Skalman

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by Skalman 15y ago
I'm not entirely sure, but I think Mozilla will continue to support Fx 3.6 until they have a better solution for large companies. I'm not sure what that better solution would be, but I believe they're trying to solve the problem.
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by Skalman 15y ago
By accomplishments, do you mean Apple's current products? Of course. If you mean Apple's concept videos - I don't know, since I haven't seen any. Concept videos usually aren't realistic, or even preferable, since they have to convey what th
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by Skalman 15y ago
As a student (in user experience/computer engineering) I enjoy these concept videos, and they help me get inspiration for future projects. Companies that release them are much more likely to be viewed in a positive light by me, and I'd much
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by Skalman 15y ago
I think it's a wonderful use case, even though I'd be too annoyed to use it. When somebody else is looking at your screen and you quickly switch desktops, they might not understand what's happening. The cube shows what's you've done quite c
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by Skalman 15y ago
What I've been doing for quite a while is fairly similar. Instead of simply using a salt for each password I also have a random "site salt" (file system nonce), as follows: hash(password_plaintext + salt + site_salt) Assuming an atta
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by Skalman 15y ago
IE10 supports lots of things - e.g. animations and text-shadow. http://caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=ie+9&b2=ie+10
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by Skalman 15y ago
Using Firefox Web Console it's possible to obtain all the fetched URLs. The one containing the video was: http://ht.cdn.turner.com/cnn/big//us/2011/09/07/bts-msnbc-pe... I don't have a generic way of extracting this information from any s
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by Skalman 15y ago
True. We really need a plan B, to plan what to do in such a scenario, but there doesn't seem to be enough of an incentive to improve the system yet.
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by Skalman 15y ago
I think only Comodo has had a (known) breach ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#Iran_SSL_certifica... ), but it's not at all the same as with Diginotar - they informed vendors quickly, and had a list of false certificates available
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by Skalman 15y ago
Hopefully the bigger CAs have better policies, and would inform vendors immediately. (I'm sure Diginotar had policies too, just that they probably weren't followed) But if a CA was compromised and they didn't know the how many certificates
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by Skalman 15y ago
This was just previously posted as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2956268
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by Skalman 15y ago
I think you're overreacting - at least I simply interpreted the comment as being amazed at the amount of preparation - and that they could have faked it, had they wanted to (even though s/he doesn't think they actually did). Of course my
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by Skalman 15y ago
They're hoping to do the same thing they did with Gmail: use artificial scarcity to their advantage. It'll work if the people there get invites - that way it'll gradually expand until it opens up to everybody.
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by Skalman 15y ago
http://static.thepiratebay.org seems to be down for me too, thus eliminating all/most CSS, JS and images. I've got no clue whether it's an attack or not.
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by Skalman 15y ago
I sure hope that there will be a jump at some point allowing life quality to increase, and not bureaucracies, as Parkinson's Law seems to suggest (life quality hasn't improved during the last 30 years in the developed world, referring to ge
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by Skalman 15y ago
Well, we've already seen entire professions and daily tasks disappearing thanks to technology improvements. (e.g. blacksmiths, or washing clothes by hand) I think the sustainable future is one where we all work significantly less than today
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by Skalman 15y ago
I don't get that impression at all, after having read his essay (which I find very insightful indeed). What you're saying is only part of the reasons; privacy is not only about embarrassing things. The people monitoring need to be accounta
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by Skalman 15y ago
There's a difference between cool and important. pushState isn't that cool as we can almost do the same thing without it (#!), but web sockets are a whole new concept. That said, for sites that don't constantly update, pushState will be mor
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by Skalman 15y ago
I don't know, but Microsoft doesn't care anyway (or so they say), according to http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217116/Microsoft_dow... . But I do hope that he told Microsoft before the world.
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by Skalman 15y ago
The author misses a crucial point in Google results: they are tailored for you , so it's not about finding a contrasting point of view, rather it's about finding different related areas. For people searching for 'Our lord Christ', some mig
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by Skalman 15y ago
HN could easily redirect to news.ycombinator.com when the HTTP Host header is set to something else.
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by Skalman 15y ago
Well - if possible - try to be clear about what kind of filter is applied, and let users disable it. A related Ted talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
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Facebook Responds To Julian Assange’s ‘Spying Machine’ Allegations(blogs.forbes.com)
3 points by Skalman 15y ago|0 comments
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by Skalman 15y ago
Either way, as long as it's temporary, as far as I'm concerned.
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by Skalman 15y ago
They could easily "flash" when the sound begins if it's not the active tab. That would be useful, and that wouldn't dedicate any unnecessary space. Especially useful if you have sound turned off. (Similar feature in Ubuntu: when sound is tu
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by Skalman 15y ago
You don't have to "learn the hard way" any more. Just watch nearly 4 hours of video and you'll easily be able to master Wordpress, in fact I assure you you'll be amazed at what you will be able to do in under 4 hours from now. And this is
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by Skalman 15y ago
In Sweden we have a system of one-time-use e-cards, for some cards (in my case Visa and Swedbank) where you cannot pay with your physical card online. You specify the amount that should be available, and by default it's valid only one mon
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by Skalman 15y ago
Summary: Bits don't automatically have meta-data attached to them. OP uses "Colour" to describe this meta-data and explains why it's very important when reading the law. Computer scientists are Colour-blind (bits are the same no matter wher
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by Skalman 15y ago
Well - I guess "smart" is just a word that's difficult to define. I think the definition used by the OP is something along the lines of being better at academical subjects, which clearly isn't your only criteria. I for one used to be quite
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by Skalman 16y ago
Yeah, no network requests are made after the initial JavaScript and images have loaded.

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