kamjam

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by kamjam 9y ago
As a user who has just bought their first computer, would you a) like to go to the shop and spend money to buy more software b) try to figure out this thing called FTP, maybe going to the library to read up on it even though you have never
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by kamjam 10y ago
Or, just wrote you name, number and email on some stickers and put them on the bottom of the laptop. It doesn't have to be high tech, and in this story the woman who took the laptop could have got in touch much sooner.
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by kamjam 10y ago
When the vote is as close add it was, there is no high ground. It's a win/loss by a tiny majority. If remain had won I would like to think that people would have had enough sense to know that almost half the population is disgrunt
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by kamjam 10y ago
I assume you're talking about the triggering of Article 50 - the decision of the Supreme Court case which we are still waiting for on whether Parliament needs to vote before it can be triggered or the Prime Minister can trigger it usin
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by kamjam 10y ago
Yes, because becoming a tax haven has always done wonders for shifting money from the uber rich to the working class people. /sarc The UK really needs to sort out it's internal policies and spread the wealth around the country and
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by kamjam 10y ago
Maybe you've misunderstood how democracy works with a dictatorship. Just because your "side" lost the vote does not mean you cave in and blindly follow down a blind alley. By your reasoning, the other opposition parties (Labo
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by kamjam 10y ago
What happens when something like nuget.org/npm/other equivalents that you have a dependency on from your code/build system go down? Unless you are self-hosting everything then there is a reliance on 3rd parties. Even when you
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by kamjam 10y ago
> Simple explanation would be that activists use Signal. But why do activists simply not use WhatsApp, instead of Signal? If both were suppose to be fully encrypted and secure, why not use the tool that is available. I assume the needing
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by kamjam 10y ago
I've never understood this "UK is creepy cos of all the cameras they have". Yes, there are a lot of them in the built up cities, most are privately owned and a lot are probably directly controlled by the government (and relat
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by kamjam 10y ago
What about selling them very very cheaply as an Amazon Add-on item?
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by kamjam 10y ago
It's also worth bearing in mind that America, the godfather of capitalism, have just had their crazy election. People were saying they as a nation had been left behind due to globalization. Isn't the capitalist market supposed to
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by kamjam 10y ago
"There's a principle of ideology that we must never look at our own crimes. We should on the other hand exult in the crimes of others and in our own nobility in opposing them." I believe the quote is from Noam Chomsky but cou
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by kamjam 10y ago
That's the same for any country, not just Cuba. The wealth distribution of the US or any other western society is not evenly distributed and the pay gap is growing even more rapidly.
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by kamjam 10y ago
Did not know the limit had been increased, and agree about checkout staff having no clue when the pin does not work (happens a fair amount with foreign cards). I've seen a lot of people in the US not sign their card and instead write
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by kamjam 10y ago
In the UK at least, all our payments in store above £20 require a PIN to be used (payments below £20 you can use the fairly recently introduced touch pay which just requires you to touch the card to the payment machine). If you are purchasi
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by kamjam 10y ago
The article also mentioned nothing about the drug being sold on the website either. I presume they must have had to go to a doctor to get a prescription which they would then take to a pharmacy to get the drug... so going to the doctor and
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by kamjam 10y ago
I agree with you totally. I'm sure the author feels some responsibility for having some played some part of this, but it's the pharma company that should be ashamed. With regards to advertising, I'm from the UK so we don&#x27
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The target=“_blank” vulnerability by example(dev.to)
7 points by kamjam 10y ago|0 comments
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Android malware has infected 85M devices and makes creators $300,000 month(zdnet.com)
2 points by kamjam 10y ago|0 comments
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by kamjam 10y ago
Maybe buy a height-adjustable standing desk. I used one of these for about 10 months working on a project in Denmark where the motorised versions seemed very common. Gives a break from sitting down all and useful for huddling a couple of co
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by kamjam 10y ago
I stopped using the FB App back in 2014 when the upgrade required a whole heap of additional permissions - the ones you mention. It then forced the update along with separating out the Messenger app. The mobile web version gave me everythin
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by kamjam 10y ago
If a company made a life saving drug and then released the patent say after 5 years of exploitation, I'd agree with the argument as well.
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by kamjam 10y ago
In my experience of using the service, and Montreal is a much smaller city than London (where I am from), you don't want a car every weekend. I was usually able to find a car for hire as long as I booked in advance (esp for Bank Holi
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by kamjam 10y ago
When I was living in Montreal for a couple of years I signed up to a community car share scheme. No insurance, no maintenance, no road taxes so it worked out cheaper to "rent a car" just when I needed it: https://www.co
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by kamjam 10y ago
There is not I'm afraid, you have to mark the ballot paper. So the way round it is to mark the paper outside of the boxes, thus making it an invalid vote.
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by kamjam 10y ago
> Why does it have to appeal to 4 year olds, who have zero understanding of or interest in what it does? You realise that those 4 year olds grow up right? And that by possibly catching their attention and imagination at an early age it m
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by kamjam 10y ago
> My other objection is that Boaty McBoatface, somehow represents the will of the people. No it doesn't. It represent the will of people who bothered to vote on an issue most people likely don't give a dam about. If a choice wa
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by kamjam 10y ago
It's in the 2nd paragraph, linked from "called Server Fault" text.
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by kamjam 10y ago
Exactly. At _best_ most people will just say "well, it's the government, _of course_ they can crack it". If it was some 15 year old kid in his bedroom, then that's a different matter...
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by kamjam 11y ago
The reference to the Australia stats reminds me of the Jim Jefferies sketch on Gun Control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9UFyNy-rw4

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