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Dozens of screws and a 'tar pit' of glue spell 'keep out' Teardown We knew that Microsoft's Surface Pro 2 tablets wouldn't stray too far from the original Surface Pro design - but according to the tool-and-part masters at iFixit, the new tablets are virtually identical to the old ones – meaning they're just as difficult to repair. Surface Pro 2 with docking station The Surface Pro 2 looks a lot like the original Surface Pro, and it's built the same, too iFixit's teardown of the new slate reveals that its guts are full of thick, tacky glue and more than 90 screws, just like its predecessor. And just like the first Surface Pro, it earns a Reparability Score of 1 out of 10 – which, as iFixit observed last time around, is the lowest score ever received by any fondleslab. In fact, a lot of the Surface Pro 2 internals looks familiar. The new motherboard is virtually the same as the old one, except that it's now a shade of bluish-green and some of the components have been sourced from new suppliers. If you can pry it open without destroying it, you'll find familiar components inside The biggest change, naturally, is that the new Surface Pro is powered by a fourth-generation Intel Core i5 processor based on the Haswell microarchitecture, instead of the original Surface Pro's Ivy Bridge chip. But it's a 1.7GHz quad-core processor, just like the old one, so you're not likely to see much performance improvement. The Intel Core i5-4200U CPU (boxed in red) is one of the few significant upgrades Any gains in battery life are going to be mostly down to the Haswell design, because the Surface Pro 2 uses the exact same LG "Escalade" 42 watt-hour battery as the original Surface Pro, rated for 7.4 volts and 5676mAh. It's a nice battery, as iFixit noted in its teardown of the first Surface Pro. But it didn't exactly give that slab what you'd call a stellar battery life, and early reports suggest the Surface Pro 2 performs only marginally better. Microsoft is clearly still expecting a fair amount of heat from the new processor, too, because the Surface Pro 2 includes what iFixit describes as a "notebook-worthy" copper heat sink and the same twin miniature fans as the earlier-generation Surface Pro, although the fans are designed to run less frequently in this model to save power. The Surface Pro 2's SSD by SK Hynix is rated for much faster write speeds than the earlier generation Other components are slightly different from those used in the original Surface Pro, but only slightly. Microsoft has swapped out the Surface Pro's Micron SSD for a 128GB SK Hynix HFS128G3AMNB. Like the earlier drive, it's a 6Gbps SATA number, but while its rated read performance is similar to the Micron drive's at 505MB/sec, its write performance is much better at 470MB/sec, rather than the Micron drive's 95MB/sec. Redmond has also gone with SK Hynix as its RAM supplier this time around, where the first-generation Surface Pro used Micron for that, too. The Surface Pro 2 uses four H9CCNNN8JTML 1GB DDR2 chips to get its 4GB total memory, as opposed to the eight chips that went into the Surface Pro. Still, other pieces are unchanged. The Surface Pro 2 uses the same three Atmel MXT154E touchscreen controllers as the Surface Pro, for example, plus the same Realtek ALC3230 audio chip and the same Marvell Avastar 88W8797 integrated Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM radio controller. Compare the motherboard to the Surface Pro's and you'll see there's not much change But the biggest similarity between the Surface Pro 2 and the original Surface Pro is a disappointing one, in that all of these components are still painfully difficult to get to. The display is, as iFixit put it, "trapped like a baby diplodocus in a treacherous tar pit of black adhesive," and the battery is also glued to the case, not to mention all of those pesky screws. This means that while it's technically possible to swap out the SSD and the battery, as was the case with the Surface Pro, you can't even get at these components without an arduous opening procedure that involves a heat gun and a very steady hand. "One slip-up," iFixit's repair gurus explain, "and you'll likely shear one of the four ribbon cables in the edge of the display." You've made it this far – now get out your glue gun and put it back together It was for this reason that the original Surface Pro received an even lower Reparability Score than the 2 that iFixit gave to Apple's fourth-generation iPad, and while we have yet to see how the new iPad Air fares on the same scale, the Surface Pro 2 scores just as low as its predecessor. The result is a tablet that is practically unrepairable and is therefore, in essence, disposable. The Reg has criticized Microsoft before for adding to the pile of discarded tech in the world's landfills, and we're disappointed to report that the Surface Pro 2 does nothing to slow this trend.

Did you hear? Apple unveiled its latest iPad – the iPad Air – yesterday. The company boasted that it was the lightest full-sized tablet in the world at just 1 pound, and even tossed in free iLife and iWork apps to sweeten the deal for those buying the new 64-bit tablet. Now, new Apple products are always a source of joy for the ardent Apple devotee, but it’s also a source of humor for everyone else. Enter NMA – it’s latest parody revives the ghost of Steve Jobs for one more sketch as it makes fun of everything from the iPad’s dwindling marketshare to Apple’s developer policies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1QgiaJqlVQU Google’s latest smartphone – the Nexus 5 – and tablet – the Nexus 10 – are expected to be unveiled next week. Here’s hoping NMA has more fun with that next week.

