bencollier49

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by bencollier49 4y ago
That casts the "wearing a dead fish" thing mentioned elsewhere in a darker hue.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
If they had figure for home working vs in-office, that could really be something worth reading. As it stands, I'm inclined to agree with others who have said there are just too many hidden variables here.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Yes, that was basically my point. There has also been some fairly fevered speculation about epigenetics being responsible for some types of instinct - even "cross-generational memories" and the like.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
An interesting test of some of the claims about epigenetics...
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Police in the UK recommend leaving your car keys somewhere obvious downstairs in your house for similar reasons.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Do you have a link to that Android app? Can't find it and I suppose I ought to prevent the chance of my being tracked by someone for some reason. That said, this abrogates most of the security functions of the tags, doesn't it?
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Just writing their name in reverse would probably work, and be less time consuming.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
IIRC VGA was at a000h and text at b800h.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
This is pretty funny. We're going to run the entire gamut of different verification technologies for them all to become compromised, forcing us to return to in-person transactions for everything. Time to start investing in closed bank
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by bencollier49 4y ago
To add to the above, early medieval fasting rules in Christianity were brutal, arguably much tougher than comparable rules from other major religions at the same time. Then we got decadent. "Noon" is at lunchtime now because the n
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UK police want travel card data to track rail passengers(thetimes.pressreader.com)
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Well my comment above is kind of pedantic and tangential, but I do think it's an interesting point.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I'd not seen that part of it before. I think the trick word here is "manifestly", and some sources seem to indicate that this means that the people would have to have expressly given consent for onward processing. For example
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Sorry to be that person , but I think this is probably a good example of something which is covered by the GDPR. OP has built profiles and is storing information about people, which makes them a data controller under the GDPR, and subject
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Good point.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
They probably heard the term and thought it was cool. But it must be enormously frustrating to people who are involving in making this stuff. That said, it is possible that this could prevent Black Midi (the genre) from becoming a fad, and
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Yep, the subject is almost completely unresearchable as a result. It's rather similar to the situation with the "BBC Micro Bit" which horribly polluted the search space for the original BBC Micro computer.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
This would appear to be a pre-digital example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gVhBxwRqg
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by bencollier49 4y ago
An advanced persistent threat. A sophisticated targeted attack.
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Jack Ma plans to give up control of Ant Group(reuters.com)
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by bencollier49 4y ago
The DLR (Docklands Light Railway) is autonomous, but it's a pretty slow light rail system. I think that automation is possible because it was built de novo and doesn't interface with the rest of the rail network.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Ah, but it won't work on the internet once ISPs are forced to use remote attestation to prove you're using a government approved device.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
> A good start might be adding a CODE button to web browsers That's a brilliant idea.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I'd like to know whether the police have ever been brought in for a scenario like this. It may not seem as clear cut as regular financial fraud, but the end goal is to further one's career, which results in monetary gain. As such,
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I've always thought that was the most plausible of the dystopias, and it's the most terrifying, because there's literally no way of avoiding becoming a target of the state (or whoever it might be assuming state-like functions
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by bencollier49 4y ago
To be honest this is where something like the GDPR does do important work. In this case, Twitter have formed an opinion about this user (which they may have shared more widely). It is important to be able to find out what that opinion is
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Is the RCA 1802 still produced, or do all these designs use old stock?
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Metabolism and stress hormones both seem to play a role. It's going to be a very complex thing - the best treatment for a lot of brain conditions is just exercise.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Interesting, I just looked and certainly in FF it now is. I have a distinct memory of locally cached files returning a 3xx in the past, though.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Do you not get access to the response code as well? That would be simpler.

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