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901.
by objclxt 14y ago
...it's April 1 for a decent chunk of the world right now, time zones and all...
902.
by objclxt 14y ago
No, that's true across all of the UK intelligence agencies (probably all agencies worldwide, really). Depending on the role you'll probably have to go through developed vetting, at which point your passwords are the least of your worries.
903.
by objclxt 14y ago
GCHQ, along with various other agencies, out-source some of their recruitment, mainly to sift. Perhaps you could steal the identities of the candidates who had passed the initial few sifts...but I really doubt that things like developed vet
904.
by objclxt 14y ago
He's surmising it from the AllThingsD story, which states only two of the five employees will be moving to Yahoo. That doesn't necessarily mean the other three failed the interviews - maybe they don't want to work for Yahoo.
905.
by objclxt 14y ago
> I'm not sure how they did that (#define?) but stay far, far away ...NO and YES in Objective-C are themselves #defines. As others have pointed out, TRUE/FALSE are also already defined in the language, although using them in Objective
906.
by objclxt 14y ago
99 Bottles is a similar, if slightly more complex, thing. Brainfuck included! http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/
907.
by objclxt 14y ago
A lot of the Bada models are pretty low specced. They're all using single cores with low amounts of memory. Tizen may be backwards compatible with Bada apps, but I doubt the vast majority of Bada handsets out there are capable of running Ti
908.
by objclxt 14y ago
I am one of the few people who's had the (mis)fortune of developing for Bada, one of Tizen's predecessors. For a while, I was using a Wave 3, which was basically a nicer Galaxy S2 running Bada (I could never quite understand why Samsung wen
909.
by objclxt 14y ago
I do get that, but lots of people either don't want to watch a video or can't, for various reasons. I hope this wasn't a problem for too many people, because (tongue in cheek here) I'm positive everyone reads the articles first before com
910.
by objclxt 14y ago
Out of interest, is that better or worse than you were expecting? You don't say when in 2013 you started, but since the start of the year the S&P is up around 6%, the NASDAQ composite is up 4.5%, and the FTSE All Share is up a similar
911.
by objclxt 14y ago
Since the article text itself doesn't mention exactly why the name is so bad - Rego, the name of the product, is slang for ass crack in Portuguese. I can sort of understand why you wouldn't want to put that in the post itself, but it's al
912.
by objclxt 14y ago
> Firefox used to have a button for subscribing to any RSS feeds it found in a webpage in the navigation bar. It was the only browser that did it I'm pretty sure Safari did this as well - it was removed in Mountain Lion.
913.
by objclxt 14y ago
The HN mods have been deleting all stories about this pretty much as soon as they bubble up. Given the pretty far out stuff being said on that Facebook post, I'm not sure I totally can blame them...
914.
by objclxt 14y ago
CCTV is quite good at helping to mitigate public order offences. For example, here in London (with possibly the most cameras per person in the world - hard to get a reliable figure) one of the few genuinely useful examples of CCTV is to e
915.
by objclxt 14y ago
Bear in mind they were not in a public place, but a conference venue - which would almost certainly be private property. It is totally legal to prohibit photography in such cases. However, normally this has to be made explicit (through sign
916.
BB10 Fails UK Govt Security Tests(guardian.co.uk)
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917.
by objclxt 14y ago
Yeah, I don't think Gorilla or Revel are quite mature or stable enough at this point to consider as a Rails replacement. And I'm speaking as a (extremely minor) Revel contributor - it's still very young, early adopters only!
918.
by objclxt 14y ago
I would suspect a lot of the harassment/threats was through things like e-mail, etc. Given the wide range of emotions this has prompted all over the place, I can find it believable that some people might send what could be construed as thre
919.
by objclxt 14y ago
Indeed, the (London) Science Museum suggests that campaigners at the time thought steam might inhibit slavery, but there's no evidence to suggest that actually happened. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/energyhall/page88.as... And
920.
by objclxt 14y ago
10% would be on the low side for either a recruitment agency or, to run with the Ari Gold analogy, a talent agent. 15% would be more realistic, although I see recruiters trying to charge considerably more. Unscrupulous recruiters often will
921.
by objclxt 14y ago
Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi don't have great track records launching home-grown premium smoothie/juice offerings. Many of the premium brands they run - Naked, Odwalla, etc - came via acquisitions. Given that Coke started with a ~15% stake in I
922.
by objclxt 14y ago
...you did read the bit where I said "the sentence is absolutely disproportionate"? I think you can be a victim and a bit of an idiot at the same time. I'm trying to point out that in terms of changing the law so this sort of thing doesn'
923.
by objclxt 14y ago
I don't think this particular case is black and white. Judging by my Twitter feed, a number of security researchers and white hats feel the same way I do: the law as it stands is not good, but what Weev did was also really, really unhelpful
924.
by objclxt 14y ago
> he released the information publicly (to Gawker) without attempting to disclose the information to them first Additionally, when he gave the data to Gawker he told them he had already disclosed the issue to AT&T, which is later
925.
by objclxt 14y ago
> I have a friend who's into homeopathy [...] she's drawn to alternative medicine because it's open source. Like many nerds, she hates closed proprietary systems and loathes bureaucracy If your friend, or anyone else that way inclined
926.
by objclxt 14y ago
He was charged with conspiracy, so it's relevant that it was discussed. Conspiracy usually requires discussion of the intended crime, and then at least one party to commit an act that furthers that crime. It doesn't actually require the cri
927.
by objclxt 14y ago
Firstly, the laws around this sort of thing are very stupid. But with that said...I'm not wholly sympathetic here. The disclosure was totally botched . The IRC logs that came out during the case showed that Andrew and Dan (Spitler) talke
928.
by objclxt 14y ago
In many countries simply accessing a public server without consent is illegal. Here in the UK the Computer Misuse Act contains the following gem: > It is an offense to make a computer perform a function and for that function to be de
929.
by objclxt 14y ago
...but it sounds as if he did neither of those things, so surely not that smart? (the parent I replied to has been deleted, but it suggested he was found guilty of 'being smart')
930.
by objclxt 14y ago
General consensus is an iOS zero day exploit is worth around $250-750k, increasing in recent months. Expensive, but not exactly unaffordable for an intelligence agency. To me, the commenter who suggests this is happening because Apple isn't

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