Comment Re:Solar and sidereal time. (Score 1) 232
The one second per year difference is more than 3 magnitudes different to with the 35 minutes a year that solar time varies by.
The one second per year difference is more than 3 magnitudes different to with the 35 minutes a year that solar time varies by.
The sidereal day was always much easier to time, with transit telescopes.
It was an eyeopener to see some apps that were misbehaving or just outright being illegal. My flashlight app now only controls the LED on the rear, and cannot see any of my private details - and they earned themselves a 1-star review..
Having said that - if the promise breaker made good on the restitution, I'd also make sure that everyone knew about it so that the good work done by the promise-breaker.
If you need more time in the evening, then petition your boss to have differing hours of work. There's no real reason why you can't wake at dawn, be at work shortly after sunrise, lunch at local noon, and finish work and have hours of daylight left to play with.
Biometrics, if used, should be used as usernames, not as passwords.
I've seen a proof of concept described that bypasses a lot of the physical security that is assumed to be present with NFC payments. Take two reasonably powerful and sensitive NFC transmitter/receivers, both portable and each connected to a comms device like a rooted Android phone, give one combination pair each to two people involved in the demonstration. Put one of the aerials inside a wallet, carried in the hand with the cable hidden e.g. up a sleeve. This person would be the one "paying". The other person just need to be nearby the "mark" whose card is to be used to pay for the transaction, close enough for the card interrogation to take place. Create a channel where the received data at one aerial is transmitted by the other, and vice-versa. Then when the payment is requested, the shops' cardreader has no way to recognise that the device being waved at it is not the actual one being interrogated for the transaction. The "mark" has no knowledge that their card was just used for a purchase. The merchant has no way to know that the transaction was fraudulent.
The same type of paired-device communication will also work to get through doors that require only a wave of a card in front of it.
So, if you want to have something that can be as easily bypassed as this in your pocket, please ensure that there is a decent faraday cage around it to prevent signal leakage when you don't want it used.
EULAs are nothing more than wishlists for the selling company and can be completely ignored. When I click through them I say out loud "This EULA states I will be paid" and it has the same legal standing.
Those of you living under certain fascist regimes that have allowed the legal recognition of EULAs, well you've got bigger problems..
(we've recently moved from a RH contract to an Oracle Linux contract, and Oracle will bend over backwards to keep us happy..)
We are not a clone.