jpswade

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by jpswade 14y ago
Fake Steve Jobs? Edit: Ah Fake Steve Jobs = Dan Lyons.
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by jpswade 14y ago
<div id="browsermessage">Hey there! If you like Agent 008 Ball now, you'll love it with the blazing fast graphics in <a target="_blank" href=" http://beautyoftheweb.com>Internet Explorer 9</a>. You should <a tar
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by jpswade 14y ago
Just some Internet Explorer marketing campaign.
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by jpswade 14y ago
There's a whole host of reasons, here's a handful: - Some sites will attempt to use the first part of your email address as your username. - Foreign domains are difficult to explain to people who don't understand. - People expect you to say
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We never ask for your username and password.(seclists.org)
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by jpswade 14y ago
No. Questionable downloads use rar archives because of the compression was generally higher than zip and allowed you to "split" files so it was easier to transport over usenet. A virus isn't useful until it's extracted anyway.
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by jpswade 14y ago
No. The Internet is fine. It's just some websites that suck. What next? - This Monitor Is Why Electricity Sucks. - This Truck Is Why Roads Suck. - This Toilet Is Why Water Sucks. - This Man Is Why Earth Sucks.
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by jpswade 14y ago
Hence the phrase: ignorance is bliss.
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by jpswade 14y ago
That isn't very clear.
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by jpswade 14y ago
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by jpswade 14y ago
I used to use a self hosted email address, but it just lead to confusion. It was much easier to pick a team and run with it. I picked Google.
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by jpswade 14y ago
Of course not, but every good sysadmin knows to take backups periodically, right?
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by jpswade 14y ago
No. that's not the point. Besides, you can download your subscribers from Google Groups.
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by jpswade 14y ago
Try mailman. It's pretty old, but it's pretty widely used for mailing lists.
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by jpswade 14y ago
They mostly fixed the channel problems with CHANFIX. This isn't really about that though.
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by jpswade 14y ago
This isn't an issue with the IRC RFC. This is a deliberate choice by EFnet, it's part of it's culture and bravado. You won't see this on Freenode.
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by jpswade 14y ago
I understand what steganography is, but what does this solve? Why would you want to send encrypted messages in a photo across facebook? It just seems really inefficient way of sending an encrypted message.
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by jpswade 14y ago
What problem does this solve?
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by jpswade 14y ago
Unless it's from a trusted source...
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by jpswade 14y ago
This reminds of what happened with the (unofficial) Google Weather API. People should really disclose what APIs they use and offer alternatives should the first go down, especially when it's unofficial.
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by jpswade 14y ago
>If you need to buy something with Bitcoin, you can do it right away. With a brick of gold — not so much. In the UK, my local high street jewelers will trade my gold same day. At the moment I can't even buy bitcoins, let alone sell them
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by jpswade 14y ago
What problem does this solve?
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by jpswade 14y ago
Although I want to agree, that post was written by a Brit.
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by jpswade 14y ago
It's "RSS.GD" not "RSS.gb".
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by jpswade 14y ago
Google Reader. https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-r...
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by jpswade 14y ago
I used to have a news (rss feed) reader on my blackberry, which was great. Now I switched to Android, I've been using Google Reader so I can sync it online too. So now this sucks, what's the alternative?
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by jpswade 14y ago
Speaking of "Don't Repeat Yourself", tools for these problems already exist. Namely Google Calendar for those "personal alerts" and ifttt.com for reading a feed an emailing you or whatever. Not that it's a bad idea to use this, it's just no
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by jpswade 14y ago
Somebody has to pay for it, but nobody is obligated to.
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by jpswade 14y ago
Destroying data is never a solution.
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by jpswade 14y ago
I'd probably buy one if I could think of a practical application for one.

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