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The sad thing is that it's not really impressive work. And I don't say that to discredit the author, but to discredit dlink, because the bugs found are really security 101 kinda stuff we really should not be seeing anymore.
Did they say why?
We carry these things on our bodies damn near most of the day. We use them in our down time to read books and news. To communicate with others and consume information in a matter of seconds. To remind ourselves of things occurring throughout the day. To keep track of grocery lists, diets, fitness activities, sleep cycles and etc. It's basically the first fully functional extension of our body. So, absolutely... why the hell not pay more? It's almost like paying slightly more for a bionic arm that will get you a little closer to truly experiencing the sense of touch you've been missing for years.
This is a very good strategy in my opinion. The iPhone will be the Rolex of the smartphone market and purchased as a fashion item and a status symbol.
> it does not reflect the hardship ...of individual owners

they bought into a system that really shouldn't have existed. Investments that fail are tragic, but losses of this nature can't really be protected from those who make it (otherwise, there'd be moral hazzard).
Good looking? iPhones stopped being good looking since they added the camera that sticks out like a sore thumb.
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It wasn't a 25% drop, it was a 15% drop which isn't uncommon. This is Bitcoin. It was followed by an immediate recovery.
I can not see a better way than this comment to prove that one did not read the article.
I see your 3 year young iPhone and raise my 6 year old Motorola Defy. I bought it new in 2011 for about 1/4 of what the then-current iPhone would have cost. It still works flawlessly, the battery is fine as well (~5 days of normal use on a single charge or ~7 hours of screen time). If the battery were to fail I could just replace it, no tools required.

Oh, the thing is waterproof and 'shock-proof' (although the latter is to be taken with a grain of salt, my wife managed to break the glass on hers after about three years).

In other words, it does not take an expensive iPhone to last longer than a contract period. Well-built phones can last a long time, much longer than the 2 years which most people seem to consider as normal.
I think I read somewhere that a large number of sexual assaults (believe it was Hong Kong) go unreported. Maybe reporting is part of the difference.

I do intuitively believe the US has a higher violent crime rate but 83 times the amount of assaults per capita seems a bit much.
is derived from a moral intuition of justice

Sort of. It's a technical detail of US criminal justice. If it was some moral basis of all justice, you'd have to explain why civil justice is 'immoral'.

I hate seeing the US policy discarded because it's "irrelevant"

I don't think anyone did that - if anything, you're seem to be elevating something you're very familiar with to some sort of universal principle mainly on the basis of that familiarity. And anyone who disagrees is a tyrant, somehow?

We make all sorts of nuanced judgements, even about other people's criminality, all the time. Sure, it's best not to judge without basis or too hastily or uncharitably or you name it. But few things outside actual criminal trials require 'proof beyond reasonable doubt'. That would be silly and impractical. Many people, for instance, believe OJ Simpson is guilty of murder and they're neither immoral nor tyrants for thinking it. Trotting out 'innocent until proven guilty' is even weirder and less applicable as some sort of substitute for 'there's a thing in this newspaper article I don't like or agree with'. One can just say that instead of reciting some strident and inapplicable phrase.
What court says BSD has an implicit patent grant?
I think your example just shows how ridiculous software patents are as a concept. Facebook's license is an attempt to prevent silly lawsuits over things like that.
Yeah but there was a big jump in performance / new features between early iphone generations.

Nowadays the difference is really marginal for every day use. You are only going to take better photos in marginal low light conditions, if you even take lots of photos, everything else will be pretty much the same experience. I'd argue that we are even in removal of features mode (audio jack, touch id) which is putting off people like me who normally wouldn't mind a high price tag for a smartphone.

There are enough apple fans out there to buy any piece of plastic that apple will sell at the price of gold. But for a wider wealthy and techie audience, I think the value added of spending more on an iphone is becoming hard to justify.
Yeah, it's a bit disappointing, especially since I liked her writing at io9. I wonder how much pressure writers get to write more sensationalist pieces.
We tried to create this system in Turkey with AltaTech technology and we can't find a solution about virtual routing.Workers can't find a job in the future because even the backward countries try this system.
> It's still flawless, no speed issues or any issues. The only thing bad is that the battery isn't as good as before.

so, not flawless? i can replace the battery on my phone, which is very reassuring and also practical for times away from a charger.
Even the slimmest of cases makes that invisible.
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Another fake news..no exchanges are closed now. FUD, FUD. Just another round of pumping..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island

> It is home to the Sentinelese who, often violently, reject any contact with the outside world, and are among the last people worldwide to remain virtually untouched by modern civilization. As such, only limited information about the island is known.

