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by bbatsell 14y ago
> Do Google or Facebook release a list of names and how much they paid for their bounty programs? Names, yes; $, no. [1]: https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/hall-of-fame/reward... [2]: https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/
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by bbatsell 14y ago
Twitter does not allow the keyholder to revoke tokens; only individual users can do that. It would be impossible for Tapbots to reclaim unused/unpaid tokens. (Which is why they beg users of the alpha to dissociate Tweetbot in their control
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Microsoft licenses patents "covering use of Linux-based servers in datacenters"(zdnet.com)
2 points by bbatsell 14y ago|1 comments
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by bbatsell 15y ago
They use electrical penetrators such as these: http://seaconworldwide.com/products/penetrators/penetrators/ They are listed as one of the main points of failure on the dive's website: http://deepseachallenge.com/the-expedition/deepsea-ch
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by bbatsell 15y ago
The Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act preceded the S&L crisis and both the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act preceded the subprime mortgage crisis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garn_-_St_Germ
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by bbatsell 15y ago
Their explanation of the universal cookie ID issue is rather silly. If you're a client of Kissmetrics, your visitors have a cookie scoped to your domain with the visitor's universal Kissmetrics ID. All of the database segregation in the w
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by bbatsell 15y ago
Swartz's organization seems to pretty clearly claim that both MIT and JSTOR asked the feds not to charge him. While JSTOR's statement doesn't actually say thatº, it certainly seems plausible to me since they very clearly say that they priv
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by bbatsell 15y ago
No, it isn't. Whether they've modified their announced plans due to backlash remains to be seen, but the information came from Shaw Communications president Peter Bissonnette, who justified it by saying, "There should be some advantage to
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by bbatsell 15y ago
One, to my knowledge, and ICE and DoJ engaged in some... rather dubious behavior in response to the target attempting to discuss the actions in good faith. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110613/12021514673/rojadi...
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by bbatsell 15y ago
gzip -9 takes the CSS down to 6757 bytes. That's not why it's impractical.
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by bbatsell 15y ago
Could you provide some assurance that that appeal form will actually lead to some fruitful response? From the posts on your forums, it's quite clear that every single "appeal" thus far through the provided mechanism has been automatically
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by bbatsell 15y ago
> Are the LLVM bindings for Ruby up-to-date? I believe so; MacRuby is under pretty serious development by a team within Apple.
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by bbatsell 15y ago
> Who pays for the "accidental CDN" that, according to the article, pushes as much traffic as the 10th largest website on the internet? Their optional $20/mo subscription plan can't possibly cover that. They use VigLink to add affiliate
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by bbatsell 15y ago
http://phabricator.org/
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by bbatsell 15y ago
Not sure why it was dead-ed (possibly a double-post), but here's the answer from an author of it in case you don't have showdead on: fdr 1 hour ago | link | parent [dead] | on: Heroku's AWS outage post-mortem The mechanism is PostgreSQL con
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by bbatsell 16y ago
You're confusing Namecheap with Name.com. Name.com does that. Namecheap does not.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
The cheating on PSN, up until now at least, has been entirely through exploits of binary saved game data (which can be transferred to and from the console freely). There was widespread hacking long before any jailbreak. Don't get me wrong,
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by bbatsell 16y ago
$50m in outright stock grants vested in only two years for a product VP? Not really passing the sniff test for me.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Discussed yesterday in this HN thread with 124 comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2383581
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North Carolina House passes bill banning community fiber infrastructure(dslreports.com)
20 points by bbatsell 16y ago|13 comments
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Often it's because a user accidentally double-posts, the second post gets auto-killed, the user can't see their own dead posts, and they delete the live one rather than the dead one (because they can't tell which is which).
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Access to that particular bug ID is blocked: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607127
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by bbatsell 16y ago
They didn't use Safari, they used a custom-written app with an instance of UIWebView. For a variety of (purportedly security-related) reasons, UIWebView has always been slower than Safari, but it's especially pronounced in iOS 4.3, where
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by bbatsell 16y ago
What he meant is that the bookmarklet will actually scrape the content from within your browser and submit it to Instapaper if you have access and Instapaper's crawler doesn't. Marco has discussed that functionality on the Build and Analyz
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Choose the more likely answer: a) Apple is shipping, and loudly promoting, a feature that "doesn't work" because of a fundamental, immutable hardware deficiency. b) The software implementation of an unsupported hack, used by an infinitesima
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by bbatsell 16y ago
The rows with specs that don't differ between the two versions span two columns. Look at the backgrounds. It's true for Display, Chip, Cameras, and Sensors.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Four months now, and Microsoft recently made changes to the activation code such that if it can detect you're not running in VirtualPC (on Windows, natch), then it disables itself. I've tried multiple avenues of converting the latest timeb
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by bbatsell 16y ago
To me it seems obvious that Reddit's core userbase would not be willing to install the spyware that comScore piggybacks onto to acquire its data. It doesn't surprise me in the least that Reddit is consequently under-represented in comScore
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by bbatsell 16y ago
The fact that they're going to continue throttling through two billing periods modifies this from "network management" to "unjustifiably punitive conduct".
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by bbatsell 16y ago
This explains the FSF's position pretty well: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/05/fsf-apples-itunes-... More recently, this line of argumentation was used by a VLC contributor to pull a VLC port off the App Store by citing copyright

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