mooism2

84 ms·

811.
by mooism2 15y ago
Bored of this story now.
812.
by mooism2 15y ago
Wikipedia backs up my recollection that Freddie Starr's publicist made that up, although the Sun was hardly deceived into believing it was true.
813.
by mooism2 15y ago
Not the exact wording, but something along the lines of "Give me two lines of text from an innocent man, and I can get him convicted."
814.
by mooism2 15y ago
Blogspam --- actual link is http://www.blueglass.com/blog/a-pictures-worth-1000-link-how...
815.
by mooism2 15y ago
...and now I've been upgraded to Firefox 9(!) and the alerts no longer happen.
816.
by mooism2 15y ago
Firefox 3.6. (Yes, I know it's old, it's the default browser in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.)
817.
by mooism2 15y ago
It's quite straightforward to dump the entire header in a database, but most sites don't. None of my sites do. Apache, lighttpd, thttpd, etc don't (maybe they do with an appropriate plug-in). People seemed to be reacting as if every website
818.
by mooism2 15y ago
O2 are saying the intent wasn't there.
819.
by mooism2 15y ago
Something like: [object Object] Glider, the smart inbox http://glider.io Or: [object Object] Glider, how it works http://glider.io/learn-more
820.
by mooism2 15y ago
Can you get rid of the window.alert() calls please. Annoying enough to make me stop reading.
821.
by mooism2 15y ago
The problem with online voting in ensuring candidates can be confident that the votes that are counted are the same ones that were cast. It's not difficult to do this: publish the voting software source code, allow the candidates' teams to
822.
by mooism2 15y ago
HTTP, not HTML. Article body says it's a proposal, it's not at all certain that it will pass. Title is wrong.
823.
by mooism2 15y ago
If "nothing" doesn't mean anything, then the title doesn't mean much either.
824.
by mooism2 15y ago
I agree it needs fixing, and that the phone companies should try to fix it. Just not in haste.
825.
by mooism2 15y ago
I can imagine a bank fraud detection system being more suspicious of unusually large transactions if they originate from an unusual phone number or ip address, yes.
826.
by mooism2 15y ago
It's complicated, so fast is the last thing you want --- unless you're happy with a high risk of inadvertently introducing new loopholes.
827.
by mooism2 15y ago
I presume most websites that weren't expecting to find an O2 number in the HTTP headers won't have looked for it, won't have logged it, etc. If I send a secret to you in the post, and you put the envelope in the recycling unopened, have I d
828.
by mooism2 15y ago
It's like security through obscurity: on its own it's inadequate, but as an extra layer it can be helpful.
829.
by mooism2 15y ago
Killing takes more flags.
830.
by mooism2 15y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if people were flagging it based on the tedious discussion in the comments, tbh.
831.
by mooism2 15y ago
Oh, and there is a faq... http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html ...linked at the bottom of this page.
832.
by mooism2 15y ago
Your account was created 551 days ago and you consider yourself to be a newbie?..
833.
by mooism2 15y ago
Newly submitted links appear on the new page. http://news.ycombinator.com/newest When someone upvotes a link you submitted or a comment you wrote, you get a karma point. When links get enough points in a short enough period of time, they
834.
by mooism2 15y ago
Post this to your blog, post the link here. Use paragraphs.
835.
by mooism2 15y ago
The line that really grated for me was > You can count on Microsoft to ensure all your favorite PC software will be backwards-compatible with the Windows 8 tablet. And, well, no we can't. Windows ARM tablets will be for new-style Metr
836.
by mooism2 15y ago
Evil media corporations also make money from advertising, so add in TV and guess how much they get per advert you watch...
837.
by mooism2 15y ago
There is not a one-to-one correspondence between items in my inbox and items on my todo list, and items in inbox don't necessarily say what I need to do. e.g. an e-mail in my inbox asking me to clean the frobulator might translate to one of
838.
by mooism2 15y ago
So what? I had no idea who Kim Kardashian was until I looked her up on Wikipedia just now.
839.
by mooism2 15y ago
The EU invented the Database Right, which is like copyright but for collections of facts. Not their finest hour.
840.
by mooism2 15y ago
I saw pg's submission first, and it got killed. (Or deleted.)

More ›