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by elithrar 14y ago
> ... and that there is an opportunity for "consultants" who understand this, kind of like security consultants? Risk management consultants already exist! Many companies just choose to assess it internally, or the consultants themselve
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> Also their burgers are pretty gross. Some people must think they taste "good enough", given their popularity. Convenience and price obviously play big roles here, but they are also likely choosing McDonalds over other options on at le
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> Do you know that apple kicks back? I'd think that apples own retail presence would give them the ability to say, "You sell our products this way on this table or you don't get to sell our products". Apple's strong retail presence has
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> The new one requires a power cable. The point of the express was that it's entirely self contained. You could throw it in your bag and take it with you on trips. Now you can't. To be precise, they both required external power. The o
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> 1. DO NOT check whether or not your password was compromised via services like leakedin.org. If you've used LinkedIn, it was stolen. They only RELEASED around 6 million passwords, though LinkedIn has 161 million users. Odds are, your
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Don't conflate a strong signal with increased bandwidth. A good "tin can" antenna still isn't going to allow you to exceed 802.11g/n/ac speeds. Chances are you'll still saturate the link.
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> In the case of a WiFi mesh network, you'd really want a set of omnidirectional antennae. An omnidirectional antenna with a 1/4 mile radius would need a lot more power to operate. Further, in a place like new york, you have to start wo
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Firstly: I really hope they find her aircraft. I would love to be on the expedition that finds it. I'm also surprised it took so long to perform (or at least, publicly announce) an RF path/propagation analysis on the distress signals. It is
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> You should submit this together with a security issue report to Facebook and Hotmail and whoever else uses security questions. Google, too. I suggest you run through the recovery process yourself (on a dummy account, or your own) to s
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> It's amusing that they 'lost control' of it because a simple bit of code along the lines of "if www.google.com resolves then shutdown" would be effective at detecting whether it was on the Internet or not. Not really. The code would n
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These very much remind of a two-wheeled Can-Am[1], which are "trikes" in the vein of a motorcycle. They're also much larger and would never be able to lane-split (legal or not). [1] http://www.can-am.brp.com/
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> Forget the next SoLoMo craze - who wants to disrupt Adobe? They need it. I agree. As a photographer, I use Lightroom and Photoshop for most of my post-processing needs. Lightroom, when it hit, barely felt like an Adobe application (it
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> I don't think anyone's nearly as concerned about case enforcement as they are about backend storage of passwords. I can assume ways of storing/verifying passwords that are case insensitive, but I'm not naive enough to assume they do.
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> Although this is a really silly bug, Personally, I don't believe it is a bug at all. They have obviously made the decision to not enforce case in an effort to reduce customer service load/player frustration. Yes, it reduces the time n
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> Then again, it would be pretty difficult to brute force a password in Battle.net, to be honest. I'm assuming they'd lock out the account after just a handful of tries. Correct. ~5 failed attempts forces you to use your authenticator c
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> They don't (or didn't, I haven't checked in the last few months) allow special characters, either. Seriously - what? (Then again, my bank does the same thing.) This is not entirely correct. They do allow some types of punctuation, and
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> Did I hit a nerve of some zealous Nginx user when mentioning the fact that Nginx isn't a silver bullet? :) I'm sure you can downvote this comment, too! Knock yourself out! I don't believe the comments had anything to do with being a z
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> Ahh, gamers, they're so cute. Poorly-informed over-entitled misanthropes, but cute. As a gamer, I completely agree with you here. The entitlement has grown rapidly over the past 2-3 years, and in my opinion is only hurting those in th
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> I understand that having access to the Internet is an important thing for numerous reasons, but why the arbitrary speeds? What benefits does a 100MB connection offer over a 1MB connection? It's a marketing/political thing. Most users
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> There is a third alternative: free product, adblock, no ads. You're absolutely allowed to do this if you choose, but you should also be aware that it's harming the sites/app that you're obviously visiting. If a site has incredibly int
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Also, for some context (via http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012050909451990 ) > Google has filed a motion [PDF] for a new trial on both question 1a and 1b, arguing that they are indivisible and that Google has rights under th
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> I, like many others, have long installed the greasemonkey script to suppress these idiotic popups. They're even worse than youtube comments. At least the youtube drivel doesn't pop up in your face all the time. I agree. The comparison
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> a significant number of their daily articles just rehash news found elsewhere Part of that is par for the course - short of getting their hands on every gadget under the sun, there has to be some rehashing. They do seem to make their
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I'm really glad Topolsky and the rest of the ex-Engadget staff started up The Verge. I still like to keep up with tech news, but Engadget became a significant source of blog-spam.
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> Higher frame rates would help a lot with the blur. I think Peter Jackson made a mistake shooting The Hobbit at 48 FPS for the entire movie. He should have shot most of it at the traditional 24 FPS but used 48 or 72 for fast motion sho
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> Finally, I should point out that rolling shutter, standard on most mobile cameras, is causing all sorts of problems for traditional image and video analysis algorithms, which often make the assumption, sometimes implicitly, that the e
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> Instead Apple realized cellphones would never be great MP3 players so even if they cannibalized some sales early on trying to maintain an artificial distinction would not be useful in the long run. I believe they came at it from anoth
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> Why are we still focusing on hardware when it is clear that software is just as, if not more important than appearance and feature set? It's because comparing hardware specifications is easy - it's quantifiable, it's numbers, and te
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> What if you don't know who drove it? (you might have borrowed it to a few friends but don't know who drove it when) As someone else touched on: in most states of Australia, the owner of the vehicle (as per the registration) is respons
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> Now it's kind of funny to see some of the same people make the argument in comments here that Apple has no significant marketshare or dominance of anything > "Apple makes 80% of the money in the cell phone market, Apple is the onl

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