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by nandhp 12y ago
Their SSL is bad. It gets an F from SSL Labs due to an exploitable version of OpenSSL -- https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=consumeraffai... -- and Firefox refuses to connect to it at all due to weak cipher
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by nandhp 12y ago
Here are the major implementations: http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html http://clients3.google.com/generate_204 http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt And some other implemen
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by nandhp 12y ago
My solution to that is to open http://example.com/ (instead of, e.g. Google) after connecting to Wi-Fi. It doesn't use SSL (so it works) and I have little use for it the rest of the time (so if the Firefox DNS cache ge
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by nandhp 12y ago
Type "bambi"; the original Hover! textures are available as an easter egg. (first level only, unfortunately)
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by nandhp 12y ago
> I have never, ever heard of eBay, for example, restarting an auction because it was “unfair” someone couldn’t bid due to eBay’s technical incompetence. eBay policy is for them to extend auctions that are affected by site outages. http
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by nandhp 12y ago
No, the bare URL to www redirection is down. Edit: This is not the whole story.
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Iliad is the parent company of Free.fr, which (as I understand it) is considered a disruptive influence in the French telecom market; Given T-Mobile USA's "uncarrier" strategy, Free seems like a good fit.
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by nandhp 12y ago
It's the last paragraph: "Google supports mRSS, [...]"; mRSS is a link to http://search.yahoo.com/mrss -- it seems like it should do a search, but it 404s to the Yahoo homepage.
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by nandhp 12y ago
Safe Browsing (except for downloads) is handled by downloading a list of blacklisted sites (that's what the 15MB urlclassifier database in your profile is for). Unlike some other browsers, Firefox doesn't send every pageview to Go
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by nandhp 12y ago
The shorter MapCodes are within the context of a specific country, but the "I have a MapCode" box defaults to the Netherlands. If you change that to Ireland, it's 0C.T4 is in the middle of a park near Dublin.
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by nandhp 12y ago
It looks like it is supposed to scroll -- but it doesn't in Firefox 26 or Firefox 30.
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by nandhp 12y ago
> Running Emacs via X Emacs is a relatively simple application, which behaves very differently than, say, Firefox.
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by nandhp 12y ago
They could also help drive HTTPS adoption by being more alarmist about unencrypted traffic (e.g. a warning triangle instead of a globe icon).
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by nandhp 12y ago
Google has talked about doing this, but doesn't seem to have rolled it out yet.
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by nandhp 12y ago
You can click "trouble distinguishing colors" for a GIF version.
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Back in January there was a "[blank] is joining [blank]!" type of announcement. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janua...
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by nandhp 12y ago
Interesting, it looks like the t2 instances aren't available as spot instances.
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by nandhp 12y ago
Yes: reCAPTCHA now keeps a profile of you and gives humanoid users easier reCAPTCHAs. http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/recaptcha-j...
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by nandhp 12y ago
> messaging will follow Messaging is already here. Except it's called the Social Service API. For example, there are two Facebook Services. You can go (right now) to the Mozilla Social Service Activations Portal, select Facebook Sha
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by nandhp 12y ago
Is this different from the libparted version? http://www.gnu.org/software/fdisk/
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by nandhp 12y ago
They seem to have accidentally deleted it.
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by nandhp 12y ago
If using a CDN, the refresh tax and initial tax should be negligible -- Google's jQuery has a 1-year expiration date; code.jquery.com has an expiration date in 2037. Browsers shouldn't be re-checking them unless an explicit "
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by nandhp 12y ago
I suppose that's also why Infinite Jukebox, my other favorite Web Audio demo, doesn't work either. http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html Thanks for the clarification!
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It's unfortunate the sound still doesn't work in Firefox. I thought Firefox was supposed to have support for the Web Audio API by now? (Firefox 30, Linux, official Mozilla build)
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by nandhp 12y ago
Is there any evidence the transaction was stored, except insofar as storage was necessary to carry out the heist? The credit card data could have been intercepted while being input (e.g. by a keylogger).
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There's also a third Google product for your TV, the Google Fiber TV Box. As I understand it, its compatibility with and similarity to either Chromecast and Google TV is low.
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In Kansas City, the "pick your plan" phase only came after the "qualify your fiberhood" phase. http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-to-get-googl... > After the rally, we’ll let
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by nandhp 12y ago
That's awesome. I'm glad they (and their bank) remember this "technology" exists. For those who have never seen one before: http://imgur.com/bUWFd6u
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by nandhp 12y ago
It is a tangent, but here's a well-researched answer on UX Stack Exchange: http://ux.stackexchange.com/a/23645/8944
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by nandhp 12y ago
> HFS+ is seriously old Sure, in computing terms 1998 is an eon ago. But that's not a good reason to stop using a file system. Lots of older file systems are still in use: FAT32 (1996; still the default for SD cards <32GB and any

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