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You could take photos and submit them as potential portal locations (you can share the photos with ingress from the android camera/gallery). That could encourage more people to play and give the current players more to do.

The downside is that I think it takes a few weeks for portal suggestions to be processed.

Nothing, 20% time is still alive and well.

Safeway has done home delivery since at least March, so it's not an unknown service here in the US.

The article was written in 1998 when such slang was common, as was the design elements used (like animated gifs).

I don't think being disdainful of Microsoft is interesting either but it makes more sense in context.

A pedantic note: In the title "EVE" should capitalized as "Eve"

In California the contract is often modified to include something like "except where prohibited by law" which means that the company gets IP assignment any time that 2870 doesn't apply.

An interesting technique, I think it's cool.

I doubt any technical control will solve the ephemeral picture problem because of the analog hole.

For this specific technique, if a photo of the screen doesn't defeat the dithering (in my quick tests the photos were worse than what I could see on the screen but better than either of the component frames [1]) you could reconstruct the image from a movie fairly quickly.

[1] http://imgur.com/jA5f6

Congratulations to Parisa!

It's good to see security represented on the list, and Parisa's work at Google makes her a brilliant choice.

Both AAPL and MSFT pay dividends with the yield being around 3.5% for MSFT and 2% for AAPL. Dividends seem to be a new post-Jobs thing for AAPL and may not continue into the future.

Uber isn't a taxi company. The supply being talked about isn't necessarily about the limited number of taxi medallions issued. Instead, it's about how private car operators don't want to work in NYC right now but might be induced to work if they were payed more.

I'm not sure what you're getting at in your comment. Are you complaining about Uber raising their prices, or about Uber existing at all?

While http://dragonmount.com is a Wheel of Time community they sell the entire range of DRM free TOR science fiction novels (among others). Definitely a good place to shop.

Applying new laws retrospectively makes me nervous. Why should anyone be compelled to follow laws that don't currently exist?

If you're wondering if H-1b (and E-3) workers are paid less than American workers you can find out for yourself. The US Government publishes the employer, location, title, and salary of every H-1b application (whether accepted or declined). It's also a good source of information about how much large tech companies are paying for new hires this year.

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/ (also available from data.gov)

For number 3. I don't believe that the US government has indicted, charged, or has otherwise show interest in Julian Assange. The best information I can find on the topic are quotes [1][2] from the US Ambassador to Australia saying that the US is not interested in Julian Assange. The articles also quote the Ambassador as saying that the US-UK extradition treaty would be more convenient than the US-SE one.

[1] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/we-dont-c...

[2] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/were-not-...

Having moved from Perth to Silicon Valley I've got to second this. In Australia I'd get approached about jobs maybe every couple of months while in Silicon Valley I get approached every couple of days.

While I primarily do security rather that software, in Australia the approach would be "Are you interested in contract work for Reputable Government Agency / Mining Company / Bank?" while in Silicon Valley is "Hot new VC funded startup looking for a rockstar to secure the social local cloud!".

I'm really enjoying the difference.

I'm not sure what you're getting at exactly but it is well known that Blizzard's titles were directly inspired by the Warhammer and Warhammer 40k universes[1].

While the visual similarities haven't causes Games Workshop to complain about infringement from Blizzard (as far as I know) it doesn't mean that Games Workshop isn't complaining about infringement in this or other cases.

[1] http://kotaku.com/5929157/the-making-of-warcraft-part-1

Having a broad license is not the same as owning the copyright (especially a non-exclusive license).

True but the reward is now up to US$20,000 in some cases.

http://www.google.com/about/company/rewardprogram.html

While porn sites might be riddled with malware it is unlikely that they'll be zero days. More likely you'll see exploits for bugs that are publicly known but not yet patched everywhere.

The value of a zero days is largely rooted in the fact that it hasn't been disclosed publicly and any widespread use of a zero day threatens that value. Zero days will be used when the risk of discovery is very low or the payoff is very high and attacking random people who visit dodgy websites is unlikely to meet those conditions.

Due to the strange syndication/franchise model that Riot has used in the past when setting up in regions other than North America.

If I remember correctly the franchisee gets source access and can write their own game lobby code if they like.

Parent is talking about the League of Legends North American region which does not necessarily share its authentication code base with the European regions which were the ones compromised.

At the moment an attacker doesn't even need to take control of the servers since all the code is sent without SSL so a MITM attack would be enough.

Edit: though of course if the javascript is never requested again it limits the window of opportunity to man-in-the-middle.

Police shouldn't need a warrant to observe people from public property (or in any situation where you don't have an expectation of privacy), in the same way that citizens don't violate the law by observing people or places from public property (barring stalking laws).

If you're worried about taxpayer money I don't think that turning off those 250 devices will change much. If the FBI is still keen on surveilling those targets they'll do it without electronic help.

This means that the same level of invasion of privacy will occur (potentially more since physical surveillance can gather more information than a GPS tracker) but with less court approval and more cost.

Of course if we assume that the FBI was only tracking those 250 suspects because it was easy to do so then you're probably correct that turning them off will be a net saving to the tax payer.

I don't think that the quote is particularly worrying.

I think the FBI lawyer is pointing out that as the scope of what constitutes a search expands the harder it becomes to establish probable cause in the first place.

I agree with the article, that if 90% of the affected GPS trackers could demonstrate probable cause to get a warrant then the FBI doesn't really have cause to complain (about this one ruling). However, I don't think that invalidates the quote.

I think the quote is literally true and shouldn't be taken as anything but a FBI lawyer talking about the limitations that the agency faces but like the article says the limitations aren't necessarily a bug.

Edit: Clarity

Do you mean conflating rather than confounding?

Just because a sorting algorithm doesn't use any comparisons doesn't make it O(0).

For example Radix Sort (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_sort) is not a comparison based sort and its complexity is O(k.n) where k is the max size of elements.

This is cool! There's a typo in the controls, it says "Back & White" when it should be "Black & White"

From what I understand (largely from reading the linked document) is that the employee is likely to have an acceleration clause of some kind that vests your outstanding options after a certain event happens. Common types are single trigger which occurs on change of ownership and double trigger that requires change of ownership and for the employee to leave the company.

There was also something about these terms being negotiated as part of the change of ownership but that kind of thing is completely beyond my knowledge.