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Pawn Storm Update: iOS Espionage App Foumd(blog.trendmicro.com)
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by revscat 12y ago
For what it's worth, it was linked to from Drudge.
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by revscat 12y ago
Ok, here it comes: but AT&T and Verizon are going to bring lawsuits immediately in response to this action, and due to years of stonewalling judicial appointments by Republicans, this suit is very likely to land in a court that is corpo
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by revscat 12y ago
My answer to these kinds of questions is always the same: you prosecute the crime and move on. You do not succumb to fear and loathing and pass some ill-considered bill that is acrimonious to liberty or modern social norms re: democracy or
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by revscat 12y ago
The Mojang acquisition was likely a very smart move. I remember the day it happened was the same day that Apple announced the Apple Watch. While I was aware of the Watch, my kids were completely unaware of it, but both they and their friend
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by revscat 12y ago
It was never reversed, and you're missing the point. Flash as a runtime environment -- with its own stack, VM, APIs, and process ID -- was never allowed on iOS, and only barely was available on other mobile devices. What you linked to
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Apple bows to Chinese demand for iPhone security audit(telegraph.co.uk)
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by revscat 12y ago
So long as OS X has the unix-y goodness underneath it, I can't imagine switching back, either. I hope Windows continues to improve, but I can't imagine choosing to use it again.
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by revscat 12y ago
Well, I actually like Groovy, and was trying to keep my personal opinion out of my original post. The fact remains, though, that whatever strengths Groovy has as a language it has struggled to gain significant traction.
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by revscat 12y ago
Props to what Guillaume has accomplished, but the original raison d'etre for Groovy existing has largely been supplanted by the rise of JRuby and Scala. When Groovy was initially developed JRuby was (arguably) not yet mature enough for
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ESPN will be available through a streaming service, no cable required(washingtonpost.com)
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by revscat 12y ago
I have not seen any of the issues with Safari or Chrome that you are reporting. The opposite, in fact: Safari this is so much faster than Chrome under Yosemite that it has become my primary browser. I'm a developer, by the way, and hav
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by revscat 12y ago
That does nothing to prove your original assertion.
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by revscat 12y ago
Every release since SL has been met with the same vague complaints.
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by revscat 12y ago
I don't get this. I currently own three Macs: an early-2013 MBP (personal), a mid-2014 MBP (work), and a 2010 Mac Mini. All three are running Yosemite and all three work as flawlessly as can be expected. Which is to say: I have not exp
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by revscat 12y ago
What device are you using? In Chrome/Mac there are two separate tweets that are embedded. Capped part of my screen: http://imgur.com/vErhZ5a
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by revscat 12y ago
Is there any existing tech that even approaches this? Tesla cars are an evolution and improvement upon tech that previously existed. Ditto Space X. But I'm not aware of anything that even approaches Doc Ock-like articulating cables&#x2
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by revscat 12y ago
My grandmother had one of these, as well. She lived in a small town in far west Texas, surrounded by pump jacks and oil fields. The shelter (or cellar, as it was later called) was always stocked with jams and canned goods, and as kids we wo
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by revscat 12y ago
HTTPS is transport later security. It does not solve the problem of tracking.
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by revscat 12y ago
ETag manipulation + HTTP headers, zero-width images combined with browser fingerprints, HTML local storage. I'm sure there are others.
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by revscat 12y ago
The impression I got from the article was simply a sense of wistful remembrance, not that the buildings should not have been torn down. "This was here once. Now, it is gone. This is what I remember."
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by revscat 12y ago
My guess is because this is a highly visible incident, and doing so would violate the deeply entrenched norms regarding the sovereignty of embassies. The blowback would be severe. Assange is also white and not a Muslim.
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by revscat 12y ago
Why on Earth would you think a lack of a warrant would matter? This is the US government we are talking about here. Absconding people to put them in Gitmo, or CIA black sites, or simply executed, are all techniques used regularly and withou
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by revscat 12y ago
There is no MO regarding an attack from a country like North Korea. Actually, there is. They tend to huff and puff about American military exercises that occur in cooperation with the Japanese or the South Koreans, or to complain to the U
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by revscat 12y ago
Or someone who is intentionally writing in "broken" English.
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by revscat 12y ago
Sociopaths exist. If this was an insider, possibly an administrator, all they would need to do would be to execute the equivalent of "select * from \\windows_domain", put the results in a torrent, and call it a day. From all repor
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by revscat 12y ago
Hackers who broke into Sony Corp. (6758)’s Hollywood unit probably spent months collecting passwords and mapping the network before they committed a last act of vandalism, setting off a virus that wiped out data and crashed the system in 1
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by revscat 12y ago
1) Siri has a male voice available as a configuration option. 2) There have been frequent studies which show that there is a natural (i.e. not cultural) bias towards finding female voices more pleasant, and such preferences begin in the wom
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by revscat 12y ago
Possibly. The leaked emails have definitively shown that Sony is philosophically still very much the same company today that they were they released the rootkit. Ergo, the rootkit still holds up as an accurate symbol of Sony's culture,
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by revscat 12y ago
What the Gates Foundation is wonderful, laudable, noble, and good. I am disappointed to not see mention of any environmental accomplishments in the list, though. Long term, the threats posed by climate change are far more of a threat than a

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