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The Perils of User-Agent Sniffing, 2011 Edition(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 15y ago
The attached document indicates that Rybka contains the exact logic that is supposedly uniquely implemented in either Crafty or Fruit. These are not standard algorithms, and the likelihood of a closed implementation of a chess engine exactl
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ICO follows ICO's rules, cookie usage drops by 90%(econsultancy.com)
5 points by Isofarro 15y ago|1 comments
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Understanding the corporate impact (of upgrading Firefox)(mike.kaply.com)
68 points by Isofarro 15y ago|93 comments
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I call this blackmail(gizmodo.com)
8 points by Isofarro 15y ago|2 comments
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Nicole Sullivan has nowhere near the experience in CSS as Douglas Crockford has with JavaScript. Compare their writings and their talks on their specialist subject matter. Also compare what their peer say about them. For Crockford the negat
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Realtime presentation(github.com)
1 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments
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Create a Website with Frames(create-a-website-with-frames.com)
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Some spam blogfarms play the arbitrage game with Adsense, but it's more profitable for them to use GoogleAds to pull traffic in and push visitors towards their affiliate links. Content tends to be scraped content, sometimes Markov chained o
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by Isofarro 15y ago
The volume of spam blogs compared to non-spam blogs isn't an indicator of working. The volume is based on two factors: * Automation at the high-end of spamming * Creating a wide a net as possible to pull in visitors Much like the volume of
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by Isofarro 15y ago
A function walks into a function, turns to one of the members and asks "can I stash my privates in here?"
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Once of the reasons Gawker moved away from hashbangs is that they weren't well supported by Google, despite this being a "Google specification". Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker, has some interesting tweets about the use of hashbangs over
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by Isofarro 15y ago
> What makes you think that somebody's going to actually read the site's warning (...)? If they don't already care enough about web privacy issues, they're not going to take the time to read about them now. If what you say is correct (t
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by Isofarro 15y ago
> More like, most users just plain don't care. If you are right, then getting their informed consent isn't going to pose an issue at all. So there's no problem here, right?
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by Isofarro 15y ago
> I strongly disagree with your assumption of a reasonable right to privacy when you are using my website. You're pretty much at an irreconcilable position with UK/EU legislation with this firm stance. Based on that, your preferred appr
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by Isofarro 15y ago
> that's certainly not how the pdf on the ico site says. ( http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/library/Privacy_and_... ) That document has this: "The new rule is intended to add to the level of protection afforded to the privacy of
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by Isofarro 15y ago
You do have quite a unique definition of "the core service of the site". All I can suggest at this point is that you need legal counsel to confirm your definition is compatible with the definition within this particular legislation. If that
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Perfect is the enemy of the good.
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by Isofarro 15y ago
The spirit of the law is protecting the privacy of site visitors from being leaked to third parties, intentionally or otherwise, and gaining their informed consent before doing things with cookies that violate that privacy. So the particula
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by Isofarro 15y ago
> How many sites have Google Analytics or something similar? I would argue that analytics are as essential to the operation of an online business as shopping carts. I think you are overstating the case for Google Analytics in particular
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by Isofarro 15y ago
> logs based analytics packages are inaccurate. a single ip could represent 1 person, or 10, or an entire nation behind a proxy or nat. Cookie-based, javascript-based and/or image-based tracking mechanisms are also inaccurate, in differ
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by Isofarro 15y ago
> The definition of "cookies used by the core service" here is so far off its insane. Analytics packages like Google Analytics are not part of my "core service"? If Google Analytics is a core service your site offers to visitors, then I
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by Isofarro 15y ago
As far as I understand, from an off-hand chat with a lawyer last year, UK law applies to businesses that have a record or filing in Companies House. http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/
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by Isofarro 15y ago
> we won't have google analytics, or any of the major analytics packages. weblogs analytics packages have been around since the beginning of the Web. > we therefore wouldn't know about things like screen resolutions, etc. You don't
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Your choice to opt-out of cookies has the side-effect of sites breaking because they assume cookies are accepted. So you're pretty used to broken / non-working sites. In that case, I don't see in your case why having a constant pop-up messa
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HTML5 and Accessibility(msdn.microsoft.com)
1 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments
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ICO gives UK businesses a year to get websites in order(brandrepublic.com)
3 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments
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The stupidity of our copyright laws is finally laid bare(guardian.co.uk)
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by Isofarro 15y ago
I've shortened the title, to remove the commercial spammy message which takes away from such an interesting article. Two very interesting points that make this suitable for this group: 1.) The first connection between a computer programmer
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ChessBase is 25(chessbase.com)
1 points by Isofarro 15y ago|1 comments

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