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I imagine you were getting downvoted for using multiple question marks, and people not understanding you were just asking a question.

Typically one question mark indicates a question. Multiple question marks usually indicates that you're upset about something or asking a rhetorical question.

For example, most people distinguish a difference between sentences like:

"What are you doing?"

and

"What are you doing???"

The first indicates a question, the second indicates you are upset or that the person is doing something wrong.

The way you wrote your sentence makes it look like you could be making fun of the person you are responding to.

This is how the S-Pens on the Galaxy Notes work, they pull the power they need wirelessly from the phone/tablet.

http://www.androidauthority.com/break-it-down-how-does-the-s...

This stylus technology also convinced Samsung to buy 5% of Wacom.

Yes, you most definitely should not target people not suspected of a crime.

This seems to go against the Dutch Constitution, so hopefully people are fighting this.

Without knowing the details, I think this sounds fine as long as there is reasonable suspicion, it is approved by a court or judge, and a warrant is issued to conduct the surveillance.

Not in this case

https://www.ford.com/technology/sync/

You do have to connect your phone yourself, but it's unclear if the 911 assist is on by default, or if there are any prompts the user must accept.

>If Uber allowed drivers to set their own rates that would initiate a 'race to the bottom'

Not necessarily, it could easily go both ways as it would create a market for people that want to pay more for "better" drivers.. people with nice cars (teslas and generally expensive automobiles) just to be seen in them or to experience riding in them, drivers that pamper their clients with newspapers, in vehicle entertainment, free water, etc.

I had contacted FileZilla's developer about this back in 2014.

He let me know that bundling crapware was "intentional"

http://i.imgur.com/AvfDuOA.png

His statement about alternate download links was also incorrect, because I was asking about Filezilla server, which I could not find anywhere but sourceforge.

The nice thing about both whatsapp and telegram are there are no accounts, so they just need to download the app, and they'll show up in your contacts. So all you have to do is convince them to go to the app store and install the program.

From there you just send them messages on Telegram, or start group chats. You likely won't convince them to switch themselves instantly, but if they want to message you, hopefully they're more likely to check telegram, because they'll want to get a better idea of when you were last available.

It's not perfect, but it's something, and hopefully if whatsapp keeps up with their paid subscription nonsense, it will push more people away.

I use both whatsapp and telegram.. with whatsapp being the majority of my messaging, I'd been a little apprehensive since the facebook takeover, but haven't changed my usage habits. This was exactly what it took for me to start pushing my friends to telegram.

This has been going on for a week or more and has gained a decent amount of publicity. Given that telegram is a legitimate service, and they haven't reversed it yet, seems to indicate that this is a direct attack.

In addition, if you are familiar with how whatsapp works, stopping any spam would be much more effective by targeting the phone numbers sending spam, not to mention the difficulty of spamming telephone numbers.. not impossible, but difficult.. which is why whatsapp spam so far has been non-existent AFAIK.

You'll have to eventually study outside duolingo if you are serious about learning a language.

I would recommend starting with the duolingo course, completing it, then keeping your tree gold while exploring other learning material. Start with children's books and work your way up. There are also a lot of language exchange chat sites that are good to help you get more comfortable speaking a new language, but you will need a partner to practice with at some point.

Also I've found ReadLang (which I found on HN) to be a very helpful tool for faster learning, and I upload the majority of my ebooks into it.

I hope this helps.

"Fluency" is kind of a subjective term. If anyone is curious, as a rule of thumb a duolingo course is sufficient to get you to an A2-B1 language level in reading/listening and around an A1-A2 level in speaking.

It's not just about replacing meat, it's about alternative sources of food.

Imagine mass extinction events, global war disrupting supply chains, space colonies, etc.

These are instances where you would go.. "thank goodness we developed some decent insect food".

The Chinese government is the one providing all of the money and pushing the program. I have a feeling that red tape is not as much of a problem for them as you assume.

I live in Iceland, and it is not possible for me to buy anything with a magnetic stripe.

Here is the campaign that was ran by the largest payment processor letting everyone know the old system was going away. It was heavily advertised all over the country.

http://www.valitor.is/fyrirtaekjalausnir/pinnid-a-minnid/

Perhaps there is somehow an exception for foreign cards? But this is news to me, and seems like it defeats the entire purpose.

The problem of tricking the reader will be solved in the US the same way the rest of the world solved the problem. You stop using magnetic stripes.

