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PayPal Suspends Researcher’s Account for Distributing Hacking Tools | Threat Level | Wired.com
“This is a vulnerability that would affect every SSL implementation,” Marlinspike told Threat Level in July, “because almost everybody who has ever tried to implement SSL has made the same mistake.”
7 Simple PC Precautions College Students Should Know - InsideTech.com
Saying "steer clear of file sharing" is really bad advice. It's like recommending abstinence to the same group of people (and much like the fact that underage drinking and sex are also illegal, the people doing it do not give a shit about the law in the first place and are well aware of it). People can, will, and do share files. What they need to know is how to minimize risk while doing it. Some important beginner's points are:
1. use a good client for a good network. Bittorrent is a good network, uTorrent is a decent client, so is Vuze. Anonymous networks are better for safety but tend to have fewer users (Bittorrent is *not* anonymous).
2. Get a peerguardian IP filter for your client of choice - Vuze has a plugin, uTorrent is slightly more complicated but there's a good guide floating around on how to install and keep filters up to date. kTorrent on linux also has a plugin.
3. ALWAYS USE ENCRYPTION and do not accept connections from non-encrypted users. This will cut off the lower 80% of the network's users. That is a GOOD THING.
4. Use a trusted torrent tracker (everyone loves the pirate bay). Don't Google your torrents.
5. Turn on protected/anonymous mode on your browser while searching for torrents (in Chrome, click the wrench icon -> new incognito window). This will leave fewer traces on your pc of where you went and what you did (although you'll still have the smoking gun in the form of the .torrent file and the stuff you downloaded).
5. Use deniable encryption for your downloaded content. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption - TrueCrypt is a good piece of software to help you out with this. It's not much good in the UK, but in the US your 5th amendment rights protect you against being forced to give up your encryption key, and without that if you've done a good job of keeping your files encrypted the government has to plan ahead to plant a virus or an EMF bug to capture your password before they can get at your files (strong encryption is uncrackable with present technology).
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Micro Persuasion: What will replace pageviews?
Steve Rubel asks the question, “What Will Replace the Almighty Page View?” He brings up this question because of the direction the web is headed with sites heavily using Ajax, widget sites that allows the user to never leave its page, and so on. What metric should we look at next? He suggests three possible options: Events (as in user interaction with Ajax, Flash, etc.), Unique Visitors, and Time Spent. What do you think?
Posted by Brian Benzinger on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 6:22 pm.
Filed under Side Notes.
One Comment on “Micro Persuasion: What will replace pageviews?”
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Alojamento says:
Good point! To me it seems that events would be the most logical and useful choice, however a mix between “how many UNIQUE visitors have spent more TIME on EVENT x” might now be a bad idea.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:59 am
Fatal Error - Open Dictionary
Fatal Error
Please accept our apologies, we cannot currently serve the requested document, the following fatal error was returned by the underlining application which powers this Web site:
Error: Cannot fetch HTML data, remote WordNet server returned: 500 Can't connect to www.cogsci.princeton.edu:80 (connect: timeout) - http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn2.0?stage=1&word=longueuil.
This error has been logged and will be read by the application developer when the next software audit session occurs. You may wish to retry accessing the document again (by using the refresh function available on your Web browser) or go to our frontpage and browse from there.
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Slife's Killer Productivity App Now Integrates With FreshBooks
Slife 3.0
Slife is an open source software application that runs in the background to effortlessly and keep track of the way you use the Web, desktop applications, work with documents, etc. You can then check your account on the Slife site to view some pretty awesome insights in to how you're spending you're time.
In late March, the company launched Slife 3.0, which made the product the slim client it is now, backed by a a more in-depth Web interface.
Wikipedia Bans All Scientology IPs from Editing - InsideTech.com
An understanding of what amounts to censorship needs to be considered in this debate. It is not censorship for a private entity, under no compulsion other than their own standards, to include or omit whatever information they like. As long as a person is principally free to write and speak as they wish, they are not being censored; telling them to get their own website to spread their drivel is not unreasonable. It's also worth noting that the Church of Scientology is clearly acting here in interest of censoring others who disagree with their views on their religion. Wikipedia clearly made the right move here to protect the integrity of their content.
