speckledjim

So is it legal or illegal for you to access http://foo.com ?

By your logic, just because I didn't password protect it, doesn't mean it's legal open for you to load in a browser.

How did I know you'd be citing the Grauniad...

They have by far the highest readership of any sunday paper. That wouldn't evaporate overnight.

> accessing someone else's voice mail is no less a crime if they don't have a PIN set.

So by extension, you're saying if I setup a directory on my website called /admin and don't password protect it, then you could be committing a criminal offense if you decide to access it?

Personally I think there is a difference. If there is NO security, then it could be argued that it was intended to be public. If there is security, but it is bypassed, then obviously that is a violation.

So I'm with you that the difficulty of hacking isn't related to the severity. But in the particular case of having no PIN, no password protection, there is no hacking taking place. So it's a moot point IMHO.

I didn't say it was legal, I just said it was a bad analogy.

If you setup a directory /admin on your webserver, and forget to password protect it, and someone accesses it, you can't really call it hacking.

Nothing was taken.

It would be more like "I leave my front door open, and you walk in and take a photograph".

> No advertisers, no readers, an utterly tarnished brand...

hmm where do you get that from? All sources point to NOTW having the highest readership of any sunday paper.

eg http://www.nrs.co.uk/toplinereadership.html

Not a great analogy. Nothing was taken.

It would be more accurate to say that you left your curtains open, and someone took a picture of the inside of your house through the windows.

Maybe an invasion of privacy, but not theft.

No comparison for me.

PA / MV are lovely small friendly towns with streets you can find a good array of shops, restaurants etc, lots of sunshine.

SF is a cloudy windy big city with lots of homeless people begging, run down streets, etc

Just providing a counterpoint. If I had to work in SF, I'd be miserable.

That's a cop out. Provide examples, on a clean browser/incognito/no cookies/etc

Never had any issue. Give some examples of what doesn't seem to work for you.

NYC and LA are culturally far closer than Germany and Greece. For a start, NYC and LA speak the same language.

1. I agree 2. He didn't post it someone else did, and no, I don't think it should have been posted.

I had to stop reading at "ground breaking". I'll assume you're being sarcastic and leave it at that :)

You should stop thinking everyone is attacking you. I think you'd be happier.

Really though, there's no content here. The fact it's been voted to #1 on hackernews shows just how bad things are.

Items should be upvoted on their merit, rather than who did them. Someone writing another book about programming C isn't newsworthy.

"1. IE is getting better, as much as we all hate to admit it,"

I think we'd all admit it's getting better, but it's still years behind firefox and chrome where it matters. The IE release cycle is also so slow that it makes it even more outdated. IE still can in no way be considered a 'modern browser'.

Stats from a fairly popular webapp: Firefox=47.4%, Chrome=30.9%, IE=12.6%, Safari=3.3%, Opera=1.8%

So for me the question is when IE will drop below safari and opera...

The circle of life... We're just in that stage of the cycle.

  while(true) {
    Start simple
    Add features
    Declare it too complex
    Abandon it and start again
  }

Sorry yeah it looks like my test was disk IO bound rather than network bound.

Instances are already IO bound/capped.

For example, if you start up a micro instance, you'll only be able to download at like 200kbps or something.

So I'd assume the connection speed is linked to the size of the instance, and the bandwidth cost is integrated into that cost somewhat.

Definitely the minority here on HN, on Reddit, and other similar websites, but exit the bubble, and there's a whole world of other people! Some of them even own TVs and buy newspapers :o

I read it a few years ago. I disagree. It's like saying removing a seldom used letter from the alphabet would mean kids learn to spell better.

The whole point of learning is to learn to read things and understand them. That means looking behind 'fluff' like 2, or 1/2, and understanding the concepts.

Why does Opera exist? :/

Most people can tune out adverts they're not interested in extremely well.

When you buy a photography magazine, it might have 20% of the pages covered by advertising. I'd say most people buying the magazine find them useful. Maybe only 1% convert to a sale, but I'd say the majority of people find the adverts useful.

Also, it's not a black and white thing between "content" and "advertising". For example, quite often adverts in digital camera magazines are handy for me because they show me new products or lenses I didn't know about - Those adverts are 'content'.

I'm not going to convince anyone who hates advertising to open their mind a little though, so I'll retire happily to my ad-supported magazines, and ad-supported websites.

The majority of people find advertising useful. They buy stuff based on advertising. If they didn't advertisers wouldn't spend advertising money.

Advertising works, providing a service both to the advertiser and the consumer.

I know that's an incredibly unpopular viewpoint within this bubble, but there you go.

If it was the case that most people found advertising 'shit', then you'd see more and more people installing adblock etc. But that hasn't happened. It's still used by a very small minority of users as it has always been. It's sort of like the Opera web browser in that respect.

"Advertising makes things shitter."

In your opinion, which is a minority viewpoint.

More intuitive? If you're phased by the odd 2 or 1/2 here or there in maths, it's probably not the right discipline for you.

Far more important step for mathematicians would be to switch from base 10 to something more useful like base 8.

"Almost anything you can do in maths with pi you can do with tau anyway,"

WTF is this? I'm eagerly awaiting an explanation of what you can do with X that you can't do with 2X.

It's a moot anal point. X or 2Y, using one over the other doesn't solve anything.

I know it's great fun, and fashionable to bash Java, but the Java startup time is slow, because the default settings are optimized for long running processes.

If you want a quicker execution time for a short lived program, just tweak the settings. But then Java may not be the best choice for short lived 'scripting' anyway.

So yes, it rules it out, unless you know what you're doing.

A safe is obviously a safe. It obviously contains something.

Encrypted data isn't so clear cut. It's trivial to make a datastore that has several encryption keys, so that you could give out one key, and it'd "decrypt" to some boring stuff, whilst keeping the real data, and the alternate key, secret.

It'd also be trivial to devise a decryption algorithm, and key, which "decrypts" anyones hard drive to reveal illegal images even when none are really there...

So I don't think it's a good analogy. It's quite obvious when you have successfully got into a safe, but how do you know when you have successfully decrypted something, to the real stuff that is important and being hidden in it?

tldr = Chrome won't let js capture certain key combinations like Ctrl+T, to provide a consistent usable experience for users.

A few developers are upset.

Personally, I applaud Chrome and think they made the right call. If I'm on a web page, and press Ctrl+T, I want a new tab.

FWIW, inventing something from scratch, as far as I understand things, will only save you from copyrighted code etc. It won't save you from overly general, and trivial patents.

Good luck though :/