A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail (38)
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Ashik Ratnani writes with this snippet from Hungry Hackers: "A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas. Last week Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, and not only, authentication. users who did not turn it on now have a serious ...
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Andrew said:
This is a good new feature, everyone go turn this on!
Ingredients for Turning Stiff New Sheets Soft [Household] (18)
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The Sundry Buzz blog's Linda doesn't like to jump onto stiff, scratchy sheets after bringing them home from the shop. After a little net research, she found a seemingly sure-fire way of making them feel like favorites after a first wash. The trick is to use the hottest water, no detergent, lots of fabric softener, and a cup of baking soda during the wash cycle. When they emerged, the sheets were fresh-smelling and "a thousand ...
For those about to rock (Cinefamily video) (3)
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(NSFW: video contains nudity). The kind folks behind LA's long-running Cinefamily ("an organization of movie lovers devoted to finding and presenting interesting and unusual programs of exceptional, distinctive, weird and wonderful films") put together this YouTube tribute to our great and powerful nation. It features the four things that make America awesome: (1) strippers (2) wrestlers playing guitar (3) babies in patriot drag (4) AC/DC It was originally produced for a 4th of July event ...
BeatThat! Community Finds Online Shopping Deals [Shopping] (7)
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Community shopping site BeatThat! offers an index of deals all over the web, provided by members of the site as well as sucked in automatically. Search for a product to get the deals available for it, see merchant ratings, and user comments about the deal (check out this Nikon D40 listing to get a taste). What's the incentive for users to submit better deals than BeatThat! already has listed? Money: the site pays members who ...
Weird Clouds (2)
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Environmental Graffiti has a really neat post about 30 of the weirdest-looking clouds in the sky. There’s something fishy about this cloud to the left. The photo was taken by Gavin Tobin, a cloudspotter for the Cloud Appreciation Society, over the skies of The Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland. Check out the entire gallery: Link - Thanks Linda!
Diagramming Tool For SQL Select Statements (10)
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alxtoth writes "Snowflake is a new BSD-licensed tool that parses SQL Select statements and generates a diagram. It shows parts of the underlying SQL directly in the diagram. For example: x=30, GROUP BY (year), SUM (sales), HAVING MIN (age) > 18. The primary reason for the tool was to avoid Cartesian joins and loops in SQL written by hand, with many joined tables. The database will execute such a statement, if syntactically correct, resulting in ...
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Brent Ozar said:
The tool isn't that big of a deal, but the comments in this article are hilarious flames between DBA camps.
How to cook bamboo shoots (takenoko) (1)
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There are two Japanese vegetables that I can’t get fresh here that I miss very much. One is burdock root or gobo; the other is bamboo shoot or takenoko (竹の子 or 筍）. Bamboo shoots are very much a spring-only vegetable, much like asparagus, so around this time of year I always get a craving for the crunch and subtle flavor. While fresh bamboo shoots haven’t made their appearance at markets and stores in Zürich, it ...
Big Macs Explain International Exchange Rates (1)
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From A Hamburger Today The Economist makes it easier for us to understand how the Swiss franc, Czech koruna, and other international currencies stack up economically by using Big Macs. Based on the theory of purchasing-power parity, which argues that, ideally, exchange rates move to reach equilibrium, this index allows the mega sandwich to predict exchange rates. While it's a crafty analysis—and who doesn't like a melancholy Ronald McDonald in an Economist chart—different countries look ...
Yeah Its Friday! (1)
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Picture viaThe Power of make up and celebrities12 Interesting WordsGreatest moments in porn history (SFW)Need to feel motivated or inspired?
A Photo That Can Steal Your Online Credentials? (5)
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TedSamsonIW writes "InfoWorld reports on a new potential ploy for stealing Web user's private information: Researcher has found that by placing a new type of hybrid file on Web sites that let users upload their own images, they can circumvent security systems and take over Web surfers' accounts. 'They call this type of file a GIFAR, a contraction of GIF (graphics interchange format) and JAR (Java Archive), the two file-types that are mixed. At Black ...
In Videos: Cheesus: Jesus in Cheetos Form (2)
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From Required Eating The lord moves in mysterious ways, but how often is artificial cheddar powder involved? Virgin Mary toast was just the beginning of religious visions you can eat. Kelly Ramey of High Ridge, Missouri, was just crunching along when she spotted "Cheesus," the crucifixion-reminiscent single Cheeto she's now storing in a special box. "I looked at that and thought, oh, my, that looks like Jesus...it was just like wow!" She's not selling it ...
Milky Way Over Ontario (5)
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Photo: Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn This amazing photo of the Milky Way over Binbrook, Ontario, Canada, was taken by Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn of Weather and Sky Photography: I was really lucky that the the water was beautiful and still enough so that the stars casted a nice reflection in the water. In this shot you can also see Jupiter, various nebulas in the MilkyWay, Rho Ophiuchus and the light dome from a distant town. A little ...
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MiramarMike said:
By golly we live in a beautiful universe
SSH-Agent Saves Time During Remote Logins [Command Line] (9)
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If you're constantly logging into a remote server using SSH and you're sick of typing your password every time, tech site Webmonkey details how to save time without sacrificing security. Using SSH-Agent, a utility that acts as a broker between your local machine and remote machine, you can log in without typing your password every time (but also securing your private key from attackers). Hit up Webmonkey to get the rundown on using SSH-Agent on ...
Slashdot | AT&T To Cut Off P2P Users (7)
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malign noted that AT&T has stated that using P2P on their 3G wireless network is grounds for disconnection. The lobbyist told congress "Use of a P2P file sharing application would constitute a material breach of contract for which the user's service could be terminated."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Mark said:
Right. So that would be that contract that nobody reads, and which you can unilaterally amend at anytime without notice, right? I hate you.
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Clint said:
not that it's practical to use p2p on a cellphone, but this is yet another point against iPhones and AT&T in general
Learn to Use Cron from the Command Line [Tutorial] (13)
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We've shown you graphical alternatives to the Unix-based Cron automation tool before (for Windows, Mac, and Linux), but IBM has put together a clear and straightforward guide that makes the...
