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by skymt 11y ago
I just looked up the LAPD's crime statistics: http://assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/cityprof.pdf (The NYPD's equivalent report doesn't count shots fired.) Between April 5 and May 2 of this year, t
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by skymt 11y ago
Iridium's website makes a selling point of the fact that Chrome contacts Google servers, but fails to mention that it may phone home to servers of its own. Having to search the source to discover that large a privacy difference isn&#x2
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by skymt 11y ago
The developers of Iridium don't reveal that their browser phones home to their servers, and that's cause enough for distrust here. A quick "grep -r iridiumbrowser.de" of the source reveals that they replace calls home to
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by skymt 11y ago
This is a cool problem, and while others have worked on it before (e.g. Freenet), Maelstrom could be a significant step forward in usability by using the look and feel of a normal browser. But these systems deal with static content. Distrib
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by skymt 11y ago
I'm curious what you mean by "decentralize" here, because the web to me is the prime example of a successful decentralized system.
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by skymt 12y ago
An extension called It's All Text! provides the same feature without Pentadactyl's total UI overhaul. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
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by skymt 12y ago
Most websites don't collect that stuff across every other website .
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by skymt 12y ago
Nope. The graphics are overly intricate and look messy on small screens. The UI is incredibly cluttered and has distracting animations you can tap to spend money. The game is essentially about optimization, spending resources to get more re
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by skymt 12y ago
Microsoft offers this tool to create a clean Windows install disc: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-re...
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by skymt 12y ago
Hortensius says Lenovo failed in due diligence. How, exactly? The two reasons people are upset about Superfish are that it breaks web security and injects ads into pages. Hortensius doesn't believe the former, and the latter is the ent
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by skymt 12y ago
Facebook's decision to police the names of their users wasn't a technical one. And the EFF article provides a number of compromise suggestions that would allow Facebook to keep their name policy while reducing the damage it does.
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by skymt 12y ago
Alternate representations of regexes aren't necessarily a crutch to avoid learning the normal syntax. S-expressions in particular could be useful for runtime manipulation or generation of patterns without the bother of string mangling.
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by skymt 12y ago
I can't see it becoming a product as in "makes money" or "attracts investors" without compromising the slow-web spirit. Social sites traditionally thrive on compulsive re-visiting (because ad money), and limiting
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by skymt 12y ago
I see the lack of seriousness with which law enforcement treats much digital crime as an aspect of the way society sees the Internet as less real and therefore unimportant. I also suspect this problem will disappear as those who grew up wit
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by skymt 12y ago
They plan to eventually sell features a la carte: https://ello.co/wtf/post/about-ello
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by skymt 12y ago
Rich text editing on the web is complex, Markdown is simple. Adding rich editing for something as simple as a comment box typically means adding something like TinyMCE: half a meg of JS to build the edit UI and attempt to paper over browser
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by skymt 12y ago
You'd think so, wouldn't you? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Legal/Infringement_Notices/3_June_2...
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by skymt 12y ago
This is the first release of Sysmon. Perhaps you're thinking of Process Monitor?
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by skymt 12y ago
Radio UserLand was statically building blogs in 2000, predating WordPress and Movable Type.
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by skymt 12y ago
It's not unprecedented. GNU projects require contributors to sign over the copyright for their code. Facebook's requirement of copyright and patent license is relatively restrained.
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by skymt 12y ago
MuPDF claims to support forms and JavaScript as of version 1.2.
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by skymt 12y ago
Replacing "only" with "now" (or nothing at all) would improve the tone.
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by skymt 12y ago
At a guess: the old-fashioned Unix way of composing mail and Usenet messages is to have your client call your editor. Rot13 was (is?) common in Usenet discussions of fiction to avoid posting spoilers where anyone can accidentally read them.
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by skymt 12y ago
The "StonerView" module of XScreenSaver is based on ElectroPaint. If you don't care about absolute fidelity, it will be easier to get running on Linux or OS X than this port.
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by skymt 12y ago
As of 2.4 Apache also supports event-driven serving thanks to the event MPM. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html
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by skymt 12y ago
Gmail has done this since 2009, though it depends on good behavior from the sender. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-eas...
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by skymt 13y ago
What I heard was that the display is on-par with the second dev kit. (My mistake calling it their current kit; that was misleading.) 1080p, smooth head tracking, no noticeable lag.
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by skymt 13y ago
Sony's "Project Morpheus" is supposed to be on par with the current Oculus kit and it's explicitly intended to pair with the PlayStation 4.
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by skymt 13y ago
EMET offers a grab-bag of mitigation techniques that are described in some detail in its manual (PDF download): http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/E/9/4E9A5137-F73D-4... Some of these techniques ar
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by skymt 13y ago
I'd suggest that EMET users should add the Flash plugin to EMET's list, as it's a common target that isn't protected by default. Unfortunately the Flash exe's name changes with every version, so it's not set-an

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