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RyanKearneyon Repairing Corrupted ZIP Files by Brute Force Scanning in C

He said Chrome, so a Firefox addon won't do him much good.

RyanKearneyon Repairing Corrupted ZIP Files by Brute Force Scanning in C

http://i.imgur.com/wU8df.png

And here I was thinking it was just me...

EDIT: It's that 'LM Roman' font. Remove it and it will be fixed.

RyanKearneyon Playboy bypasses Apple's App Store, makes a web app instead

> We were talking about the web. If there's a risk of webapps becoming competitive with native applications on the basis of that 30%, Apple is free to lower it.

How much you want to bet when that happens, Apple will release an update for iOS that cripples Safari and takes away some functionality in order to force developers to write native applications.

> I'm not sure what you're basing this on; Android is a rapidly growing portion of our media clients' in-app purchase business.

When you mentioned competition I just assumed you meant developers abandoning iOS and developing exclusively for Android (thus making customers want an Android device more and drive market share away from iPhone). I didn't think the competition you were thinking of was more and more web apps coming up to circumnavigate the 30% cut.

RyanKearneyon Playboy bypasses Apple's App Store, makes a web app instead

What competition? Apple isn't going to let another app store on the iPhone so developers will continue to be forced to cough up 30% of their earnings. Even if the Android Marketplace fees went to 0%, consumers don't care. You may think developers will be more prone to writing apps for the Android exclusively but they won't because they would still be missing out on their 70% revenue from the iOS app store.

RyanKearneyon Notable iOS Developer Suggests API Boycott to Fight Patent Trolls

You're using the API wrong.

Sent from my iPhone

RyanKearneyon EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs

Oh man, good thing you can install python yourself on RHEL. But I wouldn't expect someone using Ubuntu to know how to download and compile the source code themselves.

RyanKearneyon EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs

CentOS if you can't use RHEL.

RyanKearneyon EC2 Users Should be Cautious When Booting Ubuntu 10.04 AMIs

Honestly if you're using Ubuntu for a server then performance is not your priority anyway.

RyanKearneyon Ben Horowitz on the Skype acquisition

FYI This is what your website looks like to me if you decide to use flash to display plain text. http://i.imgur.com/vrwUO.png

RyanKearneyon Namecoin: Distributed (p2p) domain registration system based on bitcoin

  Set $wgLogo to the URL path to your own logo image.

Well this sure was thrown together quickly.

RyanKearneyon PROTECT IP Act Would Gut Parts Of The DMCA's Safe Harbors

Guess you don't use Chrome's built-in PDF reader, or any other reader for that matter. Loading up Adobe Reader to view a simple PDF is like using Microsoft Word to open a txt file.

RyanKearneyon LimeWire settles: are Google and Amazon next on RIAA's docket?

Here's what I don't understand...

Piracy is always going to be around. It's just easy for me to hop on my friendly neighborhood torrenting site and download a copy of a movie or album I want to watch/hear. I used to torrent like no other, until something happened. Netflix came along. I signed up for Netflix and you know what, I can honestly say I've never torrented a movie since. Why? Because I'm content paying my Netflix monthly fee to legally obtain movies without jumping through hoops and having to install adware infested DRM software and whatnot. I also subscribe to Hulu for TV shows that I can't get on Netflix or aren't all available to instant stream (yet?)

Now we have Music..... I have an iPhone so you know what, I still torrent music. Why? Well I have Grooveshark, but Apple is too stuck-up to approve their app for the app store. What's that mean? It means while I could listen to the music legally (which is still arguable when it comes to Grooveshark) Apple isn't going to let me. I'll be damned if I'm going to be forced to pay for something I already have a subscription for. I could jailbreak and get the Grooveshark app, which I'm thinking about, but we'll see.

tl;dr Music subscription site like Netflix is for Movies that works on iOS devices = dramatic decline in piracy. Of course, it will be a cold day in hell before Apple allows another company to cut into their iTunes Music Store profits.

RyanKearneyon LimeWire settles: are Google and Amazon next on RIAA's docket?

$50 a year? I pay $36 a year for Grooveshark and I've yet to not be able to find a song I wanted to listen to.

RyanKearneyon Facebook reportedly disables account of attorney Mark S. Zuckerberg

I use my real name as my username because I'm bad at coming up with new names/aliases/whatever.

RyanKearneyon Google SSL Search

I know that. I'm saying I don't want to have to pay for a wildcard certificate since you can get free certs for individual domains. The alternative for me purchasing a wildcard domain would be to get many different single domain certs for free and assign each one to a different IP address.

RyanKearneyon Google Tasks API Released

Just lie like every other iOS developer does and make your description something like this:

#1 GOOGLE TASKS APP IN THE APP STORE

NO ONE COMES CLOSE TO BEING AS AWESOME AS US

OBAMA HIMSELF USES THIS APP AND HE LOVES IT!

Don't forget to litter the description with emoji stars and thumbs up and whatnot.

RyanKearneyon Angry Birds on Chrome

>3.2 GHz iMac

Found your problem.

RyanKearneyon Angry Birds on Chrome

Wow thanks, that explains why the sound wasn't working for me.

RyanKearneyon Google SSL Search

I do use StartSSL but the problem just comes from having multiple sub domains. I get IPv4 addresses for $0.50/mo/each but I'd rather not setup each subdomain on its own dedicated IP for the sakes of using free SSL certs.

RyanKearneyon Google SSL Search

Well I mean it's my personal blog, there's really no need for https since there's no user accounts or login. Are you saying HN is insecure because they don't use https? How about Reddit, no https there either.

RyanKearneyon Google SSL Search

The only thing I dislike about this is it hides the refer, screwing up my analytics. I'd have to completely convert all of my sites to HTTPS only to be able to make use of the additional headers for analytical purposes. Not really a big deal I guess, but kind of unnecessary to have to purchase wildcard certs if you have many sub domains.

RyanKearneyon Telstra scores 1-click patent win over Amazon

I'm going to file a patent for a 3-click checkout system, designed to provide just the right amount of user input and confirmation.

RyanKearneyon Bitcoin iOS app open sourced

I use bitcoin and I don't jailbreak my iPhone.

RyanKearneyon How AT&T Recognizes Unauthorized Tethering from Jailbroken iPhones

Ah yes because it's impossible to spoof your user agent string be it with a 3rd party web browser on the iPhone or your desktop browser to match the iOS one.

RyanKearneyon Bitcoin iOS app open sourced

80% is a gross overestimation.

RyanKearneyon Bitcoin iOS app open sourced

100 Per Developer, and now it's open source, meaning any developer can package it distribute it via this method.

RyanKearneyon 56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to investigate

That is a lie http://i.imgur.com/12nWd.png

Oops that's slightly outdated, here's a new one http://i.imgur.com/p1ku3.png

RyanKearneyon Linode - IPv6 Status and FAQ

My guess is each physical machine will be statically routed blocks. The hypervisor will then statically route smaller blocks to specific VMs.

RyanKearneyon Linode - IPv6 Status and FAQ

I'm impressed with my provider too. My server came with a /64 free of charge.

RyanKearneyon LastPass requesting password reset after facing unknown anomaly

Yeah 1Password is pretty awful when you consider the amount of features you get with LastPass like multi-factor authentication. 1Password relies on Dropbox. Your passwords are all stored on your computer. Granted they're in an encrypted format, but if you have a jerk for a room mate they could copy your encrypted files, key log your vault password, and have access to all your passwords.

On the other hand, if you get my LastPass password you better have my grid too (I keep it online so I can access it wherever, password protected). Additionally LastPass is working on SMS codes for login.