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LordLandonon Google introduces mandatory 2-Step Verification for Google Accounts

The way I see my password manager, is that its password store in itself is "something I have", while the password to it, is "something I know".

LordLandonon Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet

Might want to be careful with something like this, since facebook/google/etc decorate links with outward redirects for tracking purposes.

LordLandonon Discontinuing support for all third-party messaging networks

https://slack.com/

LordLandonon Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games

Maybe it gets distracted increasing the pac-scent? There's certainly a lot more of that around in memory

LordLandonon Netflix Splits DVD And Streaming Businesses

And what happens when Apple decides to (or is forced to) stop offering those shows for re-download? It's still a "licence" for you to be able to download them, not the same as physically owning a copy. (though slightly better, since you can just not delete the videos, and store them yourself)

LordLandonon Gamers Unlock Protein Mystery That Baffled AIDS Researchers For Years

The top button out of the three (⟲) in the column is it.

LordLandonon 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (or CMD + F)

Hey, don't diss nano like that. Try alt+c, or ctrl+g. Looks like you didn't try looking for a solution either (=

First thing you should teach in a class like that is to teach them to fish for tricks in the manpages/docs rather handing them individual tricks throughout.

LordLandonon 85% Firefox Users Use Add-ons, Only 33% Chrome Users Use Extensions

Since you're a chrome user, I'm not sure that you've heard of this, but firefox sync is amazing! Syncs history/bookmarks/tabs/settings/passwords across all your firefox instances, including firefox for android. I can read something on my phone, while on the bus, then get home and open the same tab on my computer or vice-versa. Or if setting up a new machine, I can add it to my sync profile, and it near instantly has all of my browsing history etc.

I feel that's much more useful than syncing extensions, as those can be machine dependant (i.e. i wouldn't want the same layout modifications with firefox on my tiny netbook screen that i do on my desktop)

LordLandonon Firefox 5 is now officially released

Hitting both buttons usually simulates a middle-click.

LordLandonon Google's Backdoor Access System into Gmail Accounts

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#settings/fwdandpop

When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder:

LordLandonon Obscurity: Does Changing Your SSH Port Lower Your Risk?

If you're running a multi-user server, with possibly malicious users, that's not a good idea. Ports <1024 can only be bound to by root; so if a valid user of the server can figure out how to crash sshd, he can run his own version on the same port >1024, and then all your users' password are belong to him.

LordLandonon This iPhone 4 Exploded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMy2_qNO2Y0

Non-simulated fire. Pretty scary.

LordLandonon Google Rolls Out Two-Factor Authentication For Everyone.

Nothing's stopping the phishing site from going and logging in once the token's phished, and logging the cookie as opposed to just logging the password+token.

And you get a lot more seconds if you log in within those 10 seconds.

LordLandonon Humans.txt, like robots.txt, but for humans.

Oh, are we trying to make it easier for spambots to harvest our email addresses now?

LordLandonon Malware researcher Dancho Danchev gone missing since August

Why is “current situation in my bathroom” in quotes like that?

LordLandonon For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?

Why? Westwood were probably the only game company that understood this problem, and shipped their games on two CDs (allies and soviets), even if the content was mostly identical, and could all easily fit on one, just so that two people could play at once.

LordLandonon Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide

I do not want myself distracted from material that has no bearing on what I am looking at.

Just to play devil's advocate, but wouldn't targetted ads be more preferable then, since they WOULD have a bearing on what you're looking at?

LordLandonon Show HN: Our (two) weekend project: 365.io - A photo a day for one year.

I think what could add value to this, if the focus was on taking a picture of yourself - from your laptop's webcam or something. Then you could do some basic facial recognition to align the pictures, centering the face, and slideshow that.

LordLandonon Sunglasses that block out glare with lcd spot

Same concept as escalartors never breaking - just becoming expensive stairs.

LordLandonon Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.

It seems it's the slickdeals people that are behind these: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2459200

The OP is just the last of the three batches sent out so far. The guy who made the addicted-gamer tracker hangs out there too http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=35270219&pos...

LordLandonon So if Wikipedia is the web's encyclopedia, where is the web's user's manual?

  !cache url

If duckduckgo is your bag.

LordLandonon CR-48 Tracker

The guy who made this says that's coming. He's hanging out over at slickdeals, where they figured this all out.

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=35270219&pos...

LordLandonon I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

If it's split into windows, not only do I have to hover over every tab to find the one that I want, but also repeat the process for every open window.

The alternative is sorting the tabs somehow, but that's more maintance than a middle click.

LordLandonon I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

When you have many tabs open in Chrome, the length of each tab shrinks so that they all fit in the bar. Smart positioning refers to, when you click a close button on one of the tabs, the rest don't expand to fill the remaining space until you move your mose away, so that the next tab's close button falls under your cursor in case you want to close it as well.

LordLandonon I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

I've been leaning back towards firefox recently due to how chrome handles large number of tabs: poorly. It'll squeeze them down to the point that they wont even show the favicon, making finding an open page annoying - compared to firefox, which has a minimum tab length, and scrolls the tab bar if it grows too large to fit.

The rest might be a personal prefference, but I rarely use the mouse to close tabs anyway, ctrl+w is faster, and I can hit that as many times as I want without moving the cursor anywhere. I also preffer the / and ' shortcuts firefox has.

LordLandonon A Walk In The Cloud: My First Day With Google’s Chrome OS

There is a thanks-for-applying page; apparently, that's botched up error handling - that text box needs to have < 140 chars.

LordLandonon First Day Review: The Google Chrome OS Cr-48 Notebook

Some thoughts:

It's a little odd that it wouldn't allow you to install Chrome extensions from outside of the market

The external harddrives probably DID work, and would show him images if he used something that required browsing for them

As much as I hate to admit it, he's right about iTunes. Who with an iP{{o,a}d,oop} would be able to use this thing alone as primary pc?

How do floating pop up type windows work? I.e. clicking the pop out button on google chat, or hulu

For a web-centric machine, those 3g plans seem a little towards the expensive side, with pretty low data allowances. But on the other hand, I don't really know how many bytes "regular browsing" accumulates in a month.

LordLandonon First Day Review: The Google Chrome OS Cr-48 Notebook

The hardware doesn't seem very relevant for this pilot - the main point is Chrome OS. Because it's built on linux, an ARM port shouldn't be too much further than a recompile out of the way.