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An understanding of what amounts to censorship needs to be considered in this debate. It is not censorship for a private entity, under no compulsion other than their own standards, to include or omit whatever information they like. As long as a person is principally free to write and speak as they wish, they are not being censored; telling them to get their own website to spread their drivel is not unreasonable. It's also worth noting that the Church of Scientology is clearly acting here in interest of censoring others who disagree with their views on their religion. Wikipedia clearly made the right move here to protect the integrity of their content.
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An understanding of what amounts to censorship needs to be considered in this debate. It is not censorship for a private entity, under no compulsion other than their own standards, to include or omit whatever information they like. As long as a person is principally free to write and speak as they wish, they are not being censored; telling them to get their own website to spread their drivel is not unreasonable. It's also worth noting that the Church of Scientology is clearly acting here in interest of censoring others who disagree with their views on their religion. Wikipedia clearly made the right move here to protect the integrity of their content.
Digital Home - One in five Canadian mobile users access web with phone
One in five Canadian mobile users access web with phone E-mail
Thursday, 04 June 2009
One in five Canadian mobile users access web with phoneIn what it says is the first report of its kind, Nielsen Online has released findings on mobile Internet adoption in Canada.
The ratings giant is reporting that just over one in five (21%) Canadian mobile subscribers used their cell phones to browse the Internet or access their email in the first quarter of 2009, up from 16% in the final quarter of 2008.
The number of unique mobile internet users in Canada is now estimated at 3.9 million.
“The mobile market in Canada has grown rapidly since we first reported on the data in Q4 2008,” said Eric Puterbaugh, director, client services, Nielsen Online.
Researchers say the Canadian market is experiencing similar trends that are driving mobile internet growth in other markets – smartphone adoption, unlimited data plans and consumer advertising campaigns that drive awareness of mobile phone capabilities.
Top categories accessed via the Mobile Web by Canadians include: Internet portals, e-mail, weather, news & current event and search. The top mobile phone models used in Canada include the Apple iPhone 3G, BlackBerry 8100, LG Rumor Series, Motorola Razr V3 and Motorola KRZ R Series.
Windows Live Mail was the No. 1 Web site accessed on a mobile phone in Q1 2009, with 1.4 million unique visitors. Google Search, Facebook, The Weather Network and Yahoo! Mail rounded out the top 5 (see chart below).
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Quirky: A Crowd-Sourced Way to Produce Your Designs | Design & Innovation | Fast Company
Quirky: A Crowd-Sourced Way to Produce Your Designs
BY Cliff KuangWed Jun 3, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Quirky
The creators of Kluster--an online tool that allows designers to collaboratively workshop their ideas--have just announced another foray into crowd-sourced product design: Quirky. The site is an interesting mishmash of a bunch of concepts that have been floating around in social media.
Quirky farms out the vetting process for new ideas to the Quirky community, that ultimately decides if the idea gets produced. First, anyone can upload an idea for $99; and then anyone in the Quirky community can respond to the design. Eventually, the best designs become the product of the week, and those get a chance at production, provided enough people commit to buy it. So far, one product is already available for pre-order: The Slingback, a universal wire retractor that eliminates loose power cords and costs $9.99.
Here's a video that explains the basics:
So if a product gets produced and starts making money, 30% of its proceeds go back to the community as cash. 40% of that 30% goes to the product designer; the rest gets apportioned to those who commented on the design as it was competing to become product of the week. Commenters with more "influence"--as calculated by the frequency of their comments and the innovations they've tabled--get more cash. Phew--sounds complicated right?
Quirky's ingenuity lies in the way the incentives are aligned---the community has a financial motive to stay active, and to push ideas they really believe in. Inventors get 12% of the proceeds from their design--which is rich, given that most design production deals kick about 3% to the designer. Will it work? Obviously, it depends. What the site seems to need so far is a break-out product, so that the incentives are actually rich enough to draw even more people in. And it obviously relies on a huge pool of good ideas with sexy enough production values that anyone can easily imagine them as a working product. Crackpots throwing down ideas drawn
Bmlet: An Online Directory of Bookmarklets
If you've been looking for a great resource for finding bookmarklets, you're going to love the new site at bmlet.com, an online directory and search engine just for bookmarklets.
Mike Davidson - sIFR
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perfecting a method to insert rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics. The method, dubbed sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement)
Flickr Co-founder Unveils Her New Startup: Hunch - ReadWriteWeb
Using decision trees in expert systems is nothing new, but applying that idea to a crowdsourcing model might possibly be a stroke of genius. Think Aardvark meets Wikipedia and you start to get the idea.
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