This wasn't a security disclosure at all - Facebook knew that this information was available but didn't see it as a problem. The "problem" was that somebody tried to make the public aware of how it worked.
"Noticing a lack of significant public response to the visible nature of geo-location data on Facebook Messenger, despite media coverage dating back to 2012" - http://jots.pub/a/2015081101/
As I understand it, this just means they're allowed to require you to sign a contract saying that they own your "off the clock" work, not that they own it by default. Or is it different in NY?
Exactly - I don't understand why even computer literate people have trouble understanding that computers aren't "an" activity, they're a gateway to millions of them, limited by your imagination.
My parents also limited the time I could spend on a computer... and I ended up writing programs on paper while I waited for the next day :P
Another easy way to play with this is the DeepDreamer mac app (http://realmacsoftware.com/deepdreamer/), although it has some size limitations unless you purchase it ($15).
Agreed. This feels like adding an additional hurdle that non-minority hires would not face (most generic recruiting sites I've seen don't require degrees).
This is like a company saying "I know employees need food, but instead of giving you money, you'll be compensated in hamburgers".
I'm tired of this stereotypical judgement that poor people are so bad with money that we'd be better off generously making purchasing decisions for them.
I'm a huge fan of streaming coding, mostly because of Markus Persson and the Ludum Dare streams (one of the first http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/293076467 where he builds a dungeon crawler, skip ahead a bit).
The big downside for me though is the login requirement just to watch - I don't think I'd watch Twitch if I had to login just to see streams. I think getting rid of that would really help you guys grow - code streams are pretty addictive once you start watching.
I wonder if a possible solution to this problem would be getting universities to require publication to open access journals as opposed to closed ones. Then journals with paywalls would have an incentive to offer open access options in order to keep the largest amount of papers.
Homeless proof - I'm really hoping the problems that Sidewalk Labs is working on don't include making sure homeless people don't have access to public bathrooms. I'm honestly not thinking of a lot of reasons for public bathrooms to exist aside from making sure people without houses have someplace they can use (whether that be as a bathroom, washing laundry, shaving, etc.)
Well, they sort of have to be accessed by unencrypted HTTP, their HTTPS certificate gives a huge warning. Any site doing journalism needs to have their SSL setup correctly if they care about the privacy of their readers.
The first article mentions a Supreme Court case in 2011 to "determine if authorities can track U.S. citizens with GPS vehicle trackers without a warrant" - anyone know what that case was or how it was decided?
Well there's a difference between code reuse, and cross-platform code reuse. If you're porting a Laravel project to Rails or vice versa, you should be reusing logic, not code.
In my opinion, Kickstarter projects should not be legally obligated to deliver hardware rewards. We already have something just like that called "stores" and "preorders". I want to fund projects where the creators don't need to be 100% sure their idea will work before having the means to try it out. And I certainly don't want people to be able to sue those creators if it doesn't work out.
Well, I imagine she's actually making money with her original content - and then they're saying she can't, because it happens to refer to their "unique braand".
It's alarming to me that we allow corporations to control how and how we are not allowed to use words. Trademarks should be limited to preventing people from selling similar products using your company name. They shouldn't be a way for companies to control related culture.