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  Over time, calling the customer service line back
  over and over, she would piece together information.
  The name on the account that shipped the product was
  different from the one used on the credit card, she
  discovered, all of which were different from her name
  and address.
How do you think they got your information?
Re:Half the DNA on the NYC Subway Matches No Known Organism on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:06AM (#16382720)
iPhone refuses to load because of full page advertisement
Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:44PM (#16363813)
Netflix stopped serving It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and now those torrents are really really popular =)
Re:Chrome extension to play Netflix in 1080p on Monday February 12, 2018 @08:29AM (#16358415)
That last part is the worst. Torrent sites rarely just stop uploading a show (unless it’s very old and never became noteworthy)
Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? on Sunday February 11, 2018 @04:28AM (#16351941)
Google Voice was similarly “updated” over time and is very good anymore
Even HTML5 web capturing works in a similar way. Once you give an site like Discord access to your microphone or screen it can pretty much access it whenever the page is open - granted it will show a little badge on screen by default.

A lot of users got tired of the on-screen badge being on all the time and probably set it to hidden (very easy to do) so not everyone is actually aware of when an HTML5 application is accessing a microphone/camera/screen.

Great when it works, one of the few variants of Linux that sometimes just doesn't like to run on some hardware still.
Love that he does it in shorts with a formal shirt up top.
Re:Cryonics Myths on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:53PM (#16345959)
I know nothing of this field, is there any idea of how long "information" stays in the brain or any metric like that once blood/oxygen flow to the brain has been inhibited?
Like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCvB-mhkT0w

There are some other ones where the presenter isn't on screen but it's the same software (or looks identical in writing style)

Re:Impala: Scalable Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning on Friday February 09, 2018 @09:39PM (#16345537)
I believe it started with Golang, where Go was already an existing language by a hobbyist - granted nobody was using it kinda lame to steal his name.
What is the chalkboard software that some mathematics and programming folks use on YouTube or when streaming?
Re:Cryonics Myths on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:59PM (#16345406)
They mention they don't preserve "heads" in specific but rather brains, and go into detail about how they can't separate a brain from a skull so they preserve the entire head. Wouldn't separating the head from the body cause similar problems of destroying information in the brain? Do they keep the entire body?
Re:A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript on Thursday February 08, 2018 @05:59PM (#16336351)
That makes sense, I forgot about the pesky CORS situation. My thinking was maybe the <audio> or other subsystem that is capable of loading MP3s remotely (since they are media objects) could do the same for playlist data.

Cheers!

Re:A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:34PM (#16335766)
Does it support m3u or playlists over HTTP?
Isn't there a class-action lawsuit, can't those 143M people in theory get in on that?
Re:What people actually do at WeWork on Saturday February 03, 2018 @11:46PM (#16301389)
I bailed after the 2 paragraphs of filler intro about his morning time and coffee.
Re:How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:32PM (#16299471)
December 2017
Re:How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works on Saturday February 03, 2018 @01:11PM (#16298695)
Essentially inventory management happening
Re:How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works on Saturday February 03, 2018 @01:06PM (#16298668)
When I interviewed at Facebook almost every person I talked to said "if Google blocks ads by default Facebook will sue them" so I expect to see a lawsuit eventually
Re:C2 Language Documentation on Thursday February 01, 2018 @09:47PM (#16287989)
How does it handle strings?
Does this mean people using password generators will never meet anyone?
Meant to be! Also trust!
Let’s throw a wrench in here, will they go after Athene he purposely called his “scam coin” and is claiming everyone knew it was a scam
I thought this was going to be something interesting like them encoding your private data into the dictionary set to obfuscate the communication. Apparently it's nothing at all.

Also worth noting iPhone sends a lot of information in the HTTP headers about your phone - like model number. Android does the same thing. Also simply plugging your phone in to USB (not accepting any on-screen dialogs) will save the IEMI and other device IDs into your system log. If you ever have a device stolen I suggest you run $(zgrep -i iphone /var/log/*.gz)

Nobody runs a SaaS for Mattermost?
Re:NSA Deletes “Honesty” and “Openness” from Core Values on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @10:24AM (#16223326)
Seems lame to downvote and move on - you said yourself there are lots of great reporters I'm interested in any of them!
Re:NSA Deletes “Honesty” and “Openness” from Core Values on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @09:27AM (#16222881)
Any good names? A lot of them get a big hit then disappear or become complacent in “news journalism”
Re:$PHP = ; on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @09:24AM (#16222850)
Syntax error in a headline because HN can’t do emojis
Re:NSA Deletes “Honesty” and “Openness” from Core Values on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @09:02AM (#16222671)
Doubt you will find many such reporters in America remaining

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