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by nadams 11y ago
This is all I see on Chrome - http://i.imgur.com/TtHA9zh.png
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by nadams 11y ago
> MySQL has been one problem after another. Please elaborate. MySQL/MaraiaDB can be pretty relaxed when it comes to SQL standards (which you can disable/tweak), but I've yet to have data loss or data corruption. And speaki
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by nadams 11y ago
> There are no infrastructure changes, or hardware required. This was one of FTC’s guidelines for the contest. > Unfortunately, Nomorobo is not available on traditional analog landlines or wireless phones at this time. Sounds like he
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by nadams 11y ago
No offense but I didn't mention a specific VOIP provider on purpose. However, callcentric already has it built and much easier to understand than twilio. I'm not saying that service is bad - but the average person doesn't kno
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by nadams 11y ago
> How on earth do "normal" people fall for this? How do people fall for phishing scams or running malware from an email attachment? The answer to that question is the same to yours. I think it's a combination of lack of pu
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by nadams 11y ago
> Once the relatives get wind of this, there is a simple solution. Get a new phone number for the person in question. And even more critical don't cancel the old one. Or an even better idea - transfer the number to a reputable VOIP
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by nadams 11y ago
> I think the burden of proof falls under the one saying youtube-dl is illegal, doesn't? I kind of figured it would be obvious BUT.... > Two days after YouTube-MP3.org, a site that takes music videos and converts their songs into
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by nadams 11y ago
Yes - see: Cache-Control Expires max-age See https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/o...
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by nadams 11y ago
I don't know what country you live in - but in the US it's pretty clear on the court's stance on scraping [1]. I'm not saying I agree with it - but that is the legal precedent. > Although these are early scraping deci
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by nadams 11y ago
I'm surprised to see this on HN. This should be called "Illegally download any song". I think the project is extremely cool and you have props from me - but I hate it when people try to skate the simple fact that stuff like t
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by nadams 11y ago
> How often have I wished I could at least see the age of someone when reading through comments. I don't know if age is as useful as something like list of projects, publications, or contributions. Something to denote saying "y
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by nadams 11y ago
I really don't know why you are being downvoted - but this is pretty spot on. I know one of the science subreddits started to add flair for people who proved they had X degree or background. Which I think it great - you know you are ta
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by nadams 11y ago
That doesn't stop people from trying. I'm sure some manager in some company is angry at his IT staff because he is trying to load 10GB of statistics into Excel and his staff is telling him that he shouldn't do that.
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by nadams 11y ago
I recall a story about an infected version of qemu (might have happened to other software) for Windows. Basically they hacked the site, replaced the binaries with infected ones AND updated the hashes. I also recall one or two stories where
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by nadams 11y ago
Not to be that guy - but did you test this? parameters = {'hostname': self.hostname, 'myip': myip} Change to: parameters = {'hostname': self.hostname, 'myip': ip} Change: for h
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by nadams 11y ago
> but they're... proprietary Everything you ever wanted to know about Exchange [1] (but were afraid to ask). I personally use SOGo [2] as a Exchange ActiveSync provider but I know OpenChange is a project to implement the entire Exch
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by nadams 11y ago
I completely agree - things needs to be simpler not more complex. I believe a quote from Albert Einstein fits here: > "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a
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by nadams 11y ago
I think what Buge is saying is that some user X used the "find my contacts from my email" feature. Linkedin hoovered all emails (and potential conversations) and built a database of consisting of emails and conversations which loo
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by nadams 11y ago
If you used a credit card - you should have asked your credit card company to do a chargeback. I've only done about 4-5 in my life - and every time the credit card company always went in my favor. One time was even a scammy ebay seller
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by nadams 11y ago
I used buzzfeed as a quick popular example - but Yahoo news is just as bad. I recall a "scientific study" where there was a link between plastic and issues with fetuses. The yahoo news article proclaimed that there was a link, the
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by nadams 11y ago
> Wiki is not a very reliable source for citations I've always found this paradigm troubling. Any class I've been in has banned the use of wikipedia - but not big-jims-site-o-facts.com, freewebs.com/someuser/page-copi
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by nadams 11y ago
I'm pretty sure alternatives already exist [1]. [1] http://beebom.com/2015/05/best-itunes-alternatives
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by nadams 11y ago
This is why you should always be careful about black-box devices that you connect to the internet. It's convenient but extremely risky. I just discovered that AstroBox runs their web service as root!
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by nadams 11y ago
Mental illness aside - he accomplished something that I can only dream of. I'm sure if I sat down, quit my job, and read hundreds of tutorials I could come out with some sort of OS. I'm not a fan of the whole religious aspect - bu
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by nadams 11y ago
I found this article [1] and I'm already suspect of FUD. The first part talks about bluetooth pairing with the device - which requires unlocking. The second page talks about unlocking an iPhone with plist files from a synced computer.
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by nadams 11y ago
> Is this workable? I know in the Windows Mobile/Blackberry days if you typed in the incorrect password so many times it would reset the device. However, with many Android devices now a days have the ability to have a "guest mo
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by nadams 11y ago
> When they arrest you and take your phone (or anything electronic, really) the first thing they do is clone the memory Depends on the situation. If it's a raid due to software piracy - then probably. If they pulled you over for spe
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by nadams 11y ago
> The latest Oculus SDK (0.7.0.0) on Windows _absolutely_ fixes this mess. Tried to use that to show it off to a friend on his desktop running Windows 10. Didn't work. The demo desk worked - but nothing else did. Also - didn't
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by nadams 11y ago
In Visual Studio 2013 [1]. [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/19/c99-librar...
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by nadams 11y ago
My only question is have they fixed the whole driver problem yet? The Oculus Rift DK2 was a complete disaster. I understand it's a "dev kit" but if they are to release it for general use they will need to drastically change t

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