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Rats. I was rooting for Uptilt:

http://uptilt.r12.railsrumble.com/

But that's what GroupOn was betting on to begin with!

One small step for mankind....and one giant leap for privacy

While not as famous as Tor in Iran, for example, there are VPN implementations on GitHub, in addition to what rcthompson said.

I know a few governments who would be more than happy for github to be disabled.

I'd be willing to bet Windows releases another operating system after Windows 8. Whether it is the end of their dominance in the business realm is about the only thing up for debate, but the company is sure not going to file for bankruptcy before Windows 9.

From the tone of the article, it doesn't seem so. They did say the protest was placated with imaginary pizza though. Hmm, like that would work :P

This is really interesting...and kinda creepy. I wonder what Samy is working on now, considering he only does security exploitation "for fun".

Damn, guess I have to step it up one more level and put a fourth pointer on there...

So this is a linked list that's ordered in two different ways? If I create a third pointer to reorganize the same data in a third way, can I patent that on top?

They have a team causing water leaks and stealing hardware to test their disaster recovery. That is some serious penetration testing.

"Your searches on Google.com may bring up relevant emails, files and more from Gmail and Google Drive"

https://www.gstatic.com/gft/gd1_kt8j8a.png

Check that picture out. Immediately, people can tell that you have email from a certain sender about the topic that you have just searched, even before you click "Search results".

To just get all the comments out of the way:

@adgar2: Senders and subject are available: Subject is the search query, sender is seen right there in the screenshot. Looking over the comment, I probably communicated that people could see the body of the e-mail. That's my mistake, I meant to say that people could see senders and subjects.

@Karunamon: It's real obvious when I'm opening my e-mail that people can see my e-mail. I wouldn't expect that when just searching Google.

All in all, as I said logging out is a perfectly viable option, but the slip up at the wrong time (e.g. getting some spam that passed your filter, searching "ass" while on your way to finishing typing assassin's creed or whatnot, and having "Gmail results: messages from xxx..., Jane Doe,...and 2 others" show up).

If this becomes mandatory for Google, I'd switch search engines. You may call it FUD if you wish, but I would either have to be logged out when making Google searches or risk having some of my e-mail with senders and subject lines revealed to anyone watching my screen.

EDIT: As of now, it's opt-in.

EDIT: It seems most people inferred that I meant people could see the body of the e-mail. I meant to say that people can see the subject and sender exclusively, not in addition to the body.

EDIT: And no, I didn't create that throwaway account with the deleted post. I wouldn't have done this if I did. I'm just saying that it isn't all FUD.

The ability to completely disable being tagged.

If you read back to a few other posts about Facebook and parents, there were a lot of "Your parent is your friend or it's banned" posts.

If you can find this, let me know. I have not been able to.

9 Sep 2011 [1] seems to be the date at which they introduced that. I have since set that setting as you recommend, but I was definitely on Facebook before that. I guess the unsettling feeling (combined with this and all the incidents where changing an arcane library of settings is quite often bound to leave an open passage) has just stayed around since then.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/09/the-new-facebook-pr...

EDIT: Just made a double-check now, guess what? An open passage:

Note: You can still be tagged, and tags may appear elsewhere on Facebook. I can't review the tags if they are found on someone else's timeline.

I remember the first time I got tagged in a picture by a friend on Facebook. I deactivated my account immediately because it felt really unsettling that people were "checking me in and tagging" me at places I didn't even know I was being tracked at. Alas, given enough peer pressure in my circle I reactivated it simply because it was easier "to invite all friends at once to parties and other events", and I was missing out on most of then unknowingly without even getting an invite. One might say I need better friends, but I sympathize that when you have 25 people to invite or more, that you are going to miss people. The tagging still unnerves me.

You ever wonder if this was a strange viral marketing campaign?

Not exactly the same game, but Osu! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K31BYeLNJ0 for a gameplay example) is a fangame of Ouendan AKA Elite Beat Agents in North America.

The game was originally touch (or stylus) based, but the best scores are all done through mouse to aim & keyboard to press. This game involves swiping, pointing, spinning, and more accurate following of drawn cursors on screen. I think to line up your draw, and make an accurate motion, the mouse will still win.

Edit: Correction: Stylus is also just as popular, but the keyboard is still used.

You make a pretty good point, but not just gmail. Pretty much all -mail providers use https when users access their web interface.

I actually have to wonder if "owned" ever had this much of an effect on black people as "raped" did on women when it came about in gaming slang.

With a million and one blogs out there, you only get prestige and that great "this is a good blog" status if you have a high signal-to-noise ratio.

Or you're blogging about the next Hollywood celeb breakup...but I think you see my point.

This is very interesting stuff. What I'd like to know is how you could measure the size of each project. Otherwise this could be easily skewed by a user creating a ton of empty, unfinished, or even dummy projects once they have heard about this study. There isn't really anything stopping them on GitHub.

As a last comment: The descending grey bands represent the rank quartiles, e.g., the top band is the 100th percentiles, then 80th percentile, etc. If there are 5 of them, doesn't that make them quintiles (which my spellchecker claims isn't a word, haha)?

I think the true word that should be in quotes is 'nearby'.

It's Reddit mods (volunteers) who started the banning only on their SubReddits. The admin and real staff haven't done anything (except ban /r/jailbait I suppose).

Yeah, I got a bad feeling when I saw that this company would purposely associate themselves with Zynga. Something does feel quite off. I have no comment on the legality, but I get the feeling a whole new demographic is going to be sucked into "clicking cows" or betting against their friends and spamming their walls. To top it off, you can only log in with Facebook ATM.

Yeah, I think the problem lies more for people who don't want to work so much but have to make huge sacrifices/give up job security to get that kind of freedom.

We are all ABOUT safety up in here

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