dude_abides

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by dude_abides 15y ago
They seem to have missed answering the most frequently asked question: How much did Yahoo get?
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by dude_abides 16y ago
Can't have put it better. Of course, the obvious caveat is that you may or may not reach a better optimum with this approach.
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by dude_abides 16y ago
Not any more.
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by dude_abides 16y ago
Yep. I'm wondering why Google, in this case, wouldn't encrypt the value stored in its cookie. Is there any technical reason other than laziness?
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by dude_abides 16y ago
Just wondering: Why doesn't a webserver encrypt the cookie value with a server-side key? This way, the information in the cookie (timestamps, pageviews, number of sessions etc.) can be safe from wireshark sniffers.
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by dude_abides 16y ago
Circles need not be just concentric circles like in your example. People have different groups of friends, each of which is a (probably overlapping) circle. Further, the edge weights between users in the two directions need not be reciproca
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by dude_abides 16y ago
The adage "Any publicity is good publicity" only holds for celebrities (or wannabe celebrities). I don't think it is true for an educational institution.
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by dude_abides 16y ago
tl;dr Facebook is a fad, people will soon move on to other fads. Fair argument, sensationalist title.
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by dude_abides 16y ago
Because it gives the user "plausible deniability" in case RIAA/MPAA serves him a notice.
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by dude_abides 16y ago
Here's a startup idea: A background service that runs on a PC/IPad/Phone, checks for new media files (pictures/mp3s/videos) and automatically re-encodes them, such that the quality, etc. is preserved but the file hash changes and cloud serv
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by dude_abides 16y ago
So what he is essentially saying is, they're an anarcho-syndicalist commune, taking it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, and all the decision of that officer must be approved at a bi-weekly meeting by a two-thirds