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Did you completely quit the browser in between your visits? Because if the instance of Chrome from which you opened the incognito windows have been running between your visits, it may have retrieved these from the memory, even if you closed the incognito window after the first visit.
I know that in Chrome's incognito mode, nothing gets written to the disk at all (including Flash's Shared Objects). So if I open an incognito window, browse, then close Chrome, then open another incognito window and return to the page, does this defeat all this?
We operate a large site with thousands of PayPal payments per day. This is a sample email we just got from PP:
Hello ....,
We were recently notified that a payment you received was reversed by the buyer's bank.
As a result, we have reversed the following transaction: Transaction date: xxx Transaction amount: xxx USD Buyer's email: xxx Buyer's name: xxx Your transaction ID: xxxx
PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for our buyers and sellers. You can help protect yourself against claims and reversals by following the guidelines of our .
Thanks,
PayPal
Note that their email template has a bug: it says " following the guidelines of our ."! Cannot they fix their email templates? They are dealing with f..ing real money! The Viagra spam that I get has less bugs in their email templates!
Actionscript 3.0 is much more sophisticated than Javascript/HTML5. The capabilities of HTML5 are equivalent to Actionscript1.0/Flash Player 6, circa 2004 (these demos were entirely possible even in Flash Player 5 perhaps). Plus, Flash is reasonably cross-platform (except for iPhone/iPad of course). On another note, making embeddable widgets (slideshows, videos with more than just viewing functionality, like Youtube) is very hard in Javascript, since any complex embedded Javascript would likely clash with other scripts on the page (we have experienced this, making a complex Javascript widget, that ended up clashing with Adsense ads of our customers, it was a nightmare to debug that).
Incidentally, I brought up my task manager while viewing these demos, the CPU utilization jumped from 5% to 97% (Core 2 Duo, 1.66 GHz).
I actually doubt that Adobe has the competence to make high quality software, that would be required for mobile Flash (due to serious optimization that is required). There is probably not enough engineering culture in the company for that. I also think that a proper software company cannot be located in San Francisco itself, otherwise they tend to attract programmers that are too cool/have to many outside interests to write a high quality code.
Or, if you want to really delete a file, use #shred filename command
#man shred SHRED(1) User Commands SHRED(1)
NAME shred - overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it
I especially like the -n option!
Good news for AMD and ARM that Intel is getting diluted with irrelevant stuff!
We do not want Google to know the true size of our service, so we have analytics code in every 5th pageview (when templates are constructed by scripts, it inserts the analytics code only when the UNIX time is divisible by 5.
I do not think they control a botnet- they download that LOIC tool individually, specifically for DDoS purpose. Gawker does not seem to have a serious infrastructure: it looks like they are hosted on DATAGRAM.COM, they do not even have their own IP ranges. So it's probably easy to knock down.
In order the remedy this problem, the unlocked multi-carrier phones should be just as available as ISP-neutral PCs. This is clearly not the case, a typical user does not know where or how to buy an unlocked Droid X (and even if they bought it on eBay, it only works on Verizon anyway).
So your comparison is not adequate.
Does it mean that any site can be shut down if it's used by terrorists? Which one is next: facebook, because terrorists can create a group there and send messages, twitter, because a terrorist cell can use it to coordinate attacks, or perhaps wordpress? Which service will be shut down next?
I call bullshit re: Alexa complaint! We have the same number of uniques (although 2x less pageviews), and Alexa shows much lower rank for our site - about 3,000. Their Alexa numbers are overly favorable (Alexa rank 147).
This is great news for China. While the Silicon Valley gets rotten from inside, making this useless stuff, they will be buying bankrupt US chip companies and making their own microprocessors.
Fry's are not all the same. The only one that has a decent components section is in Palo Alto. Other stores, in San Jose, Mountain View etc do not have anything.