dmitrygr

In other news: grass still green.

With selinux (as most android phones 4.4+ have) I imagine an exploit is not possible.

1. put this into a modern car 2. do not drive for a month 3. car's slow but steady draw drains battery to where it self shuts off 4. attempt to enter car 5. realize that it is a modern car, and w…

This may be the highest ratio of buzzwords to meaning that I've ever seen. It took three or four reads to figure out what this is ... i think...

Still voluntary compliance = still toothless. How about the agreement between users and site to the tune of "you honor DNT or I block every little bit of your ads"?

The departure of most values employees is not surprising. In their place I'd do the same. I want no part of working in a place where salary is based 100% on politics and 0% on merit. curious all …

Why do people panic so much about this? It has been shown time and time again that price floors or ceilings very rarely help a market be efficient. Quite the opposite usually.

Gauging ability to operate under pressure is valuable too...ever tried to fix a bug on a device that was supposed to ship yesterday, under the pressure of the entirety of the hierarchy above you all t…

I am sure $ANY_COMPANY_MAKING_ROUTERS will truly care about this and somehow (for the first time in their existence) pull real security experts out of thin air to make their products secure enough to …

Lots of promises, but little details.

There are limits on what turbine blades can handle. Stronger blades are thicker. Thicker blades are heavier and harder to spin up. As it is, the insides of those turbofans are the bleeding edge of mat…

Birds do not come with exploding lithium batteries or large metal bodies like brushless outrunner engines do! I do not think you understand how tight the tolerances are in a modern turbofan engine. Bi…

Yes. Here are some examples: 1. they distract the pilot during the most critical phase of flight 2. In an airport environment, planes are closer to each other than elsewhere in space, so if a pilot ha…

Just like laser pointers in cockpit - find the culprits and charge them with $MANY counts of reckless endangerment. This endangers the lives of every passenger and lots of people on the ground!

As a person who grew up in a place where discrimination based on gender/age/race was not really a thing, this strikes me as insane! This really does feel like discrimination, just in the opp…

Until the last few sentences I had no idea what you are talking about and how this coud possibly work. Then I saw "CDN" and realized you mean WEBSITE not APPLICATION . Should probably cla…

What shoddy reporting! ... "Reportedly the new version of Google Glass also sports improved battery life, partly because of the Intel Atom CPU. The specific clock speed is unknown, but this tiny …

I, for one, am glad to know that that interests of everyone important are well protected in this treaty. I just wish I knew how to join this class of people who are important. Apparently being a citiz…

Because the number of convictions is a simple metric and superiors love simple metrics to evaluate their inferiors on. It is much simpler than admitting that performance in a job is a multi-faceted th…

It is not unused. Idle CPU/RAM/etc will be in low power mode and not consuming nearly as much power as doing actual work. It is not a free lunch! People like BOINC like to say otherwise. The…

I am willing to tolerate custom firmware in hardware that lives behind an IOMMU and under an OS that uses it. That will at least make it unlikely that something scary lives in there and collects my da…

This is incredibly idiotic. They purposefully filled the airwaves with garbage packets, to collect bare milliwatts. And the "camera" took a B&W photo at tiny resolution and sent it nowhe…