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901.
by pja 11y ago
I’m running Cyanogenmod 12.1 & everything has been fine so far. Haven’t tried the official Android L releases.
902.
by pja 11y ago
Heck, my Nexus 4 is still perfectly usable. The only real motivation for me to upgrade is LTE (which has finally rolled out to my city in the UK).
903.
by pja 11y ago
The real problem here is that video messages expose a huge attack surface to bad actors, very little of which has been security audited. Automatically parsing videos before the user even chooses to interact with them makes it even worse - a
904.
by pja 11y ago
Can you actually disable MMS on Android phones? You can stop the default messaging app from automatically downloading them on my phpne, but I can’t find a way to completely disable them.
905.
by pja 11y ago
Good point. Is there are library of constant time functions for security sensitive applications to replace the standard ones in libc? (Seems like the kind of thing that the OpenBSD people might have written.) strcmp() is at least better tha
906.
by pja 11y ago
Yeah, strcmp() exists for a reason!
907.
by pja 11y ago
Generally because that’s how mathematics tends to work - people publish a partial result & then they or others build on it to improve that result in various ways[1]. The authors are also usually embedded in a wider community of mathemat
908.
by pja 11y ago
And if wishes were horses, we’d all ride ponies? The Model S is a really nice sedan. But its performance on the track is clearly sub par because a) it’s heavy and b) it just isn’t designed to run at full tilt for very long before the batter
909.
by pja 11y ago
I used to work with the author of dnsmasq - I’d be surprised if he sat on a vulnerability report the way some larger vendors do.
910.
by pja 11y ago
Golang makes total sense for the kind of programmer who wants everything to be there on the screen in front of them. It’s like C in that regard - write code, the computer does what the code says, programmer is happy: No constructors, no de
911.
by pja 11y ago
I’m guessing this didn’t get much in the way of upvotes because the title is so opaque?
912.
by pja 11y ago
Given that it reflects light back in the same direction as it comes in, I’d guess it’s based on the same principle as the 3M retro-reflective material (Scotchlite). Presumably it’s a suspension of either spherical beads or tiny corner refle
913.
by pja 11y ago
I think it probably is in good faith, but it’s still pushing responsibility onto other road users for driver error: implicitly the logic runs something like “I didn’t see them, but they weren’t wearing reflective spray so it’s their fault I
914.
by pja 11y ago
On firefox, the close button at top right doesn’t seem to show up if you have the ad-tracking blocker turned on but if you mouse over the top right corner the pointer will turn into a hand denoting the presence of a link & you can click
915.
by pja 11y ago
This is about as end-user hostile as the Lenovo Superfish thing. By the sounds of things, Samsung has managed to ship some of their laptops with devices that fail with the standard windows devices drivers, but don’t have their own pci-id wh
916.
by pja 11y ago
I wonder whether serotonin is really the magic trick to increasing moods or whether it's just a stop-gap solution that works well enough for most. You’ll find a stack of articles on this topic in amongst the others at http:/&#x
917.
by pja 11y ago
Agreed: "2015 Kindle Paperwhite" or "The New Kindle Paperwhite" would be informative titles. "Kindle Paperwhite" alone is not.
918.
by pja 11y ago
I believe the lander is communicating via the Rosetta probe which is relaying its data to earth. (This design meant that Philea needs to dedicate very little power to radio transmissions.) It’s still awesome though :)
919.
by pja 11y ago
The existing situation is even more stupid than paying alfalfa farmers not to grow alfalfa. If you’re forced to choose between the lesser of two evils, paying alfalfa farmers is where it’s at. Obviously better water management would be th
920.
by pja 11y ago
That wikipedia page suggests that pschological triggers (eg sight of blood, medical details etc) can be treated via exposure therapy. I’d guess that the treatment is similar to that used (very effectively) for phobias: ie progressively incr
921.
by pja 11y ago
I think that’s a London thing rather than a UK thing.
922.
by pja 11y ago
At the very least, you use up the particular 0-day attacks you used to gain access to the system - since they had to keep re-using them in order to re-infect machines over reboots there was a pretty high chance that once detected, Kaspersky
923.
by pja 11y ago
I managed to brick an Intel 320 last week. Going to see if they’ll replace it under warranty - those devices were upgraded to a 5 years so it should still be covered. (Apparently the drive really didn’t like being issued with an 'hdp
924.
by pja 11y ago
Unfortunately, the RoR “community” and Zed have a history when it comes to penis-related insults. There was a time when you could add anyone you liked to a github project & they couldn’t block you, so a bunch of developers thought it wo
925.
by pja 11y ago
Baguette does in fact mean rod, wand or baton - the bread related usage only dates from 1920 if Wikipedia is to be believed. Go to Google translate and put in “magic wand” and you’ll get “baguette magique” as the French equivalent, with “ba
926.
by pja 11y ago
Right - the parent / painter job is going to fail on the "ongoing relationship" part of being an employee - once the painter has painted the room they go off to another job. Uber on the other hand, definitely has an ongoing r
927.
by pja 11y ago
If you go here: http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x250/... You can select a 16Gb option for the X250. It does say "single SODIMM" though, which presumably means s
928.
by pja 11y ago
The article linked up top claims that Lenovo has run two sets of traces - the 8Gb is dual, not single channel.
929.
by pja 11y ago
Breadth of content? Otherwise, Netflix is pretty solid.
930.
by pja 11y ago
I remember the main criticism of the rebooted Tomb Raider game was essentially, “where’s the tomb raiding?” iow: where’s the platforming fun that we were expecting? The answer turned out to be: well, we shoved it into a few non-essential si

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