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  1. Re:Stop flagging self signed certs insecure on Google Warns Webmasters About Insecure HTTP Web Forms (searchengineland.com) · · Score: 1

    SSH doesn't use certificates as far as I know.

  2. Re: Container ships are amazing vessels... on How Hackers Are Targeting the Shipping Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    hmm.. first, I would have been "t-boned" not "t-bone". Second, being t-boned means a side collision in a middle of the car, usually at 90 degrees. None of this applies in this case since the ship was hit in the font part with an angle.

    Also, when you get t-boned, your vehicle looks like a t-bone afterwards.

    http://www.businessinsider.com...

  3. Re:YouTube must be held responsible on YouTube Has An Illegal TV Streaming Problem (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    How could YouTube afford what you're suggesting? 300 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute. How many people would it take to police that?

    hmm... 300 hours/1 minute, 18,000 persons?

  4. Re: You all know my answer... on Feeling Bad About Feeling Bad Can Make You Feel Worse (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    Good one AC!

  5. Re:You all know my answer... on Feeling Bad About Feeling Bad Can Make You Feel Worse (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you need some glasses for yourself? No uid on /. has 8 digits, none.

  6. Re:People about to quit update their LinkedIn page on Judge Says LinkedIn Cannot Block Startup From Public Profile Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Your script is sure enough a robot!

    Yet no tutorial on Python web scraping ever mentioned the robots.txt.

    Says the Unabomber: "Your honor, no tutorial mentioned that what I was doing was illegal..."

    Whether /. tolerates it or not is irrelevant, your are still not being a nice christian by not following their robot.txt guidelines.

    I'll let God sort it out since He has a better algorithm.

    I am god you insensitive clod! A nice Christian at your church asked me to look over you in a prayer she made...

  7. Set wifi and public computers on Amazon Adds 'Instant Pickup Points' In US Brick-And-Mortar Push (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Great, then set free wifi and/or public computers at the pickup points so people can order right there !

  8. Re:People about to quit update their LinkedIn page on Judge Says LinkedIn Cannot Block Startup From Public Profile Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    lol didn't you notice the word "guidelines" in my OP?

  9. Re:We need to get with the times. on Behind the Hype of 'Lab-Grown' Meat (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Come on! You know that this new meat won't be called "meat". Surely enough, some great SJW, politically correct mind will come with a new name that everybody will be able to brag about when they are having some.

  10. Actually, the big ones do not pay any network charges when you access their web sites, they get money for it! Search on peering agreements and you will see this is how it works.

    Maybe it was inspired by telcos where the one that terminates the call bills the caller, it works the same way anyway.

  11. Re:People about to quit update their LinkedIn page on Judge Says LinkedIn Cannot Block Startup From Public Profile Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't apply to what I'm doing. My Python script isn't a web crawler and I'm scraping my own comments. If you look at the bottom of each Slashdot page:
      "Comments owned by the poster." I'm just recovering my own intellectual property that I freely shared with the Slashdot community.

    If you seriously believe that I'm violating the Slashdot TOS,
      file a compliant with management. However, considering the shit that Anonymous Cowards get away with, I wouldn't hold my breath.

    Your script is sure enough a robot! Whether /. tolerates it or not is irrelevant, your are still not being a nice christian by not following their robot.txt guidelines.

    https://slashdot.org/robots.tx...

    Your user-agent is *, so your robot should not access the following pages:
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /authors.pl
    Disallow: /index.pl
    Disallow: /comments.pl
    Disallow: /firehose.pl
    Disallow: /journal.pl
    Disallow: /messages.pl
    Disallow: /metamod.pl
    Disallow: /users.pl
    Disallow: /search.pl
    Disallow: /submit.pl
    Disallow: /pollBooth.pl
    Disallow: /pubkey.pl
    Disallow: /topics.pl
    Disallow: /zoo.pl
    Disallow: /palm
    Disallow: /slashdot-it.pl
    Disallow: slashdot-it.pl
    Disallow: authors.pl
    Disallow: index.pl
    Disallow: comments.pl
    Disallow: firehose.pl
    Disallow: journal.pl
    Disallow: messages.pl
    Disallow: metamod.pl
    Disallow: users.pl
    Disallow: search.pl
    Disallow: submit.pl
    Disallow: pollBooth.pl
    Disallow: pubkey.pl
    Disallow: topics.pl
    Disallow: zoo.pl
    Disallow: /~
    Disallow: ~

  12. Re: Public Post Should be Open to Everyone on Judge Says LinkedIn Cannot Block Startup From Public Profile Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    An additional note; the same applies if you build an auto-refresh web page in ajax etc. Arrange so that you refresh the page more often than KeepAliveTimeout if you want connections to be re-used by your customer browsers.

