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by nivla 14y ago
> Best advice ever. I am not sure how you can construed that as THE best advice given the nature of the vulnerability being independent of the browser or the o/s in use. It maybe a good advice but not the best. Something closer to best
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by nivla 14y ago
Alright, I just compared it to the hack that was posted about 3 months back and this seems to be a repost of it. When it was posted back then, it was called out to be a repost of an older one. * Sigh * [1] [1] http://news.ycombinator.com
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by nivla 14y ago
I think you meant AdWord. Adsense is for publishers. Create an Adsense account and you won't receive a single mail with a phone # listed in them. It goes somewhat like this: If you paying money, you might have luck getting a phone support b
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by nivla 14y ago
Apart from the conspiracy theory, I found something interesting while looking through the WayBack Machine[1]. Around Nov 02, 2010 duck.com's server was compromised and the script kiddie inserted a php string onto a HTML file. Was he was rea
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by nivla 14y ago
Since its a finance site, it should weigh the stock symbol over any description. Given that there is already a stock "MCX:SELL" that is also displayed at the autocomplete, the redirect should have gone there instead. I would like to give Go
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by nivla 14y ago
Well the problem is that antiviruses only know about publicly identified viruses. Everytime a new virus or a variant is released, a good number of computers get infected before the virus is identified and fingerprinted. If you are met with
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by nivla 14y ago
> How many people really want a Windows machine at this point? With Valve's aggressive move into taking PC games off of Windows altogether, I really don't know what market segment is left loyal to the platform. Given that Windows still
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by nivla 14y ago
Omdbapi.com doesn't have the trademarked "imdb" word in their domain, they also seem to use wikipedia and freebase as their source. Similar to how "Scroogle.org" stayed away from violating Google's trademark.
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by nivla 14y ago
Interesting, but you are not the pulling information from Imdb, according to the source code it is using omdbapi.com an independent site which used to be imdbapi.com until amazon issued them a C&D. Keep in mind OmdbApi states that it us
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by nivla 14y ago
Almost all mirrors are down. However, I found one after a good amount of searching. It doesn't seem to have any passwords but surely names, phone numbers and addresses. If you are a FIOS customer, you might want to have a look. Din't want t
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by nivla 14y ago
This reminds me of Virtual Pets, that small electronic toy most kids had in 90's.[1] Interesting to see it an app today. [1] http://malcolmxpark.org/?p=522
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by nivla 14y ago
One of the main reasons I personally wouldn't choose Google over Amazon no matter how much they lower the price is due to the lack of a solid customer support. God forbid if something goes wrong, not only will I risk losing the Cloud accoun
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by nivla 14y ago
>disabling eval doesn't buy you much: If you really want to execute code, write it to a file and then require that file. Eval is used by most attackers to avoid detection. A one liner add to the end of a legitimate random php file along
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by nivla 14y ago
So does other popular domain registrars. Eg: Namecheap: http://www.namecheap.com/legal/general/privacy-policy.aspx Scroll to "Personal Information Following Termination of Account" I think it has something to do with the ICANN rules.
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by nivla 14y ago
Not the battery, the battery is glued on to the case with a good amount of adhesive which requires a lot of prying. Source: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+4+Teardown/11781/2
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by nivla 14y ago
Sadly, greylisting is an absolute nightmare for server-admins on the sending end. We sent out time-sensitive emails to our clients and Yahoo's Greylisting could sometimes delay accepting the mail for upto an hour. This causes extreme frustr
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by nivla 14y ago
You don't understand, its not the web-server, it is the client's browser that is the issue. Until SNI came out, the handshake was made and validity of the key determined even before the "Host: xyz.com" header was sent in. Without the host
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by nivla 14y ago
Maybe because Amazon prices windows 8 pro upgrade at $66.99 while you can get it from Microsoft Store for $40?! [1] http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-8-Pro-Upgrade/dp/B00... [2] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9232961/Microsof
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by nivla 14y ago
That analogy is kind of flawed. If Microsoft specifically advertised 16/32GB of usable space then these arguments would have made sense. This just seems like buying 5 pound ribs at the meat section and then complaining about all the bones.
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by nivla 14y ago
Given that a good majority of the posts by startups here on Hacker News is aimed at attracting new customers, I see nothing wrong with this one. They analyzed their data and talked out the results. At no point did I feel pressured to learn
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by nivla 14y ago
>XBMC 11.0 Beta 1 released Error in title, it is the release of XBMC 12.0 Frodo Beta 1.
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by nivla 14y ago
Keep in mind [one page view != one ad view]. If you refresh the same video more than once, it does not keep repeating the advert. There is also a limit to the max number of adverts shown per session to a user. Moreover not all videos have a
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by nivla 14y ago
If you use Youtube enough to be wanting to pay 1-5/month then they could make more than that by displaying ads to you. Freemium+Ad models are sometimes more profitable than subscription based models and in some cases you may find a mix of b
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by nivla 14y ago
I did on some occasions but it too din't do the job. It couldn't recognize the custom generated log and config files. I was stuck tracing those files and removing them manually. If I remember correctly this was for postfix/dovecot installat
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by nivla 14y ago
I think all it does is to block/poison ad-based domain from resolving to their respective IPs. Very low overhead and gives you the same result. You can also achieve the same thing if you have a dd-wrt installed router: http://www.howtogeek
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by nivla 14y ago
Installing part is easy, I agree but trying to uninstall either one of them leaves a mess behind. Configuration and other misc files are left behind so if your program does not start because the conf is corrupted, uninstalling and installin
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by nivla 14y ago
Not sure if that comment is meant to sarcastic or not but ads are main driving force behind the freemium model of the web. Whether it be Google, Youtube, Facebook or even Reddit and HN, you won't get to access them for free unless there exi
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by nivla 14y ago
or in other words necessity is the mother of invention.
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by nivla 14y ago
Ahh I see, thats a good trick, the use of cryptographic signatures din't crossed my mind.
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by nivla 14y ago
But what is preventing a spammer who has made up his mind to reverse engineer your analytics code from faking the tokens? If its only about filtering, wouldn't it be easier and more effective to do them via ip-addresses? >so this kind o

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