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> Not my concern as a user.

It's affecting the quality of the web that you, as a user, are browsing.

> The proverbial cat is out of the bag, and you're not getting him back in.

The proposed solution is to maintain a global whitelist that each ad blocker is forced to respect.

I'd recommend using larger images resized to a smaller size or SVGs since the current checkboxes look blurry on iPhone.

Looks cool, some things I would add:

- Increase vertical scroll after adding a widget.

- Add code detection from title to save some time:

  - In the video you set the title to "Ruby Methods Example".  
  
  - Loop through the languages and change on match.

There isn't enough info to automatically close accounts just because they use the same name and profile photo as other users (keep in mind that profile pictures can be of anything such as a flag found through Google Images).

They probably only investigate and close imposters if they receive complaints from other users.

This sounds more like encryption than compression and I don't understand how it could save space the majority of the unique data is still needed for each movie.

I hate to say it and I would love to be proved wrong, but my theory is that it was a hoax (an impressive one as he was able to convince big names) and I think he did it with encryption. Here's what I think: what's fairly established is that Sloot used "shared resources" which each user of the system was required to have in order to decompress/view the movies (here's a picture of the box with the shared resources: http://www.nethwork.nl/images/kastjesloot.jpg).

Now this box had one or multiple storage devices which stored encrypted copies of the hundreds of movies that he used for the demos (with perhaps some RLE to save space). The chipcard contained the secret key for each movie and here is how I think it worked:

1. The chipcard (8 KB in size) containing a secret key is inserted into the machine.

2. The source code is decrypted using the key and compiled for each run (this would explain why no one was able to get their hands on the source code).

3. The movie is extracted/decrypted from the shared resources by following the sequence provided by the secret key.

In other words, he got away with storing the full sized movies on the disks simply by saying that they were shared resources.

Once they got a few days away from the release the realization that he be exposed, caused the stress that lead to his unfortunate death.

Another theory that I read was that Sloot had somehow linked analog and digital (he was supposedly a TV technician before) and that he was parameterizing data from an analog signal using a small amount of data.

Source: http://jansloot.telcomsoft.nl/Sources-1/More/CaptainCosmos/N... (comment by Koen near the bottom of the page).

Now conspiracy theory or not; one can't claim that it's not an interesting read since he privately demonstrated it to at least 20 people and was also able to get Philips to work with him.

Nearly everything that you do on a page is trackable if you have JS enabled including how you moved your mouse on the page (https://api.jquery.com/mousemove/).

To keep the technical details short: the events are logged with JS and sent over either ajax or a websocket in the background as you navigate the site.

If you want to add a huge improvement for this, then listen for the hash changes, and switch to the correct tab once changed so that they change when the back/forward buttons are pressed.

The biggest issue that I can see with this is abuse.

Do you have a way of preventing email spam and outgoing DoS attacks?

This is fun gag to play. But something that would really awesome would be if you could call your script if an unknown command is run and have the script look for a command that's most similar to the misspelled one and ask if that's what the use meant (or even auto run the corrected command).

But how will you install it on the phone? They only allow installs through App Store.

Wouldn't that require a jailbreak?

It's 2016, everyone has JS enabled.

The ones that don't are most likely bots (now even that's changing thanks to projects like phantomjs).

Do what? I read the article and the song was the first thing that popped into my mind so I thought I'd share.

Still I'm seeing fairly large services use things like XML-RPC to contact their servers.

That's usually the case, but I can't really come up with anything as I can't find any downsides to it.

But RESTful APIs have been around for so long though, does this the existing infrastructure situation really apply to this?

Well if he wasn't the Wikileaks team would've said something. He also has other people working for him which would be able to help him out with this.

And thanks for the downvote.

Shouldn't be too difficult to surpass by temporarily using mobile data or setting up an antenna for long-range wifi.

This sounds right and the way these regulations are set is bullshit.

Sure, there should be regulations but it shouldn't lead to large fees and make it difficult to pay or receive payments online.

I bet this will revolutionize online payments.

What kind of content creation are you talking about?

If you just mean making pages online then things are probably easier now thanks to Bootstrap and all the useful jQuery plugins.

I'd say try Airbnb and work your way from there by contacting the owner.

For $10 per month I'd say your best bet would be shared hosting (or a VPS at best) together with Cloudflare's free plan (for the SSL and CDN).

That's astoundingly low! Was the main cost the CPU resources or b/w?

Sounds cool and it's more like 1.8M.

Sadly I don't think it'd be much use for anyone since Archive.org takes care of all archiving.

The only time that I'd see screenshots come handy is for live previews.

Yeah, I also think Quora should be a better match for this as profiles are much more detailed there

What he said.

+ it's still possible to deactivate the updates but you have to dig a little deeper to do it.

I'm going to have to be the boring guy and say: depends completely on how much resources you need.

In most cases though (brace yourself for an unpopular opinion) it's enough to setup a simple dedicated server for about $20-$60 per month.

Now I did read the comments that mentioned how getting a dedicated server is a waste of valuable time, but honestly you'll most probably be able to get it setup in a day, you'll also learn how web servers work along the way and you won't have to depend on third-party cloud services (yet).

Here's a great guide from DigitalOcean on how to setup a modern dedicated HTTP server with MYSQL: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...

I don't understand why they don't give inmates access to a computer for a few hours per day.

When they're out the hard working ones will have programming skills which will help with the job hunt.