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Comment Re: Evil, powerful men have enemies. (Score 1) 242

So, how secure is the pairing? Bluetooth v2.1?

Otherwise, someone could perhaps attack the pacemaker by spoofing an auth'd device.

Also, a few meters is still a decent range, esp for a small concealed device that could lie in wait, and, surely that could be increased w/ more power...

Comment Re:Can't 0wn a powered-off server (Score 1) 267

That would explain a closed website.
It does nothing to explain websites that were left on and serving a "shutdown" page, in some cases, using a redirect such that the actual page loads before sending you to the block page.

It is more directly comparable to Wikipedia's SOPA protest in function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_Syndrome has been brought up a few times.

Comment Re:GNOME: We don't want Microsoft to have all the (Score 1) 729

Eh, looks promising, might give it a shot, but frankly, I don't much trust the main gnome folks anymore after the fun that was gnome3 launch.

MATE works, gaining momentum, family members are all happy (and they were not happy with gnome 3 I can tell you that... my poor mom). I don't really have much incentive to switch.

Comment Re:GNOME: We don't want Microsoft to have all the (Score 3, Interesting) 729

MATE, personally. I've used XFCE4 in the past, but still has just a few too many rough edges for me.

Surprisingly, MATE did rather well in his tests, here. Better than XFCE4. Shame MATE still isn't ported to ARM.

http://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops/

Comment Re:this has me wondering (Score 1) 151

Erm, I'm not tooootally sure what you mean, but, here's the chain.
1) You provide a link to goo.gl/maps/something
2) Reply worries that this could be a redirect to some evil website, even though goo.gl/maps only ever redirects to maps.google.com
3) I point out this /maps fact, and also strip down the link he provided to make it a bit shorter

The extra stuff in the link doesn't have any tracking info in it. Google just adds it to try to make a version of the page that matches what you've been doing (zooming, panning, your search parameters and such).

Comment Re:this has me wondering (Score 1) 151

Well, some blogs and such don't play nice with long links.
Also people sometimes needs to copy and paste them.
As such, google offers a link shortening service right in google maps (click the chain link icon).

Note the url has /maps/ in it - he couldn't send you to something evil unless it was on google maps, which I suppose there might be stuff here and there.

He could also have trimmed some of the junk in the URL tho...
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=21.401534,72.199316&t=h&z=15

Comment Re:coalesce (Score 1) 191

But, eh... Only works for the simple case I guess...
(? IS NULL OR foo LIKE '%'||?||'%') AND
(? IS NULL OR bar = ?) AND
(? IS NULL OR (A = ? OR B = ? OR C = ?)) AND
(? IS NULL OR baz = to_date(?||'-'||?,'YYYY-MM'))

Comment Re:Private Browsing (Score 3, Informative) 223

I was kinda curious what he meant, myself, so I checked out this old-ish paper.
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/privatebrowsing.pdf

I don't know if things have changed much, but their fairly thorough review seems to indicate firefox and chrome are pretty similar.
Looking at their table, one possible area of concern they listed (that Chrome might no longer have a problem with) is zoom level.
That could give information to a site that it is the same person, if they cared, although, that seems to be a pretty minor leak, given all the other information you could be revealing even if you hid your IP (a la panopticlick).
Looks like Chrome retains it from the non-private session, Firefox does not. The download list thing doesn't seem like a big deal. Depends on what you're using it for I guess.

Some leaks they fixed...
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=3493
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21341

Open issues:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=867
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=34593 (I'm not a fan of this one either, but multiple private windows in Firefox do the same thing)

Back in 2010 Flash added support for private browsing in their plugin (that is, wrt local storage) in Firefox. I have no idea if/when that got added to Chrome.

I saw one complaint that disabled plugins (like Flash) in Chrome were reactivated in Incognito, but I don't know enough about the browser to check that.

Anyway, they seem pretty similar to me.

Comment Re:Don't build big *concave* glass buildings (Score 1) 151

Construction on the Vdara began in 2007 and completed in 2009.
Major news coverage of the Vdara death ray appears to begin summer 2010.

Construction on the Walkie Talkie began in 2010. They'd reached the basement level by January 2011 according to Wikipedia.

It seems to me that implies plenty of time to alter the design of the rest of the tower.

On the Vdara:
"Designers foresaw the issue, and thought they had solved it by installing a high-tech film on the south-facing glass panes"
(didn't work, looks like they were excessively optimistic or didn't count on the parabolic effect, just reflection)

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