Adblock Plus is an advertising company. They were sold in 2015, and now sell spaces on their whitelist to advertisers. uBlock forked from "uBlock Origin" and also tried to monetize.

"uBlock Origin" is not affected by the exploits in those articles. It's written by Raymond Hill who is well respected in his field, and doesn't look like he will sell out anytime soon.

I would not consider the others actual adblockers.

I wonder if the judge thinks this defense is bullshit. i.e. Why are 2 earbuds in his ears, while driving in the first place? If the phone was dead when he got into the car, why did he put the phone in the centre cubby, but keep both earphones in his ears?

Maybe the judge was thinking, "Do we let distracted drivers use the dead battery defense? Or do we counter bullshit defense with bullshit legal reasoning?" Slippery slopes both ways.

The TFA perhaps states the best compromise for the moment:

This isn't bad, especially since wearing 2 earbuds can lower the volume of what you can hear outside of the car, even without audio playing.

So from 20 to 31?

So from 3 to 5?

So they found 5 severe policy violations, then 4 of them did it again the next year?


Of course it's probably more. But without actual numbers, statistics like these are useless.

Many mapping systems give specific latitude and longitude coordinates and an accuracy radius for an IP address. When the accuracy radius is inaccurately large (like searching for a city, or a country) the coordinates arrow points in the middle, which can be someone's house. Someone using location services (like "Find My Lost Phone", and even police) often get these coordinates without understanding the accuracy sucks.

This particular case in South Africa happened because of a mapping service created by "National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency", which is part of the US Dept of Defense.

I'm not sure why useful information like this wasn't in the summary, but... I guess it made me read the article, so the jokes on me.

My favorite quote was from a guy that lives in this house. Right after the article says, "a team of police commandos stormed the property, pointing a huge gun through the door at Ann, who was sitting on the couch in her living room eating dinner", a few sentences later he says, "The Apple customers seem to be the worst."

While this sounds good at first, it will kill people.

Tests have shown that timers on red lights decrease road rage, and people drive safer. (Probably because waiting, while seeing the countdown for the end of the wait, is less aggravating then waiting at a long traffic light without knowing when it will end.)

Similar tests show that when timers are on green lights, people speed up toward the end, trying to get there before it changes, and driving more recklessly.

Putting timers on yellow lights would be similar or worse to timers on green lights.

With car accidents being one of the leading causes of death and dismemberment, it's not hyperbole to say that we could save a number of lives by passing legislation for traffic lights requiring timers on red, and making timers illegal on yellow and green.

There is a problem with yellows on lights with cameras, but a timer for yellow is not the solution.

Yes, but not the best way to add fiber to your diet.

These people completely misunderstand "desirable difficulty". From the article:

Using this font has nothing to do with desirable difficulty unless you're training yourself to read wonky fonts.

Nothing ever started, no plans were even drawn, and no one worked on it. Doesn't look like there was much of a project to "shelve".

Obligatory XKCD from October 15, 2010.

Exactly. Indulging in unhealthy habits can (sometimes) cause a person to sleep longer. Exercise, and it's easier to get up in the morning.

Sometimes conversating gets more complexicated irregardless of localation.

It's more likely something like this: New Air-Gap Jumper Covertly Transmits Data in Hard-Drive Sounds

That's the names, dates of birth, and tax ID numbers of roughly 45% of the entire United States (population ~326 million). Subtract children who don't have credit yet (~74 million), that's roughly 58% of US adults.

If "payment card" means credit card, that's 20% of all them in the US (1,041 million). Often you only need the number and expiration date to charge something to the card.

Those addresses are for roughly 30% of the population (if an address was attached to one name), or more (if an address was attached to multiple names [ie: people living together]).

Except some of us don't always think in words. We think in pictures & diagrams coupled with movements. Of course we think in words too. But that mode of thought is often too slow. An easy example would be solving a Rubix cube. Thinking in words would cripple the process.

I think most people think like this at different times. I find thinking in words useful when communicating or when solidifying/defining something in my head. But if I try to go through the day while thinking in words, my next sentence interrupts almost as soon as each new sentence starts, since that thought "bundle" has already been processed and understood.

Craig Wright gave a talk about the Lightning Network. Vitalik was pointing out something in that talk that made absolutely no sense (using basic mathematics). Craig Wright tries to defend himself. Then someone, who I believe was Joseph Poon, said,

"I wrote the Lightning Network paper. I straight up don't understand your presentation. I'm sure the rest of the audience does not as well."

Craig Wright is a fraud. The conference organizers should be embarrassed to include him.