Win10 added support for Brainpool and Curve25519 ECC Curves [0], so this might be where the vulnerability lies
[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/tls...
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[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/tls...
To your other point - as a consumer, I've personally never really enjoyed any Yahoo offering other than Flickr and fantasy sports. However, as a developer, I saw them do a whole lot of great stuff that they never followed through on. YUI [2] was the first UI framework I used, and was great for rapidly prototyping/developing a good-looking UI half a decade before Bootstrap was a thing. Yahoo Pipes [3] was a rather interesting experiment that sadly never really took off. YQL [4] evolved out of that, and is a pretty neat way to API-ify page scraping. I've used it in a couple small projects.
[0] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yahoo.com
[1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined...
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090330125905/http://cbc.ca/new...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tso%27s_chicken#Name_a...
How do you figure out how much stock to order from Alibaba? Is it just based on the maximum financial risk you want to undertake, or something else?
Do you ever replenish stock, or do you continuously rotate the items you sell?
How do you pick the items to sell? Just popular items within certain categories that don't have a current Prime option? Or some other method?
What % of sales end up as returns due to defective products etc? Does Amazon cover these, or do you take the financial hit if there's a refund?
* Surface bookmarks I haven't visited in the past N days/months, give me the option to delete them
* Identify groups of bookmarks that are similar (share most of the URL path or one page links to the other) or duplicates.
* Suggest folders to place the bookmarks in based upon what Google knows about the websites (Sports-related, WebDev-related, etc), and/or time (I bookmarked five pages about similar topics on the same day, it's probably part of research I was doing for something)
* Remove dead links or offer to convert them to the Google-cached version
Would such a law increase innovation (companies are more willing to build products without fear of being sued by patent trolls) or decrease it (patents being less valuable might decrease R+D investment)? My hunch is that it would increase innovation, but I'm not completely sure.
It would be interesting to see how this would/could be applied to both rentals and purchases - rent the bonus features for $0.50-2 each, purchase them for $2-5 each or something like that.
There are reasonably low barriers to entry in this market, for the most part. If Uber treating its drivers as contractors rather than employees impacts Uber drivers in a negative enough way that they would prefer to work elsewhere, there is likely ample space for a competitor which offers a better deal for its drivers.
Drivers have little-to-no incentive to stay with Uber if they can get a better deal elsewhere (based on what I've seen, many already also work for Lyft), and users have little-to-no reason to stick with one on-demand ride app if there's another app that has more availability/drivers.
If cost-of-ride is the biggest competitive differentiator, the price of the ride will stay the same and drivers will be able to choose whether they want to work for a company which treats them as an employee but takes a bigger cut, or a company which takes a smaller cut but treats them as a contractor.
I worked at Microsoft during the development of Windows 8 (disclaimer: I no longer work there, and only speak for myself here). Certain "secret" features were not available in the "default" OS configuration until shortly before they were announced. Access was restricted only to those who needed it, and only then with manager (or, I believe at one point, director) approval. If you had access, you were under strict instructions to only enable the features when nobody else was around.
Artifacts from this process are probably what resulted in the "workaround" in the Developer Preview build [0] to revert back to the classic start menu.
Similarly, with the Surface, much of the company was in the dark until the official announcement. Some of the lengths they went to in order to keep it secret, included only a few executives knowing and trying to avoid ordering multiple parts from the same vendor [1]. The team worked in a vault-style building where one door had to close before the other would open [2].
There's also the giant "fear of being sued or prosecuted" thing. Big companies can afford good lawyers, your average employee probably cannot. Hell, Win8 was released over 3 years ago, I no longer work at Microsoft, yet I've still gone back and triple-checked this post to make sure I'm not disclosing anything about it that's not well-known to the public.
[0] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/balsharfi/archive/2011/11/04/metro-s...
[1] http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/28/technology/mobile/microsoft-...
[2] http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/how-m...
> Apple closely monitors all communication on its corporate network and routinely plants false information with employees in an effort to track leaks.
Some ideas for said company that I'll probably never implement because I don't have said $100k:
- Running shoes that give feedback on your running form using pressure sensors and accelerometers. Depending on the type/placement of sensors, could also double as a weight tracking device that doesn't require you to weigh yourself
- Smartwatches aimed at diabetics, which can continuously monitor insulin/glucose levels, while also serving other smartwatch functions. Alerts for low/high levels.
- System that would let paramedics/doctors access recent pulse/skin temperature/etc data from a smartwatch and display it in a usable manner. Could help figure out what happened in the minutes leading up to an emergency call.
According to Microsoft[1], 32% of pirated Windows 7 copies and activation cracks resulted in some sort of malware infection
Speaking anecdotally, most of the friends and family whose computers I've had to clean up have been running some sort of cracked/pirated software that they'd downloaded or had been given to them by a friend
[0] http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/05/pirated...
[1] Admittedly, Microsoft has somewhat of a bias, but the number sounds reasonable to me: http://archive.news.softpedia.com/news/32-of-Pirated-Windows...
I haven't seen any recent statistics, but at one point, 74% of rootkit infections were on pirated copies of Windows XP [0]
[0] http://www.zdnet.com/article/study-rootkits-target-pirated-c...
A stand-up shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes per person, at the most. The thing that seems to help the most with this is to set aside a section of the whiteboard for the "Parking Lot". If the discussion starts getting off-topic or taking too long, the leader says "let's put this in the parking lot for now", makes a note of the topic on the whiteboard, and you move on to the next person. After the main part of the stand-up meeting is done, the Parking Lot is addressed, but only people who want to discuss it (or are needed for such discussion) need to stay.
Their thinking (and I know some people who've found this) might be that it's easier to get hired as a slightly-overqualified junior developer and promoted to senior within a year than to get hired as an average senior dev.
* If you don't want your code available to the public, use a private repository - either Github's paid plans or Bitbucket (free private repos) or something similar.
* If you want your code publicly available, but not to be used in this way, use a different license - GPL/LGPL, CC BY-NC-SA, etc. Research to figure out which one works best.