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> For instance, in those cases in which Smart City has used de-authentication in the past, it targeted only access points and wireless devices that are located within the confined and proprietary space of the exhibit hall -- areas of a convention center that are licensed for private event and to which access is limited -- and that pose a threat to secure, reliable, WiFi availability within that confined space.

That's not how WiFi works. They cannot know for a fact that these WiFi hotspots are within the convention space, they could and likely are, blocking WiFi located outside of that space.

Additionally they're claiming that they literally own the radio spectrum within a "proprietary space" which is a dangerous line. What is stopping them from blocking all cellular signals or worse charging cellphone companies for the signal travelling through their space?

Their point about security is nonsense. The technology they're employing is DESIGNED to secure WiFi networks by disconnecting actually rogue APs (i.e. devices squawking the same SSID as their network), that is still legal, the problem they and the Hilten ran into is that they took tech' designed for security and mis-used it for monopolising the WiFi spectrum within their convention centers.

So, sorry, no. If your WiFi network is called SmartCityWiFi and you disconnect MyHotSpot then you're breaking the law and have zero security arguments to make.

Good on the FCC for giving these guys a fine. Too bad it wasn't more. I read their arguments and it has only made me side with the FCC more. What they're asking for would make the world a worse place in general and only helps their bottom line.
My university was still using telnet around the same time. So I resorted to floppies before finally breaking down and getting a laptop. Red Hat came loaded on some of the college's surplus equipment. Before long I ended up trying it on my laptop too.

Updating and driver support was weak back then. Thankfully this has improved a lot. Ubuntu is also a more novice friendly alternative.
If this is your goal, then EdgeRouter X would be a much better choice. It has a faster CPU but no offloading, so it would outperform the Lite in this use case. The MSRP is also half that of the Lite.
Could you use the gasses released by fermentation to power turbines, or would the amount of power generated not be worth it?
With the "Weave Ready" comment, I think it might be a smart home hub, too.
The whole idea of these unlicensed bands is that there are limits on power and such, and otherwise you can more or less do what you want as long as you're not deliberately interfering with other people. If your legitimate use happens to step on other people's legitimate use, well, so it goes. If you want to make sure nobody else can interfere with you, use a licensed frequency and obtain a license for your use.

I think this raises an interesting point. There ought to be some frequency bands accessible by common WiFi hardware which require a license to use. Then big venues like this could set up their networks on licensed bands, after obtaining a license, and be free from interference by people's mobile hotspots and such.

Although I have a feeling that approximately nobody would actually go through the process of getting a license, because the whole "interference" thing is just a cover, and their actual motivation is a cash grab by attempting to force people to use their spectacularly overpriced service.
Can we bring back 'reduction to practice'?
The more I read this, the more skeptical I become. All this shows is "What characteristics are most likely to get you an offer?" This is a little important from a narrow process metric, but isn't valuable to the company's bottom line.

2 more important questions:
1 - "Which characteristics are more likely to appear in high performers than low performers and non-hires?"

2 - "Are we over-weighting or under-weighting certain characteristics in our recruiting process based on our knowledge of question 1?"

Question 2 is actually much harder to answer. For example, if you find no correlation between GPA and performance, it isn't that GPA doesn't matter, it's that you're already weighing it properly in the performance decision. (It could be that you ignore it, or it could be that you give it tons of weight, but either way, the lack of correlation to performance post-hire means you're doing the right thing)
Airport Extreme is also $200.
"Affordable". Most CAs charge exorbitant prices for wildcard certificates; 10x the price of a normal cert isn't unusual.
TaiG+iOS+8.4.1+cydia+install+for+iPhone+4s
The only privacy link I could find on the page was Google's generic privacy policy. Is there more information somewhere?

With its "advanced and always-evolving security features", I'm wondering whether and what information Google would be gathering about my local network and my network traffic.
Isn't that also why it is shuffle and not random? When shuffling, you don't risk getting the same song twice in a row.
I had no idea IBM pulled the plug on OpenOffice either, because I'm sitting here with my IBM-issued Red Hat laptop and I'm doing project documentation in OpenOffice, which came pre-installed.

I think what they mean is "IBM stopped developing their own fork of OpenOffice (called IBM Lotus Symphony) and switched back to regular OpenOffice".
Do they allow you to configure DNS, or do they force Google DNS use like on Chromecasts?
Let me tell you, if my Apple TV had any sort of storage, I'd be a lot happier. Getting a little old streaming everything from "the CLOUD".
Hardly related: I've heard the phrase 'Scientists discover octopus brains are alien' said out loud several times in the past few days.

Apparently some clickbait site has picked up this article (or the paper), mangled it, and spewed it onto the feeds of more than one of my non-technical friends.