They are the control group. (And they live on Sentinel island! Get it?)
> it’s a scheme that allowed people to buy into a monopoly

It is a rather ingenious "free market monopoly hybrid" that I can't think of existing in other fields.
Sure, if you pick the price point of $124. I agree, Bitcoin is filled with tons of swings and volatility. I was merely addressing your comment "silk road got shut down and BTC's price didn't drop at all" which is quite inaccurate. I'm a big Bitcoin proponent myself, and don't think we do anyone any favors by painting a false picture. (or to be more generous, keep moving the goal posts)
I'd be with you, except for Android's planned obsolescence. The reliance on third-parties to provide at most ~2/3 year security update paired with a dated and forked version of the Linux kernel gives me pause.
Yeah, this is another piece of fake news..no exchanges in China are closed now. FUD, FUD. Just another round of pumping..
https://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-OV5NGV6JIJUQ...
as a user of both windows and mac os x, what do you truly like about mac os x that you prefer it so heavily over windows?
but at least the new boss (tens of thousands of $ for a new car loan) is better than the old boss (hundreds of thousands of $ for a medallion).
That the purpose of it is to advertise economic resources is not true. My wife has an iPhone because it's the most competent tool she can use to get the job done. Having used several Android phones prior to this, I don't blame her. Relatively speaking there are fewer security issues, compatibility quirks, and reliability issues with iPhones which makes them worth the price to her.

After the 2 year mark our Android phones are literally in the junk drawer, and her iPhone 6s is still functioning as fast as the day it was purchased.
Did you mean tablet or desktop when you wrote `table`. The way i'm understanding it, it could go either way.
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Banning ICO is really different than banning Bitcoin exchanges. ICOs have been used by a group of people to do Ponzi Schemes, and the Gov't got a lot of requests from various money-got-stolen investors.
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>If anything there is a regression with the absence of TouchID.

FaceID fulfills that role.
> In Chinese society, the citizens expect the government to protect them from harm

Mao would disagree.
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The price dropped for one day. That does not count as a drop. Pull up the data and show that it dropped longer than a day and then I'll agree that it dropped.

How far are we going to zoom in to say that BTC dropped? An hour? A minute? A day is not a useful time interval.

Using the lowest point of the day also isn't useful. Traders typically use a moving average. Neither the lowest nor the highest peak is a useful way to compute the price of bitcoin for the day.

If you're going to wag your finger and say "Nu uh" and trot out data saying that it went down to X price, well, yes, you're technically correct. But I think most people would agree that the price over the next week is a far more useful way to know whether the price truly dropped or not.

In other words, if China's ban results in BTC dropping for a day, who cares? No one.
"a bit of trust" this! Most often maintainers ego is the issue and too much control over ones baby project is the road to frustration and burnout. The way the power is shared and the shape of community structure is huge factor often neglected by tech-only focused maintainers/owners. There is a good piece of wisdom on social aspect of open-source in Social Architecture by Pieter Hintjens[0]. I recommend learning about his pov to anyone interested in open-source open-projects.

[0] https://www.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/social-architecture/de...
There's a lot more to sexism (and other bigotry) than simple economics.

Presumably, we have all had coworkers who weren't great workers, weren't very bright, etc., but managed to get ahead by schmoozing and playing politics. Their brighter and harder-working colleagues who didn't play that game didn't progress up the ladder as quickly. Bigotry presents a similar issue, but on an even larger scale.
WTF? I mean, read this:

> Colleges have adopted definitions of sexual wrongdoing, [Elizabeth Bartholet, Nancy Gertner, Janet Halley and Jeannie Suk Gersenthey, at Harvard Law School] wrote, that include “conduct that is merely unwelcome . . . even if the person accused had no way of knowing it was unwanted, and even if the accuser’s sense that it was unwelcome arose after the encounter.”

That is insane.
I think the screen will be the thing everyone talks about it. I think it's also the reason for the price.
Glad to hear it. When you're fully recovered let's chat about security some time.
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And this is why we finally need fines in the magnitude of a few million to make corporations even think about having a secure-by-default mentality, not patch-when-sh*t-hits-the-fan (and even then only barely).
The upshot of this is: various techniques commonly called a second factor are in fact subject to social engineering, thus* disqualifying them from the technical definition of a “factor”.