Yesterday, Apple not only released its OS X Mavericks operating system, it also announced that it would be free. That's great! For you, for Apple, and for the future of computing. Releasing Mavericks for free seems like a simple idea. And in theory, it is. But in practice, the logistics are a bit more complex. Not only have previous versions of OS X actually made Apple money, which Apple is now passing up, but offering up big files for download costs Apple money. Especially when everyone and their brother (or in this case, millions of existing Mac owners) is pulling down an update. Mavericks isn't just free for you, it's expensive for Apple. But don't you worry about Cupertino. They're still coming out ahead. Why it's good for you For starters it's free. Duh? But that helps more than just your wallet. The real benefit is that it's way more likely now that everyone else will have Mavericks too. To see the benefit of getting all devices in an ecosystem on the same page, you don't need to look much further than Apple itself. Unless you really go out of your way to run away from updates, your iPhone is running the same OS as everyone else. Ditto the iPad. And unity is a large part of what makes the iOS App Store second to none. Likewise, the Mavericks update should make developing for Macs a whole lot easier. Devs will now be able to reasonably assume that everyone is running the same operating system. Granted there's different hardware, but not much of it. So instead of retooling and optimizing for different versions of OS X, developers can just develop for OS X, period. That means more, better apps for you, and more websites and services taking advantage of new features like smart notifications. You couldn't ask for a better situation. Along with the flurry of hardware updates, Apple announced substantial upgrades to iLife and iWork. Features run the gamut from seamless integration… Read… Speaking of apps, there are the new (also free!) versions of iLife and iWork to look forward to, complete with features like new interfaces and cloud syncing. And again, it's great for you to have them, but doubly great to know everyone else does as well. It makes collaboration in iWork almost as natural of a go-to as Google Docs. Just like iMessage benefits from more of your friends being on iOS, iWork and iLife will by more people being on Mavericks. And that little detail can suddenly make a MacBook so much more useful, even if it's (up to) five years old. Suddenly there's an even playing field that everyone gets to be on, for free. Your Mac will play nice with your iPhone will play nice with your iPad and you don't even have to think about it. That's a fantastic reason to buy into Apple right there. And if you already had, what you've got is now even better. Why it's good for Apple Yeah Mavericks is great for you, but it's even greater for Apple. Yes, they're losing a little of revenue up front. But this is about the long game. Apple has always been a devoted soldier in the holy war against fragmentation. And with this one move, it can easily suck up the (Snow Leopard and up) world of Mac users, drop them in the future, and deal with them as a unified block. You've got your iOS users and your OS X users. Simple as that. And with OSX users cordoned off into one space, it's extra easy for Apple to try to get you in for life. iLife. The new, compelling cloud features in iLife and iWork (which all OSX users who are picking up new hardware will have!) are a great way to get you really wrapped up in MacWorld and stay there for ever and ever and ever. And every person who winds up storing just a little more of their iLife in the iCloud just because Mavericks is free is another customer who's more faithful than ever. Besides, there are few things that can generate marketing good will like "free." That's not sinister or anything, it's just Apple's latest push on a core ideal: a great, consistent world for its users to live in. A world that's Apples to Apples. And inside that world, everybody wins. Why it was inevitable The end of Mac is coming, and this update is a heavy nod to that near-future. Mavericks in and of itself doesn't mean that iOS and OS X are definitely on a path to converge or that the merge is imminent. But it will happen eventually, and when it does, OS X updates (or whatever it's called at that point) will have to go free. You can't just start charging to upgrade an iPad. So did Apple just kill the paid OS update forever, for real? It's a coup de grâce if anything; the paid OS update has been dying for years. Even now, when the hard evidence to suggest that a OSX/iOS convergence is in the works, we're already seeing this move towards mobile, where the baseline price there is already "free." And with the cross-platform hooks in iLife and iWork, the cables that will contract to pull the two operating systems closer together until the eventually merge are already in place. You can actually see Microsoft running into the implications of this already. Windows 8.1 already sort of walks a line between incremental OS update and Service Pack, and it's free for (Windows 8 users). But if you think ahead a little further, Windows 9 will be a weird thing to price. Asking folks for money to upgrade their desktops is fair, sure. But can you imagine Microsoft having the gall to charge for upgrading to Windows 9 RT (if it even ever exists) on a Surface 2? It seems absurd. And it looks like Apple is headed down a similar road, except it's making its changes ahead of time. By the time iOS and OSX come together, upgrade cycles and payment schemes aren't going to be something you have to think about any more. There will just be a suite of devices, some big, some small, some with keyboards, some without, and they'll all work together, play together, and upgrade together. For free. It's a small sacrifice to make; Apple makes its money off of beautiful, high-margin hardware, end of story. That's why the iPhone 5S is (probably) outselling the iPhone 5C. It's why an underspec'd, over-priced, but still beautiful little tablet managed to make it into millions of hands. It's why the new retina iPad mini is $400 versus its $230 (and mostly comparable) contemporaries. And why it will sell like hotcakes regardless.

