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So what about all the other gaming apps on the iOS store? Literally thousands of them are specifically designed to get (trick) kids to spend money on them. Apple is more than happy to enable In-App purchases for them and then promotes them heavily through its own advertising on the app store. How is Apple not part of the problem in this whole system?

According to Trail of Bits :

"There is no immediate risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities for most users. Even if the full details were published today, attackers would need to invest significant development efforts to build attack tools that utilize these vulnerabilities. This level of effort is beyond the reach of most attackers (see https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf, Figure 1)

These types of vulnerabilities should not surprise any security researchers; similar flaws have been found in other embedded systems that have attempted to implement security features. They are the result of simple programming flaws, unclear security boundaries, and insufficient security testing." - https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/03/15/amd-flaws-technical-...

Not really, I know quite a few (conservative) Indians who haven't been able to stay in the US simply due to the taste of food.

IMO Indian spices are much harder to get right, whereas French cuisine relies much more on very expensive ingredients.

With such little information out there at the present I don't believe there is any point to discussion right now. With just unverified speculation, people are resorting to their imagination for any explanation which is never a good idea.

I've thought about this a lot for India as well. To be realistic we would need unprecedented levels of transparency to get the amount of data needed to get usable results. With the amount of nepotism around even constructing a simple network of party heads of each state and related companies and contracts awarded for public work would be valuable.

At this stage we really should think of it more in terms of documenting corruption rather than stopping corruption. When (and if) the system is ready to change the data would be extremely useful to see why things are happening the way they are and work out if solutions would just move the corruption-bottleneck rather than eliminate it.

Thanks for linking to the podcast, it was eye opening! Many people commenting here should listen to this before spouting off the same things repeatedly.

It's so frustrating watching people ignoring history and then passionately agreeing with like minded people into tunnel vision solutions.

What is also quite interesting about their platform is that they use Stackless Python for the game logic (https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/stackless-pyt...). Their whole architecture is quite amazing for how old their tech is and what they have managed to achieve.

Loved the simple, straightforward language used at the time. Currently even mainstream news sites are are just dripping with way too many marketing terms that don't really mean anything anymore.

I definitely prefer hg but github has pretty much won war so I'm stuck with git. At the end of the day I'm not going to get religious about version control, I have vim for that :)

That hula hoops bit was a bit... strange. If it were a couple of attractive girls I probably would also find myself staring. I mean, its just not something you see everyday working at an office. I understand being stared at is uncomfortable too, and they should feel free to do whatever they want of course. It just sounds like how unattractive people "stare creepily" while attractive people "look."

Obligatory link to the the skimmer: http://www.nytimes.com/skimmer/?pagewanted=all#/Top+News

Is there any serious competitor at Digital Ocean's prices?

Looks like they have chosen to only use App Folder permissions rather than full Dropbox. I suppose it helps in getting production approval, but then if other apps are able to get them I wonder why can't lightpaper.

Can you clarify what you mean by that? The slightly less poor exploit off the extremely poor?

Isn't it obvious this is the result of a country of extremely low average income and extremely high population?

Of course it would be great to have even a semblance of equality, but I dont see a solution given the current economic model.

The "R" and "5" are quite interesting, and the symbols look fun, specially that "@".

You coudnt be more wrong. Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_British_salt_tax...

Wow really? Apparently pointing out the obvious bias and rewriting of history is "racism." I mean I get that the victor gets to write the history, but this is the empire that put "No Dogs or Indians Allowed" in front of its bars, please done shove "civilization" down my throat so hard.

There seems to a be a large rise in popularity of such articles which cherry pick certain facts to paint a rosy picture of the colonial empire. I believe its the classic case of people wanting to read a history they wish was true rather than deal with the uncomfortable truth.

While I have no problems with people writing about the many positives of the raj, I believe that omitting to mention certain genocides and atrocities is akin to misinformation.

Love the nowhere layout! Is it possible to go to the previous track? Sometimes you get a song really stuck in your head and its nice to play it on repeat for a while while you work on something.

I agree. I get the feeling it would look great on print. On screen it looks strange. For me zooming out helped.

Where can I find alternative design styles and what would they be called? Gradient based?

I have never read an Indian newspaper making reference to someone's caste unless it was somewhat related to the story.