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by mtigas 16y ago
That's the thing: I almost feel like POPT is pulling this (legally risky -- commercial use [via ad revenue] of likeness, possible harassment, etc.) stunt to grab attention to their own site. While POW is still in the same grey area (regardi
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by mtigas 16y ago
> the discussions below about using AdSense to monetize a website dedicated to profiting off non-consensual pictures of people is quite interesting. Yeah, there are a few sites like this now ("People of Wal-Mart", some content on "Look
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by mtigas 16y ago
That was my implication -- that if they're guilty of anything(other than being total assholes), it's this (and not the privacy issue).
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by mtigas 16y ago
I used to be really into street photography[1] and this issue tends to creep up from time to time. If you're on public property of any sort , you don't really have any expectation of privacy outside of the bathrooms or such.[2] That should
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by mtigas 16y ago
I'm not sure how Linode does it, but I've worked on dedicated machines that have separate, internal routes. (Slicehost VPSes have this option available -- unmetered -- too.) When compared to heavy processing on large database queries, me
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by mtigas 16y ago
Can you imagine how much worse this could have been if they’d never posted this and simply plowed ahead? Knowing when you’re in over your head is crucial and it looks like they caught it early enough since they opened up the feedback thre
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by mtigas 16y ago
I do have to point out that this visualization represents the binary executable size of Chrome, not the source tree. (According to another comment, it's generated with http://github.com/martine/bloat .) Noticed a lot of folks linking to
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by mtigas 16y ago
As others have mentioned, the actual "damages" in terms of JooJoo sales is basically zero, so TC will likely recover little in terms of that. However, the proceedings make for really awesome entertainment and TC could likely see a modest pr
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Pdb: Using the Python debugger in Django (A mini tutorial)(mike.tig.as)
3 points by mtigas 16y ago|0 comments
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by mtigas 16y ago
On Mac/Linux, setting a different default port for your host in ~/.ssh/config will allow git and other applications to automatically use the new port binding on the server. My ~/.ssh/config basically looks like https://gist.github.com/78ec
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by mtigas 16y ago
Additionally, for $5 per box, you can store 3 backup images of the whole machine — and have two of them operate on a schedule (i.e., one image updates daily at a certain time, another one updates weekly at a certain time, and you can store
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by mtigas 16y ago
For a VPS/dedicated where you're manually operating the server and database, #3 is generally given. I run a couple of small boxes on Slicehost http://slicehost.com/ and their management interface allows you to bring up new boxes / close d
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“Hack Is Wack” - Snoop Dogg promotes Symantec's anti-cybercrime project(hackiswack.com)
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by mtigas 16y ago
According to http://archive.nyu.edu/bitstream/2451/15020/2/Infosec+BOOK_T... “experimental studies have shown that the bulk of victim credentials are collected within 24 hours of mailing the bait messages.” Once a phishing form is “in the
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by mtigas 16y ago
I concede that Facebook fan pages are a whole other animal altogether. In that case (in terms of having an account to manage a fan page as a professional face, so to speak), then performing user authentication based on knowledge of "frien
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by mtigas 16y ago
That's exactly where I make that distinction. Then again, I came through college just as Facebook started picking up steam (my freshman year was in '05 when the number of college networks expanded from a couple dozen to practically every
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by mtigas 16y ago
I generally friend only people I'm, you know, friends with -- or at the very least met enough times to recognize. At some level of friends (300+?) I don't think the site is useful for actual personal communication -- which is more or less
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by mtigas 16y ago
I'd love to see someone compare the performance of generated C/C++ code https://code.google.com/p/emscripten/wiki/GeneratedCodeCompa... versus a (possibly non-trivial) native Javascript implementation in say, V8, Spidermonkey, or Nitro. I
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by mtigas 16y ago
See also https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=DRM+writes+to+boot+sec... This is a pretty nasty thing that's largely coming to light just now because GRUB2 uses a significantly larger portion of the space between the MBR and first part
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Windows applications making GRUB2 unbootable(chiark.greenend.org.uk)
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by mtigas 16y ago
Been a huge fan of Django since tinkering with it in ‘06 while at the student paper at the University of Missouri (where the folks who came before me were obsessed with it since Adrian had been Online Editor there years and years ago). Re
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by mtigas 16y ago
Been using 1Password across a PC and a couple of Macs myself and I love it. As per [1] their data format is pretty open and based on the OSX Keychain format. Uses PBKDF2 to generate unique salts/encryption keys per password. Like any passwo
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by mtigas 16y ago
I take that back: There are rare commits such as http://github.com/facebook/three20/commit/807dbda1c8cb85f09b... which explicitly credit an author for the patch. <del>I hate to say it, but the current system (i.e. all commits th
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by mtigas 16y ago
Initial commit: http://github.com/facebook/three20/commit/0edd0ca58bf3b352e7... jverkoey looks to have implemented this himself. Actually, looking back through the network graph ( http://github.com/facebook/three20/network ) and commit lo
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by mtigas 16y ago
I agree that implementation-wise, there are probably only so many ways to do this. While the overall algorithm is basically the same (see http://github.com/facebook/three20/commit/0edd0ca58bf3b352e7... versus http://github.com/enormego/E
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by mtigas 16y ago
One of the Great Things to come out of the US Patent system. Figure 2 is, by far, the most ghetto patent drawing I have ever EVER seen.
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Method and apparatus for automatically exercising a curious animal(google.com)
2 points by mtigas 16y ago|1 comments
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by mtigas 16y ago
I think it’s acceptable as-is, but I can’t help but notice that Ixquick ( https://ixquick.com/ ) very directly markets what differentiates itself from other search engines (re: privacy). Summary sentence wouldn’t be bad, a la Google’s homep
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by mtigas 16y ago
If only the search itself is stored, without any separate and possibly-identifying information (IP, sesssion, time), then it doesn’t matter if you are the only one that searches for these things. By their account, if you search something
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by mtigas 16y ago
Oh, and Prince — in the year 2010 — has no excuse for his own “the internet's completely over” argument. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7874307/Prince-th...

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