News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

Tekker

Newbie question about Bitcoin

Hearns stated that Gavin shared the commit privileges with four others, creating a now-problematic majority-wins scenario.However, I don't hear anything about Gavin not being able to appoint additional people, presumably bearing his philosphy. Is this an official restriction or, if not, why not?

( Read More... | 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )
I have to say, though, that regardless of whether or not it's quantum it's still damn fast. But the question was, is it quantum? I don't exactly know how you prove that. I assume you can, I just don't know how.
Re:Netgear Routers Susceptible to ‘Serious’ DNS Exploit on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @02:23AM (#10385273)
Unfortunately, it doesn't describe "how" the exploit was done, even generally. Anyone know?
Re:Could we do this? Open source replacement for iTunes on Sunday September 27, 2015 @01:13PM (#10287161)
I'm not worried about managing my music (I know there are alternatives); I'm more frustrated by the ridiculous process of managing the phone.

Could we do this? Open source replacement for iTunes

I've had it with iTunes for a long time now. I understand the original concept of managing your music (for the iPod) but when the iPhone was introduced it was shoehorned in to create this burgeoning monstrosity.It says it wants a new download of iTunes, some 50 megs, often asking for QuickTime which doesn't always relate, and it's awkward in general.I'd be happy to lead (or help lead) an...

( Read More... | 3 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Coconut Headphones: Why Agile Has Failed (2014) on Friday September 18, 2015 @01:15PM (#10240478)
I think the overarching aspect of agile has failed, in part because it requires more implementation than most companies are willing to put up with.

I see, in general (and I am a certified scrummaster, FWIW), that companies tend to embrace sprints - usually going for two weeks - and daily standups (which they might do poorly, but at least they try). Everything else - estimation sessions, lessons learned, burndown charts - are up for grabs. Maybe that's a failure of the company. Maybe that's a failure or Agile, for failing to take into account the normal inertia of companies - I don't konw. It is better than waterfall, but it's not fully embraced.

Re:Talk me out of it – switching from Firefox to Chrome on Saturday August 22, 2015 @03:59PM (#10103556)
I disabled everything but Ghostery, since in reality I don't use Firebug much. We'll see what happens with that as the only add-on. Otherwise, I'm jumping ship. I don't mind some inconveniences, but when I can't get anything done...
Re:Talk me out of it – switching from Firefox to Chrome on Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:52PM (#10103133)
I have an 8-gig mem 64-bit Windows 7. I run almost no extensions (usually just firebug and ghostery and web developer).

It's not any one thing; it just seems to bog down, and I can't noodle out why, except Firefox seems to be the common denomator ATM.

Talk me out of it – switching from Firefox to Chrome

I've used "Firefox" since Mosaic, then Netscape, then Mozilla Firefox. But, damn, more and more Firefox bogs down on me (and I have few, if any add-ons installed). Flash was locking it up, and I'm keeping it disabled unless I particularly want it on, and animated GIFs seem to bog it down. Othertimes it just seems to bog down - I assume a memory resource leak - and a restart fixes it. ...

( Read More... | 16 comments | 7 points | on HN )
Re:Real Games for Windows (1994) on Friday August 21, 2015 @09:45AM (#10097371)
Oh my God, WinG. That lasted for what - a year? I think I was using it seriously at one point. Part of the ultimate quest for a generic graphics library (suitable for gaming, or whatever).
"Beginning of the end for over-saturated images" ?

Well, then, say goodbye to the Disney channel, the most oversaturated channel out there.

Here we go again!
They were, but not assembled in one place.
How is this better than 0MQ (or ZMQ)?
Re:Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @05:29PM (#9925957)
I'm not going to comment on the question of whether or not the highway patrol should have been called or not - just say I understand where poster tombrossman was coming from.

However, I fully agree this was a ridiculous stunt. They could have gotten the same results by demonstrating (on the highway, if they insisted) the air conditioner going full blast, the radio, and the picture of the hackers on the screen. Anything else (cutting transmission, obscuring visibility) should have been saved for a safer environment. The point still would have been made.

And it's got nothing to do with the vehicle and driver itself (though I wonder how the hackers knew the exact driving situation - was it plastered with cameras?) - what if two unrelated vehicles got in an accident for some reason and the test driver had to get out of the way, but couldn't?

And to make it worse, the cranked radio made it hard for the tester to communicate with the hackers. Very dangerous stunt.

Also, and I know it was unrelated to this particular hack, but if the UConnect recognizes voice commands (I assume so), and sends it back for processing, then might it not also be able to bug (eavesdrop) on the car's interior?

Many disturbing revelations came out of this, and I applaud them for making it known, but I criticize them harshly for the cavalier way they endangered public safety.

Re:Ask HN: Can you get to AWS? on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @09:23PM (#9809486)
Leap second posts?

Ask HN: I own kittens123.com. Now what?

I wouldn't normally ask but it's a quiet holiday weekend.I bought kittens123.com as that seemed one of the most basest, irony-loaded, domains I could think of that gets close to the most populous scurge of the kitten pictures (and preference for bad weak passwords).Now what?

( Read More... | 3 comments | 2 points | on HN )
Re:Android Studio 1.0 on Monday December 08, 2014 @07:02PM (#8720081)
I've been using Android Studio for a while now, and greatly prefer it over Eclipse ADT (being phased out anyway, and thankfully so) but I've had a lot of trouble getting my projects from earlier versions of Android Studio up to date - it's always a form of a gradle incompatibility; Android Studio is great when it works, but it's been a rocky path to 1.0.

Older »