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cmircea··on Favicon Cheatsheet
Good luck with that.
cmircea··on Where to host .NET applications?
So run SQL Server in a VM. Or MySQL. Or PostreSQL. Or whatever.
cmircea··on Map collection
Another one: no McDonald's in Romania... except there are. I guess there are other countries too.
cmircea··on Don't Plug Your Phone into a Charger You Don't Own
Sony Xperia S, probably others. Plenty of phones have non user replaceable batteries.
cmircea··on Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
That's mostly a consequence of planes and skyscrapers having lots of people.

The death count could as well be seen with a place accidentally crashing into the Empire State Building.

cmircea··on Dont Worry Government, I Got This Porn Filter Sorted
The certificate is issued for the domain, not the IP.
cmircea··on Dont Worry Government, I Got This Porn Filter Sorted
What if the IP is dynamic? Say an Azure Cloud Service.
cmircea··on Dont Worry Government, I Got This Porn Filter Sorted
They CANNOT use HTTP filtering as that would break on HTTPS.
cmircea··on High school programming taught in Haskell in Argentina
To be fair there's little VB can do that C# can't. Including drag-drop GUI in VS.
cmircea··on Porting dl.google.com from C++ to Go
C# 5 also has this, with the async/await keywords. The nice thing is that it works with older plain Task-based code (which was callback spaghetti).
cmircea··on Hidden “App Ops” Feature in Android 4.3 Lets You Disable Permissions From Apps
Why can't some permissions be prompt-based, instead of always giving access to apps? Say for contacts, if you want to invite friend you'll allow access to contacts just now.
cmircea··on UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal
I don't understand one thing: how will this filter actually work?

Say I use Google or Bing or whatever over SSL. All traffic is encrypted end-to-end. How will the ISPs know I am searching for a forbidden term? Are they going to request a CA to issue certificates for google.com to ISPs?

cmircea··on Is This The Future of The Airline Website?
How is it easily harvested in that case? Are you expecting bots to implement a full HTML & CSS parser?

The comment above will not allow you to copy and paste the email into a to input; might as well use an image.

cmircea··on As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption
IIRC it's run by Microsoft Ireland in the EU.

Even then, if the US would be to access EU-hosted data, with no real justification, the EU will not take that kindly. Especially private data.

cmircea··on As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption
The NSA itself has exactly zero power outside the USA.
cmircea··on As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption
I treat email in Gmail as publicly accessible, same for almost everything I do on the web casually.

My business data lives in Amsterdam (Azure EU West), critical services we use are based in Europe. At least in my case I couldn't care less if the big US companies handed out SSL keys.

cmircea··on My experience with FastMail as a Gmail replacement
Define pretty poor.

As someone interested in their service, seeing reviews saying "pretty poor" is worse than nothing.

cmircea··on Is This The Future of The Airline Website?
What's wrong with this?

    <a href="mailto:mail.added@by.js" />
        some
        <span style="display: none" />☃</span>
        person@gmail.com
    </a>
And here I can either click the link or copy the text and it isn't all messed up. A simple function can easily generate that HTML for any email string.
cmircea··on Why I'm no longer giving up on C#
Besides the C# compiler being able to infer types in almost every situation.
cmircea··on Why I'm no longer giving up on C#
How about PetaPoco?
cmircea··on Why I'm no longer giving up on C#
ServiceStack is stuck on .NET 3.5 unfortunately. No taking advantage internally of dynamic or async; especially async. Kinda sucks.
cmircea··on Fifty Shades of Grey Would Be Banned in UK?
Somalia.
cmircea··on Questions about Cameron’s ‘new’ porn-blocking
Well you can use a filter and manually add sites to that. I did use OpenDNS a long time ago and it was pretty easy to filter the most common stuff.
cmircea··on A UK ISP which is fighting against censorship
AES is implemented in hardware now. RSA is cheap to compute; SHA1 is not even a factor. If you want forward secrecy, DON'T use DHE, use ECDHE; plain DHE is expensive.

To be fair nearly all PHP forum software is crap.

cmircea··on A UK ISP which is fighting against censorship
Really? SSL is dirt cheap to compute these days. Google saw a 1% increase in CPU usage when they made SSL mandatory for Gmail.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/2/10/dispelling-the-new...

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h...

cmircea··on A UK ISP which is fighting against censorship
Not that it's particularly expensive either. A single domain cert can be found for a few bucks, a wildcard for under 100.
cmircea··on Questions about Cameron’s ‘new’ porn-blocking
OpenDNS.

Either use categories or pick your own domains to block. If you want to block IPs, use a firewall or the hosts file.

cmircea··on Questions about Cameron’s ‘new’ porn-blocking
Forget Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, Xbox, PS will CERTAINLY not be supported if this is a Windows app.
cmircea··on Apple Developer Website Update
Probably took it down to check and patch.
cmircea··on Wappalyzer uncovers the technologies used on websites
I prefer Chrome Sniffer.
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