Maxious

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by Maxious 13y ago
For details, please download this 18 megabyte PDF file (don't mention XPS).
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Gizmodo coincidently published a similar "the internet dun goofed" post http://gizmodo.com/the-xbox-one-just-got-way-worse-and-its-o...
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The link agrees - it's a feature not a bug and one that considered security: > As it turns out, even though Gmail will act as if there is no period in a username when delivering mail, it will not permit users to register accounts wh
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The Australia Card cabinet document archives were recently declassified http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/cabinet/by-year/198... One document conceeds "Surely this [laws mandating checks of p
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> I compared the Linode and AWS terms of service and neither has anything like this. "No Illegal, Harmful, or Offensive Use or Content" is literally the first point in the AWS ToS and is all about what is "offensive"
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Or just use the implementation in OpenJDK https://blogs.oracle.com/coffeys/entry/want_the_latest_tzdat...
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> I can believe the NSA has some of the best cryptoanalysts, but our best front-end hackers as well (do they have their own Meteor.js)? Ozone Widget Framework developed by the NSA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4960506 The hacke
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The power cited is "50 USC § 1861 - Access to certain business records for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations" so the claim is just the metadata isn't a wiretap because it's a business record used for billing cu
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A mailing list product is probably next to worthless without the 37Signals name.
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Gone Skiing - A strategy to develop a more independent business(medium.com)
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Fix the problems of how US government IT contracts are awarded? There's a startup for that. http://www.dobt.co/ > During the pilot period, RFP-EZ attracted more than 270 businesses that until now had never approached the world of Fede
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I can definately think of immigration cards/interviews as a case where that is true.
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Which was the whole point the teacher was making - you have a right to not incriminate yourself (by giving a false answer or not answering), even when asked by authority figures (judges, police, teachers) to do so. A lot of people feel that
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> The only situation I can think of in which it's somewhat ok for the government to raid a citizen's bank account is if the customer has been uncontactable for a number of years and cannot be found after a diligent search. "ASIC's Uncla
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This is even better for consumers and even worse for banks - no monthly account fees and automatically adjusting interest rates once the money is sent to ASIC. Reactivating the account and getting your money back isn't hard either - you jus
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The Intel Time of Flight SDK camera is $150 http://forum.libcinder.org/topic/future-is-here-time-of-flig...
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Slide 10 "Take over a subreddit" is interesting. "Lets you include brand messaging, customised layouts and background colors". I wonder how r/HailCorporate (a subreddit that outs PR companies that spam and manipulate reddit) would feel abou
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For those who haven't read it before: Fire and Motion http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
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The word "voluntary" was removed and the notices reissued after non Telstra/Optus ISPs declined http://delimiter.com.au/2012/11/14/iinet-internode-implement... Again it must be made clear that the Interpol filter the police demanded is DN
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It tells you RakBank in the article and the wire service has the other bank > Prosecutors said the scheme involved attacks on two banks, Rakbank, which is in the United Arab Emirates, and the Bank of Muscat in Oman. http://www.smh.com.
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See also Making Clouds Go Away on MapBox Satellite http://mapbox.com/blog/improving-mapbox-satellite-by-making-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5475571
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A lot of carriers provide "free" access no matter what phone you have https://www.facebook.com/blog/blog.php?post=391295167130 The catch is the videos/photos are not free, nor are the links to other websites of course.
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May 2 2011. Did "death" really mean sad or happy? "I suppose I should be expressing some ambivalence about the targeted killing of another human being. And yet, uh, no. [...] Last night was a good night for me " - Jon Stewart
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I see "Internet Search: 'model xyz'" in a lot of car ads. Easier to remember than a URL and shows off how good your SEO is ;)
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> just spewing out money to every piece of plastic calling itself a card when your network connection has been dropped isn't really a recipe for success. Well they do this in Australia... http://www.news.com.au/money/banking/computer-
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Some people are using LiDAR/computer vision to decide where maintenance is needed http://www.nicta.com.au/media/previous_releases3/2012_media_...
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To be clear (because I was wondering why all these commands were required), installing a version of Ubuntu on your phone just requires Complete Linux Installer http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2013/03/30/2107 (and busybox and loopback f
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The fact that Linux is licensed as GPLv2? From the tarball COPYING file: "the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explic
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Same with Afghanistan and Pakistan http://consumersinternational.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/for-ex...
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> AWS and Sustainable Energy http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainable-energy/ > Many AWS customers have workloads with latency requirements that require they be hosted near their customers. [...] we locate AWS datacenters in pl

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