Maxious

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by Maxious 16y ago
That would at least slow down the bots based on how attentive the maintainers are. There are of course captcha solving services but this just trades maintainer time for money - trying to run a successful karma hoarding bot would still be de
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by Maxious 16y ago
See also financial company lawyers going to work for the SEC and then back to their banking law jobs (sometimes at the same firm with the same Wall Street clients) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230345070457516... > 66 f
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by Maxious 16y ago
deviantArt uses !username for closed accounts http://comments.deviantart.com/18/1084654/712007861
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by Maxious 16y ago
Looking at the reverse dns, the website is hosted on a someone's home server at the moment (Internode ADSL: Sydney, Australia) I hope they're not using phpfog's AWS credentials to pay to distribute dumps of their own site.
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by Maxious 16y ago
Official update from tumblr: http://staff.tumblr.com/post/3959106211/update-regarding-sec...
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by Maxious 16y ago
I think this was more of a systemic failure - the file that failed in this case was also relied upon to disable development mode/error output on production servers. I'm pretty sure my production web servers return a HTTP code 500 with no fu
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Mistyped tag leads to exposure of Tumblr DB passwords and API keys
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by Maxious 16y ago
> Vending machines are so ubiquitous in Japan that they are an icon in itself More pertinent example: Several Japanese vending machine companies build into their machines backdoors to dispence products for free in the case of an emergen
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by Maxious 16y ago
> The reddit guys came by our Cloudkick office late last year and flat denied there are any bots they know of that downvote when I asked them I guess they forgot to explain that while it's not bots that do it, there's a feature in reddi
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by Maxious 16y ago
This service is well known in car theft investigations except the cameras are supplemented with the ability to remotely cut the engine. Follow the car until it's safe to storm it. Boom goes the dynamite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_c
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by Maxious 16y ago
Steam in various forms had existed for a while; firstly in 2002 as a more efficient distribution engine for Counter Strike then to provide authentication and matchmaking for the HL1 multiplayer after Valve's publisher Sierra planned to turn
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by Maxious 16y ago
Reminds me of the recent conflict between the IcedTea (Java) and Moonlight (Silverlight) plugins in Chrome/Firefox http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/01/plugin-... Is there an equivalent to Video for Windows/GStreamer on OS
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by Maxious 16y ago
FYI in australia the pricing is pretty similar: 1.00 AUD = 0.994493 CAD, $40AUD = 40GB, $80AUD = 250GB, $100AUD = 350GB
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by Maxious 16y ago
Does nobody remember LiveJournal? The site with the community that was willing to look past growing pains and security exploits to communicate on their own terms? The "straight forward blogging platform" that created a need for memcached am
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by Maxious 16y ago
> I've created my own guidelines for now: no rewrites, no link-spam, no tricking the user, no link-bait. Perhaps I need more. Don't know. That's all I have so far. Google Webmaster Guidelines: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/b
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by Maxious 16y ago
Haha I recieved links to threewords.me before I even opened HN this morning. I don't know how to solve your fires but I've been asked to tell you to let the text color be customised because otherwise you can make unreadable on certain backg
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by Maxious 16y ago
I've seen this one used in an Introduction to Psychology exam: http://xkcd.com/32/ And the velociraptor problem was a class exercise for calculus: http://www.xkcd.com/135/
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by Maxious 16y ago
That's weird, I was told I'm graduating from the leading university in Australia and we don't do 15 person final year projects ;) We also MUST use and understand version control so "leading" might be closer to truth (branching/exploring exi
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by Maxious 16y ago
Note that the US-FTA immigration arrangements are reciprocal; in exchange we aussies get an exclusive entry to america for under the E-3 temporary work visa program: http://canberra.usembassy.gov/e3visa.html
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by Maxious 16y ago
I use Opera mini extensively on my phone, probably more than the Phone/SMS aspects. I would certainly opt in for all kinds of intrusive behaviour (behavioral advertising, changing ads, adding appropriate ads sometimes) to allow Opera to con
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by Maxious 16y ago
Note that this is just one in a long history of convention "incidents" in the open source/geek community to the extent that there is a "Con Anti-Harassment Project" site @ http://www.cahp.girl-wonder.org/
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by Maxious 17y ago
My ISP Internode always says when they expect the next status update to be. Usually there's a deadline of 2-3 hours between updates and recently there was a period of 72 hours with several cascading issues ( http://advisories.internode.o
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by Maxious 17y ago
My favourite supposed "compiler bug": http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11203
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by Maxious 17y ago
>Why are Tiger cheaper? Because they have stricter policies and fewer, perhaps less-trained or experienced staff, and they build a business model on those factors, not around caring for you. If you want somebody to care, be prepared to
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by Maxious 17y ago
Have Google neutralised any remotely possible patent threat from On2 over Theora now? Can we finally get on with implementing <video>?
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by Maxious 17y ago
The D-Link case on gpl-violations.org fetched ~2,870 euro. Small change perhaps, but if a larger damages could be found on the scale of Microsoft it wouldn't be insignificant. And as we see from the ffmpeg hall of shame, binary releases of
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by Maxious 17y ago
I think the only unique thing to come out of this is the supposed clear-text-credit-card-number iTunes exploit. That would be a story worth telling, where exposing information is in the public interest.
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by Maxious 17y ago
I have exactly one too - the jabber server daemon Openfire. I know it's exactly one because sometimes I want to quickly check if it's running and that's just a "ps -A | grep java" :P
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by Maxious 17y ago
on 32-bit win7 it was "did not automatically install packet capture driver". I downloaded winpcap 4.1 beta5 seperately, set the compatibility mode to WinXP SP3 and it installed. Doesn't install cleanly for RAS/VPN network connections but wi