tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80142478753321103572024-02-19T08:40:48.172+01:00Schavuiten & CoTips and Tricks about the (digital) world around youMaxim Bangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02615320877825589267noreply@blogger.comBlogger773125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-36620920774529391372014-08-08T18:24:00.001+02:002014-08-08T18:24:55.849+02:00iPhone 6 Clone Passed Off as Real Product to Street-Goers in Prank Video [iOS Blog]<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published August 08, 2014 at 05:40PM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><p>While Apple next-generation iPhone is still over a month away from <a href='http://ift.tt/1srGydZ'>being announced</a>, <a href='http://ift.tt/1mhqc0L'>a number of clones</a> from various companies have hit the market to try and capitalize on customer anticipation. In a <a href='http://ift.tt/1ow2miy'>video posted</a> to his channel, YouTuber <a href='http://ift.tt/18PfZXr'>Jonathan Morrison</a> took Goophone’s “i6″ clone to Hollywood Boulevard to see if people would see the Android-based device as a real iPhone 6.<br/><br /><br/> </p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='' frameborder='0' src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yoKFBNbwyyY?feature=player_detailpage' height='315' width='560'> </iframe><br/><br />Individuals were told that the clone was the iPhone 6 and came with a number of new features, including an eight-day battery life, an “A10″ processor, and a high-resolution 8K sapphire display with 3D capabilities. Most people in fact believed those features, with one man proclaiming the phone felt “super fast” and another saying that the display “looked much clearer” than the display on his iPhone 5s.<br/><br /><br/><br />At one point, a young individual in a crowd asks “How many milliamps does it have?” Morrison replies with “7,000″, causing the person to respond “How does that fit in there?!” Others were also told about additional features, with one woman believing that the phone’s photos were too high of a resolution for its screen, and a man in awe over the claimed “26-core” processor.<br/><br /><br/><br />After being asked about Apple’s efforts in comparison to Samsung’s, one man even claims that the device is “really great” and that Apple has “caught up with this one.” Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel <a href='http://ift.tt/WKXf8z'>pulled</a> a similar prank on Hollywood Boulevard last month, with his team showing pedestrians a $20 Casio watch and claiming it to be Apple’s long-awaited iWatch.<img src='http://ift.tt/1oodQJX' height='1' width='1'/><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><a href='http://ift.tt/1ow2nmM'><img src='http://ift.tt/1oodP8K'/> </a><br/><br /><a href='http://ift.tt/1ow2nmP'><img src='http://ift.tt/1oodQJZ'/> </a><br/><br /><a href='http://ift.tt/1ow2miI'><img src='http://ift.tt/1oodP8Q'/> </a><br/><br /><br/><br /><a href='http://ift.tt/1ow2myY'><img src='http://ift.tt/1oodQK5'/> </a><img src='http://ift.tt/1ow2mz4' height='1' width='1'/><br /><div><a href='http://ift.tt/1oodQK7'><img src='http://ift.tt/pnhSPg'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/1ow2nD4'><img src='http://ift.tt/nvEILJ'/> </a> </div><br /><p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://ift.tt/1oodR0p'/><br/> </p><br /><p>The post <a href='http://ift.tt/1owSlSm'>iPhone 6 Clone Passed Off as Real Product to Street-Goers in Prank Video [iOS Blog]</a> appeared first on <a href='http://www.aivanet.com'>AIVAnet</a>.</p><br /><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1owSlSm'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/1owSlSm)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-2023599610462219222014-07-08T15:19:00.001+02:002014-07-08T15:19:58.714+02:00A new Kinect for Windows is coming, and this is why you should care<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published July 08, 2014 at 03:18PM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><img src='http://ift.tt/1xFi3eO' alt=''/><br /><p>Microsoft’s second Kinect for Windows sensor is arriving on July 15th for $199, and it’s aiming to take things even further away from gaming. While Kinect’s early usage was boosted by the Xbox 360, developers haven’t enthusiastically supported Kinect on the Xbox platform ever since. Instead, Kinect has become extremely popular with Windows developers. The latest Kinect for Windows sensor takes the same form as the Xbox One’s version and it’s practically the same. Compared to the previous version, it now features a higher fidelity sensor with a 1080p camera, a larger field of view, and better skeletal tracking.</p><br /><p><a href='http://ift.tt/1n7lYgX'>Developers have been calling out</a> for reduced latency and improved finger tracking, and Microsoft has largely answered those...</p><br /><p><a href='http://ift.tt/1oAMejh'>Continue reading…</a> </p><br /><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1oAMejh'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/1oAMejh)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-36718484378690120762014-07-05T22:12:00.001+02:002014-07-05T22:12:41.039+02:00The Web We Lost<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published July 05, 2014 at 09:50PM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><div><br /><div><br /><p><strong>Update:</strong> A few months after this piece was published, I was invited by Harvard's Berkman Center to speak about this topic in more detail. Though the final talk is an hour long, it offers much more insight into the topic, and I hope you'll give it a look.