nandhp

Does Hilton actually block VPNs on their standard internet, or is "VPN access" just code for "we'll give you a public IP so that IPsec traffic won't get swallowed"?

Many captive portals operate as a LAN service, where you may be expected to type a password. If the public Wifi has a roaming agreement, that password may even be for your ISP or mobile phone provider.

Yes, I found that, but that's not even an inadequate error message -- it's just wrong. Firefox has no way to tell if the connection is encrypted or not because the connection is being dropped while the encryption is being established.

Is there any way to get SSL error messages in Firefox?

https://irc.verylegit.link/0x8c*download()194mobiads(windows... is supposed to redirect to Facebook, and it does if you use HTTP. However, over HTTPS Firefox just gives me a very generic "Secure Connection Failed" message. (Chrome is rather more helpful, giving me "ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED".)

XScreenSaver's closest equivalent is "rocks"; you might try something like this (unfortunately, when you ask for one color it's not white)

    rocks  -no-move -no-rotate -colors 1

Well, they basically have no idea -- it says in bold letters "Please note that not all locations were identified."

For reference, Wikipedia claims Chipotle has 3,010 restaurants. So at least 75%.

Ninite has the advantage of being self-contained in a single executable, though. Chocolatey looks like something you have to install, which makes it poorly suited for quickly installing something on a machine that's not yours.

> To do it, we're using C, maybe C++, maybe Python or even perl and bash, not Java, definitely not JavaScript or any of its variants, or Erlang, or Clojure, or whatever. Not always, but much of the time. The things we need to know are scantly represented on SO.

The languages you mention using are all in the top 20 tags. Yes, JavaScript, Java, and C# are the top three, but Python is #7, C++ is #9, and C is #18. Bash is on the second page and Perl on the third, but there are a bunch of other, less trend-sensitive, tags in between (e.g. regex, string, and multithreading). http://stackoverflow.com/tags/

It was discovered today that Wells Fargo passwords are case-insensitive:

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/66n4li/i_j...

["other browsers in the near future"](https://blog.google/products/earth/welcome-home-new-google-e...), so maybe there isn't one?

[SPOILER]

It gets worse -- there are a bunch of tools you go by throughout the game. If you fail to pick up any of them, that one will be the one you need to open one of the final doors.

According to GSM Arena, the 2nd generation Moto G uses a Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400 chipset, so it shouldn't be affected by this issue.

http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g_(2nd_gen)-6647.php

Thunderbird can also do this.

> The only business model for fiber that will work to produce the competition, low prices, and world-class data transport we need — certainly in urban areas — is to get local governments involved in overseeing basic, street grid-like “dark” (passive, unlit with electronics) fiber available at a set, wholesale price to a zillion retail providers of access and services. There’s plenty of patient capital sloshing around the US that would be attracted to the steady, reliable returns this kind of investment will return. That investment could be made in the form of private lending or government bonds; the important element is that the resulting basic network be a wholesale facility that any retail actor can use at a reasonable, fair cost.

Google Fiber had promised to operate an open access network[1], but they apparently changed their mind before they launched.

[1] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-o...

> The only difference is that they also validate the organization's information of the certificate requester.

Right, but if I go to PayPal.com and the address bar says "Comcast [US]" or "National Security Agency [US]", I'll know something's up.

I'm confused by how they're presenting the "Always Free" tier of Google App Engine. I've used the free tier of that for years and "instance hours" have never been a thing that I'm aware of. I'm also wondering if the GAE free quota will require a billing-enabled account now, as these other offers seem to require, which would be disappointing.

It's from the weekly "Modern Love" column of the Style/Fashion section. It doesn't seem very out of place in that context.

You might find this script I wrote to be helpful:

https://github.com/nandhp/misc-utils/blob/master/keepassx_do...

I don't think it disappears, it just moves into the menu button, which seems fairly typical for navigation sidebars on narrow screens.

Or for staying logged in across sessions (or not). But it should be fine for an API.

Which, incidentally, was released without a rating because the MPAA wanted to rate it as NC-17.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6H2eGEvzvw

> I just wish it weren't fixed.

I thought the article mentioned this, but there's a user preference to turn that off ("Disable stickyness").

http://stackoverflow.com/users/preferences/

True, that's a possible reason, but I don't think the X server normally comes from the store. (Is there even an X server in the Windows Store?)

I see from the screenshot that it's running on Windows 10, Cloud Edition. I thought that the rumored Cloud Edition doesn't run any software not from the Windows store?

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-coming-windows-10-cl...

I believe one of the key reasons for dropping XUL extensions is because they don't work very well with e10s (multiprocess Firefox). I recently had occasion to use a fresh Firefox without any e10s-incompatible extensions installed, and it really felt much faster, so I think Firefox-future may also qualify as "fast browser".

> 5$ for a "rental". Is that a joke?

Pretty much. Redbox rents new release DVDs for $1.50/day; if you are in the US, you probably have a few boxes near you.

Is this project collaborating with Archive Team? They have quite a lot of experience with this sort of scraping+archiving project (e.g. Geocities, Google Reader, Coursera, etc.).

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

> But you also need to serve the page that links to the form via https

Yes, in the limit. But current best-practices for user caution ("when you're entering personal information, check the address bar for the domain name you're expecting [and a lock icon]") would be enough to thwart that attack.