jlam

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by jlam 6y ago
To be accurate, partner Shell choose not to re-up its investment after exactly one year, from 2019 Feb 12 to 2020 Feb 18 as indicated in the blog post you linked (actually https://link.medium.com/KBxNNZGcK9 since your link
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by jlam 6y ago
To mention only Wirecard misses a wider scandal and the “massive hack-for-hire“ India-based operation BellTrox with hundreds of clients, as documented by CitizenLab. https://citizenlab.ca/2020/06/dark-basin-uncover
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by jlam 15y ago
Just redirect permanently from one to the other.
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by jlam 18y ago
CNET News posted a more in-depth article http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10194446-2.html and gave an answer to a question i had: can i port a number to Google Voice? (No, not yet.)
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Facebook cofounder Moskovitz and Rosenstein leave to found a new company(new.facebook.com)
2 points by jlam 18y ago|0 comments
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by jlam 18y ago
“Simple browsers” (#2), i think, has already been solved. Take http://Shiira.jp/en.php or Safari on the iPhone. The larger problem is how to make mass audiences aware without mass advertising, or to make it affordable to those without inc
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by jlam 18y ago
As we know, hackers regularly turn random door knobs to see which doors open. Logs i can see show more black hat attempts than white hat, so either OldGregg's friend got lucky or a few exploits might have already been made.
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by jlam 19y ago
The weakness of the above argument: Why would site-owners install an untrusted Clickpass widget spread around the net but not from Clickpass itself? I can see how some users might fail to recognize a Clickpass or OpenID url and give their l
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by jlam 19y ago
The reliably thoughtful Chris Messina just posted on the benefits and costs of OpenID, partly in response to a decision by linkmarking site http://Ma.gnolia.com to stop accepting traditional address and password registrations in favor of
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by jlam 19y ago
As a website owner, OpenID nets your site security. Most people reuse the same small set of usernames and passwords. A not-so-small number of sites store cleartext passwords; they can even mail it back to you. Regardless how well you execut
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by jlam 19y ago
America Online + AIM, Yahoo, Flickr, Livejournal, Vox, Typepad/key, Google, and enough widely-used sites, plus Drupal, Wordpress, and other widely-used platforms provide OpenID that very few users would need to create yet another login/pass
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The Good Guy Behind “Don't Be Evil” and Google Mail(rajeshbarnabas.newsvine.com)
30 points by jlam 19y ago|2 comments
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by jlam 19y ago
Instead of merely having a home, why not incorporate it as a non-profit cooperative. The paperwork isn't very hard. We've done it from scratch here at the http://Ant-Hill.org in Rochester. The effort to found a developer/start-up co-op th
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by jlam 19y ago
Perhaps even more important than diversity in gender, diversity in age and experience contribute even more to a project. So long as people are bright and hard-working, they can contribute lots. In the technology world, age prejudice runs mo
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by jlam 19y ago
I don't know how you could say that. If anything, the article calls for the demise of walled gardens: “Early services, such as CompuServe, Prodigy or AOL, began as ‘walled gardens’ before they opened up to become websites. The early e-mail
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A rigorous dynamical model for collective attention: how news grows and fades in popularity at Digg(scribd.com)
5 points by jlam 19y ago|0 comments
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by jlam 19y ago
Built by the folks at http://FriendFeed.com Simpli.st makes and manages lists. It aims for simplicity and requires no login. Each list gets a new link for sharing and linkmarking (social bookmarking). I like it combined with the Del.icio.
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A simple no-login listmaker built by the folks at FriendFeed(simpli.st)
4 points by jlam 19y ago|1 comments