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Bandwidth amount wise - really not that much.

Looking at my history (pretty active player) I've used about 184 MB since June 24th (I am not as active on weekends so for the sake of this example I actually played 18 days out of the month averaged about the same per day). On average that means about 10.2 MB per day of playing (looking at the graph, however, I would say I used about 20 MB the day of the event as I was out for about twice as much time that day).

I don't think that is considered a lot

As thekaleb mentioned the creator seems to reference this symbol a lot in his games. Here is more of a back story (after some google-fu of course as I'm not very familiar with the games)

Seems like Keen 5 has it as an easter egg to reference Wolfenstein [1].

And Wolfenstein uses it since the game has a "Nazi Party" within it (if you fight them or fight with them I'm not aware of) [2].

Interesting quote from [2] "The inclusion of the swastika led to the banning of the conventional game in Germany, as cultural stigma against the swastika is high there."

[1] http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Keen_5_Easter_eggs#Swastika

[2] http://wolfenstein.wikia.com/wiki/Swastika

I wonder if they will block cell signals?

I've noticed in certain Walmarts my signal won't work no matter where I am - more than likely the thick walls I would assume were blocking the signal not some malicious attempt to stop me from price matching.

Regarding the DNA bank: I would like to know what information will they hold - just digital fingerprints of the DNA, or actual organic material. Depending on what is stored this could become a big target for various organizations to get a hold of.

Then next you have to worry about a) Someone abusing their power and using the information/robots against you for unfair reasons, or b) Hackers are constantly trying to break into various systems and I'm sure this bank/human-less-cop-force would attract some sort of attention.

To be fair though I have never planned to visit Dubai because of personal conflict of interests so hopefully if this does become a thing and is successful it stays in Dubai.

For the lazy: (this will hide the referral and not forward you to the image crying about HN traffic)

https://anon.to/?https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

The feature does exist however it doesn't work in every scenario. Essentially when your pager shows

"X - Y of Z" (and not "X - Y of many") the keyword being many of course.

Your able to hover over the "X - Y of Z" and choose "Oldest" [1].

So essentially if data is indexed your able to.

I was not able to search any filter and apply this however on any Label I created I was able to do this.

So steps to find the oldest from amazon would probably have to be

1. Create filter+label that groups them all into one category. Wait for indexing to catch up should be fairly quickly since we are not talking petabytes of random data.

2. Choose the label on the left and on the top right hover over the "1-100 of 9999" and choose oldest.

Not the best work-a-round of course and makes sense why it's setup this way (Helps with optimization) however if a person sets up a lot of labels then they are already set up to do this feature.

[1] https://gsuitetips.com/tips/gmail/sort-email-by-oldest-first...

edit Also there is the method of using the search field parameters for example.

"Amazon.com before:2004/04/16" [2]

then you could more quickly go thru them (however if you didn't know your starting point this would prove to be tricky of course!)

[2] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en

Thank you for this information - seems to be so - just tried a VPN from Canada and it only shows the email that I entered. However I still would like to disable it on the off chance that someone in the future messes up. May never happen but I'd like to not take that risk. Thank you none-the-less as that has eased my mind a little bit.

This feature really grinds my gears. They should at least allow a feature to disable showing the picture/name until the user has logged in. In some cases I'm handing out my email to avoid handing out my actual identity because I don't want to be spammed or followed. Until then I will continue to use a false name and photo under my accounts signed up to google (apart from the one work email I have thru them).

Pollution is essentially what I meant apologies for my poor phrasing.

However detection of these devices could become easy considering they probably wouldn't move a lot, meaning you'd have to either (a) move the device frequently and randomly or (b) the antenna that reproduces the signal would need to add a bit of weakness to the signal to adjust and make the user look like he is moving.

(e.g. If the signal strength stays the same constantly then it might be easy to tell the user isn't moving ever and therefore likely not a spot they are at currently, or even if everyone shares a very similar signal strength).

According to the description on GitHub the system only adjusts the sequence numbers.

