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coderrr··on 6 months later, the Intel SSDs are still massively better
summarized:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=523775

coderrr··on The "Don't Click" Twitterjacking Explained
Here's another way around it: http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/preventing-frame-bus...
coderrr··on The "Don't Click" Twitterjacking Explained
and one way around this is http://keepitlocked.net/archive/2008/11/07/preventing-clickj...
coderrr··on The "Don't Click" Twitterjacking Explained
this might be a way around it in IE

http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part3#Microsoft_Int...

coderrr··on The "Don't Click" Twitterjacking Explained
This wasn't CSRF, but clickjacking, aka UI redressing. CSRF protection does nothing against it. There are some ways to attempt to defend against it but I don't think there is any 100% reliable way yet.

http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Arbitrary_pag...

coderrr··on [dead]
I agree, flash cookies should be cleared with this feature as long as firefox is shipping with flash.
coderrr··on Dear HN, I'm worried about us
how about something like this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467739

coderrr··on Gaming HN for an Orange Name - A Warning
Something that would probably help is using javascript to track how many people have actually had your comment viewable in their browser. Then take the ratio of views to votes.

Eventually you might also find that you can determine the average # of views of your comment purely based on the location of it on the page, in which case the javascript tracking would no longer be necessary. Although it's also possible that the characteristics of comment viewing are too complex to be able to simplify it to that.

Also, maybe instead of a fixed score required to be orange, take a distribution of all users and only make the top X percent qualify.

coderrr··on Google's new Ajax-powered search results breaks search keyword tracking for everyone
Here's a crazy hack they could do to use ajax queries while preserving the current referer url:

Whenever the ajax search is performed an invisible iframe is loaded at: http://google.com/search?q=search+term&donothing=true.

The donothing=true tells Google's webserver to perform no actual query and return a blank page. This should happen extremely quickly. (It could be performed after the ajax results have been fully loaded as to not affect response time)

Then when a user clicks a search result, Google does a javascript redirect from the iframe (use javascript to add a new <script> tag with a window.top.location= in it) and you get a referer just like you would before... with a negligible performance hit.

coderrr··on Download the internet
Query for content inside of <script> or other similar tags which Google and all other search engines I have encountered ignore.
coderrr··on Jeff Bezos and Root Cause Analysis
Why did the associate damage his thumb? Because his thumb got caught in the conveyor.

Why did his thumb get caught in the conveyor? Because he was chasing his bag, which was on a running conveyor.

Why did he chase his bag? Because he placed his bag on the conveyor, but it then turned-on by surprise

Why didn't he hit the off button on the conveyor instead of chasing it? Because he wans't near the off button?

Why don't we have multiple off buttons so you're never far from one? That's expensive, let's buy some tables instead.

coderrr··on Ask HN: How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work?
The question I'd like to know the answer to is...

How much would you be willing to pay for a solution to this?

coderrr··on Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time
Why is Hawking unveiling this? Seems like he had nothing to do with it.
coderrr··on Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
haha cmd line ftw, nice

except you have an extra xml tag at the end

coderrr··on Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
yup
coderrr··on Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
I looked through the wiggle database. A TON of their information is super old. Of course there's no way to know how old SkyHook's is since it's totally private.
coderrr··on New multi-page HTTP compression proposal from Google
Those are interesting changes.

It's true most headers don't change. One I can think of that usually changes between resource types is Accept. Usually it will be slightly different between <img> <script> <link> and <iframe>, but this probably wouldn't make much of a difference if you allow only to send changed headers. I'd be curious to see how much bandwidth you save with this. You also might want to allow for header removal as you do header change. I can't think of a scenario where not removing a header would cause a problem, but there could potentially be one.

For the gzip as a whole instead of per request, there's one reason I can't see many browsers taking advantage of that. Most browsers will make requests like, write request, read response, write request, read response. Instead of write, write, write, read, read, read. So I'm not sure how you could unzip everything together unless you wait to display the items till the entire connection is finished. Also, this would require the client to give an indication when it is done writing requests to the stream, so that all the data can be fetched from the server and then zipped together. Which would require a much bigger change to the protocol.

Is there anything I'm missing?

coderrr··on Google map a cellphone knowing its MAC address
Simpler way to achieve the same thing here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299982

coderrr··on Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address
This is related to, but NOT A DUP of, the post incorrectly titled "Google map a cellphone knowing its MAC address" at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=298073. The article intruiged me but I knew there had to be an easier way to send any MAC address to their API since there is no way for them to remotely determine your MAC address. In the blog post I show how.
coderrr··on Google Chrome privacy worse than you think
So is your argument that bad default things are ok if there is a setting to turn them off? or: That since there are a lot of bad default things already we shouldn't write/care about any new ones?
coderrr··on Google Chrome privacy worse than you think
naked kid pics huh? i hope for your sake they don't know about that one :P
coderrr··on Google Chrome privacy worse than you think
If you are typing a url into google.com's search box the expectation already exists that google.com will have this data.

If you are typing a url into your browser's location bar, you aren't going to assume google.com will have it.

coderrr··on Google Chrome privacy worse than you think
This isn't a repost of the EULA article and has nothing to do with who holds the rights to content. It only has a little in common with Matt's post. Matt mentions that Chrome will communicate with the search engine when typing in the location bar, but he does not discuss any of the implications of that.

Perhaps the dumbest thing of all is commenters who don't actually read up before posting comments like this particular one.

coderrr··on Google Chrome privacy worse than you think
true, you can also turn it off in the options
coderrr··on Google Chrome privacy worse than you think
The difference is you don't type in www.somedirtypornsite.com into the google.com search box. You type it into the location bar. This is the first time a browser is auto searching from the location bar.
coderrr··on Google Chrome privacy worse than you think
you can actually just turn the feature off in the options
coderrr··on Ask HN: Is it possible to think well with noise?
i don't have a suggestion for a solution, but you should read this about the effects of noise pollution:

http://www.noiseandhealth.org/article.asp?issn=1463-1741;yea...

coderrr··on Poll: Should PDFs and other documents be auto-Scribd'd?
thanks
coderrr··on Are all the good domains taken?
There may be no 4 letter, but there are still lots of 4 digit [a-z0-9-] .com domain names. Maybe not ones that you want, but they're there.

example: i48u.com, o440.com, u0-0.com, etc...

coderrr··on Poll: Should PDFs and other documents be auto-Scribd'd?
off topic, but how do you create a poll?
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