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Yeah, I'm surprised by that number as well, but then again, Facebook got tons of news coverage yesterday for adding five emoticons (did they actually add them, or were they just flighting it?). Things are strange these days.

https://www.microsoft.com/surface/assets/... is resolving to 2600:1409:a:18c::2768, which is owned by Akamai.

But your point still stands: even Microsoft doesn't trust Azure's CDN offering.

This is one of the stupidest proposals I've ever seen.

1. The president has made it plenty clear with his actions that he's in favor of strengthening the current programs, not weakening them.

2. Even if he wants to, his voice is the last one you'd want on your side. The minute he comes out in support for your plans, _everyone else_ will be forced to declare themselves against it, just to protect their own jobs from their constituents.

The problem is with the general public not giving a shit about this issue, which means a grassroots campaign, not an appeal to the authorities.

But if there's one thing we learnt the last few years, it's that we were never able to take those things for granted in the first place. You were never free of threat of spyware or kill switches. If anything, we have gotten much better at security than ever before.

Is this a new trend, using the emoji instead of spelling out "apple"? (It's just rendering as square-box TV in chrome on windows, which is really ironic given the subject of discussion.)

This event is getting absolutely roasted by the Verge liveblog:

> NILAY PATEL 11:01:09 AM PDT > It will play day or night shots depending on time of day. Sure. > CASEY NEWTON 11:01:08 AM PDT > "People are clapping for screensavers." -Walt Mossberg

And a TV remote without a power button?! That's bold.

Every implementation of a closure I've encountered creates a new Capture class which stores references/copies of all variables the closure uses. I think they do this even if the closure doesn't reference any local variables - only class-level ones. In this case, wouldn't it be better to just implement it as a local function of the parent class instead of creating a new class? Or does it not matter because the cost of calling this.foo is negligibly similar to this.parent.foo?

This post is about the android app. How do you define "online" when you're on a phone with a data connection, an extremely common use case for this scenario? (Or rather, what makes someone "offline" here?)

Maybe it's better to track whether the user is busy or free-to-interrupt, which I think is what Google is already doing. (I believe there is also an option to broadcast if you're on your phone or your desktop, although I don't fully understand why it's that useful)

Edit: I looked up Google's documentation, and apparently they do indeed track Online/Offline in the hangouts app [1], but from what I understand, installing the android app with a data connection = online. I'm not sure what Offline means.

I guess the parent is asking for notifications about the Online/Offline change, which does not exist. (But again, if installing the app means you're always Online in hangouts, you won't get any notifications anyway)

[1] https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/3111918?hl=en

The trouble is, most flagship phones are made these days under the assumption of a two year use. I bought a HTC One M7 two years back because it was the best Android phone available then, but it's now barely usable: I have to charge it twice a day, the camera has this ridiculous purple tint, the latest Android is bog slow on it, and its out of warranty.

I've been using the same PC for five years with no problems, so I bought my phone at full price from HTC thinking I'd use it for a similar lifetime, but it's really a PITA to use now.

This is not a new thing: their Inbox app automatically picks up my amazon purchases and tracks its progress. The items show up with a picture of the item inline as well, which I thought was a rather nice touch. It also picked up emails from Eat24/Yelp and showed them with the restaurant's own photo of the item I ordered, which is rather astonishing. Nice job, whoever implemented that

What does the number of people have to do with this? Industries contribute much more to emissions.

(also not relevant, but California's current GDP is ~2.2T, which is around 3% of the total world GDP (75T)).

This makes no sense to me at all... you have a video of the other person open, but then you mute the audio and have to type everything out? Why?! Why would you just not... talk aloud?

Of course, this probably means it's going to be a crazy hit.

How do .Net Native and .Net Core interact? I remember there was a post about .Net Corr here a while back, and one of the advantages touted was the ability for the .Net team to push out security updates for framework dlls via Windows Update that your app would automatically use because of the CLR Cache.

