It seems like a forum trying to focus on everything, with no real way to surface content. The result is that you end up getting lost in a sea of random topics. Also, the abundance of colourful little icons is a bit annoying.
I posted about that a while back, although not in such a colorful language, and didn't get that much traction, maybe that's why. ;)
But I do agree that it's annoying when you go to a site and it's not just a reminder but a full screen ad for their app. I also hate sites that feel the need to load the page, detect you're on an iPad, clear the screen, then load another version that is slower to load and works worse, but has nifty side scrolling.
ATC should be trained to get you the help you need if you're a passenger piloting a plane with a disabled pilot. They can get a pilot to come up in the tower, or get one on the phone.
People who enjoy this type of article may like a presentation I made a while back at http://dendory.net/ALS
Note that this isn't meant to allow you to land a plane, and honestly I doubt many people should try their hands at it by just reading this one article either. I think in most cases it would be better just to have the ATC help you in how to set the autopilot to land the plane for you, when that's an option.
Oh please, Netflix is doing the exact opposite, giving us the choice to watch whatever we want, something cable networks have tried hard to prevent. If something does well on Netflix it's because people actively want to watch it, unlike TV which is based solely on what happens to be on at a certain hour.
I fully agree about things that require native apps. When I click on a link to a YouTube video or a tweet and instead of showing me the result in the browser, it pulls me out and brings me to the YouTube or Twitter app, it means I can't bookmark it or share it. I hate that.
IRC is great and relaying on such a simple and well understood process is smart. It provides group chat, persistency, and is much clearer than trying to decipher a dozen people talking on a radio frequency.
I started 7 years ago with SQLite and still have all my sites and webapps running on that. Works wonderfully for me. Meanwhile I must have seen close to a dozen data storage systems become popular then be replaced by the next big thing, from MySQL to NoSQL and everything in between.
This is a silly argument. You cannot force others to use one product. WebKit is great, but it is still a project, governed by some people, and with certain goals. People want to create browsers who may have other goals, so either they have to convince the WebKit team to follow them, or fork, which ends up causing the same problem of multiple platforms.
We have open protocols and specifications. The web uses HTML, CSS, etc. Then it's up to the various rendering engines to adhere to those.
I'm surprised there are no virtual cemetaries. A company (a known Internet entity like Archive.org, WikiMedia or W3C would be best, not a startup that will pivot away in 3 years) could offer for a fixed fee to take your blog, freeze it in time, and publish it online forever.
I blogged about that a while back. It's particularly bad on iOS since it seems more sites have iPhone apps. And many of them don't even just put a small link. Many, like Techcrunch, put a full page modal ad. Then there's sites who don't even ask you and redirect to an AppStore link. Stupid.
I've been on the front page a few times and got around 10,000 to 20,000 visits from it. It often brought many more comments on the posts that made it than when people find it another way, but I saw no real increase in social sharing. Opposite that, if a post makes it to a fairly popular subreddit, I get a lot less comments from that kind of traffic, but on the other hand the posts will tend to be picked up again by other blogs or sites. I found that interesting.
I just took 3 screenshots of the page, and by layering them together you get the exact same image as the left one. I don't really think it's a solution. As long as the eye can see it, you can't prevent recording anyways. http://imgur.com/ab1gk
I've noticed a looooong time ago that Google has always tried to censor nudity. This is just a continuation on the same path. All you have to do is load Bing image search next to Google and do the same searches. It's pretty self evident. And also pretty freaking lame, because it doesn't reflect reality at all, just modern day US centric political correctness. Part of the US public is up in arms about breasts the same way EU is about Google News or corporate America in general. Different traditions. Google should be neutral, but it clearly isn't.
People abusing Buyer Protection on eBay is nothing new, and has been getting out of control. But saying you should sell on eBay using something other than PayPal is just not realistic. People expect to pay with PayPal.
The problem is that when you pick a motherboard, you also pick the CPU you want. Now, motherboard makers are unlikely to carry such a wide array of upgrade choices. For example, when they introduce a new cheap motherboard, they will offer a low performance CPU for it. A high end motherboard will offer a high end CPU, and so on. You might have one or two CPU choices for the motherboard you want to buy, as opposed to every possible choice like now.
Another important point is what would happen to services everyone use. Google and Microsoft probably don't have much to fear, since they use very decentralized services and have data centers all over the world. But it's surprising to see how many well known web sites are hosted at just a few, if not a single location. During Sandy, when PEER1 went down, that was a single building, yet it took down major sites for days.
Edit: It seems more Italian newspapers are reporting this quote than just this one site, but for an announcement of this importance, I'm still not going to believe it until we get some more confirmation.
If you do a whois on www.pknic.net.pk for any of the listed hacked domains, they all have their correct contact info but refer to "dns1.freehostia.com" so it seems the .pk domain registrar must have been hacked.
I disagree that it's a one-off case. This case now sends a chilling effect to all security researchers. Next, what if a stock broker finds a press release on a web site that was published early, and makes money from it? What if a blogger finds a leaked photo of an unannounced product? The point is that they took a law that was meant to prevent you from hacking past security measures to get into a private computer, and successfully applied it to data posted on a public web server, and that is ridiculous, regardless what his intent was to do with the data.
> I have to access the site with the intent to commit fraud. And my access to your site has to further that fraud.
Did you read the post? That's not the case, which is exactly the problem. If you access a web site that is publicly available, not behind any login system, but happen to embarrass a large company by doing so (like they mistakenly made it public) then you go to jail. That's why it's so unbelievably stupid and has to be fixed, hence his post.
This story is more about personal stupidity. They buy a ton of new Apple products then lie to themselves saying it's for "business". It shouldn't be news that most devs dont make much on AppStore apps. $5,000 isn't bad from indie apps. Honestly, I doubt even large corporations spend $200,000 to create an iPhone app.