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by walkon 15y ago
I think PCI is more of a reactive legal tool than it is an effective, proactive way to prevent security breaches. In theory it should catch security vulnerabilities, but I don't know how thorough the compliance checks really are... Yeah, C
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by walkon 15y ago
Has it been determined that Citi will not face repercussions for this incident? I think part of the reason PCI DSS was created (by the payment processors MasterCard, Visa, Amex, etc) was to allow for more legal leverage against the banks w
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by walkon 15y ago
The problem is, once such an online service is well known, the hackers could just blacklist the host name(s) to the service so no alerting messages are sent. I think this is something that would have to live on the actual Gmail servers so
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by walkon 15y ago
There is definitely competition, but even if there wasn't, that would mean that the existing provider was good enough. What's stopping more alternatives from appearing besides this? Probably looming legislation more than anything. If you
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by walkon 15y ago
The marginal costs of commercial software is even lower, but most vendors charge in a mostly linear manner; it's not like they decrement their prices for each sale they make to keep a steady cost-to-price ratio. Why should they? If enough
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by walkon 15y ago
Yeah it goes both ways. The users who barely use their internet connection, such as grandmas that check their email and look up a recipe a few times a week, are subsidizing the users who are streaming Netflix in high def for 3 hours a nigh
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by walkon 15y ago
My point is also to counter the outrage over usage-based pricing. What is so unfair about the idea of ISPs charging per/KB similar to how an electric utility charges per/KWh? Prices are rising for services and commodities in almost every i
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by walkon 15y ago
Why can't people apply non-internet concepts to the internet/ISPs? Do utilities give you unlimited electricity, gas, and water? Of course not. Does everyone who goes to McDonald's pay a flat fee of $5 and get as much as they want? Resou
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GitHub Merge Button - What Were they Thinking?(ayende.com)
9 points by walkon 15y ago|6 comments
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by walkon 15y ago
You don't know what I know.
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by walkon 16y ago
To some extent, it is a good thing that the warning banner is ugly because it will annoy the users, increasing the chances that they'll do something (i.e. upgrade to a newer browser) to get rid of it.
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by walkon 16y ago
This is ludicrous. It's the people making a stand, not social networking sites. The oppressed could be using Twitter/FB to talk about entertainment, sports, or other frivolities. The tools in any revolution, regardless the century, are o
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by walkon 16y ago
Yeah, it looks like documents can be viewed publicly (without a Google account) if going through the Viewer: http://docs.google.com/viewer Pretty handy if you have a bunch of files in their original formats available for downloading, but
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by walkon 16y ago
For concern #2, If they parameter names are found in the request, they are replaced in the url and removed from the POST form data. Full explaination here: http://amplifyjs.com/api/request/#url_substitution/routing
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by walkon 16y ago
Expression Web SuperPreview is really cool, until you try to interact with your page/site in any way. It can't even handle clicking on a link, let alone submits/POSTs.
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by walkon 16y ago
Saying "Happy Holidays" to someone who isn't celebrating any holidays this time of year (e.g. a Chinese Buddhist) is also stupid.
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by walkon 16y ago
The fact that you can change font sizes easily means the iPad effectively replaces reading glasses. I disagree. Reading glasses are close to the eye and magnify without sacrificing the amount of text to viewable surface area. People who
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by walkon 16y ago
Should the government ever be allowed to have secrets? To what level should government correspondence be public? Some situations (e.g. the Manhattan Project) necessitate secrecy. What exactly is wrong with that, at least in some situatio
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by walkon 16y ago
It would be nice if they could stream a digital version (non-optical copy), but still buy the physical copies and keep track of how many were in use at one time as to not "use" more than they own.
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by walkon 16y ago
that social networking features would be important in all web applications Just an FYI, social networking isn't even close to being important in "all" web applications.
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by walkon 16y ago
Require SSL on any request who's response sends a set-cookie http header. Leave it out for the non-sensitive request/responses.
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by walkon 16y ago
It seems like very few people understand that it doesn't cost anything to upvote other answers and especially questions. Lots of good questions get around 0-2 votes, but clearly draw significant activity and interest otherwise. Are people
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by walkon 16y ago
Booting to a USB drive is something any decent bios has been able to do for the past 5+ years.
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by walkon 16y ago
Is it just me, or was I able to "shorten" an already goo.gl shortened url? http://goo.gl/fBUb --> http://goo.gl/Bkmv --> http://news.ycombinator.com They don't want to allow this, do they?
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by walkon 16y ago
That was (and is) the ironic thing about all the government sponsored home ownership programs and legislation. They pumped up demand at an unreasonable rate, causing ever increasing prices, which made it harder to afford a house, which pro
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by walkon 16y ago
Googling for 'javascript' brings up some sites about javascript, such as Wikipedia and Crockford's, along with some not so good tutorial-ish sites. The only really bad thing I see is the java.com reference at number three. Searching for '
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by walkon 16y ago
I don't really get some of you points. 1) I'm not relevant. You then go on to explain how relevant he is with Wired. 3) Despite my position at a publication that relies on technology and social media as both a promotion tool and main sub
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by walkon 16y ago
I agree with your main point, but not the Microsoft example of abuse: they forced everyone using their popular OS to use their web browser They didn't force anybody. One of the first things I would do with a fresh install of Windows back
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by walkon 16y ago
Even if optionally disabled, hiding the resource location seems very dubious while the breadcrumb structure isn't applicable to all sites. I would much prefer that sites be developed with good REST techniques, with the goal of making easy
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by walkon 16y ago
Ah, very good, that's why I said, "perhaps they have" - thanks for the link.

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