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Water Cooler / We survived Y2K, 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar....now Viking Apocalypse?!
« on: February 20, 2014, 03:55:58 AM »
WTF?! You guys get the feeling some of our members have been withholding this information?

Are you ready for the Viking Apocalypse? Norse myth predicts world will end this Saturday

  • Norse mythology states the world will end this Saturday, February 22
  • Ragnarok is last battle between Viking gods, causing Earth to split open
  • After, the Earth will be restored and inhabited by the surviving gods

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Water Cooler / What web crawler did Snowden use?
« on: February 10, 2014, 08:17:30 AM »
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/snowden-used-low-cost-tool-to-best-nsa.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1

NYT says Snowden used a web crawler to snag info. They neglect to tell us which one. I'd be interested to know what software he used. (Could come in handy)

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Traffic / Destroy your competition for $5.
« on: February 02, 2014, 08:44:28 AM »
Destroy your competition for $5. How covert Fiverr services are taking out small businesses

Yep, for $5 you can brand your competition as a bunch of kiddy fiddlers which will instantly f### up their serps.

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Water Cooler / Skype Exorcisms Are Worthless, Say Full-Time Exorcists
« on: January 29, 2014, 05:07:29 AM »
I just KNEW it!!!

Skype Exorcisms Are Worthless, Say Full-Time Exorcists

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Hardware & Technology / the massive Google privacy breach thread
« on: January 23, 2014, 01:26:27 AM »
The thread where we can post all of the topics pertaining to Google's ongoing abuse of our private data


Chrome Bugs Allow Sites to Listen to Your Private Conversations

By exploiting bugs in Google Chrome, malicious sites can activate your microphone, and listen in on anything said around your computer, even after you’ve left those sites.

Even while not using your computer - conversations, meetings and phone calls next to your computer may be recorded and compromised.

Yikes! Glad I don't use Chrome anymore.

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Hardware & Technology / Warning: Your Browser Extensions Are Spying On You
« on: January 21, 2014, 02:11:03 AM »
Warning: Your Browser Extensions Are Spying On You

Nice list of Chrome extensions that are spying on you.

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Traffic / Google Destroys Rap Genius’ Search Rankings As Punishment For SEO Spam
« on: December 26, 2013, 02:36:07 AM »
Google Destroys Rap Genius’ Search Rankings As Punishment For SEO Spam, But Resolution In Progress

"Google hit back hard today after it learned lyrics site Rap Genius had been using dubious SEO tricks to attain top spots in search results. Now RapGenius.com doesn’t appear on the first page of results for a search of “Rap Genius,” and popular queries like “Jay-Z Holy Grail Lyrics” don’t bring up the startup like they used to. [Update: But the two companies are working on a resolution.]"

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Water Cooler / Federal judge finds NSA phone spying likely unconstitutional
« on: December 17, 2013, 04:58:33 AM »
Federal judge finds NSA phone spying likely unconstitutional

This looks like it is the first case to make it through the system on this issue. I'd expect more will make it through in the coming year.

The big question is still whether this will stand up to appeal and whether it will be able to make any difference.

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Marketing / Facebook just killed "Facebook Pages"
« on: December 16, 2013, 07:31:55 AM »
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-screws-social-media-marketers-2013-12

Will all the "social media experts" now have to work for their money?

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Water Cooler / Global Government Surveillance Reform
« on: December 09, 2013, 08:56:22 AM »
Global Government Surveillance Reform

hmmmm..... Part of me says they could have prevented all this surveillance in the first place by simply taking security matters more seriously. The technology to thwart a lot of this has been available for years.

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Hardware & Technology / SRWare Iron Controversy
« on: December 05, 2013, 04:54:10 AM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:SRWare_Iron#Controversy

I never knew there was any controversy about the SRWare Iron browser, but on the Wikipedia Talk Page there are some accusations. Whether the criticisms are legitimate or credible is still in question.

Would this sort of controversy affect your decision to use SRWare Iron?

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Hardware & Technology / All of Wikipedia can be installed to your desktop in just 30 hours
« on: November 27, 2013, 03:56:19 AM »
Just in case you have a few hundred GB of free disk space...
All of Wikipedia can be installed to your desktop in just 30 hours

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Traffic / Do NoFollow links affect Google Custom Search (CSE)?
« on: October 02, 2013, 03:50:19 AM »
I have a new site with lots of outbound links to content that is on 3rd party domains (all under my control). This content will eventually be brought under the main domain (within a few months), so while the content is on different domains the idea was to use the rel="nofollow" link condom until the content is consolidated under the primary domain.

The site also uses the Google Custom Search engine. Even though the external links are NoFollow'ed we still want to index the content on the other sites for the on-site search engine. Will this NoFollow scheme mess things up for the local search?

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Traffic / Language switching and SEO
« on: September 13, 2013, 08:50:23 AM »
I have a big Japanese site that I'm making in Typo3. It will also have Chinese and English versions. I'm trying to decide how to handle the language switching between them.

My original idea was to use the same URLs for each page in each site so, for example


However, there are many pages in Japanese that don't exist in the other languages. What would be better?

1) Link to the same page and show a 404 error if it doesn't exist.
2) Link to the same page and show Japanese content if it doesn't exist. (Header and footer will be the target language)
3) All language links simply link to the home page of the respective language.



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Hardware & Technology / Outlook.com now has IMAP
« on: September 13, 2013, 04:28:33 AM »
Outlook.com now has IMAP

Microsoft's free mail accounts have moved to the 21st century! Not sure why it took them so long.

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