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811.
by billpg 10y ago
"Oh you looked away for a minute or two, so I took you back to the top of the page again. If you want to continue reading from where you left off I'm afraid you'll have to keep scrolling and scrolling until you see something
812.
by billpg 10y ago
Shameless plug: http://blog.hackensplat.com/2013/09/never-sanitize-your-inpu...
813.
by billpg 10y ago
Is algorithmen the plural for algorithm?
814.
by billpg 11y ago
I had to add 0.0.0.0 fpdownload2.macromedia.com to my HOSTS file because Skype kept wanting to install Flash Player.
815.
by billpg 11y ago
I could feel inclined to take up iOS/Android app development if I could use Visual Studio. Last time I considered moving into mobile development, I had a "life is too short" reaction. Why would I still need an OS X machine fo
816.
by billpg 11y ago
The browser would cache a copy. I've seen proposals to add hashes to links. This way, a browser might see a link to some JS on a new URL, but with the hash, it might find it already has that JS file in its cache from when it downloaded
817.
by billpg 11y ago
Some APIs are not designed very well in the face of the possibility of a time-out on a POST, because the client can't be sure if the request was successful or not. http://blog.hackensplat.com/2014/07/is-your-a
818.
Is your API broken?(blog.hackensplat.com)
2 points by billpg 11y ago|0 comments
819.
by billpg 11y ago
I ask having no idea... Does Linux allow for a file system to be invoked at run-time using a general-purpose interface? (If not, could one be added?) If ZFS could be modified to use the general-purpose interface, people who wanted to use it
820.
by billpg 11y ago
bzzz Evil.
821.
by billpg 11y ago
So they wasted a perfectly good network card for nothing.
822.
by billpg 11y ago
I think Belgium got the poor end of the deal. https://goo.gl/maps/byhcGJeHsKS2
823.
by billpg 11y ago
Interesting. I went to Vimeo to check it was still the case just before I posted my comment and I got an error message about my setup.
824.
by billpg 11y ago
Finally. Ever since I removed the flash plugin around a year or two ago, Facebook and Vimeo videos are the only things I regularly encounter that I can't play.
825.
by billpg 11y ago
Not having to buy an Apple device even if you can afford one. (I'll get my coat.)
826.
by billpg 11y ago
Has Betteridge's law of headlines failed me?
827.
by billpg 11y ago
"Another is to “use SQL libraries that take care of input sanitization for them,” Al-Bassam suggested. This, in short, scrubs any data entered by the user to remove any potential malicious parts of it." This is bad advice. Some pe
828.
by billpg 11y ago
If you say "synthetic diamond" to most people (I suspect) they would imagine you mean cubic zirconia or something similar. A "synthetic" diamond is 100% a genuine diamond, made from the same stuff as mined diamonds.
829.
by billpg 11y ago
Should have split the land into hexagons instead.
830.
by billpg 11y ago
I was responding to the idea that being a man-in-the-middle is significantly more difficult than being a passive eavesdropper. If you're already a passive eavesdropper, all you need is the ability the send a DNS response and you'r
831.
by billpg 11y ago
If you can see a DNS request going out and can send a fake response that arrives before the real one, you have enough resources to pull off a MITM.
832.
A billion Android phones are vulnerable to new Stagefright bugs(arstechnica.com)
1 points by billpg 11y ago|0 comments
833.
by billpg 11y ago
Found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Five_Rings#Inter...
834.
by billpg 11y ago
I think anything with five or more interlocked rings are illegal in any country that wants to ever host the Ol*mpics. I seem to recall a game (or something) that had a similar logo to this flag but had to be redesigned.
835.
by billpg 11y ago
I prefer this one... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terra_flag.gif Aqua, terra, aer et somniorum.
836.
by billpg 11y ago
"But phones will remain vulnerable until they're updated with the latest software patch." So never then.
837.
by billpg 11y ago
People with names ending in S shouldn't be allowed to own things!
838.
by billpg 11y ago
On my graduation, someone called Mr Jack Jones was being given an honorary doctorate. (I understand he was a trade unionist or something, if I may be as dismissive as I possibly can.) I wanted to walk out when they got to his bit of the c
839.
by billpg 11y ago
"Playing the stock market is easy. Buy something at random and if it goes up, sell and take the credit. If it goes down, say its a long term investment and hide in the cupboard." -- Milton Jones.
840.
by billpg 11y ago
What would spend your money on?

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