This whole method wouldn't work on any modern device following Google's recommendations for partition setup and security. On such a device you wouldn't be able to modify the system partition even with root and if you did it wouldn't boot.

install-recovery hasn't been supported since several Android versions, and it together with chattr are very old-school ways of root survival. Every non-malicious jailbreak app covering the "vulnerable" Android version uses them, they use it to keep the device jailbroken through OS updates.

This is root straight from the book. If it took "security researchers" this long to figure it out, they know preciously little about Android.

A full device reflash from the PC (including data wipe) would also nuke this, no questions asked. If the user installs the malicious app again though...

Binged it just fine. Loved it. Author is weak.

But that is the point though isn't. It's not a newsworthy story. And even it did deserve a mention, it certainly didn't warrant the outrage displayed. Most of that is because the guy was black, which I'm pretty sure is also just racism.

I'm as white as they come and Google Photos has tagged several monkeys in my pictures as me. Nobody is writing news stories about that (as well they shouldn't!), but because this guy is black the world ended ?

It has nothing to do with the nth crackdown. Prices have been significantly higher in South Korea compared to the rest of the world for many coins, if you take the South Korean Won (KRW) trading pair and then convert that price to its US Dollar (or Euro, or whatever) equivalent. However you should see the crypto/KRW exchange rates as a closed system, as it is not an easily traded coin internationally, which make arbitrage (almost) impossible.

It is correct for CoinMarketCap to filter out the crypto/KRW pairs to arrive at an average price, as you were never actually able to trade your coins for the KRW listed (unless you're Korean, of course), and they had a very significant effect on the price if many coins.

Of course, real traders care only about the specific prices of the exchanges they can actually exchange at.

What a load of self-serving nonsense.

Even if those two countries are worse, the US is still worse (per capita) than virtually any other nation. Just because you aren't the absolute worst is hardly a justification for doing nothing.

China is working hard and beating the terms of any agreements they made.

A very large part of India is so poor they don't have access to electricity, gas, or clean water. Yes, these people are responsible for a lot of the bad gasses, because they literally cook on dung set on fire. But what do you expect these people to do? Not eat? They have no other option, and we cannot expect them to solve this issue, and you cannot expect India as a country to eradicate poverty in a 5 year time-span. And even including that, India isn't actually doing that bad on improving things.

But it does mean the rest of us, especially those with means (like us westerners), will have to work extra hard to make we're going to be alright.

As for the US' 25% reduction, how can you say it does nothing for the world? Even if you are right and the US is only 16%, that's still a 4% global decrease. If other countries do this as well, it is a lot more. But you're just thinking about yourself: if everybody does it but not us, then the difference is minor. What if everybody thought this way? Do you not think it costs other countries a lot of money to get there? Converting to clean energy and less polluting manufacturing isn't suddenly free outside the US borders.

If anything, Nicaragua is right and the Paris accords don't even go far enough. Even if it were followed, we're still set to reach near-catastrophic temperature increase...

Meh, maybe I'm just European...

> The reason we have shitty software is because nobody typically dies when something goes wrong

The reason we have shitty software is because nobody wants to pay for having well tested software. The costs would be factors higher.

That case generally does not present itself because the person telling you what to pay as salary knows the rules well, applies them with a narrow margin, and is trusted by his superiors. It is rare for these rulings to be overturned - though I assure you it does occasionally happen!

The case with Apple might be different. From what I remember(!) reading last time this was in the news, both the Apple lawyers as well as the Irish tax authority could be expected to know this deal was crossing the line, and proceeded anyway. (Like buying a cheap bike on the street...)

Ireland is well known for these sorts of practices (for example they also double tax dividends against EU regulations). They have been warned to behave before, so yes, they should be punished. As a willing participant, Apple should not go free either, though.

My girlfriend works with kids in the target age group, they love playing around with this. Their web code tools aren't half bad either - my girlfriend now understands the basics of code (so this is what you do all day eh? well, not exactly...)

Except at no point have I stated MS is alright - that's what you are making of it. The point is that none of the big corps have our best interests at heart, and they're all various degrees of evil. While the order they appear in is subjective, Microsoft apparently still gets the bulk of the hate.

At this point, a large part of IT simply will never appreciate Microsoft, no matter what they do.

"We'd trust them if they'd only do X!" No, you wouldn't. You'd figure out some other reason to hate them.

News flash, it's 2016, and Microsoft is no longer the most evil or dangerous bigcorp out there. Apple, Google, and Facebook, have all surpassed Microsoft. Can we get back to some actual issues?

Your point being? All the cities I frequent in Europe are well below the 250th spot, far lower again than Naples.

As for informed statistics, on that same site, selecting Europe only, puts Naples in second place. So in fact, the situation is even worse than my anecdotal evidence.

Fact remains Naples would be one of the very last cities one would expect to be selected for this.

But hey, naysayers will continue to say nay!

I know a bunch of you think V8 is cross-platform enough, but really it isn't. It uses way too much memory for many platforms, there's no non-JIT mode (so can't run on iOS), oh and it is a female dog to compile.

Node.js' use cases are not limited to running a Node.js server. Embedding the core inside a bigger application and using it for some types of cross-platform logic, scripting, etc is a real thing. Maximizing compatibility is a must in that case.

Aside from just having options, various engines offer different features you may want to use, and better compatibility with your target platform.

JXCore has done a great job extending Node.js to support mobile, and they support SpiderMonkey and ChakraCore alongside V8. Compatibility wise they're king of the hill already, though they could still add JavaScriptCore and maybe even Duktape for good measure.

Nothing against Italy or Italians, but my sister worked in science in that area and it was absolutely dreadful. Impossible to get things done as many people have that typical 'Southern European work ethic' - appointments and deadlines are more like suggestions. Which is of course an awful generalisation, but it is definitely a real thing.

Naples is also quite literally mainland mob central.

I considered the X8, but after having used various Netgear stuff in the past with issues, I decided to try another brand for a change: Asus. While my relationship with Asus is also a love/hate one, I had never used their routers before, so I thought it time to give them a chance.

I replaced a 300N Wi-Fi network powered by a Netgear and a 500mbps Powerline network also 'powered' by Netgear with an Asus RT-AC5300 router as main unit, and an RT-AC88U as 'bridge' unit in my home office (Wi-Fi --> 8 port ethernet).

The main difference between the two units is that the AC5300 can power two 5ghz networks and has 4 ethernet ports, while the AC88U only has one 5ghz network and has 8 ethernet ports. Otherwise, they're identical to eachother, and to the X8. 2100mbps per 5ghz AC, and 1000mbps on 2.4ghz N. One of the 5ghz networks on the AC5300 is used exclusively to connect the AC88U in bridge mode, which works rather well.

From the two far corners of my apartment, approximately 50 feet apart, with the main router in a third corner, the network manages over 300mbps actual throughput on AC, and 70mbps actual throughput on N. This up from a previous maximum of about 30mbps.

300mbps is more than enough for my needs. For the first time ever, Wi-Fi has done something other than disappoint me. One for the books!