So, 'Strange' --> 'Alien' --> 'Extraterrestrial'. The word 'alien' does appear in the text of the Economist article.
$29 seems kind of ridiculous when "free" is right around the corner:

https://letsencrypt.org/

(Even at that, $29 isn't a particularly great price for an SSL certificate. If you shop around, you can get them from reputable CAs for half the price.)
Here in CH virtually everyone receives a modem/router combo for free from their provider (ie. they borrow it to you). They are also usually preconfigured - so you just need to plug them in. Is it the same in the US? I guess at a 199$ price point this will be a tough sell.
BRB going to give Google 100% of my network traffic directly from their router. https://31.media.tumblr.com/a71ef8257d0bd0d3a15fe01b4fc4911c...
You're putting the finger on the problem, this is a motivation problem. Dealers are incentivized to sell not to inform.
Yes, agreed. Thank you for the feedback. Our differentiator is in the fact that we will aggregate your todos into one app, not replace tools you are already using. It will also allow you to automatically generate tasks from other tools like email and slack without manually typing them out.

For example, I use Trello, Slack, Gmail, and Anylist now, all which have tasks embedded within.

Our hope is that will separate us from the crowd.
Responsibility? No, why would they. But.... I think it would be a great feature for GitHub to passively scan repos and look for common security oversights. They could then just send an e-mail notification about the issue.
They'll go as far as modular laptops.
Also, why use the signed ptrdiff_t for a loop index that is never negative?
Agreed. It looks a little like a squatter Echo. Cylindrical, ring of light at the top. But I suppose Amazon will avoid any legal action since it's pretty tough to win a court case with the argument "they copied my cylinder." Hopefully the different functionality of each device will keep any ugly legal battles from ensuing.

But with the a computer embedded in this router along with a speaker and bluetooth and zigbee radios this could be customized to offer a lot of the features that the Echo offers (minus the voice control). I hope that doesn't cause any problems.
You keep on using those words. They do not mean what you think they mean. "Absolutely" is not a synonym for IMO. "Complete" is not a synonym for "slight".

Keys to the case? You clearly didn't even read the response. Probably couldn't even have found it without my help, and apparently you don't know the law either. The difference here is that jamming and interference are regulated by statute. De-auth packets aren't. There is precedent (the Marriott case) for treating them as equivalent to jamming, but so far no actual law. Does that seem wrong to you? It does to me too, but if you want to get all hyper-aggressive about "key to the case" then you have to understand what the law actually says. Try to understand the difference between what the law is and what we think it should be. It's key to every case.
Since it is a full router I'm sure you can change it, but on a side note you can re-direct the chromecast DNS pretty easily too

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&es...
This is reinventing https://metacpan.org/release/webchat

You should just give up.
This is excellent news. I teach Git courses, and the Windows users (often the majority) are often frustrated to be left behind, and/or be unable to use modern features. This will be a big boost to their productivity, as well as their parity with Unix/Linux users.

It's also excellent news, in that it provides yet another demonstration of Microsoft's growing support for open-source projects. I'm not sure if I'm more surprised or impressed, but it's a trend that I welcome, and that I think can only help users and developers alike.
I'm an IP lawyer :)

The patent covers a pressurized space elevator tower.

However, note that the part they have really patented here is the "plurality of segments and pressurized cells" part. The claims were amended during prosecution, in light of the examiner rejecting them all as anticipated by various references :)

The way to discover this is to go to the USPTO's "public pair" system, enter the application or patent number, click "image file wrapper", and you can see all the correspondence between the examiner and the applicant. You are looking for the rejections and the amendment/claims parts that happened.

In response to this rejection, the applicant added the "divided into a plurality of segments along a length of the space elevator tower, each of said plurality of segments containing a plurality of cells defining a core, and a plurality of stabilization devices distributed along the length of the space elevator tower; wherein the plurality of cells are pressurized with a gas to support the pneumatically pressurized structure; and wherein said plurality of stabilization devices is configured to provide active stabilization of the space elevator tower using a harmonic control strategy." requirements in claim 1.

This means a space elevator tower which was not exactly this would not be covered in any way (because they have given up doctrine of equivalents by amending the claims).

That is just on it's face. In court, if someone came up with a reference for a space elevator with these features, it would be invalid there too ;)
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How could it prove to you that your vote was included in the correct total without also being able to transfer that knowledge to a third party that is right there with you?

Say A and B were the options. Anywhere you take the receipt to verify it has to then display if it counted towards A or towards B. Someone there with you could then see which it confirms.
> Instead of taking wealth from the smaller number of humans who are creating that wealth and giving it to those who are not, why don't we just accept that we don't need so many of us any more? Let the extras die off naturally (note to angry skimmers: I SAID NATURALLY) and migrate to a new lower-population equilibrium.

