Uniqueness is absolute, so the support email is either unique or not. There are no degrees of uniqueness for something to be more unique than another thing. Sorry, but this grammar mistake is a big pet peeve.
That's only sorta true.
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#22I used a Palm treo up until about 3 years ago, and used to browse HN quite often. My treo was modified and upgraded I should say :) beleive it or not, some poor soul actually stole it, probably not knowing it would be worth more on ebay as an obscure item than at a pawn shop.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
#23My gut says that they've disabled SSL v2/v3, and that the device does not support TLS.
Security Theater Everywhere strikes again. Unless you're logged in and entering data, Hacker News does not need SSL.
If you were looking for MITM targets likely to have access to many interesting things, HN would be high on the lists of sites to intercept.
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#24I had this same phone, in the post iPhone era we tend to forget that smartphones did exist and some of them were actually pretty fantastic devices. From the 600 I upgraded to the 700w and that was probably my favorite phone of all time.
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#25> TL;DR http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png > This is what I sent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqn-EmU5KPw > This is what they got back to me with: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png > [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treo_600 (gallery of 2-6,8-9 here: http://imgur.com/a/Gu70R ) [2]: http://i.imgur.com/xVdpUST.jpg [3]: http://i.imgur.com/2Yy8fkM.jpg [4]: http://i.imgur.com/nZ7GwC1.jpg [5]: http://i.imgur.com/OJuZmh3.jpg…
If only I had scrolled a bit first, I could have saved myself minutes. Thank you, and my support request is: please start auto-linking safe urls.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
So I should take it that you're OK with every country's intelligence agency modifying links on HN for their citizens, redirecting crypto downloads to trojaned pages for specific users, suppressing links that are overly critical of the government, right?
Protection against changes should be done with subresource integrity hashes ( http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/ ). With HTTPS, an observer still knows who you're talking to, and since they can see how big the request and reply are, they can probably guess what you're looking at.
I totally agree (although you need more than SRI, since you also need some way of signing the original content, but I'd love to see a full spec for this sort of thing). However, SSL is what we have right now that works.
And I think, of the browsers that do support SRI (possibly in prerelease versions or behind feature flags), they require the page to be delivered over SSL anyway.
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#27I had this same phone, in the post iPhone era we tend to forget that smartphones did exist and some of them were actually pretty fantastic devices. From the 600 I upgraded to the 700w and that was probably my favorite phone of all time.
i also had a treo 6xx (then upgraded to 7xx) and it was the first device that i could actually do work on the road with (email, basic web, ssh, phone).
i remember it had outlook integration which was especially awesome because my employer at the time used outlook and i was able to leave my work-from-home post during the day to have lunch or drinks with friends in san francisco and not be out of touch.
even though this was barely ten years ago, now i feel really old.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
#28Uniqueness is absolute, so the support email is either unique or not. There are no degrees of uniqueness for something to be more unique than another thing. Sorry, but this grammar mistake is a big pet peeve.
My dictionary lists two definitions for "unique." One is "being the only one of its kind" and is thus a binary property as you say, but the other is merely "particularly remarkable, special, or unusual," which is perfectly amenable to modifiers like this.
"unique" comes directly from the Latin "unus", one. The modernist, American wishy-washy uses of the word to mean "unusual" are a sad travesty of thinking. One should simply use the word "unusual" if that's what one means to say.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
#29This is the first thing I'd look at to make this work:
telnet news.ycombinator.com 80
Trying 198.41.190.47...
Connected to news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: news.ycombinator.com
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 03:19:43 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d2949a43e20a9ea8923fe50222805b7621421810383;
expires=Thu, 21-Jan-16 03:19:43 GMT; path=/;
domain=.ycombinator.com; HttpOnly
Location: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Server: cloudflare-nginx
CF-RAY: 1ac05f0dbbeb0743-AMS
301 Moved Permanently
301 Moved Permanently
nginx
Connection closed by foreign host.
Maybe you could set up a https->http proxy and access that to see if that solves your problem?
Re: Show HN: Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
#30> TL;DR http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png > This is what I sent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqn-EmU5KPw > This is what they got back to me with: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png > [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treo_600 (gallery of 2-6,8-9 here: http://imgur.com/a/Gu70R ) [2]: http://i.imgur.com/xVdpUST.jpg [3]: http://i.imgur.com/2Yy8fkM.jpg [4]: http://i.imgur.com/nZ7GwC1.jpg [5]: http://i.imgur.com/OJuZmh3.jpg…
If only I had scrolled a bit first, I could have saved myself minutes. Thank you, and my support request is: please start auto-linking safe urls.
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