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Battery status indicators are being used to track devices, say researchers from Princeton University – meaning warnings of privacy exposure have come to pass Better be safe and remove it
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Ok. What does CP battery status says about my S7? 60%, Right... Your are the winner!
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Quote: The combination of battery life as a percentage and battery life in seconds provides offers 14m combinations, providing a pseudo-unique identifier for each device.
pseudo-unique? As in, non-unique? Only 14 million identifiers to cover several billion individual phones? Right, that's useful.  I'm scared.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That does it.
I feel like I used that threat before.
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According to statistics there are more than 1.5 billion (9 zeroes) mobile devices - so a 1.4 million (6 zeroes) distribution will identify you with a probability of 1 to 1000 only...
Now take in account that the API not able to distinguish between charging battery or no battery (both represented by charging = true and chargingTime = 0)...
So that adds all the desktop computers to the pack, which doubles (at least) the number and lowers the probability of proper identification to 1 to 2000...
There is nothing like science determinate to prove something...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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What I am most worried about is the government. I suspect by this time anybody that wants to take down the government knows better than to use cell phones. too many cases of when they were taken down with their cell phones have been reported in the news so now the government can only go after normal citizens. Unfortunately I have a lot I have made against US policy. Probably never get another clearance.
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Microsoft's Windows 10 Anniversary Update is here and ready to download. The software maker first started testing its Anniversary Update back in December, and now all Windows 10 users get to experience the new features and improvements free of charge. Just don't call it a service pack
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Wheeeeeeeee whoooooop!!!
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Let see a list of the BEST new/improved features of the BEST OS you ever had...
* Ink - a presentation toy working only on devices with fitting hardware, but not for mouse and keyboard
* Edge extensions - so now a browser that can have extension is a luxury feature?
* Cortana improvements - according to Microsoft every W10 user asked Cortana 7! questions in the last year - the statistics didn't told how many of those questions got a meaningful answer...So now you can get lost using your voice, which is very convenient if you have to shout at Cortana on the London metro for instance...
* New Skype - I'm biased here. After all the pain I had with Skype I can't even make myself to check it 
* New dark theme - so now changing colors and fitting UI to your taste/light is a feature? I thought we were over it like 20 years ago!
* Time zone switching - Automatically! It could be a very good feature for those travel a lot, but for the feature to work for certain you need a device with GPS. Internet connection based location demands an internet connection (which does not switch automatically) and will actually report the location of the ISP - probably way off in a lot of cases...
* Bash - Come on! It is a pure gimmick that will not buy a single Linux fan for Windows. Those are grew with Widows UI will not be eager to do things from a bashed command prompt...
** Project to PC - A classroom like addition - seems to be good...
** Face recognition - Now that's a nice feature. Really. You only have to have the proper camera, but it can be useful...
*** Advertise - Now it is built in. You will have it and you can not turn it off, even you are paying! for W10
If I compare this list to the fanfares Microsoft sounded for this upcoming update the disappointment is even more sounding... For a developer with a working environment, even based on W10 - I can't see any reason to spend a single minute to update (and it takes much more than that)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: For a developer with a working environment, even based on W10 - I can't see any reason to spend a single minute to update (and it takes much more than that)...
I don't know in your version, but the one I installed to test... it only gives you the options "restart automatically" / "programm your own restart" to personalize your windows updates. There is no "let me choose off the list" as there were before :S
If yes... please tell me where.
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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It depends on the edition - I have Enterprise and I can configure (not sure to what extent) what and when to update...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I tried to install the enterprise but it told me only 90 days test, altough I had a valid Win7 enterprise. I got the Win10 Pro though :S
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Seymour Papert, creator of Logo, Turtle Graphics and pioneer of constructionist education - teaching children through programming (rather than just teaching them programming), has died age 88. Another of the true greats of the field passes on.
In Memory: Seymour Papert | MIT Media Lab[^]
RIP Seymour.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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On the off-chance you’re alive in 150 years, you could be in for a very bad day, when the asteroid Bennu collides with Earth, unleashing a blast 200 times more powerful than that of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The sky may be falling. Someday.
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150 is very long and technology will improve
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I do not think it will take more than a decade to build a perfect shelter, so I can spend the next 96 years without any trouble...(however created a reminder in my calendar, in case I forgot)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Dont worry in the movie "Skyfall" all went out fine
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I was thinking more on "armagedon" (or however it is written in english)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You mean my U.S. Presidential candidate won't be here for another 150 years? Crap.
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Putin gave KGB's successor agency two weeks to deal with encrypted services. "I am Vinz, Vinz Clortho, Keymaster of Gozer. Volguus Zildrohar, Lord of the Sebouillia. Are you the Gatekeeper?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: two weeks
And after that?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The technology is really very simple - they come to your office (or home) and ask you to give them the keys and you give them the keys.
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