(* I’m fudging it a bit with the word “thus”.)
I can't feel too sympathetic for the owners--they've been riding high on the back of their drivers for years. The drivers, who in fact are their employees, get no benefits of any kind due to a legal fiction that classifies them as independent contractors. If the drivers--who are actually operating the taxis--want to take calls from the street, from dispatch, from Uber, from Lyft, it should be up to them. After all, if a driver wants to simply park his leased taxi and not drive, he's free to do so--he's an independent contractor. The medallion owners got themselves into this mess by becoming vehicle lessors, not taxi operators. Once upon a time driving a cab was a good job with good benefits. Now it's not a job at all, which is why immigrants rush to drive.
I think Amazon has reached the limits of Seattle -- Seattle can't build housing or transportation fast enough to match Amazon's growth, so starting somewhere fresh makes sense.

Plus there's the redundancy benefit -- if the Pacific Northwest suffers the catastrophic earthquake they are predicting, Amazon's HQ2 will live on (and make a fortune shipping supplies to the area).
ICOs are really different than Bitcoin exchanges. The latter one is very mature now and the gov't can actually trace the bills. When it comes to ICOs. there are just so many Ponzi games involved. Very few really new tech innovation coins are around. And it has already made a bunch of people lost their funds.
Yes, you need to know the password to decrypt. That's the basis of their very interesting PII protection scheme!

My point is you can brute-force the password without the HSM. And their docs specifically say this should not be possible. Isn't the whole point of the HSM to prevent that?

'hash' is derived from 'z2' and 'd' - and they give you 'd'. Password will produce 'z2'. So that's the brute-force attack.

To say it another way, the 'z1' path is secured. But there is the 'z2' path and it's wide open.
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Now that I'm no longer so caught up in this pet project article of mine, I realize how BS it is. Deleted.
A patent application must be filed within 1 year of public disclosure or its barred, and React has been out for years.
And any pending application filed during that 1 year window would be visible now, so...

...nothing is going to happen. There's no submarine patents possible here. (...from Facebook, anyhow.)
Hopefully the battery tech arrives to support all these bans.
This is a better quote about America's consumer culture -
What was the nature of MTV? For me it was insatiable desire. Thats the very nature of Americans. We want what we don't have. One of the characteristics of American consumers in the early 80's was Shop till you drop. "I want it. I don't know what it is but I want it." - Dale Pon, Advertising exec part of the MTV launch campaign in Aug 1981
Thank you for sharing that! I hadn't realized. Very inspiring...
I don't like TDD, I find it focuses too much on ceremony and too little on practical issues. However, writing new code by using a single test as a workbench seems like a huge win.

When you're adding a new feature, you need to get the current system up to a certain state(e.g. I'm adding a new action page only for users with a specific history...), you want a fast turnover tweaking the feature(push 1 button to reload), and you want to verify quickly that the feature is running correctly. In other words, you need a test.

I usually throw away the first "workbench" test and proceed to write tests for specific cases after laying the groundwork for the feature. Using this approach also "primes" my code for testability, which means I'm getting most of the TDD benefits without the necessary ceremony.
Also note: scrypt ends with a PBKDF2 round, so if PBKDF2 is acceptable then scrypt may not actually be a problem. Legally speaking you might be able to ignore the use of the SMIX (including Salsa20) and the HMAC entirely as long as the final PBKDF2 uses a FIPS 140-2 acceptable hash function.
This is different to soft drinks in other countries... how? Change the drink to whiskey, another popular one, and you can be sure that there's a difference between what the American rich and poor drink.

> no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good

And coke is not the same everywhere either. My guess is that the prez isn't going to be drinking much watery post-mix coke with his meals.

Similarly, coke in glass bottles is nicer than post-mix coke, and it's more expensive. 'Regular' cokes are in-between. And, for the US with its HFCS coke, you can import the much better-tasting sucrose-coke, which is more expensive to obtain if you're importing it yourself (although a lot of places on the Mexican border already have it).
Wow, that's genuinely shocking. Had someone told me that at a party I wouldn't have believed them.
4K ATV comes out this month apparently. I'm a FireTV owner (current gen, got it when it came out) and I've been pretty pleased with it. Works with HBO Go, VLC, Kodi, Netflix, Spotify, and Prime. It's the only game in town that will do all of those without jail breaking / messing around a lot with the software. It's not perfect and the dist of Android has some issues, but a ~weekly reboot isn't bad for how often it works well enough. I wish it was more responsible and didn't have issues with the remote disconnecting, I wish the launcher was better, a usable browser would be nice, etc but again it all works with the least amount of hassle vs the other options.

It's currently unavailable on Amazon, and there are rumors of a new one coming soon, which seems very likely to compete with the new ATV even though I've considered Amazon Fire TV and sticks to be ahead of the other offerings for at least a year at this point.

