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by semenko 14y ago
I'm 95% sure this bug was fixed between ICS and Jelly Bean. I'd been using the app Hidden Menus ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lorenx.and... ) which stopped working at the ICS -> JB transition. You now need to type
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by semenko 14y ago
To be fair, you can get similar costs in the US, but most people opt for subsidized phones (and the associated contracts). I have a prepaid mostly-data SIM for $30/month via T-Mobile prepaid ( http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/ ). Maybe we
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by semenko 14y ago
Perhaps Google PageSpeed Service, if they ever launch? https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service
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RIPE starts allocating their last /8 of IPv4 addresses(ripe.net)
1 points by semenko 14y ago|0 comments
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by semenko 14y ago
Unfortunately, that's just WHOIS spam, a known (& annoying) problem. To clear things up a bit: $ whois =godaddy.com See: http://superuser.com/questions/37954/how-to-use-command-line...
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by semenko 14y ago
I probably had the A record cached, after the mail outage ...
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by semenko 14y ago
Thread on Outages: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.isotf.outages/... The GoDaddy status page proudly announces "No issues to report": http://support.godaddy.com/system-alerts/ During last week's GoDaddy mail outage, they h
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Quora releases Android app(quora.com)
3 points by semenko 14y ago|0 comments
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by semenko 14y ago
Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/1j1yzQ9S I'm not very familiar with the Bitcoin protocol: Can all users view the values of these two bitcoin accounts -- or BTC in transit?
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by semenko 14y ago
There are very few journals that do this -- I can't imagine this ever taking off. Reproducing experiments seems like a costly (and mostly thankless) effort that few PIs would ever take up. The only journal I know of that completely reproduc
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by semenko 14y ago
> Myself, I'd place a lot of trust on cperciva Sure, but you can just compare the two sites' external measures of security, and they're not even close. Stripe domains: - Pass optional HTTP security headers (like X-Frame-Options on manag
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by semenko 14y ago
It's unfortunate PageSpeed is still a semi-closed beta; I've been trying to get access for some time now. You'd think a year would be enough to launch a product (or at least accept everyone that enters the beta, if you want to keep things q
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by semenko 14y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Google has tried this. Remember their short-lived QR code-based logon system? http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/17/2714263/google-experiment-... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/googles-qr-code-log-in...
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by semenko 14y ago
Very neat service. The Duo Security team also has a similar product with a lot of features: http://www.duosecurity.com/ They make the X-Ray Android vulnerability scanner ( http://www.xray.io/ )
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by semenko 14y ago
The paper is in the sidebar: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1207.0550 """ We prove a strong limitation on the ability of entangled provers to collude in a multiplayer game. Our main result is the first nontrivial lower bound on the class MIP* of
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by semenko 14y ago
Watching Hacker News try to interpret scientific data is, well, "like Quora without the Questions."
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by semenko 14y ago
The SecureList summary was much more detailed: http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193558/Gadget_in_the_mi... Flame took advantage of WPAD, a little-known magical hostname ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protoco...
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by semenko 14y ago
F-Secure claims that this /would/ allow forgery of Windows Updates (!!): http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002377.html "...Flame has a module which appears to attempt to do a man-in-the-middle attack on the Microsoft Update system
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by semenko 14y ago
Maybe: 1. The certificate appeared to be available to anyone who was looking hard enough. Microsoft provided the misconfigured certificate to anyone activating their Terminal Services product (!). Pretty embarrassing. 2. It's not evident wh
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by semenko 14y ago
Same, across a few browsers. :(
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by semenko 15y ago
But it's still an open source project -- perhaps the commits are more evident in their git repo? http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/ Certainly if you build Chromium from git/SVN now, the bug is fixed. I just find it a little strange that thei
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by semenko 15y ago
The Chrome Release blog says it's fixed: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/03/chrome-stab... And that the SVN commit history is available: http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/perf/dashboard/ui/chang... But I don't see any c
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by semenko 15y ago
Yep -- The discovery here is an endophytic (living in a plant) fungus that can grow anaerobically, using polyurethane as its sole carbon source. The authors suggest fungi that digest polyurethane have been known for decades. ("""Enzymatic d
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by semenko 15y ago
Boy, the Android Music Market sure has some great pricing options! https://market.android.com/details?id=album-Btvootmxvdamb4jr... (Googling for it, it's a multi-disc album that appears to have caused some parsing issues. Amazon's copy:
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by semenko 15y ago
Yep -- this is referred to as Package on Package (PoP). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_on_package
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by semenko 15y ago
Whoops - just saw that! I guess I always figured Google would give AppEngine some separate allocation/reverse DNS like EC2.
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by semenko 15y ago
Is it just me, or is this hosted out of Google? $ dig +short wikimaze.me 216.239.32.21 216.239.36.21 216.239.38.21 216.239.34.21 $ whois 216.239.32.21 ... GOOGLE, INC ... $ dig +short -x 216.239.32.21 any
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by semenko 15y ago
+1 for the credit. "drive.google.com" doesn't resolve (yet)
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by semenko 16y ago
This is not that useful. It's very easy to identify malaria on a peripheral smear with minimal training (and a much cheaper microscope/lens instead of a smartphone). There's an even easier malaria rapid antigen test that requires no microsc