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On Friday 18 Sep 2009 9:47:14 am KinkiGirl wrote: > I also have this foot in the mouth disease. antibhay-otics is what you need. shiv

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> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:17 AM, KinkiGirl wrote: Ahem ... did you intend to do that? -- b

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> This was the point I was trying to make gently earlier, but > ultimately decided not to beat him on the head with. :) No amount of clobbering has helped in the last couple of months. That you will find success now, the probability is low. I also have this foot in the mouth disease. Lukhman.

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On Thursday 17 Sep 2009 9:38:03 am Madhu Menon wrote: > You have left me speechless. Not scared shitless i hope :D shiv

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On Thursday 17 Sep 2009 9:16:50 am Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Instead of answering your questions, allow me to retort with this gem, > you're lactose intolerant and you became a chef? This is the classic "Your torn shirt vs my open fly" argument - whose definition features as one of two and a

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2009/9/17 Venkat Inumella > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > wrote: > > > > So instead of trusting my antivirus software which says that the site is > > secure > > When Norton flags a website as secure, it only means that the site is > not a known phishing site and doesn't

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Venkat Inumella wrote: When Norton flags a website as secure, it only means that the site is not a known phishing site and doesn't install any known spyware/malware. The point everyone is making is that Norton has absolutely no way to know what the site - Dropbox, in this instance - does with the

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > > So instead of trusting my antivirus software which says that the site is > secure When Norton flags a website as secure, it only means that the site is not a known phishing site and doesn't install any known spyware/malware. The poi

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > 2009/9/17 Thaths >> Actually, you do. See my earlier comment in this thread about OAuth. >> Never give a third party website your gmail password. Instead, >> authorize gmail to share your contacts (NOT password) with the third >> party

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2009/9/17 Thaths > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > wrote: > > Yes, but if I can't trust my anti-virus software, and not my OS, and my > job > > is designing web applications, I don't have much choice do I? > > Actually, you do. See my earlier comment in this thread about

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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Yes, but if I can't trust my anti-virus software, and not my OS, and my job > is designing web applications, I don't have much choice do I? Actually, you do. See my earlier comment in this thread about OAuth. Never give a third party

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Yes, but if I can't trust my anti-virus software, and not my OS, and my job > is designing web applications, I don't have much choice do I? To be able to > do my job effectively means I have to explore features of as many new > websit

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2009/9/17 Udhay Shankar N > I think you're being (at best) misguided in trusting your software so > much. I could write lots of ranty text to support my view, but I'll > settle, for now, for Two Words (all right, three): "Zero-day exploit" > [1]. > > As a more general comment, see [2]. > > Udhay

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: >> Oh good lord! You have left me speechless. >> This Norton Internet Security... it has access to information on all the >> backend setups of the sites you visit... magically? >> > > Yes and if they don't have info yet, they tell me so

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2009/9/17 Gautam John > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > wrote: > > > Not really. I have no choice but to be involved in hiring given the line > of > > work I'm in. > > You could choose to stop giving away your passwords - Madhu can't stop > being lactose intolerant. While

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2009/9/17 Madhu Menon > Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > > But then, what does hiring for tech positions and giving away passwords >> have >> to do with each other? I have given away my password on many sites which >> Norton Internet Security confirms is safe. >> > > Oh good lord! You have left me s

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Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: But then, what does hiring for tech positions and giving away passwords have to do with each other? I have given away my password on many sites which Norton Internet Security confirms is safe. Oh good lord! You have left me speechless. This Norton Internet Security..

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Not really. I have no choice but to be involved in hiring given the line of > work I'm in. You could choose to stop giving away your passwords - Madhu can't stop being lactose intolerant. While you could both change jobs, you'd still

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Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: Instead of answering your questions, allow me to retort with this gem, you're lactose intolerant and you became a chef? As an analogy, that one's off the mark by a mile. I did not choose to be lactose intolerant. For what it's worth, about 70% of the world's popula

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2009/9/17 Gautam John > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > wrote: > > >> You hire for tech positions? And you give your password away to sites > like > >> that? > > Instead of answering your questions, allow me to retort with this gem, > > you're lactose intolerant and you be

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: >> You hire for tech positions? And you give your password away to sites like >> that? > Instead of answering your questions, allow me to retort with this gem, > you're lactose intolerant and you became a chef? Eh? One is a choice and o

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2009/9/17 Madhu Menon > Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > > Well I imported them (by giving them my password, which I do often on >> sites >> I *think* I can trust). >> > > You hire for tech positions? And you give your password away to sites like > that?

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Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: Well I imported them (by giving them my password, which I do often on sites I *think* I can trust). You hire for tech positions? And you give your password away to sites like that? -- <<< * >>> Madhu Menon Shiok Far-eastern Cuisine | Moss Cocktail Lounge

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2009/9/16 Eugen Leitl > Of course that's the problem. It's a nice free service, with > no obvious way how they make money. > Not really. They do have paid accounts which increase your storage capacity. > > of me sending out invites to everybody on my gmail contact list. > > See, how in the wo

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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:23:01AM +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Well, don't know about that. Its a nice service. This was entirely a result Of course that's the problem. It's a nice free service, with no obvious way how they make money. > of me sending out invites to everybody on my gmail

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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > It was with my involvement. I just hit send invites by mistake after > importing all contacts in gmail by mistake. *In* gmail or *from* gmail? Also, did you, by any chance, end up typing your gmail password in the Dropbox site (in whic

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2009/9/16 ss > On Wednesday 16 Sep 2009 7:23:01 am Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > > Well, don't know about that. Its a nice service. This was entirely a > result > > of me sending out invites to everybody on my gmail contact list. > > May I ask if these invites are typically sent out actively by yo

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On Wednesday 16 Sep 2009 7:23:01 am Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Well, don't know about that. Its a nice service. This was entirely a result > of me sending out invites to everybody on my gmail contact list. May I ask if these invites are typically sent out actively by your involvement or without

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2009/9/16 Eugen Leitl > I figured dropbox were spammers, when trying to understand > their business model. Killfiled the domain. > Well, don't know about that. Its a nice service. This was entirely a result of me sending out invites to everybody on my gmail contact list. Kiran

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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:06:42PM +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > Sorry about this. Thought I had deselected, but I hadn't. I figured dropbox were spammers, when trying to understand their business model. Killfiled the domain. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org _

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Sorry about this. Thought I had deselected, but I hadn't. Kiran 2009/9/15 Dropbox > We're excited to let you know that Kiran Karthikeyan has invited you to > Dropbox! > > Kiran Karthikeyan has been using Dropbox to sync and share files online and > across computers, and thought you might want i

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We're excited to let you know that Kiran Karthikeyan has invited you to Dropbox! Kiran Karthikeyan has been using Dropbox to sync and share files online and across computers, and thought you might want it too. Visit http://www.getdropbox.com/link/20.yoIdd_QGRH/NjI4NDg2MjI3 to get started. - The