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Sprinton Further improving digital certificate security

Can I somehow sniff details of all certificates that go through my (Linux) machine? I would be interested in seeing what CAs my used services and visited websites use.

Sprinton Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

To me "utilise" has a slightly different meaning that "use". I am not a native speaker though. Is it just a fancy way of saying "use"? I thought it implied "using" an option/feature/opportunity to do something. So one "utilises" that to do something.

Sprinton Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions

I looked at it several times but never really got it. Can I use Docker to isolate different servers (think http, xmpp, another http on another port) on a server so that if one of them was exploited, the attacker would be constrained to inside the container? Or is it "just" of a convenient way to put applications into self-contained packages?

Sprinton Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

How do you know it does not immediately utilise those rights?

Sprinton Bash Pitfalls

Apparently a mod changed the URL (to relieve a not so powerful host). The original URL (and thus the one you should be bookmarking/remember) was http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls‎

http://bash.cumulonim.biz/BashPitfalls.html is a mirror, see mlacitation's comment.

Sprinton Bitcoin Surpasses PayPal in Transaction Volume?

It could even become worth as much as the moon eventually. Your comment is pretty void of anything but hype.

Sprinton PlayStation 4 Tops One Million Units in First Day

vs 187123 oranges per day

Sprinton Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users (2011)

Also "2011". The url submitted originally has zero content added to the CNN source, it just quotes and links to it.

Sprinton Rotate the world

View source. ;)

It's jasondavies.com/maps/world-110m.json which is from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-physical-vect...

Sprinton Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles

Wouldn't educating and deploying proper end-to-end encryption be a much better way of protection?

Sprinton Show HN: RTE – Bret Victor’s interfaces, the Unix way

http://colorbrewer2.org/js/

Check "diverging" and "colorblind safe"

Sprinton Visualizing The Matterhorn as an 860,000 point cloud

I don't think so, the raw data should be much more accurate down to deci-, if no centimeters.

Sprinton The Performance of Open Source Applications

Index is on http://aosabook.org/en/

Sprinton Privacy not Prism – UK legal challenge

That sounds vague and random. You could also say an un-focused effort misses the bigger picture.

Sprinton Privacy not Prism – UK legal challenge

Rant on: Why is it that people use "Prism" as synonym for the whole state of government surveillance? PRISM is one specific program of the NSA, there is much more and there is much worse (eg TEMPORA).

Sprinton Mobile web design: The reign of morons, indeed

Hush, go back to your cave.

Sprinton Mobile web design: The reign of morons, indeed

Ah, the great features Opera had for ages until they dropped everything. Safari adds them and it's all big news. Read a tech magazine recently that was so excited about this "amazing and ground-breaking new feature" that I wondered if they had ever used Opera before.

With that being said, yeah, being able to apply custom stylesheets to websites easily is great!

Sprinton Response of US Govt to Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and LinkedIn [pdf]

cheers

Sprinton The Bonehead Mistake That Brought Down an Online Drug-Dealing Empire

> According to the criminal complaint, Ulbricht posted the question using his own real name. Less than one minute later, he changed his username to “frosty.”

How was it know then? Did they record the traffic and see it there? Did SO tell them?

Sprinton Response of US Govt to Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and LinkedIn [pdf]

Response to what?

Sprinton Are “free” web-services cheese in a mousetrap?

Quite a hyperbole. I use many free "services" on the web and I provide some myself because they are someone's hobby (sometimes mine).

Sprinton The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images

Your browser is doing the downloading. The URLs are available from the API (I changed random characters):

  $ curl -I https://graph.facebook.com/100000624321700/picture
  HTTP/1.1 302 Found

(...)

  Location: https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/573867_100000621711234_930571234_q.jpg

Then it is just a matter of incrementing the number. This might be a fun research project.

Sprinton The sad reality of why we are not living in the moment

Single embedded video spam. Here is a direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8

Sprinton What I would have written

Casual networking with people you would not want or dare to directly communicate with.

Sprinton FBI vexsome filer list

Ok, so the topic might be worth keeping. But your examples show no need for keeping the identification of the requester.

Sprinton FBI vexsome filer list

It could lead to discriminisation of people (or topics). They should not keep the information about who requested what any longer than needed to fulfill the request.

Sprinton FBI vexsome filer list

What makes those other people's requests more deserving to be answered?

Sprinton Google Trends - Hot Searches

What do the colors mean?

Sprinton A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

Sounds like a violation of rule #21: Don't use Javascript to load/render your content text. It's idiotic. Thanks.