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by estel 14y ago
Wikipedia has some more information on it, but for realistically printable QR codes (version 10), you can probably store about a hundred bytes. Alternatively you could use Video QR: http://stephendnicholas.com/archives/310 ;)
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by estel 14y ago
NFC could easily be implemented so that permission isn't necessary, but even then tapping on one's screen (only the sender has to tap in the existing implementation of Android Beam) is much lower friction than scanning a QR code.
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by estel 14y ago
I think there's a lot more friction involved in interacting with a QR code: tapping a phone to a surface is a lot easier than opening the appropriate app and trying to focus (hard in low light) on the code.
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by estel 14y ago
In what way was the exploit a part of Android? I thought it was a touchwiz dialer issue that it automatically dialled USSD numbers without secondary confirmation from the user?
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by estel 14y ago
It's perfectly possible to use md5 to hash a password in Javascript before transmitting it by HTTP. There isn't a huge security benefit to doing so, however.
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by estel 14y ago
That would seem to be the case, yes.
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by estel 14y ago
A clearer video showing the lack of prompt: http://tweakers.net/video/6292/html-code-laat-galaxy-s-ii-re...
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by estel 14y ago
The use of horizontal scroll in the video is probably some way from fully refined too - there was no obvious chrome to facilitate the panning, which doesn't often work well outside of touch devices.
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by estel 14y ago
Fair or not, it's a first release that's directly replacing a much more mature and complete product. Is it really unreasonable to expect a comparable feature set? Downgrading the iOS Maps application like this is a remarkably un-consumer fr
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by estel 14y ago
I'm not sure it's safe to say that the S2 and S3 are mainly owned by geeks. Samsung have done a good job at targeting a similar demographic to the iPhone with those devices.
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by estel 14y ago
One use I found for sepia (coincidentally, earlier today) was that it allows you to use hue-rotate to tint a colour a particular way that might not be possible otherwise. Unless I was missing something?
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by estel 14y ago
I usually have to do the Verified by Visa stuff too, but my understanding is that it's almost entirely optional for a merchant to require the extra information. Payment can still be made even without a CVV. And even if verified by visa were
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by estel 14y ago
Unless they're using the card online, when they only need my address (which isn't the hardest information to uncover).
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by estel 14y ago
Whilst that's arguably true, UIWebView being the poor cousin of mobile Safari isn't evidence for it.
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by estel 14y ago
I don't think that they said that their fallback renderer was HTML5, but they did say that there were still areas of the app that still used that technology.
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by estel 14y ago
I agree that there was a plateau slightly earlier, but I imagine Nehalem was used as an example because it's consistent with the 4 year cycle mentioned earlier.
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by estel 14y ago
I don't think it's beneficial to this discussion to be so cynical about sw007's intentions or motives. Many contributors to the site have multiple accounts, or have moved from an older to a newer one. Attacking his/her credibility doesn't f
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by estel 14y ago
Wasn't evidence gathered by interviews on foreign soil inadmissible, or something?
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by estel 14y ago
Braintree are yet to publicly launch their service internationally.
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by estel 14y ago
* Germany has this. Doing payment processing in a range of countries is hard.
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by estel 14y ago
Would using this service affect one's PCI DSS compliance?
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by estel 14y ago
Sorry, the language wasn't supposed to be the key user action here: it was more how people navigate to en.wiki from wikipedia.com.
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by estel 14y ago
Anecdotally, the overwhelming majority of people who I've observed using Wikipedia go to www.wikipedia.com and then select "English".
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by estel 14y ago
I didn't think Chrome any longer required an ASP?
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by estel 14y ago
I'm unsure how that's necessarily a problem with HN so much as it's a problem for headline writers. There are a lot of articles hitting /new every hour; it's the original headline writer's job to grab our attention and make us read them.
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by estel 14y ago
Doesn't some of this fall afoul of PCIDSS? (In particular, leaking information about the webserver's configuration).
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by estel 14y ago
With up to 24 simultaneous events for 12 hours a day across 18ish days, that's a lengthy time spent at a bar that might not even be showing the event you're interested in.
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by estel 14y ago
No, Yen and Yuan both commonly use ¥ as their currency symbol, so Google just made an (incorrect) assumption about which you meant.
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by estel 14y ago
If you're selling to the US (as Mojang is), then you can be bought to trial there.
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by estel 14y ago
Yes, this does work, but it would be far easier to use the standard zero-weight "Grocery item" barcode that most supermarkets have (Sainsburys and Coop do) which prompts for a price with no checksum. (* if you were just intending to scam yo

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