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this whole thread is about the cognitive implications caused by the linguistics behind the term 'identity theft.' The GP is really digging deep into the real essence of this issue. Changing what it is called shows that the onus of responsibility to remediate the issue should be entirely on the credit issuing corporations.
Side loading Kodi only takes a few minutes. I've got it on my FireTV—it's almost all I use it for, in fact.
How do you change biometric keys once they're compromised?

You can turn it off.

Is "don't use a lock" really the answer to "my key was stolen"?
Ugh, I missed that they promise indefinite API compatibility but not ABI compatibility.

Distros aren't going to like "statically link it, and recompile all the reverse-dependencies when there's a CVE" at all, but I totally understand why that's a sensible approach for something that Google releases.
That's pretty much most of us. I couldn't imagine sitting around at 30 with nothing to do.
Alternatively, it could be a full range driver, but more unlikely giving the phrasing.
If you get paid 300k, jump on it. Just make sure you are aware that this may end anytime so save most of the money.
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How do continued subsidies help this problem?

If COL in an area is so high that essential personnel can't afford to live within 100 miles or reasonably commute there, it seems to me like the sort of circumstances that lead to a company moving to a more affordable area.
Are his mother, wife's sister and wife working?

Supporting 7 people + yourself on one persons labor is going to be tough no matter where you live
And yet its results aren't any more reliable. They seem less so to me. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-18/faq-reinh...
> I strongly dislike this kind of waiving away an important feature request

I could easily say I dislike people making up rediculous corner cases and demanding new technology be designed for it and being deployed.

Are there any authorization methods on any kind of mainstream devices that provide that capability?

I tend to agree that it’s not actually useful and would be incredible hard to implement, all for a case where most people will just give in to avoid harm and forget the option, if it’s even on, exists so they can’t activate it.
Why can't you just store the chat data locally and search it there? Chat data is already small enough, it just needs to be stored in a searchable format.

You don't need to store all of it either, just store the past month or so (or store what the user chooses to store). When the user needs data in the past, the user can download that data from the dates needed.

I have IRC logs with years worth of chat data and they only take up a few MBs.
Too bad, they could be designing cars :P. (car designers still build their model in clay)
If an AI were created to run things, I feel like it would more likely make us stop using hydrocarbon fuels before it would go all terminator on us, as that would take into account our natural right to life right along with all other creatures. That is, if we program it that way. Asimov's The Evitable Conflict from "I, Robot" fits right along with what you're saying about there being some sort of weighted average driven decision process.

Although, I fear we'd probably end up with a "Butlerian Jihad" instead...
What amazes me is - Why the social security number was ever used as an identity number in the first place. This number should simply be used to trace your account with the social security department when you retire. The practice by institutions to use the last four digits of your social security as some sort of de facto secret number is not only foolish but laughable that no one has a problem with it. I should be able to freely float my social security number and not expect to have my identity stolen.
You could try not having half the things that come out of your mouth be easily construed as offensive, I guess? Seriously, I'm on mastodon.social and I've never once felt a need to preface anything like that.
To open a bank account. Not to open a credit card account.

Applying for a credit card involves essentially no verification of identity other than asking for some information that is supposedly but not really secret.
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A relative of mine worked with a guy who was seduced from retirement by a company desperate for his particular skill set. One of those guys who does something I don't even have the context to understand.

Skill set is key. What you don't want to be is the old guy with the same skill set as people who are expecting to make half what you expect to make.
Fascinating. Any recommended sources for more information - more interested in quipu. I'm so Native American that Canada has to let me in, but I've never heard of that. (I have ancestry records and DNA results that show I'm 3/4 Micmac, which aided me in getting Canadian citizenship.)
Whereas F# is very easy to refactor
Driverless Dilemma
Because the cost of not retaining a software engineer is greater than the cost of the perks. The same doesn't apply for all positions at the company.
> utterly shatters the mythos

Very insightful. That mythos is absolutely fundamental to how Silicon Valley works, and how the few make millions from the efforts of many. Anything that threatens it is worth a few missed opportunities, and maybe even a bit of legal risk, so long as the spice continues to flow.
Authenticator Plus. It's a paid product, but allows me to sync my TOTP tokens to my Google drive account, so I'll never have that problem again.
I can't wait until I have to worry about bluetooth attacks on my DSLR too.
Even split between Java / C++, with at least 4 different build systems: 2 of which are effectively the next generation of the other 2. 2 different UNIX shells and 5 other dynamic programming languages. Not the end of the world, and there are probably good reasons for a lot of it (maybe there are bindings for various languages, maybe some of it is misindeitified, maybe they're harnessing 2 large bodies of existing work, 1 in Java and 1 in C++), but it may suggest a lot of people just doing things their own way trying to carve out their own niche, without a cohesive philosophy across the system, which mirrors my experience with Yahoo's engineering org.
I personally use Authy, and it's survived several migrations to new phones.
No but the QA engineer's BATNA has those perks. The janitor's probably does not.
>The top funds can return a rate of over 20% while the median is close to 10% and the bottom venture capital firms may produce a negative return. If startups were all just lottery tickets then there wouldn’t be such a consistently different rate of return among venture capital firms.

