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by nickles 12y ago
On the contrary, the iPhone (and iPod Touch) launched without an app ecosystem. Instead of having third party apps, Apple pushed for developers to produce web apps for Mobile Safari. It wasn't until iOS 2.0 that an API was released and
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According to the Wikipedia article you linked to, 3787 deaths are confirmed as resulting from the incident and 16000 deaths are claimed in total. The page does not support the assertion that the disaster was responsible for 20000 deaths. Fr
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Limits on Federal Campaign Contributions(nytimes.com)
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Here's a paper on the subject http://www1.cs.fau.de/filepool/projects/coldboot/fares_coldb...
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Yes, this was confirmed as an April Fools' day joke.
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This is what made Kaczynski (the Unabomber) so difficult to track. IIRC, he would travel for a few hours (by bus) to a town and deposit his packages in a mailbox there [citation needed]. This made it difficult to track him, since the origin
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by nickles 13y ago
In addition, Smith v. Maryland explicitly allowed pen registers to record call metadata, as a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy with regards to that information. Later, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act explicitly allo
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by nickles 13y ago
It can be fixed by sending the attack again, then deleting the entire chat history with the attacker. (According to a comment the report linked to.)
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Others have done this before. See Shopkeep POS, Breadcrumb by Groupon, Erply, Vend, Square, etc.
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A cellphone serves as a digital container into one's life. As it is a connected device, the cellphone has access to potentially limitless information about a person since the data is not necessarily stored on the phone itself but rathe
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I find the graphic at the bottom to be absolutely beautiful. It's one of those rare moments where I looked at the DOM to see what was going on under the hood. Unfortunately, this page also seems to cause Chrome's rendering engine to consume
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I'm not quite sure that this is true. I've been noticing many more house addresses in captchas recently, indicating that Google is working to make sure that home addresses in Maps accurately correspond to those in the real world. While impr
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While Verizon does use a separate authorization phrase, I've found that Condé Nast appears to store plain text passwords. I discovered this when a CSR read my password to me over the telephone to confirm it. I reported this issue to Condé N