MatthaeusHarris

That's an argument for them being a monopsony, not a monopoly. And since they were colluding with other companies, it fits the definition of a cartel better.

Read all the way through to the third article. It does go into which kinds of guns are used in homicides, which is much easier data to come by (and perhaps more relevant to the concerns at hand).

Autoplays video with sound.

I believe gp meant, "if the bulk of a tree's mass comes from dirt, why isn't the dirt around the tree used up as the tree gains mass?"

That's exactly what "Regulatory Arbitrage" means. The author calls it out explicitly.

Depends on your threat model.

From TFA: Another attack on Samsung Smart TVs was published last week that used malicious commands embedded in broadcast TV signals.

So, even if it's airgapped, a tv that's been compromised in this way is effectively a hostile general-purpose computer with a wifi card running inside your house.

If this is something you would do for a Klondike bar, then go ahead. I'll keep my dumb TV and my Kodi box, though.

I actually got a "GO TO HELL" response when I did this once. After he told me what the company was.

Yes, I forwarded the e-mail chain on to them.

I got what you meant, and that was my first thought too.

The main reason I haven't bought an Echo (and am looking into self-hosted solutions instead) is the privacy concern.

Simultaneously and independently, with exact copies of all registered voters.

Perhaps. But it happened to both my account and my sister's account.

YouTube has the luxury of not needing real-time compression. Latency hurts usability more than low frame rate.

This confuses it utterly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...

From inside a simulation, it's impossible to tell how fast the simulation is running because you have no external time reference. The visible universe as we know it could be running at a time dilation of of 10^100:1 and it would look exactly the same to us.

Yes, but it's much harder to hide a conspiracy to tamper with paper votes if it comes right down to it, since they're not all counted at the same place.

Literally every person I've put into my Vive has been blown away by it. Sure, there's probably some selection bias, but I've been buttonholing anyone who sets foot in my house, including my 70-year-old in-laws.

So far, of the 20+ people to whom I've shown it, one has taken it off voluntarily, and all had variations of, "Holy shit, this is really amazing."

Intelligence as in information, not as in smarts.

Intelligence clearance = access to classified information.

Miles on the car. Given how the article states that the tires alone are good for 5k miles and cost $1600 to replace, that's 32 cents per mile just for the tires. If you're going somewhere far enough away that it's worth your money to fly instead of drive, it'll also be worth your money to rent a local car rather than have your Tesla drive to meet you.

I am not a Tesla owner, so please correct me if I got the cost/mileage of the tires wrong.

I have had decent luck the few times I've just dumped the xml config from one pfSense box and loaded it on another.

But yes, I eagerly await the API in 3.0

What are you doing to your CPUs? In my experience, CPUs are reliable enough to be nearly beyond reproach when troubleshooting a broken machine.

They can.

They don't.

It's extra effort for them for nearly zero marginal gain.

I think the convenience of having Lyft manage the logistics will mitigate this to some extent. Lyft carpools are scheduled as late as an hour in advance; if you've entered into a more long-term arrangement, more notice is required especially if you're the driver.

Browse "User Submitted" by "Newest First" and you'll see the raw firehose of stuff people are submitting to the main gallery. If you're especially brave, do this at work.

Their FTTN is, yes. If you can get fibre to the premises, that's all them and you're golden.

+1 for sonic support.

Synergy is decidedly non-optimal for gaming, unfortunately. Various games try to grab the mouse pointer in different ways and synergy throws a wrench into at least some of them.

I'm running an M3800 with Mint Linux 17.3. I can squeeze 2 hours out of the battery if I really need to; suspend/hibernate is currently completely broken, requiring that I cold boot the machine each time I open the lid; bluetooth has never worked properly, even after extracting the proprietary firmware from the Windows drivers.

And this is on a machine that shipped from Dell with Ubuntu 14.04 installed, so supposedly all the hardware is open-source friendly.

The problem is not that the router is currently broadcasting a BSSID that exists elsewhere. The problem is that a geo-wifi database contains an association between their address and a BSSID.

They can change the router, and eventually the problem should sort itself out (if it is indeed their router and not a neighbor's that is the issue), but it's going to take until the old record ages out of the database for it to happen. And that could be months or years.

Unfortunately, yes. Present value of a future annuity (taking the lump sum now cuts the jackpot by quite a bit), and taxes. For ballpark calculations, I assume that each is going to cut the advertised jackpot in half. So for a $1.5 billion jackpot, your expected return is going to be a around $375 million (plus every single other prize, but that just adds about $20 million to the total), assuming no other winners.

Yes, your strategy will work, but not until the jackpot reaches even more ludicrous heights.

Given that you're relying on server-provided JS to verify the integrity of the data in the first place, a MITM could replace the verification function with return(true) and then inject whatever data they want.

The whole algorithm boils down to "Write your message into an array, then sort the array."

Gmail ignores the dots internally. j.smith@gmail.com is the same as js.mith@gmail.com is the same as jsmith@gmail.com.