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by sc00ter 15y ago
"For my event, there was a minimum fundraising obligation of almost $4,000." Which is to say that the majority of the first $4,000, so 2/3 of your $6,000 went towards paying for your training, not for the charitable cause. This is why I won
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by sc00ter 15y ago
What I was questioning was "nobody notices. Because they don't want to notice" , as opposed to it having been obfuscated by "magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship" to coin a phrase, but from the examples you've given
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by sc00ter 15y ago
"Magicians do the sleight of hand right in front of a crowd of people, in plain sight, but nobody notices." Could you define "in plain sight" in this context? Are card manipulations that are almost impossible to detect, even when known and
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by sc00ter 15y ago
"You can either manufacture in comfortable, worker-friendly factories, or you can reinvent the product every year, and make it better and faster and cheaper, which requires factories that seem harsh by American standards,” said a current Ap
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by sc00ter 15y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-i...
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by sc00ter 15y ago
Google did this recently (HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3469692 ) but since ended the "experiment".
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by sc00ter 15y ago
"Mass assignment security is a feature that is aimed at dealing with form input. By placing it in the model, we end up making the implicit assumption that all ‘normal’ interaction with the model happens via a HTTP request. This assumption i
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by sc00ter 15y ago
Worse still, I started off with Beginning Rails 3 by Apress, and it makes only one obscure reference to attr_accessible, and not in the context of security, doesn't mention mass assignment at all, and has no chapter on even basic security
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by sc00ter 15y ago
"I've dug into those issues and usually found something that was either a bad add-on, something bad I was doing, or a bad website to be the root cause." And therein lies the root-cause of Firefox's perception problem. The average user doesn
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by sc00ter 15y ago
Detailed white-paper: "Privacy Leaks in Mobile Phone Internet Access" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3510520
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Privacy Leaks in Mobile Phone Internet Access(mulliner.org)
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by sc00ter 15y ago
It seem O2 may not be the only one up to this: Headers that can be used to identify the end user: Header name What it means x-drutt-portal-user-msisdn The mobile phone number. x-h3g-msisdn the phone number. x-imsi: Th
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by sc00ter 15y ago
Perhaps a weighting rather than a threshold? However the "ass" comment came from a relatively "senior" member, so it would be an imperfect solution, and may have other unforeseen (by me at least) consequences.
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by sc00ter 15y ago
Are not all the people who choose to download content without payment already carrying out a form of deafacto boycott?
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by sc00ter 15y ago
I think they're called "guidelines" for a reason, and nowhere in them is the word "prohibited" used.
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by sc00ter 15y ago
If it's SMS you're specifically looking for WebText.com† supports Ireland (and is based there), as well as most other countries. †API docs: http://www.webtext.com/api-documentation/
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by sc00ter 15y ago
> MITM this page, and serve you a bad QR code You're then reading the QR code on what is assumed to be a trusted device on a trusted network (your mobile phone). The QR code would have to link to a bogus website mascarding as google in
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by sc00ter 15y ago
Could someone pleae correct the title to read "Why Microsoft SQL Server was never ported to Unix" rather than the more general term SQL server (which Microsoft would no doubt be delighted to assume as its own...)
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by sc00ter 15y ago
Bank accounts and sort codes are not particularly secure - I might for example give these out to someone making a payment to me, and some businesses publish this information as a matter of course. What additional checks do you undertake to
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by sc00ter 15y ago
Already done (and undone) it would seem: https://github.com/DanielRapp/twss.js/commit/d025aa46eef8559...
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Building A REST API in Rails 3 (in 6 minutes)(gavinmorrice.com)
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by sc00ter 15y ago
My memory was that WWW was chosen to be hard to pronounce - an academic joke where the acronym had three times as many syllables as its expansion. I can't find any evidence to back that up though, only this, which makes just a fleeting refe
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by sc00ter 15y ago
"If you want the real deal, get a browser that supports OpenType like Internet Explorer 10+ or Firefox 8+." Downloads IE10... "Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview is only supported on Windows 8 Developer Preview." Oops! PS. Microsoft
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by sc00ter 15y ago
For specific APIs, apigee have a great tool: http://apigee.com/about/products/free A hurl.it along those lines would be very useful.
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by sc00ter 15y ago
I don't pretend to understand most of it, but to my untrained eye, "Clever Algorithms" seems to be a phenomenal resource and available as a free PDF, or in print: http://www.cleveralgorithms.com/ Edit: Discussion here: http://news.ycombi
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by sc00ter 15y ago
OT: Tonara may be of interest. It "listens" to your playing through the iPad mic, and marks your position in the score, and turns the "pages" accordingly. It doesn't have anywhere near the breadth of scores that Etude does, but there's enou
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by sc00ter 15y ago
"SOPA lets the government intervene [...] just to bail out the movie industry" The implication here is that he movie industry is in trouble, and needs bailing out. And no-one wants to see the movie industry go under. Does Hollywood really
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by sc00ter 15y ago
> "If someone shoplifts in your store, this bill allows the government to shut down your store." I like the analogy, but it's off by a mark. "If someone leaves stolen goods in your store, this bill allows the government to shut down you
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by sc00ter 15y ago
"What matters is the total number of people paying you, not what percentage of your users that fraction represents." Surely the total revenue from paying customers, relative to the cost of providing service to all users, is what matters^? I
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by sc00ter 15y ago
"Yesterday's paper, yesterday's news": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3410968

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