How will .Net Native deal with this sort of stuff if the framework parts are directly baked into the executable?

2 years is insane. When Microsoft dropped support for XP a few months back, there was a huge clamour, and that OS was released 15 years ago. Phones seem to have reached a plateau, and there is no reason to drop expectations: my two year old phone reflashed with 5.0 GPE runs more smoothly than a galaxy s6 ffs, but is not going to get any future updates.

I saw that deal, but I'm wary of buying crucial ssds as every single one I've bought has failed on me within 18 months. As far as SSDs go, I thought the advice was to stick with Intel: is this still true?

What the hell are you on about?

The closest thing to the proposed encryption backdoor is the clipper chip proposal of the 90s, and that did have severe vulnerabilities that the authors completely overlooked.

And I'd recommend you watch John Oliver's segment about nuclear launch codes to recalibrate your trust in those officials. We've come scarily close to Armageddon multiple times over the last few decades, which was prevented only by sheer dumb luck. Just because it's the scariest thing known to man doesn't mean the people responsible for it aren't incompetent.

Someone probably read too much Iain M. Banks and decided to adopt Marain's base-9 system :)

If I'm not mistaken, some old consoles used a 9-bit RGB encoding, so this could theoretically help there. Minecraft also uses a 9-bit system for Redstone, afaik.

Thanks, I just got an invite for snapzu and it does look really nice.

I'm halfway through the article, and I have to say, I've never read a more brutal review.

> The other really weird thing missing is any kind of battery backup for the time. If the phone loses power, the time and date gets reset, leaving it looking like an old VCR blinking "12:00."

This seems insane for a device released just a few months ago... when you can get a lumia, which is very reasonable, for just 5$ more, why would anyone bother with this?

I dunno, the AMBER alert system was a pretty damn good idea.

They consider 5" screens as a phablet, which seems pretty weird: when I think of a phablet, it's something over 6", like the note series or the larger lumias, or the iPhone 6+... By their definition, pretty much all android flagships the last few years (including the galaxy s series) and the iPhone 6 are phablets, which is meaningless.

They specifically called out the use of bluetooth keyboards and mice in the phone during their presentation, so that's a given. Since you're essentially running the full windows now, I don't see why remote desktop wouldn't work with the metro version currently present in their store either.

Yes, I agree with you, but in this specific instance, when the DRM key has been transferred securely -- and when everything in the pipeline will fail when the content is messed with -- what is the point of HTTPS?

If the DRM key is transferred securely, how can an attacker tell what you're watching without fingerprinting the entire Netflix library? You can't just open up parts of the stream and parse it as a plain video file to my understanding.

I'll give you the rewind scenario, but play/pause events are going to be equally obvious in HTTPS. Besides, what exactly does the attacker learn? That you were watching Netflix during that time? The HTTPS traffic to Netflix will be an equally good indicator of that.

I understand the need for HTTPS when browsing Netflix, but is there really any benefit in encrypting the actual media stream?

The file is already encrypted for DRM purposes... if thry want to go beyond that, how about a system where each edge server gets a differently encoded file from the master?

> Launch postponed due to lightning from an approaching anvil cloud (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/587715056432889856)

Anyone know how they detect lightnings? Is it just cameras, or do they have planes flying around?

_Was_ it actually cheaper?

>Prior to the cancellation of Black Arrow, NASA had offered to launch British payloads for free; however, this offer was withdrawn following the decision to cancel Black Arrow.[2]

That sounds horrible, but both the references are to books so I'm not sure what actually happened.

I think the article addresses the first concern: the radio connection is encrypted with the AES key in the QR code that is scanned optically. As for the second, if they are in the device, you're already screwed: they might as well intercept the keyboard/camera/mic instead of hacking the app. Same for hardware access.

Will there be any way to set up machine affinity? I think Azure Service Bus uses this mechanism (by specifying a partition key for a message) to enable strict FIFO for a given partition.

That description could apply equally well to a lot of humans who would choose immortality if given the choice. Hell is us.