  13. Re: Public Post Should be Open to Everyone on Judge Says LinkedIn Cannot Block Startup From Public Profile Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Your phyton script should not know about that. Connection KeepAlive server settings like:
    KeepAlive On
    MaxKeepAliveRequests 50
    KeepAliveTimeout 5

    should be completely transparent to you. Your client library should transparently reconnect when it gets a Connection: close from the server. Heck, some sites don't even use keep alives (KeepAlive Off).

    I have written such client software and I never bothered about MaxKeepAliveRequests setting on the servers and if KeepAlive was on, the libraries I used were doing the re-connection for me so I did not have to know the MaxKeepAliveRequests for every site I was connecting to. Heck, any browser does just the same!

    Also, if you write a scraper, it is a smart move to sleep between request, any scraper like Google, etc. does sleep between request. 1 or 2 seconds is a nice value because your sleep time has to be less than KeepAliveTimeout for the connection to be re-used for the next request.

    https://httpd.apache.org/docs/...
    https://httpd.apache.org/docs/...
    https://httpd.apache.org/docs/...

  14. Re:Mrs. Mash's AGENDA! on I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    My post was buried in an earlier article. Editors on Slashdot rearrange what posts show up for different users.

    You seem to be new here. Are you aware that when you post, your reply seems to be the first right underneath the post you replied to but, if you reload the page, your reply will move all the way to the last reply?

  15. Internet time machine on I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try the Internet time machine with those links, it might work and that's its purpose.

    https://archive.org/web/

  16. Re:Life Pro Tip on Online Critics Decry Even More Wells Fargo Fraud Scandals (boingboing.net) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Desjardins, the biggest credit union in North America has actually become worse than a bank.

    Maybe you can be fine with a small credit union somewhere but the GP is pretty much right nowadays.

  17. Re: manifesto on Should Workplaces Be Re-Defined To Retain Older Tech Workers? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Being on a workout doesn't make much sense. Being on a diet and working out makes more sense. The link you posted below says that the verb requires 2 words.

  18. Re:Gamma radiation... on SpaceX Will Deliver The First Supercomputer To The ISS (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Our testers do that only for non-reproducible bugs. Who cares if you are unable to explain the bug? That's the job of the bug fixer.

  19. Re: manifesto on Should Workplaces Be Re-Defined To Retain Older Tech Workers? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Starving artists don't have money. Try again, asshat.

    That is pretty rude and mean from you with all those revenue streams that you have.

    You could at least give the money from your "Amazon Dot" spam to charities. God will thank you 100 times.

  20. Re: It's needed to preserve the battery on iOS 10 Quietly Deprecated A Crucial API For VoIP and Communication Apps (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice find; printing is older than typewriters!

  21. Re: manifesto on Should Workplaces Be Re-Defined To Retain Older Tech Workers? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that. I don't see why readers should punish me for having a business on the backend...

    You have a business up there?

  22. Re: It's needed to preserve the battery on iOS 10 Quietly Deprecated A Crucial API For VoIP and Communication Apps (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, it makes me think that every time something is working fine, somebody comes along to change it. Typewriter apostrophe has been around, well, since typewriters!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    MS-WORD doesn't even use the same quotation marks for English and French because of those printing inspired people that say that a symbol looks nicer than another depending on the language, establish trends etc. when the used symbol adds no value at all and everybody understands what the symbol means anyway.

    MS-Word had problems implementing that functionality first and many people still have problems, it goes from language analyzer to syntax validation software. Here are a few examples after a very quick search:

    https://tedclancy.wordpress.co...

    http://www.fileformat.info/inf...

    https://www.quora.com/Punctuat...

    http://snowball.tartarus.org/t...

     

  23. Re: It's needed to preserve the battery on iOS 10 Quietly Deprecated A Crucial API For VoIP and Communication Apps (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    Who needs fricking Unicode support to type an apostrophe? It is ASCII code 39, that should be compatible enough with anything. But, no, people use fancy Unicode apostrophes, sometimes OS specific. Why?

  24. Re:The moon will have better coverage than here on Startup To Put Cellphone Tower on the Moon (space.com) · · Score: 1

    creimer doesn't seem to know that. Maybe he thinks parts of the moon go into a blackhole when the sun doesn't shine on them.

  25. Re:My God, the humanity on Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Think of the fishes! My smallest tank is 72 gallons, by biggest 200.