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Viewing all posts tagged "series of tubes"
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ThreatPost: Comodo Hacker Claims Credit for DigiNotar Attack
via ThreatPost:
In a message posted to the same Pastebin account used to detail the Comodo attack six months ago, a user by the name of Comodohacker claims to have compromised not just DigiNotar, but also four other high-profile CAs, including GlobalSign.
And not really anything we can do in the meantime to protect ourselves. Awesome.
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Block TYNT "copy/paste jerks" with hosts file redirect
via ericmortensen via daringfireball:
Over the last few months I’ve noticed an annoying trend on various web sites, generally major newspaper and magazine sites, but also certain weblogs. What happens is that when you select text from these web pages, the site uses JavaScript to report what you’ve copied to an analytics server and append an attribution URL to the text. So, for example, if I were using this “service” here on Daring Fireball, and you selected the first sentence of this article, copied it, then switched to another app to paste the text you just copied, instead of pasting just the sentence you selected and intended to copy, you’d instead get:
Over the last few months I’ve noticed an annoying trend on various web sites, generally major newspaper and magazine sites, but also certain weblogs.
Read more: http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tyntcopypaste_jerks/#ixzz0oyLiD4QhAll of this nonsense — the attribution appended to copied text, the inline search results popovers — is from a company named Tynt, which bills itself as “The copy/paste company”.
It’s a bunch of user-hostile SEO bullshit.
What I’ve chosen to do is edit my /etc/hosts file to block access system-wide to the tcr.tynt.com server. This is the server from which the Tynt JavaScript code is served to all its “partners”.
127.0.0.1 tcr.tynt.com
After saving the hosts file, Tynt’s clipboard-altering nonsense is disabled on all Tynt-using websites I’ve encountered, no matter which browser I use.
This has been popping up and annoying me more and more lately, but I hadn’t yet thought to do anything about it. Quick fix; good call.
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http://code.google.com/webfonts/preview
All of this work toward expanding fonts on the web is all well and good. But I expect it also means that we’re on the verge of countless eye-searing design decisions the likes of which haven’t been seen since Geocities, 1995.
The available font selections are all within acceptable levels of eye-searing as of yet (of course the one requisite “handwritten” font will be overused in about three seconds) but the fear of Comic Sans websites always looms. The inclusion of several “Droid” fonts seems indicative of Google’s continuing desire to brand the internet as its own.
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Troll of the Day: Telling it like it is.
Well I just found something to replace my /wave macro.
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Infographic: The Evolution of Default Facebook Privacy Settings 2005 - Now
Click through and click the different years to see the change.
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via Hyperbole and a Half:
As a grammatically conscientious person who frequents internet forums and YouTube, I have found it necessary to develop a few coping mechanisms. When someone types out “u” instead of “you,” instead of getting mad, I imagine them having only one finger on each hand and then their actions seem reasonable. If I only had one finger on each hand, I’d leave out unnecessary letters, too!
But there is one grammatical mistake that I particularly enjoy encountering. It has become almost fun for me to come across people who take the phrase “a lot” and condense it down into one word, because when someone says “alot,” this is what I imagine. The Alot is an imaginary creature that I made up to help me deal with my compulsive need to correct other people’s grammar. It kind of looks like a cross between a bear, a yak and a pug, and it has provided hours of entertainment for me in a situation where I’d normally be left feeling angry and disillusioned with the world.
You want to see the rest of the pictures. TRUST ME.
I wonder if Alots get along with Alrights?
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1981 primitive Internet report on KRON
Imagine sitting down at your home computer to read the newspaper. Well, it’s not as far fetched as it sounds!
Based on Postage by Greg Cooper. Everything heavily modified by me.
*Unlikely to find your lost post using this but you can try...
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