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by qjz 15y ago
I also block AWS/EC2 on my servers because it's a relentless source of badly behaved bots, freeloading SEO scrapers, and poorly misguided startup ideas (no, I don't want you to proxy SSL connections for my users--just think about it for a s
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by qjz 15y ago
Both sentences in that FAQ answer are in direct opposition to each other and require clarification. But that hardly matters if Amazon has access to the browser's internals, anyway.
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by qjz 15y ago
Even if they disable the MITM attack against SSL, or the conventional proxy, or the caching, the fact that browser internals can be shifted to their servers means they can get anything they want from your browsing session, including cookies
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by qjz 15y ago
So, a man-in-the-middle attack is a feature when Amazon is the middleman?
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by qjz 15y ago
Is it possible to restrict requests to the host in the URL I'm visiting? XSS, DNT, etc. become much less of an issue when you can block all external resources requested by a page.
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by qjz 15y ago
We have four queues, DVD + streaming (for a family of four). We may ditch DVDs altogether, and switch to 2 separate streaming-only accounts. Maybe this is what Netflix is hoping will happen.
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by qjz 15y ago
I think their recommendation system is too limiting. At least give me a random button so I can see what else is available besides the same 37 selections they constantly shove in my face. Selection is king in on-demand streaming. Some people
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by qjz 15y ago
When I put something in my DVD queue, it automatically appears in my streaming queue when it's available. This makes me happy, I watch the movie online, then delete it from my DVD queue. If the new system no longer supports this, it will af
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by qjz 15y ago
How can you tell it works? How do you know the bot owners aren't returning to crawl those parts with User-Agent strings that impersonate ordinary users?
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by qjz 15y ago
The demise of any social website also seems to coincide with the first mention of Ender's Game. Could this be the end of HN as we know it?
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by qjz 15y ago
What User-Agent string are you using? It's a clever hack, but I can't allow my users to access sensitive information via your proxy. It sounds like you might be changing or adding hosts as you gain users, so blocking based on User-Agent wil
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by qjz 15y ago
For SSNs issued before 1973, you need to know the location of the issuing office. For those issued after 1973, you need to know the mailing address on the application. Therefore, location of birth seems to be the most important piece of inf
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by qjz 15y ago
I'm old enough to remember party lines, so your point is well taken. But even with the advantages of the telephone, it soon became obvious that people resented the constant eavesdropping of nosy neighbors. It's frustrating to have to fight
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by qjz 15y ago
Exactly. Or, as the author puts it: I imagine a different future, where if Alice wants to talk to Bob and Bob wants to talk to Alice, there’s no unaccountable intermediary that can interfere with their communication, whether they’re speaki
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by qjz 15y ago
It's naive ("let's poke it with a stick and see what happens"), but should be mostly harmless with a properly configured IDS. You don't want to permanently blacklist legitimate users, just discourage malicious ones. Unfortunately, there's n
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by qjz 15y ago
When a single IP address can support multiple virtual hosts, probing port 443 for an SSL version of a domain is naive and may trigger an intrusion detection system (IDS). Sure, you may get a response (and even the same content), but that's
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by qjz 15y ago
Perhaps one day we'll evolve into intelligent designers.
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by qjz 15y ago
8-track tape has few (if any) aficionados, due to its self-destructive media and scarcity of quality playback devices. Physical books, on the other hand, require no special playback technology and are arguably one of the most perfect user i
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by qjz 15y ago
I can't update my users' phones for them. Just pointing out that users stuck on older versions of Android, for whatever reason, may run into problems with the free cert. In the mail client, it will work if "TLS (if available)" is checked, b
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by qjz 15y ago
The root cert is not in early versions of Android, due to a bug. I'm not sure when that was fixed. Unfortunately, you can't update root certificates in these versions.
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by qjz 15y ago
Yes, it's depressing to see that the battle in social networking is over exclusive ownership of user data instead of establishing standards and protocols. It should be possible for users of the big players like Facebook and Google+ to inclu
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by qjz 15y ago
I've worked in environments where it would be trivial to get an email of your SSN the moment you visit an HR online survey, let alone complete it. It's possible to promise confidentiality, but you should be extremely suspicious whenever
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by qjz 15y ago
The point of the article is that the return value of suburbs is being propped up by new investment and they are destined for collapse (Ponzi scheme). There isn't a single fact in the whole muddled essay that supports this premise.
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by qjz 15y ago
Traffic density is the real problem. Main street still exists, but crossing it is a game of Frogger.
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by qjz 15y ago
Yes and yes. One less car on the road relieves congestion for other commuters. While some homeowners may be concerned about converting nearby abandoned railroads to trails, there's no question that it will increase resale value (beautiful,
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by qjz 15y ago
True, anecdotes aren't proof. But how can you counter that making something more pleasant won't affect its popularity? Your original concern was that this wouldn't "be enough to deal with the massive transportation problems that suburbs (an
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by qjz 15y ago
Experience tells me you're wrong. I know people who walked one block to work every day of their lives, only to be critically injured by passing cars or trucks. I know plenty of of cyclists injured by buses pulling over to pick up passengers
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by qjz 15y ago
I live on the "stalk" of such a development and therefore my street is the busiest. Nonetheless, it is extremely pleasant, as only residents or service people use it. It isn't a shortcut to anywhere. The biggest shortcoming is that no consi
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by qjz 15y ago
Although I can't cite any offhand, studies indicated that there was significantly less crime in such areas, as well.
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by qjz 15y ago
Buried in the hyperbole is this nugget of truth: It is only the last two generations that we have scaled places to the automobile. City, suburb, whatever the residential setting, this is the true enemy of creating a network of livable com

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