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1880··on VideoGamesPlus.ca hacked, 21,000 users' details stolen
It looks like they were not hacked exactly. They just left some backups in the open: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:videogamesplus.ca+inurl:...

Edit: wow, it was not only the customer database. It was everything: http://www.google.com/search?q=qbsm_export+filetype:sql

1880··on Show HN: Notification Control my weekend project - Email notification setup
Just nitpicking here, but I noticed that a new HTTP request is done when hovering the links in order to download a different background, and that is not a good idea, because it will always flicker. Use one image with two states and modify the 'background-position' to "shift" the image.
1880··on Grooveshark in HTML5 (ios compatible)
I'll be using this a lot on my underpowered Linux netbook. Flash had a very high CPU usage even for simple audio streaming.

It needs accounts support, though.

1880··on Getting Started with Sublime Text 2
It definitely looks better, but the new tab colouring makes more difficult to see which tab is active, inactive or modified. Luckily Soda UI solves this.
1880··on Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI
I don't know if it's something wrong with my eyes, but with the new theme I get confused all the time searching for the active tab. Old theme had more contrast.

Edit: installing Soda theme[1] solved it!

[1]: https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/

1880··on HTML5 version of "Cut The Rope" game is now available
It uses Flash for the audio:

  // html5 audio is unreliable in many browsers so its only enabled by default on
  // IE9 or greater. You can force html5 audio by setting the querystring:
  // http://www.cuttherope.ie/?html5audio=true
It looks like we're not there yet.
1880··on Supercolliding a PHP array (inserting 65536 elements takes 30 seconds)
Maybe they're referring to the $_POST array? You can't fix that in your app code.
1880··on Android Ice Cream Sandwich Features
> it can be thwarted by a picture of the person

Of course, they are aware of this. When you enable it, a warning is shown saying that the lock can be bypassed by using a picture or even with a person that looks like you! :)

1880··on Android Ice Cream Sandwich Features
What's wrong with the Roboto font? I am seeing this using Chrome 15 and Windows XP: http://i.imgur.com/BYq1J.png

In Firefox it improves, but it's still weird: http://i.imgur.com/c606f.png

1880··on Kindle Fire Rooted
They used SuperOneClick, which is a pretty much standard way of rooting Android devices.

Some sources:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348830

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682

1880··on Google scores most effective TV ad with Dear Sophie
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3010687
1880··on The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exchange
You can directly block sites here: http://www.google.com/reviews/t
1880··on Our startup EntryDNS a free DNS management service
Will e-mail redirection be among those premium features?
1880··on Image manipulation library for PHP 5.3
> the backslash is ugly

Not only that, it's very unconfortable to type in some international keyboard layouts.

1880··on Massive 15-year Study finds no link between cell phones, cancer
FTA: http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d6387
1880··on Samsung Galaxy Nexus Leaked: Image, Specs And Launch Date
What I really want to see is that kind of density in desktop screens. Goodbye antialiasing!
1880··on Open source project WineHQ hacked
phpMyAdmin shouldn't be accesible from the outside, under any circumstances, ever. This was a disaster waiting to happen.
1880··on Experimental WebGL interface in Google Maps
Very smooth in Windows XP with Chrome 14. If you don't see the option to enable it, make sure that you have English set as your language, or append hl=en to the URL.

The best about this is that they aren't using images anymore in the map view, but vectors, just like in Android. Everything is faster, less data is transferred, and not everything is reloaded when you zoom in or out. This is what WebGL is about, real accelerated and smooth apps, not spinning metalic teapots :)

Now if Chrome didn't get image corruption half of the times that I open a WebGL page...

1880··on Paul Graham: The Art of Funding a Startup
It seems to be a normal link now.
1880··on Show HN: Hacker News Android Application
Motorola Defy, CM7.

Edit: here is a nice explanation http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-is-my-lis...

1880··on Show HN: Hacker News Android Application
Hm. I get changing background colors when scrolling, maybe because the cache color hint is set to white? You should disable it if you use a non uniform background.
1880··on "How much does a website cost?" – a survey of web designers
It's seems to be the price for the design only, no coding.
1880··on Amazon Has High Hopes for Its iPad Competitor
Sometimes, OLED screens are even worse than your average LCD. For example, the Galaxy S has beautiful colors and the bright of a thousand suns, but it's awful for simple white-on-black text. The glyphs are very irregular and have jaggies. I think it's because of the PenTile arrangement of the pixels: http://pentileblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/pentile-sh...
1880··on Logging out of Facbook is not enough
> maybe they've just got better over time at not relying on cookies for things they shouldn't?

It may be that. I just tried and Twitter is working perfectly without third-party cookies. Some months ago it didn't allow me to login.

With Google I had a similar problem, I couldn't login into my Google Account in sites that weren't the search engine (Docs, YouTube, etc). I just tried them, and again, it seems that it works now.

I use Chrome stable. Maybe something changed in the management of third-party cookies in recent releases?

1880··on Logging out of Facbook is not enough
But then some sites stop working, like Twitter and even some parts of Google :(
1880··on Rround
My Android smarphone gets a timeout too :(
1880··on Why all HDMI cables are the same
Never underestimate the power of the placebo effect.
1880··on Searching for "semicolon injection" bugs in embedded Linux devices
FTA: "since Web access requires authentication, this bug might be exploitable by administrators only, so it is only useful for people who would like to gain a shell on their own systems"
1880··on Replacing a Development VPS with Linux on OSX
I currently use a similar environment but with VirtualBox. Does qemu offer any advantages over it? I was considering recreating my VM so I may as well try qemu.
1880··on Talking about WebGL and Security...
I have seen this happening a lot with Chrome, Windows XP and latest Nvidia drivers. And not only with WebGL, but with every kind of GPU-accelerated web content.
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