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by there 16y ago
screen scraping should only really be needed for banks that don't support direct OFX access (or i suppose if your bank charges extra for direct access and you don't want to pay it). OFX is an XML'ish protocol that all of the big banks and m
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I got accidental code execution via glibc?(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com)
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by there 16y ago
What is with HN recently? I just do not understand why the uber-creep factor is out in force. and yet: clothed to naked with just "1!aAA" :| so you clearly spent some time trying to get it to display the naked lady even after you knew w
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by there 16y ago
"And then I stopped dicking around and used solar designer's phpass..." function generateHash($pwd) { $h = new PasswordHash(8, false); return $h->HashPassword($pwd); }
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ThinkPads, Astronauts, and Robots(lenovoblogs.com)
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Algeria officially lifts 19-year-long state of emergency(cnn.com)
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by there 16y ago
i bet the proliferation of skinny jeans is to blame. the person wearing the jeans can barely get their own hand in their pocket, how's a pickpocket supposed to do it undetected?
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The technology of the Porsche 911 -- Engadget(engadget.com)
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by there 16y ago
Credible Android-based tablets (e.g., Xoom) should emerge later this later this... week? http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/21/visualized-motorola-xoom-... http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/20/motorola-xoom-up-for-in-s...
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by there 16y ago
as someone said in a previous "who is hiring" thread, there's a reason why people post their job opportunities on hacker news and not on the dozens of job board websites (hint: it's not because they don't want to pay $75).
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AT&T U-Verse almost a complete failure(leaf.dragonflybsd.org)
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The Fitbit Public API has arrived(blog.fitbit.com)
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by there 16y ago
in short, twitter didn't DDoS them, it was the result of all the various bots that look for new urls posted to twitter and fetch them for whatever reason. the article says the "DDos" was "80 requests within the span of 2-3 seconds". if tha
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by there 16y ago
ref: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5011941/...
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Middle East Internet Scorecard (February 12 – 20)(asert.arbornetworks.com)
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by there 16y ago
I wonder if the public ever will become educated about the value of privacy. a lot of people became aware that they could be tracked down for downloading movies and mp3s because of all the lawsuits. perhaps it will take a few (more) lawsu
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Crypto Museum(cryptomuseum.com)
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What does the "Track" in "Do Not Track" mean? | Electronic Frontier Foundation(eff.org)
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Lcamtuf's blog: Possibly the most fascinating HTML parser behavior ever(lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
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by there 16y ago
i wish watson had to do speech/text recognition of the answers. it would slow down watson's response and put it on par with the human contestants who don't have the answers hard-wired directly into their brains and still have to spend time
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by there 16y ago
They homebrewed their own password system. the story says hbgary hired an outside company to make this cms for them, which may explain the crappy security on that particular system. Can someone switch on the tptacek bat-signal? thomas'
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DMCA Copyright Policies: Staying in the Safe Harbors While Protecting Your Users(eff.org)
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Late row lookups: InnoDB | EXPLAIN EXTENDED(explainextended.com)
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The lego character covers his eyes when a user types in his password(littlebigdetails.com)
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ActiveRecord migrations without Rails(exposinggotchas.blogspot.com)
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Five Key Design Decisions That Affect Security in Web Applications(blogs.sans.org)
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Researchers steal iPhone passwords in six minutes (video) -- Engadget(engadget.com)
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by there 16y ago
i'm not sure why the firefox option was put in the advanced tab and not the privacy tab. i just recently setup piwik ( http://piwik.org/ ) to do web analytics for some of my websites and there is already a plugin available to ignore trackin
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Firefox 4 Beta 11 adds "Do Not Track" capabilities(h-online.com)
1 points by there 16y ago|1 comments
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by there 16y ago
i was excited about webOS when it first came out, but the crappy palm pre devices prevented me from adopting it. from everything they've shown during their event today, i'm pretty excited about this new tablet. i like the integration with

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