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You have now. That's -exactly- why I use the onscreen accessibility menu.

I figure, given how many times a day I use the home button, if I can half that, I double the lifespan of the device (over my previous iDevice, on which the home button stopped working & I thus had to throw out).


One outlier doesn't translate to "long time heavy users of iPhones almost always [do]".


First immediate thought: Can you get virus/malware scanners for XBox?

Otherwise, it seems an immediate easy target for a new botnet.


Upon consideration, I'd consider the existence of viruses/malware for a platform is actually a good thing, as it's a sign of openness. If there isn't, it's most likely because there is a central authority deciding what you can and cannot do on the platform.


And if someone else controls what you can and cannot do on the platform, the platform really isn't secure from your point of view. This is especially true when that someone not only has that control but also has access to your activities, metadata, data, PII, etc through cloud based applications and features, telemetry, central store registration/purchases, etc.


Windows Azure datacenters have more than 1 million servers combined. They all run Windows, and unlike those cheap XBoxes, they are powered on 24/7 and connected to very fast fiber optics.

If you think Windows is an immediate easy target, why don’t you run your botnet on Azure?


Because, I would hope, the people running boxes on Azure are run by IT people who are about security. Not the case for consumer hardware.

Taking control of a few Azure accounts might be worth a few hundred Xbones but which one is easier and more likely to go unnoticed?


> run by IT people who are about security

People who are about security can secure 10 servers. Manually securing 1 million of them is prohibitively expensive.

MS have the technology to secure them by default. Key part of this technology is hardware-assisted virtualization + hypervisor.

The same architecture runs MS XBox one, MS Azure, and many other products like Amazon EC2.

> Taking control of a few Azure accounts

Accounts? How about actual, hardware servers?


Windows has had a sufficient built-in virus/malware scanner for a while now. But, I agree, it's now as easy of a target as other Windows 10 machines out there.


No, because desktop and server Windows 10 machines have to be compatible with arbitrary older binaries that were written against the Win32 API. The Xbox One version of Windows 10 can leave out the backwards compatible and more easily targeted parts of Windows, and only support UWP apps, which are sandboxed and thus are less exposed to various types of exploits.


I agree. MS's recent anti-malware offerings are definitely up there. Their efforts in the area have been paying off.

The major issue is identical executables being operable across platforms makes for much easier transmissability. Eg, how many people put their XBoxes and Windows machines on the same home network? I'd posit a majority of people who own both platforms, simply for simplicity's sake.


Aren't the Xbox One apps only delivered via the Windows (App) Store though? So they have the benefit of being sandboxed and needing to be reviewed in some form or another by MS before appearing.


Doesn't linking to a paywalled site somewhat restrict open discussion on the subject?

Perhaps HN could flag/ignore these WSJ submissions.




For future reference - gender neutral pronouns are super easy to use and don't detract from the reading flow at all.

In this case: "...that gives them a huge advantage."

(and "their" for his/her)


They have pretty comprehensive notifications settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/notifications (you have to be logged in, obviously).

Just untick everything. Super simple (unlike, say, Facebook).


Ha!

No. Off hand, it'd require batching the users into groups of 100 and using an API call (/users/lookup) for each group. That gives you a user object each (which you don't care about), but also the latest tweet.

The limit is 180/15 mins, ie a max of 18k in any 15 minute window.


Thanks!

That beats my first naive attempt, which was an API call (/statuses/user_timeline/<id>.json?count=1) per user.

Hmm, I just noticed there was also (now deprecated) GET statuses/friends which did what I want. It is deprecated in favour of your suggestion.


It would depend on app.net's data policies - how much (and how fast) we could get information out of them.

Of course, they own the field, so they could change the rules at any time, thus (once again) killing the project.

From a technical basis, 90% of the effort was building a robust system atop Twitter's. The actual core behavioural categorisation engine was relatively trivial.

Ie, it would require a major rebuild, without lessening the risks at all.


[author here]

The post was intended to be stand alone commentary Not a bulletproof thesis.

All I'm saying is my opinions etc after a long stressful week.

Ignore the links, they're just there to lighten the story.


Ok, that's fine. You want to lighten the mood.

but personally, I recommend against fart jokes during a eulogy.


The images are gone now. As per recommendations by other hn users above. The only links remaining are to directly pertinent or explanatory information.


And while this doesn't dispute your opinion as a general rule, there is always an amusing exception: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBCouCYjYUA

(death doesn't have to be a morbid depressing thing, despite the tendency in the west to view it as such)


[author here]

sigh

Yeah, you're both right. I'll move the images local. Not intending to leach. Just trying to lighten up an otherwise kinda depressing post. Seeing four years of work come crashing down.

As pg says, running a startup is like being repeatedly hit in the face.


Thanks, I appreciate it: I'm just not a fan of people not getting the credit for or benefits of their creative works. While I don't have an opinion on the use of the images, I can definitely understand where you're coming from and what you were trying to do.


Think about boobs.

Everyone prefers real to fake*

  ln -s real fake
Now you will never forget.

* Yes, I realise this isn't strictly true


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