I believe the idea is to make it so this technique isn't useful for analytics anymore (edit: because your MAC mining data would be telling the user is in 100+ places at once). If it would work is an entirely different story because since the devices are stationary and not moving (like a device in your hand or pocket would) would it be easily detectable that it was a "faking" device.

(see below for update about Android 6.0+)

Depends on the phone and if they use passive or active probing [1]. I also do not see a way to disable it globally yet as it's currently in the Google Issue Tracker [2]. Some say it's meant to be passive by default however Android documentation doesn't specifically state this [3].

"The existence of an hidden function to start an active scan (reported here) suggests that the normal scanning function is indeed passive. This is to be taken with a grain of salt, though, as the Android documentation doesn't explicitly tell if the function WifiManager.startScan() is passive or not." [3]

[1] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/02/what-is-your-pho...

[2] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36989646 Please do note this same issue exists with Bluetooth (in comments).

[3] https://android.stackexchange.com/a/131446

edit Looks like iOS randomizes the MAC address while scanning for WiFI networks since iOS 8 (should be noted that it says "may not always be the device's real (universal) address" [4].

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7864813

edit2 After some more reading supposed Android 6.0 solves this issue by randomizing the mac address as well, however the user in this blog tested it and was able to still get the original MAC address [5].

[5] https://urbanjack.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/game-over-for-wif...

edit3 After even more reading it's kind of hard to tell what devices are affected and who isn't (Some say Google phones aren't affected and it's just OEM phones, however others claim that some Google phones are still affected by this issue). The only way to get this fixed globally is to have a security push to all supported versions that by default disables it globally then a user can enable it by choice. Considering the spaghetti mess of who is using it by default and who is not.

edit4 I agree with many on that the MAC randomization isn't really a good idea because some networks assign IPs based on the MAC address and to address that issue only the probing/scanning packets have the spoofed MAC address. All a hacker would have to do is create a network with the spoofed SSID and get the user to connect with the real MAC address thereby circumventing the randomization technique.

Clicking on his name [1] you can see he works at Latacora now [1]. Hopefully that helps answer your question

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek [2] https://latacora.com/

ESET Smart Security picked up the domain as a phishing website

Medical marijuana user here, next time if you feel comfortable recommend to the user they grab a can of Ozium before going to public venues.

It completely takes the smell out and replaces with a lovely lemon smell.

I use this at work as well as in public venues and it keeps the marijuana odor from disturbing the public (at least I have stopped getting looks and the occasional nose wiggle, as well as my parents who don't smoke have told me how the marijuana smell doesn't seem to be there anymore when I visit).

I do apologize most of the users I know are respectful about how they enter the public while taking their medication.

Interesting that they still host the cloudron.io site on Amazon platform

ping cloudron.io -> 54.192.7.94 -> server-54-192-7-94.dfw3.r.cloudfront.net (Amazon Technologies) [1]

[1] http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/54.192.7.94

This still has many flaws.

1. New guy gets hired.

2.You work for a large corporation and we'll you can't say you can trust everyone there.

3. Small company of 10 (company I work at for example) could be compromised by the weekly janitor.

4. Someone could break in and make it look like a robbery all while stealing your critical infrastructure.

I recently helped research a bit about internal security for our office and sticky notes are still a very common place for credentials to be compromised.

Very true, that is one thing I find replacing a lot of songs with others to get quality. Which can be frustrating when you don't have spare time at all during the day.

I recently switched to SoundCloud free and the ads are really not that bad (only con for example if your playing off your phone and it hits a video ad you can't lock your device till the SD finishes). However if the device screen is locked you'll only get audio ads (short and sweet at that).

Like YouTube though it will suffer from take down notices on some stuff you book mark, as well as mainstream stuff you can only listen to the first 30 seconds (but I've never been big into what's radio popular).

Well said, in Colorado we have farmers markets during the summer which allows for farmers to directly sell to consumers and make more money while the customer gets a better deal as well!

However during the winter I go to Natural Grocers, or Sprouts because the price is always cheaper (here at least it is much cheaper then Whole Foods).

Seems like this was de-bunked reading the comments [1], the system would have to be incredibly huge considering the RFID tag inside the tire is only a few inches (so it is not generating a very far field - the 20 feet seems incredibly far for such a small tag).

