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by pudquick 13y ago
> i doubt that he would do such a thing, like appropriating code Writing javascript for a living is a funny thing considering it's usually client-side code that's downloaded by the user, meaning it "escapes" into the
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by pudquick 13y ago
On the balance, both of your accounts are new on HN - I can see both possibilities for this post of "I will rally the technically savvy in a false flag operation and nuke the person I stole from off the internet" and "I am
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by pudquick 13y ago
... Compile one? http://gopher.quux.org:70/give-me-gopher/
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by pudquick 13y ago
Still not quite as bad as when McAfee DAT 5958 misidentified svchost.exe (the parent process for all DLL-based services) on XP as malicious (and succesfully deleted it!) ... As you can imagine, this didn't go over well. I remember our
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by pudquick 13y ago
Since you're actually commenting on this second post on the same subject, I'll repeat my observation that the author of the #badBIOS posts seems deranged. Why is something like this which is obviously not news on HN? ---- ( My com
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by pudquick 13y ago
Why is this getting votes here when the same person posts things like this: https://plus.google.com/103470457057356043365/posts/3reWRqDM... "So it turns out that annoying high frequency whine in my soundsyst
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by pudquick 13y ago
Love seeing your posts, but would appreciate when I see 'em here, especially when posted by a founder, some mention of your YCombinator Summer 2012 status and backing.
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by pudquick 13y ago
I'm finding it really interesting that no one has mentioned that it looks like MS bought a company or their product for this solution: http://itap-mobile.com/itap-rdp "Important Update Effective October 8th 2013,
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by pudquick 13y ago
Having enough money that you can invest it (in hardware or business processes) to make more money for yourself is an advantage over those people who barely have enough money to live on. I don't consider this a design flaw in the concep
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by pudquick 13y ago
I do have one problem with part of this article. > From a purely technological standpoint, these two scenarios are exactly the same [...] Neither of these differences is visible to the company’s technology - it can’t read the employee’s
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by pudquick 13y ago
While I agree that this person was probably treated very poorly, I also want to point out that they were traveling for work purposes. In the United States, non-US citizens entering the country for work purposes are generally required to get
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by pudquick 13y ago
The original announcement page lists some of what they claim to be the advantages of the port to Go: https://blog.conformal.com/btcd-a-bitcoind-alternative-writt... * integrated test infrastructure * no active memory manage
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by pudquick 13y ago
Thank you.
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by pudquick 13y ago
Just a commentary on your methodology, not your product - I'm not sure I appreciate a submission to HN that goes to a URL that (on an iOS device at least) opens straight to the App Store app page (even if it is free). I'm reading
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by pudquick 13y ago
While they may not fast charge, many of the devices will trickle charge - simply because the original USB 2.0 spec didn't require high amperage. In fact, 2.0 spec allowed for a max of 5 'unit loads' with a unit load of 100 mA
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by pudquick 13y ago
I would be surprised if #1 was the case. Given the amount of volume of traffic that this app will generate, the traffic for identifying a rapidly signing in Message.app will be pretty unique and easily blockable by Apple. Additionally, I kn
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by pudquick 13y ago
Not seeing anywhere in that article where he had success replicating a print. He did get the iPhone 5S to enroll a fake print and unlock with the same fake print. He was unable, however, to replicate an enrolled fingerprint from a real fing
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by pudquick 13y ago
I will agree with you here, I thought it was only conceptual as well and that he had not verified the Google team wasn't stripping HTML entities in profile names, etc. Considering that they missed one though and with the amazing things
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by pudquick 13y ago
What you're missing is that the email was generated and sent by Google to the new email address that the author of the article was changing his account to - and this email was the one that he was able to inject arbitrary HTML content i
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by pudquick 13y ago
I am not concerned about my fingerprint data being part of some larger database. However, if you're using a fingerprint to unlock, it's much harder to say "I've forgotten my password" - or stop them from using your
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by pudquick 13y ago
As a counterpoint, the App Store also implicitly encourages an "infinite major versions updates" pricing model vs. minor point release updates = free, major = paid upgrade. In order to do something like that in the App Store, you
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by pudquick 13y ago
A point of clarification here - numpy's reshape operation stays fast as long as the array is a numpy array. Which is exactly what the parent comment was all about - the author figured that the reason numpy was significantly faster was
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by pudquick 13y ago
Does anyone know if CDMA is vulnerable to the same paging hijack? I know that Verizon here in the US registers the ESN/MEID of the device itself for service provisioning (with a SIM only being used for GSM roaming and LTE). I would gue
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by pudquick 13y ago
.. And yet still not invalidated by this prior art (if you were to stretch the concept) due to key phrases like 'computer implemented method'. Computers in the 1940s were things like ENIAC and more likely to be involved in computi
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by pudquick 13y ago
... unless it's iOS 6 and you try to use the 'open in a new window' links (javascript window.open with a target of _blank) for the articles. When pinned as a Web Clip, the site opens up fullscreen and addressbar-less and with
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by pudquick 13y ago
Completely agree on this! I went scrolling for a 'Desktop view' link at the top/bottom, or somewhere in my settings that would flip it back, but I'm unable to find it. I actually relied on the desktop view on my iOS devi
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by pudquick 13y ago
Interpreters are allowed, native code execution (including JIT) is not. Additionally, if you submit an application with an interpreter to the App Store, you will get declined if you make it easy for your users to download arbitrary scripts
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by pudquick 13y ago
Agree very much about the annoying inability to go back! This will still be my "go to" as a result: http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/
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by pudquick 13y ago
As I stated before on a different article submitted today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6178515 > I really wish the title of the article was more along the lines "Apple should prevent negative app reviews wh
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by pudquick 13y ago
I really wish the title of the article was more along the lines "Apple should prevent negative app reviews when using iOS beta". I felt a little mislead and thought that a developer had somehow figured out how to do the current ti

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