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Comment Re:Looks pretty impressive... (Score 1) 115

I've been using android studio for a while now, it's much better than eclipse for editing android resources or referencing them from code. But I haven't changed our build process. I still use ant & adb from the command line for building and testing everything on actual hardware.

Comment Re:SSL? (Score 1) 92

POODLE, BREACH, CRIME etc all require the attacker to control some bytes in the ssl stream in order to deduce other bytes that they shouldn't be able to see. POODLE requires the attacker to change the http url & form post body in order to force the alignment of bytes, BREACH and CRIME are gzip length attacks. Both require the attacker to control bytes in a http request in order to guess the contents of other bytes in the request that they wish to know, like a session cookie.

All of these are attacks on HTTP & SSL, not on SSL alone.

Comment Re:SSL? (Score 1) 92

It's a protocol problem if a man in the middle can control some bytes in the encrypted stream. The biggest problem with attempts to keep HTTP & SSL secure, is the combination of sensitive application and user supplied data sent over the same stream in both directions.

Comment Re:My two cents... (Score 1) 516

In Australia we forced the utility companies to buy any solar power you sent to the grid using a separate meter, at a fairly high rate to encourage adoption.

Those higher tariffs are now over. So now we pay around 30-40c kWh (AUD, from memory) for mains, and they only pay about 5c kWh for any solar power you provide. But at least you're better off if you can use that power yourself.

Comment Re:TWC are (surprise, surprise) crooks and thieves (Score 1) 223

In Australia Telstra maintain the copper line, if there's a problem you log the fault and they fix it within 2 days or they have to pay you. Unless they file a claim for a natural disaster, which can give them an extra couple days to fix it.

At the other end of the copper, your wire may be patched directly into your ISP's equipment. Though in practice I think there are only 2 or 3 companies running the DSLAM's. Smaller ISP's then lease them per line.

Comment Re:Linux desktop never happened (Score 1) 265

Weston has the potential to clean up the UI quirks, I hope they're headed in the right direction. It's way past time we got rid of X11, it's been holding us back for far too long. If they can't do it, I doubt anyone else will bother.

For 20-ish years windows games have been optimised for windows proprietary drivers, and vice versa. That's a lot of invested effort from both sides, that the linux eco-system hasn't had. Frankly I'm surprised at the recent rate of improvements, but linux is still a long way from parity.

Comment Re:Not smart (Score 1) 219

Just because you can prove that there are *some* programs that can't be proven to halt, doesn't mean that there isn't a subset of programs that *can* be proven to halt.

We can build a language / compiler that rejects all programs that aren't provably correct. It might be difficult to get any useful work done, but it's not impossible.

Something like the rust programming language might be more useful in practice. You can still write completely unsafe code, while being careful to limit the impact of doing so.

Comment Re:Does it check for MITM? (Score 1) 36

Which should highlight if the application you're using can detect the attack or not. If the software you are testing can't detect the MITM, then it's broken. If google could write a better MITM detector, then it should be implemented in the libraries used by every application. Not in a separate tool.

Comment Re:Old saying (Score 1) 249

This is not a new problem, suddenly created by this clock. It already exists with our standard definition of time.

So now we'll be averaging due to relativity differences as well as precision errors.

Comment Re:Another stupid viewpoint from slate that is (Score 1) 287

It's quite trivial to adapt them for robot visibility as well (perhaps even incorporating stuff like specialized radio signals).

Or blink a bright IR diode... In the short term the cars will need to learn how humans do it. In the longer term the cars may have their own information channel to augment how we currently do it.

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