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I don't know if it still works, but Google used to support network providers force non-ssl searches using DNS poisoning. BT's WiFi offering used to do this, which is one of the reasons I stopped using it.

So long as LTE is included in the UK models this time, I can see that being a big selling point as 4G is starting to slowly be rolled out here.

So the fix for this then is to start our own country. I hear there's some unclaimed land in Africa which would do nicely - http://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/earths-last-frontier-the...

Vim when I want to quickly edit a file

Geany for writing longer scripts

RubyMine for Ruby development (mostly Chef cookbooks these days)

Now we just need a little refactoring to merge these two. If only httpstatus.es was on github.

Do managers really need to use version control? Give them Dropbox if they just want to share files simply.

The problems you had when trying to switch to git are the exact same problems I have as a git fangirl when trying to use svn. To a large extent the choice of version control system comes down to what you feel happiest with, but there are certain workflows which suit one or the other slightly better.

If you're making heavy use of svn externals then you'll find git submodules pretty horrible. But if your aim is to manage files between multiple users then git's distributed nature may make your life much easier if you give it some more time.

So I'm guessing the experiment is either A/B testing of layouts of number pads, or it's testing to see if people can cheat the leaderboard.

Also, it must be a slow news day for this to get to front page.

It's a great time to be a good programmer in a language that is popular. Otherwise things aren't so great.

He glorified cluster bombs and marvelled at mass murder, if there's a heaven then he probably isn't in it.

When leaving my grandparents' house for a long journey home, everybody was always instructed to give three rings when they get home safely. To this day I always let a phone ring three times before answering, partly in case it's an "I'm OK" message and partly because waiting for somebody to answer gives the caller time to think what they actually want to say.

My grandparents didn't have caller ID and so had no idea who was telling them they'd got home safely, but they could guess based on timings pretty well.

This also gives rsync, scp and all the other benefits of commandline ssh. Mintty was enough for me to be able to put off installing Debian for another month.

You realise you can offer an exit node for only certain ports? It's not perfect for what you want but its a start.

No, that's designed to break - within that range is a large amount of credit cards numbers, and Google blocks that. The OP however is a genuine bug.

Don't worry about it, if a user doesn't know what Tweets or direct messages are then the service isn't for them. You'll struggle to get people to start using Twitter just to register domains when there's plenty of good registrars already, most people will have their favourite they use regularly.

I see this more as a service for power Twitter users so they can easily register new domains after having a drunken idea.

This app-in-a-day side project took slightly longer than it should have due to Heroku's recent problems with Amazon. Built with Padrino, Heroku and a Theme Forest theme, it went from idea to launch in just two days of work.

I believe this incident probably is the reason for the drop in price, along with the incident at Bitomat just before. It's just people reacting to vulnerabilities in the market though, so far there has been no evidence to suggest any of these bitcoins have been sold. If they were to be sold off in bulk then it would cause a much larger crash.

On some badly configured Nginx servers the filename extension isn't parsed correctly. A php.jpg file will be executed as php because a badly written regex will match the .php.

Even if you don't have such vulnerabilities you probably don't want people to be able to upload images to your server. They could easily send you over quota on shared hosting and use your bandwidth for serving their own images (including child porn).

One hopes he is smart enough to have a solid legal argument for what he has done. If he loses the legal battle then it's going to set a bad precedent for all these academic document stores to continue keeping hold of this information. On the other hand, if he were to win then it may make it harder for groups like JSTOR to continue restricting access to their data.

Find the Github account with the most forks and followers. That's probably the official repository and will link to the official website. They may not use Github of course, but there are other similar methods.

Other good signs are them being linked to from cdnjs, cached-commons or microjs. If I'm looking to solve a javascript itch I'll first browse these sites to see if there is a popular tool.

Also, if you're looking for jQuery then it's because you've read about it online somewhere. Simply go back and follow the links.

"I really wish someone else had created this."

You mean like any number of startup social networks each year that fail because they can't get the traction which Google is more likely to? It's sad, but that's the way it is - there are innovative and good social networking sites out there, but without the backing that a Google product has they keep failing.

Indeed. Perhaps the better title would be "what do you care about?", "what are you passionate about?" or "what are you interested in?" Asking what people love doesn't really explain what the site is for.

The site is awful, no explanation at all on the frontpage - it just asks you to provide them with something you love without any incentive. Then there's the slider thing on the top left of the search results which adds nothing at all.

"Explore your mom in 3D" was pretty amusing though.

You don't need any specific software to be able to use two-factor authentication, it works nicely for me in any Linux distro I've tried and also Windows Mobile 6.1 (yes I know)

The software might make it easier than receiving an sms which needs typing in, but all your mobile applications can still use the system - you just generate a new pasword for each application (as you would for a Google Talk client on your desktop).

My laptop has encrypted hard disks so is set to remember Google passwords for 30 days. I can login from other devices using my pasword and an sms validation code which expires as soon as I log out.

A few days debugging? How could this possibly take any more than 5 minutes to work out on your own? If it takes a few days then maybe you are in the wrong job.

The styling isn't perfect, feel free to modify, but it's good enough to show the two side by side and see how people react. I guess it'd be interesting to do it the other way round too.

This has the same problem as Facebook Likes - you can create a +1 for a url other than the one you are currently on. And spot the javascript callback which encourages a '+1 this page to reach the video' setup.

I've run that on all manner of devices and infrastructures and it has never told me I will have any problems on World IPv6 Day. That's not because it is inacurate, it's because the vast majority of setups will continue to work perfectly on June 8th.

There's not much else they can do though when Apple banned it from the iStore.

That BBC article makes it sound like they interviewed him. All the quotes however come from his tweets (verbatim or reworded).