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What price for free wifi? (BBC report on tracking users via wifi)(bbc.com)
2 points by arb99 12y ago|0 comments
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How odd is a cluster of plane accidents?(bbc.com)
155 points by arb99 12y ago|83 comments
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Brothers In Arms: Bank Job (Charity has 'innovative' for corporate sponsors)(youtube.com)
1 points by arb99 12y ago|0 comments
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by arb99 12y ago
Tinder would be able to counter a little this by showing the % that the other person swiped right. Women (and I guess Men) would be able to filter out those who swipe right 80%+ of the time... (I've not used it - maybe this already sho
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by arb99 12y ago
http://www.derlien.com/ disk inventory x is a decent one too.
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by arb99 12y ago
Huge copyright infringement on so many of their designs...
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by arb99 12y ago
these are the ads: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q9dzn78tfh2srnb/Screenshot%202014-... It isn't really a bad thing. He's giving the software away for free. I'm never a fan of the ones that pretend to be
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by arb99 12y ago
More people have heard about Uber thanks to these strikes than they ever would have (for the time being anyway...)
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by arb99 12y ago
related: http://www.snipe.net/2008/12/warcraft-security-better-than-b... (i think i actually remember a better article about that, that went into more detail why WoW has better security than banks, but I can'
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by arb99 12y ago
the App store rules say: "Apps that contain user generated content that is frequently pornographic (ex "Chat Roulette")" Once (if) this becomes popular it will have the chat roulette problem...
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by arb99 12y ago
Nowadays Poland seems like any other European country (for me, being a tourist it does anyway). And this article is referencing a time only around 25-30 years ago...
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by arb99 12y ago
this is hacker news. and this post is questioning if its worth the effort to copy navigation to 8 pages. surely the obvious answer is to just include header/footer files (e.g. simple example in php: <? include('header.php'
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by arb99 12y ago
If it ends up removing the whole page for any query: Got a competitor out ranking you with a page that has comments? Write some personal details, get it approved... then request that page removed. But it'll probably just stop it from s
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by arb99 12y ago
Same with Google Analytics. GA is the standard analytics for a huge % of websites - so even if a website doesn't use GA for tracking traffic, Google still has the referral data. And things like Google Adsense (i'm pretty sure that
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by arb99 12y ago
Google deff pays more attention to not just what you search for, but also what you click on. A search (without an infobox thing) that is abandoned indicates to google you're not really that interested in that action...
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by arb99 12y ago
site is down for me, but mirror here http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
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by arb99 12y ago
Not trying to be negative here, the app looks cool, but "The World's First Live Messaging System" - no its not. And patent pending? I remember ICQ, there have been other services mentioned, and I'm sure 100's if not
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by arb99 12y ago
Do different areas have the same music library available though?
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Seeding Torrents from S3(blog.celingest.com)
1 points by arb99 12y ago|0 comments
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by arb99 12y ago
Surely whatever program they used to create it could just be run again. It used data from maps etc so it must be able to run the same input again. Although if its >1tb of data thats gonna take a while...
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by arb99 12y ago
yeah, it doesn't even resemble reddit. Just has some kind of voting.
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by arb99 12y ago
Good luck using something called 'Gandalf'..
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by arb99 12y ago
a few lines down: system("openssl rand 448 > '".SALTFILE."'",$err); if ($err === 0) { chmod(SALTFILE,0400); $salt = file_get_contents(SALTFILE);
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by arb99 12y ago
yeah thats what i meant and said. by using something to edit the hosts file you'd have to edit it every time (can't do wildcards on hosts file, so it needs editing every time)
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by arb99 12y ago
Doesn't do the exact same (you'd have to add a new entry everytime, rather than point *.dev to localhost) but https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hostadmin/ is easier to set up. It&#
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by arb99 12y ago
I think Waze gets its data from other users, but in the uk we have https://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/ which will tell you the cheapest online grocery shopping company to go with for your selected 'trolly' (basket).
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by arb99 12y ago
so a mix between couchsurfing.org and airbnb.com?
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by arb99 12y ago
sxc.hu which recently changed to http://www.freeimages.com/ has a decentish collection. been using it for years when quality isn't too important. but i tend to use photodune.com for anything a bit more serious, the i
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Ask HN: Who do you use for offsite data backup?
1 points by arb99 12y ago|0 comments
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by arb99 12y ago
DO?

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