Posts Tagged ‘from_pdm’

Low-level password protection

Sunday, August 4th, 2019

QT:{{”
You set up two pages (e.g., page.html and protectpage.html). page.html has the javascript code snippet within the tags. protectpage.html has the protected information. If someone enters the correct password — ‘letmein’ in the example — the protected page opens in a new browser window.

Of course, the password is identifiable by viewing page source. Also, a webcrawling bot will probably index or scrape protectpage.html at some point.

Anything more sophisticated is challenging.
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http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/cut10.shtml

Low-level password protection

Sunday, August 4th, 2019

QT:{{”
You set up two pages (e.g., page.html and protectpage.html). page.html has the javascript code snippet within the tags. protectpage.html has the protected information. If someone enters the correct password — ‘letmein’ in the example — the protected page opens in a new browser window.

Of course, the password is identifiable by viewing page source. Also, a webcrawling bot will probably index or scrape protectpage.html at some point.

Anything more sophisticated is challenging.
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DTC genetic testing

Saturday, January 26th, 2019

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-marketplace-1.4980976

A similar video segment also aired on CBC’s national news program ‘The National’ last night (about 500,000 viewers on average). And the story is on the CBC news homepage today.
https://www.cbc.ca/news

Batch Cloud Data Transfer Services – Amazon Snowball Appliance

Saturday, December 9th, 2017

Batch Cloud Data Transfer for @AWScloud
https://AWS.amazon.com/snowball & https://AWS.amazon.com/snowmobile Snail mail trumps email for really large data. Interesting to calculate effective transfer rates as compared “Ethernet.” Surprised that I couldn’t find even crude estimates.

Toy for your office

Monday, June 19th, 2017

https://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-NASA-Apollo-Saturn-V-21309

It’s 1 meter tall when built (tallest lego set ever made) and has 1969 pieces (year of the Apollo 11 launch).

The design was submitted by a couple of LEGO fans, and the company decided to manufacture the set.

Currently sold out, but they will be manufacturing more sets until 2018.

Whole organism lineage tracing by combinatorial and cumulative genome editing | Science

Wednesday, August 17th, 2016

Whole-organism lineage tracing by combinatorial… genome editing, w. #CRISPR + seq. barcodes, by @JShendure lab
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/05/25/science.aaf7907 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/05/25/science.aaf7907