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The ISPs, their lobbyists, the politicians whose campaigns they donate to, and the revolving door of government regulators who were and will be employed by said ISPs definitely care.

Signal has the perception of being more secure simply because it isn't owned by Facebook. I will never trust a Facebook server with private messages, despite both Signal and WhatsApp having the same security features on paper.

Not only that, but the amount of viral payload went up after treatment. Additionally his white blood cell count went up, and he got a rash and nausea a couple of days after trying this, which could point to his immune system attacking his homebrew injection. This was painful to read, and I won't be surprised if his future attempts with a larger dose result in serious life-threatening effects.

Their demo car uses Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, which are also used on the Buggati Chiron and Koenigsegg Agera RS (which recently set two records for fastest 0-400kph-0 and fastest production car road speed). These tires are street legal.

The Roadster is significantly faster than other supercars from 0-60 on the same tires, so the advantage must come from much more efficient anti-wheel slipping from the three electric motors coupled to AWD. This dramatic speed advantage is probably a result of the ability to quickly alter the power output per wheel to minimize efficiency losses from breaking traction.

Back up or sync important contacts and data, and then do a factory reset to restore the original OS. Make sure to turn off auto-updates as it will keep downloading them after the restore. It's a shame that phones keep losing features like micro SD.

That's a great book. I remember when my old ISP provided access to a free usenet service. This was a standard practice that stopped 5-10 years ago.

Tesla's console is the embodiment of form over function for UI. It looks beautiful having a flowing button-free cockpit, but I'd rather be able to adjust settings without looking away from the road. Whatever happened to HUDs? It seems like a HUD with a dial on the steering wheel would let you have the best of both worlds.

It's the reason why Netflix on Chrome and Firefox isn't in 1080p. Due to DRM support Netflix supports 1080p on Edge though.

This is the first phone with an 120hz screen, which surprises me. I really thought Samsung would be the first. I wonder if it's a Samsung panel? I'm glad to see that higher refresh rates are making their way from monitors & TVs into handheld devices. Refresh rate really does make a difference for me, even for something like reading text off a screen. I get less eyestrain from a higher refresh rate, but this could be anecdotal.

Sidenote: they missed a great chance to make the camera flash RGB. That's low-hanging fruit for a gaming peripherals company.

It's using react.js, maybe try unfiltering the site before heading to the comment section to tell everyone how much you don't care.

This seems like an interesting way to do research on the best ways to convert these users who don't want to pay outright. Maybe selectively show ads to the free users?

That's a fair analysis. They are blockbusters first, and superhero movies second. I do hope that the genre will evolve towards more interesting topics beyond Good vs. Evil. The Dark Knight showed a nuanced view of how one cannot exist without the other, even within one hero's mythos itself. Unfortunately movies like The Dark Knight and Logan that are willing and capable of tackling nuance and complexity in a feature film aren't common for the genre.

You're definitely not alone in thinking that there's still a lot of headroom left. It seems like there is a new delivery platform popping up at least once a year, and they're all fairly similar iterations of each other.

I'd argue that the vast majority of superhero movies are engineered through focus-group testing to be as palatable to as many people as possible that they become bland.

Logan was the only genre movie in recent memory that eschewed this formula and confronted the messy topic of the senescence of the age of the superhero.

You make a good point. We seem to be in the "Wild West" phase of device software, where the companies making the product have created guidelines based on competitive design, development and maintenance/update standards rather than standards created by regulatory bodies.

On one hand this can be abused to create artificial end-of-life scenarios by some hardware companies, but allows for a wide variety of choice in the companies providing alternatives. It also provides the end-user with less restrictions. Caveat emptor.

On the other hand, a regulatory agency could reign in companies trying to artificially shorten the lifespan of a piece of hardware, but at the same time make the standard of support a huge barrier to entry that restricts choice to only the largest companies. There might be less rampant IoT exploits, but there'd also likely be less personal freedom to do what you want on your devices.

Given how other industries like telecom and cable have trended, we'll probably get the worst of both worlds. There'll be expensive regulations that serve as barriers to entry for smaller companies, but the regulations won't do much to restrict corporate malfeasance.

This is the real driver behind these sites. For a $6-7 delivery fee, they provide online ordering with an easy-to-read menu, a solid payment processor (I don't have to read my CC# off over a phone), and order-tracking that lets me schedule around the exact minute the food is going to arrive.

