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Google agrees £130m UK tax deal with HMRC(bbc.co.uk)
13 points by EwanToo 11y ago|0 comments
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A Comprehensive Formal Security Analysis of OAuth 2.0 [pdf](arxiv.org)
2 points by EwanToo 11y ago|0 comments
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Mutating an Array During .forEach() Iteration in JavaScript(bennadel.com)
1 points by EwanToo 11y ago|0 comments
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by EwanToo 11y ago
to me it's PaaS - sure it's fairly limited today, but it's expanding it's functionality at a massive rate
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FiloDB: Combining Spark Streaming and Fast Ad-Hoc Analytics(velvia.github.io)
7 points by EwanToo 11y ago|0 comments
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Australia rains cause rare filling of massive desert lake(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by EwanToo 11y ago|0 comments
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by EwanToo 11y ago
It's nice that the Android APK is available as a direct download, no Play store required, for those who are particularly security/privacy conscious
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SpiderOak Encryptr password manager released(spideroak.com)
4 points by EwanToo 11y ago|2 comments
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by EwanToo 11y ago
Far more likely it's call centre staff who work for dell customer support abusing their system access than an external hack, this seems quite common across almost all brands and industries
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What happened to the UK's moon dust?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by EwanToo 11y ago|0 comments
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by EwanToo 11y ago
It seems simply financial engineering - Chiquitas sold the ships, then leased them back on long term contracts, but freed up a bunch of short-term cash http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/chiquita-completes-sa...
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by EwanToo 11y ago
S3 is eventually consistent, appending an eventually consistent file is going to get very messy, very fast - what happens when an append reaches a replica node before an earlier one does? If you're happy with out of order appends, just
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by EwanToo 11y ago
It's not signed with the one legitimate Satoshi key, its just another hoax
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Happy Birthday to You copyright case settled(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by EwanToo 11y ago|0 comments
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Volunteers aid pioneering Edsac computer rebuid(bbc.com)
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Experimental Simulation of Closed Timelike Curves(arxiv.org)
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by EwanToo 11y ago
Well the bank.. less so now, as the co-op management screwed up so badly
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by EwanToo 11y ago
But I would hope you'd still think that death threats over it are utterly ridiculous, and unacceptable?
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by EwanToo 11y ago
I guess so yeah, I hadn't considered that :)
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by EwanToo 11y ago
For New York state government (or equivalent) though?
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by EwanToo 11y ago
Well you can run Jepsen tests against single nodes and use it to validate consistency on that single node if you want, but it's not really what it's made for, the github tagline for it is: "Call Me Maybe: simulating network p
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by EwanToo 11y ago
I'm pretty sure this is simply active/standby clustering with some level of log shipping, not the active/active clustering that Jepsen is relevant for?
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by EwanToo 11y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539245 ?
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New satellite plane tracking system agreed(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by EwanToo 11y ago|0 comments
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German Azure DC will be owned by Deutsche Telecomto to prevent US data seizures(ft.com)
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by EwanToo 11y ago
If I was the person in charge of enforcing it, I would probably do something like: 1 - Make it illegal for Airbnb style services to operate in that area, including making a website available, advertising the service, taking listings in
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by EwanToo 11y ago
"The worst that can happen is a landlord who isn’t told about the operation can terminate a lease and keep the security deposit." I'm pretty sure the worst that can happen is an unsafe property leads to someone's death,
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by EwanToo 11y ago
Perhaps, I doubt his salary is that high, but he'll have significant amounts of of stock grants, options, etc. Executive compensation is a very odd area, as I said, it pretty much depends how much money he wants.
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by EwanToo 11y ago
Because they don't know who you are from it - the MAC address is not a person, and you can't know who that person is without another database containing the actual personal information.
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by EwanToo 11y ago
Largely it'll come down to how much money he wants. His salarly will probably be in the 6-figures, but he'll be a millionaire many times over. He joined Google in 1999 (IPO was in 2004), so his stock will have made him a very rich

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