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by nivloc 14y ago
It's the ISPs. Every time I move the tech resets my password to my home phone number. I'm sure it cuts down their support, but it usually means brute forcing only need worry about the last four digits.
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by nivloc 14y ago
This is default behaviour in Ruby, and as mentioned in the article, one can set up a custom store. With all the languages that support this by default, I'm surprised Python doesn't.
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by nivloc 15y ago
Github left the most widely known gap in Rails security open to exploit. Then they did a bad job handling the fallout. I'm not saying the Rails devs shouldn't have changed it five (maybe seven now?) years ago when it first came up, but outp
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by nivloc 15y ago
Having seen the video (the ads are gone now, btw), it's pretty clear that no reasonable human watched it, because they'd certainly be misrepresenting ownership of the content. 'Misrepresentation of ownership causing damage to another party
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by nivloc 15y ago
It's different in that neither party has claimed ownership of your content. If they delayed with intent to cause damage, sure, but otherwise a court would probably defer to the extra-judicial process Google is using. It's not ideal, and I'm
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by nivloc 15y ago
The question, I suppose is why I need to opt-out of these 'legitimate uses'? Why is the assumption that I'd like to freely give my browsing history to everyone that throws together an ad network or social site of the month? How are +1 and
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by nivloc 15y ago
I had a pretty embarrassing meeting after opening a blog in Safari plastered with lingerie ads during a presentation. Near as I can tell, my wife opened mail from them in GMail and that was enough association to serve the ad. So, who is to
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by nivloc 15y ago
No it's not. If it were really a problem, Betty Crocker wouldn't sell Devil's Food Cake mix, and there would be no Red Devil firecrackers. Odds are this person is being ridiculous, and had no intention of actually paying for the $1,000 stay