danjoc

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by danjoc 9y ago
>In other words, if you video has ads, then the probability of appearing in searches and related content is higher So users that permit ads on their video get a virtual "fast lane" on the Comcast internet service. You know, I&#
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The person who found this is at greatest risk. Public disclosure keeps him safe. "Oh, good boy. Thanks for the responsible disclosure. You're sure you haven't told ANYONE else about this? Great! Keep it that way and we'l
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>Since science is now establishing a connection between drilling and quakes Science funded by middle eastern princes trying to stop their competition with manufactured environmental outrage?
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There were 200M registered voters in 2016.
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Spys always have impeccable credentials. Think of how much damage one Chinese Anthony Levandowski could do.
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Follow the money. Location information, ads viewed, and offline credit card purchase information. Google now has all three. Google uses this to determine which ads led you to spend and sells more of those ads. https://consumerist
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"Technically your email client will automatically prepare for this by creating a crypto key for you and uploading it to your provider (or second best to public keyservers)." This seems like a good way to flood key servers with mul
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Thanks for the tip. This probably affects more people than there are people who realize it. It would be really interesting if PG would use machine learning to discover this sort of tuning on its own.
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Why is Amazon offered lower prices vs Facebook? This does not sound Net Neutral to me.
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>They have to detect and prevent DDoS from their customers, detect and prevent malware, as well as child pornography and stuff. What makes you think they don't do this already? I can't run a mail server on port 25. I call my IS
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The interstate highway analogy isn't really excellent either. "Slow lanes." So bandwidth = speed limit. Now instead of ISPs dictating your speed, it's the government. The interstate has speed limits. Drat, foiled again!
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As a counter anecdote, I'm removing FF from all my workstations today. I've been using FF for years. I gave quantum a chance until NoScript shipped. Now it's clear that this is not going to work for me anymore. Moving to Brav
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>blah blah did it first Tablets had been done before without success, then Apple released the iPad. You don't have to be first to market to win. The failure of others in the same segment is not a predictor of future failure. Executi
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>the chip will enable support for "Hey Siri" functionality, potentially even when the iMac Pro is turned off. Intel ME wasn't bad enough... so Apple builds a second backdoor you can't remove, with the explicit purpose
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>The education industry is kind of a racket. Going to college is the original "Everyone needs to know how to code" meme. You won't get a good job, they say. You need a degree, they say. When in truth, some people have no i
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>Do lenders imagine they're more likely to recover their money this way? When the mob cripples/kills a gambler who can't pay, they're not trying to get the money back. They're sending a message to other gamblers.
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"Thiel isn't the only one departing the program. Y Combinator has shuttered its entire part-time partner program in which Thiel participated"
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>That answer is quite bullshitty. You're so focused on the time people leave the office, I can't tell if you're arguing that 50 hour weeks at Google is abnormal. That answer was upvoted by multiple Google employees/fo
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Ageism is more than hiring young. It's letting people go or burning them out as they age too. These companies expect excessive overtime until people burn out. As developers and IT staff age, they self select out of it, because it isn&#
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>perjure yourself. https://www.ped30.com/2017/11/06/tim-cook-has-some-explainin... It doesn't seem like perjury is such a big deal. Nobody is arresting Tim Cook for perjuring himself in front of Congr
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Have had this for years. mvn org.owasp:dependency-check-maven:check Java FTW again :)
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>reward-100000
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Ageism <-> Burnout Change what you call it and the conversation changes. It depends on the narrative the author wants to push. Those two things are related. The middle age software dev you burned out then tossed aside has the children
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_baseband If it has GSM/LTE/CDMA/etc baseband processor with closed implementation, assume it has remote root backdoor. Samsung has already been caught. osmocombb trie
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All modern mobile phones have a baseband processor with root backdoor. OnePlus is only remarkable for having a second one.
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It's pretty easy to argue abuse when the Obama administration was wiretapping the opposition party just before a presidential election, http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politics/paul-manafort-governm...
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I'm glad to see the Trump administration rolling back these Obama era privacy violations.
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How long has the exploit existed? Did it magically appear after Appelbaum was run out of town on vague allegations of sexual harrassment?
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Weakly refute the list instead of adding to it as requested. Why even reply?
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It's seems easy to screw up authentication with Face ID. Apple really did swallow a fly here [1] I wonder, has anyone compiled a full list of iPhone X fails? There are getting to be more than I can remember, but let's see... 1 + 2

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