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Comment: Re:On no. 1 & 3: Never trust the client (Score 1) 265

by Rigrig (#37106332) Attached to: Hard Truths About HTML5

Don't trust the client, store things like geolocation data and other such things server-side.

Uhm, where do you think you got those coordinates from in the first place?
TFA isn't talking about sending geoip data back to browsers to store it in a cookie, it's about getting GPS data from visitors, who will want to lie about it, e.g. to get free beers for logging in at a specific spot several days in a row.

Comment: Re:Every "investment" in EVE is a scam. (Score 4, Interesting) 171

by Rigrig (#37099738) Attached to: <em>EVE Online</em> Ponzi Scheme Nets $50k Worth of In-Game Currency
FTFA:

Along the way, 345.18 billion ISK was paid out to investors as interest to make sure the scheme kept going. Another 452.72 billion was withdrawn by worried investors before the company shut down; that left 1,034 billion ISK in the hands of the company's owners.

I always wonder how many of these worried investors recognized the scheme for what it was right away, and decided to try and make some profit out of it themselves.

Comment: Re:Problem will solve itself (Score 1) 535

by Rigrig (#36352926) Attached to: Bitcoin Used For the Narcotics Trade
Most people would just not buy from that person again. With the profit margins on drugs being as huge as they are, dealers make more money from only two sales than from ripping you off once.
Also, if your business model consists of consistently ripping off people willing to buy illegal drugs, my guess is it probably won't be too long before you piss off the kind of people that do believe in physical customer feedback. (Although obviously they won't be able to find you, as all the wire tapping is exclusively accessible to incorruptible people that only have your safety against terrorism, child porn, and crimethink on their mind.)

Comment: Re:Tools for OS X and Linux (Score 1) 248

by Rigrig (#36291062) Attached to: What's Killing Your Wi-Fi?
There's inSSIDer for Linux, although Kismet is nice, it doesn't output pretty pictures :p (Seriously though, the graphical overview of networks is a nice addition to just a textual list of networks and their strengths for each channel, especially for seeing the overlap if they're using something besides the three standard channels)

Comment: Re:unrealistic armchair approach (Score 1) 254

by Rigrig (#36248172) Attached to: Experts Say Gestural Interfaces Are a Step Backwards In Usability

Companies spending too much time perfecting their UI design will go out of business while their competitors are shipping flawed but ultimately usable products.

There's a difference between perfecting a UI design and inflicting completely new, experimental ideas on unsuspecting users. Testing which particular gesture would be best for each interaction might take too much time, but completely omitting menus (leaving the only way to accomplish anything to be guessing the right gesture) is something that should've been thought over (especially if your target platform ships with a physical 'menu' button).

Comment: Re:Why would you think the numbers would match up? (Score 1) 319

by Rigrig (#36002562) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Monitor Your Own Bandwidth Usage?

In any event, the only number that means anything in your relationship with your ISP is their number. You will not be able to convince them that your number is "right" or "more correct" than their number.

You might not be able to convince them, but you are able to switch ISP.

If you flaunt it, expect to have it trashed.

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