On top of that it would be far easier to just track the giant visible license plate since we already have that technology available.

The destroying with a camera flash is legit (not because of the flash but because of what seems to be caused by capacitors in the device - light reading on this so I may not be correct) however many users point out why read that when there are much easier ways to track a vehicle where-a-bouts.

Interesting and disturbing however much more complex then just OCR!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/3kl3e9/which_manuf...

I believe the idea is it is shimmied into the slot?

Streaming Netflix alone can cap your bandwidth quickly given the statistics from the Netflix page [1]. I have recently experienced this actually (I do not run torrents from home and during the month of December I did not transfer anything from the remote box). Month of December I used 1022 GB out of 1024 GB over 900 GB was from NetFlix.

Using: 1 terabyte = 8,388,608 megabits

Ultra HD: 25 mbps ~= 93.2 hours HD: 5 mbps ~= 19.5 days SD: Would be good but hey I bought an HD TV for a reason so that would not be fair to skimp out on quality just because they don't want to introduce cheaper bandwidth caps.

side note It is $10 per 50 GB once you go over the cap with Comcast which is pretty huge for overhead if a user wasn't even aware of the cap. Thankfully they cap it at $200 over your bill.

side note2 this number will only increase - so really that 1 TB cap already needs to see a lift to 2 TB just to start to fulfill the requirements of the newer age web.

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

I saw Doctor Strange on IMAX 3D as well and I must say it was very impressive however there needs to be a good system for rating 3D movie experiences beforehand that way the consumer is not subject to wasting money on a horrible experience.

Especially with Comcast now introducing a 1 tb cap to its non-business users.

I am still able to read the article - uBlock, chrome, windows 10 all updated to the latest. What are you using to block ads?

In Denver the taxi's are horrible - half the time you smell puke or some horrible odor, the other half you have to wait an hour to just get a ride. I'm not saying I like Uber as a company, nor what they did to drivers, but they (as well as others like Lyft) have created a fresh fast way to get around and it costs the same as a taxi most of the time. It's hard to not flock to that.

Very interesting I'm gonna forward this to the Sanctuary they should have this in the intro* talk they give to each new group. Thank you!

Should be noted some zoos do spend enough on habitats to make them worthwhile, however this is very slim as well as not doable for all animals.

In my state (Colorado) we have something called a sanctuary [1]. From humans being put high up into the air (via a 40 foot tall bridge that crosses the entire complex) which simulates a more natural way for us to observe the different animals they house (they specialize in carnivorous species), to larger and more natural feeling habitats for each different species (over 720 Acres devoted to over 450 rescued animals)

They spoke of Zoos and how bad they are most of the time, however the Denver Zoo they said were better then most other Zoos in our country when it came to building decent habitats. However in my opinion the sanctuary is an example of how every Zoo should alter its setup. I wouldn't even mind helping donate to my local zoo for this change and I highly believe the masses would contribute as well.

[1] http://www.wildanimalsanctuary.org

Generally cold fingers are from poor circulation. Living in Colorado where a few months of the year we get very cold weather so I have learned a few tricks about cold hands (from Snowboarding to Programming I've experienced cold hands almost everywhere).

One awesome thing my work did for me was brought in a hand massage specialist who taught me several stretching techniques for the hand that help increase blood flow which in turn helps keep them much warmer.

Check out the the following page [1], it has pictures and descriptions that teach great stretches. Not only is it good for circulation it's good to just do this in general to prevent other common problems that stem from lack of stretching.

side note stretching has been a real game changer for my programming. Not only does it make me feel more energized, the stretching seems to have increased my work ethics by a lot because I feel more energized to be that team player.

[1] http://www.toc.md/exercises_wristhand.htm

If this doesn't help just grab a desk USB hand warmer and that should be able to help when your hands aren't feeling so nice (as mentioned by other users in this).

edit Also wanted to mention after thinking a bit more and the hands, feet, and head are the places you lose the most amount of body heat from. I wear a hat while programming so possibly having one at your desk may also help keep in more heat? Just a thought, doubtful this is the root of the issue for ya though.