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by qjz 17y ago
I completely block the AWS address space on my servers because it's a major source of malicious probes and constantly siphons bandwidth at no apparent benefit to me. It looks like I'll have to consider less draconian measures now, if this i
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by qjz 17y ago
The number of CAs doesn't matter. The essential flaw in SSL is that once you trust a CA, you trust it for all sites. This is what makes a MITM attack so trivial for someone who is well positioned in a network, and these appliances just make
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by qjz 17y ago
Petty power struggles and office romances. You don't even have to be a participant for these to add massive amounts of stress to your day.
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by qjz 17y ago
I'd love to see the example displayed in vimdiff format. Many good looking themes become unusable when vimdiff highlighting is applied.
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There is other work besides mathematics.
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It doesn't matter that you know the solution. The correct answer is, "Gee, sorry. I don't know anything about the iPad. Ask the Google."
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by qjz 17y ago
Maybe you and Willie_Dynamite can start a blog about how you retired at Day One.
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by qjz 17y ago
To be fair, nobody can claim to have seen the final cut and the continuing proliferation of versions supports the notion of it being a very important (if perennially unfinished) film. You're right that the book is very different from the fi
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by qjz 17y ago
Your examples aren't valid HTML, so that approach is fine for quirks mode. But what about valid pages that declare a DOCTYPE? Shouldn't those be parsed from left to right, so the first matching ID that is encountered wins (with any other ma
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by qjz 17y ago
I bought a new Macbook with Snow Leopard on it for the family and decided Spotlight was usable enough. My kids didn't agree, and begged me to install Quicksilver. It's easy to use, totally functional, and has even been updated to work on Sn
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by qjz 17y ago
It would be just as trivial to create a 3D bar chart that has the same effect as the example (accurate, self-referential, and confusing because of the color/label mismatch). While clever, this example isn't an indictment of pie charts, beca
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by qjz 17y ago
Try a classifieds model where content providers don't place any advertising on their pages at all. They then put a "Classifieds" link on desired pages, that takes you to another page filled with targeted advertising relevant to the article
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Advertising is a risk, and always has been. I'm tired of advertisers (and content providers that depend on advertising) trying to shift responsibility to the consumer. If you spend money on a campaign and it delivers results beyond your ini
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by qjz 17y ago
I use RequestPolicy every day. I'm amazed that no browser provides this functionality built-in. Blocking all third party resources by default offers some strong protection against XSS and tracking sites. That it blocks ads and causes pages
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by qjz 17y ago
No, they're not. They have staff reading reddit, Hacker News, Slashdot, etc. in order to find interesting news leads to sensationalize. It's THEIR JOB.
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by qjz 17y ago
Innocent question: Won't the server and client side code tend to be so different, they'll appear to be mutually exclusive? I understand that you're referring to basic concepts and syntax, but surely a lot of server side code simply won't ex
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by qjz 17y ago
I agree with your base assertion fallacy.
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I'm an Average User and I Don't Care.
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I could have written your post a year ago. I realized I needed to tackle this issue because it was affecting me both personally and professionally. The first thing to realize is that not all projects warrant finishing. I think a project is
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by qjz 17y ago
Define amazing. Much (if not most) of my favorite music has been long out of print. In fact, that's true of many of my favorite books. As for movies, yes, Avatar 3D was truly amazing, but in the last decade I've enjoyed far more indie relea
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by qjz 17y ago
"Double-edged sword" is typically used for these scenarios. But the meaning is more metaphysical than practical, suggesting that two blades facing opposite directions can do an equal amount of harm as good ("cuts both ways"). Oddly, the "Mi
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by qjz 17y ago
I've set up a number of mail servers for myself and clients. I've always asked providers upfront to guarantee that I can get assigned to a new netblock if any of the IP addresses they give me show up on any blacklists. In some cases, just a
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by qjz 17y ago
I don't give Facebook a free pass. I don't trust Facebook or have any interest in their services, so I don't have an account. I've had a Gmail account for years, and I'm being hard on Google precisely because it's "doing pretty much the sam
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Gmail is accessible via IMAP: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe... Use the client of your choice to copy it to another account or download it to your computer.
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It appears they may have foreseen the outcome and acted deliberately, if this thread at http://www.google.com/buzz/tmgrone/brHidEYC3jh/I-wish-Google... is any indication. In particular, see Brett Lider's response that includes this excerp
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by qjz 17y ago
Very nice, but I don't see any way to generate a legend. I'll probably need to cut the graphs from a screenshot for my less technically oriented superiors, so a legend is mandatory. I love the sparkline support, btw.
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by qjz 17y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that visitors should supply email account passwords to any site that asks for them? How is Facebook different from any other phishing site?
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"I don’t think that Facebook as a company is doing anything unusual or exceptionally bad." Yet he offers an example in the article of Facebook prompting for the user's email account password, which, in my book, is insidiously evil. Sending
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Even thoughtless aggregation adds value, if you consider successful sites that are nothing more than a bulletin board built around a user community that does the actual gruntwork. Putting things in context may be the "location, location, lo
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"The sites that I advertise on do not optimize for their user experience because if their website is better than my textual ad, they don’t get paid." Eureka! Offer a free web-based product so lame that it drives visitors to click the ads of

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