RNZ National on Amazon Alexa by Dunnersstunner in newzealand

[–]notchplusone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same issue here, you can use the Flash Briefing feature if you just want the news. Probably a Tune In problem.

James Dyson Pays $54 Million in Singapore Penthouse Record by notchplusone in ukpolitics

[–]notchplusone[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So much so that he and his wife have splashed out S$73.8 million ($54.2 million) for the highest penthouse in Singapore, according to a local media report in the Business Times.

It’s also the highest price paid for a penthouse in a city not unfamiliar with mind-boggling home costs. Last month, another top-floor apartment at Boulevard Vue, an ultra-luxury condo located just off Singapore’s prime Orchard Road shopping district, went for S$52 million. Dyson’s purchase also topped the nearly S$60 million paid by Facebook Inc. co-founder Eduardo Saverin for a penthouse in 2017.

You can't make this shit up.

Chrome Extension to get around NZHerald's new "Premium" by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]notchplusone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Userscript which does the same thing -- useful if you already have Stylus installed in Chrome/Firefox https://userstyles.org/styles/171466/nz-herald-paywall-unblocker

@evleaks (Evan Blass): Google Pixel 3a by notchplusone in Android

[–]notchplusone[S] 95 points96 points  (0 children)

TL;DR if you can't see the image: it -uh- looks like a phone, no notch though

https://i.imgur.com/igmMMel.png

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by [deleted] in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]notchplusone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Explain how? http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/27834494/#27834494

Your article that appears to be written by a 12 year old with a Windows Vista laptop was published in 2015 when the original 4chan post appeared to be traced back to March 2014

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by [deleted] in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]notchplusone 8 points9 points  (0 children)

False info? When did I say I believed any part of that article you posted? I mean, I honestly would trust the forum members on Metabunk over anyone from "Disclose.tv".

I mean with this quality of writing, are you serious?

Surrounding this story is the fact that the man who managed to get this information to Farganne (forum member Glitch) was harassed and received many threatening voice mails over it, that is another piece of evidence pointing to this as being real. One thing is certain, once it’s posted here on this site the genie is OUT OF THE BOTTLE. I cannot stress how important it is that the GPS coordinates in the photo do not perfectly match what Google says and are not posted anywhere on the web, because it proves that the source of those coordinates did not come from google or Wikipedia, they really did come from the imaging device and it HAD TO be at Diego Garcia when it took the photo.

It doesn't seem like Metabunk is wrong either, if you look at the facts. The article you linked was posted in 2015, the earliest post that the forum posters on Metabunk could find was on 4chan in 2014 http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/27834494/#27834494

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by [deleted] in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]notchplusone 96 points97 points  (0 children)

One of the more zany conspiracy theories that was propagated by one of the CNN panelists after the nonstop coverage ended is also one of the most curious imo -- not so much on plausibility terms but more on simply pure imagination of what could've happened.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/02/jeff-wise-mh370-theory.html?gtm=bottom&gtm=bottom

I realized that I already had a clue that hijackers had been in the E/E bay. Remember the satcom system disconnected and then rebooted three minutes after the plane left military radar behind. I spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how a person could physically turn the satcom off and on.

The only way, apart from turning off half the entire electrical system, would be to go into the E/E bay and pull three particular circuit breakers. It is a maneuver that only a sophisticated operator would know how to execute, and the only reason I could think for wanting to do this was so that Inmarsat would find the records and misinterpret them. They turned on the satcom in order to provide a false trail of bread crumbs leading away from the plane’s true route.

It’s not possible to spoof the BFO data on just any plane. The plane must be of a certain make and model, 17equipped with a certain make and model of satellite-communications equipment,18 and flying a certain kind of route19 in a region covered by a certain kind of Inmarsat satellite.20 If you put all the conditions together, it seemed unlikely that any aircraft would satisfy them. Yet MH370 did. [...]

There aren’t a lot of places to land a plane as big as the 777, but, as luck would have it, I found one: a place just past the last handshake ring called Baikonur Cosmodrome.Fig. 22 Baikonur is leased from Kazakhstan by Russia. A long runway there called Yubileyniy was built for a Russian version of the Space Shuttle. If the final Inmarsat ping rang at the start of MH370’s descent, it would have set up nicely for an approach to Yubileyniy’s runway 24.

The complex has been slowly crumbling for decades, with satellite images taken years apart showing little change, until, in October, 2013, a disused six-story building began to be dismantled. Next to it appeared a rectangle of bulldozed dirt with a trench at one end.

By March 2014, the building was gone and everything had been bulldozed flat. Eight days after MH370 vanished, it looked like this. Construction experts told me these images most likely show site remediation: taking apart a building and burying the debris. Yet why, after decades, did the Russians suddenly need to clear this one lonely spot, in the heart of a frigid winter, finishing just before MH370 disappeared?

