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sentence syntax program

I am looking for a program which I can use to signify sentence syntax above the words. --82.81.171.245 (talk) 09:39, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Here are several programs that might be useful: http://ai.stanford.edu/~rion/parsing/index.html Unfortunately they are all fairly technical and might not be exactly what you are looking for. KarlLohmann (talk) 16:42, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Java J2EE can a program check whether a user would be able to access a URL?

If I have various web resources protected by <security-constraint> entries in the web.xml is there a way to check whether a logged-in user would be able to access a particular URL? It would be useful to display links conditionally so that the user can only see URLs that they could access. -- Q Chris (talk) 12:04, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

This is a tricky one. I have written a (1)program in java that does check if the logged in user can edit the video being looked at (for youtube), however this was done by having my program login for the user. What i think your asking is if your program can assume the ID of the user and test his credentials against another website. However, if you can make the user login though the java program then u can store his information (temporarily) and use that to test the other websites. – Nerd(Talk|Cont)  18:02, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

I am talking about the same website; as far as I can see there is no way to tell if a user will be restricted from a particular path without the user trying to go there. So if you have a menu of directories you cannot easily omit directories that the user cannot access. -- Q Chris (talk) 09:04, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Any webmail services that do not show real names?

I'm trying to find a webmail service that I could use for Wikipedia email. The problem is, that I apparently cannot completely hide my real name from being disclosed somewhere. The "send mail as" feature from GMail only works partially, as when you hover over the nickname, it still shows the real name. I know I could put a fake name in, but that just doesn't seem right. Any advice? Klilidiplomus+Talk 12:27, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

I use gmail with GishPuppy] to hide my ID. -- Q Chris (talk) 13:00, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

As a word of caution, do not rely on what you may or may not see when you hover over something or what is otherwise exposed via the UI. Instead look at the entire original email (e.g. via the 'show original' function in most webmail services) and make sure there's nothing revealed that you don't want to be revealed. For example gMail won't generally publicly reveal the IP of the computer used to send the email, IIRC even if you use the SMTP service which I presume Q Chris is doing, but many webmail services and many ISP servers will. Nil Einne (talk) 13:42, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

I am still worried about when sending an email to someone that also has a Gmail account using Wikipedia's email feature. Klilidiplomus+Talk 15:07, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

I don't really get what you mean. If you are using an email account which is publicly associated with your real name, then finding a way to hide the real name in the gmail is clearly utterly pointless. If you are concerned that Google is going to reveal your real name without your permission then either choose a different provider or use an account with a fake name. Nil Einne (talk) 12:18, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

I don't see the problem with creating a 2nd, anonymous Gmail account. The "fake name" can be something like "Prefer Anonymity". You might be able to set this account up to forward mail to your regular Gmail account. StuRat (talk) 15:45, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

@StuRat There are some people who will never lie (even to a machine) for religious or moral reasons. Klilidiplomus has asked for a way to do it without giving false names and clicking terms and conditions which say that you will not use false names. I think we should give him ways to do that. -- Q Chris (talk) 15:59, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

It isn't lying when you make it clear it's not your name, and that the reason is that you prefer anonymity. StuRat (talk) 23:53, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Google "anonymous email" you'll find a lot of websites like this one and that one. You can test them by trying it on yourself first. You can check the source of the email you received to make sure there is no identifiable info. If you need to send an attachment try Amnesty. Trio The Punch (talk) 17:07, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

It might not seem right to use a fake name for gmail, but it's a good idea to, whether you actually send email or not (because historically you do not even have to send email for people to get to that information). ¦ Reisio (talk) 17:37, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Brute force Ingress invitation code?

Is there some way I can brute force an Ingress invitation code? I believe they're 8-characters in length. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.144.193.174 (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Only if the system accepting input is poorly written. ¦ Reisio (talk) 22:51, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Sharing bookmarks ?

Is there any way to share bookmarks/favorites between my various web browsers ? I use Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and, if need be, even IE. I'd like to keep the same bookmark structures in each, so that when I add a bookmark to one, it appears in the rest, too. Just exporting and importing them would be rather painful, since, even if it worked, this would require me to import into the other 3 every time I add a bookmark. StuRat (talk) 23:52, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Xmarks (no Opera support). Google "sync bookmarks between browsers". Trio The Punch (talk) 02:22, 24 November 2012 (UTC)