T-Mobile isn’t technically a legal system so this is referring to them fining for illegal content of their own accord as part of the contractual arrangement. It’s not as if they impanel a jury :)
You can't be fined by a private company. They can include provisions in a contract that may lead to increased costs but this is something you would agree to beforehand.
“You might have noticed the color of the brush head changing throughout of this post. This is because I had to run out and buy a new one after getting locked out of the first one.”
The concept of getting locked out of one’s toothbrush head is so absurd it might as well be dystopian.
> [We] can see that the tag is configured to permanently disable all write access after three wrong password attempts. (Which I promptly exceeded when playing around) This means that not even the toothbrush handle itself can write to this head again.
Just disable the feature the way the manufacture instructs instead of this random hacking? Why pull out all the engineering tools when the step by step is in the manual?
I think that's a symptom of buying off-the-shelf NFC hardware. They all lock you out after some small number of incorrect attempts to guess the password, because some security researcher noticed how easy it was to try every password and people stopped buying their stuff if they didn't have this feature.
This equipment is not necessary for a toothbrush "minutes used" counter, but unfortunately, there is no off-the-shelf alternative.
This is awesome. Glad we can improve on the “thought leadership” of theoretical people like Terrance Tao with some real titans’ advice like yours (I see you were a software engineer at Google!!!). Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, true. I was being subtle. This narcissist is framing things as "even better" in comparison to someone who is likely, literally, the most intelligent person currently alive.
There is at least one person commenting that mathematical notation is stupid in every maths submission on HN, and the author usually never gives any indication as to having made any contributions towards mathematical research. It's an inevitability at this point.
> likely, literally, the most intelligent person currently alive.
Why do people always seem to say this about Tao? What makes him different from, say, other recent Fields medalists?
I feel like it has something to do with having been a child prodigy more than anything else (and because he’s somehow known to laypeople worldwide when other names aren’t). I’m not even sure what the most intelligent person is supposed to mean, especially when the domain of expertise is so narrow.
I have no particular opinion on the man; it’s a genuine question.
There must be at least 40 Springfields in the USA. Given Massachusetts's early statehood, I wouldn't be surprised if Springfield, MA was the "first" Springfield in USA, but are you thinking the artist illustrated all the Springfields because of the Simpsons?
Just based on the most cursory look, which took less time than it took you to write your comment (considering the links you added taking more time than typing…), they are different repositories by different people for different things.
I mixed up the posts. There have been a lot of high ranking Beeper posts lately. The one I was thinking of only had 700 comments, but I think it's fair to say that this is a duplicate:
As a professional adult I have never come across anyone who has ever commented on someone else’s phone positive or negative or neutral except once in a while someone gets the just released latest and greatest Y and someone may say “oh you got the latest and greatest Y phone, cool, how do you like it?” and that’s it.
I can’t imagine interacting with someone professionally who even thinks for one second positively or negatively about someone based on their phone choice, from five year old Androids to yesterday’s iPhone pro.
It does have a real time tracking feature. I don’t use it, I use the built in Garmin. But you can enable this and anyone following you can see your activity in real time.
I find the bigger security issue is recording close to home, so people can theoretically see where you live and know what sort of expensive sports equipment you might have.
Last time I checked, the real time tracking was disabled by default and could only be enabled only for specially selected contacts, but it's been a while since I checked.
And if someone shows off their expensive bikes on social media (and that's what Strava is, among other functions)... well, it makes it known to others that they own expensive bikes. Social media has been around for long enough that its users should be aware that this kind of behaviour may impose certain risks.
People publishing an online catalog of fancy sport equipment for thieves isn’t good indeed. I find military people running around infrastructures in secret military bases a bigger strava security issue.
