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by soult 14y ago
The fact that you can't leave negative feedback as a seller caught me off guard too. I understand that there are scammers on Ebay, that's just the way it is. But Ebay cares so little bit about its sellers, that it takes away their only defe
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by soult 14y ago
Godaddy tries to upsell their "premium" DNS service by blocking high-frequency DNS requests on their non-premium authoritive servers.[1][2] I would call that a technical issue, even though it probably only affects web crawlers. 1: https://
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by soult 14y ago
I don't know how debit cards work in the US, but I need a PIN to use my debit card, so short of being forced to withdraw money at gunpoint, you won't get any access to my bank account.
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by soult 14y ago
By your logic a plot summary would be a derivative work. You can't recreate a movie from a plot summary, same way you can't recreate a movie from a torrent file.
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by soult 14y ago
Simple guess: Their DNS server always returns the same IP address, which is a simple transparent proxy. An encrypted VPN would protects you from data sniffing done by your ISP. Obviously the VPN provider will be in a position to sniff your
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by soult 14y ago
In my experience, one of the hardest parts of writing a web crawler is URL selection: After crawling your list of seed URLs, where do you go next? How do you make sure you don't crawl the same content multiple times because it has a slightl
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by soult 14y ago
The reason why it would be difficult to add a CNAME is simple: They need NS records for nasa.gov, and a CNAME record precludes any other records for the same name.
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by soult 14y ago
As someone who ran the public facing node with web-interface for the public grid for a while, I can assure you that it is less concerning than running a Tor exit. You will know the IP address of everyone who downloads and uploads from you v
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by soult 14y ago
Using a stick won't work because a typical living room doesn't have enough space to swing it around withoud damaging the furniture.
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by soult 14y ago
So we should call it "Unicode-8" to further confuse people about the difference between "Unicode" and "UTF-8"?
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by soult 14y ago
Tahoe-LAFS[1] is a storage system that works similarly. It splits data into n fragments, of which any k fragments are enough to restore the data. This leads to a replication factor of only DATA_SIZE/k*n, while you can still lose n-k pieces
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by soult 14y ago
Good idea. "The cloud" worked real wonders for Wikileaks.
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by soult 14y ago
My hometown recently hosted the first Youth Olympic Winter games. Despite the fact that you probably never heard of them, they are just as official as the real Olympic games. The organizers demanded that every non-sponsor logo in the venues
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by soult 14y ago
In Firefox you can untick "Allow scripts to Disable or replace context menus" (hidden under Preferences/Content/Enable Javasript/Advanced), which gives exactly the behaviour that you described. I assume other browsers have similar options.
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by soult 15y ago
If you follow the trail he left, you will notice that the spammer is from Eastern Europe. Good luck getting him extradited.
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by soult 15y ago
I don't know if you posted this just for pointing out the irony, or if you really don't know: Retrieving the website from the Google Cache is as easy as searching for "cache:FULL_URL" with Google, there isn't even a results page or anything
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by soult 15y ago
What I am most curious about, and what has never been mentioned in the article or in the comments here, is, how the account was hacked. If the author not only has been hacked himself, but also knows other people who have been hacked, it sho
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by soult 15y ago
Funny you say that, because what you are describing is already implemented and called the Smarty template system[1], one of the worst examples of the Inner-platform effect[2] the world has ever seen. 1: http://www.smarty.net/ 2: https://
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by soult 15y ago
FYI, Jacob Applebaum just asked[1] people to set up TOR bridges using a new protocol called obfsproxy[2]. 1: https://twitter.com/#!/ioerror/status/167922546807812096 2: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-instructions.h...
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by soult 15y ago
Traceroute.im perfroms a traceroute from the traceroute.im server to the site you specify. The local tracert program performs a traceroute from your computer to the site you specify. Additionally, tracert (windows variant) usually does ICMP
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by soult 15y ago
I like your zmqrpc idea. I had a very similar RPC/MQ-combination running for a while, using RabbitMQ instead of 0mq, Ruby instead of Python and JSON instead of BSON (switched to bencode later for better binary data support). But other than
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by soult 15y ago
No wonder Google added header compression to SPDY.
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by soult 15y ago
I don't see why you disqualify SSH here. If you want a system that only deals with filesystem operations, I suggest NFS. It is neither firewall-, NAT-, proxy- or browser-friendly, is not cross-platform (Windows support only if you pay ext
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by soult 15y ago
As far as I understood the product page and Werner Vogels' blog post[1] it does not run on file level, but on filesystem level. So you won't be able to access single files from within S3, but rather have whole disk images stored in Amazon S
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by soult 15y ago
Reminds me of a very similar story from Austria. Back story: Austria is one of the most competitive countries as far as mobile phone plans go. There were three big companies, A1 (previously state-owned, a bit similar to AT&T), One (now
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by soult 15y ago
I have the same problem sometimes. I run a small wiki and wikis are pretty popular with spammers since there are lots of abandoned wikis at well-ranking domains that can easily be spammed. I followed the links and they obviously didn't care
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by soult 15y ago
You just listed the countries where your domain is most likely to be seized by the government. Well, maybe add UAE and Saudi Arabia for completeness' sake. I don't think a call from Washington DC to any country is enough to shut down domain
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by soult 15y ago
Just FYI, Mozilla has more trouble keeping up with various African and Asian registries than with new TLDs like xxx.
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by soult 15y ago
As always with Godaddy, you need to take a look at the bigger picture. A couple of years ago, a lot of domain tasting was going on. If you registered a domain, you could "return" it within 7 days and get your money back. Bad people abused t
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by soult 15y ago
This makes no difference. He would still have to find and retrain an employee if he just fired pregnant employees instead of them taking paternity leave.

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