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It ignores that setting for updates, telemetry, etc

Why else the focus on young new college grads? :) * Enthusiasm & Energy * Naivete * Lack of family to keep them away from work * Lack of understanding of how startup comp works

So someone read the spec and discovered blob url encoding?

Why....? Make your content small (hint: text) and you don't need the 500 bytes of this and the $kilobytes of crap this depends on

To make sure they don't accidentally end up connected to such hits as juicero, Uber, theranos, uBeam, etc ?

27MB of images on a webpage is inexcusable! You don't need better compression. You need to reconsider what you are doing with your life (and your poor users' data allowance). Visiting your s…

> A person working WITH headphones on, signifies that it's ok to tap them on the shoulder to ask them a question. what? headphones = NOT NOW! if you need something, email The whole point of he…

From the TFA: This is not really a mistake from the ransomware authors, as they properly use the Windows Crypto API. Indeed, for what I've tested, under Windows 10, CryptReleaseContext does clean…

A lot of articles like this overlook a lot of physics that actually matter a lot. Not only would it be incredibly difficult to get humans up there, much more so than Mars, but even once we get there w…

If you don't make your website a megabyte-sized monster, it isn't a problem. Serving simple html/css content is possible to more users than hn has at any given point in time from a sing…

You are, sadly, entirely right. But we can all do our part in educating users. Friends don't let friends use unpatched software...

If we're lucky - consumer pressure.

This removes one of the main excuses various vendors use for not providing Android updates. I truly hope this works in helping users always be up to date.

Well, we have always been at war with Eastasia...

some modern cams (at least traffic ones) no longer use AGC and will not be fooled by this

Luggage storage in modern jets is pressurized. No more pressure changes there than in the cabin. The pressure vessel is a tube, not a half-tube.

google has a bug bounty ;) https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/chrome-rewards/inde... Feel free to submit your function exploits that you say are so easy to make…

parser is in javascript (google docs), in a sandboxed browser (chrome), in a system whose root partition is read-only, and hash-verified each boot and whose bootloader is in a physically-write-protect…

"chromebook" see above no default downloading, cannot execute anything downloaded

Yes. Phishing is ineffective against most competent Internet users. I used to be against it, but more and more I favour the ideas of a basic internet license being a requirement to use the internet.

Yeah, I'd open it on my chromebook. And if i see a login screen on the way to open said spreadsheet, i'd immediately start worrying and recheck things. Good luck.

They themselves said it was phishing...

Are people today so devoid of personal responsibility that they are unwilling to admit that their claims of "sophisticated hacking attempts" are nothing more than an excuse for one of their …

Design != Implementation. Outsourcing the code-monkey work of converting a complete design into a pile of JS is easy and already being done.

Syntax highlighting is laughably bad The "int" in "maintained" is highlighted in checkup_test.go as a type

Judge Alsup, to Waymo Lawyer: "You have one of the strongest records I've seen of somebody doing something bad. Good for you!"

I read Russian, French, and English language news from as many sources as I can find to try and get a relatively good idea of what actually happens in the world, and if you want to call out bias, try …