</p><br /><p><iframe src='//www.youtube.com/embed/9KKMnoTTHJk?rel=0' height='450' width='800'> </iframe> </p><br /><p>The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we've lost along the way in this transition, and I find that younger folks may not even know how the web used to be.</p><br /><p>So here's a few glimpses of a web that's mostly faded away:</p><br /><ul><br /><li>Five years ago, most social photos were uploaded to Flickr, where they could be tagged by humans or even by apps and services, using <a href='http://ift.tt/UG2nSY'>machine tags</a>. Images were easily discoverable on the public web using simple RSS feeds. And the photos people uploaded could easily be licensed under permissive licenses like those provided by Creative Commons, allowing remixing and reuse in all manner of creative ways by artists, businesses, and individuals.</li><br /><li>A decade ago, Technorati let you search most of the social web in real-time (though the search tended to be awful slow in presenting results), with tags that worked as hashtags do on Twitter today. You could find the sites that had linked to your content with a simple search, and find out who was talking about a topic regardless of what tools or platforms they were using to publish their thoughts. At the time, this was so exciting that when Technorati failed to keep up with the growth of the blogosphere, people were so disappointed that even the usually-circumspect Jason Kottke <a href='http://ift.tt/UXb7YE'>flamed the site</a> for letting him down. At the first blush of its early success, though, Technorati elicited <a href='http://ift.tt/VFEBGQ'>effusive praise</a> from the likes of John Gruber:</li><br /></ul><br /><blockquote>[Y]ou could, in theory, write software to examine the source code of a few hundred thousand weblogs, and create a database of the links between these weblogs. If your software was clever enough, it could refresh its information every few hours, adding new links to the database nearly in real time. This is, in fact, exactly what Dave Sifry has created with his amazing Technorati. At this writing, Technorati is watching over 375,000 weblogs, and has tracked over 38 million links. If you haven’t played with Technorati, you’re missing out.<br/> </blockquote><br /><ul><br /><li>Ten years ago, you could allow people to post links on your site, or to show a list of links which were driving inbound traffic to your site. Because Google hadn't yet broadly introduced AdWords and AdSense, links weren't about generating revenue, they were just a tool for expression or editorializing. The web was an interesting and different place before links got monetized, but by 2007 <a href='http://ift.tt/UXb7YG'>it was clear</a> that Google had changed the web forever, and for the worse, by corrupting links.</li><br /></ul><br /><ul><br /><li>In 2003, if you introduced a single-sign-in service that was run by a company, even if you documented the protocol and encouraged others to clone the service, you'd be described as introducing a tracking system <a href='http://ift.tt/VFECKM'>worthy of the PATRIOT act</a>. There was such distrust of consistent authentication services that even Microsoft had to give up on their attempts to create such a sign-in. Though their user experience was not as simple as today's ubiquitous ability to sign in with Facebook or Twitter, the TypeKey service introduced then had much more restrictive terms of service about sharing data. And almost every system which provided identity to users allowed for pseudonyms, respecting the need that people have to not always use their legal names.</li><br /></ul><br /><ul><br /><li>In the early part of this century, if you made a service that let users create or share content, the expectation was that they could easily download a full-fidelity copy of their data, or import that data into other competitive services, with no restrictions. Vendors spent years working on interoperability around data exchange purely for the benefit of their users, despite theoretically lowering the barrier to entry for competitors.</li><br /></ul><br /><ul><br /><li>In the early days of the social web, there was a broad expectation that regular people might own their own identities by having their own websites, instead of being dependent on a few big sites to host their online identity. In this vision, you would own your own domain name and have complete control over its contents, rather than having a handle tacked on to the end of <a href='http://ift.tt/UXb7Yx'>a huge company's site</a>. This was a sensible reaction to the realization that big sites rise and fall in popularity, but that regular people need an identity that persists longer than those sites do.</li><br /></ul><br /><ul><br /><li>Five years ago, if you wanted to show content from one site or app on your own site or app, you could use a <a href='http://ift.tt/VFEBGS'>simple, documented format</a> to do so, without requiring a business-development deal or contractual agreement between the sites. Thus, user experiences weren't subject to the vagaries of the political battles between different companies, but instead were consistently based on the extensible architecture of the web itself.