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Researchers analyzing the electronic system for transactions and signatures used by the European Union member states found flaws that allowed impersonating any EU citizen. "I'm Henry the eighth I am"
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Narbis' new smart glasses discourage (read: punish) distraction by darkening the lenses. To reward relaxation and concentration, the lenses clear. Zaphod Beeblebrox thinks they're cool and froody
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Driving a car with those glasses will certainly become an interesting experience 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet -- which could make it the smallest in the solar system -- after new research revealed its shape, astronomers said on Monday. I think they prefer, "planet of lower mass"
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First it was:
My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas
Then:
My very educated mother just served us nachos
What's next?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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In a discussion about Linux and programming, Linux's founder, Linus Torvalds talks about what he does today and his own doubts about his work. "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence"
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From article: So, Hohndel asked, "What is your job?" Torvalds replied, "I read and write a lot of email. My job really is, in the end, is to say 'no.' Somebody has to say 'no' to [this patch or that pull request].
 Does not sound like fun.
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That's why I never really understand the desire of some devs to get into management.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That's why I never really understand the desire of some devs to get into management.
 Neither do I
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Flash, for all its extraordinarily massive security flaws, turned boring websites into arguably more appealing sites. As a multimedia platform, Flash offered animation, rich internet applications and more, for a time enriching the Internet. Now we have to find someone else to save the universe
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Kind of mandatory[^]
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Google announced today that you’ll be able to register a .new domain for an online shortcut of your own. blurb.new
I can hardly wait for it to be weaponized. Probably in a day or two.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Probably in a day or two.
I didn't realize you were that optimist... I would have tipped for one or two hours.
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google canada will be allowing .canoe shortcuts. Best for streaming websites 
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Short answer: probably not. Its popularity may have more to do with the “bigger minimalism trend” than usability, says one expert. "Blackness, blackness draggin' me down"
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You should have connected better with previous posts...
Kent Sharkey wrote: "Blackness, blackness draggin' me down"
Better: Don't let you be attracted to the dark side, my young padawan...   
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Comment below:
Not only is Martin Gunsberg's term of "telltale" not a word used in the SYNC3 documentation at all, the functionality he described isn't explained in the owner's manual either. Even if every single car renter reviewed the manual, it is not clear they would understand what icon to look for or would recognize what it is supposed to indicate if they did see it. 
Companies really don't give a crap if it there is no $$$-threat
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A group of Russian scientists was hit by crippling roaming charges after some of the eagles the researchers were studying flew to countries with high roaming charges, including Iran, Turkmenistan, and Pakistan. The birds were outfitted with electronic devices that tracked their locations and sent back status updates a few times a day. Always check roaming charges before migrating
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How was it...
expect the best, be prepared for the worst?
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It still appears to be a poorly-designed experiment. Assuming the data roaming charges are per MB or part of it, what is wrong with aggregating data and sending it off as a burst?
Even if they track the position of the eagle on a minute-by-minute basis, that would be no more than 1440 data points per day, which would easily fit into a data burst of less than 1MB. Surely a daily update would have been timely enough for their needs.
EDIT: from the description, they must have used SMS to send the messages. So they buffered the messages when out of contact, then sent them one by one using the most inefficient protocol available.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: EDIT: from the description, they must have used SMS to send the messages. So they buffered the messages when out of contact, then sent them one by one using the most inefficient protocol available.
Yes, they used SMS. In the article I read was explained with some more details (German paper)
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: So they buffered the messages when out of contact, then sent them one by one using the most inefficient protocol available.
For devices powered by a coin cell or fingernail sized solar panel power efficiency matters. SMS can be sent while conducting handshakes with cell towers at a tiny fraction of the power usage of switching to (any) datamode. This is especially important as 2/3g networks are shut down because standard LTE modems have much higher power consumption levels.
A few years back I read an article on Anandtech about companies working in this type of hardware developing much lower power alternatives; IIRC unidirectional LTE (vs simultaneous TX/RX modules) @ 0.9 MHz channel widths (vs 5+5 MHz as the normal minimum), and a 'super 2g' standard with 20kHz channels. Both were intended to operate in either scraps of phone spectrum too narrow for modern usage (eg the US 800MHz band has 2.5, 1.5, and 1.0 MHz slivers) or in a few small slices of spectrum used for industrial embedded communications long before IOT was a buzzword.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I stand corrected. I didn't consider the power requirements.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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And now you also know why eagles didn't just take Frodo and Sam to Mount Doom
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