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That's funny, I've actually been doing the exact same thing, RPi2 and a Hover. I have a few blog posts about it here which I was going to post after the project is finished.[1]

I actually just bought all the wood to build the frame and I'll hopefully be doing next weekend.

[1]http://alaycock.github.io/blog/

It's probably used to weed out targets such as the blog author, who know it's a scam already, rather than connecting them to a real person and wasting the attacker's time.

In case you haven't seen it, here's a similar article on making a tiny ELF executable. [1]

[1] http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...

I don't even mind the multiple restarts, the part that bothers me is that I have to babysit Windows Update as soon as my machine finishes restarting, tell it to get updates, tell it to install now, and then have it restart again. If Windows Update could collect all the update packages, and I could leave it alone for 20 minutes and come back to a fully updated system, that would be fantastic.

This[1] paper from Google also covers how SMART stats relate to drive failures. This line from the conclusion kind of wraps things up:

> We find, for example, that after their first scan error, drives are 39 times more likely to fail within 60 days than drives with no such errors.

So basically, if you are getting SMART errors, you should make sure that data is backed up (if it isn't already).

Another interesting section is:

> Out of all failed drives, over 56% of them have no count in any of the four strong SMART signals, namely scan errors, reallocation count, offline reallocation, and probational count. In other words, models based only on those signals can never predict more than half of the failed drives.

So, while monitoring SMART errors is a good indicator if your drive is going to fail, it's hardly failsafe, and chances are you drive will fail without any notice. SMART stats are interesting, but not the ideal measure of the health of a disk.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

> This article is for computer engineers who would like to have a high-level understanding of how the dual parity calculation works, without diving into all of the mathematical details.

That is more in depth, but is a lot more math heavy, which the author specifically states they are trying to avoid.

Given the recent abundance of jQuery alternatives, that's a big assumption to make. It's always disappointing when I find some code I want to use and it has a bunch of dependencies that make it not an option.

Sweet alert is definitely bloated, but Wow Alert also depends on jQuery which is +80KB, so saying it's only 5KB is a bit deceptive.

I got the N56VZ a while back and I found it using the same method. If you don't use the blu-ray drive (and who does, really?) it's pretty trivial to swap it out with a new drive caddy. I put the HDD in there because I heard people had trouble booting from the caddy and put in a SSD where the HDD was. This [1] is the caddy I used, and swapping out the face plate with the original is pretty easy. Considering the price of the machine in the first place, why not throw a second drive in there.

[1] http://www.ebay.com/itm/Second-Hard-Drive-2nd-HDD-SSD-Caddy-...

My guess would be that they found someone an address of someone with ties to a celebrity, compromised their account through security questions, and then found more personal information and iCloud accounts by going the contacts of each person they compromised.

That was my suspicion from the start, security questions tend to be the easiest way to compromise accounts since finding someone's mother's maiden name isn't hard to do anymore.

Disclaimer: I work for Hitachi-ID, although my comment is my own and I am not speaking on behalf of them.

I work for a company that does this, [Hitachi-ID](http://hitachi-id.com/), on a corporate level. We have a piece of software called Password Manager that captures end-user password changes and synchronizes it between all their different accounts. Alternatively, we have another tool called Privileged Access Manager that randomizes all your server passwords on a schedule, and allows people to check them out to allow for better auditing and security (through manual checkout authorization).

The problem with doing this on such a large scale is that everyone has a different way to do password resets. We integrate with a zillion different target systems to perform password resets, but those are primarily corporate applications. Doing this for websites would be near impossible because there are so many different ways to do password resets and many are "home rolled", so you'd have to find a way to reliably capture and perform those password resets, which isn't trivial.

The web has so much freedom, but it makes stuff like password security harder because that much freedom exists.

Open Filezilla, doubleclick todo.txt, click on the format menu button.

I'm currently running Chrome 35.0.1916.153 on Ubuntu 14.04 with XFCE and clicking once in the address bar highlights everything all. Don't know why mine is acting different than yours, maybe they changed that since you last tried it.

If it ain't broke...

The story was only cheesy if you took it at face value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game)#Plot

The closing quote on the <script src"..."> tag in the "1. Add slowlane.js to Your Website" section is missing. Not really an issue, but it looks unprofessional.

Because that's not really making it private. If you have each word hashed and a rainbow table full of hashes matched to words, it's very easily reversible. It doesn't really introduce any privacy.

Not to mention the computational and storage cost.

Call me nitpicky, but it always bugs me when someone references some content, but doesn't link to it. Specifically the XKCD and Stackoverflow links. Link to the comic and question specifically, rather than making me go hunt for that content.

netflix.com is another big one

I absolutely agree with this. I talked with a major contributor to http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ and he helped me understand that it's not about keeping men back or fighting sexism with sexism, it's about providing opportunities where people thought they previously didn't exist. STEM and the computer industry are heavily dominated by men (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523172), and the role models to introduce women into these fields just aren't there (although it is getting better).

Programs like this are there to show that an industry isn't specifically for only men or women, and allow girls to make the choice to code, even if they previously hadn't thought of it as an option.

This is still Windows only. If anything Mono now has more resources to pull from to improve their project.

Oh, that makes it much easier to imagine.

> Voice Actions

> Register your app to handle voice actions, like "Ok Google, take a note."

I think this is what most interests me. Hopefully we won't be locked into Google's pre-defined tasks and developers can start working on their own voice actions.

Sounds a little like Jetpack Kitty.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jetpack-kitty/id567551748?mt...