We have an open plan office here, with plenty of natural daylight which is great, but what we don't have is a way to muffle any conversations going on nearby. At least with cubicles we could have relative silence; I've had to invest in some noise-canceling headphones so I can concentrate on my code.

I find it nice for all the stuff I usually fish out my phone for, except now I don't have to do that. I use the custom face, so I've got temperature, my exercise goals, all that jazz on it. Got it synced to my home & work calendars too, so I always see my next appointment.

The killer app for me is basically Siri. I use it all the time to look things up, get directions, and set timers/alarms (I do a lot of craft/prop building, which means timing glue and paint). Haven't really had too much trouble with battery life: I put it on around 7ish, take it off about midnight, usually got >30% juice left, usually closer to 40%. Occasionally use the Wallet app, but not on any sort of regular basis.

Things I don't like: Siri doesn't always come when I call. The history feature is more in the way than anything, and the screen doesn't fire up every time I turn my wrist like ti's suposta. I tend to wiggle it a couple times, then give up and just tap the screen :P

Still, I like it for the most part. Still use it every day. It makes a nice sort of 80/20 remote terminal for my phone, if you see what I mean. For that, it does a good job.

Yeah, and we're not just saying that because we're on to a good thing here and don't want it getting around!

I deny that completely!

Just think: before too long, online dating will have removed actual people from the process altogether! You'll just sign up, roll a character, and two weeks later get an email letting you know your algorithm has hooked up with another algorithm and they're having lots of little subroutines together. Think of the convenience!

Well, therein lies the paradox, you know? I mean, I for one am interested in machine learning, though admittedly I don't know much about the nuts and bolts of it. In the abstract, I would love to see how the software actually works, how it improves over time, etc. In the concrete, however, the fact he's using it for this is mashing my "eugh" button pretty hard.

That being said, a "would probably be into you" filter would be awesome as hell. I wonder how that could be implemented.

Let's see if he can use deep learning to filter only the women that would have anything to do with someone who would do this.

If there's one thing decades of Windows releases has taught us, it's that you always wait for the service pack.

...it was a couple years back. Met this girl online, real nice, pretty photo, all that jazz. She got real close real quick--quick enough that I started doing a little research on the side. Like when she said her brother had died of cancer, and the only person I could find with that name had died in a drive-by. Then she lowered the boom: she was stuck in a hotel in London, her finances from the family business had some sort of snarl-up, and she couldn't leave until she got money to pay the bill.

A-ha.

I played ignorant at first, not quite taking the hint when she asked for help. When she gave up on subtlety, I plead poverty, but wished her all the luck in the world and told her to get in touch once she got out of there.

Never heard back. Funny thing, that.

http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~ha...

(Since there doesn't seem to be a link).

Basically, the table on page 3 is probably where you want to start looking. TorGuard, PrivateInternetAccess, VyperVPN & Mullvad are proof against IPv6 leakage, so it's actually 10 of 14 that aren't.

Also, they found Astrill is proof against OpenVPN and PPTP/L2TP DNS hijacking. Interesting read.