SmileyRedBall

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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
How did this malware compromise the iPhone in the first place. Did Apple insert a backdoor for the spooks that was discovered by a third party. It wouldn't be the first time as Google is reported to have inserted a government backdoor
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/08/apple-offers-customer... “There is no cost to join Apple’s independent repair program. To qualify for the new program, businesses need to have an Apple-certified technic
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
@docker_up: "Shareholders definitely have a great chance to sue Musk" Your concern for the shareholders is duely noted :]
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
The full title is ‘“HE’S FULL OF SHIT”: HOW ELON MUSK FOOLED INVESTORS, BILKED TAXPAYERS, AND GAMBLED TESLA TO SAVE SOLARCITY’. Makes me wonder are we in the middle of yet another Tesla shorting cycle. Buy some shorts, trash Tesla in the me
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
Stranger then Fiction, you couldn't make it up, no one would believe it: “This tendency towards pseudoreligiosity surfaces most clearly in Campbell’s relation with that mountebank and founder of exploitative cults, Hubbard” L. Ron Hubb
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
@NeedMoreTea: “What if your friend sees no value in their body after they're done with it” .. Yea, why not just dip the corpse in silicone epoxy, mount it on a plinth and put it on display. Oh wait, someone else has already thought of
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
> Needs some '2FA', like actually putting the key in the ignition. :) Or a tiny motion sensor in the key, if it's still then don't authenticate. Or use infrared to unlock the car, that requires you to stand next to th
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
Would being continously shorted by Wall Street have anything to do with this? For example, take yet another short position in Tesla and then trash it in the financial press, like this article is doing. It is curious that since 2013 Tesla sa
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
“The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned this month, the Pentagon said”. No not all all, the US arbitrarily abandoned the
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
2002 is calling and wants it's shatter attack back. “Shatter Attacks - How to break Windows.” https://web.archive.org/web/20060904080018/http://security.t...
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
> there will be always more to find in a complex legacy protocol like this .. Wouldn't it be simpler to drop in a CTF replacement unless the ability to read/write to any window, from any other session is generic to Windows.
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
‘Well this article doesn't seem very good. Not least because the author seems perfectly willing to not actually explain the detail, and then jump to conclusions .. some customers buy "on-premises licenses" without mobility ri
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
“Kepler’s forgotten ideas about symmetry help explain spiral galaxies without the need for dark matter – new research” https://theconversation.com/keplers-forgotten-ideas-about-sy...
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
allana, your comment has been voted into invisibility :]
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
Doesn't Microsoft already own Android, sorry that should be Microsoft Android, that's how zdnet refers to it. Seriously though, what a way of doing “business”. Extract revenue out of Samsung through vague patent-licensing royalty
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
> Linux desktop remains an unpopular choice among mainstream desktop users .. Because it's virtually to buy a computer in the shops with a Linux Desktop pre-installed. Even online Dell manages to keep a Linux Desktop computer well h
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
@JumpCrisscross: "A portfolio of stocks and bonds held in a Mauritian entity costs a few tens of U.S. dollars of extra accounting costs to do taxes on a year; a portfolio in India held by a foreigner can easily cost hundreds of dollars
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
Not much actual technical details regarding this “significant cyber incident”. It must take a great of influence to keep the name out of the media.
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
> not relevant, free market, they decide to work there, or not .. Yea they can decide to move to the next low-pay job, zero-hour contract, no benefits, wages barely pays the rent, on food stamps ..
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
What would it effect Bezos Net Worth to double the warehouse operatives hourly rate to $22?
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by SmileyRedBall 7y ago
> This contains more technical information behind the 1202 alarms .. “You also have to remember that, long before Bill Gates, we had developed a real-time multi-tasking operating system.” “When a job was to be scheduled, a call would be