</li><br /></ul><br /><ul><br /><li>A dozen years ago, when people wanted to support publishing tools that epitomized all of these traits, they'd <a href='http://ift.tt/UXb7YL'>crowd-fund the costs</a> of the servers and technology needed to support them, even though things cost a lot more in that era before cloud computing and cheap bandwidth. Their peers in the technology world, though ostensibly competitors, would even contribute to those efforts.</li><br /></ul><br /><p>This isn't our web today. We've lost key features that we used to rely on, and worse, we've abandoned core values that used to be fundamental to the web world. To the credit of today's social networks, they've brought in hundreds of millions of new participants to these networks, and they've certainly made a small number of people rich.</p><br /><p>But they haven't shown <em>the web itself</em> the respect and care it deserves, as a medium which has enabled them to succeed. And they've now narrowed the possibilites of the web for an entire generation of users who don't realize how much more innovative and meaningful their experience could be.</p><br /><h3>Back To The Future</h3><br /><p>When you see interesting data mash-ups today, they are often still using Flickr photos because Instagram's meager metadata sucks, and the app is only reluctantly on the web at all. We get excuses about why we can't search for old tweets or our own relevant Facebook content, though we got more comprehensive results from a Technorati search that was cobbled together on the feeble software platforms of its era. We get bullshit turf battles like Tumblr not being able to find your Twitter friends or Facebook not letting Instagram photos show up on Twitter because of giant companies pursuing their agendas instead of collaborating in a way that would serve users. And we get a generation of entrepreneurs encouraged to make more narrow-minded, web-hostile products like these because it continues to make a small number of wealthy people even more wealthy, instead of letting lots of people build innovative new opportunities for themselves on top of the web itself.</p><br /><p>We'll fix these things; I don't worry about that. The technology industry, like all industries, follows cycles, and the pendulum is swinging back to the broad, empowering philosophies that underpinned the early social web. But we're going to face a big challenge with re-educating a billion people about what the web <em>means</em>, akin to the years we spent as everyone moved off of AOL a decade ago, teaching them that there was so much more to the experience of the Internet than what they know.</p><br /><p>This isn't some standard polemic about "those stupid walled-garden networks are bad!" I know that Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest and LinkedIn and the rest are <em>great</em> sites, and they give their users a lot of value. They're amazing achievements, from a pure software perspective. But they're based on a few assumptions that aren't necessarily correct. The primary fallacy that underpins many of their mistakes is that user flexibility and control necessarily lead to a user experience complexity that hurts growth. And the second, more grave fallacy, is the thinking that exerting extreme control over users is the best way to maximize the profitability and sustainability of their networks.</p><br /><p>The first step to disabusing them of this notion is for the people creating the next generation of social applications to learn a little bit of history, to <em>know your shit</em>, whether that's about <a href='http://ift.tt/VFECKO'>Twitter's business model</a> or <a href='http://ift.tt/JNdusC'>Google's social features</a> or anything else. We have to know what's been tried and failed, what good ideas were simply ahead of their time, and what opportunities have been lost in the current generation of dominant social networks.</p><br /><p>So what did I miss? What else have we lost on the social web?</p><br /><p><strong>A follow-up:</strong> How we <a href='http://ift.tt/VOkExB'>rebuild the web we lost</a>.</p><br /></div><br /></div><br /><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/Xifn2F'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/Xifn2F)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-79373558385226438552014-05-02T10:13:00.001+02:002014-05-02T10:13:42.203+02:00Microsoft’s decision to patch Windows XP is a mistake<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published May 02, 2014 at 10:02AM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><div><br /><div><img src='http://ift.tt/1i33GXi'/><br /><div><br /><div>Aurich Lawson</div><br /></div><br /></div><br /><p>Microsoft officially <a href='http://ift.tt/PZ7CC3'>ended support of the twelve-and-a-half-year-old Windows XP operating system</a> a few weeks ago. Except it apparently didn't, because the company has <a href='http://ift.tt/1miq2fR'>included Windows XP in its off-cycle patch to fix an Internet Explorer zero-day</a> that's receiving some amount of in-the-wild exploitation. The unsupported operating system is, in fact, being supported.</p><br /><p><a href='http://ift.tt/1jlBxPY'>Explaining its actions</a>, Microsoft says that this patch is an "exception" because of the "proximity to the end of support for Windows XP."</p><br /><p>The decision to release this patch is a mistake, and the rationale for doing so is inadequate.