Maxious

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by Maxious 15y ago
This was how I got invited (out of the blue invite advertising some site) and how I invited over 20 people over a 24 hour period (tagging them in a photo/status update or sharing a status update to a circle/email address). They didn't get a
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by Maxious 15y ago
Never had that problem with Gandi but buying digital goods from Facebook froze my card. Apparently they were a hive for credit card thief testing at that point in time because of the low value of virtual gifts (1 US cent?).
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by Maxious 15y ago
It doesn't that's why they have: > Severability > In the event that any provision of these Terms of Service is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of these Terms of Service will remain in full force and ef
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by Maxious 15y ago
When they hacked Sony, it was in the ABC radio stations' hourly news bulletins (second story I think). "Lulls Security".
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by Maxious 15y ago
Georgia's tough anti-illegal-immigrant law drove a sizable fraction of the migrant labor pool out of the state, and as a result, "millions of dollars' worth of blueberries, onions, melons and other crops [are] unharvested and rotting in the
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by Maxious 15y ago
They also outed a prominent anonymous political blogger because the head of the ABC said bloggers could provide better analysis than newspapers sometimes: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/39038.html And they attempted to sue a journalism p
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by Maxious 15y ago
Or switch to Internode/iiNet ho oppose internet censorship aswell as being cheaper in some cases and support powerusers well (ipv6, adjusting your line's DSLAM profile for lower ping or higher reliability and letting you run servers on any
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by Maxious 15y ago
I think the OP's point is that Amazon EC2 can run 100s of instances for one customer which could be on up to 100 different physical servers and when not using EBS roots, any one of those servers might still contain the evidence the FBI want
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by Maxious 15y ago
I use geopo rather than geohash: http://geopo.at/intl/en/developer/ Can't remember why (the database schema calls the column geohash) but it is great in either system to be able to do a really fast lookup based on a substring and then use
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by Maxious 15y ago
I don't know if it is obvious. I've been starting to use label tags for textboxes and didn't realise that value= wasn't good enough. Instead I had a label and a value= attribute that had a bit more information to help users... guess I'll mo
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by Maxious 15y ago
Livejournal did this in 2010 and their regexes were pretty bad redirecting GlutenFreeBay.com to ebay.com thinking they were changing affiliate parameters. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1168331
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by Maxious 15y ago
There are 2 critical points leading up to that list: When the very same GeoHot released a hardware glitch for PS3 OtherOS to let you use more of the system (extra SPU and GPU access rather than software rendering). It should be noted that t
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by Maxious 15y ago
They should start with http://wiki.ckan.net/Schema_for_Packages for datasets There's a lot on schema.org for social media websites/business lookup but should be more for open data. I was looking for a linked data schema to represent finan
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by Maxious 15y ago
We (aussies) tend to provide the mobile links because the full browser links on that network of sites have auto playing flash videos with sound. In this case it's the actual recording of the moment after they tell him the interview is over,
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by Maxious 15y ago
> When he adds X, we can run Firefox inside Linux inside Firefox inside Linux :') Skip the middle man, output gtk via html5 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/03/15/gtk-html-backend-upd... (I don't actually know if it still has depend
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by Maxious 15y ago
So? "Every month, Yarra Trams publishes its performance results for both service delivery and punctuality on the internet, on posters in trams and through our designated customer feedback number 1800 800 166." "If our service delivery or pu
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by Maxious 15y ago
Power companies were some of the first customers on Telstra's new M2M platform so it seems it wasn't standard operating procedure to lock the cards/accounts down at first. "An Aurora spokesman said once the company became aware of the probl
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by Maxious 15y ago
Telstra Wireless Telemetry Service standard rate card: http://www.mobilitypartner.telstra.com/web/mpp/plans $1/MB is the highest rate. Interestingly the some of the sales material states "If a system is using more data than anticipated, T
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by Maxious 15y ago
OpenSignalMaps? OpenBmap? Cellhunter? OpenCellID? If you've got an android device, OpenSignalMaps and OpenBmap have clients to monitor wifi/cell towers although I prefer OpenBmap for making their data available for download again ("open"Sig
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by Maxious 16y ago
As mentioned in the comments, there are already plenty of apps that do this. I use JuiceDefender (Wifi on/off is the only thing based on location but it has power source/battery level/time related features too) but Locale and Tasker will do
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by Maxious 16y ago
I remember hearing this on reddit but the post is mirrored at http://www.volnation.com/forum/pub/127425-iphone-bug-2.html#... 'Look at the video for session 115, "Using Core Location in iOS". Skip to around 13:45 for the discussion of "Co
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by Maxious 16y ago
A blog post last month touched on this: "Q: Why is reddit tied so tightly to the affected availability zone? A: When we started with Amazon, our code was written with the assumption that there would be one data center. We have been working
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by Maxious 16y ago
> Nothing special-case here: we deploy with git push, just like any other Heroku user. Dogfooding is good for you. http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2009/4/1/fork_our_docs/
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by Maxious 16y ago
Same as iPod/iPhone/iPad/Facebook/Twitter/email killer. You can call yourself the iPad killer after you've killed the iPad.
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by Maxious 16y ago
Unlimited versions within last 30 days for all free and paid users (including changesets where files are deleted), paid users can also pay extra to keep every version since file creation. So if you were suspected of getting a secret file an
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by Maxious 16y ago
Not until you can do load balancing on GAE/AWS without it.
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by Maxious 16y ago
In Australia you need ID to get a pre-paid phone or SIM. Organised crime just imports their mobile connectivity from Mexico - the roaming fees are nothing to them. http://www.theage.com.au/national/bikies-trafficking-in-data...
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by Maxious 16y ago
I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but Australian Customs and Border Protection agents harass people too, specifically taking business documents, mobile phones, USB drive contents, demanding passwords where there is no legislated powe
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by Maxious 16y ago
Is it just Ruby or can PHP and Python play aswell? Any library/network restrictions? Any tips for making apps deployable?
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by Maxious 16y ago
> I'm against the motives here but strongly support open government and the right to get information like this. Concurred. I found the Chancellor's message re: "academic freedom vs. right to know" objectionable based on the premise that

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