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BillGoatseon History Sniffing: How YouPorn Checks What Other Porn Sites You’ve Visited

The script on YouPorn’s site that checks a user’s history (which you can see for yourself by going to the site and checking out its html with 'View Source')

Did Forbes just tell me to go to YouPorn.com? :)

BillGoatseon Man jailed over computer password refusal

Wait until they ask him again, 16 weeks from now...

BillGoatseon Belly Armor: tinfoil hats for the expectant mother

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTXqHZiDcR0

Read the comments. One born every minute, so to speak :)

BillGoatseon Adobe: We Love Choice

I'm a Flash Developer and, like many other Flash devs, I don't use Adobe's tools (I use FDT, which isn't free, but isn't Adobe either).

I agree that Flash isn't as open as many people would like, but it is way, way more open than the iPhone ecosystem.

BillGoatseon Adobe: We Love Choice

"The $600 Flash authoring tool is the only way to produce Flash applications."

FlashDevelop : Free. OS Flex Compiler : Free.

If you're going to flame, at least know what you're talking about.

BillGoatseon This is what Flash can do in 2008

http://www.kongregate.com/games/mike_id/doom-1

Wolfenstein, meet Doom.

I'd say the bunker example above is pushing Quake 2 levels.

I agree that Adobe have dropped the ball with Flash, but "HTML 5" is no where near where it should be...

BillGoatseon IE6 Offenders: report companies that still require the browser.

Canonical is on that list?! They're "Unaware of the problem with IE6."

For real?

BillGoatseon The Android Opportunity

Thanks! I haven't updated my SD yet.

BillGoatseon The Android Opportunity

I'm guessing you're on the G1?

I picked up an HTC Hero (More or less the G3, but I don't think out in the US yet) yesterday. The way it's going, I think I may love this phone more than my child.

Most of your problems are gone with this generation. It even has a standard headphone jack.

Android is catching up, fast.

BillGoatseon Ask HN: Bad habits

I quit that years ago (almost).

Start by not biting one nail (left pinkie is good). Get that down (take pride in it. make it your friend :) ), then 'save' the left ring finger too. Carry on up the hand, but jump to stopping the whole left hand as soon as you're confident (become a right hand biter!).

Then move on to the right hand pinkie etc.

I made it as far as my right thumb, which I still chew when I'm thinking.