Because in practice that doesn't work: natural population growth is inversely correlated with the strength of social safety nets; if you want to negative natural population growth to move toward a lower population, you need more, not less, redistributive policies by which those who profit the most from the structure of society support those who don't to get there.

If you want to get to a "lower population equilibrium" and avoid taxing those at the top more to achieve it "naturally", you aren't going to be able to be that passive about it.
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But human idleness is the goal! Working, for most people, is a bunch of miserable drudgery.
I spent $150 each or something like that on my apple routers about 5 years ago, they both are still running strong but since technology has of course advanced so much in the past few years, I would spend that on a router with the hope it lasts the same time.
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I thought using signed indexes in loops allow GCC to perform some optimizations because signed overflow is undefined.
Because all radical politicians are is a reaction against the past.
From the Terms of Service linked from the support site https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6270620?hl=en&ref_to...

"You agree that Google may collect and use technical and related information, including but not limited to information about your computer and/or mobile device, operating system, peripherals, applications, connected devices, network traffic, and data use to facilitate the provision of the Software and Services, including support and other related services."

It goes on to state "The OnHub Privacy FAQ describes the categories of data collected and how you can use privacy settings to change what data is collected by the Services."

But I couldn't find the OnHub Privacy FAQ and https://support.google.com/onhub/search?q=privacy oddly says "Your search - privacy - did not match any answers in OnHub Help".
You should strongly consider writing a blog article about your experiences, there's some really great bits of trivia you're describing. Particularly about crossing paths with Patrick Volkerding (he's still a diehard deadhead from what I know).
The pure router parts? No. But stuff like the home automation features I can see why they'd fit more storage, especially in early versions where they don't know quite yet what they'll want to put in later. (Of course, swappable storage would be even better for that, but has other issues)
Yes, it's the same in the US. ISPs provide a modem/router combo and charge like $7 a month for it. The disadvantage is that the router portion of the unit is usually very poor. AT&T is still giving out modem/router combos that us 802.11b/g, not even n, much less ac. Purchasing a separate router lets you use better wifi technology as well as enable useful features like QoS settings that aren't available on the ISP-provided hardware.
ptrdiff_t is a signed type - after all, the diff stands for difference, which implies that it could be negative.

size_t is an unsigned type - it is used to represent the sizes of objects in memory, which can never be negative.
Your own private island
A 4GB USB flash drive is $5 on Amazon - heaven knows what that translates into for the naked chip, in bulk.

So the question becomes, why not?
Wow. Just imagine all the opportunity for social engineering, with a name like that :)
Indeed jamming is illegal. Anti-rogue AP tech' is a grey area.

It doesn't jam the spectrum in the traditional sense. Instead it transmits packets telling the AP and client to disconnect from one another for WiFi networks it doesn't "own." That within itself isn't technically "jamming" and is also likely legal in some cases.

The whole point of the tech is: If you own a network called "CorpWiFi," someone can come along, set up their own AP, and call their WiFi "CorpWiFi" to try and trick clients into connecting to it with the goal of stealing information. Cisco's anti-rogue AP tech attacks these hotspots and causes continuous disconnects. That is likely legal.

What is not legal is using this same tech' to disconnect ALL WiFi hotspots within range. So instead of using it to go after "CorpWiFi" you also disconnect "MyWiFi" and "FreeWiFi" which are networks you don't run. That's what has got these guys into trouble.

The technology itself is legal. Using the technology in the US is also legal in some cases. Using it to effectively corner the market for WiFi in certain areas is illegal.
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See page 3, section 5:

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014...

They were sending deauthentication packets.
>I've had many more stability issues with the LTS versions of Ubuntu than with Mavericks or even Yosemite.

By any chance are you running OS X on Apple hardware? If we took OS X and installed it on an Ubuntu Certified Dell PC we may find that it has the stability issues, so if you are comparing it to OS X running on Apple hardware it's not a very fair comparison, as it's being run under ideal circumstances and Linux is not.
Actually no, it appears that Mozilla is not getting any money from Pocket but rather chose Pocket themselves. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/38aorv/psa_mozilla...
Does this fix the upper/lower case issue that plagues Win32 git implementations?
I wonder what sort of ramifications this has for improving indoor location services for Google's connected properties.
Blaming the individual for emergent economic phenomena with a finger-wag and an I-told-you-so will do little to keep the pitchforks away from your door.
To understand why certain products, which are seemingly unrelated to Google's core competency, have stayed with Google and haven't moved on to Alphabet, or why Google created a product such as OnHub and not Nest, you have to realize why all of these product are under Google - to track all the data that goes through them under the same generic/unified "privacy" policy, and then feed it into its advertising system.

