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simonbrown··on FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites
Or a Malbolge API.
simonbrown··on FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites
The article said there would be minimum number of users for the rules to apply.
simonbrown··on What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself
Reminds me of this:

http://mike.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/27/633799-hacking-joh...

simonbrown··on Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN
It's still called stackoverflow (?).
simonbrown··on encryption is not gravy
If you're using separate passphrases for everything, surely that would be no more secure than writing the passphrase down?
simonbrown··on How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
The article states that (1) you can't and (2) the bot ignores it.
simonbrown··on Chrome extension to randomize your User Agent (Underpants)
40 minutes after what?
simonbrown··on Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours
There are probably many more people doing the former than the latter.
simonbrown··on Rotating CSS Image Slider
Hurts my eyes a bit.
simonbrown··on How eBay could help Wikimedia Commons get more open-licensed images
Presumably someone wanting to use the image could use something like Google's image search to check if it was posted in other places that pre-date it.
simonbrown··on I told my 2nd year CS students to create a programming language
Most UK universities don't teach compilers for CS.
simonbrown··on Major Google Analytics fail
More annoyingly, they even disguise the referrer for SSL sites, where it wouldn't be sent to anyone intercepting the connection.
simonbrown··on Try right clicking GitHub's logo
Unfortunately for this case, Shift+RC takes as much effort as Ctrl+RC and replaces the "open in new window" shortcut.
simonbrown··on Try right clicking GitHub's logo
I use Windows 7 and it works for me.
simonbrown··on Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox
I assume you are suggesting CORS as an alternative. Unfortunately, some APIs (e.g. StackExchange) implement crossdomain.xml but not CORS.
simonbrown··on One hiring filter that works
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659735
simonbrown··on I don't hire unlucky people
I can't fine one exactly like that. I remember:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2370022

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/arc/000433.html

simonbrown··on Down To Fax is Chatroulette for fax machines
Working link: http://www.faxins.com/
simonbrown··on Down To Fax is Chatroulette for fax machines
What are you using to send the faxes?
simonbrown··on I can manipulate your amazon.com recommendations
They don't. Including a page as an image includes it in my recently viewed items. Don't know about recommendations, as Amazon.co.uk have a kindle letter running.
simonbrown··on Kids these days: the quality of new Wikipedia editors over time
Are you sure showing title bars isn't allowed? Almost all screenshots on Wikipedia include them, even for open source software. e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Firefox11.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Winscp_screenshot.png

simonbrown··on Shitter: Toilet Paper of Tweets
While I agree it would be nice, if your twitter account is public, you're basically just giving it your username.
simonbrown··on Coding Horror: The End of Pagination
OhNoRobot can search XKCD comics.

http://www.ohnorobot.com/

simonbrown··on Coding Horror: The End of Pagination
Another problem with endless scrolling: It often results in very small scroll bars which can be hard to use.
simonbrown··on 16-year-old Makes Working Scientific Calculator in Minecraft
See also: Working 8-bit CPU in Minecraft

http://boingboing.net/2010/11/12/working-8-bit-cpu-in.html

simonbrown··on Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger
You could distribute them via something like ClearBits.
simonbrown··on Facebook: Legal action against employers asking for your password
I have accounts on around 200 sites. Would I need to list every single one?
simonbrown··on I'm not good enough to work on open source software
How are they similar? Trademarks just prevent people from using the branding, and just represents a minor hurdle (see CENTOS), while copyright (with a restrictive license) would prevent people using almost anything.

If trademarks are the main protection, the main barrier to entry is branding, not technology.

(IANAL)

simonbrown··on Body Hacking: Thoughts Regarding My Magnet Implant
See the comments of the article:

http://www.iamdann.com/2012/03/21/my-magnet-implant-body-mod...

http://www.iamdann.com/2012/03/21/my-magnet-implant-body-mod...

simonbrown··on Open-plan offices must die
> Maybe the jobs for these people are light enough that there is no context switching cost or the cost is low.

Getting a site to work in IE6, or designing a usable UI, is probably hard to do with constant interruptions.

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