For the longest time, chip-and-pin readers in most european countries would let you just swipe the magnetic card if you didn't have a chip.. this allowed americans (and whoever else still uses this technology) to be able to shop when they travel.

Unfortunately a disproportionate amount of theft occurs by bypassing the chip-and-pin system. Many european countries and banks finally had enough and said "no more loopholes, chip-and-pin only" and set a date.

Lo and behold this spurred the US banks to finally start releasing chip-and-pin enabled cards, otherwise their clients would find themselves unable to buy things overseas.

The deadlines have come and went in my country, and today it is literally impossible to buy anything with just a magnetic stripe.

I imagine the US will solve the problem the same way.. by no longer allowing magnetic stripes to be used.

Let's rephrase your question: "Is six months really unreasonable for an airline to fix a vulnerability that allows customer data to be stolen?"

Yes, I would say so.. especially since this is a 'duplicate' meaning that multiple people were already aware of this, and on top of that it seems the only reason it was eventually fixed was because they couldn't delay fixing the problem any more.

I don't think anyone would consider this reasonable.

Anyone foolish enough to put 64 billion dollars into cryptocurrencies does not need to be in charge of 64 billion dollars.

Of course apple has a backdoor because they generated the encryption keys. They can sign anything they want.

There is a natural way to kill every single bacteria out there. They are called phages.

For every bacteria, there is a phage that will kill it.

Back in the Soviet Union they used this medical technology extensively to cure all sorts of things, and the hospitals in Georgia and surrounding areas would be sprayed down with phage to kill bacteria within the hospital corridors and rooms to prevent the hospitals themselves from becoming breeding grounds for bacteria.

If you're interested in learning more I would recommend the 1997 BBC four documentary called 'The Virus that Cures'

He died after refusing to breathe

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolph...

This same thing happened to one of the dolphins that played flipper on TV causing the dolphin's trainer to become an anti-captivity activist.

Can you please explain the point of your post?

Why is it relevant whether the story is a "surprise"?

Expressing your blasé attitude does nothing but downplay the significance of this.

The type of people that express arguments like this are the reason that these sort of things continue to happen.

"Oh, the Iraq war was based on lies? Yeah, everyone knows that".

Just because it's an accepted reality does not mean that you should just let things get a free pass. That's how you allow the same things to keep happening.

Congratulations on not being surprised. Everyone is very impressed.

Sorry for the rant. This is probably my #1 pet peeve.

Personally I take the opposite approach, why not connect SSN numbers to everything?

As you mention, it's easily determinable, and it has the fortune of being an existing ID number system already connected to everyone.

Allowing everyone the ability to tell people apart based on a number is infinitely better than matching names.

In my country we use our ID numbers for everything, dentist appointments, vehicle inspections.. if you call any business at all it will likely be one of the first things you're asked for.

The number should be an identifier for a person, not a security measure. If you just accepted the fact that SSNs are insecure and that by knowing someone's SSN does not necessarily mean you are that person, then the US could use them more effectively, cut down on a significant number of errors in every industry, and actually reduce identity theft.

You assume that this person is of legal age to work, a US resident, not a felon, has a decent enough resume to warrant a 6 figure salary, actually wants to live in California, and then conclude that he is an idiot.

That's an awful lot of assumptions.

A backdoor is not for normal operation.

Backdoors like these (when intentional) are for when the device is not functioning as it should, or the user messed up the device, and now it needs to be repaired by someone.

I'm not defending this practice by any means, as it's a perfect example of why not to do this, but the root user was more likely intended for system maintenance rather than remote viewing of a functioning system.

Also, you misunderstand the server component. It's most likely just a name-resolution service that allows the device to phone home to allow connections back through your firewall/router.

If they were sucking up all your video data, the latency would be huge, the costs would be exponential for the manufacturer, and it would be a huge point of failure.

Ah, finally a solution for paypal.

I've unsubscribed from their mailing lists more times than I can remember.

Your statement makes the assumption that paying bills is the goal.

What about when it was revealed that facebook was using their like buttons as a way to build dossiers on people?

You could have never have even visited facebook.com and have never had a profile, but still this company was using its cookies to build a profile of you on the internet. All of the articles you read on the internet, the sites you visit, all being collected and tallied by some faceless internet behemoth.

That sort of thing doesn't bother you?

This is exactly it, and it was their stated intention from the beginning.

https://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/google-doesnt-want-to-be-an-is...