Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it looks like if you could install a system font on a computer then you could create a unique fingerprint for that computer that is detectable by any website?
I am uniquely identifiable out of the 3.7 million samples because of my system fonts.
I have a boxee and I'd been thinking about how to implement this for a while.
It seems like it should be possible to have a box act as a web server proxy where it mirrors a web page to several displays.
It would be pretty slick if you could get a simple http proxy to support screen mirroring like this, because then it wouldn't matter what combination of set top box / phone / tablet you have... you could mirror anything.
"There also seems to be some performance problems arising. But nobody has been pushing any updates to fix that. So you need to reboot the device every now and then."
I've been having the same problem. I've configured it to stop scanning my Windows PC network shared and that seems to have fixed the "endlessly rebooting every 30 seconds" problem I was having... but I'm still having a problem where if I leave it on for over a day then it will lock up or lose internet connectivity.
My other big gripe is that when I use the menu to shutdown it just locks up the box instead of shutting down.
I've be consider giving the hacked boxeeplus firmware a try, but I haven't bothered because I know it's not supported either.
I was happy that they included the "you should change your password on all other websites if it is the same" line.
I find that's the biggest hurdle that average users can't grasp, it's not about one website getting hacked.. it's that if your ubisoft password is the same as your email address password then they can now log into your email address, which means they can probably take over every online account you have.
The content here varies from philosophy to poetry to programming to prosaic FAQ. It is everything I felt worth writing for the past few years that didn’t fit somewhere like Wikipedia or was already written - "…I realised that I wanted to read about them what I myself knew. More than this - what only I knew. Deprived of this possibility, I decided to write about them. Hence this book."2 I never expected to write so much, but I discovered that once I had a hammer, nails were everywhere, and that supply creates its own demand3. I believe that someone who has been well-educated will think of something worth writing at least once a week; to a surprising extent, this has been true. (I have added ~130 documents to this repository over the past 3 years.)
It shows several stories at once, not just the google brainteasers stories.
2. In general, people would rather read the real article instead of a summary of the article. When someone submits a summary of an article to a site like HN or reddit, it is usually flagged as blog-spam because we'd rather read/support the original content than a summary with questionable value.
3. For long form articles, nothing beats reading the print-preview page to get rid of all the sidebars, comments, ads. Look at the print preview page: it is not possible to get less distraction free than that. Any other format has more distractions.
Even aside from that, the New York Times has some of the best information architecture in the business. These are the guys who did NYTProf. Their web team is awesome.
4.2: I see a vertical scroll bar in the middle of my screen on Firefox.
4.3 The black header bar which is fixed and stays on the screen all the time even though it conveys no useful information to me.
4.4: A bunch of text blurbs on the left side of the screen that convey no useful information to me.
You say you're trying to be as distraction free as possible, but that's not actually true because it isn't possible to have your business model and be as distraction free as possible. The print preview page is as distraction free as possible.
Black Mirror S01E03: The Entire History of You was a pretty decent episode of a Twilight-Zone-like show about the dark side of having a video recording of your entire life.
I love the idea of the heartbeat feature. Is that a real feature of the iwatch?