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Water Cooler / Murdoch wants Sky
« on: July 07, 2011, 05:17:24 PM »
so News Of The World is killed to break the scent trail

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/07/us-newscorp-hacking-view-idUSTRE7664LN20110707

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Hardware & Technology / Dropbox Reader
« on: June 16, 2011, 10:03:52 PM »
free tool which supposedly reads anyone's Dropbox account.

http://www.cybermarshal.com/index.php/cyber-marshal-utilities/dropbox-reader

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Water Cooler / Wait! What? Changing variables in URL strings is 'ESPECIALLY INGENIOUS' ??
« on: June 15, 2011, 07:25:40 PM »
"The method is seemingly simple, but the fact that the thieves knew to focus on this particular vulnerability marks the Citigroup attack as especially ingenious, security experts said."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/technology/14security.html?src=recg&pagewanted=all

So when you login as Citi customer the URL contained your account number. Change around the numbers to another account and Citi let you in that one.  200 thousand times.  Brilliant online security, eh?

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Hardware & Technology / US cable content bundlers to become dumb pipes
« on: June 15, 2011, 03:48:13 PM »
Alternate Title:

Existing Cable Revenue Model Puts Its Head Between Its Legs And Kisses Its a## Goodbye

In March 2011, TDG queried a random sample of adult broadband users that subscribe to cable, satellite, or telcoTV service as to the likelihood they would downgrade their PayTV service in the next six months—that is, “…move from a higher service tier to a lower one, or cancel a premium service of some kind.” In general, the percentage of Netflix Streamers to varying degrees likely to downgrade their PayTV service increased from 16% in 2010 to 32% in 2011.

http://tdgresearch.com/blogs/press-releases/archive/2011/06/09/tdg-proclivity-to-downgrade-paytv-services-increasing-among-netflix-streamers.aspx


"Some 15-20 percent of Roku owners are cancelling their cable or satellite services agreement and are relying solely on a broadband connection to get their television programming"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-plesser/roku-owners-are-cutting-t_b_860280.html


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Monetization / Amazon nukes Connecticut affs
« on: June 11, 2011, 12:50:54 AM »
Another one bites the dust.

http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/amazon-now-cutting-ties-with-connecticut_b12332

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Water Cooler / Denmark bans marmite
« on: May 25, 2011, 10:57:49 PM »
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/25/marmite_ban/

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Traffic / Goog acquires Sparkbuy
« on: May 25, 2011, 10:00:22 PM »
And closes it. Staff expected to join Google’s Kirkland, Wash., office.

http://www.sparkbuy.com/

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Traffic / G has moved 'Block This Site' link out of the serp
« on: May 09, 2011, 11:38:02 PM »
You can still block via a blacklist, but it is not so easy to do.  You have to click through to a blacklist page for your account.  They also ask for a reason (optional).

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Monetization / (user+(iPads|iPhones))*(merchant+FLASH)
« on: April 21, 2011, 01:59:08 PM »
Sales==0

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Web Development / Sites and iPad
« on: April 21, 2011, 01:45:29 PM »
I'm reading around a few Mac forums re setting up the iPad. It's worth noting for the developers here at th3core that a fairly common rant among users is that they are being shown mobile page versions rather than 'real' web pages.   If you're sniffing the user agent I suggest throwing iPad users in with desktop. I knew enough in advance of setting up my own browser that it'd have to be able to fake the user agent.  Unless you have tech traffic, you had better figure that the bulk of your viewers are running whatever safari does as default. 

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Hardware & Technology / iPad 2 apps
« on: April 09, 2011, 09:06:06 PM »
I received my iPad yesterday and have spent the greater part of the last 24 hrs hammering this thing into a form that suited me.  It is a great machine but given the amount of time I spend reading  the browser has to be to my liking ....and safari -while close- just didn't feel right.  OTOH, iCab mobile is an incredible piece of software. Highly configurable.  With it, I expect the iPad to become my main reading machine.

Pair icab with the myphonedesktop app and they handle some of the nuisance issues (like importing long urls or photos) any tablet is going to have.
 

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Hardware & Technology / Buy a Samsung laptop...
« on: March 30, 2011, 05:45:20 PM »
...get a FREE keylogger from the manufacturer.

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2011/032811sec2.html

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Hardware & Technology / 'Everything' system search. (Win only)
« on: March 19, 2011, 07:09:33 PM »
I picked this up on reddit yesterday. I've tried other system searches but they've all been resource hawgs trying to build/maintain the file index.  This one is fast.

Q:  How long will it take to index my files?

"Everything" only uses file and folder names and generally takes a few seconds to build its database.
A fresh install of Windows XP SP2 (about 20,000 files) will take about 1 second to index.
1,000,000 files will take about 1 minute.

Q:  Does Everything search file contents?

No, "Everything" does not search file contents, only file and folder names.

Q:  Does "Everything" hog my system resources?

No, "Everything" uses very little system resources.
A fresh install of Windows XP SP2 (about 20,000 files) will use about 3-5mb of ram and less than 1mb of disk space.
1,000,000 files will use about 45mb of ram and 5mb of disk space.

http://www.voidtools.com/

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Water Cooler / Hey! G News just got waaaay better.
« on: March 18, 2011, 09:17:51 PM »
Just now:

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Web Development / so I wrote this little javascript app and
« on: March 18, 2011, 06:46:43 PM »
it turned out well. (An inflation-adjusted retirement fund cash flow calculator .)  I kept tweaking and adding features and it grew to be a fair-sized piece of logic.  It's nice enough that it definitely needs to go up on my sites to generate buzz and backlinks. It may even have potential for the smartphone app stores.

The problem now it's good enough that I don't want to post the javascript version but want to hide the logic on the server.  Any way to avoid a total rewrite to php?

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