@travisdh1 said in Some Android Devices Susceptible to Wifi Hack:

@mlnews Huh, the news story I saw on that sounded like anything using a Broadcom chipset was vulnerable, which means a lot more devices than just Android and Apple.

Anything using a specific chipset. Not sure if anything outside of phones uses that one.

The three app stores that are baked into devices (excluding Amazon)

Apple: The exclusive club that allows business transactions on its premises but don't piss off the owners or you're out on your ear. Google Play: The we accept anyone club where people come to hang out and do a bit of business. Pick pockets and thieves go unnoticed but are thrown out upon discovery. Windows store: The wild west, lawless, don't trust anyone. A marshall/law bringer comes to town every-so-often, throws out a few trouble makers, doesn't finish cleaning up the place before leaving again.

@JaredBusch said in US Proposes Warrant Requirement for Electronics Search at Borders:

@DustinB3403 said in US Proposes Warrant Requirement for Electronics Search at Borders:

All of Rochester would be considered in the border zone according to that map.

I guess I get to deal with random search and seizures by CBP agents.

Not legally.

I know, just in regards to the way that CBP agents are portrayed.

That is just annoying. . . honestly. I hope the big parties counter sue and win.

Screw Louisiana Tech

@travisdh1 Basically.

@scottalanmiller said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:

The US has a relatively uninvolved populace when it comes to politics. Even for the third world it's not very involved.

Some areas of the US have single digit participation rates... that's nearly unheard of in countries outside of authoritarian dictatorships

@JaredBusch said in Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Better on Emulator Than on Nintendo Switch:

@DustinB3403 said in Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Better on Emulator Than on Nintendo Switch:

@scottalanmiller said in Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Better on Emulator Than on Nintendo Switch:

@DustinB3403 said in Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Better on Emulator Than on Nintendo Switch:

They focus on game dev, not hardware dev.

That's debatable.

true.

IMO, they fail to do enough with their IP. But their RPG games tend to be well developed solid titles.

This new Zelda game is supposed to be fantastic. I wasn't a big fan of Skyward Sword or Twilight Princess so I'm not sure I would really like this one.

@FloridaMan said in US DoJ Looking to Enforce H1-B Programs More Closely:

@mlnews

Does this mean Disney will have to get rid of their Indian H1-B IT staff, and re-employ the good old 'merican boys (and girls) again?

Trying to stay out of the political murk, this is all I'll ask here. Do you believe anything the government claims?

You say potato...

@Tim_G said in Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Already Defeated with Picture:

@matteo-nunziati said in Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Already Defeated with Picture:

@Tim_G said in Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Already Defeated with Picture:

I don't understand why they didn't do it like the Lumia 950xl... iris scanner. Infrared to light up the eyes, another to take the pic.

they also have it! fingerprint, face, iris, pin, sequence... they only miss the list of things in your fridge 😛

Then how can a regular picture fool it? Seems like a software issue and not hardware.

I mean: you can either auth yourself via face or any other solution. Samsung AFAIK doesn't implement so named pure biometric 2 factor-auth. You have just to avoid face and fingerprint (as it is too close to camera). just use iris or sequence/pin...

I own a xiaomi redmi 4 and to be honest rear-fingerprint scanners are a bit of a pain... I alternate fingerprint to sequences...

@scottalanmiller said in HTC Rolling Out Virtual Reality Advertising:

Not necessarily a bad thing, it could cause prices to come down and volume to go up.

Almost at dream level...
Youtube Video

The Navy being accused of piracy?
Oh, the irony!
...
and really bad eggs

@Dashrender said in Indian Authorities Arrest Seventy and Question Over Six Hundred in IRS Scam Bust:

Damn.

"We had a mole go in to the call centres to verify. The best part is that they were actually recording all their calls. We have recovered 851 hard disks on which the calls were recorded, so we’re going through those now," Singh told The Guardian.

Awesome - I wonder who paid them to do that?

Better ask another question: Who wrote precise instructions to do so.

It was a German closed source company back in the mid-1980s. It's a very, very old product. Sun open sourced it when they purchased it and renamed it to OpenOffice after the switch in code licensing. I suspect that it has been primarily LibreOffice longer now than it was OpenOffice!