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crc5002

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    Comment #3401008

    I have no doubt that Badger likes elephants and opposes SOPA, but their SSL certificate appears to be issued by GoDaddy.

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    Comment #3299502

    Pattaya, TH

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    Comment #1471515

    It is a race, since Mailinator et al. keep adding new disposable domains. I have also found undisposable.net, supposedly a central database+API for blocking disposable domains. The…

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    Comment #1446838

    It looks like the big cluster refers to computing, as it contains the english "Hacker (Computing)" and the german "Hacker". The small one should be the disambiguation cluster: "Hac…

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    Comment #1446425

    http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=lang...

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    Comment #1443585

    NSA uses a slightly different wording: "In God we trust, all others we monitor."

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    Comment #1443377

    I think he said that: The blog owner's email host did not provide SPF protection; the intruder's email host appended some headers that lured Posterous to classify the email as genu…

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    Comment #1443321

    I'm such a chicken: I put the URL into Google Reader, and got a notification feed. http://www.google.com/notificationservice/webchanges/webfeed...

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    Comment #1442304

    You only need to know the owner's email address. Access to a message or a mailing list post by them won't provide any further advantage.

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    Comment #1273309

    I think this is a very bad suggestion, even for the Lifehacker audience. Also, keyboard shifting is a standard feature of password cracking utilities.

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    Comment #1271934

    I think that the interface is very nice. Re. privacy, it may be a good idea to disallow invoice URLs in robots.txt, using a common pattern or subdirectory.

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    Comment #1271838

    SSL also prevents webmasters from tracking the keywords used by the searchers, since the referrer is blank. This can be a useful privacy feature, in addition to the encryption.

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    Comment #1271386

    If you can't recompile the program, an expect script will come very handy: $ ./unbuffer ./tst >/tmp/logit 2>&1; cat /tmp/logit line 1 stderr line 1 line 2 stderr line 2 http://expe…

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    Comment #1270790

    Sorry, that's a hoax. The phrase: "he insisted it's just a better browser" is rather too funny to be real, so I searched and found this: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/12/17/172123…

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    Comment #1239114

    This made me laugh: http://twitter.com/maxklein/status/11417407961 (from 2 days ago)

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    Comment #1218892

    I have a dedicated account for Reader, and I use it from within a Mozilla Prism appliance. External links open in my regular Firefox instance. This is a simple setup that works ade…

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    Comment #1215916

    I think there are several tools and libraries available for this job. E.g.: wget --mirror -p --convert-links http://www.example.com

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    Comment #344673

    Re. profitability, this older news might be of interest: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22214192...

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    Comment #344667

    This information is correct, I'm not sure why you have been downvoted...

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    Comment #247714

    That could be a good deal for a spamming business. I think that certain spammers currently invest significantly more than 1/100th of a penny per solved CAPTCHA.