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by bct 19y ago
The security problems the article lists can be broken down like this: - phishing - if a relying party is insecure, bad things can happen to it - if your ID provider is insecure, very bad things can happen Those aren't anything new, and they
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by bct 19y ago
> add truckloads of markup to everything you write It worked for RSS. What's over-engineered about it? RDF is elegant in its simplicity.
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by bct 19y ago
The list was crap, but the semantic web isn't. It's really just the idea of putting machine-readable data on the web, which isn't a particularly crazy idea. It doesn't even need any new tech; you could do the semantic web with XML, microfor
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by bct 19y ago
How was it marketed?
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by bct 19y ago
It seems like it would work a lot better for a picture of a beach than one of my living room. The resized image of the woman and the baby has screwed up anatomy (even after the face is fixed).
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Content-aware image resizing algorithm (watch the linked video, too)(ultra-premium.com)
1 points by bct 19y ago|0 comments
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by bct 19y ago
He describes the general protocol in great detail, but AFAICT the meat of the thing (reputation and identity) is nonexistent.
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by bct 19y ago
This initiative is fronted by Zed Shaw, of Mongrel fame. The technical details are on the "design" page. I disagree with most of what he has to say, but it will be interesting to see what comes of this.
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Saving the Internet with hate: a technical solution to the social problem(savingtheinternetwithhate.com)
9 points by bct 19y ago|6 comments
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by bct 19y ago
If the latter, I've been pretty happy with xname.org. Only complaint is that you can't publish SRV records.
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by bct 19y ago
Browsers are free to implement portions of CSS3; it's not the W3C's fault that they haven't (naturally, "they" in this sentence usually means "Internet Explorer"). I don't envy the W3C's position; everybody knows HTML, so everybody's a crit
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by bct 19y ago
I think alec's suggesting to display the original domain beside the title of the link, ie. where it currently says "(nyud.net)", but still point the link to the submitted address.
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Neal Stephenson - "The Great Simoleon Caper" (short story about digital currency)(time.com)
3 points by bct 19y ago|1 comments