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    Sauron reacted to Skipple in Should LTT invest on KDEnlive?   
    You are assuming that LMG is overflowing with C++ engineers with a background in video formats / encoding, which I can guarantee you isn't the case given their current workflows. 
     
    Yes, this is a noble goal, but LMG more than likely has very little to offer the project and very little to gain from direct human resource investment. They would be better off making a monetary donation to support the project, if anything. 
  2. Informative
    Sauron got a reaction from Bensemus in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
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    Sauron reacted to Senzelian in Alternative app stores will arive on iOS - but there are substantial caveats   
    This seems to me like even more anti-competitive behavior that the EU will have to do something about.
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    Sauron got a reaction from Senzelian in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
  5. Agree
    Sauron got a reaction from Bensemus in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    End to end encryption is designed precisely to make this impossible.
    That's also possible... the article only says it was "assumed" the message was read through the wifi network:
    Also worth noting that the network being open or not is pretty much irrelevant if airport security has control of it.
     
    Also yeah spain doesn't have a leg to stand on to get reimbursed for the jets as far as I'm concerned, it's not illegal to joke and there is no law (at least afaik) that makes it illegal on airport grounds either. It's one thing if he shouted "BOMB!" for everyone to hear, but he had no way of knowing anyone but his friends would read this.
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    Sauron got a reaction from Birblover12 in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
  7. Informative
    Sauron got a reaction from IAmAndre in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
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    Sauron got a reaction from thechinchinsong in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
  9. Agree
    Sauron got a reaction from Kilrah in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
  10. Agree
    Sauron got a reaction from PLME888 in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
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    Sauron got a reaction from RockSolid1106 in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Do you not see the difference between a bomb threat being directly sent to a school or a bag being left unattended, and someone writing a joke in a text chat they assume to be private? Who's intercepting your snapchat while you board a train?
    At the very least, if you're going to prosecute people for causing false alarms you need to let them know what the triggers are. Personally I think intercepting everyone's private conversations, without any evidence at all of them being dangerous, is a privacy violation and is bound to cause expensive false alarms, on top of not once (at least to my knowledge) actually preventing an attack.
    This is literally a case where they got it wrong, 100k was spent for no reason and some guy is currently under trial for shitposting on a private messaging group. The fighter jet pilots had to subjectively judge the situation and decided there was no real threat; imagine if the pilot had made a mistake and the fighters mistook it for an attempt at dive bombing something, then shot down the passenger plane?
     
    The idea that there's no subjective judgment at play here is ridiculous. Do we send a paramedics team out every time some teenager goes "haha I can't I'm literally gonna kms dude lmao" in their group chat? Some followup is certainly warranted in this case but immediately assuming it's a fully serious bomb threat is not.
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    Sauron got a reaction from RockSolid1106 in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Or you could carry a bomb into a crowded train station and do the same if not more damage. There's no security to intercept you at any point there. I wonder why we're ok with that risk but even a single intercepted text message is enough to scramble everyone and their dog when a plane is involved.
     
    Regardless, I don't think it's at all reasonable to expect this guy would know his message could cause this reaction, so even if it is deemed necessary then it's just the cost of doing business this way.
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    Sauron got a reaction from Techstorm970 in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
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    Sauron got a reaction from RockSolid1106 in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    If they scrambled jet interceptors every time anyone says anything that might be considered threatening, despite no prior history of doing anything wrong and no other signs of it being a serious threat, then you'd have them in the air 24/7. The attack that caused airport security to be the way it is was carried out by people who were already known to law enforcement and could (and should) have been stopped upon checking their documents; cases of people getting through modern airport security and carrying out any kind of attack currently sit squarely at 0 as far as I know.
     
    Also I'm curious what fighter jets are supposed to do about a passenger trying to blow up the plane. If anything they're more likely to cause someone with a bomb to panic and decide to just do it. You can't even enter pilot cabins from the outside anymore so something like the WTC attack is just not possible; at worst you have a hostage situation, which again is not helped by jet fighters.
     
