hard stop at 2,000. In order to follow more than 2,000 you need first to be followed by around 1,900 people. There are many people who would like to generate a large following. After all, the most influential/interesting people (and celebrities) are followed by millions. Therefore many people unfollow non-followers so they can move on to follow someone who does follow back. Think of it as a karma system that has real world relevance because the number of followers you have is public and often your Twitter handle is associated with your real identity. So, if you do not follow everyone who follows you will lose folowers. Unless you are Justin Bieber of course.

The rude part is that someone took the microsecond required to follow you and now they have to use a tool to find their unfollowers (you), unfollow you, and follow someone else.


Who you follow is a reading list for people who share your interests. Polluting it with people whom you follow just as a hat tip is rude. Also, following uninteresting people makes your stream unusable. In my book, keeping a high signal to noise ratio is the epitome of politeness. I guess that we don't use Twitter for the same reasons...



Also, self-redirect bug: http://fry.io/bk


Hmm, thanks! That should be fixed from now on.


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