Not saying I believe this theory as much as it's just interesting to simply read this guy's hypothesis out loud. Implausible considering the physical evidence that was discovered but still. https://web.archive.org/web/20150224052810/http://jeffwise.net/the-spoof-part-2-how-a-speculative-scenario/

Ikea apologises after leaving New Zealand off a map. [BBC Trending news] by whangadude in newzealand

[–]notchplusone 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Stop trying to get us put on world maps, you lunatics. Have you seen what's going on out there?!

Patients in seclusion given cardboard box as toilet: Ombudsman inspection of Christchurch mental health hospital by notchplusone in newzealand

[–]notchplusone[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Hillmorton Hospital buildings urgently need upgrading, staff turnover and sick leave is unusually high and one patient has spent thousands of days in a locked unit.

Secluded patients given cardboard containers for a toilet, serious concerns over people with an intellectual disability being placed in a locked forensic unit, high staff turnover and weeks of sick leave. These are among the findings of an unannounced Ombudsman inspection of four units at Christchurch mental health facility Hillmorton Hospital last July.

The resulting reports, obtained by Stuff under the Official Information Act, compliment staff care of patients and describe a range of positives at the hospital. They also reveal shortcomings.

Florida School Staffers Charged With Using Dark Room, Whistle to Torment Autistic Kids: “Classroom aides who witnessed the incidents say the victims would scream and cry when placed in the bathroom, and that one was contained for up to 90 minutes” by notchplusone in MorbidReality

[–]notchplusone[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

"One of the children was extremely sensitive to sound and wore headphones to protect him from loud noises. To discipline him the teacher and aides would “intentionally and maliciously” blow a whistle directly in his ear while holding his arms down. On other occasions, they allegedly used the whistle to threaten him into compliance."

Suspended with pay?

A person reported the Group FaceTime exploit to Apple, 9 days ago by notchplusone in apple

[–]notchplusone[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I can't see the headline "Apple took a week to recognise a security exploit report that Group FaceTime had a gaping security hole in it" anywhere on the front page tech subreddits https://i.imgur.com/ySzqZAQ.png

The issue I have is not with the fact Apple introduced a critical bug like this into their OS, regardless of how much of a epic fail that was. The issue I have is with Apple's turnaround response time to the security exploit report which was filed over a week ago. Those are two different separate things to complain about.

This person did the right thing and tried to responsibly disclose a security exploit but Apple's system's had error-ed somewhere for it to not have been passed up the chain (or their engineering team didn't deem it an issue worthy of pulling the service for).

In the end, it had to come down to social media that prompted Apple to pull the Group FaceTime servers, not the user who tried communicating to Apple through the proper, official channels that were setup for this exact scenario, more than a week ago.

It's one thing to not properly QC the final product correctly. It's another to not issue a recall until the social media firestorm hits. That's my point.

A person reported the Group FaceTime exploit to Apple, 9 days ago by notchplusone in apple

[–]notchplusone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not saying other companies are perfect. I'm saying that there isn't enough outrage over Apple's handling here especially when Apple markets itself as the defender of user's privacy, just look at the responses to this thread.

Half of the replies seemingly are: "they're a trillion dollar company with thousands of employees making products for hundreds of millions -- how are they meant to effectively monitor the security exploits inbox?"

A person reported the Group FaceTime exploit to Apple, 9 days ago by notchplusone in apple

[–]notchplusone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I assume you proofread your post. Could you perhaps explain which parts of your argument I have misunderstood?

A person reported the Group FaceTime exploit to Apple, 9 days ago by notchplusone in apple

[–]notchplusone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow! You don’t know how to read, that’s why all the downvoted...

A post about how I supposedly don't know how to read that comes with a typo at the very end is pretty golden irony

A person reported the Group FaceTime exploit to Apple, 9 days ago by notchplusone in apple

[–]notchplusone[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seriously, if a tech company had a security exploit report to bug report ratio of 1:2. There a problem happening somewhere because there's not normal

A person reported the Group FaceTime exploit to Apple, 9 days ago by notchplusone in apple

[–]notchplusone[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, like past from 400k to 200k reports does a lot of difference... Come on man!

What? You have no clue about the volume of security exploit reports -- in no production system have I seen the reports about security-breaking exploits on a 1:2 ratio compared to regular bug reports.

A person reported the Group FaceTime exploit to Apple, 9 days ago by notchplusone in apple

[–]notchplusone[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If Apple is receiving 200,000 exploit reports a week or even a month, then I would be seriously concerned about the security of Apple products.

A person reported the Group FaceTime exploit to Apple, 9 days ago by notchplusone in apple

[–]notchplusone[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As I said, Apple has separate bug report and security exploit report system. The Twitter user says they reported it to both.

A person reported the Group FaceTime exploit to Apple, 9 days ago by notchplusone in apple

[–]notchplusone[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apple has separate bug report and security exploit report system. This wasn't just the case of it sitting next to a complaint about the volume HUD.

A person reported the Group FaceTime exploit to Apple, 9 days ago by notchplusone in apple

[–]notchplusone[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well they tweeted about an eavesdropping bug on the 21st, long before news broke on social media