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Using Websites To Hijack User’s Bandwidth – Bit Torrent Style

Friday, August 24th, 2007

A few days ago I had this insane idea while thinking about all those ad spamming and stealth dialup sites – we can take advantage of a user visiting a specially crafted page to upload data to other users. It’s both stupid and simple. Torrent sites and clients only would need a few changes and […]


Get Scrollbar Size Using Javascript

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

While searching for a snippet of code that could give me the scrollbar width (or height) on the browser I only found this code that does not work at all in IE, only “well-behaved” browsers work, states the author. Later I found this snippet (somewhere in the last result pages of Google) that seemed to […]


Web 2.0 = Anti-Objective Web

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Web 2.0 this… Web 2.0 that… All we here is the wonder of this new apparently more responsive and pretty Web we’ve been used to in the last years startups and now some big players like Microsoft, Yahoo and Google. Turns out that in my opinion Web 2.0 is not so great, Web 3.0 won’t […]