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  1. Re:Fuck! on Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't get to choose the push notification permission. It's how background apps work. It's how messaging apps get notified of new messages, etc.
    For example, I have Pushover installed on my phone. Under App Info/Permissions, it has no explicit permissions granted. It has background notifications as part of the "receive data from internet" permission that requires no user acceptance.

    The lack of response from these notifications is what triggers the flag that you've uninstalled it. Aeroplane mode won't stop that.

  2. Re:Member? on Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Does that disable the visible notifications or all communication from Apple servers to your apps?

  3. No website will impregnate your daughter.

  4. Re:Wow that sounds super improbable on Chinese City 'Plans To Launch Artificial Moon To Replace Streetlights' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Magnetorquers aren't very effective for geo orbits. They're more suited to leo, where the magnetic field is stronger. You also don't get 3-axis control either,

  5. Re:Wow that sounds super improbable on Chinese City 'Plans To Launch Artificial Moon To Replace Streetlights' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    then you need to counter the force from the light hitting the massive mirror.
    Don't forget they're targeting 10m accuracy from 36,000km away. That's 0.0000159 degrees of rotation on the satellite

  6. Re: Wuddabout Apple? on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You demonstrated you're an idiot.

  7. Re:Wow that sounds super improbable on Chinese City 'Plans To Launch Artificial Moon To Replace Streetlights' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They plan on using mirrors, and I assume a geo orbit that doesn't get eclipsed by the Earth.

    Even if they did get it up there, I doubt it would last long.

    Hubble has had all its gyros replaced already and the replacements are failing again.

    This is something that needs precise control, every night, continuously. It doesn't have to just point itself somewhere and stay still for a long period of time, it needs to constantly move the mirror to keep the desired spot illuminated as it orbits. That's going to require the gyros and reaction wheels to be on 24/7.

  8. amp-up the mirrors?

  9. So you can download all the recordings they stored when you said "Hey Siri...."
    Oh wait... no you can't.

    It's a PR move.

  10. Re:Facebook taking more hits than Mohammed Ali on Facebook Lured Advertisers By Inflating Ad-watch Times Up To 900 Percent (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure the SlashTurds said don't use Google+, Google will just cancel the project after a few years like they do with everything else that doesn't bring in ad revenue.

  11. Re:Are there tech companies that don't do this? on Facebook Lured Advertisers By Inflating Ad-watch Times Up To 900 Percent (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're just jealous you didn't scam the advertisers first.

  12. This is the United States of America, where democracy and justice thrives. It depends who makes the biggest campaign donations.

  13. Re:That's ok: I reduce ad watch times to ZERO on Facebook Lured Advertisers By Inflating Ad-watch Times Up To 900 Percent (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    APK hosts file is completely bypassed by DNS over HTTPS, being implemented by both Firefox and Chrome.
    APK host files use zero extra resources from your computer, as it does absolutely nothing!

  14. Unethical, unscrupulous behaviour from an unethical, unscrupulous company!
    Who would have thought...

  15. Doesn't say you can do that.
    The article implies you can download all your data, but only mentions a small subset.

  16. Re:Does that mean I can get chromefree android pho on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Then obviously Nokia made customisations.

  17. Re: Wuddabout Apple? on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It didn't stop Amazon using Android as a based for it's Kindle Fire.

  18. You don't grant an installer just registry access, you grant it all access.
    There's nothing stopping the installer from using the regular API's for modifying local users after you've given it local admin access.

  19. Re:What I would really like to see on Researcher Finds Simple Way of Backdooring Windows PCs and Nobody Notices for Ten Months (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "You're too stupid to be allowed to run windows, so here's something that's harder to use and easier to fuck up"
    Good one.

  20. Re:There is nothing to notice on Researcher Finds Simple Way of Backdooring Windows PCs and Nobody Notices for Ten Months (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    and now you've learnt to validate your inputs.

  21. They're doing their job fantastically.
    That being "post click-bait headlines to increase ad revenue"

  22. But it doesn't say a low privilege account can run this exploit.

    Sounds more like "admin level account can give admin access to non-admin account" issue. Which you can do anyway...

    Now if the guest account had permission to alter those registry keys, that would be more serious. No where do they say that's the case.

  23. Re:What do people expect? on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    and to also recover the $5 billion from Europe

  24. Re: Wuddabout Apple? on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If a manufacturer does not want to abide by Google's rules, they don't have to use their software - no problem.
    Before the last time Nokia went tits-up, they were using Microsoft's OS on their phones. Absolutely no influence from Google. Before that their smartphones used their own software.
    Before Palm went under (and has now risen again in name only) they used their own OS too.

    Companies like HTC, iMate, etc. all used Windows Phone and Windows Mobile on their old smartphones. No one sued Microsoft for including Internet Explorer in Windows Mobile (like they did with Windows).

  25. Re:Does that mean I can get chromefree android pho on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They advertise their phones come with Android One, which is Google's customised version of Android.

    Android One brings a Google designed software experience to a new range of Nokia smartphones. Get everything you want and nothing you don’t with a streamlined, easy to use interface and a curated set of pre-installed apps,

    "nothing you don't", as determined by Google.