That's why OnHub is a Google product.
and three.js itself was created by a spanish demoscener (trace/mrdoob)
"size_t can store a pointer, it is better to use another unsinged integer type uintptr_t for that purpose "
So he is actually recommending the unsigned version. Although there are some people (like the Google guidelines for C++) that recommend not using unsigned types because of overflows (which is arguable but it is a point)
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ptrdiff_t is signed (because subtraction). size_t is unsigned (because length).

This page is a much shorter summary than the article: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Important-...

Also an important note: if you use special types like ptrdiff_t and size_t, you must not use the underlying native type printf specifiers when printing them. e.g. never print a ptrdiff_t using %ld, use the ptrdiff_t format specifier %td. (because some systems may say ptrdiff_t is long while others may say long long, and all your printf strings will then print compile time warnings.) Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printf_format_string#Length_fi...

Plus, the medium article is a complete copy/paste of this 2009 article: http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0050/ — looks like the account https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=PVS-Studio is copying from viva64 and posting to medium for a lot of old articles.
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Can you explain that? What's QOS, how much CPU does it take to run well, and why don't other expensive routers have the power for fast internet?
Yea, many of the major ISPs lease out a modem that acts as a router by default.
Are you going to charge money for it?
A diff can be negative, whereas a size can't. However, my inclination was to ask the opposite: doesn't ptrdiff_t need to actually be larger than size_t if it must hold signed values and still cover the entire size_t range of inputs?
So how does it connect to the app? Buttons and lights are a lot better than no connection.
The Future of Wearables: “Smart” Underwear Analyzes Your Sweat
I in no way said that aggression and intimidation are more necessary when dealing with Americans. I also find it baffling that anyone would feel it is an extraordinary claim that America has differences from other countries. It also seems obvious to me on the face of it that those differences impact in practical terms what is logistically effective.

Some differences I know of off the top of my head:

America is a relatively young country for a world power. It is much, much younger than many European, Asian and Middle Eastern countries.

There is much lower population density in the US than in many other developed countries. It is also huge compared to many other countries. The combibation of low population density and lots of land means, no, you can't just let someone go and then hunt them down later as the OP suggested. They absolutely can disappear on you and can then potentially go to another state or even another country, such as Mexico or Canada.

Unlike Europe or Japan, large parts of America still have large, very dangerous wild animals like bears and moose. Foreigners often decry America as some land of savages for our right to bear arms, something you cannot legally do in some countries, and our propensity for exercising that right. I don't own a gun and never have, but I assure you that if I moved to Alaska I sure as hell would acquire a shotgun and I would store it the way my father stored his shotguns: unloaded but not locked up, with ammo readily available. If a bear gets into your house, you do not have time to unlock a gun case.

Given that we do have a right to bear arms, the police absolutely are dealing with a more dangerous situation here than the police deal with in some countries. That increased danger makes their job riskier and it means failure to contain a threat can have terrible consequences.

I am sure there are a great many other differences, but those seem to be a few very salient ones. If you want a longer list, I imagine you can readily find more with a quick google.
The Apple TV has 8GB of storage, so when you start streaming a TV show or movie it begins downloading the whole thing so internet interruptions don't mess up your viewing.
Filiment looks like a really robust system with what amounts to "eventual consistency" for IoT data, which is great for data which doesn't need to be acted on in near real time.

1. I'd be interested to see a bit more about how they will handle systems with actuators as well as sensors - i.e. controlling things like windows and sprinklers. I think IoT gets really interesting when it's not just about sensors.

2. It will be even more interesting to see if people are wiling to allow their nodes to be used to help a neighbour get their data through the mesh. Clearly your node will use more power if it's relaying more data, so I wonder how willing people (for example farmers) will be willing to share resources like that.
Thats not the point of what Bret has been trying to advocate IMO. Instead he is trying to establish better frameworks for thinking about programming by providing a better feedback loop.
But the replacement part and send out the field service technician. Deere wants to own the service contract.

As another example, I had a check engine light on my car. It was ~$500 to check the code fault and replace a sensor. If I had my own access to those codes, I could have done the work myself for a fraction of the cost, but the car manufacturer knows that I'm limited in my options. If I want to renew my car tabs, I'll have to pay them and their service technician to do the work. It's a racket.
It is missing SNMP or any kind of traffic monitoring. The WAN to LAN speed is also a bit lacking if you have a very fast connection.
And that's exactly why it won't be getting put in my home.