Giorgio Maone - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Inflated Chrome stats because of page prerender (Score 2) 212

by Giorgio Maone on Thursday April 05, @10:49AM (#39585041) Attached to: Chrome Beats Internet Explorer On Any Given Sunday

I doubt they measure number of pages when measuring market share here.

Wrong, that's exactly what they do: Why do you base your stats on page views rather than unique visitors?

And yes, they're aware of the prerendering Chrome stats inflation problem, even though they believe it doesn't significantly skew their stats, for some reason they're unable to explain themselves (sounds like "faith" or "we're too lazy to adjust our data even though we could").

Comment: Inflated Chrome stats because of page prerendering (Score 5, Insightful) 212

by Giorgio Maone on Thursday April 05, @09:23AM (#39583813) Attached to: Chrome Beats Internet Explorer On Any Given Sunday

Does StatCounter take in account Chrome's page views inflation caused by its Instant Pages prerendering feature?

I'd be surprised, since even Google Analytics itself is affected...

Anyway, please be careful before announcing "Chrome usage surpassed this or that" :P

Comment: Re:Only a partial list (Score 2) 131

by Giorgio Maone on Saturday March 17, @07:44AM (#39388061) Attached to: Websites Can Detect What Chrome Extensions You've Installed

You might be interested in this: http://noscript.net/misc/scriptno-detector/

Comment: Aehm (Re:The hack doesn't work for me.) (Score 2) 131

by Giorgio Maone on Saturday March 17, @05:38AM (#39387787) Attached to: Websites Can Detect What Chrome Extensions You've Installed

Ouch: http://noscript.net/misc/notscripts-detector.html

Disclaimer: the original (and only) NoScript can be detected as well, but at least you couldn't be notified by a JavaScript alert() box on a page where JavaScript isn't supposed to run ;)

Comment: Re:Only a partial list (Score 5, Informative) 131

by Giorgio Maone on Saturday March 17, @04:26AM (#39387581) Attached to: Websites Can Detect What Chrome Extensions You've Installed

Two tiny corrections:

He will find all your installed extensions among the ones he's looking for, because every Chrome extension have a manifest.json file. This means that he just needs to crawl https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions for GUIDs of all the installable extensions, and he can detect your full extensions list.
There's no such a generic detection method for Firefox extensions. You can detect some (e.g. adblockers) by testing for their specific behavior and effects on web pages (e.g. how some DOM elements have been removed/hidden/inserted), but you can't develop a catch-all detection script, because Firefox extensions are generally undetectable.

Comment: Did he find his stolen lightsaber? (Score 3, Informative) 128

by Giorgio Maone on Sunday March 11, @07:45AM (#39317241) Attached to: Profile of a Real-Life Jedi Academy

Is he the same "Jedi Master" who allowed is lightsaber to be stolen??

Comment: Fight back with surrogates (Score 3, Informative) 202

by Giorgio Maone on Friday February 17, @05:05PM (#39079249) Attached to: Google Accused of Bypassing Safari's Privacy Controls

sites which won't display their content until I allow Noscript to run all scripts on the page (including advertisers'), turn off Adblock, and disable Ghostery

Surrogate Scripts are meant to deal with this kind of crap.

Could you please show me some URLs to check?

The tunnel between CERN and Central Italy-> 0

Submitted by fph il quozientatore on Saturday September 24 2011, @09:34AM

fph il quozientatore writes "The Italian ministry for university and research complimented the researchers for the recent (supposed) discovery of faster-than-light neutrinos. Her press release (Google machine translation) mentions that Italy funded the construction of a "tunnel between the CERN [in Geneva] and Gran Sasso [the labs in Central Italy]". Google maps reports the distance between the two labs as over 900km — but of course once the tunnel is open to traffic the trip will be much faster."
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Police Seizes Blog over "Kill Berlusconi" Satire-> 2

Submitted by Giorgio Maone on Sunday February 13 2011, @05:21PM

Giorgio Maone writes "Italian Police just seized the Savona e Ponente Blog because the 60 years old journalist Valeria Rossi posted a satiric article titled "I want to kill Berlusconi", writing that "you can't feel guilty of wishing him death, because he's not human: he's an alien, with incredible psychic powers." Otherwise, how could such a clown, with multiple pending trials for corruption, tax offenses, abuse of power and even child prostitution, convince the majority of the other politicians and a consistent slice of Italian people to keep him as their prime minister for almost 20 years now?

Here's a mirror of the incriminating text (Italian)."
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Comment: Re:Mozilla's public disclosure (Score 1) 154

by Giorgio Maone on Tuesday December 28 2010, @06:46AM (#34684616) Attached to: Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data

If they can remember what password they used and where else they might have used it...

If you use Firefox's password manager you can ask it (Tools|Options|Security|Saved Passwords|Show passwords) and even search among its entries, by site, username or password.

Otherwise I'm afraid you will need to change them all :(