</p><br /></div><br /><p><a href='http://ift.tt/1lEvYgl'>Read 12 remaining paragraphs</a> | <a href='http://ift.tt/1i33F5D'>Comments</a> </p><br /><div><a href='http://ift.tt/1lEvZB0'><img src='http://ift.tt/1i33GXo'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/1lEvZB4'><img src='http://ift.tt/1i33F5L'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/1lEvZRk'><img src='http://ift.tt/hxKzPZ'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/1i33F5N'><img src='http://ift.tt/fJf6RR'/> </a> </div><br /><img width='1' height='1' src='http://ift.tt/1lEvZRm'/><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1lEvYwN'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/1lEvYwN)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-74324806980753851982014-05-01T23:09:00.001+02:002014-05-01T23:09:02.247+02:00NATO OFFICIAL: Russia Is Now An Adversary<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published May 01, 2014 at 10:54PM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><p><img alt='Ukraine' src='http://ift.tt/1nNcmsD'/> </p><br /><p>WASHINGTON (AP) — After two decades of trying to build a partnership with Russia, the NATO alliance now feels compelled to start treating Moscow as an adversary, the second-ranking official of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said Thursday.</p><br /><p>"Clearly the Russians have declared NATO as an adversary, so we have to begin to view Russia no longer as a partner but as more of an adversary than a partner," said Alexander Vershbow, the deputy secretary-general of NATO.</p><br /><p>In a question-and-answer session with a small group of reporters, Vershbow said Russia's annexation of Crimea and its apparent manipulation of unrest in eastern Ukraine have fundamentally changed the NATO-Russia relationship.</p><br /><p>"In central Europe, clearly we have two different visions of what European security should be like," Vershbow, a former U.S. diplomat and former Pentagon official, said. "We still would defend the sovereignty and freedom of choice of Russia's neighbors, and Russia clearly is trying to re-impose hegemony and limit their sovereignty under the guise of a defense of the Russian world."</p><br /><p>In April, NATO suspended all "practical civilian and military cooperation" with Russia, although Russia has maintained its diplomatic mission to NATO, which was established in 1998.</p><br /><p>Vershbow said NATO, created 65 years ago as a bulwark against the former Soviet Union, is considering new defensive measures aimed at deterring Russia from any aggression against NATO members along its border, such as the Baltic states that were once part of the Soviet Union, Vershbow said.</p><br /><p>"We want to be sure that we can come to the aid of these countries if there were any, even indirect, threat very quickly before any facts on the ground can be established," he said.</p><br /><p>To do that, NATO members will have to shorten the response time of its forces, he said.</p><br /><p>Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, said that among possible moves by NATO is deployment of more substantial numbers of allied combat forces to Eastern Europe, either permanently or on a rotational basis.</p><br /><p>For the time being, he said, such defensive measures would be taken without violating the political pledge NATO made in 1997 when it established a new relationship with Moscow on terms aimed at offsetting Russian anger at the expansion of NATO to include Poland and other nations on Russia's periphery. At the time, NATO said it would not station nuclear weapons or substantial numbers of combat troops on the territory of those new members. For its part, Moscow pledged to respect the territorial integrity of other states.</p><br /><p>Vershbow argued that Russia has violated its part of that agreement by its actions in Ukraine, and thus, "we would be within our rights now" to set aside the 1997 commitment by permanently stationing substantial numbers of combat troops in Poland or other NATO member nations in Eastern Europe. He said that question will be considered by leaders of NATO nations over the summer.</p><br /><div><br /><p>Copyright (2014) Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p><br /></div><br /><p><img height='1' width='1' alt='' src='http://ift.tt/1rJIL0T'/> </p><br /><p><a href='http://ift.tt/1rJIN96'>Join the conversation about this story »</a> </p><br /><img src='http://ift.tt/1hi0F65' height='1' width='1'/><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><a href='http://ift.tt/R4DPIJ'><img src='http://ift.tt/1hi0F67'/> </a><br/><br /><a href='http://ift.tt/1hi0Den'><img src='http://ift.tt/R4DPIL'/> </a><br/><br /><a href='http://ift.tt/R4DRjU'><img src='http://ift.tt/R4DRjW'/> </a><br/><br /><br/><br /><a href='http://ift.tt/1hi0Deq'><img src='http://ift.tt/1hi0Des'/> </a><img src='http://ift.tt/1hi0Fmt' height='1' width='1'/><br /><div><a href='http://ift.tt/1hi0Dew'><img src='http://ift.tt/iiIS4z'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/R4DPZk'><img src='http://ift.tt/1hi0Dez'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/1hi0DuS'><img src='http://ift.tt/R4DPZo'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/1hi0Fmz'><img src='http://ift.tt/hIQLWI'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/R4DRAl'><img src='http://ift.tt/R4DPZt'/> </a> </div><br /><img width='1' height='1' src='http://ift.tt/1hi0FmB'/><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/R4E3j5'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/R4E3j5)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-82231173992896526172014-04-23T00:56:00.001+02:002014-04-23T00:56:31.756+02:00iPhones and Macs get fix for extremely critical “triple handshake” crypto bug<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published April 23, 2014 at 12:34AM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><div><br /><div><img src='http://ift.tt/1tz11Om'/><br /><div><br /><div><a href='http://ift.tt/1rgDZJZ'>ShellyS</a> </div><br /></div><br /></div><br /><p>Apple has patched versions of its iOS and OS X operating systems to fix yet another extremely critical cryptography vulnerability that leaves some users open to surreptitious eavesdropping. Readers are urged to install the updates immediately.