philthy
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14 years ago
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on: Is Tumblr a bot fest?
Disagree it still exists on Facebook very heavily. You probably just don't see it in your circle of friends. So yes Facebook has an edge in the sense they keep the hordes of dead accounts, spam bots, etc. away from you.
philthy
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14 years ago
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on: From South Africa, a faster and easier way to apply condoms
It's not the packaging that needs work, its the product. Popular forms of effective male pregnancy prevention are pretty limited. There really hasn't been any innovation in the field in a long time. Really we can launch people into space but we still have to put some sort of poly vinyl silicone sleeve on ding dongs? That's the best it gets?
philthy
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14 years ago
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on: The magic button — Make Everything OK
multiple clicks break it
philthy
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14 years ago
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on: XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public
Oh fuck off! If you want to be a woman, you're a woman, a man, then you are a man.
philthy
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14 years ago
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on: Fish don't know they're in water
Entrepreneurship is of course everywhere and all around us. Look how complex and developed of a black market we have here in the U. S. of A.
philthy
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14 years ago
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on: CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility
I agree with the coat of paint comment but if we have learned anything about government agencies or large corporations being hacked in the past it is that their Internet security practices can sometimes be painfully bad.
@Below and HBGary was a IT security firm after all...
philthy
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14 years ago
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on: DIY Weapons of the Libyan Rebels
That hummer also weighs in excess of 5000 pounds stock not including the missile system and is designed to have recoil less rockets fired from a top mounted turret. That Toyota truck weighs less, has a weaker chassis, and is in no way designed to have a non professional weld job mounted missile launcher designed for a hind gunship mounted in the bed. The Toyota truck only weighs about 3000 pounds, firing that system on the slightest of inclines would literally roll the truck over.
philthy
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14 years ago
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on: DIY Weapons of the Libyan Rebels
That aircraft missile launcher mounted on that truck bed has to be terribly dangerous, either the back blast or recoil could easily roll that truck.
philthy
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14 years ago
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on: How to Sell Your Company
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/ The authors bio page, he's probably in the freelance article shopping game and TC happened to pick this up. He seems to be all over the place, syndicated blogger or something, seems he's guest writer anyone see differently. The article feels like it could be written for any tech, business, entrepreneur, stuffy get rich quick tv booklet. TC save yourself the trouble and get a full time journalist staff or don't publish as much content just to get ads up.
philthy
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14 years ago
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on: Don't Forget Your Logged Out Users
Yeah you can store each sessions activity but how can you accurately compare the data between sessions?
philthy
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14 years ago
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on: Don't Forget Your Logged Out Users
"I think that social services that are public by default and have huge logged out user bases, should "phantom register" their logged out users by storing activity against their cookies and building user profiles on their logged out users."
What about if the user isn't allowing data to be stored, is using a vpn or proxy, a dynamic IP, or something else that prevents you from "storing activity"/comparing/etc.. I've seen this done before to target advertising to phantom users on adult sites, it doesn't work. Most of those people who aren't logging don't won't to log in/participate and "comparing activity" isn't exactly a piece of cake and is depending on those users having cooperating connections. You might argue that these people are fringe users but even then I doubt the ability/feasibility to accurately retain and compare data usefully and not just using IP or something to compare visits.
philthy
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14 years ago
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on: Swedish Campground (2004)
This is not just used in Northern Europe it is sometimes used on American maps to indicate places of interests when there is already a heavy amount of key symbols used. This is a great read and its no surprise Susan Kare referenced a international symbol dictionary, a mark of a true designer using a recognizable and readable symbol for a very important command, a true genius. If you swap out historic with place of interest to "copy" it makes a lot more sense. I wish people would take this care in designing symbols today, I've seen some freakish ones as of late on mobile phones, and especially touch devices. Have we forgotten a touch button is still a command button?
philthy
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14 years ago
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on: 1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.
I saw a news bit about how breakout ISPs in the UK are selling 100mbps(I believe I might be wrong on the speed) for as low as 6.99 quid. American utility bubble? I think so. At this point I am positive the Verizons and the Comcasts could offer free service to everyone of there existing customers and still make positive returns from just new contracts. Can somebody please tell me exactly what you are paying for with 100Mbps for 199.99? Are they using solid gold equipment? There can't possibly be that much overheard, someone please set me straight.
philthy
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15 years ago
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on: Schumer Bashes BitCoin, Wants to Shut Down Silk Road Drug Site
HAHA this sucks for bitcoin, too bad this has been going on since the internet first started. In fact drug selling was one of the first activities on BBSs. Too bad for bitcoin, services like Pecunix have been harboring this kind of stuff for years.
philthy
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15 years ago
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on: LulzSec Exposed
I think you need to read up on cyber crime and cyber criminal groups. Your thesis is correct but only accounts for those who are not independent from the internet. A professional attacker wouldn't ever use the machine and network they were accessing the Internet from for anything else other then their attacks. No compromising search terms, emails, chats, page visits, internet billing, etc. I'm talking a machine totally devoid of personal information or anything that could potentially reveal the identity/location/details of the attacker. Now imagine this was scalable and you constantly were changing your point of access and machine. Actual cyber criminals (the ones cleaning out credit card companies, banks, high level blackmail, stolen secrets, etc, the shit you really only ever hear rumors about because it's too dangerous to leave executive circles at companies.) especially in Eastern Europe have access to an almost unlimited supply of cheap machines, false identities, "tunneled" networks and connections inside major established institutions and companies, and strict criminal group rules, make it almost impossible to identify anyone. Don't be naive this shit goes on everyday.
philthy
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15 years ago
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on: LulzSec Exposed
Not surprising since they are just a bunch of weekend warriors and kids. Any real smooth operator wouldn't be working out of his house, and especially not on a personal browsing machine. From the opposite perspective of that, the government hasn't seen diddly when it comes to digital terrorism. Just wait until the FBI can't track down the culprits from their broadband bill and drive over to their parents house and make the arrest...
philthy
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15 years ago
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on: Half of the top 50 Wikipedia contributors are bots
Agreed, wonderful analogy. Also in response to the source article, what defines a post as a "bad contribution" does this mean it was totally inappropriate or just needed slight tweaking. Has the author ever tried to make a legit new wiki post? I've never successfully posted anything without having even the slightest peer review. Who cares if the posts are almost entirely contributed by bots, just about everything is becoming automated these days (stocks, banking, traffic, etc.) and with the peer review base Wikipedia has I doubt the doomsday of robots are going to smarten up and misinform us...
philthy
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15 years ago
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on: Half of the top 50 Wikipedia contributors are bots
"Over three quarters of contributions from registered users are from someone who's had a contribution reverted."
Well this makes sense entirely since it is peer reviewed and the articles are a living ecosystem which are built off of and on top of prior submissions and versions.
philthy
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15 years ago
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on: Previewing Windows 8 (Video)
I can just about guarantee most current touch and tablet devices couldn't process heavy duty dual app/dual screen/ picture in picture/what have you. Yeah sure a twitter feed and word let me see a HD video and adobe illustrator with 10 or 20 apps running in the background on a tablet device...this is ridiculous, its a silly toy. this is like that MSN keyboard for your TV back in like 97. The puny Microsoft ship swirls in the ocean about to be gobbled by Apple, Google, etc
philthy
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15 years ago
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on: This Guy Has My MacBook
Mark Bao tried to pull one of these promotional stunts once.
