ZoFreX

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by ZoFreX 12y ago
> it explains how bad(For consumers) things happen due to systems not conspiracies That's one of the things I like most about Goldacre - he's very calm and measured compared to many people involved in these debates. To anyone t
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
> "The actual purpose abbreviations you use aren’t important, just pick a scheme, make sure it’s documented, and stick to it." Given that in some cases you might be typing them very frequently, some people would want to shorten
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Generalised sizes are a deprecated way of handling screen sizes on Android, from version 3.2 onward we use far more traditional dividers such as minimum width. For many developers it's viable to support only 4+, which lets you avoid a
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Could you not just do it with a magnet?
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
What legitimate use do those onerror / onload callbacks have... that seems like the kind of thing that should be restricted to same origin!
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Many companies in the UK now don't allow you to pay with the stripe fallback. Even those that do, the employees often don't know how to put the till in that mode. Found this all out the hard way! Annoyingly I only have the one car
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
So, in the UK I very rarely use the magstripe on my card - 99.9% of transactions I do are chip & pin. The chip on my card broke recently, and I found out that it doesn't even work in ATMs any more. Does that mean ATMs are only look
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Not just can they remove (or overlay) the big green thing to add on their own skimmer... once the presence of the big green anti-skimming device is normalised, you can add big green skimmers to all the ATMs that don't have them yet: h
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Are these the things? http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/03/green-skimmers-skimming-g... They've been popping up over the UK as well, but the first few times I saw them they looked more like skimmers than securi
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
To what extent is CSP a red herring here? Is there any part of this that would be mitigated if we didn't have it, or can you do everything here without it?
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
If you're going down the Drupal route you're just as likely to need Drupal 6 - one of the challenges in this market is there is a lot of legacy work to be done, so you often have to know two or three versions of the framework. In
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
This. I don't understand why CodeIgniter gets mentioned in the same breath as Zend or Symphony, or any other fully-fledged framework. CI is, to start with, much smaller: it's tiny, the sort of thing you could knock out in a week.
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Time to get in touch with the press. 25 bugs in something health-critical? They'll have a field day.
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
> All the stuff about his previous posting, etc, is tenuous and circumstantial-- it seems totally feasible that it is parallel construction. I've done similar things in the past (trying to find a user's real identity, when that
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Very few of their arguments seem to relate to OOP. One of the nastiest gotchas there is that importing a library can change how division works - or, in the general case, that which code has run before my code can affect how my code executes
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
When you run the emulator, do you get this message (on stdout): "HAX is working and emulator runs in fast virt mode"? Did you enable the "Use host GPU" option?
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Cautionary tale: They were bundled separately for Internet Explorer, and everyone assumed they didn't exist. Even now you can see people complaining that say, "developing for IE 6 was hard because it didn't have developer too
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
> Case in point: To make a list on Android, you need to jump through hoops, assign stuff to a "Tag" property (a field intended for hacks and workarounds), typecast your ass of, or if you don't do all that your list will pe
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
> isn't a Google account required for Android anyway? Not strictly speaking, no. You do need to sign in to a Google account to access the Play Store, which is synonymous with Android for most people, but it doesn't need to be a
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
If you want a video game that engenders the same kind of backstabbing, tension and mistrust, you might want to give Defcon a go. It's nerve-wracking.
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
The x86 images provided by Google run just as fast as the Genymotion images, and have Google Play. Just FYI.
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Google's study[1] on spinning disk drives found that predicting failure from SMART data is not very accurate. [1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
> this is the trouble with ssds, they just die As opposed to hard drives, which are always so good about failing predictably /s My take away was that SSDs are somewhat easy to predict failure on. I'd take predictable failure ov
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Valve bans developer from Steam for revealing security vulnerability(twitter.com)
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
I particularly agree with this suggestion: > For best results carry a heavy bag of shopping or walk the dog in cold, driving rain for at least half an hour beforehand.
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
This slideshow has a nice summary of the basics of running a ZFS pool, and covers many common mistakes and explains them (including ECC memory): http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/slideshow-explai... I would r
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
> when a smartphone app can do the job just as well? Can it? GPS isn't to be relied upon, and a bad actor can mess with it pretty easily.
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
> As a side note I also dont think there is anything stopping a London black cab driver from signing up for Uber. Uber just today announced black cabs as an option in London. I'm not really sure what I feel about this, there is very
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
I actually like the sound of that idea.
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by ZoFreX 12y ago
Obsession is unhealthy. Brushing your teeth twice a day is not. Some people struggle to get the basic important things done without reminders! Also: Tracking weight is far from "obsession". If you need to lose (or gain) weight, tr

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