</p><br /><p>The flaw resides in the secure transport mechanism of iOS version 7.1 and earlier for iPhones and iPads and the Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and Mavericks 10.9.2 versions of Mac OS X, according to advisories <a href='http://ift.tt/RJiXaQ'>here</a> and <a href='http://ift.tt/1flHEz0'>here</a>. The bug makes it possible to bypass HTTPS encryption protections that are designed to prevent eavesdropping and data tampering by attackers with the capability to monitor traffic sent by and received from vulnerable devices. Such "man-in-the-middle" attackers could exploit the bug by abusing the "triple handshake" carried out when secure connections are established by applications that use client certificates to authenticate end users.</p><br /><p>"In a 'triple handshake' attack, it was possible for an attacker to establish two connections which had the same encryption keys and handshake, insert the attacker's data in one connection, and renegotiate so that the connections may be forwarded to each other," Apple's warning explained. "To prevent attacks based on this scenario, Secure Transport was changed so that, by default, a renegotiation must present the same server certificate as was presented in the original connection."</p><br /></div><br /><p><a href='http://ift.tt/1tz138Q'>Read 4 remaining paragraphs</a> | <a href='http://ift.tt/1rgDXlm'>Comments</a> </p><br /><div><a href='http://ift.tt/1rgErb8'><img src='http://ift.tt/1tz1rnZ'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/1tz1rEd'><img src='http://ift.tt/1rgErbd'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/1tz1rEj'><img src='http://ift.tt/hxKzPZ'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/1rgEp2T'><img src='http://ift.tt/fJf6RR'/> </a> </div><br /><img width='1' height='1' src='http://ift.tt/1tz1rEl'/><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1tz1uQs'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/1tz1uQs)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-15778712328741268282014-04-21T00:24:00.001+02:002014-04-21T00:24:19.124+02:00Powdered alcohol is coming to a liquor store near you<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published April 21, 2014 at 12:13AM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><img src='http://ift.tt/1lrJUwF' alt=''/><br /><p>Putting a can of beer in a brown paper bag is about to look like child's play. A new product that's somehow been approved by US regulators makes booze as discreet as a packet of sugar. It's called Palcohol, and it transforms a shot of vodka or rum into a pocketable pouch of powder. Tear it open, add some water, mix, and you've got hard liquor. Considering the age group that Palcohol is going to appeal to, however, the sweet, pre-mixed powders are probably going to be far more popular. To start off, the company plans to make margarita, mojito, cosmopolitan, and lemon drop flavors.</p><br /><p><a href='http://ift.tt/1lrBzZU'>Continue reading…</a> </p><br /><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1lrBzZU'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/1lrBzZU)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-37800106248658019992014-04-19T23:27:00.001+02:002014-04-19T23:27:21.826+02:00SOE president says H1Z1 makers are 'fans and contributors' of DayZ<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published April 19, 2014 at 11:11PM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><img src='http://ift.tt/1mnvrl1' alt=''/><br /><p>In an AMA on Reddit yesterday, John Smedley, the president of Sony Online Entertainment, was asked about similarities that SOE's upcoming MMO <i>H1Z1</i> shares with <i>DayZ</i>, the tremendously successful <i>ArmA 2</i> mod from 2012 set in a post-apocalyptic open world. Smedley acknowledged that he, and "most of the people on our team" are 'fans and contributors' of <i>DayZ.</i> </p><br /><p>"Not going to give some politically correct dodgy b.s. answer," he wrote. "<i>H1Z1</i> is a survival in a Zombie Apocalypse game. So is <i>DayZ</i>. They have made a brilliant game (first I might add). So sure. We're another Zombie Apocalypse game. Call it what it is. But our goal is to make ours fun, accessible, hard core and super, super deep.</p><br /><p>"This is our take on the Zombie Apocalypse with a lot...</p><br /><p><a href='http://ift.tt/1hYXg0Z'>Continue reading…</a> </p><br /><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1hYXg0Z'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/1hYXg0Z)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-37801294604590596832014-04-18T22:29:00.001+02:002014-04-18T22:29:02.031+02:00SpaceX's third supply mission takes off for the ISS<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published April 18, 2014 at 10:11PM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><img src='http://ift.tt/1gHyHjG' alt=''/><br /><p><i><b>Update April 18th, 2014 3:30pm:</b> The Falcon 9 has successfully launched, and the capsule is headed towards the ISS for a Sunday docking.