That makes no sense.

For an easy kind of counter example, suppose I have two kinds of $1 lotto tickets, A and B. Both are incredibly unlikely to pay out. Ticket type A returns about $12k one in 10k tickets, resulting in a 20% rate of return. Ticket type B returns $8k one in 10k tickets, for a negative 20% rate of return. Being able to distinguish between them doesn't make them any less of lottery tickets.

Being able to distinguish between these is great if you're an investor buying tons of tickets, but if you only buy a handful in your lifetime you probably won't win, so maybe it's good advice to treat these lotto tickets as what they are and focus on other things that matter like happiness and salary.
I think it's more a case of "use a different lock". That is, use a passcode.
I've noticed a difference in rewatching movies in different theaters in my city (one with Atmos support, the other without), but not enough of a difference I've felt a need to buy new home theater hardware for it.
If you sell those wooodworking creations for money and you keep the money - yes, absolutely. Why don't you give those woodworking creations away for free if you don't need the money? or why don't you donate the money you earn from them to charity - if you don't do those things, you admit you need that money for something that you can't afford otherwise. In that case, why not just work a job? I mean if you love woodworking and do it for money, you just have a job that you love, which is fantastic. but it's a job.
>from having watched a number of teardowns, the Juicero was (if anything) massively over-engineered in terms of number of parts, cost of those parts, how they were machined, etc.

What you mean to say is that the Juicero was overbuilt and underengineered. As the saying goes, "anyone can build a bridge, it takes an engineer to barely build it".
I work in security. People not giving enough shits about the "situation in the field" with respect to how their code will be used, how long it will need to be used and what will need to be done to keep it functional over that time is job security for me.

Some points the author makes I agree with, others I don't. Nothing will change until incentives change.
Editor at the Graun makes £450k.
These two BHs just merged. So they have been spinning around each other for a few million years already. Anything close enough for spagetification to be an option would have been tossed away long before the final merger.
Or 02134.
Turning off FaceID isn't "don't use a lock", it's "use a password instead."
It sounds like fpgaminer's argument is that biometric keys can't be compromised because of "liveness tests". An argument against would have to rebut this assumption.

My gut instinct tells me that this assumption is absurd, but I lack the specific knowledge of these systems to prove it.
It's news when some of the biggest and wealthiest companies in the us do not pay their staff (regardless of work, regardless of contractor status) a livable wage.
Just wait until the "high demand, highly skilled workers" get squeezed too and then remember your words. Most of software engineers do work that at some point can also be replaced by machines. How many of us do really cutting-edge stuff?

I think it's a moral issue. We need to find a way to structure society in away that even people who don't have the hot jobs of the moment can survive.
Out of interest: why is a JS player required for video? Is it just to make more browsers compatible, the video more hackable for annotations/ads, or is there something else?

Edit: And a related question: would Cloudflare Stream work without the JS player using a regular video-tag?
So would you hear it as a 100 Hz tone? Feel it as a vibration in your bones?

(Again, assuming an amplitude somewhere between perceptible and lethal, and assuming you're protected from other almost certainly lethal forms of radiation at that distance)
What is this, but the author ranting about a totally understandable move from this company?

Don't upgrade your OS, or upgrade the software.

The title is misleading: the app doesn't self-destruct, and Counterpath have NOT screwed over Mac users.
What about a Roku?
Well, I meant the "360 sound" part, where it goes above/below(?) your head instead of just around you.

