lesslaw

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by lesslaw 13y ago
Why is this HN relevant ?
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by lesslaw 13y ago
You spelled Forth wrong :>
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by lesslaw 13y ago
something missing from the title "some cities"
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by lesslaw 13y ago
Thanks for this. I do more and more mobile browsing nowdays and this works on my phone too, unlike Ghostery & noScript so thank you.
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by lesslaw 13y ago
So many hours spent in space. I still have mine too. http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/Elite.jpg
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by lesslaw 13y ago
You say "no way" as though you are an authority on the subject to a hypothesis put forward by a man who is an authority on the subject.
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by lesslaw 13y ago
You rack up karma so you can downvote. You can get 100s of karma and then get banned for one post that gets blasted for going against the hive mind. (happened to me 3 times).
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by lesslaw 13y ago
See also "Healthy looking hair", "Younger looking skin" etc. etc.
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by lesslaw 13y ago
This is a good idea in general. It is really what the market should be correcting for already. I don't understand why the college doesn't lend you the money to attend their courses already.
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by lesslaw 13y ago
How about "Free" as in "in exchange for a valid email address"
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by lesslaw 13y ago
Offer asylum, get fucked with. At least the Zetas tell you straight.
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by lesslaw 13y ago
Or, his murderers sent it as a smoke screen. It doesn't say "an electronically signed email" using Hastings' PGP key, it doesn't say it was DKIM signed. telnet hotmail.com 25 MAIL FROM: micheal.hastings@do
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by lesslaw 13y ago
Advertising is annoying and rude. Flashing away trying to steal my attention from the activity I am trying to pursue. "don't do that, come and do this instead" "skip this ad in 5 seconds" - no thanks The interesting
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by lesslaw 13y ago
I switched to Chrome to see what the speed was like and I came to the conclusion it was a slicker browser for daily use. But then I reminded myself that some things are more important than raw speed and responsiveness. Google's interes
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by lesslaw 13y ago
It is a terrible decision curl http://domain.com/showdocument?[00000-99999] should not be a crime!!
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by lesslaw 13y ago
It is illegal here in the UK to not decrypt. I've always wondered how anyone could prove I knew what the key was. Would saying "too late, I have a dead man's switch that tripped while I was in custody" and showing that m
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by lesslaw 13y ago
The tone of this article sounds more like anti-European propaganda than news.
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by lesslaw 13y ago
select text an address bar, ctrl-c click somewhere else ctrl-v and yes, view-source is beyond most people
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by lesslaw 13y ago
Or, as seen on HN the seven year old MySQL bug http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=20786
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by lesslaw 13y ago
Status: RESOLVED FIXED but what that means is "allow plugin" is in the top left of the screen and enables that plugin site-wide. So enable for that one flash video and see ads for ever more. Seems the bike sheds were looking a bi
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by lesslaw 13y ago
I run with Javascript off, via no-script. Most of the stuff that requires Javascript is tracking based and/or from third party domains. tbh a global Javascript toggle is a bit useless. You really need the fine grain per-domain settings
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by lesslaw 13y ago
Ah the OP. What are my needs with regard to my using Android and why do I need to change to iOS ?
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by lesslaw 13y ago
Not the IRA and ETA ?
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by lesslaw 13y ago
Don't assume my needs, you will be wrong.
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by lesslaw 13y ago
> she explicitly told the 3.6 million young unemployed people in the euro zone to be ready to move around to find work as the European Union allowed them to and the whole European project encouraged them to. That's a great suggestio
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by lesslaw 13y ago
Works as per spec, won't fix. Closing. The definition of "memory leak" is smeared all across the road.
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by lesslaw 13y ago
I don't know but I use it every day. It is how Eurosport delivers its streaming channel to Windows. There is an Android and iOS version. The Android one doesn't allow the 3 hours rewing feature that Silverlight does and drops fram