</i> </p><br /><p>After weeks of delays, SpaceX is preparing to launch its third supply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9 rocket and accompanying Dragon capsule are expected to blast off from Cape Canaveral at 3:25 EDT, and the craft is set to rendezvous with the space station on the morning of Sunday, April 20th. A video feed of the takeoff will go live around 2:45PM. The CRS-3 mission, carried out through a partnership with NASA, comes almost two years after the Dragon capsule became the first commercial craft to ever dock with the ISS. This time, SpaceX is using the flight to test the next steps...</p><br /><p><a href='http://ift.tt/1qVspnx'>Continue reading…</a> </p><br /><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1qVspnx'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/1qVspnx)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-41177696112149319882014-04-18T00:45:00.001+02:002014-04-18T00:45:02.291+02:00Pope Francis Washes Feet Of Disabled, Including An Elderly Muslim<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published April 18, 2014 at 12:39AM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><p><img alt='pope kisses and washes feet' src='http://ift.tt/1eOTTt2'/> </p><br /><p>Pope Francis washed the feet of a dozen elderly and disabled people including a Libyan Muslim during an Easter ritual in Rome on Thursday imitating Jesus Christ's humility.</p><br /><p>The 77-year-old bent down with difficulty to wash and kiss the feet of the nine Italians and three foreigners aged between 16 and 86 years old at the Don Carlo Gnocchi foundation's Santa Maria della Provvidenza centre.</p><br /><p>Francis arrived in a Ford Focus to cheers from crowds and stopped to speak with elderly and disabled people gathered at the centre's modern Church in Rome's suburbs, before picking up a silver urn of water and a white towel, and kneeling in front of the chosen 12.</p><br /><p>"It was the slaves, the servants who washed the dirt from the street off the feet of arriving guests. Jesus did a slave's job. He is God and became our servant," the pope said.</p><br /><p>The youngest to have his feet washed at the ceremony, which is part of the run-up to Easter Sunday, was 16-year-old Osvaldinho from Cape Verde, who is wheelchair bound after damaging his spine diving into the sea last summer.</p><br /><p>Angelica, 86, who fell and broke her hip last year, was the oldest -- along with artisan Pietro, who suffers from muscular problems and poor balance.</p><br /><p>Among the others was 75-year-old Hamed, a Libyan Muslim who worked for years for the Italian-Arab chamber of commerce, before a road accident left him with serious neurological damage.</p><br /><p>Francis has often shown particular attention to disabled people and the elderly, condemning a "hidden euthanasia" in modern societies against the old.</p><br /><p>Shortly after his election last year, Francis visited a youth detention centre where he performed the washing of feet ritual on a group of young inmates -- including two Muslims, the first Catholic leader ever to do so.</p><br /><div><br /><p>Copyright (2014) AFP. 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But there are two approaches to tackling the water: either try to forcefully block it with walls and similar devices, or work around the water and give it a place to go. The latter approach has recently been championed in the Netherlands (which is no stranger to water), and last year one of the top minds in charge of keeping the Dutch dry came to work for the Obama administration. His name is Henk Ovink, and <a href='http://ift.tt/1hrPg8C'>a <i>New York Times</i> profile</a> looks into <a href='http://ift.tt/1hq73fr'>some of the work he's doing in the States</a>. According to Ovink, the biggest challenge is changing how we view water. It's not a...</p><br /><p><a href='http://ift.tt/1nhZish'>Continue reading…</a> </p><br /><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1nhZish'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/1nhZish)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-933803252203296862014-04-10T16:27:00.001+02:002014-04-10T16:27:54.160+02:00Thank XP: Desktop PC sales take off again in Western Europe<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published April 10, 2014 at 04:22PM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br />PC sales in Western Europe have risen after 13 consecutive quarters of decline, according to market research company Gartner. The market research company said government spending and the replacement of machines running Windows XP contributed to the growth.<img src='http://ift.tt/1qxw74p' height='1' width='1'/><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><a href='http://ift.tt/1n7YdTW'><img src='http://ift.tt/1n7Yeac'/> </a><br/><br /><a href='http://ift.tt/1gcO3jm'><img src='http://ift.tt/1n7Yeae'/> </a><br/><br /><a href='http://ift.tt/1gcO3jo'><img src='http://ift.tt/1n7Yeam'/> </a><br/><br /><br/><br /><a href='http://ift.tt/1gcO3js'><img src='http://ift.tt/1n7YcPC'/> </a><img src='http://ift.tt/1gcO3ju' height='1' width='1'/><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1qkJBCl'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/1qkJBCl)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-20197418608441933992014-04-10T00:51:00.001+02:002014-04-10T00:51:05.808+02:00Whitehat hacker goes too far, gets raided by FBI, tells all<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published April 10, 2014 at 12:42AM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><div><br /><p>A whitehat hacker from the Baltimore suburbs went too far in his effort to drive home a point about a security vulnerability he reported to a client. Now he’s unemployed and <a href='http://ift.tt/1fYo0MZ'>telling all on reddit</a>.