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Although the presentation video seemed to skip ahead on the car key part on Firefox, I noticed they said the key will be stored only locally on the phone, unless you share it with someone else. Guess we'll see next year when cars equipped with the feature actually start to show up.

It's a cat and mouse game. Every couple of months FB tries a new version of the HTML layout with slightly changed elements and every time someone writes a CSS selector that manages to find the appropriate tag for the sponsored story and hide it. Currently with the new FB redesign it's:

div[data-pagelet^="FeedUnit"]:has([role^=button]:has(> span:has-text(S)):not(:has-text(1)):not(:has-text(2)):not(:has-text(3)):not(:has-text(4)):not(:has-text(5)):not(:has-text(6)):not(:has-text(7)):not(:has-text(8)):not(span:has-text(9)):not(span:has-text(w)))

This is a security feature. Most modern ovens allow you to set a timer with auto shut-off. This is very useful if you want to go out and come back to a ready meal. You can imagine what would happen if the power went out for a while and after it came back the oven switched on automatically. Refusing to turn on the oven when the clock is not set is the easiest way to prevent problems when it is in use.

As someone from Bulgaria, I am really glad they are doing this. At the moment it would cost me 10 EUR to make a SEPA payment from my bank to another country in the Eurozone. A few years ago when SEPA was first introduced I was able to make the same payment from the same bank with just a 2 EUR fee. Banks were not happy that people turned away from SWIFT so they simply raised the SEPA fees. I am glad that Transferwise and other fintech companies are able to offer cheaper payments but I would still prefer the banks to have a reasonable fee in the first place.

It's very similar to the EU mobile roaming situation that took years to get better but is now very convenient and I don't need to buy prepaid SIM cards whenever I visit another EU country.

Mercedes Benz introduced something very similar to this ten years ago[1]. The engine was using HCCI at low RPM and conventional spark-plug ignition at higher RPM.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiesOtto

The scale of this event is bigger than any Ingress anomaly until now. Also, all players seem to be concentrated into a smaller area than Ingress events, which further complicates things. I think the main issue they could not control today is that Verizon ran out of bandwidth and people simply couldn't connect. Another difference with Ingress events - the Go Fest is a closed venue with security and ticket validation at the gate. In Ingress, you usually validate your ticket beforehand and don't have to worry about queues in the hours before the actual event stats.

At this year's DEFCON there was a lecture [1] about the sensors on a Tesla and yes - you can confuse both the ultrasonic and the millimeter wave radar and hide an obstacle or put one that is not there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvasj4qQ7Lk

It's actually 'powershell' and not just 'ps', but you are right. Typing 'powershell' gets you to PS and typing 'cmd' gets you the command prompt.

The problem is that you don't need root for GPS spoofing. Botters also don't care about SafetyNet (used to detect root before the game starts), since they reverse engineer the API and make REST calls directly. Furthermore, there are ways around the root check - mostly involving hiding the su binary and some additional tweaks.

It's interesting how a non-genuine battery for this laptop is even sold. If the laptop refuses to charge it out of the box then nobody will buy it, since it does not work. Why sell it if everyone will just try it and return it immediately?

Isn't every BTC transaction easily traceable? How can you prevent someone from examining the blockchain and following the stolen BTC until they are transferred to a known/public address?

Not sure about Marshmallow, but in Lollipop you get one notification card with a counter that is the actual number of notifications of that particular type/app. So you would not have a nice animation like in iOS.

Not 100% sure, but if the malicious ad is put on an HTTPS page, it would not be possible to load additional scripts and data from an un-encrypted (HTTP) location as opposed to another valid HTTPS location. Having your malware on an HTTPS site goes around the browser's mixed content restrictions.

Obligatory XKCD answer: https://xkcd.com/936/

Not likely, since that phone number is for the Google Customer Support. You would likely not even get a human :)

Self-hosted Gitlab. We have more than 20 projects in it but only a few of them can be called large.

It's First Meta.

https://firstmetaexchange.com/home

If you are interested in the Columbia events, check out Wayne Hale's blog[1]. He was a flight director/space shuttle program manager and offers a very detailed recollection of the events from inside mission control.

[1] https://waynehale.wordpress.com/

I know of several businesses here (Europe) that specialize in importing cars from the USA. It is ridiculous how much more expensive a similar Mercedes Benz or a BMW is, compared to the USA. What they do is buy cars that have a couple of thousand miles on them and are ~6 months old. This makes them "second hand" and not new so they fall under different legislation. The cars are shipped inside containers on ships and even after all taxes are paid they still cost much less than the same car (similar mileage and age) bought from here. The only problem these companies face is legalizing the cars in Europe - e.g. blinkers here must be yellow. However, this is also relatively easy to fix by buying the needed parts here and installing them on the cars before registration.

The car manufacturers need to understand that we live in a global economy and what they experience now is something that film distributors already went through more than 10 years ago with DVD region codes. If its profitable to ship something from another part of the world where it is legally bought then people are going to do it.

They had no choice - British Sky Broadcasting Group owns the trademark and forced the name change about 6 months ago.

Perhaps you need to add some checks so different lines of text don't overlap on the image when their random positions are too close together.

We do Cordova/PhoneGap development - the best of both worlds. HTML 5 wrapped into a native iOS/Android app. We still use plugins with native code though (Java/ObjC), for receiving push notifications and accessing the camera.

Not down. Also, information is still there (16:15 GMT).

Most (if not all) WYSIWYG HTML editors like TinyMCE use a contenteditable container (e.g. div) and all current browsers offer spell check in the contenteditable element.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5133392

There are no assets(images) for any special moves in the source so my guess is that they are simply not implemented.

I agree that making a port to ARM architecture is a process and will never be perfect. What I meant was that making it possible to run legacy apps (even if it is only the top 100 most popular ones) will go a long way towards making Windows RT tablets more popular. If it is possible to make a DirectX audio/video application like SC:BW run (seemingly well) on Android, then it should not be so hard to do normal apps like archivers(winrar/7zip) or media players (VLC).

Perhaps the problem is performance - the original StarCraft ran on a 100Mhz CPU with 16MB RAM.

If porting Intel compiled binaries (dll/exe) to ARM is as easy as this article makes it look, then Microsoft has some explaining to do about Windows RT and legacy apps compatibility.

Original Bugtraq post for those that are interested: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Dec/81

Nobody is born with the skills to open a door or push a button. I have a <1yr old that still can't do either of those. That is something you learn. Metro is just a different type of UI that you might want to learn.

"Can I click on all those tiles?" - if you try to touch or click them, you will quickly see a 3D effect that mimics that of a push button (tile scales to 97.5% of its size similar to a pushed button). After that you will quickly learn that you can interact with tiles.