simonbrown

Look at AnyAsq:

http://anyasq.com/

The security shortfall isn't minor. In Chrome (other browsers don't distinguish the severity), a crossed-out HTTPS means that a MITM attacker has the ability to run arbitrary javascript on the page. It doesn't even bother running severe mixed content now, though.

If someone doesn't take care to make sure there are no mixed content errors, they may be less likely to take the care to make sure there are no other obvious security problems in their system, which handles money.

Also:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/

Most startup founders use tutorials to build technically trivial web/iphone apps, and yet they hire programmers and can't build products themselves?

The article mentions that the potatoes and beef were organic (I assume as in organic food):

> Carmody fed adult, male mice organic sweet potatoes

What is the significance of this?

You want to trust the businesses being reviewed instead? This also wouldn't stop these sites choosing which reviews to show. The best solution is to find a site you trust.

What about posting movies/books/whatever to trackers in the first place?

Another option is Repository Hosting, which offers unlimited repositories and users for a flat fee, and just limits your storage.

In addition, skinning desktop software is generally seen as bad practice and apps that do it stick out like a sore thumb.

There is a positive side to this (as with mobile versions): If you give someone a link to part of a website, they'll get it in their language.

Microsoft isn't the only website that does this. It seems like most websites use the URL to specify this kind of thing.

The bible is something of interest to a lot of people, and they all must have acquired it at some point.

So if you end up listening to the music with your medium-quality headphones, it doesn't matter whether it's 128kbps or 320kbps.

The star only tells you the least popular in the last hour. The least popular overall wouldn't necessarily be the one that received the most stars, as all the shirts are likely to be more popular at some times than others.

What stops them checking their logs to find your IP?

I think the best solution would be for more companies to publish a page on their website telling people what to do if they find a security problem, like GitHub and 37signals do (Google and Facebook also offer a bounty).

I guess a problem with this is stating where the line is drawn. It might be difficult to promise not to sue well-intentioned researchers without reducing their ability to sue people with malicious intentions.

MediaWiki has a templates feature.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Templates

Looking at UMUC, it seems it only offers a few subjects, which doesn't include CS.

What about Coursera?

https://www.open.ac.uk/ offers a "Computing and IT" degree and mathematics degrees, which I believe you can study from outside the UK. I'm not sure how much CS there is in them, though.

stonnyfrogs (hellbanned) suggested:

http://www.umuc.edu/

A use case that might make more sense (though would still require trust) could be things like posting messages to Twitter, Blogs, etc. about your death.

Once it earns some trust, it could offer to sell your startup/website/app to someone that would do a good job of maintaining it (or release it as open source).

also:

http://chargify.com/

https://cheddargetter.com/

Also, their real name policy (a while after I signed up, they emailed me asking me to use my real name).

There do seem to be anon posts, though. Not sure why.

Sorry, replace Matlab with Octave.

zcvosdfdgj (hellbanned) posted:

that's just because you aren't big enough. Amazon has been caught testing prices previously, and there were a lot of upset people. Noticing the test isn't what caused the outrage.. wait until you have thousands of people who find out they paid more than another person for the same item (ie in their minds: were ripped off). Then you'll see how consumers feel about your test.

This post compares that strategy with giving customers discounts (and the former wins): http://blog.asmartbear.com/discount-gambit.html

I don't see why the software used is particularly important. The point should be the mathematics, rather than specific tools. I don't know how hard it is to transition from Wolfram Alpha, to, say, Matlab, but I don't think it's difficult.

That would prevent you from using the latest version in older browsers.

Perhaps if it was implemented as a resource="jquery-1.8.0" attribute on the script tag, allowing browsers with a copy to load that instead of hitting the server.

You mean 73.4%?

Because the government is the one spending the money.