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by skymt 15y ago
The main problem with DMCA safe harbor in my eyes is that it's too easy to abuse as a censorship tool. According to Google[1] in 2009, 57% of DMCA takedown requests they received were targeting competitors, and 37% were invalid. In 2008 the
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Probably. When the tracker responds with a list of peers, each peer only has an id, an ip & a port; there's no real_ip or reported_ip parameters. Of course there could be tracker software in the wild that ignores the ip parameter entire
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Right now we have the Indie Royale Bundle, run by Desura, an indie-game download store. It's not strictly pay-what-you-want, they instead use a shifting scale where people paying the minimum increases the minimum & people who choose to
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by skymt 15y ago
You don't need to spoof a TCP connection to register a spoofed IP address on a tracker. The tracker GET request has an optional `ip` field, the contents of which is registered as the client's address, regardless of the source address of the
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by skymt 15y ago
PostgreSQL does some compression automatically & transparently for large values: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/storage-toast....
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That's not going to work if SOPA passes.
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From Devolver's Twitter: > SS: Kamikaze Attack is being updated on the Amazon App Store. There was a remnant permission from testing that is unused & will be removed. https://mobile.twitter.com/devolverdigital/status/1415672294...
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by skymt 15y ago
No Starch Press sells a DRM-free ePub version for $24: http://nostarch.com/ejs
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I think you're putting the cart before the horse. Wouldn't making more content easily available curb piracy? Look at the examples of Spotify, Netflix & Steam. There's plenty of anecdata about pirates going legal once the legal services
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Voxatron absolutely uses "true" voxel rendering. > Voxatron is based on a virtual 128x128x64 display. It's a buffer of 3d video memory that is rendered out to the screen at the end of each frame, much as an old-school 2d display is. You
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The problem isn't how to create a large-scale wireless network. That's not simple, but it's been done. The problem is creating a large-scale, ad-hoc, mesh wireless network, without a central hub that can be shut down.
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The CNET article[0] says Universal's claim is justified by Grooveshark's upload database, obtained in discovery during a previous lawsuit. [0]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57327815-261/lawsuit-claim...
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It's extraordinarily cheap, especially for an "unlimited" plan. For comparison: Republic Wireless uses Sprint's network, and Sprint's "unlimited" plan costs $99/month. (In theory, Republic gets away with this by using wifi rather than the c
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Some good: * The "queue" design closely matches my use of Google Reader: skim through new items, opening anything interesting in a tab. * The design is simple, readable & reasonably attractive (except the text shadow on headlines, but t
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I could certainly see a young woman rejecting software engineering because it's "for men", and a sexist atmosphere certainly contributes to that perception.
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iCloud is already available on Windows: https://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html
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According to the current Forbes profile, Dropbox is already profitable, though it's not revealed exactly how profitable they are. > The 50-million-user figure is up threefold from a year ago, and it has solved the “freemium” riddle, wit
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by skymt 15y ago
I think moot's observation is less psychological and more sociological. If he's right, then Facebook and G+ are unsuited to their goal of becoming the hub for social interaction on the Internet, and they'll inevitably burn out when their ne
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by skymt 15y ago
No; in fact, you don't even need an account. Just add kindle@readability.com to your Kindle's approved sender list & install the browser extension[0] or bookmarklet[1]. 0: http://www.readability.com/addons 1: http://www.readability
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Here's one of their suits: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fia700405.us.... I don't know enough about the details of wifi to say whether the patents in question actually apply, but it seems plausible. Here are all the paten
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I would probably have a CAPTCHA on the form already, to prevent automated signups. Preventing username leakage is a side benefit. An attacker would need to hire a CAPTCHA farm to harvest any significant number of usernames. If you don't wan
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Heise Online worked out a solution[0]: a two-click Like button. The first click replaces a placeholder with the official Facebook Like button. Facebook objected at first, but only because Heise tried to make their placeholder look official.
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It's difficult to accept non-latin characters in usernames without making username spoofing trivial. For example, I could sign up for an account as `аw3c2', pretending to be you. What looks like `a' there is actually `а', a Cyrillic letter
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Security Bugs in Google Chrome Extensions (And How To Avoid Them)(adrienneporterfelt.com)
5 points by skymt 15y ago|1 comments
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I'm not aware of any religion that disallows the use of Facebook. Correctly or not, preferences are given more credence by our society if they're based on religion.
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As are the AI and ML classes. http://www.ai-class.com/ http://www.ml-class.org/
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The .mobi file is a Kindle document. Either plug your Kindle into your computer (it works just like a USB drive) and drop the .mobi into the documents folder, or send it as an attachment to your Kindle's email address. (You can find your Ki
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Thanks for pointing that out. I've only ever used the ifttt -> Instapaper trick for blogs with infrequent, lengthy posts -- the sort that are much more pleasant to read on a Kindle. But it's good to know that using it for large content
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A tip for Kindle owners: you can make an ifttt pipeline that sends RSS entries to Instapaper. Then on Instapaper's end, set up automated Kindle delivery. Presto, new posts from your favorite bloggers are now on your Kindle, entirely automat
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by skymt 15y ago
Question: why use ifttt rather than Twitter's SMS support?

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