billpg

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841.
by billpg 11y ago
Be careful with using Firefox's click-to-play feature. It's all or nothing. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=886792#c41
842.
by billpg 11y ago
I'd feel smug about my choice of cell phone but Samsung sponsored the Olympics.
843.
by billpg 11y ago
The Doctor Who writers would often use "constellation" when they probably meant "galaxy". Annoys me more than it really should.
844.
by billpg 11y ago
They've implemented "ask to activate" badly by making it cover the whole page instead of per-element. They did it the right way in the past. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=886792#c41
845.
by billpg 11y ago
Maybe that's what they want you to think.
846.
by billpg 11y ago
It must be... hang on, what day of the week is it?
847.
by billpg 11y ago
We're doomed!
848.
by billpg 11y ago
He's the guy sitting in the corner on New Year's Eve muttering that its just an arbitrary point on the calendar with no natural significance.
849.
by billpg 11y ago
Kickstarter is a shop and should be regulated like a shop. What would happen to Amazon if a pre-order failed and I didn't get a refund? If it were an investment site, you'd be getting shares for your money.
850.
by billpg 11y ago
I seem to recall an application where the developer inserted a completely pointless delay after clicking the button before reporting completion, because people couldn't quite believe that a computer (or anything) could complete such a
851.
by billpg 11y ago
Next you'll be telling me he didn't really say that thing about defending my right to say things.
852.
by billpg 11y ago
Football matches are still a thing? (I'm sorry.)
853.
by billpg 11y ago
Beauty contests are still a thing?
854.
by billpg 11y ago
I've created my own programming language and they always tell me that the best languages are always self-hosted, so I wrote the compiler in my new language too. I'm having trouble running the compiler. bpgcomp bpgcomp.bpg -
855.
by billpg 11y ago
(Shameless plug) http://blog.hackensplat.com/2012/04/php-some-strings-are-mor... At which point in this article do I start making stuff up about PHP's comparison operators?
856.
by billpg 11y ago
I imagine, from their point of view, that's the point.
857.
by billpg 12y ago
I'm shocked ─ shocked! ─ that Apple would do this.
858.
by billpg 12y ago
An FB rant posted as visible-to-friends-only.
859.
by billpg 12y ago
That's correct. The conversation, as seen by an eavesdropper will be: - Client makes DNS request to example.com. - DNS server (we hope the legitimate one) sends IP addr in response. - Client connects to server IP. - TLS negot
860.
by billpg 12y ago
Obligitory links as they are not on the page... Part 1: http://www.filfre.net/2015/03/the-68000-wars-part-1-lorraine/ Part 2: http://www.filfre.net/2015/04/the-68000-wars-part
861.
by billpg 12y ago
The DNS response doesn't have to come from the same channel as the original request. If you've got an ISP that doesn't check the source IP of what you're sending, your target's endpoint will see your fake response a
862.
by billpg 12y ago
A "passive eavesdropper" has all the information they need to become an active man-in-the-middle. Observe the DNS query on its way out and send your own response with your IP before the real response comes back. The client will th
863.
by billpg 12y ago
By having an expiry, revoked certs can be forgotten about once the expiry has passed. We'd need to keep a forever growing list of revocations otherwise.
864.
by billpg 12y ago
I'll wait for someone else to respond to your comment.
865.
by billpg 12y ago
Alas, in this imperfect world, phone calls from random users are how server admins are notified of cert expiry.
866.
by billpg 12y ago
I wonder if browsers should for (say) a week after a cert has expired, show an error so alarms are raised, but allow the dialog to be dismissed with an OK instead of all the "Confirm Security Exception" that would go on for a more
867.
by billpg 12y ago
I dunite why you'd think that.
868.
by billpg 12y ago
(Wondering if the down-voters saw the pun and didn't like it or if they missed the pun and felt it was a pointless comment.)
869.
by billpg 12y ago
Don't be sad. He meant a lot to you.
870.
by billpg 12y ago
(shakes fist) I'm deaf in one ear and stereo audio has only ever been an annoyance for me.

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