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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:50PM (#20398542)
Why? That is just an ordinary domain name that someone pointed at local host. I don't see why it should get any security exemptions.
Re:Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce on Monday July 08, 2019 @08:02PM (#20387874)
The robots could probably work almost 24/7
Is it sandboxed from the host system?
Or just intercept and redirect requests to googles DNS.
Re:Let us open 100 tabs of pure madness to fool trackers on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @05:28AM (#20342856)
If you enable the resist fingerprinting setting on Firefox every website will slam you with captchas and random errors.
Re:Let us open 100 tabs of pure madness to fool trackers on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @05:27AM (#20342849)
It already exists, Its called ad nauseam. Its an adblocker that opens every ad in the background. Google has banned it from the chrome store so that says something.
This may be true but the end game for governments is to have facial recognition everywhere. They start at the airport because "it doesn't matter, you are already giving your info out" and then we become OK with the idea so they start rolling it out for public transport and "it doesn't matter, you already do this every time you fly"

It seems to me that the only way to resist is to take a very hard rejection of facial recognition entirely in any situation.

Re:Welcome to the Old Internet Again on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:25PM (#20299955)
The front window defrost has always been an option on the air con dial and the rear is a button
Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:14AM (#20282876)
I see like a food safety inspector going around shutting down unsafe restaurants. These IoT devices are a danger to society and should be shut down.
Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:46AM (#20282715)
Having a known security bug unpatched for longer than x days should be grounds for a warrenty refund. That should get companies moving when there is a real world cost for not dealing with security bugs.
Re:Getting people to buy imperfect produce on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @09:04PM (#20280953)
The farmers reported throwing out almost 40% of their produce because it was too long, too short, too curvy, not curvy enough. As well as rediculous rules about which veriaty of bananas should be curved or not even though they all grow curved and not curved.
Re:Getting people to buy imperfect produce on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @08:07PM (#20280617)
I don't think most people have a problem with eating imperfect fruit. If I picked an apple from my tree and half of it was bad I would cut it in half and eat the other half. But if I see a half ruined apple at a supermarket I will pick a good one because they are both the same price.
Re:Getting people to buy imperfect produce on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @08:05PM (#20280604)
This goes against the reports I have seen with photos of farmers dumping mountains of bananas that didn't fit supermarket guidelines.
Re:Show HN: A point-and-click game engine on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @04:03AM (#20272028)
IE is many many years behind other browsers. I have to support it at work and many many hours are spent reimplementing things that exist in modern browsers because IE doesn't support it.
Re:Show HN: A point-and-click game engine on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @04:01AM (#20272017)
Most likely they just read the docs and used the first feature that did the job and never bothered to test in IE because its a waste of time.
Re:Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it? on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @03:55AM (#20271997)
Make it a legal requirement to mark paid promotions and anyone found to be doing paid promotions without marking it is at risk of huge fines.

I recall that in the UK, TV programs are already required to do this.

Re:Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it? on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @03:52AM (#20271983)
Declining tracking cookies is a requirement of the gdpr
Re:Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it? on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @03:50AM (#20271978)
One interesting thing I have seen is when I search for a product review, google suggests I add "reddit" to the end of my search. And this conststantly gives me better results but its not long until reddit is completely full of shills which it partly already is.
Re:Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it? on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @03:48AM (#20271967)
Sort of. Unfortunately most of them moved to unsearchable Facebook groups.
Re:Show HN: A point-and-click game engine on Monday June 24, 2019 @06:56AM (#20262152)
You can't exactly expect websites to work in an ancient compatibility tool.
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 on Monday June 24, 2019 @06:37AM (#20262053)
I ordered 2 of those years ago and they are still in the antistatic bag..
Re:No one should be a billionaire on Saturday June 22, 2019 @08:36PM (#20252543)
By being way more expensive. Tesla doesn't have some secret new battery chemistry, they just put more batteries in the car.
Re:No one should be a billionaire on Saturday June 22, 2019 @03:55AM (#20248520)
The article mentions that CEOs are not important to a company, if that was true why would they hire a CEO instead of 300 more full time employees. Obviously there must be some huge value to having a single person direct the company.
At my current job shit has never hit the fan in my time working there. I have also never really been pressured by deadlines and hardly ever get distracted from what I'm working on.

I honestly think my manager is a magician because when he talks about all the shit he had to do in the day and stupid phone calls to answer I just think "wow, my day went quite smoothly"

Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @09:04PM (#20228886)
Anyone could build Facebook, the value is the existing userbase. I would think that slack would be one of the easiest tools to replace because its only used within organisations so you can get everyone to switch at once.

The entire slack userbase could vaporise within weeks if slack made a wrong move. Slack doesn't really bring anything special to the table.

Re:Developers don’t want to show gameplay at E3 anymore on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:39PM (#20220619)
I think its true in the sense that if enough people are paying attention, all dishonestly and lies will be unraveled. I remember back when simcity 2013 came out EA said that always online was required because the game does a lot of processing on the servers that would be too much for your computer but shortly after someone patched out the code that checks for internet access and discovered that everything in the game except multiplayer still works.

The individuals do not have to be smart here, there just has to be one person who will bother.

Stress, frustration and mental health are costs I have only ever experienced in a car.

Riding my bike to work was one of the best things I ever did for my mental and physical health.

In 2019 you could build a compiler in your free time for free so that probably says something about modern development practicices.

I have been working on my current codebase for almost a year now and still haven't seen half of it. There is no just read over it because its massive. Tests are the only thing that makes it manageable. When I want to change something I can find the part that needs to change but I have no idea what features I don't know about that depend on that feature doing something. Tests allow me to very quickly automatically scan the code base to show what things changed.

This isn't even an efficient way of doing things since muscles are less efficient than electric motors. Just stick a solar panel array on your factory and be done with it.
Re:Only 37 dogs of each breed can have the same name on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:26AM (#20200958)
It is, the data also includes owner information so lost pets can be returned to their owners.

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