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« Last post by Renegade on March 01, 2011, 06:46 PM »Why is it that most email lists that I try to unsubscribe from have an unsubscribe link in their emails that go to some sort of a 404 page? Sigh... 
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At the end. If up to the consumer to decide if they want to do business with someone that threats them as a potential criminal instead of a customer.-rxantos (March 01, 2011, 06:38 AM)
A pity we do not have a usable alternative in the case of airports. Keep your beard shave otherwise you have 90% more probability to end up in the "random" special checks. I know, I had to fly 20 times over a year and got a 18/20 average on the random check list.
-rxantos (March 01, 2011, 06:38 AM)
These restrictions and the fact they want to charge as much as a real book stops me buying an e-reader.-merkin (March 01, 2011, 02:39 AM)
Very timely... I'm actually in the process of moving my email server over to Gmail and getting rid of running my own email server.
I'll still be moving over to Google Apps there anyways. I always maintain local copies, so as long as the basics work, I'll be fine.-Renegade (February 28, 2011, 07:22 PM)
Local copies of the e-mails via POP access? What about the documents? And the calendars? There's a big focus on e-mail from this incident- but the cloud is much more than e-mail...-wraith808 (February 28, 2011, 08:58 PM)
Remote deletion already happened on the Kindle. Here's the NY Times article about it: Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle-jaden (February 28, 2011, 07:02 PM)
Justin Gawronski, a 17-year-old from the Detroit area, was reading “1984” on his Kindle for a summer assignment and lost all his notes and annotations when the file vanished. “They didn’t just take a book back, they stole my work,” he said.
sweet
looks like you're going to have to schedule some more kids if you hope to have one for each mug.-mouser (February 28, 2011, 06:40 PM)
Don't use Adsense, which relies on a fair amount of text to display anything relevant and has been a poor performer for web comics. You will end up with all the trash ads that don't pay well on clicks, stuff nobody would want to click, for some of the sleaziest sites on the internet. That is pretty much how it performs on a web comic site.-app103 (February 28, 2011, 06:17 PM)
More NANY mug pics please! There are still a ton of people with mugs who haven't posted -- and they owe us a photo!-mouser (February 28, 2011, 05:54 PM)
Let's see what happens if the book-salesman came back after, say, 1 month, and took back the books I bought earlier from my library, while I was sleeping. He wouldn't be selling books for some time then, he'd be in jail! (at least if I caught him, or in the hospital, I'm not sure yet-Ath (February 28, 2011, 05:18 PM)
I'd let it depend on the amount of intrusion of the adds compared to the usual site-shape & tone. If it where to be all high-contrast colored adds, compared to the rest of the site, I'd nay it, but if the tone of color is quite 'do-able', I'd try it for a year, and then see if you can live without themoneyadds-Ath (February 28, 2011, 05:09 PM)
You're not putting "ads" on the site -- you're making an escape route -- putting little freedom factories on it~!-Renegade (February 28, 2011, 04:56 PM)
Now that is a beautiful phrase. Right up there with "cellar door"-timns (February 28, 2011, 04:59 PM)
You have to get a smaller car, the mug doesn't look very big this way, it just merely looks great...-Ath (February 28, 2011, 04:57 PM)
Put simply, ebook consumers want to be treated with respect rather than as a pre-criminal.-zridling (February 28, 2011, 12:16 PM)
WinZip did the same thing. It's not uncommon for "free" promises to be shattered by the harsh reality of business.-Renegade (February 28, 2011, 06:40 AM)
WinZip was born shareware. You had a WinRar-like trial period (ie, your app expired, but you can still use it). You always knew you had to pay for WinZip.-scancode (February 28, 2011, 08:18 AM)
It's months later and this STILL ticks me off, but now there's more fuel to the fire:
Apple's Lala purchase appears to have been "insurance"
http://arstechnica.c...e-just-insurance.arsAccording to the execs speaking to FT, Apple likened its long-rumored plans to bring iTunes to the cloud as "insurance." Instead of cannibalizing its own wildly successful download service by introducing a streaming equivalent, Apple said it plans to make it possible for existing iTunes users to store their music remotely. This would enable them to access their libraries from various devices without having to sync via USB.
Incidentally, this model is exactly what streaming music service Lala began offering in 2007...
-Edvard (February 27, 2011, 09:41 AM)
My only gripe with the FSF is their use of the phrase "FREE SOFTWARE". They state that is based on freedom but fail to indicate that the freedom of the consumer is at the cost of freedom for the developer. A license is never about freedom. Public domain is about freedom.
Public Domain : Do whatever you want.
BSD : Do whatever you want as long as you do not hold me liable for anything. And, if you distribute the source, you give me credit by keeping this license somewhere in the source.
LGPL: I allow you to use this library as long as you give me credit. Do not hold me liable for anything. And make sure that ANY change you made to it you put it back into LGPL or GPL. And if you distribute a compiled copy you must promise to send a cd of the code to whoever ask for it.
GPL : I allow you to use this code. You cannot hold me liable for anything. You give me credit. You make sure that any changes made are made public under the same license. If you use even one line of this code on your own code, your code must also be put on the same license. And if you distribute a compiled copy you must promise to send a cd of the code to whoever ask for it.
As for linux, it have come a long way since its humble beginnings. Still have its bugs here and there, but overall it competes well with windows, OSX and BSD.-rxantos (February 24, 2011, 02:52 PM)
I dunno how much that "doubling" strategy helps - if somebody has precomputed a rainbow table with enough digits, it doesn't help you at all. I'd feel a lot more confident with a 12-character passphrase with "enough" uncommon chars than a 20-character alphanumeric passphrase.In related news, since broadband speed is related to the effectiveness of brute force attacks, Korea is going to have 1 Gbps Internet connections in 2012.Yes and no. Anybody with half a clue are going to rate-limit the connection attempts, and fire warning signals if more than a few invalid attempts are tried for a single account. The only place I see where connection speed is useful wrt. brute-force attacks are when using cryptographic oracle exploits, like what has been done against Rails, JSP, ASP.Net et cetera.
Password brute-forces are done when you've successfully exploited a site and have grabbed the password database, and internet speed is pretty irrelevant there-f0dder (February 23, 2011, 10:10 AM)
"Jesus Didn't Tap"?
-f0dder (February 23, 2011, 07:33 AM)
Yeah. What's that mean? (or perhaps more 'properly': 'Sup w'that?)-40hz (February 23, 2011, 09:10 AM)
Security companies that get hacked by SQL injection deserve it.-Renegade (February 23, 2011, 08:22 AM)
Damn Straight! ...Love the cartoon, I'll be laughing about that (Little Bobby Tables) for the rest of the day.-Stoic Joker (February 23, 2011, 08:35 AM)