I'm starting to see Atmos in far more products and content now where it's going beyond early adopter territory, so I'm curious if it's a noticeable improvement, ala 4k.
I wish the author had explained this better. It seems obvious now but initially I was having the same confusion as some of the ancestor comments.
But your argument makes no sense. The attack isn't "someone stole the processed image ("stick figure") of my fingerprint", the attack is someone copied my fingerprint.
This nytimes piece showed how an in house janitor at Kodak in the early 1980s moved up over time: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-risi...
Amazon is constantly trying new things
I guess people don't want to tell me the name, that's why the downvote haha
Yeah I frequently switch between F# and C# and I literally cannot tell a difference in effort. I assume the complaints are more out of familiarity than anything else. I have never had issues in either language.
These devices all ride on your own personal network. Their traffic is easy to monitor for timing and size of the data transmitted outward. If you are worried about spying you might put a piece of tape over your webcam, but I can't say I have heard of anyone physically disabling their laptop's microphone. These voice assistants are basically the same security threat as those open microphones on your laptop. Both of them are still less dangerous than a smartphone that has its own network connection and can more easily hide its spying.
There's possibly a good reason for this. If you don't treat your contractors different from your regular employees, the IRS might decide that your contractors are effectively employees and you're just dodging your tax burden.

So, yeah, just about anywhere, you "should" be able to tell the difference between contractors and employees.
According to Einstein there is no gravity that pulls us to the center of Earth. Instead mass curves spacetime in such a way to make you experience traveling along the curvature as gravity. If the mass is rotating the curvature will also drag on the surrounding spacetime. Imagine something like a whirlpool and then consider what happens if two of those merge. While merging some of their energy will cause waves in the surrounding water that eventually fades away with range. Those waves would be the gravitational waves - ripples in spacetime.
I think that's a pretty narrow, reductionist take, asserting that they don't add any new value to Facebook. Those "high demand, highly skilled workers" don't support themselves (clearly). Neither is the perceived value of working at Facebook the same without the perks that these contractors provide. I'm not sure it's possible to isolate the value-add of developers from the environment they work in and the infrastructure that supports them, in the same way it's difficult to separate the value-add of a local business from the value-add of the public road that it's built next to. No one is an island.

Also, I don't think I saw a quote where these workers asked for "all the perks". Just perhaps an opportunity to not be homeless.
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I believe the v4 product is still supported. Nobody is forced to buy v5, v4 continues to operate as promised and as sold.

The OP wants to run v4 on a new operating system that wasn't available when they bought v4. They're upset that isn't supported.
Are they "contractors" though? My impression is that they are employees of some service company.

The word "contract" was around the idea that Facebook contracted with some entity like "ABC Cafeteria services".

So low wages is a problem, yes. But why Facebook's particularly? Is that significantly different from the low wage employees at the Burger King around the corner from Facebook?
I seriously doubt they’re using actual infrared emissions (as in heat measurements), I imagine it’s just used as a simple B&W camera so they don’t need visible light.
Hmm, pay is based on value the employee produces not how much the company makes. If an employer can get away with paying an employee $15/hr -- aka people are voluntarily willing to work there -- then what is the problem?
What's your setup?
Updating your skillset is great, but the trick is, how do you define "update"? It's incredibly easy to pick the wrong technology. You're trying to predict the distant future, and if you're not (i.e. you're only chasing trends), you're always in direct competition with the cheapest labor on the market.

For example, I can guarantee that any 20-something "specializing" in Javascript anything right now is going to be in a world of hurt in a decade. Even if you spend the bulk of your off-hours staying "updated" on the latest in JS development, you're highly likely to be wrong. So what do you do? Do you leave it behind? When? What do you do instead?

Having a deep background in something can help, but that takes time, which carries an inherent risk: if you spend N years specializing in X, you're in extreme danger of being the person who gets laid off because X isn't in demand anymore.
> Even with the worst biometrics, your phone would be more secure than 99% of houses. And I don't see people complaining about the state of home security...

1. Many (most?) people have more private information on their phones than they do in their house, and there is different risks of each being compromised, so there should be different standards.

2. My impression of the security community is that pretty much everyone uniformly agrees that home security is garbage and needs to be improved.
Hi, I'm a grad student working on LIGO.

There is no practical way to harvest this energy. Gravitational waves interact very weakly with matter. This is part of why they are useful for observations: GWs can travel from the core of violent events unmodified, unlike light, which gets blocked by surrounding matter. You can't see the center of a core collapse supernova with light, but you can see it with GWs and neutrinos. They also won't get bent by EM or gravitational fields, meaning that the direction they come from in the sky points straight back to the source. And unlike very high energy gamma rays, they don't pair produce into electrons.

This all makes them great for astronomy and totally useless for extracting energy.
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It just screams: "we wrote it in Go because we wanted to write something in Go".

