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by uxp 15y ago
> Most anyone who is willing to root and ROM will be savvy enough to know how to avoid security issues and things like malware in non-market apps. Based on nearly every thread I've read on xda-developers forums, I'd put my money on the
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by uxp 15y ago
Here's a link to the NPR article from a few days ago: http://www.npr.org/2012/03/12/148252561/on-utahs-silicon-slo... And the (empty) HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3698438
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by uxp 15y ago
> We wouldn't have been hearing about this had AT&T not tried to shut him up. We did year about it on the day the guy won his case. Yes, they are making more news out of a story they could have easily squashed, but it wasn't an unkn
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by uxp 15y ago
I'm one of those people. I switched to OS X somewhere around XP SP3. Have never used Vista on any of my own machines, and only run Win7 on a VM to get access to IE 8 and 9. Search on Windows is horribly broken. One of the first "shortcuts"
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by uxp 15y ago
The TSA _are_ deterring crimes. Drug related crimes (possession) has gone up substantially at airports, and there are known cases of credit card fraud, animal smuggling and child porn being found while searching belongings of travelers. Whe
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by uxp 15y ago
I feel the same way. My first API on my current project was a horrible mess, and did I only realize why it sucked and what I needed to change when I decided to play with Backbone.js over a weekend using my API as a data source. The only way
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by uxp 15y ago
> Customers would be more likely to use your project if it were more active, not less. Right, but if I'm a customer of your simple project, and a customer of Node.js and Homebrew, then I will never see your update and issue notification
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by uxp 15y ago
Based entirely on the format of the data that was publicly accessible, it looks like this data, including usernames and passwords, are raw $_POST server variables spit out in a debug log. All the hashing and encryption in the world can't pr
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by uxp 15y ago
There is nothing wrong about redirecting a missing page to a known index or search page. It's only if you decide to also return a 200 OK message with the request that you are breaking the web. 404s can have valid content, you don't have to
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by uxp 15y ago
There's a bit of a problem, however. The patent (5,838,906) has already been nullified, and then subsequently reinstated on an appeal. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/05/eolas_web_patent_nul... Tim Berners-Lee has already written abo
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by uxp 15y ago
It's not required, always, to pay tithing to attend the standard sunday services in the LDS faith. But if you wanted to get help from your bishop, who has the ability to grant about $5000 USD to anyone of his choosing (I think per month), h
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by uxp 15y ago
That's circumstantial evidence at best. Here's more useless analytical evidence to suggest that most people don't know everything: when Samy Kamkar[0] first demonstrated geolocation via BSSIDs, I tried out every wireless router in my house,
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by uxp 15y ago
Even though the 4S is supposedly a GSM/CDMA combined phone, its still locked to individual carriers, unless you happened to buy the unlocked version at nearly $800 USD. http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcwebertobias/2011/12/22/how-u...
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by uxp 15y ago
Its <pre><code>foo</code></pre>. All browsers will not automatically wrap text inside pre tags, since the text inside pre is supposed to have both width and line-breaks preserved. Scroll with two fingers insi
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by uxp 15y ago
> I am also confused by the uproar about this, why is what Dodd said wrong It's not that people are upset that he is freely admitting to bribery or lobbying (depending on your viewpoint), but that is should be wrong for him to be admitt
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by uxp 15y ago
Not always. The most common and reliable piracy channel for Windows 7 right now is by updating your BIOS with a SLIC signature, and then installing Windows as a valid OEM copy. The installation ISOs can be SHA1 and MD5 hash checked against
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by uxp 15y ago
My previous small business would receive cold calls from people claiming to be "with Google" or "working with Google" to sell me SEO services weekly. I can see how non-technical business owners who don't understand how "the internets" work
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by uxp 15y ago
I never intended to, but this approach has helped me tremendously by accident. First off, reading code is kinda boring, and if you don't know everything about a language, it can be easy to get stuck in a spot and not know where the code goe
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by uxp 15y ago
* No, that's not entirely true. I don't have to use a service like thepiratebay.org to send one of these files. And further, I could just as easily use _any_ or _many_ trackers inside my torrent. * Altered to convey another point. Naturally
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by uxp 15y ago
You may not like the company, and you are entitled to have that view (I might even share it!), but to state that everyone that works there in some form of engineering capacity is lacking of praise for their engineering feats is quite disi
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by uxp 15y ago
> and then portions of it will get struck down as unconstitutional. This is still a problem. How long has it been since the PATRIOT Act was signed into law (Oct 26, 2001) and how many of it's 325 amendments and 9 additions have been rep
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by uxp 15y ago
> Is this really categorically true for porn sites and only porn sites? Depends on the entire structure of the site, and no not only porn sites. If you run chrome, hit up your Network Inspector in the dev tools and go to YouTube (or Red
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by uxp 15y ago
Bandwidth for the videos was provided by Amazon S3 directly[1]. So if he brought in half a million dollars in 5 days from selling his video at $5, that's 100,000 purchases, and if everyone only downloaded the 720p video at 1.2GB that's 30TB
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by uxp 15y ago
On clicking one of the random IP addresses it showed me that they had tracked, the right sidebar Facebook comment column had a comment from a developer that stated they tested the application locally, and then pushed the same database live,
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by uxp 15y ago
> They insisted it was legal because they weren't distributing, which is nonsense. There is some actual truth in this of which I can only explain anecdotally, and am slightly wary of posting this story as last time I did on HN someone p
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by uxp 15y ago
I think the point was that some organisms on earth exhibit traits of intelligence, like Dolphins, and that there could be Alien organisms that are like Dolphins that also show signs of intelligence. But just as humans and dolphins on earth
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by uxp 15y ago
As anyone has said elsewhere in this thread, all they are doing is strongarming the administrators of the TLDs that operate primary offices inside the USA to alter the DNS entries for specified domains they feel are being used to break the
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by uxp 15y ago
I agree with your point. Even I took a few seconds longer wondering why Google Music didn't run on my version of Chrome until I correctly guessed that there was a hidden flash player somewhere I couldn't see, and I'm a developer myself. But
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by uxp 15y ago
Here's the original repo with Fabien Sanglard's patch applied on top of it. https://github.com/uxp/doom3.gpl Just like his concern, I haven't tested building this on windows (VC 2010), so this repo needs to be cleaned up before it should
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by uxp 15y ago
Nearly all the "stadium" seating theaters around me in Utah use numbered seating for every movie for at least it's first opening week, but they're largely all owned by one guy (well, his corporation, as he personally passed away a few years

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