Most restaurants are largely unwilling or unable to provide a well-executed delivery service. I'm more than happy to pay an additional gratuity for the logistical system these delivery-services add.

That's a doctor issue, not a pharmacy issue. Although they're probably going to need some warehouses with higher clearance levels / restricted access to do this.

I'm all for Amazon filling prescriptions, healthcare is hugely inefficient and any bargaining power Amazon can wrestle away from pharmaceutical companies probably won't negatively impact the consumer.

I believe the answer is in your name.

Your example falls under the purview of negligence in tort law. Nevertheless an arbitration agreement may supersede a potential lawsuit.

The widespread use of forced arbitration seems ripe for examination by the SCOTUS. I'm no lawyer, but it seems like a fairly blatant violation of the 7th amendment.

Link to the NTP's paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/23/055699

This article is misleading. The paper it is based on studied the effects of 900MHz CDMA modulated RF on rats. 5G bandwidth in the U.S. is from roughly 3100 MHz to 4200 MHz.

For the same reason that people claim to have wifi allergies probably.

More probably and less cynically, 5g is a different wavelength and therefore the transceiver requires FCC assessment and approval.

"Some critics also reportedly expressed concerns about radiation emitted by thousands of small antennas." When is this going to stop? It feels like we're going backwards in terms of people understanding science.

This is exactly what I was describing. You'd visit the site while on cellular data to get the password.

So now I need a VPN for my cellular data connection. What happened to privacy laws? You could quickly grab highly personal identifying information by setting up an encrypted wifi network at a business with plenty of foot traffic and no open wifi networks. Then you could have a sign or placard directing passerbys to visit a URL of your choosing to get the wireless password. Then you'd implement this API on your website.

Now you've got their personal info. Scary..

1 - It depends on the company. I've had some companies ask for my SSN when visiting for an on-site interview, and others that don't ask for it until I've signed an offer.

2 - Will it save the company more money than the potential cost of lawsuits? Is it provably fraud? I'd argue that there is value in knowing for certain that an applicant made $x amount of total compensation in salary, benefits and equity. Having a precise dollar amount could let you implement all sorts of ways to optimize the compensation packages you offer for different employees.

For instance you could check an applicants past three jobs and get the average compensation % increase between each. You could use this to get a well-modeled idea of the minimum you need to offer them based on past trends in order to hire them.

Is this illegal? It should be, but the job market didn't anticipate the Equifax breach. There may not be laws that specifically prohibit this.

You wouldn't need an app or other WhatsApp users beyond your distributed proxy accounts. You'd be running the monitoring through these proxies.

Creating an app with the sole purpose of backdooring WhatsApp on a user's phone seems like it'd open you up to a lot of lawsuits. Ethically its a mite more questionable, but the original article is still unethical in that you're monitoring people without consent.

Like I said above, I'd do this just so that they'd crack down on it. It's still a "means justify the ends" argument, however, so you have to be quite comfortable with moral relativism.

It might be worth doing just so WhatsApp will change how they validate access to #s.

This makes an already asymmetrical negotiation even tougher. There are two other credit bureaus that ostensibly do the same exact thing, so even though Equihax has shut this down for now, it doesn't mean that it isn't still occurring.

All we need now is a 23AndMe breach, and we'll be fast-tracked to the GATTACA timeline!

It's offensive that I have to go jump through hoops, set security questions and a secret pin just so I can secure my own salary information.

Is it too much to dream that Equifax should be legally obligated to provide, at the bare minimum, a way to easily secure this sensitive information?

If I were a hiring manager or in HR this would be a goldmine for verifying candidates' salaries and work histories, and gaining the advantage in any salary negotiation.

Is there a known upper limit on the number of #s one account can have?

I suppose you could use that limit to set up enough WhatsApp accounts on proxies to effectively have access to all registered #s?

How is adding additional layers of security bad when there is a specific attack against one of the layers of security (timing attack via controlled TOR nodes) that a VPN-to-Tor would disrupt? If this method is dependent on knowing the latency going in and out of the network, adding VPNs that have varying latencies would seem to defeat this on the surface.

I'm posing the question, as I don't see an answer in the article. Nobody gets better at opsec if flawed methodologies aren't picked apart in detail. I'm surprised I was downvoted, but I don't comment here frequently and maybe didn't pose the question in enough detail. This is usually how I was accessing Tor based on the assumption that most of the exit nodes are compromised.