puddintane
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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/zc ; my proof: https://keybase.io/zc/sigs/CUu54LVTP5kAjHD9siBuy5Ys2UgWlx2HWA1pWIWqx5E ]
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Comment · 9 years ago
Looks like services are back up as of 7 minutes ago
9/12/2017 @ 10:27 AM +MST (Time services reported back up according to status page)
Comment · 9 years ago
Bandwidth amount wise - really not that much.
Looking at my history (pretty active player) I've used about 184 MB since June 24th (I am not as active on weekends so for the sake of this example I actually played 18 days out of the month averaged about the same per day). On average that means about 10.2 MB per day of playing (looking at the graph, however, I would say I used about 20 MB the day of the event as I was out for about twice as much time that day).
I don't think that is considered a lot
Comment · 9 years ago
As thekaleb mentioned the creator seems to reference this symbol a lot in his games. Here is more of a back story (after some google-fu of course as I'm not very familiar with the games)
Seems like Keen 5 has it as an easter egg to reference Wolfenstein [1].
And Wolfenstein uses it since the game has a "Nazi Party" within it (if you fight them or fight with them I'm not aware of) [2].
Interesting quote from [2] "The inclusion of the swastika led to the banning of the conventional game in Germany, as cultural stigma against the swastika is high there."
[1] http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Keen_5_Easter_eggs#Swastika
Comment · 9 years ago
I wonder if they will block cell signals?
I've noticed in certain Walmarts my signal won't work no matter where I am - more than likely the thick walls I would assume were blocking the signal not some malicious attempt to stop me from price matching.
Comment · 9 years ago
Regarding the DNA bank: I would like to know what information will they hold - just digital fingerprints of the DNA, or actual organic material. Depending on what is stored this could become a big target for various organizations to get a hold of.
Then next you have to worry about a) Someone abusing their power and using the information/robots against you for unfair reasons, or b) Hackers are constantly trying to break into various systems and I'm sure this bank/human-less-cop-force would attract some sort of attention.
To be fair though I have never planned to visit Dubai because of personal conflict of interests so hopefully if this does become a thing and is successful it stays in Dubai.
Comment · 9 years ago
For the lazy: (this will hide the referral and not forward you to the image crying about HN traffic)
Comment · 9 years ago
The feature does exist however it doesn't work in every scenario. Essentially when your pager shows
"X - Y of Z" (and not "X - Y of many") the keyword being many of course.
Your able to hover over the "X - Y of Z" and choose "Oldest" [1].
So essentially if data is indexed your able to.
I was not able to search any filter and apply this however on any Label I created I was able to do this.
So steps to find the oldest from amazon would probably have to be
1. Create filter+label that groups them all into one category. Wait for indexing to catch up should be fairly quickly since we are not talking petabytes of random data.
2. Choose the label on the left and on the top right hover over the "1-100 of 9999" and choose oldest.
Not the best work-a-round of course and makes sense why it's setup this way (Helps with optimization) however if a person sets up a lot of labels then they are already set up to do this feature.
[1] https://gsuitetips.com/tips/gmail/sort-email-by-oldest-first...
edit Also there is the method of using the search field parameters for example.
"Amazon.com before:2004/04/16" [2]
then you could more quickly go thru them (however if you didn't know your starting point this would prove to be tricky of course!)
Comment · 9 years ago
Thank you for this information - seems to be so - just tried a VPN from Canada and it only shows the email that I entered. However I still would like to disable it on the off chance that someone in the future messes up. May never happen but I'd like to not take that risk. Thank you none-the-less as that has eased my mind a little bit.
Comment · 9 years ago
This feature really grinds my gears. They should at least allow a feature to disable showing the picture/name until the user has logged in. In some cases I'm handing out my email to avoid handing out my actual identity because I don't want to be spammed or followed. Until then I will continue to use a false name and photo under my accounts signed up to google (apart from the one work email I have thru them).
Comment · 9 years ago
Pollution is essentially what I meant apologies for my poor phrasing.
However detection of these devices could become easy considering they probably wouldn't move a lot, meaning you'd have to either (a) move the device frequently and randomly or (b) the antenna that reproduces the signal would need to add a bit of weakness to the signal to adjust and make the user look like he is moving.
(e.g. If the signal strength stays the same constantly then it might be easy to tell the user isn't moving ever and therefore likely not a spot they are at currently, or even if everyone shares a very similar signal strength).
According to the description on GitHub the system only adjusts the sequence numbers.