If only there was a way to filter out ifunny results, I absolutely detest that watermark.

Automated testing and validation? Something like what the linked article says they have in place?

"To minimize impact on production traffic while achieving high release velocity for the BGP agent, we built our own testing and incremental deployment framework, consisting of unit testing, emulation, and canary testing. We use a multi-phase deployment pipeline to push changes to agents."

Link is broken.

Good to hear my distrust of credit card companies hasn't been in vain.

I've made all even remotely recurring sounding payments via paypal just for the ease of cancelling.

I really don't want to have to contact someone to cancel a payment when I can just do it myself.

Colour me skeptical.

You decreased sickess by 13.5% by covering up about that much of the screen.

Your real nose always covers some part of your visual field, still it doesn't bother you, because your brain removes certain stimuli that persist over a long period of time.

Haha maybe it's just me, but I actually dislike having my real-life nose block part of my view.

Except for when someone reminds me that I can see my nose, and suddenly my brain stops filtering it out for a while.

Perhaps one could gradually dissolve the nose over the first X hours of playing without causing sickness.

Don't be tricked by that "area". I admit I haven't tried it but, from my experience with the Oculus, you will barely able to see that nose (unless you actually try to look at it, like you would in real life). That area is mainly in the peripheral vision.

I agree with you. The impact of these findings is greatly overstated by the headline, and you make an excellent suggestion regarding a competing explanation about why it might help.

Next study: repeat the study using a "nose" in the outside, or of varying sizes, and see if it helps.

This research is interesting, but it's not front-page interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction seems pretty decent.

Wow, it's like McCarthy commission over again. Game companies and publications are labelled "anti-GameGate" or pro-GameGate. Boycotts are organized. You can get a Chrome Extension that will block anti-GameGate sites (who maintains the block list? apparently nobody knows; a user asks why some web comic is block and what anti-gamergate acts the user has done).

Bizarrely this means all links to anti-GameGate sites (like Kotaku) have to be posted via an archiving proxy, archive.me, as everyone on the subreddit apparently has the blocking chrome extension installed.

You're joking, right? KiA is an echo chamber repeating things that have already been debunked by the time they post them. Like the supposed ISIS bot thing that's currently trending there.

You'd think an intelligence service would know that NSA isn't a friend and not repeat history. They did almost exactly the same thing in 1990.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Concerns

This is a all new level of corruption, here are the interesting bits:

- In 1994, Airbus lost a $6 billion contract with Saudi Arabia after the NSA, acting as a whistleblower, reported that Airbus officials had been bribing Saudi officials to secure the contract.[58] As a result, the American aerospace company McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing) won the multi-billion dollar contract instead of Airbus.[59]

- The American defense contractor Raytheon won a US$1.3 billion contract with the Government of Brazil to monitor the Amazon rainforest after the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), acting as a whistleblower, reported that Raytheon's French competitor Thomson-Alcatel had been paying bribes to get the contract.[60]

- In order to boost America's position in trade negotiations with the then Japanese Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, in 1995 the CIA eavesdropped on the conversations between Japanese bureaucrats and executives of car manufacturers Toyota and Nissan.[61]

While revealing corruption is nice, I think it's safe to say that everyone serious about winning a big government contract in Saudi Arabia or Brazil is not going to be clean. So the American companies probably bribed too, but got away with it since no one whistleblew on them.

Intelligence is, largely, not about friendship. It's about exploiting the assets available to you.

But ~ doesn't mean person. It means 'home'. Hence, 'ls ~' lists the contents of your home directory and 'cd ~root' takes you to home directory of root.

In web context ~user translated to 'home of user' which was fitting in most cases.

Also: "home page".

Pretty depressing. Only 2 out of 54 scanners currently detect something in the zips of the spyware.

https://www.virustotal.com/en-gb/file/6ee40b8e7d49f4ea70b7ce...

https://www.virustotal.com/en-gb/file/688f1e15390faf8d977351...

Those zips are encrypted, that's why. I have included links to the unencrypted results [1,2], with ~80% detection rate. Notable green checkmark by Microsoft, perhaps FinFisher made extra sure to not get caught by Microsoft's heuristics?

[1] https://www.virustotal.com/en-gb/file/f827c92fbe832db3f09f47...

[2] https://www.virustotal.com/en-gb/file/0b465877a998a993a64a14...

Microsoft too detects them now. Too late, but at least they are updating their signatures fairly rapidly.

Interestingly, both files were first uploaded to VT in 2010, meaning that AV vendors have had chances to analyze them.

Malware vendors usually use these services to test their load. They wouldn't release anything that would get detected on day 0. And I think antivirus vendors do more in-house analysis only if there are reasons to - such as votes from users, or other AVs detecting the sample.

WAY too many security companies play both sides of the fence.

More like anti-virus companies are just bad at what they do.

There also seems to an element of elitism among Apple fanboys, thinking their design is the only one that matters.

"Android users obviously picked their device for other reasons than design, so it doesn't have to look as good."

>..."element of elitism among Apple fanboys,"

Let's not use pejoratives. While we are at it, let's not project our own assumptions as points of fact.

You are right, I have but a little anecdotal evidence. In my experience there does exists a group of designers who view Apple to be the gospel of UI design, which can sometimes lead to them ignoring other schools of thought.

So if I've got this right... It's those nasty lazy designerses fault, and has nothing to do with Androids colossal shortcomings either as a platform to develop for, or to earn a living from?

No. And I said, these designers are a minority. Android is definitely hard to get "right" design-wise, but it can be done.

But if all you are trying to do is make it look like iOS, you are on the wrong track.

Monetization issues are a separate problem as far as I can see. While money can shift priorities, but shouldn't affect design.