Bloodwine

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by Bloodwine 13y ago
I disagree with his "First Letters from a Phrase" point. I find mnemonic passwords very useful and keeps me from having to open up KeePass every time I want to log in to a system because I can't remember the random password. I agree that lo
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by Bloodwine 14y ago
When storing data on my server I always treat secret questions and answers the same as passwords, because that is exactly what they are. What use is a strong password if a weak secret answer can unlock the account? I salt and hash the secre
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by Bloodwine 15y ago
For anybody that is interested, it is called "Off-the-Record Messaging" and you can get the plugin at http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
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by Bloodwine 15y ago
No crawler should perform POST requests. it is simply bad etiquette and it is understood that POST requests are typically used to create/change/delete content or affect the environment.
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by Bloodwine 15y ago
As a Netflix customer I applaud their 180 turnaround on their Qwikster plans. It doesn't matter to me if their flip-flop makes them seem a little scatterbrained, because the decision to keep both services bundled together makes the most sen
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by Bloodwine 15y ago
Major PHP versions are the evolutionary jumps for the language. They don't tend to worry as much about backwards-compatibility when going from PHP3 to PHP4 to PHP5. I've read that PHP6 was supposed to take it further and outright remove a l
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by Bloodwine 15y ago
What protects you from outsourcing the reading of scans to foreign countries, such as India? Obviously some medical institutions will want to keep it all local, but won't this open up a market for cheaper, foreign competition resulting in a
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by Bloodwine 15y ago
I doubt Gen X is stymied.much. It is the younger generations that are going to suffer due to fewer employment opportunities.