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by tonfa 14y ago
> If you require physical "key" items, user leaves the key next to the computer that needs it. I would say for consumer it's already better than passwords. Biggest threats seems to be password-reuse (and hacked servers) and phishing.
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by tonfa 14y ago
If it isn't based on a shared secret, but on public crypto, then it wouldn't suffer from this kind of vulnerabilities.
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by tonfa 14y ago
From the article, it seems google-agnostic: So they’ve developed a (as yet unnamed) protocol for device-based authentication that they say is independent of Google, requires no special software to work — aside from a web browser that suppor
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Google Declares War on the Password(wired.com)
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by tonfa 14y ago
> But for open source projects like Firefox, you should be able to compile a bit-identical release to what Mozilla provides. Pretty sure it's actually very hard, I'd assume they use FDO in their builds.
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by tonfa 14y ago
Right-click, "Open as window". And voilà all your shortcuts.
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by tonfa 14y ago
Right click on the app, select "open as new window" (if it's run in a tab it can't use the chrome shortcuts, for security reasons).
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by tonfa 14y ago
So are high schools in the US actually of higher quality than in Slovakia?
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by tonfa 14y ago
They could ask people to have ads.mywebsite.com direct to the ad company server, no? (same as mail.mywebsite.com directing to gmail).
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by tonfa 14y ago
> As for the particular case mentioned (YouTube bandwidth for Free) I would like to know if the take advantage of the edge caching available. They don't have edge caching, but they have a (satured) private peering. I can't believe upgra
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by tonfa 14y ago
That's what happens, they block at the DNS level. Counter-measure could be to put those under google.com, but there might be issues with cookie sharing between ads and products (not necessarily technical issues).
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by tonfa 14y ago
It's a shame that they didn't manage to bring an amazing experience from this set top box. Most of their revolutionary features (apps, games, video broadcasting, etc.) haven't had any success, maybe because polish had been lacking. Or maybe
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by tonfa 14y ago
In that particular case, they're also very good, since the ISP picked a moment where actors like Amazon, Google are getting a lot of heat about their tax rate in France. It's likely that the government will like that argument (let's help fr
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by tonfa 14y ago
He also co-owns one of the most famous french newspaper. And was well known for bringing defamation lawsuits to journalists and newpapers. He also got most of his early wealth from running adult services. In short he is not without controve
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by tonfa 14y ago
Well you can, but you'll have degraded performance and not access to tv/phone services.
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by tonfa 14y ago
If you read french, that's the thinking behind it: http://www.bfmtv.com/economie/adfreegate-revolution-is-not-a...
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by tonfa 14y ago
It's not really that they threshold the bandwidth, it's that they refuse to upgrade a saturated peering unless money flows in their direction.
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by tonfa 14y ago
Sure let's filter also porn by default, and anything that could be offending, or that might look like copyright infringement. I think there are legitimate questions: at which point would it become not acceptable for you? who decides what is
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by tonfa 14y ago
Google analytics is also blocked, it's not just ads.
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by tonfa 14y ago
Maybe porn is more relevant to the company culture ;) (Niel was running adult services on minitel before starting an ISP) And it might also be part of the negotiations to get Google to pay for peering that's been going on for a long time.
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by tonfa 14y ago
It is configurable but opt-out.
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by tonfa 14y ago
And indeed it now shows: What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 12592 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 31 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last ti
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by tonfa 14y ago
Looks like the safebrowsing console is lagging. It currently says "Updated 5 hours ago". I guess once the information propagates to it, you'll have more details. http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...
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by tonfa 14y ago
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-googl... (search for DiRT).
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by tonfa 14y ago
I thought XNU was considered a micro-kernel because of the Mach part.
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by tonfa 14y ago
> rms is trying to make some topics (e.g., discussing if something could be used as a GPL loophole) taboo even for gnu-prog-discuss. Might not be a bad idea, since those discussions could be used after discovery as part of a trial.
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by tonfa 14y ago
In that case it isn't clear why an app named "child books" should be on top. It's a very generic name.
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by tonfa 14y ago
What do you think Google could have done?
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by tonfa 14y ago
The original article is very fuzzy and it isn't clear at all whether bitcoins are used in Iran (it's mostly about how bitcoins could be useful).
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by tonfa 14y ago
or more simply, google for [mr git] and go directly to http://joeyh.name/code/mr/

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