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The CDC has issued guidance that the COVID-19 vaccines and routine vaccines can be administered without regard for each other’s schedules including at the same time. As I understan…

My favorite version of this trend remains http://alwayshttp.com because https://alwayshttp.com doesn't work since alwayshttp.com:443 doesn't connect. On the other hand, it's possib…

Card networks offer services to receive updated credit card numbers for mutual customers now and have for a bunch of years. If your credit card expires, many subscription providers…

While returns are made more complicated by Google and Apple Pay, the card numbers aren’t single-use (which I’m not sure if you mean to imply is the case with google pay today). On …

Unfortunately (from some perspectives), this isn’t true. Each instance of a card in Apple Pay has a long term Device Account Number (DAN) that functions the same as a physical card…

Are you saying that there are zero people that take the MARC commuter rail out of Odenton and transfer to Metro? People that would (without Metro) have no way of getting from MARC …

It already does work like this in iOS 11. Apps can present the System photo picker to you and receive only your selected photo while having their Photos access set to "Never". If y…

Five incorrect/bad fingerprint reads will require passcode.

Regardless of SNI the certificate is unencrypted (until TLS 1.3).

Additionally, FPGAs offer better cryptographic algorithm agility than ASICs. With an FPGA you stand a much better chance of being able to upgrade your expensive network hardware wi…

Where would that software auto-update get the decryption key from? If the user has enabled a passcode, then their passcode is used in generation of the key used to protect the disk…

Maryland (at least around Baltimore and DC, in my experience) often feels like a no-region's-land: many Southerners will claim it's the North and Northerners will claim that it's t…

In the case of this specific paper from this specific conference, you're in a lot of luck. USENIX put out the full proceedings as a giant PDF, an ePub, and a Mobi ([1]). If you wan…

The paper won't be available to everyone until Wednesday at [1], but: > Altogether, of the 639,283 [Android] apps in our data-set, 45 implement pinning. [1]: https://www.usenix.org…

As a non-CA resident I've benefitted from these stickers. One time I was given a bar set which included a shaker which had a sticker on it that said something along the lines of "T…

> If we accept LGBTQ as a circuitry of the mind, why don't we treat homophobia the same? Are you telling me that you think some people are biologically predisposed towards homophob…

Here's just the original video that comprises all of the content in this post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eSrdgTHhK0

Nokia as a company has existed since the 1800s and first released a mobile telephone in the 1960s. Apple was incorporated in 1977. Motorola is the company that came out with the fi…

I believe that they were talking specifically about the programs which create orders which are never fulfulled. That way their programs creating real trades have an advantage (sinc…

That isn't what security through obscurity ever means though. You're taking the words at face value while everyone else is using the words for what they actually mean. Security by …

I'm sorry, but your logic here is just terrible. Your argument is that "I don't want an iPad" and "The iPad isn't a full computer" implies that "Nobody needs/wants LaTeX on an iPad…

I'd just like to quickly point out that the pie charts for "What gets talked about on the inside" are somewhat useless because they not only don't add up to 100%, but the sum of pe…

That isn't the least bit of what's happening here. Google's streetview cars simply map your router's SSID (actually, as far as I can tell, it's the MAC address) to coordinates that…