jrabone

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by jrabone 14y ago
I like running my own mail server. It means I can null route people who think this is acceptable.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Yes, they could stop sending email full stop. There's a reason we wanted Domain Keys. Having the spamming fuckwits just moving from one starry-eyed mass email startup to the next every time they get canned wasn't it.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Please no, just stop. HTML in email is an awful idea. Get PDF/A attachments standardised in the client for presentation purposes, if you really must, but No Scripting.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Aw, man. I used to hate this guy when I worked on the title authority team. The programmatic titles alone often caused the title matchers to infer that all the books were somehow related, and cluster them all together. Oh, the happy hours
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by jrabone 14y ago
So something has parsed the HTML - but at least you didn't have to reinvent that wheel :) Still, you might want to look at https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk/gp/advertising/api/de... - the Product Advertising API looks like the late
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by jrabone 14y ago
No, the article says right there it uses search results (presumably by scraping). ECS used to be WSDL - real easy to drive from eg. PHP back in the day. I wouldn't want to be the poor sod parsing the retail website HTML (although perhaps th
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by jrabone 14y ago
This is a really cool idea - and it shouldn't be too hard to get it to talk to recommendations, personalisation & wishlist if those APIs still accessible as a web service? However, I haven't used the E-commerce service for a long time a
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by jrabone 14y ago
Read the article - they specifically talk about drawing your own pointer. You don't need to control the pointer, you just need to make it appear to be somewhere else. Remember all the shitty spam adverts themed to look like Windows XP dial
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by jrabone 14y ago
Hmm. Enabling this for any element regardless of full-screen state might be a bad idea. Is the warning popup modal? Can you use it to cause the user to click on something other than the intended target by intentionally drawing the pointer i
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by jrabone 14y ago
Only insofar as it talks about 1) partially encrypted traffic, 2) using local copies of the keys for decryption, or 3) flow identification of IPSEC. Properly done I don't see an IPSEC/L2TP VPN being vulnerable to DPI - although you will wan
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by jrabone 14y ago
Yes, that is exactly what I want. I rooted and upgraded my S2 to a Cyanogen 10 nightly over the weekend (trying to fix the seemingly un-interoperable Android VPN implementation for my setup) and I was appalled to realise that one of the thi
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by jrabone 14y ago
If you believe the James Lovelock and the Gaia hypothesis, the environment is stabilised by multiple negative feedback loops. However, the feedback is limited and will only compensate for a certain range of inputs - if these are exceeded, t
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by jrabone 14y ago
With regard to java, a lot of the complexity is in ancillary systems rather than language or the libraries themselves. You may not like Maven, for example, but what's the c++ equivalent? Autotools? I think not. Any cross platform c++ pro
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by jrabone 14y ago
Perhaps if US companies didn't start from a mindset which consistently refers to "domestic" and "international" business, their performance might be better. Europe is not one country yet, never mind everywhere else.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Try again. That is exactly what is happening in the UK with deep packet inspection to "traffic shape" torrents, Phorm to inject targetted adverts, various child-porn filtering systems which route traffic to second-level firewalls based on s
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by jrabone 14y ago
I believe the quote is "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.", and it's not clear what essential liberty is being compromised here.
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by jrabone 14y ago
Yes, Google, that's because you've blacklisted my perfectly good graphics driver and broken it for me (Chrome/Linux/Nvidia). Well played. How about next time you give ME that choice? (I know about the workarounds. It's not my machine, I don
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by jrabone 14y ago
But that's the point - there is no such character. Given the Unicode consortium have added codepoints for every other bloody thing under the sun, I'm amazed that there isn't one for n-diaresis but there you are. Add a small number of people
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by jrabone 14y ago
That is very bad. The small deposit + verification is exactly how Paypal used to do account linking - I don't know if they've since added extra steps.
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by jrabone 14y ago
It is totally arbitrary - there's no reason you can't have degenerate 6-byte encodings, and compliant decoders should cope with them. See Marcus Kuhn's excellent UTF-8 decoder torture test page linked elsewhere in this thread.
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by jrabone 14y ago
MySQL is one of the worst offenders for broken Unicode and collation problems arising therein. Neither it nor JavaScript deserve consideration for problems that need robust Unicode handling.
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by jrabone 14y ago
No. Combining characters and NF(K)C/D normalisation rules are a different problem entirely - consider the "heavy metal umlaut" (ie. Spın̈al Tap) where there is no lossless conversion possible - only “n" followed by U+0308
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by jrabone 14y ago
The GSM 03.38 charset specified for SMS is not straight 7-bit ASCII. See eg. http://www.dreamfabric.com/sms/default_alphabet.html
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by jrabone 14y ago
Absolutely right. The customer does not care that you made a shortsighted decision to pick a language for a TEXT based system that cannot correctly support none-BMP Unicode. There are no excuses, surrogates have been out there for years (Wi
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by jrabone 14y ago
That is quite clearly broken, and any tool that does so should be fixed or dumped. This is not new, and Marcus Kuhn had made UTF8 test resources available for years at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
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by jrabone 14y ago
That is perhaps not the same as "capacity" in the legal sense. Is a web-server legally competent?
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by jrabone 14y ago
Thinking as a farming peasant, perhaps your child is probably worth less to me than my sheep? Only one is going to feed my family and keep me warm.
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by jrabone 14y ago
It doesn't, they mean Dark Side of the Moon. It's not exactly Floyd's most obscure album... One thing I learned at Amazon, data quality is a huge problem for any media information. It wouldn't surprise me if this specific instance was just
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by jrabone 14y ago
I fear latency is always going to be the issue that stops this working across arbitrary networks, with the amount of buffering that goes on. How many hops is Google Fiber to the nearest cloud services provider?
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by jrabone 14y ago
Doesn't work for me - I can add a new email address, but when I sign out and back in it's vanished. Feels like they might have disabled parts of the account management system.

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