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by grkvlt 11y ago
Yes, of course they do. Why on earth would you imagine they wouldn't?
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by grkvlt 11y ago
One seventh of the world's population is Indian born, so perhaps not so surprising...
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by grkvlt 11y ago
They are refactoring. Google is being updated to make some of its sub-classes into new top-level classes (sharing some characteristics with Google) and retain the rest as sub-classes. But to do this it must create a new parent class (for Go
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I wonder about geographical and global (that is different countries and languages) effects. In my experience the 'hehe' or even 'eheh' is a much more common European statement than the 'haha' of the Anglophone
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by grkvlt 11y ago
How fast do you normally walk? 3m/s divided by five is around 60cm/s or about 2 km/h, that's pretty slow. I walk at around 5 mph or 8 km/h, although that is a little faster than most. I think average walking speed
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Closed pop up, read free article, became informed, read further free articles, beacme intrigued, wanted more, remembered subscription offer, seached for information, decideed to subscribe. More effort, but I will have a series of print maga
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by grkvlt 11y ago
OK, how about highlighting some error message in a log file, right clicking and choosing a menu option that googles for the string (filtering out dates, times, host/domain names and perhaps some filenames too) then opens a browser wind
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Exactly, so according to the people worried about killer malware, the only thing stopping our population of latent murdering sociopaths is the fact that it's currently too much physical effort to go and sabotage some sandom vehicle? As
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I hate to break it to you, but any kid with USD 0.10 can start a fire in a car today. It requires a.) one rock and b.) one box of matches. Break a window with the rock, then throw lit matches onto the upholstery. Really, the threat model is
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Really? Do you imagine the only thing stopping people from trying to kill random strangers is the fact they currently have to get up out of bed to do it? Because it can't be the fear of getting caught, since the perpetrators of any veh
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by grkvlt 11y ago
> controls system circuitry needs to be completely isolated from other systems in the car What would they define 'other systems' as? Back then carphones were pretty new, and the height of technology, and a car 'computer&#x
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by grkvlt 11y ago
> 50 bitcoin in 20 minutes or your car takes a drive off the pier I would NOT like to think about what would happen to someone who tried this sort of thing. I expect within seconds of the first accident (or worse, injury, even fatality
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac is awesome! It is actually currently available and has also been freely downloadable in a preview edition for about the last six months or so. Note that it requires OSX 10.10 now, unlike previous versions whi
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Me too. Asking for a friend.
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by grkvlt 11y ago
> if you get raped by a stranger it is also most likely a muslim WTF? This, along with the parent comment about 'muslims have more children, so they get more welfare' are both hideously racist. If there were any statistics av
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Sure, 100% agree with you there! Facebook are very much into the nasty 'UI and UX Dark Patterns' game; the sort of things for which the 'lifetime achievement' award goes to RyanAir, of course. It seems like they are _try
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by grkvlt 11y ago
While you say 'they' did it, it's actually hard to know what is going on. Was it stale browser data that got passed in as autofill field values when you registered? Is it based on an old LinkedIn profile you associated with f
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by grkvlt 11y ago
The ML activities at Facebook seem to be focussed on delivering content and advertising optimally to users. They can determinine which posts or adverts you might 'Like' based on your friends choices, or those of other similar grou
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by grkvlt 11y ago
The most likely explanation is they sent her a message saying pseudonyms are not allowed, and asking for her real name. She replies something like 'My real name is XYZ, here is ID to prove I am a real person, but I do NOT wish to use t
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I don't think Facebook are as clever as you imagine, and they certainly would never do something as crazy as trying to deduce your age based on median friends ages. But, if you do give Facebook information about yourself, then it&#x2
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by grkvlt 11y ago
That seems highly unlikely. I guess it's possible but it doesn't strike me as a good way of getting high-quality data, and in fact it would be easily gamed, and would have larege numbers of false positives. In general, I think m
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by grkvlt 11y ago
IF this is true, then file it as a bug with Facebook, and claim the bounty!. You'll possibly get up to USD 10K depending how it is classed - I'd certainly say that if you have disabled showing your birthday on the timeline and yet
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by grkvlt 11y ago
> adblock is /mandatory/ these days No, it really is not. Ad-blockers are run by a minority of users, and the vast majority simply use whatever browser camne with their PC, or maybe download Chrome. But installing ad-blockers
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by grkvlt 11y ago
There's something odd about this. The repo in question is 'nixxquality/WebMConverter' which is where the GitHub notice was sent. However, this is a fork of another repo - https://github.com/WebMBro&#x2F
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by grkvlt 11y ago
So, why on earth are similarly 'offensive' repositories like https://github.com/meh/retarded (may be NSFW based on language) still available? This seems either a very selective policy, or there is something
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by grkvlt 11y ago
- https://twitter.com/grkvlt/status/600998588475375616 This is the output I got on a flight from EDI to LHR at about the half-way point, decoding ADS-B transmissions.
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by grkvlt 11y ago
> unpatched 0-days [...] I suppose one could have a patched 0-day? It would need to be be fixed by the vendor without them ever acknowledging the underlying issue existed, right? As for the "go back years" bit, the guy just has
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by grkvlt 11y ago
> I think it's a terrible practice, wholly ineffective, and neighboring on pathological to instill terror into your staff The point of drills that simulate reality effectively is to get you comfortable enough with taking the necessa
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by grkvlt 11y ago
See also "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" by Borges ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q... ) about the differences between Menard's and Cervantes' Don Quixote. Both th
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by grkvlt 11y ago
You do understand that there is more than just climate control that can be adjusted in a vehicle these days? There's navigation and direction finding, traffic alerts, radar proximity warnings from other traffic, radio and entertainment

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