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zulln
8y ago
> Thought experiment: would college be "worth it" if it were free? Just to add another perspective/angle on it, university is free to attend in many other countries (you even get paid to study, although not much). People s
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8y ago
Swedish article, but apparently Chromebooks is "38% of the market for schools" http://feber.se/pc/art/362288/chromebooks_slde_bst_i_svenska...
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8y ago
This of course assumed you installed it directly from Github as that is the code you reviewed. Otherwise, yes, that is a valid concern.
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8y ago
In general I would agree, but the source code is so short here that you would be able to glance through it first to confirm nothing sketchy is going on there: https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper/blob
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8y ago
But they are selling to schools, at least in Sweden.
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Scratching the surface of host headers in Safari
(labs.detectify.com)
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9y ago
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An RCE was just patched in the Spotify Windows app
(twitter.com)
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9y ago
There are certainly tasks that a virtual assistant can handle and not a concierge-service, but in my personal case those did not deserve the extra cost. I use the concierge service over email, and they usually take a few hours to respond. M
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9y ago
There are a few services like that: * https://www.fin.com/ * https://mysecond.com/ * https://www.perssist.com/ * https://getmagic.com/ I have only played around with Magic.
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9y ago
It should not be too hard to build in a hardware-switch. Sure, it would take some time but think I would prefer that over always being stationary.
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9y ago
> If people say a party starts at 7, they might actually mean "don't show up until 7.30". Personally I refuse to play such opaque games, and usually show up exactly at the time specified. This is another question, this wou
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9y ago
Wrote about this a week ago: https://labs.detectify.com/2017/12/20/security-questions-are...
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9y ago
> I pay for a monthly pass, every month. So in practise you pay more than double, as the additional public transportation you take is 'free'? Just being curious.
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> Figuring out how to market the product successfully is the harder part. And exactly this is what limits it to "a large/powerful company".
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9y ago
I think it is valid to take exploitability into the equation.
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9y ago
This actually work as well: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=15+terawatthour+per+ye...
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9y ago
Absolutely, but there is one main difference: in those scenarios you do not communicate the tipping beforehand. A more similar scenario would be to go to a restaurant, annouce that you will pay no tip, and then when you leave change your mi
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9y ago
In those scenarios you do not communicate the tipping beforehand. This time the delivery person can see that you intend to tip zero, until you prove that wrong by actually tipping.
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9y ago
https://xkcd.com/1172/
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9y ago
That would however mean the delivery person will believe you intend to tip zero until you actually do. Not discussing whether it is right or not, but I assume that could affect the received service.
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9y ago
Did not mean to sound negative, but what is the use-case of saving web pages as PDFs? I understand building in the functionality in something else, but here it sounds like you manually type/paste in URLs on a regular basis. Edit, I see
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9y ago
Any special reason to why you use this over Chrome?
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9y ago
What do you use this for?
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9y ago
Just set the referrer to Facebook on all requests to WSJ then? You seem to be up to funny network configurations.
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> So, although I jokingly named the project plate-snitch when I set it up on my computer, I’m now faced with the conundrum of whether to report what I saw. > Ultimately, the driver was detected using a prototype of a police-only devic
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9y ago
That is why he mentioned "verified phone number" I guess. When you have verified your own phone number you can send texts from it as well.
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Bounty from YouTube due to lack of auth
(thesecurityexperts.wordpress.com)
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Information is beautiful. All kind of statistic visualised in a beautiful but still informative way. http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/books/
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9y ago
Did you experiment with other days, or was it just Friday? Was this choice made by you, or what fitted the job the best?
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9y ago
Security researchers are people as well. Most would have smartphones as well, but possible try to use them differently then the rest.
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