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dm2··on Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to send other people updates
They have some samples that you could use: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Network-Informat...
dm2··on Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to send other people updates
I'm not sure exactly how it works but there is documentation on what they're calling "Connection Cost".

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/w...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/m...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh7503...

dm2··on What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea
That's 700 million potential factory workers, military support staff, and soldiers, and the factories are already built, US companies paid for many of them.
dm2··on Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to send other people updates
I think that they have a list of approved ISPs or some dependable way to make sure it doesn't happen on metered connections.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/windows-update...

"As with Windows 8.1, Windows 10 won't automatically download updates or apps if it detects that your PC is using a metered connection. Similarly, Delivery Optimization won’t automatically download or send parts of updates or apps to other PCs on the Internet if it detects that you're using a metered connection."

dm2··on What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea
China does have 2.3 million active troops and 700 million humans who would be able to serve if needed.

They are considered the 3rd most powerful military.

What is the risk?

dm2··on Receiving Weather Satellite Images With An £8 Dongle
Free fast shipping: http://www.ebay.com/itm/251240985308

Most of them seem to have the same two chips in them, RTL2832U and R820T. Does anyone see an issue with this item I linked to? Some people were mentioning quality issues with generics.

dm2··on LinkedIn quietly removes option to export contacts
Some sites just give off a vibe that prevents me from ever trusting them, LinkedIn is the most predominant in that category and I have never been able to put my finger on exactly why. The email proxy apps and the pay to see who viewed your profile aspects don't help.

I'm not saying that it's any worse than any other sites, but LinkedIn has always felt like a shady company, like they're not on the users side.

I was really hoping that the Google+ reboot would fulfill the niche market that LinkedIn dominates, but it did not.

dm2··on AP makes one million minutes of historical footage available on YouTube
I think that AP is making some money from these videos by hosting them on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjZ6NNLCdio has ads in the right sidebar (one of the newly uploaded videos).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC82Il2cjqA does not have ads.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2467968

dm2··on Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds
It shows that they care about their product, their customers, and their brand.

Any other car company would save software updates for the latest years model and tell users that they have to purchase a new vehicle to receive the updates.

Great precedent Tesla, thank you, and I hope other car companies follow your lead.

dm2··on Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details (2014)
The first public announcement was in October 2014.

They estimated they could build a test reactor within one year (by October 2015) and the prototype within 5 years.

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.htm...

dm2··on Google didn’t lead the self-driving vehicle revolution, John Deere did
John Deere didn't invent the technology though, Autonomous Solutions Inc. (ASI) did. They partnered in ~2000.

http://www.asirobots.com/news/

http://www.asirobots.com/farming/

http://www.asirobots.com/products/mobius/

dm2··on Stealing keys from PCs using a radio: cheap electromagnetic attacks
It's not impossible:

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/517336/physicists-detec...

Lasers have been used for 50+ years in the intelligence community to eavesdrop on voice conversations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone

dm2··on All Systems Go for NASA's Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa
I wrote a very detailed reply for this with lots of sources, but deleted it because it would only invite more questions that you can find out the answers to yourself. Really what you are asking requires several books worth of information to fully explain.

Basically just read everything on Wikipedia about DARPA, NASA, CIA satellites, the NRO, the Apollo missions, Sputnik, Voyager 1 / 2, the Curiosity rovers, KH-9, KH-11, Hubble, etc. then come back and criticize NASA if you still think that they are not doing their job properly.

You have the answers to all of these questions and more at your fingertips via Google.

NASA has another Curiosity rover, but the cost/benefit of sending it to Mars isn't worth it in their expert opinions.

dm2··on All Systems Go for NASA's Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa
https://github.com/nasa and http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/opensource/ and https://code.nasa.gov/

Hardware has to be radiation hardened and redundant.

Bandwidth is so low because it has to send radio waves 500 million miles, and that's not an exaggerated number.

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

Edit: The Deep Space Network is currently down, might be aliens, good luck everybody.

dm2··on Russia's secret space shuttles have been sitting in plain sight for 22 years
According to this document it was stolen: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a160564.pdf
dm2··on Why I Still have faith in LastPass
Does 1Password have a web based version?
dm2··on 30% of US Workforce Need License to Perform Their Job
Text only cache because site is broken at the moment: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.bro...
dm2··on Hack of U.S. government compromised millions of security files
It's the Department of Homeland Security's responsibility, but that doesn't mean that anyone necessarily failed at their job. Just that it's a very difficult job.