</p><br /><p>David Helkowski was working for Canton Group, a Baltimore-based software consulting firm on a project for the University of Maryland (UMD), when he claims he found malware on the university’s servers that could be used to gain access to personal data of students and faculty. But he says his employer and the university failed to take action on the report, and the vulnerability remained in place even after a data breach exposed more than 300,000 students’ and former students’ Social Security numbers.</p><br /><p>As Helkowski said to a co-worker in Steam chat, “I got tired of being ignored, so I forced their hand.” He penetrated the university’s network from home, working over multiple VPNs, and downloaded the personal data of members of the university’s security task force. He then posted the data to Pastebin and e-mailed the members of the task force anonymously on March 15.</p><br /></div><br /><p><a href='http://ift.tt/1kruacx'>Read 6 remaining paragraphs</a> | <a href='http://ift.tt/1kruacz'>Comments</a> </p><br /><div><a href='http://ift.tt/1iv7OQm'><img src='http://ift.tt/1elmPJ8'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/1iv7OQr'><img src='http://ift.tt/1elmPZu'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/1iv7Mba'><img src='http://ift.tt/hxKzPZ'/> </a> <a href='http://ift.tt/1iv7Mbf'><img src='http://ift.tt/fJf6RR'/> </a> </div><br /><img width='1' height='1' src='http://ift.tt/1iv7P6M'/><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1iv7P6Q'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/1iv7P6Q)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-68201848295352871732014-04-09T11:40:00.001+02:002014-04-09T11:40:45.003+02:00Dear readers, please change your Ars account passwords ASAP<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published April 09, 2014 at 11:37AM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><div><br /><p>For more than two years, the Internet's most popular implementation of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol has contained a critical defect that allowed attackers to pluck passwords, authentication cookies, and other sensitive data out of the private server memory of websites. Ars was among the millions of sites using the OpenSSL library, and that means we too were bitten by this extraordinarily nasty bug.</p><br /><p>By mid morning Tuesday, Ars engineers already updated OpenSSL and revoked and replaced our site's old TLS certificate. That effectively plugged the hole created by the vulnerability. By installing the OpenSSL update, attackers could no longer siphon sensitive data out of our server memory. And although there's no evidence the private encryption key for Ars' previous TLS certificate was compromised, the replacement ensured no one could impersonate the site in the event hackers obtained the key.</p><br /><p>With Ars servers fully updated, it's time to turn our attention to the next phase of recovery. In the hours immediately following the <a href='http://ift.tt/PVkclz'>public disclosure of the so-called Heartbleed vulnerability</a>, several readers reported their Ars accounts were hijacked by people who exploited the bug and obtained other readers' account passwords. There's no way of knowing if compromises happened earlier than that. Ars has no evidence such hacks did occur, but two years is a long time. 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Roslyn includes a C# and Visual Basic.NET compiler, offering what Microsoft calls a "compiler as a service."</p><br /><p>Many—though not all—compilers operate essentially as black boxes. They slurp in source code at the front, and spew out executable code at the back. With Roslyn, Microsoft is taking a different approach. The Roslyn compiler can be used as a library. 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The study's authors say their research demonstrates that an ancient virus known as human endogenous retrovirus subfamily H, or HERV-H, plays a key role in pluripotency.</p><br /><p><q>H...</q> </p><br /><p><a href='http://ift.tt/1hp8I46'>Continue reading…</a> </p><br /><br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/<a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1hp8I46'>View@Source</a>\*\*\*\*\* (http://ift.tt/1hp8I46)<br/><br /><br/><br />[IFTTTautoSHAREv1.015 | Shared with ifttt.com More shared news etc on: <a target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog'>http://bit.ly/Schavuiten_blog</a> | RSS source: <a target='_blank' href='http://ift.tt/1heth1N'>http://ift.tt/1heth1N</a>]</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS feed from Schavuiten & Co Blogger Dump Site</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05475970856298738016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014247875332110357.post-79964181142215175822014-03-27T12:27:00.001+01:002014-03-27T12:27:43.996+01:00Piloot bewusteloos, passagier neemt over<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>[~Time Published March 27, 2014 at 12:03PM]<br/><br />*/*/*/*/*/\*\*\*\*\*<br/><br /><p>SYDNEY - De passagier van een Australische Piper PA-28 Cherokee moest onlangs de stuurknuppel zelf ter hand nemen toen de piloot tien minuten na vertrek het bewustzijn verloor. 