That sounds like a more reasonable automation than a robot arm.

Right? The article even says that the cone thing has been going on since the eighties, but apparently the council still hasn’t learned.

May I inquire as to which oil you mean — canola? As the staple oil varies by region, so I can’t be sure which one it is for you.

Obligatory: ‘Rules for Rulers’ is a very condensed summary of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s ‘The Dictator’s Handbook’.

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Imgur users on ‘new’ once ran an experiment for a day where they upvoted basically anything — in practice, oddest and weirdest stuff bubbled up. I’ve never seen such entertaining feed before or after.

Passwords are typically sent to the server and hashed there. I’m a bit hazy right now on the implications of client-side hashing, but it would likely present some security problems.

Edit: at the least, it would allow an attacker to use a leaked password database to log in to the sites, sidestepping the whole hashing thing.

There are protocols that send a hashed or encrypted password instead of plaintext, but they’re more complex than just hashing. Iirc they involve a challenge-and-response method.

Google integrates its own services in both the phone and messaging apps: namely spam reporting and blocking. I’m guessing that other major brands also have services to that end.

Google’s ‘Messages’ also has a button to make a video call, and I dunno even what app and protocol would be used for that, as I never used video calls and don’t have any Google apps for that functionality.

Ironically, this is the comment in this thread that’s not paranoid enough, because to my knowledge both Google and Samsung use their own closed-source message and phone apps, along with other standard apps. (Idk about other vendors, but the same is pretty likely for major brands.)

None of what’s been mentioned above requires server-side processing.

That worked hilariously in ‘Deus Ex’ when a friend had both of Denton’s legs shot to shit. Denton crawled around for hours, then stood right up in a cutscene, and after it ended, flopped back on the ground and resumed crawling.

Afaik he sorta changed his position later on, or rather said that he would be making content for phones from then on. I imagine he still wasn’t happy with watching a traditional film on a phone.

Should work alright if the server handles Unicode correctly, and isn’t one of those ass sites that put restrictions on the password’s length and composition. Hashing functions don’t even care if you’re feeding them raw binary.

Thanks to my password manager, commas are among the more tame characters that occur in my passwords.