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  1. Instead, I just keep 4G mobile data on all the time.

    How much does a subscription to 4G mobile data cost in your area, and how much do you save every month through price comparison?

  2. Of course I do. Competitor in SNI => inject RST.

  3. At most you expose the hostname you connect to.

    A competitor's hostname in the Server Name Indication feature of the ClientHello message is enough to inject RST. So is a competitor's hostname in a DNS request.

  4. Spend a pound to save a penny on Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    First is to do the homework at home, check out the place w/ the best deal, and then go there, and not do one's comparison shopping in the store.

    But then you have to make two round trips to the store instead of one: one to look for which product you want and one to make the purchase. Depending on how long it takes to ride the bus to the store and back and how much you make per hour at your day job, you might not come out ahead.

    The other is to use one's cellular connection to do the online comparison on the phone and then decide who to go w/

    But then you're paying for a cellular connection, and the difference in monthly price between a plan with voice, text, and data and one with only voice and text might exceed what you save per month through aggressive price comparison.

  5. For the first two years that the iPhone and iPod touch were available, iTunes was the only music player that could run in the background. Because iPhone OS 1 lacked an App Store, only Safari could play music, and it would pause playback when the user switched away. Though iPhone OS 2 introduced the App Store, it also paused non-Apple apps when the user switched away. Only in iPhone OS 3 did Apple introduce multitasking for third-party apps, but by then, millions of users were already locked into what would later come to be called the iOS ecosystem.

  6. Re:Prepare to land in the junk folder on Ask Slashdot: Advice For a Yahoo Mail Refugee · · Score: 1

    If you are trusting someone else to manage your email, you will never be sure someone isn't reading your emails.

    recipients' mail servers refuse to accept mail from IP addresses issued by a home ISP

    but he didn't say he'll be using his home ISP did he?

    No, but he implied it. If you're not using your home ISP, you're leasing some sort of service from someone. This necessarily involves some level of "trusting someone else to manage your email".

  7. Passive participle in headline on Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Amazon is not supposed to be able to grant patents. Only the USPTO does that in the USA.

    You'd have a point if the headline began "Amazon Grants a Patent". But the use of the form "Granted" is a clue that Amazon is not the agent. To fit a headline under a publication's size limits, headline writers often follow rules like the following:

    1. A headline is usually in the present tense: "USPTO Grants Patent to Amazon".
    2. When the agent is obvious, such as only USPTO that ever grants patents, the sentence is flipped to passive voice: "Amazon Is Granted a Patent".
    3. It's common to drop "is" and "are" from a passive main clause: "Amazon Granted a Patent".

    Tendency 1 lets readers tell the difference between a passive main clause and an active one because only the passive one will have a passive participle. Most English verbs have a passive participle spelled the same as the past tense, but very few verbs (such as "come" and "run") have a passive participle identical to the present tense. Thus in this context, "Amazon Granted a Patent" means "Amazon [was] granted a patent [by the USPTO]".

  8. Re:Email the wrong tool for privacy on Ask Slashdot: Advice For a Yahoo Mail Refugee · · Score: 1

    an e-mail exchange with a drug dealer flags you

    Flags me as what? A valued Walgreens customer?

  9. Prepare to land in the junk folder on Ask Slashdot: Advice For a Yahoo Mail Refugee · · Score: 1

    Now setting up your own email service isn't all that terribly hard.

    Provided you're fine with all your outgoing mail ending up in the junk folder. Even with working SPF and DKIM, deliverability isn't certain if anti-spam measures on recipients' mail servers refuse to accept mail from IP addresses issued by a home ISP.

  10. Re:Email the wrong tool for privacy on Ask Slashdot: Advice For a Yahoo Mail Refugee · · Score: 1

    If you want privacy, isn't email the wrong tool? Isn't email like a post card that anyone can read in transit?

    Mail in a PGP or S/MIME envelope can't be read in transit.

    If you want private communications, look for a different way, a private way, to communicate.

    Someone supporting a product, service, or free software project still needs some means for users to contact him. What's the private way to provide support to members of the public? A web-based issue tracker would still need email so that users can log in without a password, such as when resetting a forgotten or compromised password.

  11. Space matters little in minified script on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    Tabbers are most commonly found in the web development community, where tab-indent means way less data travelling through the intertubes.

    Why? A JavaScript interpreter uses braces rather than leading spaces to identify blocks. Line-initial space and most other whitespace gets removed anyway when the build process minifies JavaScript source into the form sent over the wire.

