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by robtoo 15y ago
If you use a biometric fingerprint instead of a password you will soon find that passwords can be changed, but biometrics can't. If a password database is compromised, you have a problem, but you can change everyone's passwords. If an iris
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by robtoo 15y ago
You appear to be suggesting that the real security benefit would come from off-loading the authentication process onto a third party, but we can already do that with password authentication by using OpenID / Facebook Connect / whatever. It'
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by robtoo 15y ago
Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the problem: To do iris-scanning security, there must be a back-end database with the characteristics ("fingerprint") of each user's iris. This database will be secured as strongly/effectively as a password
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by robtoo 15y ago
Choosing (one of) your phone numbers as a password really is all about choosing a bad password . The back-end could be using bcrypt with a ridiculous work factor, and server security could be state of the art, but choosing your phone numbe
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by robtoo 15y ago
So the Tangkoko National Park probably owns the monkey.
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Belgian newspapers: Google blocking us on searches(google.com)
39 points by robtoo 15y ago|50 comments
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by robtoo 15y ago
his pay was increased by less than in previous years. He didn't actually earn less. If his pay increase was less than inflation, then many people would say he did actually earn less.
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by robtoo 15y ago
Presumably, one cluster (or whatever google calls them) is honoring it, while a different cluster isn't.
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by robtoo 15y ago
There was no recent guidance that subdomains are less prone to penalty by the Google Panda update. There was just an SEO blogger with poor reading comprehension and an axe to grind.
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by robtoo 15y ago
Sometimes I feel like a grumpy old man, but I do feel that gamification was the last big thing. Chore Wars was funny and original, but foursquare et al. just treat their customers like a bunch of five year-olds earning gold stars for bein
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by robtoo 15y ago
I'm actually impressed by how ridiculous, patronising and insulting an idea this is. I even went hunting to find out if this was an old April Fools' Joke getting some new publicity.
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by robtoo 15y ago
If you ask users "Do you want robots to be able to send you spam? Yes/No", pretty much all of them will say No. Hence bot-owners won't be that keen on officially registering as bots.
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by robtoo 15y ago
I think you'll find that the spammers won't actually be that keen on officially registering as a bot.
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by robtoo 15y ago
non-affiliate sales generated $40.75 profit per unit according to the first article. affiliate sales generated $35.80 profit per unit by his numbers ($55 - $15 affiliate - $4.20 unit cost). I get the impression that affiliate sales were fac
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by robtoo 15y ago
I guess he was taking seriously the demand that he "couldn’t even trade under the same name", and the USB drives do feature his brand rather prominently.
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by robtoo 15y ago
(A good read, thanks!) It should be obvious to others who the "major business in the MP3 industry" was when you see the product he was re-selling: http://www.sofamoolah.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/1p.jpg What's not clear to me is how y
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by robtoo 15y ago
According to wikipedia, France only has 20 million homes with broadband. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_... And yet 18 Million file-sharers were tracked ? Doesn't pass the smell test, sorry.
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by robtoo 15y ago
Matt Cutts wrote to Edmondson that he might want to try subdomains, among other things. Matt Cutts isn't claiming here that subdomains are better than subdirectories, just that they are treated differently (which should come as no great s
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by robtoo 15y ago
Other than a general comment that .app is a solution looking for a problem... These are domains that are likely to be reserved for shared community use. angrybirds.app [...] google.app I can't see that reserving these for "shared communit
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by robtoo 15y ago
touching 10% of the internet's traffic Not quite. More like: 10% of internet users visit at least one cloudflare-protected site in any given month.
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by robtoo 15y ago
I'm not sure it even qualifies as a copyright dispute. (Although the copyright issues raised in techdirt's blog post last week are fascinating.) The goal isn't copyright enforcement at all because noone (up to and including David Slater's o
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by robtoo 15y ago
(IANAL) The lawyer's message doesn't appear to be a DMCA takedown notice at all, but rather a cease & desist, which has nothing like the same weight. The lawyer's messages don't appear to be claiming that David Slater owns the copyright
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by robtoo 15y ago
So... why did you distribute the source on floppies? I could understand it if you had a digital archiving point to make, but memcached? I really don't see it.
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by robtoo 15y ago
An every day purchase is a purchase that someone could (be reasonably expected to) make most days. Noone purchases an iPhone for themselves several times a week. Hence an iPhone is not an every day purchase. You are getting confused because
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by robtoo 15y ago
An iPhone, with the required data plan, is an everyday purchase. You need to rethink and reword this.
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by robtoo 15y ago
in case it wasn't obvious: virtary is presumably Rieni Santoso, who is responsible for gameized's media relations.
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by robtoo 15y ago
Don't worry, Alan Cox will be along eventually to make up for it. http://www.google.com/images?q=alan+cox+linux
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by robtoo 15y ago
The thing about this idea is that it isn't (or certainly doesn't have to be) a full-time job. Initial set-up costs should be low, and afterwards this is probably a one- or two-days-a-month job, with an income to match. (And yeah, that cli
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by robtoo 15y ago
The complaint is not that Amazon are intentionally blocking certain controversial material, but that their policies are fundamentally flawed and easily-abused . This also isn't the first time that one of Amazon's policies has been abused..
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by robtoo 15y ago
I just tested the free version (under AdFree then in airplane mode), and it does seem to work fine. It doesn't help that the developer never actually says that he tested this, though.

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