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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 4y ago
The sanctions imposed on South Africa in the 1980s absolutely crippled the country and are widely seen as a successful contribution in the efforts of bringing down Apartheid.
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 6y ago
At least the pdf version of the ToS for users in Germany is exactly 15 pages long: https://www.gstatic.com/policies/terms/pdf/20200331/ba461e2f... Can't check other countries since Google automatica
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 6y ago
> In this case Google provided a reason - a ToS violation. When the ToS are 15 pages long this is about as useful as hearing "You're being arrested for breaking the law" when you're in the back of a cop car. Doesn&#x2
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 6y ago
Not a tautology but yes, that is essentially what I am saying. I just found it weird that people seem to be focusing on all sorts of factors like family structure, median income, winter holidays, Fasching/Karneval celebrations etc (whi
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 6y ago
Also, if you compare the map of corona cases with population density maps of Germany you will see a strong correlation.
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 7y ago
That is actually a pretty clever solution, I wish I had thought of that back then.
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 7y ago
Assuming what is and isn't valid for user inputs is a dangerous game because there are always exceptions. I ran into a similar issue with many online retailers when I was living in the inner city of Mannheim, Germany because a lot of o
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y ago
I was also quite amused by: 12345678987654321
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y ago
This seems to be a post in response to Canonical's plans to add amazon ads to searches in your home lens. See: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/online-shopping-features-...
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y ago
The iPhone App is the best example of this waste of space. That banner image takes up about 1/3 of the screen, leaving 2/3 for UI elements, actual information like follower/following and tweet count and one single tweet. It's not only a was
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y ago
There is also his campaign site "Redditors for Obama" https://barackobama.com/reddit Not definite proof but if someone hacked the POTUS's Twitter Account and posted a fake IAMA to reddit it would probably have been shut down by now.
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y ago
Exactly, those features are the complete opposite of what µtorrent once set out to be: a lightweight torrent client.
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y ago
The feature list of the paid version does not mention removing advertisements though. Only virus protection, the ability to play more file types, transcoding and remote access.
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y ago
And all that is (or should be) completely irrelevant since we are talking about a British guy hosting a website that not primarily targeted US audience. I am not a lawyer but I am fairly sure O'Dwyer does not have to abide the Digital Mille
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y ago
The search thing is really interesting to me. I'm no lawyer but couldn't this theoretically be used in court by Inman since FunnyJunk apparently makes it extra hard for content creators like Inman, the Cyanide & Happiness guys et cetera
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y ago
My (German) bank only allows passwords up to 5 characters. When I ranted about it on twitter some IT guy from a local branch commented about that is totally enough since they do an hour lockout after 3 wrong tries. I'm thinking about switch
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y ago
I forgot my password as well, it started with 'moron'. :(
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 14y ago
When you create a board you can decide whether only you or you and contributers can pin stuff on that board. The contributors have to be manually added to the board though.
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y ago
I seriously have no idea what Microsoft thought when they decided to abandon the start button. They trained their users for nearly two decades to use the start menu and abandon it for a weird hybrid between desktop OS and tablet OS which en
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y ago
You are correct. They managed to gain access to the email account of one of the participants and simply used the information in the email about the conference call to dial in. This is the email http://pastebin.com/8G4jLha8 and at the begi
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y ago
It might decrease piracy but a 24 hour delay is still not what I would consider a 'simultaneous' release in Internet time. People want to watch shows as soon as possible and participate in discussions about the latest episode and a lot of p
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y ago
I am pretty sure what I am talking about is cognitive dissonance theory as developed by Leon Festinger. Cognitive dissonance is a discomfort caused by a conflict of two cognitions. In this case 1) "I like this book" and 2) "I did not pay fo
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y ago
Neil Gaiman has the same opinion as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qkyt1wXNlI I think one of the effects we can observe here is cognitive dissonance. If people pirate a book or a movie or an album they like but did not pay for it t
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y ago
What's really annoying to me is that they post previews for the upcoming episodes of for example The Big Bang Theory, make you watch the ads and then tell you that the video is not available in your region.
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y ago
Exactly my thoughts. I'm German so even if my favorite shows finally made it to Germany after years they are usually butchered by a sloppy at best dubbing. If I insisted on English audio I'd have to wait another year to buy the DVDs. I woul
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y ago
It certainly looks like him. The image was provided by facebook as well so I guess it would be pretty safe to assume it's MZ.
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y ago
When I heard about the white hat card I imagined it having a more facebooky look. Like facebook blue and "white hat" in the facebook font. The debit card is a really cool idea though.
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y ago
Even though SOPA is an American bill it still has a very big impact on the internet for citizens in every other country. That being said I think it still makes sense for the site to just list American entrepreneurs/developers/designers/etc.
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y ago
A second try gives me a 'visited' result on almost every page (except techbuy). The first try was pretty correct though.
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by cf0ed2aa-bdf5 15y ago
Mostly right for me except it didn't know I visited twitter and facebook (both tabs are open right now). That's probably due to me blocking facebook and twitter widgets on sites other than Fb and twitter though.

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