> Why is that horseshit? Because historically (and also legally) the bounds between what is private and public have been defined by what was plausible at the time, not by what was hypothetically possible. We know live…
It's not just four stacks (or more, because the article also mentions Apple Macs and BSD) that you have to "mess up". You also have to mess them up in such a way that you can exploit them without a disk even being…
They were not "killing babies" they were "monetizing the vast network of uniformed African's who were potential baby killers". If they were technically doing anything wrong then Google wouldn't have partnered with them,…
Just run the code through a linter that recognises "use asm" as part of the build/test process.
3. Amazon gives preferential treatment to merchants using their auxiliary services. They already give preferential treatment to merchants using Amazon Fulfilment by writing off (at least some of) the bad merchant…
The NSA shouldn't just be an attacker it should also provide defence. If one of their many contractors can leak details to the press for idealogical ends it's pretty safe to assume that much worse secrets have already…
This won't work. Most video cards now have an HDMI output and their are numerous ways to bypass HDCP.
This is only tangentially related to the article but where I live there is a lot a wildlife, including many different species of birds. Some of these birds now sing songs that mimic common mobile phone ringtones. This…
> Hipster hate isn't about being different, it's about a perception of dishonest attention-seeking. Isn't this the same justification that's used to shame the "pseudo" geek girls?
> Deconstructionism itself has some interesting ideas [...] like those pointing out that a work of art can mean two opposing things simultaneously. The problem, however, is that its sillier adherents—who are all over…
I think the most troubling aspect of this case is that the FBI modified the computers systems before Ireland seized them as evidence. It seems absurd that law enforcement can effectively tamper with evidence before it…
> I wonder what crime they believe that Miranda might have committed? Breach of The Official Secrets Act[1]. Although I think the investigation is probably focused more on Greenwald (and The Guardian) than Miranda. [1]…
I think it's like a teacher checking your bag (under the pretence of "finding drugs") in order to confiscate your camera that contains incriminating pictures of them.
> Yes. The API is an HTML5 iframe YouTube also offers a Flash based API to show videos with adverts. If HTML5 wasn't feasible for Microsoft they could have paid Adobe for a licence to use the Flash runtime in their…
Amazon is actually relevant here, because their Kindle Fire browser is partly cloud based. Microsoft may say that HTML5 on the Win Phone isn't feasible, but they own a giant cloud based server farm (Azure) just like…
Google has obligations (both legal and moral) to both the content providers of YouTube and to the organisations who buy adverts on it. In order to 'not be evil' they have to take actions that respect these obligations.…
> Their average may be comparable, but frequency * intensity produce wildly differing results. I think this is largely an academic discussion. Some people drink a glass a wine every day, some people binge drink once/two…
For anyone curious enough there is a blog [1] that tracks deleted MetaFilter posts. [1] http://mefideleted.blogspot.co.uk/
> Anyway, I think aggressive moderation is a big part of Metafilter's secret sauce. It's definitely part of the secret sauce, but I wouldn't call the moderation aggressive - it'd call it targeted to preserve culture. If…
Flash and Java applets do have access to the DOM.
Skype supports call forwarding which by necessity negates the end to end encryption. It could be that to tap a Skype users calls they modify the users on-line address book to make it appears to their client that all of…
> Why is that horseshit? Because historically (and also legally) the bounds between what is private and public have been defined by what was plausible at the time, not by what was hypothetically possible. We know live…
It's not just four stacks (or more, because the article also mentions Apple Macs and BSD) that you have to "mess up". You also have to mess them up in such a way that you can exploit them without a disk even being…
They were not "killing babies" they were "monetizing the vast network of uniformed African's who were potential baby killers". If they were technically doing anything wrong then Google wouldn't have partnered with them,…
Just run the code through a linter that recognises "use asm" as part of the build/test process.
3. Amazon gives preferential treatment to merchants using their auxiliary services. They already give preferential treatment to merchants using Amazon Fulfilment by writing off (at least some of) the bad merchant…
The NSA shouldn't just be an attacker it should also provide defence. If one of their many contractors can leak details to the press for idealogical ends it's pretty safe to assume that much worse secrets have already…
This won't work. Most video cards now have an HDMI output and their are numerous ways to bypass HDCP.
This is only tangentially related to the article but where I live there is a lot a wildlife, including many different species of birds. Some of these birds now sing songs that mimic common mobile phone ringtones. This…
> Hipster hate isn't about being different, it's about a perception of dishonest attention-seeking. Isn't this the same justification that's used to shame the "pseudo" geek girls?
> Deconstructionism itself has some interesting ideas [...] like those pointing out that a work of art can mean two opposing things simultaneously. The problem, however, is that its sillier adherents—who are all over…
I think the most troubling aspect of this case is that the FBI modified the computers systems before Ireland seized them as evidence. It seems absurd that law enforcement can effectively tamper with evidence before it…
> I wonder what crime they believe that Miranda might have committed? Breach of The Official Secrets Act[1]. Although I think the investigation is probably focused more on Greenwald (and The Guardian) than Miranda. [1]…
I think it's like a teacher checking your bag (under the pretence of "finding drugs") in order to confiscate your camera that contains incriminating pictures of them.
> Yes. The API is an HTML5 iframe YouTube also offers a Flash based API to show videos with adverts. If HTML5 wasn't feasible for Microsoft they could have paid Adobe for a licence to use the Flash runtime in their…
Amazon is actually relevant here, because their Kindle Fire browser is partly cloud based. Microsoft may say that HTML5 on the Win Phone isn't feasible, but they own a giant cloud based server farm (Azure) just like…
Google has obligations (both legal and moral) to both the content providers of YouTube and to the organisations who buy adverts on it. In order to 'not be evil' they have to take actions that respect these obligations.…
> Their average may be comparable, but frequency * intensity produce wildly differing results. I think this is largely an academic discussion. Some people drink a glass a wine every day, some people binge drink once/two…
For anyone curious enough there is a blog [1] that tracks deleted MetaFilter posts. [1] http://mefideleted.blogspot.co.uk/
> Anyway, I think aggressive moderation is a big part of Metafilter's secret sauce. It's definitely part of the secret sauce, but I wouldn't call the moderation aggressive - it'd call it targeted to preserve culture. If…
Flash and Java applets do have access to the DOM.
Skype supports call forwarding which by necessity negates the end to end encryption. It could be that to tap a Skype users calls they modify the users on-line address book to make it appears to their client that all of…