AgentConundrum

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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Ah, well in that case I certainly apologize. I inferred a tone from your comment which you didn't intend to be there.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
That's not what foreign elements are. If you click the link to "foreign elements" in your first link, you'll see that the spec[1] defines foreign elements as " Elements from the MathML namespace and the SVG namespace. " In other words, elem
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
This is way off topic, but I want to share since I just learned about this a day or two ago. Skip over this comment if you don't care about HTML5 trivia. I had no idea what this was supposed to be, and I thought maybe it just wasn't loading
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
You can't reply directly to hellbanned users, so a lot of people reply to the person such a user was replying to, to try to send them a message that they've been banned. Most users won't see these comments/users. If you go to your user page
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> Maybe "joe@bob.com" gets marked as spam in the mail client but not if it's from "Google+", etc. I'm assuming they're just changing the display name on the email, rather than the 'From:' email address itself. That is, instead of "Tab
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Just to be clear here, distance doesn't affect brightness; velocity does.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I don't even want to know what most of your email looks like, although I can't say I'm not at least a little curious.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
A tip for anyone considering using HTTPS-Everywhere: You should also grab HTTPS Finder[1] to work with it. HTTPS-Everywhere forces you into a secure connection when you attempt an insecure one (e.g. clicking on http://en.wikipedia.org wil
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
As I said in my last comment, Chrome has its own built-in Flash Player. Even if you have another player installed on your machine, the built-in one overrides it unless you specifically disable it. If you have another Flash player installed,
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Your comment is confusing to me. plugin-container.exe is a Firefox process, not chrome.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I don't know if this is related, but I had an issue with flash yesterday which seems to correspond to the Chrome 22 release. I was playing a game which had never had a serious issue before, and I noticed that the timing of things was way, w
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> It's advertorial, marketing disguised as journalism. It's barely even disguised. If it were published by a news organization[1], or really just "someone else", then you would be right. This is an article on NFL.com about an NFL prod
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Am I doing the math wrong here? You have a 50 character space, and a 10 character password length. This gives you 50^10, roughly 9.77 * 10^16, permutations. Even assuming you could store each possibility in a single byte, which you can't, t
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
The suggestion was for companies to forego doing business with certain people as a risk management tactic. It's akin to Amazon pulling their affiliate program from California to avoid sales tax. I don't see how net neutrality factors in her
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I did mention in the previous paragraph that I was referring to an unrealisticly strict view, and that most people won't think in those sorts of concrete terms. My point was that people are used to a certain type of "property" and, before d
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
The books, while the impetus for this particular comment, are only part of the puzzle. Music is pretty much entirely digital at this point in one form or another - how many people do you know carrying a discman? Movies are starting to trend
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> You're definitely not alone in this -- a lot of my friends still prefer hard copies over eBooks For me, it's because I own physical books, but I lease eBooks. A fact still lost on many people; there was an erroneous post about Bruce
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Thanks, that helps a lot. I apologize if I got a bit crass in my earlier comment. I think the Wil Wheaton's Guide To Depression post has me a bit sensitive today. I probably took the worst view of your comments and got annoyed over my own w
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> But for this case, the salt generation is much better This is the only question I was asking, and you haven't really addressed it in any detail. The reddit comment you linked was replying to some obviously bad code. I mean, limiting y
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I know this is a dumb question, but I haven't found a great answer to it yet: why does it matter how the salt is generated, so long as its done on a per-user basis? If the salt is allowed to be "less than secret" (by which I mean it can be
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Wikipedia, for one. I went looking to confirm what you said, and found that the canonical page for the word/abbreviation on Wikipedia was 'Okay'[1] with a redirect to that page when you ask for 'O.K.'. The page itself says there is no conse
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
`head -n 99999` seems like a weird way to do it anyway. Wouldn't it make more sense to do `tail -n +1`? The output is the same from both commands, but `tail` doesn't require you to assume arbitrary limits. Honest question, btw. I'm relative
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> These newly improved automated efforts will remove those Likes gained by malware, compromised accounts, deceived users, or purchased bulk Likes. What about ransom Likes? The ones that happen when a user tries to interact with a site
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
That link just goes to someone's (yours?) G+ page. I think you wanted to link to this specifically: https://plus.google.com/117789022459699674254/posts/YsnRsCCB...
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_Corporation
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
The HN rule wasn't there by default when I installed it, which was a while ago, admittedly. One way around this is to use HTTPS-Everywhere with another extension called HTTPS Finder[1] (Firefox only, AFAIK) that tries to load secure version
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Those comment sections are something else.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
If it were that easy to abuse a credit card number on its own, then credit card fraud would be much, much higher than it is. That's because the format of the credit card number is well known[1] and conforms to an ISO standard[2]. Numbers ge
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
No problem. I looked it up last week because I thought this was the release that was going to have the new fix for add-on-related memory leaks[1], but it turns out that's not coming until Firefox 15 next month. [1] http://news.softpedia.co
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> This exists in Firefox as of 14, currently in Aurora, so this will be in a stable release in a few weeks. Firefox 14 is scheduled for release on Tuesday.[1] [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Future_branch...

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