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  1. Re:Simple fix on Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, no, "Google Authenticator" is just an app which implements the OATH TOTP protocol (a.k.a. RFC 6238). There are several other implementations out there, and they're pretty much all compatible.

    It's possible (although I don't know if Google's app does so) for the generator application to be a purely offline app with no external access whatsoever.

    It functions essentially like one of the old RSA SecurID tokens - an offline token generating 6 or 8 digit time-based id numbers.

  2. Re:Simple fix on Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think we're missing the key point of TFA - Facebook knows stuff that it claims not to know.

    Here's the scenario they played out:

    Alice and Bob have an offline transaction, and as some part of it, Alice gives Bob her landline phone number.

    Alice has a Facebook profile, but never links her landline phone number to it.

    Bob buys a Facebook ad, targeted to Alice's landline.

    Alice sees the ad.

  3. Except there's a difference between not being paid for your time off, and your salary going down permanently due to taking time off. If you lose x% of your future salary (because you lose y% of your customer base) every time you took a couple of days off, then you're going to be in a very different place than someone who loses two days of pay for two days off.

  4. Re: Don't no-show on Recruiters Are Still Complaining About No-Shows At Interviews (kyma.com) · · Score: 1

    Failure to even speak with recruiters can lead to an employer hiring only friends of staff, via word of mouth networking.

    Or, you know, advertising the jobs and selecting candidates based on the CVs submitted by the applicants themselves. Online job sites, newspaper classifieds for jobs, and community support agencies for the unemployed all allow an employer to find potential new hires from outside their immediate network.

  5. Assuming that any of what you said was true, how would anti-Russian propaganda which does not mention your president hurt your president?

  6. Good clarification.

    • At a minimum, you are only obliged to give it to users who get the binaries from you, at the time of binary distribution, BUT
    • if you choose to distribute it via a separate offer instead of at the time of binary distribution, then that adds an extra obligation to make it available to any third party (for gpl2) or any third party who has the binaries (for gpl3).
  7. Re:Fishing for that result? on Fukushima's Nuclear Signature Found In California Wine (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Umm, a "spectrometer" measures the radiation "spectrum".

  8. Source code does have to be distributed with only minimal genuine costs of distribution to anyone who has received the binaries from you .

    Important distinction.

  9. Re:We need to not keep trusting everyone's softwar on Firefox and Chrome Pull Popular Browser Extension Stylish From Their Stores After Report Claimed It Logs and Shares Browsing History, Credentials · · Score: 1, Interesting

    As the grandparent pointed out, you haven't solved anything.

    Even if the plugin is only allowed to insert valid css into the page, it can send information back to any site on the internet, by using css properties which take url values, including background. The ability to send data to an arbitrary server is implicit in the ability to inject css into a page.

  10. Re:In the meantime.... on Tesla Meets Self-Imposed Deadline For Model 3, Rolls Out 7,000 Cars In a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Like the iPhone?

  11. That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unsurprisingly, the technology focuses on security more than anything else.

    The way things are in this industry at the moment, that is incedibly surprising to me...

  12. Re:The argument seems to be... on Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds good.

    What unit of length would you use for a right triangle with the two shorter sides of length 1 metre (or 1 yard, if you prefer)?

    I can't scale sqrt(2) metres to make it an integer...

  13. Re:Read the souce on World Trending To Hit 50% Renewables, 11% Coal By 2050: Report (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Solar power won't work in the arctic circle, so it's doomed?

  14. Re:If you don't like your job on Tesla Sues Employee Alleged To Have Stolen Gigabytes of Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying he's gambling 2.6 billion dollars on the notion that the company won't be bankrupt in ten years?

  15. The 1950s, when America was Greatâ.

  16. The best workers are certainly not the ones just out of college - there's plenty of polishing needed to turn a fresh grad into a star employee. That's not the position I took.

    However, the young folk generally aren't the ones slacking off, because they still need to prove themselves. There's a reason you can get young people to take *unpaid* internships - they know they have to fight to be recognized, and you don't get that by doing minimally-sufficient work. They may do *bad* work, because they don't know any better, they may not know every thing you expect them to do, but they don't usually just sit waiting for 4:59pm to come around, and then pack up and leave for the day.

    The ones who think "I just need to do the exact minimum to get by" are already either set in their jobs and comfortable where they are, or they are already jaded. Very few fresh grads get to one of those positions early in their career.

  17. Re:ONLY 80% of ICOs? I'd say 100% on 81% of Recent ICOs Were Scams, Research Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The initial motivation is for a mechanism for transferring value between two parties, without requiring a central entity to mediate the exchange.

    We can do this in the real world by handing cash from one party to the second.

    Cryptocurrencies allow us to do this over the internet. The problem at the moment is that they do not allow us to do this *well*.

  18. Re:Best Nelson voice .... on 81% of Recent ICOs Were Scams, Research Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect it's a phenomenon similar to the Cow Clicker effect, where people just want in because it feels good.

  19. Interesting... I've worked with a number of people just like the ones you're describing, over the last 20 years. As a rule, they were not the ones under 35.

  20. Re:Women aren't aggressive on Female Uber Drivers Get Paid Less Than Men, Says Study (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The relevant numbers are an average of 19.5 miles per hour for men in Chicago, vs 18.8 for women in Chicago.

  21. Re:Stealth Requirements? on NASA Has a Way to Cut Your Flight Time in Half (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The Concorde didn't go under because it was annoying too many transatlantic tanker crews with sonic booms.

    The Concorde was blocked from flying popular routes across the US because "sonic booms will upset the cows and reduce milk production", and "sonic booms will destabilize the structural integrity of buildings/cities".

    Restricting the usefulness of the Concorde to purely NYC-London and LA-Tokyo routes had a significant impact on it's profitability.

  22. Re: Good luck getting contracts! on Work Emails After Hours Finally Banned in France (fortune.com) · · Score: 1
  23. Re: My Dell XPS that came with Linux installed... on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    IIRC, there's a flag in /proc somewhere that changes the behaviour of that LED, and the default probably changed around the time you did that dist-upgrade....

  24. Re:Almost all apps have gone to hell! on Barnes & Noble Announces A New $50 Android Tablet (teleread.org) · · Score: 2

    Or get your apps from places like F-Droid, and you don't need a Google account or useless spyware apps.

  25. Re:Inconsistent Story on iPhones Secretly Send Call History To Apple, Security Firm Says (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Umm, I don't happen to own any idevices, but is it possible there's a difference between enabling "iCloud" and "iCloud backup"?