jdthomas

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by jdthomas 11y ago
Nice summary. I recently picked up an ESP8266 for a project, but yet to start farting around with it. Excited to find some spare time.
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by jdthomas 11y ago
Hmm. Really needs a way to save and resume editing a "shred" I was in the middle of selecting some different portions of a bunch of videos and accidentally quit. Seems like an app with potential though.
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by jdthomas 11y ago
Sort of related to this post; I recently read Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima [0]. I was not expecting much from the book, but it turned out to be FANTASTIC, would high
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by jdthomas 12y ago
Interesting, glanced through your paper. How do you find real devices behave at constrained channel widths (<20Mhz in 2.4, <40Mhz in 5)? I have a feeling those are not well tested scenarios :)
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by jdthomas 12y ago
Hmm, I have not read his paper, but based on the article's mention of "divided into 13 channels" this is clearly speaking of the 2.4Ghz spectrum. Rather than try to distribute that evenly, you are FAR better off upgrading you
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by jdthomas 12y ago
This only occurs for 'hidden' networks. If you do not have any hidden networks in your known network list than you will not be broadcasting SSIDs. This is yet another reason to avoid setting your AP to hidden.
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by jdthomas 13y ago
I stuck with lynx for the longest time. Somewhere around 2007 the web became COMPLETELY unusable, even on the subset of sites I would visit. Sad times we're living in. :)
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by jdthomas 13y ago
On iOS 7 you have to explicitly trust a computer from the device before data is allowed over USB; before that it is in a charge only mode. To trust a computer you must unlock the device.
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by jdthomas 13y ago
I think cbhl's point is perfectly valid, in the presentation of the feature, Apple states that about half of people leave their phones w/o a PIN. Touch ID is for these people and in general will make unauthorized access to iPhones
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by jdthomas 13y ago
Cool. Reminds me a bit of http://aichallenge.org/ which was TONS of fun.
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by jdthomas 13y ago
802.11w adds encrypted management frames, but in practice this tends not to be a huge issue and not many vendors implement it yet.
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by jdthomas 14y ago
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0001193125130... Dividend perhaps? edit: I suppose that doesn't come out of operating expenses
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by jdthomas 14y ago
This is awful news. I haven't been in touch with Aaron for several years, but I had a brief encounter with him in 2008. I was between jobs and decided to help out with his watchdog.net project of the time. He was always incredibly kinda and
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by jdthomas 14y ago
"Xiaomi has already sold 300,000 of its latest phone model, launched in October." It doesn't even look like the phone sold well; it sold out, but not well. Numbers like that will not be concerning to Apple, HTC, Samsung, et. al.
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by jdthomas 14y ago
I was thinking the same thing. The key to a vibrant app ecosystem is making profit for developers. Possibly these apps are making ad money, but yet to be seen.
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by jdthomas 14y ago
Maybe for an individual user "3g" is sufficient, but my understanding is that it is a poor use of spectrum. One big motivator to move to LTE will be in congested areas where everyone simply cannot be served sufficient bandwidth with the leg
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by jdthomas 14y ago
I don't know ... Some UI/UX is subjective. For instance, my willingness to put up with an initial learning curve vs working with an "intuitive" interface. You may call these "design decisions" and that a well designed UI/UX could be a par
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by jdthomas 14y ago
I wish they shot something with motion in low light... From pictures my friends post online, my biggest complaint about most point and shoot (and phone) cameras in low light is not digital noise, but motion blur. I would prefer manufactur
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by jdthomas 14y ago
It would be more interesting to check ngrames to see how frequently you must hit a key on the same hand twice. Qwerty was designed to prevent jamming typewriters, IIRC.
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by jdthomas 14y ago
1. The attack is to brute force the shared secret (password). This can be done offline because by capturing the exchange you have the ANonce and SNonce and all other information required to generate the same key -- except the shared secret.
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by jdthomas 15y ago
Completely agree, just to add a few of my points... Designers are also ruining the web because they are removing choice in how I view content. HTML pages used to be designed such that they were a standard markup language. Thus I could c
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by jdthomas 15y ago
This is true, but you would expect that "hacker employees" would make their products compatible with "hacker users." My thoughts when reading Zuckerberg's letter (and I admit I only scanned it) were: 1. "Wow, this surprises me, but I actual
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by jdthomas 15y ago
The HUGE advantage of "everything is a file" is that if you make a tool that works on one "thing" and then want to use it on another "thing" it is quit possible that it will just work. For instance, on OSX, one of the things I sorely miss i
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by jdthomas 15y ago
If the USPS wants more usage, rather than marketing, they need to "innovate" just a tad. There is a value-add service that I really wish the USPS would provide. It is very simple too... I would like an abstraction layer for my address. I am
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by jdthomas 15y ago
Exactly! This feels like a "scam" to skirt the rules of the SEC. > “The IPO market is dying,” he said. “You see companies achieving robust valuations on the private market but being treated poorly when they go public.” (We’re looking at
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by jdthomas 15y ago
I tend to disagree with the entire argument that it is OK because it is only going to target foreign sites. The internet tends to be (or should be) borderless. What if the next Google or Facebook doesn't come from Silicon valley but instead
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by jdthomas 15y ago
> You can get a five bedroom, three-bathroom house in the southernmost part of San Jose for less than $500,000 -- about one-third the price it would cost in Mountain View. Seems like by considering a 500k house inexpensive reinforces th
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by jdthomas 15y ago
Gah! At lest the 10th major site I've run into recently that does this (including google groups). If you want to forward me to a mobile version of your site, at least drop me at the content I was trying to find .
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by jdthomas 15y ago
Problem isn't so much kernel level drivers, but user space. Or undocumented proprietary APIs to firmware. I suspect it is not a problem for most components. Most phones are just recombinations of the same components. The problem areas would
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by jdthomas 15y ago
Upside: They look slightly less foolish?

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