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by qjz 15y ago
DNS blacklisting is useful and has its place, but I would expect a secure-by-default browser to not load any resources from domains outside the one in the requested URL (like lynx) and to provide a simple way to selectively whitelist exte
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by qjz 15y ago
Since switching to dwm, I can't even remember what I used a desktop environment for (I went from KDE to Gnome to XFCE to (black|flux)box to dwm). Based on your usage, I'm surprised you'd consider leaving xmonad for something as alien as KDE
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by qjz 15y ago
It's a very bad habit to use -p for every invocation of mkdir, and it's not appropriate in any of the examples where it's used. For one thing, it will never complain if you get the path wrong (provided you have the necessary permissions) wh
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by qjz 15y ago
Darcs merits a nod, as well.
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by qjz 15y ago
File and directory names can contain spaces and require special treatment. This should be addressed up front, before introducing commands with side effects.
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by qjz 15y ago
Not necessarily. It only takes one bureaucrat to reject code that doesn't pass tests or follow required conventions. For example, a good rule of thumb is that no new code will be accepted without documentation.
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by qjz 15y ago
Now I understand the reason for the existence of those annoying special-purpose CDN domains that I'm always forced to allow in RequestPolicy. Thanks for the explanation!
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by qjz 15y ago
Well, then why not just use 1e100.google.com for this purpose? There's a reason it's called a domain , and it seems kind of silly to create and maintain unrelated hierarchies.
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by qjz 15y ago
A great font is one that fit’s it’s purpose. Sentences like that burn my eyes in any font.
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by qjz 15y ago
"Controversial work of art skyrockets in value." Starting out with a calculation based on retail price is pretty shrewd and helps fuel the conversation.
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by qjz 15y ago
Our project focuses on advanced and experienced computer users. In contrast with the usual proprietary software world or many mainstream open source projects that focus more on average and non-technical end users, we think that experienced
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by qjz 15y ago
Isn't that a false dichotomy? You left out completely free content, which is still abundant and could hold your attention each and every day. It seems most ad-driven sites are fueled by screen scraping or opining on external content without
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by qjz 15y ago
In practice, it seems that advertiser dollars always trump subscriber fees.
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by qjz 15y ago
I wonder if there will be many winners from these music wars? I've been seeking out music released under Creative Commons licenses via Jamendo and the Internet Archive for a while now, and the quality and selection continues to improve (not
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by qjz 15y ago
I dislike the trend towards light grey text on a white background. Unfortunately, the article itself is guilty of this. It's fine for timestamps and other page noise, but why dim a blockquote?
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by qjz 15y ago
Only 52 precent of American adults support punishment at all It seems the real story is that 48 percent support no penalty at all. Why the misleading (and inaccurate) headline?
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by qjz 15y ago
They’re addressing other users, asking “Is anyone else having this problem?” What’s that about? How is finding other with the same problem going to help you? Sounds like the user hasn't ruled out a configuration error or buggy device and
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by qjz 15y ago
That strategy isn't as cost-effective as sending the principal to Cancun for a "conference."
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by qjz 15y ago
You can also boot live ISOs, which don't maintain state between boots.
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by qjz 15y ago
Space on a hard drive is finite, no matter how much it costs, and the size requirement makes it particularly unattractive for running in a VM, compared to a leaner OS.
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by qjz 15y ago
I also wonder if it can tell the difference between a teenager and the person who actually pays the energy bill.
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by qjz 15y ago
I have a love/hate relationship with my smartphone, but I'm still amazed at some of the things I can do with it. Adding to your list: When my car's GPS took me miles down a road that was washed out on a trip hundreds of miles from my home,
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by qjz 15y ago
Apple - iCloud - Your content. On all your devices. That is the title of Apple's main iCloud page at http://www.apple.com/icloud/ . iCloud is seamlessly integrated into your apps, so you can access your content on all your devices. Thi
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by qjz 15y ago
FWIW, I was once like you and resisted getting a smartphone for quite a while. Now I'm no longer chained to my desk. I can go on an epic bike ride, chart it with GPS, and never miss an important email. If anything, the smartphone has given
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by qjz 15y ago
Ideally, we would write everything in plaintext, but it doesn't support even the most basic features offered by typesetting (bold, italics, etc.) or hypertext (embedded links), so we turn to markup languages at the expense of readability. M
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by qjz 15y ago
On a related note, one of the web sites I frequently use stripped all spaces from my password without notice before storing it on the server. So when I registered with a password like 'I am Sam', I found I could only log in using 'IamSam'.
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by qjz 15y ago
All good points, but allowing 8 characters still allows '12345678' and 'password', two of the most egregious examples of weak passwords. Granted, weak passwords will always scale to the next minimum ('123456789' or 'passwords' for 9 charact
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by qjz 15y ago
Passwords must be 8 characters or greater Half of the top 50 cracked Gawker passwords were 8 characters (and longer passwords were not exposed, due to the nature of the vulnerability). Since 8 character passwords are vulnerable to a known
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by qjz 15y ago
This reminds me of Vonnegut's Ice-nine , but in the inverse. Drop one in the ocean and watch it disappear in a puff of gas. "Science is magic that works ." -- obligatory quote from Cat's Cradle
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by qjz 15y ago
Not only that, but what's to prevent them from caching content after the first client makes a successful direct connection? After that, they can serve the cached content quickly to other Silk users. Circumnavigating such blocks may even be

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