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They monetize the hell out of it now. A few times a day I click an imgur link and the page will show the image for a fraction of a second before forwarding to a full-page ad. It won't last much longer before someone else comes along with something less annoying and fewer ads.
I'm guessing the patch was broken because they didn't have an actual patch laying around, they had to do a diff against the upstream and try to pick out the relevant parts. That doesn't excuse some of the other errors though, like integer overflows and not checking return codes. That also doesn't excuse the fact that they didn't actually try the patch before sending it out.
There could be other pieces that we're missing, and this patch alone doesn't prove that you can obtain private keys from Akamai's servers with the Heartbleed bug. It just proves that there could be key parts outside of their protected storage area and they suck at creating patches of their modifications. That being said, I'd love to see someone apply Akamai's OpenSSL patch and still pull the key with Heartbleed.
Cover didn't really have customers - their app was "beta" and was free. I don't know that they had any servers or anything is stored online, you don't create an account to use the app. The type of pledge you're advocating wouldn't really make a difference for this app, but I can see where it could be useful in other cases.
This thing doesn't need to be anywhere near that accurate to be useful to someone. Fitness monitors are already pretty inaccurate but they're useful to get a general idea of your activity levels from day to day.
Trying to guess how many calories are in your food and adding them up each day isn't accurate, so a device that tries to measure it automatically based on your physiology only has to be that accurate. Maybe within 30% would still be useful to people tracking their fitness.
Obviously someone who is tracking their glucose or caloric intake for medical reasons should use FDA-approved medical devices and techniques for that, but those people aren't the target audience for this device.
I have no idea if this thing is legit or not, but calling it a scam because accurate non-invasive glucose measurement is a holy grail is completely missing the point of what the device is and what it's for.
Probably not what you're looking for, but check out http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/xkcd1313....
A 3 month vacation to Egypt isn't free. Even if you can live cheaply, you'll still likely have bills that you need to continue paying in the US.
I guess this could work if you can sever all financial ties to the US for 3 months and still have enough money to live in Egypt, pay for the medicine, then come back to the US and restart your life.
CO is about the same density as air, but it will rise with warm air. Placing CO detectors on the ceiling is allowed by the NFPA.
Nest protect costs $130 and yes you're expected to replace it after 7 years. It's actually a legal requirement to replace CO detectors after 7 years in many jurisdictions.