We didn't get a new verision of Android at Google I/O, but it's not like there weren't enough already. As Apple pushes on into the beautiful iOS 7 future and brings the lion's share of its user-base along, there's still a lot of Android users stuck in a multiple OS-ghettos. Apple's walking into the launch of its new iOS7 with a whopping 93 percent of users on the current operating system, with virtually everyone else just one version behind. Android on the other hand is almost an even split between current versions and the past two. It's this kind of unified user base that really gives Apple an edge especially when it's diving into a brave new design world like iOS 7. Meanwhile, kids in the Android slums weep silent tears onto Gingerbread screens. What's wrong with fragmentation? DeGusta does a fine job of explaining how fragmentation screws over Android owners in terms of security and app development. he says as one example. On the flipside, he notes that Apple iPhones are updated on day one of a major iOS release, simply because Apple enjoys a direct relationship with its phone owners. On the other hand, Android has to dig through unmotivated cell phone manufacturers and conservative carriers send an update. DeGusta concludes.

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There has been a lot of discussion about how it is unsafe to use BitTorrent over Tor. A well known and dated paper described a number of attacks which could be used to expose a users real IP address. http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/47/15/56/PDF/TorBT.pdf It's not that BitTorrent can't be used safely over Tor, it's just that various popular BitTorrent clients do things in such a way as to lead to IP address leaks. I use Vuze on an Ubuntu system, and I think I've managed to lock it down to make it safe to use over Tor. Before I go any further, I am not interested in discussing the moral implications of using BitTorrent over Tor. This has been discussed many times before, and the fact remains that there are legitimate use case scenarios. There is no point in only sending your tracker communications over Tor. You will connect to others peers directly and thus they will know your IP address. You need to send peer communications over Tor as well. If you configure it to use the SOCKS proxy provided by Tor, for tracker and peer communications, you'd expect that to be enough. Well... it's not. If Vuze fails to connect to the tracker over a SOCKS proxy, it falls back to making a direct connection. Other popular BitTorrent clients also do this apparently. I tried wrapping Vuze in tsocks to prevent this problem, but it continued anyway for reasons I haven't figured out. So I edited the system wide Java configuration to force connections to go through the proxy. The file to edit is called "net.properties". On my system this can be found inside /etc/java-6-openjdk/. Once I made this change, Vuze stopped making direct TCP connections outside of Tor. Luckily for me, the only Java app on this system is Vuze so I can make that change without affecting other apps. Vuze also uses UDP for some traffic though, which bypasses the proxy. You need to turn off DHT to prevent this traffic. I'm not sure if anything else causes UDP traffic though so I added a couple of firewall rules to prevent all external UDP traffic just to be safe. I still allow UDP packets to/from my DNS resolver though of course. Turn off UPnP as well; this stops Vuze from opening up ports on your router. The paper also described a problem where the BitTorrent client sends its own IP address to the tracker. I don't know if this is something which Vuze does, but I don't think it is. I spent some time looking at the contents of HTTP communications between Vuze and different trackers and didn't see my IP in there. But even if Vuze does do that, I believe I am safe anyway... I use NAT so the machine Vuze is running on doesn't even know my external IP address, and the fact that all Vuze traffic is going out through Tor means that Vuze shouldn't be able to figure out my real IP address, only the one belonging to the exit node. You can actually run any BitTorrent client safely within Tor if you know how. Set up a Linux virtual machine on your box which uses NAT, and follow these instructions. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TransparentProxy Now any network traffic that occurs on that box is either relayed through Tor, or blocked. No apps running on that virtual machine know your real IP address so they couldn't leak it even if they wanted to. Neat uh?

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Truth is, I've stolen this gif from an admin signature in a french forum... and that's really amused me!

After many year of training and experience, finally the French policeman may start to fight the crime!

That's a really great news! I'll go and put my email to get the app for iOS as soon as I can. Thanks for sharing this, Cheers Update: seems that I can just download the version 1.0.1.108 from iTunes right now, no need to leave my email and then waiting in line. Installing.... New Update: you got it right HM! I've installed the application, but then I'm in line waiting for the needed activation for my email address.

No chance to beat a running car, but at least nothing seems to hurt him!

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I think that will be useful to know what the server time is it, so to better understand when the last Shoutbox comment was posted and the like. Is it difficult to implement?

Ebriection mental breakdown from too much drinking

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Interesting and very handy, thanks for the informative post! Cheers

Try if you see this one.... I've posted the same image on another image host

How come we live in 3 dimensions? Not 2, not 4, not 7.3, but 3? Is there something special about that number of dimensions? This video tries to explain. While there's no obvious answer—it's kinda just the case—there are some compelling theories as to why our universe works best in 3D. But I'll let New Scientist explain—they can do a far better job than I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ceM_0yxSv-4

Bangladesh? I've never thought about it, but now that I have found a 'contact' I'll make a serious thought on it. Thanks for telling us about it, and please, provide some more info and perks that may interest us so much to raise our desire to visit your Country. Why do you advice us to come and visit Bangladesh? What there is to do and to watch there? Please, tell us more...

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Sad news for the internet freedom, but at least they have settled and isoHunt will not pay... but will close!

I'm still waiting for GTA V on pc... hope that some good soul will share it on CP... HOPE SO!