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by froo 17y ago
"Also, for those that don't know, boardgamegeek is an awesome resource for board game information." Just wanted to highlight that for anyone who didn't see it. BGG got me playing games like Descent (despite it's horrendous pricing when yo
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by froo 17y ago
Same, I've always wanted to make a dungeon crawler/adventure style game similar to the old Warhammer Quest (for personal use that is) This might help push me closer to that goal, since my homemade cards don't have the polish as those printe
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by froo 17y ago
"Remind me to stay on your good side." :) I sold the site earlier this year, but the subdomain I set up is still live, so the "hack" (if you could really call it that) is still live. Gives me a giggle, everytime - I know it was malicious,
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by froo 17y ago
Yes, but the amount of TV I watch a week is becoming less and less. In the last week, I've watched maybe 3 hours of television (both TV/Web stuff) in total...
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by froo 17y ago
You wouldn't even need to do too much damage on the client side for an effective attack vector. Imagine redirecting scripts for googleadservices.com and implementing their JS code with your own publisher ID there. That would make some of th
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by froo 17y ago
Not all that's involved. Sometimes "hacking" involves creative pranks. For example, one prank I pulled (which was admittedly pretty basic and silly) was a creative redirection using .htaccess for a certain someone's fixed IP address who use
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by froo 17y ago
I've got bets on "god" - I mean, it worked for that organisation in that hackers movie right?
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by froo 17y ago
"Why restrict yourself to a few bumper stickers...now your wife can write the grocery list on your car door! " I'm not sure if this would be cool. If you imagine some of the potential shopping lists, I wouldn't want to be the guy advertisi
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by froo 17y ago
Look, I agree it was a sarcastic remark - but if you're going to take any sort of high ground (which is why I used the technical superiority comment, even though it was probably a poor choice of words) to sum up your argument, at least use
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by froo 17y ago
I remember seeing years ago (long before the handheld device took off) researchers were working on a device that would swap business/contact information digitally through a handshake. The device was contained in your shoe. While I like the
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by froo 17y ago
I was agreeing up with him to this point. "Keep whackin' away on that Pareto Principle and let us all know how it turns out. In the meantime, I'm going to go play a few rounds of Counterstrike on my Windows-based PC" That's one way to kil
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by froo 17y ago
I welcome updates, I don't know what's so amusing. Exactly, the update manager in Ubuntu boots up every couple of days for me to make sure my installation is the most up to date possible. Is this the part where Marco starts slagging off L
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by froo 17y ago
I'd just like to take the time (and the modding down this comment will probably get) to thank HN, simply because this article has been posted for more than 4 hours and nobody has yet made an "in soviet russia" joke. Thank you all for the co
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by froo 17y ago
I honestly am brimming with excitement about getting my hands on one of these. If they're decent, I've got plans to buy at least 2 more, one going to my mother and grandmother to get them connected to the web with a cheap & simple devic
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by froo 17y ago
"This idea never went very far." Well, not to burst your bubble but there are many sites that use this exact business model. One of the sites that comes to mind is homestarrunner.com - who have been doing this since they started. Granted,
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by froo 17y ago
Thanks for the link but FYI, the URL is techDIRT, not techCRUNCH. Interesting story nonetheless, I'm curious what TPB's exposure will be now that there's a clear monetary gain.
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by froo 17y ago
The rest is obtained by bots that they run en masse which really mess up the game for everyone else. Back when I played wow, I could have sworn that there were a few botters that would use something like Auctioneer to make money by buying
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by froo 17y ago
"What's the user's interest in posting the information?" It does raise an interesting point, especially given the timeframe in which the user kept trying to post that information, given it was occurring over a period of several months. I'
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Sarychev Peak Eruption, Kuril Islands (images from space)(earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
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by froo 17y ago
See, I don't think you're correct about webcams. Most of these other technologies have been supersceded by something superior - the Webcam is a simple video input device. Unless someone figures a superior method to get your image digitised
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by froo 17y ago
No, you're right. I can't do what they're doing. However, my talents lie elsewhere so I submit to you that they can't do what I'm doing, so the point really is moot. It would be like complaining that a plumber can't cook as well as a chef.
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by froo 17y ago
Congratulations to the team Bellkor's Pragmatic Chaos. Now if they could only spend some of their time researching how to make a page that doesn't look like it was coded by an 11 year old myspace user. An example from the source <br
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by froo 17y ago
Agreed, this would be closer to a correct outcome. Especially for users like me who generally comment in offpeak times (being on the other side of the world) and usually come to a discussion many many hours after it has long died down, so h
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by froo 17y ago
"Prices seem to be in $ instead of purchasing power. So not really meaningful, except insofar as it indicates where someone buying with $ would find the cheapest." I decided to use the Big Mac Index to satisfy your hunger for knowledge (p
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by froo 17y ago
Interesting article. From having a friend who has an addiction to cocaine here in Perth, I can confirm the $285 figure is pretty close to correct, although it is in Australian dollars, not USD, so with that in mind I decided to run some of
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by froo 17y ago
"And what if I'm not a techie but I still want to control my data ?" Then if you were really paranoid about controlling your data - you don't share it, at least not on a publicly accessible network like the internet. It's a simple concept
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by froo 17y ago
and don't want to have their personal data freely available on the internet. With a lot of the sites I mentioned above, you do have the option of privacy settings so that only certain users can see files. So the point is still moot. Opera
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by froo 17y ago
"@froo, you do have a point, but revenue is not profit." Fine, let's investigate that. MS's profit for: 2008 = $37.9 billion 2007 = $32.6 billion 2006 = $27.81 billion .. and so on, I can't be bothered entering in the rest of the fi
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by froo 17y ago
Let me address some of your problems. "Most of those sites filter what you upload, doesn't allow some content and limit your possibilities." Yes, because most of those sites are content specific (eg, youtube is for videos, not documents)
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by froo 17y ago
Sorry to be flogging a dead horse, but I just want to raise a point again. From the article: "Opera’s idea is that you should be able to share your own data easily and with whoever you want," If anyone at Opera reads this, here is a (very

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