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by somabc 5y ago
No he means the 'code' that runs Google in the business / HR sense is not version controlled and reviewed. So when it changes to something he disagrees with like the pillow purchase being disallowed he can't see or take
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by somabc 8y ago
Of course that's fake fibre aka fibre to the green cabinet in your street. The UK allows that to be marketed as fibre despite the large difference in performance to a real fibre connection.
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by somabc 8y ago
It's actually very similar to Aaron Schwartz's plan of using academic access to copy and widely distribute papers. This researcher does not have a legal basis to copy 2000+ disks in order to free them from the national archives. A
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by somabc 8y ago
I see you are familiar with Berlin nightclubs!
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by somabc 8y ago
I think Starling is 2%.
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by somabc 8y ago
I find Curve to be more innovative because it is a debit card that links back to any debit or credit card. You can only carry one card, use your real credit cards in places that only accept debit. Plus - a fancy app and real time tracking f
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by somabc 8y ago
It shouldn't take having a special talent in art to get a fair hearing.
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by somabc 8y ago
There are small startups born out of targeted smart application of code today that are similar to a lone hacker and sold to Google. eg Graphics Fuzz with it's intelligent code reducer which Google bought to use with Android. https:&#x
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by somabc 8y ago
The Benelux Union was really the precursor model to the EU.
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by somabc 8y ago
It's not so much a less strict attitude but a willingness to co-operate and allow citizens to pass unhindered thanks to the Schengen Agreement. Borders outwith Schengen or on the borders of the EU are policed strictly.
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by somabc 9y ago
Airlines have fired staff for eating a sandwich or drinking a coke taken from the plane e en if it was going to be thrown away. It's the same concept as most food outlets. They have no discretion yo give away free things to people who
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by somabc 10y ago
It's pretty hard to buy enterprise. I could easily see many small companies going with Pro instead and getting unwanted upgrades to Windows 10.
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by somabc 10y ago
Why would you run Windows Server on the receptionists machine?
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by somabc 10y ago
Even if you did distribute bat files online Windows would block downloading or running them by default so they are not a useful method.
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by somabc 10y ago
In that case you would use the chocolatey package manager bootstrapped by powershell to silently install Python. It's a oneliner in powershell followed by choco install Python.
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by somabc 11y ago
I'd expect the Telegraph to say what kind of house they live in and whether they went to private school as well.
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by somabc 11y ago
I know that Signal (formerly Textsecure) won't let you take a screenshot of any text messages.
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by somabc 12y ago
Spent a year with no home broadband - 2011.
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by somabc 14y ago
This is not so much doxxing as a 21st Century Wanted Poster
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by somabc 15y ago
It has an urban population of 96,900 that is fairly large by Scottish Standards. Inverness and Stirling have ~70,000 each and they are cities.
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by somabc 16y ago
In Glasgow it is normal to talk to people in almost any situation, it's the same in Ireland as well.
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by somabc 16y ago
For people arguing that Japanese phones are not very good, what would you say about the European Market vs the USA?
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by somabc 16y ago
Thanks for this I look forward to the rest.
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by somabc 16y ago
.com is a generic TLD though (originally commercial now open to anyone) not anything to do with a Geographic Area. The intention was for .US to be the USA's TLD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us
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by somabc 16y ago
This does have the obvious problem that you need a PC / Tablet / Laptop to connect to Amazon EC2 in the first place so why not just use that.
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by somabc 16y ago
Has anyone confirmed this in the wild?
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by somabc 16y ago
Rail is in the UK is just ridiculously poor and overpriced. Edinburgh to Inverness which is not much further is over £50. I think this is entirely down to a system where different companies own bits of the track, the stations, the trains an
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by somabc 16y ago
The reservation is in New Mexico
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by somabc 16y ago
Have you looked at 2 Checkout? http://www.2checkout.com/community/
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by somabc 16y ago
This all very useful information and well written but I have to ask, do undergraduates really not know this or at least figure it out very quickly? I would expect students who are investing large sums of money to be better prepared than jus

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