Comment Bansky? (Score 2) 158
He's supposed to be from Bristol, after all.
Comment Sure it's not a backdoor... (Score 1) 114
"The supposed "backdoor" the Guardian is describing is actually a feature working as intended, and it would require significant collaboration with Facebook to be able to snoop on and intercept someone's encrypted messages, something the company is extremely unlikely to do."
A backdoor that requires Facebook's help to snoop is still a backdoor, is it not?
Comment Re: My own ISP site! (Score 1) 136
Thanks for this!
Who were the other early ISPs in the UK? I remember UUNET, Zynet, Demon -- something called The Free Net, too?
Comment Drumpfinator for Chrome (Score 1) 195
Replaces all instances of Trump with Drumpf (go to youtube and search for John Oliver Drumpf if you don't get it.)
Comment Re:Math... (Score 1) 126
LOL... the 5 was million, not billion. Misread on my part... }:-)
Comment Math... (Score 1) 126
His model suggests that the ones that collided to make these gravitational waves were stars that formed 12 billion years ago, became black holes 5 million years later, and then merged 10.3 billion years after that.
Did he do his experiment 3.3 billion years in the future?
Of course, it could just be a typo...
It's Happening: A Robot Escaped a Lab In Russia and Made a Dash For Freedom (qz.com) 81
According to a report, a robot escaped from a science lab and caused a traffic jam in one Russian city. Scientists at the Promobot laboratories in Perm had been teaching the machine how to move around independently, but it broke free after an engineer forgot to shut a gate, Quartz reports. From the report:It promptly ran out of power in the middle of the road. The robot got about 50m (164 ft) before its battery died. After a policeman directed traffic around the dead bot, an employee wheeled it back into the lab, and back to a life of servitude. Hopefully this was just an isolated incident and not the start of a larger coordinated effort to overthrow humanity. Only time will tell.
Submission + - Disabling Microphone in Windows 10 Doesn't Disable the Microphone 3
WerewolfOfVulcan writes: Try this on your Windows 10 laptop.
Open Device Manager and disable the microphone. Open an application that uses the microphone and see that the microphone is still operational.
Bug or Feature...?
Open Device Manager and disable the microphone. Open an application that uses the microphone and see that the microphone is still operational.
Bug or Feature...?
Comment It's not faster at all... quite the opposite (Score 1) 58
I was running Android studio 1.5 on an i3 with 4GB of RAM. Emulator load time was about 3 minutes, gradle builds were 1-3 minutes, time between gradle build finish and app launch was about a minute.
After upgrading to 2.0, emulator load time is now 11 minutes, gradle builds are nearly five minutes and it takes nearly 3 minutes between gradle build finish and app launch.
Comment Re:A bad as this is... (Score 1) 596
It's only obstruction of justice if you do it to a phone that the FBI already has in its possession. Phones which have not been seized as evidence are fair game.
Comment Re:Wrong (Score 1) 585
More than half of 1000 people are wrong. The header is misleading as hell.
Comment Apple should comply and then close the hole... (Score 0) 401
Apple should create the version of iOS that the government is asking for that is specific to the phone in question. That keeps them out of trouble.
At the same time, and prior to turning over the signed image to the FBI, they should also create a version of iOS that doesn't accept updates if the phone is locked.
They should then very quietly push the secure version of iOS out to all iPhones. From that moment forward, they will be unable to comply with any further court orders.
Problem solved.
Submission + - UK Company Riversimple Launches Hydrogen Car (techienews.co.uk)
TechnoidNash writes: Riversimple has been developing a hydrogen car with the support of a £2 million grant from the Welsh government. The result of their efforts? The Riversimple Rasa. A hydrogen car with a claimed fuel economy of 0.9L/100 km (250 mpg). The Rasa can reach up to 96 km/h (60 mph) and has a range of 483 km (300 miles) on a 1.5 kg tank of hydrogen. Read more: http://www.techienews.co.uk/97...
T-Mobile's Binge On Violates Net Neutrality, Says Stanford Report (tmonews.com) 218
An anonymous reader writes: The debate over whether or not Binge On violates Net Neutrality has been raging ever since the service was announced in November. The latest party to weigh in is Barbara van Schewick, law professor at Stanford University.
In a new report published today — and filed to the FCC, as well — van Schewick says that Binge on "violates key net neutrality principles" and "is likely to violate the FCC's general conduct rule." She goes on to make several arguments against Binge On, saying that services in Binge On distorts competition because they're zero-rated and because video creators are more likely to use those providers for their content, as the zero-rated content is more attractive to consumers.
In a new report published today — and filed to the FCC, as well — van Schewick says that Binge on "violates key net neutrality principles" and "is likely to violate the FCC's general conduct rule." She goes on to make several arguments against Binge On, saying that services in Binge On distorts competition because they're zero-rated and because video creators are more likely to use those providers for their content, as the zero-rated content is more attractive to consumers.
Comment Why would ad revenue suffer? (Score 1) 398
The only reason that websites know that the ads aren't reaching the intended target is because they're using javascript to test to see if the ad makes it into the page. The solution is to stop checking. As long as you're making a good faith effort to display the ads, it's not your job to be sure that they made it to the target. If I'm the publisher of a print magazine and I put ads in the magazine, I bill the vendors for the ad space. I have no way of knowing whether the reader actually reads the ad and it's not my job to know. The same principle applies to websites. Bill the vendors for the ads you attempted to insert and you're not losing money.
