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by pdkp 9y ago
I think a lot of sites already do that, although they may not send an email saying 'sorry, we don't have that e-mail on file,' it is pretty common to get a 'if that email exists, we have sent a reset e-mail to it' m
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by pdkp 9y ago
I think you have a good point in that if you are going to use usernames as an identifier, there is an argument that having an email also be an identifier is sort of redundant. One problem with that is that when users are given the option of
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by pdkp 10y ago
Based on the article, it looks like the bricking/disabling occurred after an update to the latest version of the OS. So, I don't think it is accurate to say that it 'allows remote control by its masters,' as it appears t
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by pdkp 11y ago
To be fair, I would be incredibly surprised if creating a built-in Android content blocker is something Google would even consider, let alone implement. It is disappointing that they aren't making that API public, but just having that
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by pdkp 13y ago
I don't think this adds the layer of security you think it does, merely a minor bit of obscurity. In context of the specific vector you reference, author={$user_id}, it probably doesn't do anything at all to protect you. Not that there is a
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by pdkp 14y ago
Except, the bandwidth has already been paid for, at least twice. Once by the consumer by way of a monthly internet bill and once by the content provider(website) in the way of their hosting/bandwidth costs. It is not clear by the ISP's name
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by pdkp 14y ago
That is incorrect, at least for most retail OEM keys anyway. I noticed that starting with Vista, the distinction between OEM vs Non-OEM key seems to have been reduced. This makes life easier when there is no recovery partition or the hard-d
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by pdkp 14y ago
Given they state that some accounts were compromised by stolen passwords from "other websites," it would make sense to run some sort of dictionary attack using lists from those sites.
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by pdkp 14y ago
- The SPAM filter in Thunderbird is A.W.F.U.L. Let me repeat that A-W-F-U-L. Despite training it for years it routinely misses the same spam, with the same title, and the same content, while sometimes marking very important emails as junk.
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by pdkp 14y ago
It isn't just Microsoft. Game and software companies have been doing this for a little while now. I think Sony may have done it first such TOS change to get a bunch of publicity. As far as being legal or not, I am not sure it has been offic
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by pdkp 14y ago
Blog Spam, doesn't add anything to source: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Blue-Systems-to-spons...
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by pdkp 15y ago
Literally having to re-learn the OS is almost certainly an over-statement with pre-win8 versions, as you are correct base functionality in previous versions is in many ways consistent. However, how I interpret that statement is that it is i
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by pdkp 15y ago
I would have to agree that you are looking at this as a power user, rather than a regular user. And, from that perspective, I would agree that the changes are rather minimal and intuitive between recent versions. However, for older folks, t
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by pdkp 15y ago
I think it is only disabled on certain interior pages. I just logged in and in GMail, clicking on the Google Icon didn't do anything. Worked the same on a few other pages I tried. Perhaps they haven't rolled out the changes to all pages yet
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by pdkp 15y ago
Wow, when you count 123456 too, it is a big chunk of the office. Not to mention the others that had 12345 as part of their password. I wonder if this is an IT policy gone bad. Perhaps the guy who set it up used 12345 as the default and, of
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by pdkp 15y ago
Yes they do. It is still pretty new, and from what I understand upgrading can be a bit of a pain, but pacman 4.0 has package signing. Been using Fedora for a bit now, so haven't actually tried it yet...
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by pdkp 15y ago
"My time is worth money. [...] assuming I work instead" That is a big assumption. I think the assertion that time is ALWAYS money is incorrect. Often, it is just time. At 3AM, or after you stop working, your time is probably not worth $75/h
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by pdkp 15y ago
Hostgator does this too and don't reset, only resend passwords. It has always bugged me. There is no reason to be storing plain-text, especially for their billing system. At least Dreamhost says the Shell passwords are hashed, which makes s
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by pdkp 15y ago
Yes, at least in the past, Google has taken into account intent when it comes to cloaking, letting some big sites get away with it and still rank well in serps. However, I can see how your initial suggestion of showing full content to Googl