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timbosliceon OpenCV 3.0 released

Take this with a grain of salt as it is speculation, but I'd be very surprised if there were not plans to vacate SF eventually.

timbosliceon Hola VPN Already Exploited by “Bad Guys”, Security Firm Says

Skype is definitely #1 on the list. It is remarkably easy to get an IP given a skype username

timbosliceon Hola VPN Already Exploited by “Bad Guys”, Security Firm Says

The Chrome store still is hosting Hola:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-better-intern...

timbosliceon Eval($_POST[cmd])

I'm guessing he's just showing us the dork (search phrase) to find these vulns and outline how stupid... errr special people can be

timbosliceon Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3

That's helpful, thank you!

timbosliceon Nofakeinternet.org

TL;DR:

Zuckerberg's partnership with telecom giants, Internet.org, provides access to a fake Internet where selected services are prioritized over others. This scheme threatens innovation, free expression, and privacy online.

It blocks many of the websites, apps, and services the world loves from being made available on equal terms.

The fake Internet will also restrict access to local service providers struggling to get a foothold online.

timbosliceon It looks like Intel is developing Bitcoin mining chips

Hear hear! If you aren't paying for a product, you are the product.

I'd love to see that project play out. Imagine if consumers could click a button to donate to their charity of choice

timbosliceon It looks like Intel is developing Bitcoin mining chips

I miss the good old days of "If you aren't paying for a product, you are the product." Now, the new paradigm is: "By using our stuff, we own your data. All of it."

How do Global Fortune 500 companies think bundling malware is OK still after all the bad press the last few years?

timbosliceon Facebook Starts Hosting “Instant Articles”

I never thought of it that way, but it makes sense. The rise of RSS in the mid 2000's gave way to all sorts of plugins to inject ads into your RSS feeds as a way to cope with the lost web traffic

timbosliceon Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon

From other comments:

cnvogel: it's assumed that materials with about 130 GPa of tensile strength would be needed for the "rope" of an space elevator

e12e: nanomagic spider silk: 5400 MPa (5.4 GPa)

timbosliceon Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon

> Und Diamanten scheißt.

chuckles to self

timbosliceon Robinhood raises $50M

I've been waiting so long for an Android app. It will happen, eventually

timbosliceon An introduction to JavaScript-based DDoS

Risky click of the day after seeing Goatse mentioned above. It was actually a pretty good read, thanks for sharing!

timbosliceon Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

Then don't use it until it is stable. This is a preview release

timbosliceon Lake Michigan Is So Clear Right Now Its Shipwrecks Are Visible from the Air

Booo zebra mussels... Cutting my feet and killing off fish.

Fun fact, single colonies of zebra mussels may contain over 70,000 mussels per square meter!

timbosliceon Credit card terminals have used same password since 1990s, claim researchers

I wonder what is available in the settings interface? For example, is there some gateway address that could be changed to a MITM transparent proxy? They act like this is no big deal, but 9/10 of these machines has the same password!

timbosliceon Recycling in America

Interesting, I'm in STL city and never heard about that. Granted, I rent and usually trash fees are paid by my landlord.

A similar thing happened to my parents, living in a Milwaukee suburb. They have a well drilled and use well water.

The city decided that this is a health hazard and is forcing everyone to be on well water. Not only do they tear up your yard to drop the pipes, you also have to pay a contractor to hook up the water main to your house. Non-compliance results in a fine. A FINE?! For using your own well water...

timbosliceon Fxpay: Mozilla's JavaScript library for in-app payments

TL;DR:

For developers building web applications on Firefox OS or Firefox Desktop, supporting payments is easy with Mozilla’s fxpay library. In addition to accepting credit cards, it also supports billing to a cell phone #

timbosliceon Where can I find examples of complete AngularJS apps?

https://github.com/HabitRPG/habitrpg

habitrpg.com

timbosliceon GPG and Me

> Suppose you can confirm that you're absolutely, veritably talking to 174.16.23.46, and your messages can't be read by anyone but them. What good does that actually do you?

In the current post Snowden climate, can't we agree that this is at least a good thing? The good it does at the most basic level is protect your communications from prying eyes.

timbosliceon Startup Priorities

Fair enough, thanks for the response

timbosliceon Startup Priorities

Any reason you suggest anonymized tracking? I like to pass user-id / segment information to my tracking tools so we can get a picture of WHO is using feature X in addition to general adoption rates

timbosliceon How speedy is SPDY? [pdf]

>the tradeoff of getting the bundles right, which of course reduces cachability

If you are revving your bundles with hashes (main.8a4ce55.js), caching shouldn't be a problem. Not sure what your build process is, but there are plugins to do this on most setups.

timbosliceon Guerilla Open Tube: A Distributed, Censorship-Resistant Backup of YouTube

While I agree GH may have a problem with this, in this case they aren't technically a "tracker" as they don't facilitate connections between seeds and peers. They just provide the metadata (magnet links)

timbosliceon Guerilla Open Tube: A Distributed, Censorship-Resistant Backup of YouTube

Text only mirror of the announcement: https://gist.github.com/timelf123/e7bb350a8f93af3f824b

timbosliceon Two eras of the internet: pull and push

That and a lot of news sites will pull in 30+ tracking beacons and external marketing tags if you don't have adblock/ghostery set up

timbosliceon Content, Forever

Here they are for you:

Samuel Adams is the brand name for beers produced by the Boston Beer Company (NYSE: SAM) and its associated contract brewers.

Battle rapping, which can be freestyled, is the competition between two or more rappers in front of an audience.

In the 1980s, battle raps were a popular form of rapping - Big Daddy Kane in the book How to Rap says, "as an MC from the '80s, really your mentality is battle format...

He is most famous for creating the acclaimed film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which heralded a new era of African-American focused films.

The gains made by African Americans in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements not only obtained certain rights for African Americans, but changed American society in far-reaching and fundamentally important ways.

timbosliceon Why you can't get 4K Netflix and Amazon

TL;DR - speculation it's due to DRM/pirating concerns. Most TV's have no output and are therefore a safe mechanism to allow playback, whereas a PC could rip the stream

timbosliceon Google AdWords Lightbox ads now available across all screens

>Lightbox ads are great at driving brand consideration because they’re billed on a cost-per-engagement (CPE) basis. This helps your digital display dollars go further because your brand’s experience automatically finds a qualified audience -- and you don’t pay if people don’t expand and engage with the creative experience.

Pretty nifty! Supports standard IAB sizes too, so you won't have to re-jigger your creative too much

timbosliceon Slack vs. HipChat vs. Hall for project communication

It's a slim review really. Like a typical software review they include a feature comparison table, but don't dive very deep into daily usage of the platforms, and really only show demos for Slack.

The overall tone I got was, if you aren't using chat software now, you should really be looking into it and here are three options.