"to read a full story" and I didn't actually even care...

Log-in in order to read the full article is really bad to me

Not bunnyhopping, but similar idea a game called Gunz: The Duel had many animation glitches where you could cancel animation lock with higher priority move. The action would execute, but the animation would be cut in short with a shorter animation which allowed you to perform a new longer animation move.

Commonly it was called kStyle or "korean style" in west since the game was korean and koreans came up with the bug. It made the game everyone was doing it flying through the map with swords swinging wildly it was a lot of fun and definitely raised the skill ceiling and someone how it didn't seem nearly as cheaty as the bunnyhopper in articles video.

That sounds like how certain types of combos work in games like Street Fighter.

I hear quite a few people talking how they have 30-50 tabs open, how do people manage something like that? And why would anyone need so many simultaneous tabs open?

Agreed. Sibling comment is talking about devoting "hours" to closing tabs, I'm not even sure if it's a joke.

I've presently got 2 tabs open: HN and this comment form.

Even when neck deep into documentation or github issues I don't think I've ever gone above 20 tabs, it definitely doesn't seem like it could be productive.

I have 5-6 windows open, each with 5-20 tabs. Often it's worse.

Things like: Gmail, calendar, Xero, time tracker, things I've been meaning to read but haven't yet put in a TO READ folder (sometimes hits 30+ tabs), Trello, business plan lists, BitBucket for an iOS project, Shopify partner admin, Font Awesome cheatsheet, 15-20 client projects I might work on in any given week including their admin backends, App Annie, Analytics, trip research (20-40 tabs easily on maps, spreadsheets, itinerary suggestions, Airbnb, Booking.com, hotels, national park sites), 5 tabs currently devoted to trying to work out how to get a National Geographic subscription to work on device and web, and so it goes on.

The problem is that you're doing something that uses lots of tabs, and with luck you remember to close them down. Still, at the end of the day, you may have an extra five tabs open, and that's 100 a month. After a few months you have 500 tabs.

So then you devote a couple of hours to going through and closing tabs, and find you still have 300...

The solution, if anyone ever gets this far down the page, is to use Session Manager to save the tabs, close Firefox, and then just uncheck the boxes for the tabs you don't ever want to reload.

See that "you don't remember to close them down" part gets me, or rather doesn't. I mean I have a lot of tabs open when I'm working, but at the end of the day I close my browser and I don't have any fixed set of pages that it opens or last session, it just opens on the new tab page and asks for commands.

I just can't stand if my browser has so many tabs open I can't read the what the hell it is from the header and since I always use browser only on half of my screen with editor on the other side (actually since I have 21:9 screen I've split it in 3 so I can have project | editor | docs) that gives me at most like 15+-5 tabs to work with.

But maybe I'm just the weirdo out of everyone.

If your work involves living in web apps (github, trello, gDocs, etc) he tabs pile up quickly. If you live in Photoshop or MS suite, not so much.

I do work with web projects, but I hardly live in github, sure it's an important tool and I tend to visit the site quite often especially if I'm working, but I see no need to keep it open all the time, but maybe I'm not solving hard enough problems for that to matter.

Unless Firefox opens sites instantly (instead of 1-2 sec wait) then I don't see any speed benefit.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the author probably has a lot of heavy addons that do stuff that is not needed. Biggest example probably is AdBlock Plus which bogs down any browser considerably and poking around with family's and friends' Chromes I see that a lot of them have several ad blocking extensions as well as couple privacy extensions is it any wonder Safari or Firefox with no addons is faster?

I like the idea and the price isn't too bad either on it's own, but then I would have to get wifi lamps and a wifi coffee machine and a wifi door lock... I think I'll pass for now

They talk about ensuring that open source works on the machine, anyone else concerned if they will try to inhibit close source software? Like this whole shitstorm around GCC?

“absolutely free and open and uncontrolled by outside forces ensures complete control of every aspect of the hardware at all times.”

I wonder if you could just create some kind of roof over the rotors, thus negating the "attack".

... but then someone else would invent balloons filled with mylar pieces that can saturate the area around the props.

What exactly do you think is the point of helicopter rotors?

Yeah, I'm not aerospace engineer, but couldn't you just put the roof like 10 cm above the rotors so it has enough air flow?

To generate lift. It's most certainly not to shield the helicopter from attacks from above.

Exactly. How do you imagine rotors generating lift when enclosed by a roof?

Something as basic as a wire mesh would fit the bill.

It probably wouldn't, when the rotor has incredible suction and the tangle wire is very thin. I would certainly expect an attacker using monofilament and a defender using several-mm mesh to go the way of the attacker. Too much protection and you lose the airflow.

I must immediately tape speaker mesh to my AR drone! FOR SCIENCE!

Not that.

This might be a bit of a stretch, but if you were to send in plain text just something meta-ish like datetime and the actual message would be sent as image for example, could we get around this?

E.g. when your-favorite-three-letter-agency comes asking for decryption you just decrypt the plaintext portion for them?

You still are thinking about technological measures where a vehement political response is needed.

In long run, you can't keep running and hiding. You stand up and stand your ground.

Also there doesn't seem to be anything that is actually "countering" anything at the moment

I feel like with most security research the only way to get $INDUSTRY to take things seriously is if there's an easy tool for anyone to use that exposes the weakness, like firesheep with https. For individuals driven by money, you need to get their customers riled up. So in a way, developing open tools to exploit weaknesses is a way of countering the weaknesses in the long run.

I'm surprised the article doesn't suggest increasing side-channel noise as a crude interim counter.

Certainly it would be a big power drain, but for the security conscious it sounds like a reasonably easy short-term solution. That, and not accessing sensitive data in public, of course.

I actually think Azure is nice platform, but they've effectively priced me out.

What I mean is that if I want a basic VPS on Azure it costs ~10€/mo to run the server for the month, but there are many VPS providers who offer a lot better hardware for same price.

I guess Azure is meant for bigger needs than mine where you can run 100-200€/mo by default and then scale up when needed, but since my little blog + test/dev server won't need to be scaled it just seems too expensive.

If you plan on building something, but your needs are not there yet you may want to apply for a BizSpark account that covers $150/mo if I'm not wrong. OTOH for a blog you may want to check the PaaS offerings (e.g. Azure Websites).