We've come a long way from MythTV / XBMC days. It's an exciting time to be a content consumer, hah.
Wow, that's amazing she left. Thank you for sharing that.
We could do it with current tech if we expanded lithium mining and the charging networks.
Have you read any his books. I bet no. The interesting fact is Some of his books are too populist and too revolutionary and get de-popularised in China.
Well, theobromine is pretty great in itself.
The government should rather use high taxes on fossil-fuels so the market can efficiently work, instead of trying to micromanage with all these subsidies, special rules, outright bans, and other "incentive programs".
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Let me put my chairman Mao hat on, and say this is why the needs to be perpetual disruption.

More seriously: the world is changing all the time businesses and business models face challenges all the time. This produces churn where the current crop of winners have little political clout, but start to gain it as they settle in.

Of course if they succeed in gaining political clout, they might be able to dig in and prevent change for a long time until something big and rare comes along and undermines the whole system.
This seems like an interesting opportunity for a different kind of rating metric. One idea is "mean + standard deviation", while another might be "what did people like you think of this movie, and what did people unlike you think of it?".

But clearly both of these are trickier to understand than just a single number.
Coke is a bad example. Let's talk about a bottle of wine which is $20k. I certainly can't afford that along with a lot of other people.
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This is correct from the unbound theoretical tape perspective. I should have expanded my point you are very correct. If you look in the context of physical realization (finite) a tape that can be written is some form of RAM. Beyond O(1) complexity all of these machines can express each other with different amounts of RAM. Even in the theoretical model an FSM can accept balanced parentheses of finite depth. My FSM point is basically wrong though.
There is a noticeable difference in experience between a mercedes and a ford. I am not convinced there is a noticeable difference between an i5 and i7 unless you are doing something super demanding.
> You're extrapolating too far from your own preferences.

Aren't you doing the same, but in the other direction?
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For one, Mac OS does multiple displays and DPIs right. The trackpad is also solid. Plus the unix stuff that's always been there and isn't some subsystem only available with certain versions of windows. Also, the boot up and sign in process sucks in Windows vs Mac. Once I'm given a mouse cursor post-signon I'm ready to go in Mac OS. With Windows, I've got to wait for the AV to load up and do it's "routine". Then there's the probability of Windows Updates working the first time.

And then there's the Windows telemetry stuff. Apple's actually talking about ways to incorporate identity anonymization (sp?) into its browser. They've stayed out of trying to reap side income off device usage in multiple ways.
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The Aborigines very likely helped turn much of Australia into a desert.

http://theconversation.com/how-aboriginal-burning-changed-au...

And our paleo ancestors helped hunt woolly mammoths into extinction.

Turns out people are people and the "noble savage" thing is mostly myth. Not much hidden wisdom, not really any secret medicinal knowledge, just less effective ways of understand the world and doing things. This isn't to suggest pre modern cultures aren't worth studying, but it is to say they aren't worth romanticizing.
How much cleaner is electricity that comes from fossil fuels compared to direct burning of fossil fuels?

EDIT 1: Thanks for all the enthusiastic replies telling me that power generation is better optimized. Yes, I already understand power plants are much more likely to be better optimized than car engines. That's why I asked "how much" instead of "whether". I'm wondering if the difference ends up being something like 10% (by whatever the suitable metric is) or 30% or 60%. Numbers and/or references from actual data would be appreciated.

EDIT 2: Note that we also need to consider the energy loss in transferring the electric power and charging up the battery; it's not just about power generation efficiency. I don't know if this is significant or not.
People sue, and win, over this kind of price fixing all the time.

Makes me think the evidence isn't as clear cut as he believes.
Roku devices are great. For less than $70 I got a box that plays Netflix, Amazon Video, Google Play, Youtube, Hulu, and a lot more that I don't use.

The big selling point for me was the built-in headphone jack on the remote. After the wife, kids go to bed, I can still enjoy a late-night movie without waking anyone up... so long as I don't laugh too loud. (grin)

This is my second Roku device - been using them for about 5 years now. Kids broke the remote on the last one and it was nearly as cheap to buy a whole new device than replace the remote.
California is an at-will state. Surely tech companies can learn to innovate their HR processes to create a transparent, professional, and optimal solution to remove a poor hire.

And maybe not all poor hires are created equal. In which maybe the cost of training up bad hire would be less expensive than firing them, and the opportunity cost of taking longer time in hiring a better candidate?
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For a company (and its customers) that rave about the design and look of the phone itself, covering it all with a case seems like the exact opposite of what one would expect to be the norm.
Only a very tiny portion of the global population is in a position to own productive capital (or, at least, enough to support themselves). Even if the portion were higher, though, you are basically just advocating rent-seeking as the solution to job losses caused by automation, and that strikes me as dubious at best.
Maybe that's a great incentive for the battery industry.