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by sigmar 11y ago
The article goes on to say >However the difficulties caused by the co-mingling of human and robot driving styles is also in ample evidence. Which is not true at all based on the three examples they choose to highlight (all three state th
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by sigmar 11y ago
>human drivers’ tendency to take risks and cut corners, and well, that, in itself, might indicate driverless cars’ risk aversion is an accident waiting to happen (at least when human drivers are also in the mix). You can try all you want
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by sigmar 11y ago
HFT exists because low latency trading exists. Not the other way around. >it definitely 'levels' the playing field. Have you read Michael Lewis's Flash Boys? Because HFT demonstrably doesn't level the playing field.
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by sigmar 11y ago
CPU and bandwidth will always matter. Once those restraints aren't an issue for phones, people will want webpages to load on their watch.
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by sigmar 11y ago
I've googled around but can't find any details about how the power generation works. Perhaps because it is in the process of being patented and they want to keep it quiet for the time being. Where does the energy come from? The on
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by sigmar 11y ago
>Since there is no real understanding of what that "engineering" is, there can't be a body of standards to which qualify and license. The definition of engineer is NOT someone licensed and liable. I'm not sure where y
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by sigmar 11y ago
what? By "cell processor" do you mean radio hardware? Because that is indeed contained within the SoC.
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by sigmar 11y ago
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/android-... ^ That is the thread and it was closed, not deleted (a subtle but important distinction)
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by sigmar 11y ago
It seems strange to me that the Snowden is only now mentioning the "text message" attack vector, after everyone already knows about Stagefright. Is he out of things to leak? or did he mention it before and go unnoticed?
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by sigmar 11y ago
He already told you the reason, he doesn't have time to read it right now. Did you read the link you posted? Because I read it, and his skimming is 100% accurate. The article talks about Angry Birds, Facebook, google maps, and other so
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by sigmar 11y ago
>Asked about the movie by “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert recently, Mr. Cook said, “I think a lot of people are trying to be opportunistic and I hate this.” I'm not positive, but I'm willing to bet Cook was talking more ab
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by sigmar 11y ago
Not sure what type of hacking you want to do. Reverse engineering? traffic inspection? exploit buffer overflow? Here is a list of CTFs that might interest you: http://captf.com/practice-ctf/
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by sigmar 11y ago
Definitely a scam, but I'm not sure exactly how it is a scam. Could it be distributing malware to other devices sharing the network? Maybe messing with the router firmware and phoning home (allowing for a follow-up remote attack)? Snif
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by sigmar 11y ago
That's a nice thought, but the facebook problems she mentions (harassment/trolling/doxing) are only exacerbated with more publicity.
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by sigmar 11y ago
It is definitely good enough to sample the signals. But why use an inaccurate title? Wiring something into a soundcard doesn't make it a microphone.
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by sigmar 11y ago
This isn't a "microphone" at all. Microphones by definition transduce the physical movement of sounds waves into a signal. This is just using the sound card to sample the electrical signals picked up by the conductive leads.
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by sigmar 11y ago
>Patreon revealed earlier this week that it had recently been hacked, compromising the email addresses, usernames, and shipping addresses of its users. Were passwords not breached? Or is it just that they haven't publicly released t
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by sigmar 11y ago
>Maybe they should go back to supporting print publications, such as the NYT? Print publications are going out of business because consumers are abandoning them, not just because advertisers went to the web. Advertisers will just flock t
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by sigmar 11y ago
Weird. Sounds like something Arthur Conan Doyle would have Sherlock solve.
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by sigmar 11y ago
Fond something near the end of that link: >In the spring of 2015, iAd plans to provide developers with unique audience insights about the users in your segments, viewable in iAd Workbench—including their distribution by gender, age, geog
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by sigmar 11y ago
It is a shame this comment will be downvoted only because it does not support the confirmation bias of many HN users.
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by sigmar 11y ago
I'm not saying it isn't a solid argument. Their PR people clearly thing it is the way to go, judging by how often it has come up. You're right, it wouldn't be hard, but they aren't doing it. Why? Maybe because they
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by sigmar 11y ago
back door for the good guys? you mean being able to execute unsigned code? If apple is ever compelled by the government to not allow a certain app (if they lose in the FISA courts) or if the leadership of apple changes? Stories like this co
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by sigmar 11y ago
>Personal computing devices shouldn't have artificial walled gardens. I couldn't agree more with this sentiment. Requiring that all software on your device be signed by a single entity (i.e. apple) is horrifying when you think
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by sigmar 11y ago
Apple's comments on privacy over the past year have seemed very opportunistic. >But what they don't want to do, they don't want your email to be read, and then to pick up on keywords in your email and then to use that info
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by sigmar 11y ago
what a strange article. It argues HEPA isn't effective enough (which is barely relevant because it isn't just a hepa filter), then the article talks about the timing of bioweapon attacks (obviously a car can't predict the fut
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by sigmar 11y ago
>not being able to block ads on Android Not only are there multiple browsers that block ads on android (including firefox, Adblock Browser for Android, nochromo). There are also non-root apps that block ads in other apps by using an on-d
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by sigmar 11y ago
Quantitative comparisons to ublock origin would be better than comparisons to adblock plus. ABP is well known to be slow.
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by sigmar 11y ago
Re:the novelty Is there any practical use for this? My understanding is that movie theaters are preferred to home theaters because the distance from your eyes to the screen is far enough that you can focus to infinity, which is easier on th
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by sigmar 11y ago
I agree. It would be great if someone performed a packet sniff to check exactly what data is being sent. But there seems to be lots of FUD in the comments on this post. If the apps are malicious, I hope someone finds actually evidence

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