    Meanwhile anyone can just walk on a train and blow it up with nothing stopping them. You tell me if this makes any sense to you.
    Yeah, if you shout it out at the airport, of course, you're causing public distress and panic. Not so with a text chat. If it's an in depth investigation then yes, chat logs can be used as indicators and possibly evidence in a trial, but it's never a single message immediately triggering a full force response... at most I could have seen him be briefly detained on arrival.
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    Sauron got a reaction from DededeKirby in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
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    Sauron got a reaction from Eigenvektor in How to get compiler flags from compile time to show up in runtime in C?   
    Optimization level is an abstraction of a series of compiler options which could be used individually so I can see why there wouldn't be a special predefined macro for it; it might even change which exact flags are enabled depending on the compiler version. If you want to keep track of this (although I struggle to see a use case) you could manually define a preprocessor variable using the -D flag (in GCC):
    gcc -O3 -Doptimization_level=3 [...] then in your code:
    #ifdef optimization_level const char OPT_LEVEL = optimization_level #else const char OPT_LEVEL = 0 #endif this way at runtime you could check the value of OPT_LEVEL to find out which optimization level was used... assuming you passed the right value. This can be automated with something like cmake. Alternatively you could define a string containing all compiler options.
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    Sauron got a reaction from Eigenvektor in How to get compiler flags from compile time to show up in runtime in C?   
    as I said:
    in gcc there is also this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12112479
     
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    Sauron got a reaction from Taf the Ghost in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    From The Times:
    Yeah, it's sounding less believable by the minute... or at least unsubstantiated.
     
    I do wonder whether snapchat uses HTTPS... either way it seems more likely snapchat picked it up on their end and notified authorities.
  19. Agree
    Sauron got a reaction from Ydfhlx in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
  20. Agree
    Sauron got a reaction from Taf the Ghost in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
  21. Agree
    Sauron got a reaction from filpo in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
  22. Agree
    Sauron got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    Text messages on snapchat are not encrypted:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/01/09/snapchat-adds-end-to-end-encryption-protect-users-messages/
     
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    Sauron reacted to leadeater in Hyperloop Bankrupt and Busted.   
    I don't think rail track would be possible at 500mph+ and only minutes between trains/carriages because the friction would cause the tracks to heat up and without sufficient time to dissipate that heat they'll just get hotter and hotter until failure. Highspeed rail is in open atmosphere with long time between trains so plenty of ability to cool down and time to do so. Without an atmosphere and in an enclosed tube you're going to need an actual cooling design to keep the tracks cool (active or passive).
     
    Very highspeed aircraft fuselage get hot in low pressure atmosphere so rolling track would likely be higher friction and higher specific heat, worse situation.  
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    Sauron reacted to Kisai in Hyperloop Bankrupt and Busted.   
    Doubtful, extremely doubtful. The only reason Tesla got any footing at all is from building their own cars and not waiting for GM and Ford to do it. If Tesla was not here, that market would be driven primarily by Toyota since they were the ones already doing hybrids and had a direct migration path to EV's. Other hybrids were not as good. Just like other EV's are not as good primarily because they are sticking Electric motors in what are otherwise gasoline vehicles. Toyota figured out the right way to do that with their hybrid system's planetary gear CVT transmission.  Tesla EV's lack most of the mechanical parts that a conventional Gasoline/Diesel or Hybrid have. So ultimately it's cheaper to build once all the tooling is built for it. None of that is Elon.
     
    But ultimately I've soured on Tesla and everything else Elon is involved with when Elon threw away his credibility from the Thai Cave comments. With good reason. https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-cybertruck-two-years-late-still-crazy/ , as stupid as this vehicle is, I think this is gonna be the "Canyonero" of the Tesla vehicles. Something that gets relentlessly mocked for things Elon said.
     
     
     
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    Sauron got a reaction from Uttamattamakin in Hyperloop Bankrupt and Busted.   
    I don't expect the cramming and "nickel and dime"ing to be any lower on a system that needs to pay back such insanely expensive infrastructure. Airport security does suck but it's more of a political problem than anything inherent to the technology. There have also been advancements in security scanner technology that make it less annoying, for example in some airports you can now take bottles of liquids with you and you don't need to take your belt off.
    I don't think that's supposed to be a full size train in the picture. It looks like an unmanned test pod. The tunnel is likely only 2-2.5m wide if that track is the width of a normal maglev track.
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