You supposed pick the right tools for a project not a project for the tools.
Parent mentions Kodi, which isn't on Roku at all (it's not written in Roku's Brightscript, obviously, so porting it would be a full re-write)
The context is case sensitivity in cookies in an article talking about urls. It includes no broader context although it might be suggestive of it.

File systems pose different challenges than urls. Ambiguity in file systems is wholly unacceptable and its more important to be simple and correct than keep idiots from typing afile instead of Afile.

Also it can be bad design in the sense that Norman described even if Norman himself disagrees.
There are all kinds of tradeoffs you can make with regards to power output, size, weight, time to market, and cost for an engine for a given vehicle. Also, what sells in one market (in the case of the Smart, Europe) may not work so well in another market (USA). IIRC, a lot of the Smarts back then (this was 10 years ago approximately) were diesel, which wasn't going to work in the North American market either.
Many years ago I worked on an SMSC. SMS are sent over the same data channels as phone signalling (call setup etc.) using SS7 protocol stack. The SS7 protocol physical layers used fixed size data packets of around 256 bytes, for example on T1 data channels. On top of that you need routing info such as addressing in MTP, TCAP to get the packet to the correct mobile switching center. Then GSM or IS-41 MAP to route to the device. Finally the sms bearer encoding needs some extra bytes for thing like delivery reports and source phone number. This left 160 bytes free.
Nice job! I'll keep it with me.
For what it's worth, your message required a lot more attention from me than it would have, if you had used the word "number" rather than the strange glyph "#". I guess you were doing this with some sort of meta humour because the story is about twitter, but the point was inversed. Your attempt to abbreviate things to make them more legible, made them less so.

The lesson above applies, incidentally, to pretty much everything twitter.
Note it might not be the greed of the hospital staff. Instead pharmaceutical companies might be charging ridiculous amounts for medication and operation supplies.

In addition, a hospital is like a company. It must try to break even. Hospital management is presured to reduce costs as we have an aging population. Predictions are medical costs for the entire population will explode. Furthermore, the cost pyramid for Healthcare is an inverse one. The 5% chronically ill take 95% of the total costs. They cannot afford to entirely pay for their care thus hospital management is forced to get these costs reimbursed elsewhere. Which might be you.

Aging population and the inverse Healthcare pyramid places hospital management in a difficult position where they would have to reduce costs to such an extent they cannot provide proper care. Their only solution is to get more money in so the debit/credit sides are in balance again.
Broken software has the capability to regularly kill people or cause people to lose money. It happens too often.
I have nothing to add other than that I really like how KeyBase decided to do identity. Letting the user decide how much they trust different services and using them to verify is a fantastic solution.
The article's not silly. Leveson and Hamilton's works cover that explicitly. Start with Engineering a Safer World's Intent Specifications, move on to Safeware, and look at the attention that goes into writing the right TLA+ specs.

Lists like "Government regulations, flaky hardware…" look a lot like the upper levels of the hierarchical control systems contemplated there. It didn't make it into a pop science piece, but it's absolutely core to the work at issue.

You can get a copy of the book at http://sunnyday.mit.edu/safer-world/index.html .
Theoretical countermeasure: I get an IR visible tattoo that you can't see in my Facebook pictures but FaceID can. I think the level of equipment needed to pull your attack off couldn't be done off-the-shelf. It seems reasonable that IR camera would scan in detail greater than that of a typical display (say, 500ppi) and it needs 100,000dpi resolution. Then you need bigger displays, advanced optics to reduce it to the expected size without distortion, and so on...
The problem I have is with the lack of TouchID. FaceID is fine. But, I don't always want to have to stop what I'm doing, loooook at the phone and then proceed.

Sometimes I even unlock my phone in my pocket to sneak a look.

How do you do that with FaceID when the sensor's been removed?
IIRC this happened to Microsoft
Have you guys tried this on boarding/invites framework?
RMS may be seen by many as a zealot or maybe even an extremist, and I personally disagree with some of his views, but it's clear that without him the open-source world would be in a completely different place.

Hat tip.
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>* Hang on. Sure, all engineering has hurdles. But how many engineering projects face regular enemy action? The last time somebody actively tried to compromise a system I was building was two weeks ago. How many engineers live like that? We hold civil engineers responsible when bridges collapse unprompted. We also hold them responsible if their bridges fail from some minor, anticipated harm like vandalism or a car crash. We don't hold them responsible for building bridges that can be blown up.*

Even more so, how many engineering problems have fuzzy requirements that on top of that change constantly and arbitrarily?

If someone thinks building bridges is the same as writing some big software, they really have no idea about working in the trenches.