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by ZoFreX 12y ago
> I don't have hopes of them adding the ability to intelligently switch from a weak wifi signal to a strong cell signal, but this is a step in the right direction Android (supposedly) already has that feature. From the about page fo
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
> Still, I don't think it's super appropriate, because there's nothing making the older phones worse, they just aren't getting better in the ways they obviously could. They released an update to the Galaxy Nexus that
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
The Nexus 4 has been nerfed since shortly after the Nexus 5 came out - just like the Galaxy Nexus was nerfed just after the Nexus 4 came out. Based on their history, a Nexus device needs to be replaced once its successor comes out, so it&#x
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
It's very easy to believe it's real given the fairly recent school shooting fuelled by a very similar brand of misogyny. I don't think less of her at all for backing out of the talk.
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
I wish Google would do this, and end the LinkedIn scraping of people's emails. Good on Pinboard for taking a stand.
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It's pretty common in practice to want [0,1) (that is, 0 <= x < 1) from your random number generator. Never generating 0 would be a problem when the range is small and discrete - generating random letters for example.
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> My first intuition was that this is impossible Isn't that the case for so many problems in cryptography, though? DH key exchange, zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation, fully homomorphic encryption - all achieve th
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Which airbase, out of interest?
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
I'm in the "let them fake it" camp, but at the same time I think the exception throwing version could work, with a single tweak borrowed from iOS: Let the app ask for the permission once , and only once. That way repeatedly
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It does try to avoid breaking needed functionality by finding and disabling something unique to the bad request: > testing system call block policies for any unique calls or call parameters found Obviously it can only work with data it h
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Presumably that it can move around. Satellites don't carry much fuel and you can't keep repositioning them, so to get surveillance over an area you have to wait for a satellite to be above it. Presumably this thing as it is a plan
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Death threats for sceptic who leafleted at Sally Morgan “psychic” show(boingboing.net)
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To us such things might be self-explanatory, but not for everyone. A lot of the people most at risk from the disease know nothing of our modern notions of how disease spreads and how to effectively prevent it. Even in the US, a lot of peopl
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
There are still accents in England where those words would be pronounced almost the same :)
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It's a developer preview, not a consumer preview. If you aren't running it on a second phone that contains nothing important, you are operating with a large amount of risk.
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This is the same site that gives the above, incorrect, test. I would trust it about as far as I could throw it, and I assume it's bolted to the rack.
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Am I right in thinking (based on that test above) that if a system has the patch that adds the prefix/suffix, it's safe against this attack?
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
It's fine to have bash on your system as your interactive shell, if that's your preference. The problems occur when you have /bin/sh symlinked to bash. "Bash is for people, not for scripts" :)
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Why does this mean I'm vulnerable? To what attack, exactly? My bash is already patched to not execute code in environment variables, so how is an attacker going to get the above exploit to be running in my shell? Edit: Using the other
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
I'm one of the people saying it is just the team names. I'm not doing that to defend Slack - I've always been unhappy with their sign-in process and this is one of the reasons. However, a lot of people are saying that you can
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Converting voltages is trivial with AC, how do you handle devices that require something other than 12v (lots of phones want 5, lots of laptops want 18) with a DC system?
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
I can think of a large market for lighting suitable for growing vegetables in your home that doesn't produce a lot of waste heat...
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Plenty of shops still allow it in the UK (source: my chip broke), but hardly any employees know how to tell the till to swipe a card, so it's still difficult.
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It doesn't even require a valid email address. It's an obvious side-effect of Slack's completely weird account system.
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This doesn't list channels at all, private or public, it only lists teams.
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In their defence, Slack does have that as a "coming soon" for their enterprise version.
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It's not listing chatrooms, it's listing teams. Very different. For example, at the company I work we have two teams on Slack: Engineering and Marketing. Not really a problem if people find out that! The channel listing would pote
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Yes, they do.
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How many people died due to Fukushima? How many have died ever from nuclear power? Compare that to coal. It's hysteria.
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
So what should we build then, given that no alternatives are currently viable?

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