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by skymt 14y ago
I don't think Firefox has stored bookmarks in HTML since the bookmark and history systems were unified in Firefox 3. Now they're stored in a single SQLite database. The schema is sensible, so it's easy enough for a programmer to work with,
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by skymt 14y ago
What's the problem with iTunes, or Amazon MP3? Instant downloads, DRM-free, reasonably high bitrate, standard formats. Seems to meet your requirements.
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by skymt 14y ago
It can be relevant to answer the moral question with a business argument because the moral question often has economic underpinnings. The idea that copying is equivalent to theft is based on the idea that pirates would otherwise have bought
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Are people willing to pay enough for that superior experience? Making movies is far more costly than hosting them. I can't imagine film executives could afford even one Ferrari if they charged Megaupload's rates for unlimited access to th
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by skymt 14y ago
Strictly speaking there's no requirement to actively filter content. YouTube goes beyond the DMCA safe-harbor provisions because they want a friendly relationship with Big Content. GrooveShark recognizes that their model is incompatible wit
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by skymt 14y ago
ID3 supports arbitrary key/value pairs, so it can store any metadata you like.
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by skymt 14y ago
You just did to Perl exactly what your article complains about re: PHP.
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by skymt 14y ago
During Microsoft's E3 press conference they said they intended it to be used for gaming. There was a concept video of a tablet being to used to call plays and view the field in Madden.
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by skymt 14y ago
In 2008 Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail account was broken into simply by looking up the answers to the security questions.
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by skymt 14y ago
According to the NYT coverage Stuxnet was never intended to spread beyond Natanz. The escape led to the worm's discovery by security researchers, which led to the investigation and revelation of the US's involvement.
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by skymt 14y ago
I read the article as simply suggesting that developers create real, genuine <a>-tag links in their modern pushState-using web apps. Doubtful that there are enough people specifically overriding middle-clicking on links to warrant a
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by skymt 14y ago
It's not that pushState() apps interfere with middle-clicking on links, it's that they have no real links to middle-click on. Common practice is to have a <div> or <span> (or maybe <a> without an href) styled to lo
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by skymt 14y ago
The police chief of my city (Newport News VA, USA) recently declared his intention to set up surveillance cameras "from one end of this city to the other" because "I can't put a police officer on every corner" but "I might be able to put up
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by skymt 14y ago
Not entirely. Chrome has a permissions system for extensions: an extension needs to declare any sensitive or intrusive APIs it wants to use in the manifest file. Some permissions are even displayed to the user before the extension is instal
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by skymt 14y ago
I'm less interested in the politics and more in the technical details. They seem to be keeping their secret sauce a secret. The best I could find in a brief search is this quote from the article: We used a number of servers to make a conne
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by skymt 14y ago
Aliases shouldn't interfere with shell scripts unless you do something very silly. They're shell-local, and typically you define them in your shell's interactive-initialization file (e.g. .bashrc, .zshrc).
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by skymt 14y ago
Oh, like the "evil bit." https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
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by skymt 14y ago
One of the huge advantages of online shopping is the ability to see customer feedback as you browse. Backporting that to physical stores might not let them beat etailers at their game, but it might help close the gap.
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by skymt 14y ago
In my experience, games with anti-cheating code allow the server admin to turn it on and off at will. Games using PunkBuster or VAC often have a column in the server browser showing whether cheat prevention is enabled. Of course that's not
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by skymt 14y ago
UI #2 works for me: one big list of things I probably want to read. If your feed reader looks like "one big mess", maybe you should unsubscribe from some of the noisier feeds before reaching for machine learning. Alternatively, use folders.
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by skymt 14y ago
If I were implementing one of these black boxes, I'd interpret "reasonable" in a privacy-preserving way: use a ring buffer that stores, say, 4 minutes of data, and stop recording 2 minutes after a crash is detected. That should provide enou
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by skymt 14y ago
Right now I have 234 feeds in my Google Reader. Many of them are updated irregularly, often weeks or months apart. But when they do update, I don't want to miss it. If RSS is killed, what will replace it? Not for the case of Twitter or Tech
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by skymt 15y ago
I suspect it is a matter of background, as you imply. Twitter has its roots in Rails, and I believe they also use Scala heavily. Both Ruby and Scala use newline as a statement terminator. GitHub is another Rails shop that avoids semicolons
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by skymt 15y ago
That would be the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act[0,1]. The relevant bit is "Whoever ... intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains ... information from any protected computer ...
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by skymt 15y ago
I have a feeling a lot of people will be wanting to move from Posterous to hosted WordPress. There's an import plugin available[1], but it seems to have some major issues. You might want to consider adding support for WordPress's WXR format
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by skymt 15y ago
I was curious about KeePass as well, so I downloaded the source. I haven't done anything resembling a source audit, so I can't speak to implementation flaws, but the design seems solid (to my admittedly amateur eyes). KeePass databases are
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by skymt 15y ago
I assume krupan meant never physically connect a smartphone to an untrusted PC. (That's one of the two methods for obtaining an encrypted password database described in the paper.)
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The Kindle 3/keyboard does have a jailbreak available[1], but it's not that useful. Most people just use it to change the "screensaver" images that are displayed when the Kindle is in sleep mode. There are some interesting hacks/ports avail
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by skymt 15y ago
Authority is a relational concept. One can have authority over another, but one's authority over oneself is called autonomy or self-reliance.
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by skymt 15y ago
The line in support of ACTA and SOPA has always been this: the Internet has a piracy problem. We're just trying to fix it. If you don't like our method, why don't you suggest an alternative? I have a huge problem with that. Copyright infrin

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