The NSA will certainly contribute tools and expertise when needed to any US government agency/department.

The DHS tool "Einstein" is an intrusion detection system that detected the breach.

CIA records are assumed to not be held by the OPM, for the reason that they are the ones that are most sensitive if stolen.

dm2··on What remains of the Manhattan Project
Here is a really good documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwpgmEvlRpM

Does anyone know any other documentaries about this topic? It's a fascinating event to study.

dm2··on Hack of U.S. government compromised millions of security files
DHS is responsible for securing dot-gov, including their databases. It's considered a "federal civilian network".

USCYBERCOM is responsible for dot-mil, with the help of the NSA.

dm2··on A YouTube built for gamers
I don't think that streaming to YouTube is as easy as direct streaming to Twitch, maybe that's one of the areas they are focusing on.

Streamers will make sacrifices for their audience. If the technology isn't available to stream VR well then they won't do it.

What would be really cool is a game that supports streaming to YouTube 360, where it records a view similar to what the Jump camera rig does in real life.

dm2··on What happened to dinosaurs
It's from dozens of Christian sites and forum posts linking to that page and because the search query matches the URL and page title exactly.

Google ranks the URL words too high it looks like.

Why is this BBC page not in the top 10 results? Is it solely because of the page URL? It has more backlinks and a more trusted domain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dino_prog...

This says that the original page has over 17 million backlinks, but that can't be correct: https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains?target=...

And it participates in social media a lot: http://www.reddit.com/domain/answersingenesis.org

Should Google decrease the "worth" of that domain? If there is content that has a high SEO rating but is factually incorrect, does that deserve to be lower on the search results listing?

Should Google display different cards based on the user? Someone which Google determines is highly religious verses not religious would get different cards?

Update: Oh no, something needs to be done, this site is disgusting: https://answersingenesis.org/evidence-against-evolution/bill...

dm2··on What happened to dinosaurs
I still don't know exactly what swiping a card on Google Now means.

Sometimes I want to swipe a card because I've already read that article, sometimes I want to swipe it because I have no interest in seeing that article/specific webpage.

We need filters for Google Now, excluding some sites, having favorite sites. I'd love to get ycombinator news through Google Now and have it learn which stories interest me the most.

dm2··on US Air Force destroys ISIS HQ building after spotting it through social media
Those are F15E aircraft.

The F35 has some signature green lights that really stand out at night (I assume they'll be turned off during combat): http://www.edwards.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/2013/0...

Here is a picture of 2 F35s being refueled at the same time: http://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/0...

dm2··on US Air Force destroys ISIS HQ building after spotting it through social media
This is the image from the original article, completely different airplane too.

http://defensetech.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ISIL-Airst...

It's all stock images either way, nothing I saw even mentioned what kind of jets were deployed.

dm2··on US Air Force destroys ISIS HQ building after spotting it through social media
Did anyone find the tweet or a screenshot of it?
dm2··on Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account
One problem is that people looking for jobs are usually inexperienced with it, so there is constantly an unusually large supply of "fresh meat".

There should be more regulation on the jobs market. It's a data-mining goldmine and fake job postings aren't illegal as far as I'm aware of.

dm2··on Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account
SourceForge was sold in 2012 to a conglomerate company named "DHI GROUP INC" or "Dice Holdings Inc" that owns the following companies:

  Dice
  Open Web
  The IT Job Board
  ClearanceJobs
  eFinancialCareers
  Rigzone
  HEALTHeCAREERS
  BioSpace
  Hcareers
  SourceForge
  Slashdot
  WorkDigital
dm2··on Egyptian repairman outranks Google in search
I do the same many times. Here is another workaround:

Go to Settings -> Manage Search Engines -> Other Search Engines then enter the following 3 fields:

"Google Search Shortcut" "g" "{google:baseURL}search?q=%s"

Now you can just type in "s " (the s key followed by a space) and it will search whatever else you put in there.

I don't actually use this much, but it's there if needed.

dm2··on Egyptian repairman outranks Google in search
You can see the start of the story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9620739

And it looks like Google has removed the user homepage URLs from all Google+ pages while they get it fixed.

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