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I enjoyed it, good refresher on CSS grids, thanks for sharing

There is a link on this page to http://www.googledemolition.com/ also, which looks like another project waiting for a takedown notice..

Your relaxed attitude to privacy is enough to make me never use that site, sorry.

The fact that it is a 'pain' to make the effort to protect someones identity means you're probably in the wrong business.

Just testing it out on Android, everything I tried seemed to work perfectly. Great design and CSS work :)

Perhaps some sorting & filtering options on the dashboard? An 'overdue, current and complete tabs?

The content was interesting, if you can look past the repetive "you are pushed to burnout" comments. It really detracts from the message and feels a lot like a powerpoint presentation

Interesting idea, I did consider "Your Web Guy"

I feel it would. Imagine a script kiddie in Australia decides to join the DDOS attack on the government site.

He is easily traced by IP, and the Australian Federal Police come to visit.

His new 'rights', now that he is part of a terror group include:

Being held for up to nine days in detention without being formally charged.

Warrantless searches

The seizure of any objects associated with the terrorist act (this is quite a wide open definition, basically anything you own is up for grabs)

Also the AFP have some quite invasive computer techniques that are used to go wandering through your system before they knock on the door.

I thinks its only a matter of time before Anonymous gets labelled a terrorist organisation to increase the counter measures / invasive laws that can be used against them.

Disrupting Goverment sites and services would be considered as an attack as per the Australian Terrorism definition:

(e) seriously interferes with, seriously disrupts, or destroys, an electronic system including, but not limited to

(i) an information system; or

(ii) a telecommunications system; or

(iii) a financial system; or

(iv) a system used for the delivery of essential government services; or

(v) a system used for, or by, an essential public utility; or

(vi) a system used for, or by, a transport system.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/slaa200245...

I do like the variety of AMA posts on reddit, but the amount of crap to wade through in the comments is getting quite tiresome. They seem to be posted to HN a lot more lately also?

You can get an RSS feed of the subreddit here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/.rss

I have been searching and can't find any info about this? Got any more details/link?

I would be wary about broadcasting the IP address, username and a filmed typing of the password to a tech community.

It would take very little work to determine the password from watching that video a few times.

That was hard to watch, the graphic below the video explained it all, minus his awkward stage performance.

The problem lies in a small number of politicians holding the swing vote in our policy making. Unfortunately one of the main players is "Family First", a conservative Christian political group who are basically trying to impose 'good christian values' on all Australians. So to get a major parties policies through, they do 'deals' with these minor groups, like supporting extreme censorship.

You can read more about this wonderful group here http://www.familyfirst.org.au/Policies.htm

Some things they oppose include abortion, euthenasia, cloning, needle exchange programs for drug users, unfiltered internet pornography...

It saddens me that our current politicians do not see the damage such policies will have in the future. They are trading our future freedom to ensure their current political aspirations are met.

I would guess the autonomous image recognition will be for use in the drones, which seems to be the way US warfare is heading.

It still makes me uncomfortable, the thought of armed drones wandering our skies. I often wonder if the future wars will be about cyber warfare in controlling those drones?

It's not often Whois.com gets hacked. Even worse if its a DNS attack, given that is their primary business.

Got a screener here in case it gets fixed quick : http://imgur.com/guUzL

I wish I had some idea what you're talking about? Can someone fill me in with some context?

The sites main web provider was ordered to remove them, they have since relocated and are back up

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-taken-offline-by-swed...

Isn't flagging something effectively 'down modding' it? Sorry I don't know much about the HN ranking algorithms.

Being a vote-driven (democratic) site, I think its an indication of how people feel about TC at the moment.

You may not like the link being there, but the majority of the community seems to be up voting it rather than flagging it, or it wouldnt be at #1.

There are some valid points in this article, but the overtones of someone whinging about a free product "grinds my gears"

At some point did we come to expect perfection from a company that largely offers unprecedented services for free?

Take twitter as an example, its new and full of problems, no where near perfect. Yet all their issues are blindly written off as teething issues, even though we pay the same amount to use it as google.

Personally, I applaud googles efforts. There is a reason the tech savvy choose their products over others, because they are the best of the bunch, especially in the free arena.

I would argue it brings to light the dangers of not having secure passwords, this applies to local networks and servers, not just web services.

I wonder if he would see it as "news" if someone posted all of TechCrunch's private internal documents?

Wouldnt the unethical thing be sitting there reading through a bunch of documents you know were illegally obtained? Then following it up by basically bragging about it..

TechCrunch is not what it used to be :(

This very issue stopped me dead in my tracks when quoting for a recent project. I was put in touch with an Australian sales manager, from a 3rd party acting on behalf of google (this made me wary)

All communications mentioned 10k starting cost, with a final cost given when I provided detailed project objectives. This was not an option, as the project was confidential.

Suffice to say, I walked away from the project as I could not provide a cost to the client without allowing detailed project info to be passed on to a 3rd party. Also it seemed they were going to assess the project to see how much they could get away with charging me.

They put me in touch with : http://dmsbt.com/

its not like they hide the text that much though;

jsonArray.popups.i_0100_1 = {"stringified": "Brisbane,Queensland","mInput": "","mOutput": "", "popLinks": {"Brisbane, Queensland":"Brisbane"} };

I can't agree more with this post, after attending the Google Developer day as a .Net developer, I felt very much out of place. Every demo was done using Python or PHP or Ruby...also being a HN lurker, there is rarely any interest in .Net stories amongst startup developers.

Another hurdle with adoption is the sense of having to pay for everything good. With languages born out of the open source movement, there are ample complete source code samples to download / use.

Try finding good open source .Net products like CMS's without having to pay, there are some, but nothing of the quality coming out of the likes of PHP / Ruby / MySQL.

Still I hack on, it might not be as l33t as the open source guys, but I get my prototypes built and running, and that same sense of accomplishment :)

and the link to the actual talk is : http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/538

1. Living with a positive attitude attracts positive events and outcomes in your life.

2. I can do anything I put my mind to ; unproven till I have done everything :)

I like the idea too, but thought I would offer some comments about the design. Just thinking out loud, so don't take anything personally ;)

I am not sold on the logo, firstly the icon that looks kinda like a lint ball (is it meant to be the 'cloud'?) and the wording for sucuri, my brain insists it starts with SLI whenever I glance at it... I like the idea of a stylized font, but I don't think its quite there yet.

Also the menu, although simple and usable, seems like it could be a bit more prominent/flashier. It just doesn't seem to match the layout... hard to explain this one.

I like the design/layout of the content areas, nice CSS work, but perhaps the login box text could be a little larger or clearer. If you're having trouble fitting it in (hence the small text), try losing "Address" off Email Address, its implied enough these days.

Under the form elements to enter your site address, the text seems very small, for something so important. Beef that up a bit, its part of your sales pitch, don't hide it away :)

Actually... while I sat here procrastinating, I did up a quick mockup of what I am talking about... I thought you should make the products you are promoting for more prominent,

Check it out at : http://www.esonica.com/sucuri.jpg

Default parameter values is a great addition I think, and optional parameters!

Please don't provide examples of languages with these features in response :) Some of us do use C# for a living