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alternize··on Documents shed light on U.S. surveillance programs
... and to "monitor" the 1.6% traffic, they must filter the data at a (combined) rate of 2.705 Tb/s to keep up.
alternize··on Documents shed light on U.S. surveillance programs
so the NSA analysts actually review "only" 7.304 TB (1826 PB * 0.016 * 0.00025) of data daily...
alternize··on Google Chrome security flaw offers unrestricted password access
if... but the article mainly complained about not being obvious for "normal" people that their password can be read. i have my doubts that it would be more obvious for those people that they can (should) set a master password in firefox.
alternize··on Google Chrome security flaw offers unrestricted password access
i don't get it. how is Chrome's handling different from Thunderbird's or Firefox's? they too have the exact same functionalities accessible to anyone sitting at the computer without extra security measures: Options > Security > Saved Passwords > Show Passwords
alternize··on Twitter’s New Two-Factor Solution Kicks SMS to the Curb
yeah, same here. all i'm getting is a "new login request" notification on the phone when trying to login on the desktop browser. but when opening the notification it says "no new login requests", and the website on the desktop jumps to "We're sorry, there were was an error. Please try logging in again.".
alternize··on MIT Researchers: Printable Keys Make Mechanical Locks Insecure
i wonder if one could really copy more advanced keys (f.e. the ones from KABA [0] are pretty common here) by just having some scans of the keys. these keys generally have different layouts on each side, and sometimes also on the small top/bottom sides. so just a snapped photo definitely would not be sufficient. and even with flatbed scanners like the team in the article used, capturing the depth of the holes might be problematic...

[0] http://www.kaba.com/access-control/en/Products-Solutions/Mec...

alternize··on OpenX.org compromised and downloads injected with a backdoor
the openx team has unfortunately a long history for not really caring about bugs in their opensource offering.

a few years ago, i had to maintain an openx installation and found quite a few critical bugs, for which i submitted patches to their then-active jira bugtracking. as far as i know, the bugs are still in the "current" 2.8.10 release.

the opensource version was unofficially abandoned when the Enterprise editions where announced - without really telling the users that they would not maintain it anymore.

i'm not at all surprised about the new problems and their lack of communication.

alternize··on Mailpile: Let’s take email back
but then I'm not really seeing what the advantagess over running thunderbird + engimail locally or using roundcube (which also has openpgp support built in) would be?
alternize··on Mailpile: Let’s take email back
so if i understand you comment right: it will be a MUA that accessed through a webbrowser, and one still needs to have an IMAP capable email-account somewhere else?
alternize··on What a 600,000-megapixel-wide picture looks like
i see, makes sense. thanks!
alternize··on What a 600,000-megapixel-wide picture looks like
quite a few windows have a red triangle in them, f.e. http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/?v=-154....

what do they mean?

alternize··on Ask HN: Is it okay to accept work in a language you haven't done before
IMO, a large part of being a successful programmer is to know how / with what patterns to approach the problem at hand (in your case: the goal set by the client). the actual language most the time is just the means and quickly learned. that said, when it comes to actual code quality, experience is important too: each language or framework has its irks and special feature.

i have taken on freelancing work in languages and/or frameworks unfamiliar to me, but spent 1-2 weeks beforehand learning the basic stuff on my own time. if you feel unsure whether to take on the job or not it's probably best to be honest to the customer - let them know that it is your first project with language x or framework y, but that you'll be willing to invest in it and provide them with a good solution.

and last but not least there's the saying "learning by doing" :)

alternize··on Nvidia's Near-Eye Light Field Displays
there's also a youtube video demoing the displays: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwCwtBxZM7g
alternize··on NASA's IRIS Telescope Offers First Glimpse of Sun's Mysterious Atmosphere
there's also a rather impressive youtube video comparing the SDO to the IRIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQymdMnCZ2I
alternize··on Bootstrap 3 RC1
that was my initial thought earlier this month as well and went on preparing to get rid of IE7 support for our specialised cms' backend. until i found out that some of our best-paying corporate customers are still using IE7.

our lesson learned: it's not the quantity that is important here, but rather who is still (stuck) using older browsers - "don't bite the hand that feeds you".

alternize··on Bootstrap 3 RC1
the collapsed navbar has several problems on Chrome (beta) for Android as well, f.e. when zooming, or scrolling while the menu is in the expanded state
alternize··on VP of Engineering - "best of the best" = no more than 12 years experience?
you made the job ad look pretty bad now to people reading it with out knowning the first version...

   Note:
   Any notion that 500friends is ageist is a complete fabrication.  This can be validated by looking at our team (link). 
really? this is how you chose to start your job ad now? that sounds so desperate, i'd never apply - not saying that i would have before, sorry :)
alternize··on Ask HN: Google Chrome heuristic warnings pose threat to our business
translation implies "other language". instead of still defining the page as being english, why not trying to define the page's language to the language the customer (allegedly) translated into?

in your case, non-translated "Account" and "Password" texts in a french corpus are most probably much much more common than a wrongly-translated french "Connexion" in an english corpus...

that said, i do not know if chrome is really considering the language or not, but i certainly would hope so. :)

alternize··on Ask HN: Google Chrome heuristic warnings pose threat to our business
most probably "connexion" in relation to "password" was used in an unrelated (english?) phishing attempt.

mixing different languages might be bad. try changing all the page text (and corresponding content-language header) to the localized language instead of just changing the submit button. maybe this have the classifier use the contextual meaning of "connexion".

alternize··on Ask HN: Google Chrome heuristic warnings pose threat to our business
i'm not seeing the phishing warning when visiting the url from the screenshot using chrome v29.0.1547.0 dev-m.

maybe you caught a malware on your computer. did you try from different machines?

alternize··on Google Consumer Surveys: Measure site satisfaction in real time
the surveys seem to be targeted to us/ca/uk-visitors only. hope they open this up for the entire world in the future.
alternize··on How Google Authorship decreased our traffic by 90%
i agree. i have even misread "Marco" instead of "Macro" in the title. with the face next to the content, and me looking for a technical tool and not a person, i'd have skipped to #2 as well.
alternize··on Pure: a set of small, responsive CSS modules
also, for internet explorers, placeholder support is pretty bad - IE10 only: http://caniuse.com/input-placeholder
alternize··on Pure: a set of small, responsive CSS modules
i agree, i'd prefer "vendor"-less :) css class names, too, without having to resort to the gridbuilder.
alternize··on Pure: a set of small, responsive CSS modules
looks nice & clean, might give it a try for my next project. please add some info about browser compatibility to the website tho.
alternize··on DynDNS now requires free users to manually log in once a month
full email: http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/sfk-manifest/message/76...
alternize··on Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?
the same rapidssl certificate is $9.45 from namecheap.

after having been a reseller for geotrust for years, lately, i ended up buying all my certificates from namecheap. the namecheap end user prices are even lower than my rapidssl reseller prices...

alternize··on Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW]
apparently, the video is re-rendered on a regular basis containing the flock of mouse pointers:

  We composite the music video with the latest pointers every 30 minutes orso.
  For that we use Node.js & FFMPEG
alternize··on Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW]
awesome idea! there's even an easter egg hidden in the code: open the javascript console after the page was loaded _for the first time_ :)
alternize··on How can we get Google Support?
I have to agree with this. while I'm not always happy with the outcome of the support exchange (i.e. "it is how it is, we cannot raise the attachment size limit even for paying customers") the support staff was always prompt, technical versatile and friendly. once they even called me back after a day or two to verify I'm happy. and this was just for a 4-user google apps account.
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