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by gwillen 15y ago
But security across multiple sites _has_ to be fixed on the person end, because it can't be fixed on the system end. If you use the same password for 10,000 sites, there's no fix on the 'system' end to make them all secure, because they're
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by gwillen 15y ago
If you read more closely, it's not enough to _have_ a header; the header must also indicate that cookies are not used for tracking. The problem is, that indication is made with _lack_ of a particular token; and google includes a fake P3P he
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by gwillen 15y ago
http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2003/03/08/
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by gwillen 15y ago
I don't think it can be passing-off without goods or services being involved. There's probably some tort here, though...
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by gwillen 15y ago
This appears to be what is referred to in politics as a "dog whistle": http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
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by gwillen 15y ago
If a blackout of the English language Wikipedia affects you, then the destruction of the English language Wikipedia by US domestic politics would _also_ affect you, whether you like it or not.
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by gwillen 15y ago
There is no post-hoc twisting involved. The bill is consciously and deliberately deceptively-worded to make you think it only applies to private sector research. That is false.
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by gwillen 15y ago
I suspect Google's PAC is underfunded because it mostly employs the kind of people who hate the whole concept of a PAC and find it morally loathsome.
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by gwillen 15y ago
If you only ever want to append messages, and never want to mutate or remove them, I would do this scheme in two parts: 1) an append-only message store; 2) a set of indices stored alongside (1). To append thousands of messages per second, I
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by gwillen 15y ago
If you are cited for code violations, then you sell the property to your brother before the deadline to comply, and claim compliance is no longer your problem, that's fraud. This kind of analysis can be used to show a pattern of that kind o
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by gwillen 15y ago
myusuf3: Beware; you appear to have been hellbanned from HN between 145 and 149 days ago. I can't figure out why, as you do not seem to have said anything objectionable in that time. This means that none of your submissions or comments in t
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by gwillen 15y ago
If your abstractions are beautiful and clean, then you're absolutely right -- hiding the complexity is great! But you know what? 99% of the time, your abstractions are shitty and leaky. And then I need to know what's under them in order to
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by gwillen 15y ago
On both Linux and OS X, you can 'freeze' an app by sending it the old-style unix signal SIGSTOP. I've done this before, and it sort-of-works, but it doesn't tend to play very well with GUIs. If an app has a window up when you SIGSTOP it, th
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by gwillen 15y ago
Of the two methods he shows, I want to cast a strong dissenting vote that I prefer method number 1. In method 1, the complexity of the operation -- and it's not that much complexity, let's be honest here! -- is all in one place where I can
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by gwillen 15y ago
I tried Zaarly, encountered a bug, and -- for the first time ever -- had someone actually respond in the Olark chat widget when I said something about it. (After googling them, the person who responded was a "marketing coordinator", so hope
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by gwillen 15y ago
I would love to see Elsevier try to shut down the arXiv. That might be the one thing they could do to really turn the academic community against them. They'd be dead in a week.
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by gwillen 15y ago
I have 7: The vanity domain I use for all my email, a domain for hosting puzzlehunts, a .name domain I've done nothing with, a domain with a vaguely puzzley name I am saving for some future use that will never happen, and four unused domain
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by gwillen 15y ago
As my boss at Google always used to say: "Bing it!"
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by gwillen 15y ago
The problem is, most of the negative effects of the cloud are not immediate downsides; rather they are future risks of catastrophe, which people are generally very bad at measuring and accounting for. What's the probability that Google acci
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by gwillen 15y ago
People are claiming in the comments that this isn't new, but this is the first such _open source_ program I've seen since Unison, which I am badly in need of a replacement for. So I for one will check it out.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Unison has mostly been trouble for me. I'm definitely in need of a replacement for it. Doing point to multipoint syncing, it tends to get confused and need to be manually resynchronized; and above a certain total directory byte size, which
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by gwillen 15y ago
The more Amazon's cloud matures, the more it feels like Google's internal infrastructure did when I worked there. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes it's not... ;-)
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by gwillen 15y ago
This question is a litmus test. Anybody who is unable to correctly answer this question, and articulate the reasoning for the answer, is not equipped to operate successfully in the age of free culture.
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by gwillen 15y ago
If you follow the history of Wikipedia, ads have been discussed many times. The consensus has always been "no, absolutely not." If the WMF put even a single ad on Wikipedia as an experiment, there would be a community uproar and probably at
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by gwillen 15y ago
I strongly support "focused fire" -- picking a small number of influential and easily-targeted businesses (or members of Congress) and targeting them with everything we've got. It's an optimal strategy for creating press hits, exactly like
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by gwillen 15y ago
Does anyone here have any idea what they mean about naive C and python solutions? Normally I take 'naive' to mean 'bad but not wrong', but their question seems to imply that one or the other of the 'naive' solutions they have in mind is wro
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by gwillen 15y ago
Waiting for the 60-day period after renewal to expire so they are eligible for transfer.
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by gwillen 15y ago
I am planning to transfer my domains to nearlyfreespeech.net. The only thing stopping me is that I renewed them 30 days ago, and apparently you can't transfer a domain within 60 days of renewal for some reason.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Historical reasons. I've had my domains with them for almost ten years. Ten years ago they were the geek registrar of choice.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Good choices are accompanied by sensible defaults. LFS lacks any defaults at all... (I am in fact currently moving down the "user-friendliness scale" of linux distros, but I haven't hit the bottom yet. Right now I'm ditching Ubuntu for Debi

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