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"Whatever game you're currently working on or dreaming up, it's going to pass at some point."</p><br /><p>Titled "The Inevitable Sunset," the talk brought up the financial, legal and community-related questions developers need to ask themselves while considering their game's end. It starts with the trigger point, or the cause that will ultimately force the game to end.</p><br /><p>"Death is different for games," Perry said. "Your players live on, hopefully. 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Douglas was bijzonder veelzijdig. Zijn stem was te horen onder de trailer van het aids-drama <i>Philadelphia</i>, maar werd ook gebruikt voor de komedies <i>Forrest Gump</i> en <i>Meet the Parents</i>. Bovendien deed hij de voice-over van Kevin Costners scienceficiton-flop <i>Waterworld</i>.<br />
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KUALA LUMPUR (ANP/RTR) - Voordat de Boeing 777-200 van Malaysia Airlines zaterdag van de radarschermen verdween, heeft het vliegtuig mogelijk rechtsomkeert gemaakt. Radargegevens geven daar aanwijzingen voor, meldde de Maleisische luchtmacht zondag. "We hebben de radargegevens teruggekeken en beseften dat er een mogelijkheid bestaat dat het toestel op de route is teruggekeerd", zei generaal Rodzali Daud van de Maleisische luchtmacht.<br />
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In de wateren tussen Maleisië en Vietnam is nog geen spoor gevonden van het vermiste vliegtuig van Malaysia Airlines dat gisteravond van de radar verdween. Aan boord van het toestel zijn 12 bemanningsleden en 227 passagiers, de meeste uit China maar ook uit andere landen in Azië, Europa en Noord-Amerika.<img src="http://ift.tt/1ozLOHx" height="1" width="1" /><br />
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You may remember the <a href="http://ift.tt/1q1cnsy">HTC HD2</a> from posts such as “<a href="http://ift.tt/NQYzSq">will it play Tekken 3?</a>” and “<a href="http://ift.tt/NQYzSv">wait, it runs Windows RT now?</a>” Despite the handset’s age, a stalwart community keeps it relevant by getting anything and everything to run on the developer favorite. It’s only fitting, then, that the HD2 be one of the first to don Nokia’s heavily skinned version of Android, other than the unreleased <a href="http://ift.tt/MotFQh">X family</a>, of course. That’s right: An <i>XDA Developers</i> forum member by the name of gilbert32 has apparently succeeded in porting some form of the Nokia X Android build onto a rather beat-up-looking HD2. We <i>say</i> succeeded, but while it looks the part and plays a booting sound when fired up, “everything else” is admittedly non-functional. Then again, if the goal was to show the HD2 still has legs <a href="http://ift.tt/NQYzSx">after all this time</a>, then mission accomplished, sir.<br />
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When we reviewed <a href="http://ift.tt/19eY4uf">Samsung's Galaxy Note 3</a> back in October, we noticed that it was doing something funny. Launching most benchmarking applications would <a href="http://ift.tt/15IYcw6">kick the phone's CPU into overdrive</a>, forcing all CPU cores to run at their maximum rated speeds for as long as the application was open. Maxing out the CPU frequencies threw a wrench in our standard suite of tests, inflating some benchmark scores by around 20 percent.<br />
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This wasn't the first time Samsung had been caught, um, "enhancing" the performance of its hardware—AnandTech had <a href="http://ift.tt/1e8iTFl">discovered</a> similar CPU and GPU optimizations in the international version of the Galaxy S4 two months before. However, this was the first time we had seen it show up in the North American version of one of Samsung's phones. Even worse, as Samsung rolled the Android 4.3 update out to its older phones, other phones all began to exhibit the same behavior. Our AT&T Galaxy S III and Galaxy S4 didn't max out their CPUs under Android 4.1.2 and 4.2.2 (respectively), but they started to act just like the Note 3 after being updated. Not only were Samsung's benchmark boosting additions intentional, but they had become a "feature" baked into its branch of the Android tree.<br />
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We've changed our testing procedures to avoid this particular kind of benchmark boosting, and I was prepared to write it off as an annoying fact of life—after all, while benchmarks are useful as a way to determine the relative performance of a piece of hardware, they aren't the only factor (or even a particularly important factor) in most peoples' purchasing decisions. That was before I heard from John Poole, whose company <a href="http://ift.tt/LdWTKj">Primate Labs</a> develops the <a href="http://ift.tt/NCIAEE">Geekbench CPU benchmark</a> we use in most of our reviews. After working with Poole and the Primate Labs team for a few days, we can now say a lot more about just how Samsung was implementing the boosting "feature" in Android 4.3, and that it appears to be absent from the company's Android 4.4 update.<br />
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