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Comment on Who the fuck is yaron shohat and why does he want my social security number by annoyed by securesuite.net

annoyed by securesuite.net — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:59:25 +0000

I can’t believe that JetBlue does that.
That was truly a horrid online experience.
I was convinced that it was a phishing scam.
Why the hell are they asking for SS digits?

Comment on XMonad on Ubuntu by Joey

Joey — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:06:22 +0000

gdm does not run ~/.xinitrc, but it will run ~/.xsession. I simply symlink the two files to not have to worry about how X was started.

(If you start xmonad this way, you will want to start gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-panel manually from your ~/.xsession.)

Comment on XMonad on Ubuntu by oberhamsi

oberhamsi — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:50:51 +0000

the comment above has bad advice. this will have strange results regarding gnome-session-settings, etc. do it the - not much harder - right way for maximum xmonad pleasure

Comment on XMonad on Ubuntu by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:34:40 +0000

If you want to trivially use XMonad with your gnome desktop in ubuntu you can just edit .gnomerc :

export WINDOW_MANAGER=${HOME}/bin/xmonad

Comment on Who the fuck is yaron shohat and why does he want my social security number by Eric Baird

Eric Baird — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:32:24 +0000

Yep, there seem to be people running critical stuff at Visa who appear to know nothing about internet security.

We’re told never to enter our card details into an unknown popup window, and then Visa’s securty system asks us to do exactly that. We’re told that if we’re dealing with a reputable financial company, they’ll NEVER suddenly switch us to an unfamiliar domain name mid-way through a transaction. And that’s exactly what Visa does. Who the hell are securesuite? Never heard of them. Why isn’t the Domain explicitly a Visa site? That’d at least give us the comfort of knowing that if the domain was fraudulently labelled, that the owners were probably comitting an offence somehow. But if you enter your card details into a completely unknown domain whose name doesn’t hook up to anything you’ve ever heard of, and it goes wrong, then that’s negligence on your part. We’re told that any user who’d do this is behaving irresponsibly. But they still ask us to do it.

And it gets even worse.
One of the giveaway signs of a phishing site is that their domain is one letter away from that of another “respectable” domain (say, micrcsoft.com). “Securesuite” sounds like a one-letter spin on “securesite”, so the name immediately sets alarm bells ringing.

So who the hell at Visa doesn’t know these things? And what the hell are they doing being allowed to set up redirects and javascript stuff on a Visa security site?

Comment on My side project list by rocky

rocky — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:26:50 +0000

Choose pydbgr.

Also, with respect to Emacs and pydbgr, see http://github.com/rocky/emacs-dbgr

Comment on Meeting Tim O’Reilly by Kevin Flaherty

Kevin Flaherty — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:08:52 +0000

Wow, that is an awesome story man. I don’t remember you telling me that one, last on like that i remember was the Cramer story. Your wild dude!

Comment on python debug mode in emacs by Paddy Mullen

Paddy Mullen — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:27:01 +0000

Yes I did get it to work. I also got pymacs and ropemacs to work. I forgot exactly what I did, but it wasn’t anything extraordinary.

Comment on python debug mode in emacs by doug

doug — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:29:55 +0000

Have you gotten pdb to integrate with emacs under windows? I can’t seem to make this work.

Comment on Election for the next New York Tech Meetup Organizer by Sanford

Sanford — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:11:32 +0000

Thanks Paddy - truly.