NSAID

I use Firefox with numerous tracker blockers and only had to hit the checkbox.

I live in a large midwestern city. They aren't common by any means but they definitely exist. I'm sure more expensive properties are more likely to have features like this but I've seen starter homes in the mid $100k with scans.

They really helped me as a buyer and while I don't know what they cost, I think I'd spring a couple hundred dollars to have it whenever we sell our house.

I think the biggest problem is that as a seller, I want qualified leads, but I get the feeling realtors just want leads because there's always another house. This mis-alignment of incentives means that in my experience listing agents don't always want to take steps that would limit foto traffic to a property, even if it would be excluding parties that probably wouldn't buy.

The team managed to send information from one chip to another instantly without them being physically or electronically connected

Doesn't current quantum teleportation require optical connectivity because the state transfers along photons?

The abstract says

Here, we report the demonstration of chip-to-chip quantum teleportation and genuine multipartite entanglement, the core functionalities in quantum technologies, on silicon-photonic circuitry

So while there may not necessarily be a phsyical connection this does require line-of-sight by my read, and "silicon-photonic circuitry" sounds like this is all on one physical board.

I guess I don't understand how this is "two different chips" as the article claims. Did they use two photomasks? Baby steps, I suppose.

This is an interesting thought. Over the holidays I've been watching my TV than I would during a normal week and I've noticed that my time in front of the screen is much different when there are commercials (forced 2 minute breaks) than when there are not commercials.

I own a couple of these. Because it has multiple options for virtual assistants, nothing is running out of the box as it wouldn't know which account to use or what service to route to. You have to go through an additional setup process after setting up the speaker for music playback.

When you add a work email address to your phone, you’ll likely be asked to install something called a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile. Chances are, you’ll blindly accept it. (What other choice do you have?)

I use the Nine mail/calendar app[1] to keep all that contained. It integrates nicely with the native Android apps but keeps all of the security and control options within Nine itself. It looks like they are also beta testing an iOS app but I have no experience with that version of it.

For example, if the mail account security settings require a screen lock code, Nine will require a code to access the app but this won't affect the actual phone's unlock screen.

Similarly if a data wipe request is sent from the server it will only affect Nine.

[1] https://www.9folders.com/product/

It protects against the 'Silhouette attack"

Original research paper: http://www.ntt.co.jp/news2018/1807e/180718a.html

Twitter Blog: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...

"A website can request a page from Twitter in the background with JavaScript using standard browser APIs. That request will be made using login credentials (stored in cookies), so if you're logged into Twitter, that request will be made as you.

Our site implements common CSRF protections on POST requests to prevent actions being made on your behalf (for example, being able to send a Tweet). The browser also enforces a number of limitations on cross-origin requests for security reasons. For example, another origin cannot read the response content. However, the requesting page is able to determine how long the request took to load.

This timing data will only reveal information if the response times can be manipulated into result based on a specific user. Generally, your page load time will depend on the Tweets you're viewing, and these aren't easy to predict.

However, when you are blocked by another user, we prevent you from being able to load their profile page, and just show a basic empty page. That page is much faster to load than a profile full of Tweets.

In our tests, profile page load times reliably dropped from around 500ms to about 200ms. In this way, one user can affect the page load time of another user viewing a specific url."

The infinite zoom project is really interesting. I'm shocked that it never got picked up! The use cases you describe sound incredibly obvious for big events.

This same race was a topic in a recent episode of the This American Life podcast

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/the-long-fuse/act-three...

Same result on current Firefox with Windows 10

Almost perjury. There's a good faith clause, so if someone believes in good faith that their magic black box AI correctly identifies their IP and never issues incorrect takedowns, it's not perjury.

OnePlus includes a nice, simple Android setting to require your security PIN/figerprint/etc for any app.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-use-the-oneplus-...

Samsung Pay (works on credit card readers)

I hadn't heard of that before. That's pretty cool.

"Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) is a technology that emits a magnetic signal that mimics the magnetic strip on a traditional payment card. MST sends a magnetic signal from your device to the payment terminal's card reader (to emulate swiping a physical card without having to upgrade the terminal’s software or hardware)"

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00043865/

I was pulling for (unbranded) Petit four

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_four

Not in the US. I've received one or two important letters from the IRS (that is, I unintentionally owed them money) that arrived via regular post. I'm not sure if that speaks to the reliability of the USPS or a lack of imagination on the IRS's part (or maybe the government trusts the government postal service?). Certainly people and businesses do use registered and certified mail, but not everyone.

It'd be even better if my user agent could simply indicate my acceptance (or lack thereof) for me

Not the case.

In response to the report, ICANN labeled the .home and .corp strings as "high risk" and proposed that neither of the strings be delegated until it could be proven that risk is low. These two strings are currently severely delayed and some community members guess they may never be delegated.

https://icannwiki.org/.home

Yeah, fake domain names and TLDs are an issue with Microsoft sysadmins in regards to .local. I aggressively move environments away from using anything half-baked like ".dev.", and while some people like ".local", I'm not a fan. Ignore the spec at your own peril.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local#Microsoft_recommendatio...

Use m.facebook.com. The mobile site has "Reply" buttons next to the comment text fields.

Liberally tagging bookmarks with http://www.pinboard.in/ and going through the list once a year to prune

Wow, I had forgotten about that. I never understood what the cause of this issue was either, but it sure took up a lot of my time.

https://www.metafilter.com/

2013 Moto X here, too. I recently replaced the battery and it's been great to get through a full day again, but I'm nervous about the day when this thing actually dies. I'm looking for something with those 3 requirements as well, and it's incredible how few options there are.

It looks like you might be picking up the word "remote" from descriptions instead of the heading and then incorrectly showing those jobs as remote positions. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14023471 https://whoishiring.io/s/hn14023471

Wisconsin's university system, for one.

https://flex.wisconsin.edu/

Happened to see this on Stack Overflow this morning and sent in an application there before I saw it here. Having lived in Rockford several years ago, it's very cool to see a solid tech company in the area.

Same.

Here's the link from the article with the download flag removed:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tgarynpj65ouafd/insta-logo.png

http://www.metafilter.com/

Right, but my view is that certain "qualifying events" should trigger public interest requirements for more safety.

Buying a house? Make sure stuff is up to code, get an inspector, but it's on you.

Housing kids for the state? There's a public interest in making sure they're safe.

Renting out a room or building? Safe thing (and there are already regulations here that are stricter than those applying to private he owners)

Renting out a room or house short term? Again, same thing. This should at least be the same as a long term rental.

EDIT: anyway, my original point was that there is precedence for safety regs even if you don't have long hallways or tall buildings.

My wife and are getting licensed for foster care, and this week I'm installing several smoke detectors and CO detectors. We're required to have a minimum of one CO and smoke detector per floor, and an additional smoke detector in each bedroom.

Was our house acceptably safe without those? Probably.

Is it going to be better now? Certainly. It's a bit of work installing 7+ devices, but I understand that we've reduced a lot of risk.

Same thing with the fire extinguishers and other safety equipment we'll have to pick up.

Rental units here have somewhat similar requirements, and I think short-term rentals should have similar safety features.