PJones

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by PJones 10y ago
uBlock blocks these for me (note these are domains, so it's probably blocking more than 1 script from some of these): addthis.com, adnxs.com, bing.com, crwdcntrl.net, disqus.com, disqusads.com, doubleclick.net, exelator.com, flagcount
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by PJones 11y ago
Weird. I'm in the UK, and just chose the 'I want to cancel the order' option. The email confirming my request and the email confirming the refund had been accepted literally arrived in the same minute.
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by PJones 11y ago
Well, actually... http://blog.codinghorror.com/a-ssd-in-your-pocket/
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by PJones 11y ago
I have uBlock and Ghostery enabled in Safari, and this site didn't pick up either.
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by PJones 11y ago
Mobile is exactly where you don't want to rely on this kind of fingerprinting. Especially on iOS, it's a platform with only one rendering engine and no plugins. Here's what it managed to get from my iPhone 6[1]. This would be
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by PJones 11y ago
"Buy a new computer so you can run our over engineered adverts properly." At the very least adblockers will catch up.
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by PJones 13y ago
As a story it was good, but as a game the backlash it received was fully justified. It reused the same areas and assets to the extreme. You literally spent all your time running around the same 5 or 6 dungeon maps with different entrances a
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by PJones 14y ago
There were rumours the PS3 would use single use discs that locked themselves to a particular PS3 before it launched. http://www.joystiq.com/2005/11/08/playstation-3-wont-play-us...
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by PJones 14y ago
I'm sure advertisers would still pay the same rates for junk mail that nobody sees, and it wouldn't reduce the value of the junk mail to those advertisers.
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by PJones 14y ago
Be careful with that, I had them do the same thing to me (after I asked them not to) and the goodwill suddenly ended after a few months. Took hours to get it sorted and refunded, and to top it off they put the flaming restriction back on! E
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by PJones 14y ago
Interestingly, O2 seem to compress CSS as well. Had a client with a problem on a mobile site I just could not reproduce. Turns out it only happened when connected to O2s data network.
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by PJones 14y ago
It's the carrier that disables tethering based on the network profile. An unlocked iPhone can tether just fine out of the box, until you put a SIM card in that doesn't allow it.
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by PJones 14y ago
In cases like that I'd use the short url that Google provides ( http://goo.gl/maps/4y1Xg ). If Google is down then you can't view the map anyway. Sites providing their own short urls isn't much of a problem as far as I can see.
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by PJones 14y ago
And it breaks the back button when it does it.
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by PJones 14y ago
I'm going to guess that the €700 figure is a reseller. It's £239 including 20% VAT in the UK, which works out to €300. Of course it's not actually in stock, so carriers are charging £400 for it out of contract because they can.
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by PJones 14y ago
The problem here is that it's not just a Chrome Developer account, it's a Google account. There may well be an automated process to lockout users that owe them money. Steam has a similar flaw. If you file a chargeback on any game you purcha
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by PJones 14y ago
Apps like 1Password sell an app, the online sync can be through whatever service you want, 1Password already got paid. Evernote/LastPass/Xmarks make their money selling the service, why would they use DropBox instead and essentially put the
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by PJones 14y ago
Just tried deleting a photo, and it looks like they remove the image straight away in that case: http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2010/10/08/92944289... Hopefully it just takes a little time when deleting the account to go through
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by PJones 14y ago
That's mostly because they're harder to get rid of than Scottish currency. Only the major supermarkets seem to accept them.
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by PJones 14y ago
Recently became required by the EU for all websites to notify users of cookies, so don't expect the notifications to go away. Better implementations don't move content around the page though.
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by PJones 14y ago
This works even better if you know what the deals are ahead of time, either from searching online or by knowing someone that works there.
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by PJones 14y ago
You can get this from most places now: 'Hi, I was just running through the troubleshooting steps with one of your colleagues and I got cut off. He said he was just going to put me on hold to [order new router|arrange engineer|whatever you t
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by PJones 14y ago
SkyDrive fails if you have certain characters in filenames. Characters that are perfectly valid on OS X. When I tried SkyDrive I got 50+ warnings that files hadn't been synced because of the filenames. If I was Windows only then I'd probabl
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by PJones 14y ago
Isn't this vague enough that a site with an image is infringing? "Sure, they requested the web site, but they never explicitly said they wanted the image, and now you've gone and stored it in their cache."
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by PJones 14y ago
I like the idea, but won't this prevent you from accepting cookies if the site has actually bothered to ask permission before adding them?
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by PJones 14y ago
A subscription game only works if you're WoW. Virtually every other big name MMO since that has ended up free to play.
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by PJones 14y ago
My understanding is that it's only Aero Glass that's being canned, that being the smoked glass effect transparency on everything. Presumably it's a battery life thing, since even bargain basement onboard GPUs can handle it performance wise
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by PJones 15y ago
Last time I formatted my drive as case sensitive I ran into issues with Adobe's CS5 apps and Steam. There could be more, but I reformatted it again shortly afterwards.
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by PJones 15y ago
I've got a MBP and a Lumia. The WP7 connector that's available on the Mac App Store allows you to sync your WP7 with iTunes/iPhoto, but doesn't include the Zune player itself, which is so much nicer than iTunes.
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by PJones 15y ago
The Gmail blog is one example. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/p/as-you-may-have-noticed-gmai...

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