  12. Re:The real question... on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    One space or two after a period?

    the tool should provide the appropriate spacing without the user having to hit another key. If you need to hit space twice, then your tool is deficient.

    I want to make my writing tool no longer deficient. How do I make it distinguish the end of a sentence from the end of an abbreviation?

  13. Makefiles use both. The Make standard requires that commands in recipes be indented with one tab. Everything indented that's not a command in a recipe, such as long lists of prerequisites for a target using a backslash for line continuation, uses spaces to keep them visually distinct from the recipe.

  14. I first learned 2s space because it was the standard for HyperTalk, the scripting language of Apple's HyperCard, and enforced by HyperCard's script editor. HyperTalk predated the World Wide Web, let along Google.

  15. Re:Only LUDDITES use tabs or spaces! on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    What's this supposed to mean? That the editor inside an app for making apps ought to store an app's logic as a syntax tree rather than as textual source code, with indentation calculated at runtime based on nesting in the tree?

  16. Re: Time to cancel netflix on HBO, Netflix, Other Hollywood Companies Join Forces To Fight Piracy (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    All Netflix produced series are released all at once for your binge watching pleasure. Other series are as well, albeit after they have aired on a traditional channel.

    I'm aware of that. I'm suggesting that what Salgak1 refers to as "your favorite series" happens to be one that has not yet completely "aired on a traditional channel."

  17. Crowdfunding instead on HBO, Netflix, Other Hollywood Companies Join Forces To Fight Piracy (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not a sustainable business model for producing new content, though.

    Then crowdfund the creation of new works instead of restricting their distribution.

  18. Dog in manger leaves money on table on HBO, Netflix, Other Hollywood Companies Join Forces To Fight Piracy (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You have no claim on content you haven't paid for

    So let me pay for it. How do I go about paying for a lawful stream of the film Song of the South?

  19. Re: Time to cancel netflix on HBO, Netflix, Other Hollywood Companies Join Forces To Fight Piracy (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Netflix doesn't offer "a current movie", and "your favorite series" is exclusive to a different streaming provider that trickles out episodes.

  20. Re:restrict in C99 on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Have you or anyone else in your organization filed bugs against GCC and Clang about obvious optimizations that aren't getting applied to output compiled from source code that correctly uses restrict?

  21. Re:Windows license required? on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    build said executable with MinGW

    What? You don't tell me gcc still can't cross-compile for Windows!

    It can. That's why I mentioned MinGW. The problem comes when someone who primarily uses GNU/Linux and doesn't regularly use Windows tries to distribute a Windows executable built with cross-MinGW that has been tested only in Wine, not in Windows. It may inadvertently depend on implementation-defined, unspecified, or undefined behavior that differs between Wine and Windows.

  22. Treat domestic terrorists no differently on 'COVFEFE Act' Would Make Social Media a Presidential Record (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    by definition any foreign policy is discriminatory policy based on national origin. Or should we not have different policy for adversaries with a stated goal of undermining and disrupting the US government?

    The latter does not follow from the former. A "policy for adversaries with a stated goal of undermining and disrupting the US government" can be written to treat foreign alleged adversaries no differently from domestic alleged adversaries. Otherwise, it misses domestic terrorists, such as natural-born Timothy McVeigh and naturalized Jahar Tsarnaev.

  23. Headline + URL = Tweet on 'COVFEFE Act' Would Make Social Media a Presidential Record (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    In addition, a Tweet allows convenient citation of an article that more completely describes the views expressed in the first 115 characters.

  24. Gross product of a language's speakers on 'COVFEFE Act' Would Make Social Media a Presidential Record (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    the effects of the international currency markets that skew rates in a way that may have little to do with actual GDP

    They have much to do with GDP, for reasons explained by the Balassa-Samuelson model.

    But I discount the size of the EU as a single market, especially for information products, because of its multiculturalism. One plausible measure of market size is based on the effort needed to localize an application, a manual, or product packaging for the languages spoken in a market. Then each language group in the EU doesn't look like so big of a market anymore because after Brexit, Ireland and Malta will be the only EU members using English in any sort of official capacity.

  25. Re: And a Pakistani gets a death sentence for FB p on Microsoft Wins Xbox Class-Action Fight at US Supreme Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but a greater wrong's existence does inform the optimal allocation of a given set of resources toward correcting wrongs. See the "scarce resources" exception to the "not as bad as" fallacy.