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by NLips 14y ago
The writing style is truly terrible - I'm not sure the author understands full-stops (/periods). However, I read enough to discover how the deportation started, and I can understand why an official would have difficulty believing that a pro
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by NLips 14y ago
"An SSD..." / "A solid-state drive"
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by NLips 14y ago
That's surprising to hear, because most carrier stores only seem to push Android and iOS - not Windows Phone (which is the most ideally placed to become no.3).
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by NLips 14y ago
That's the size reported by Safari so that pages scale correctly for a "retina" screen.
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by NLips 14y ago
"And the United States isn't even at the top of the world league tables in obesity." True, but only just (according to the WHO). The only countries that beat it on overweight or obese percentages of population are Saudi Arabia, Panama, or
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by NLips 14y ago
Almost correct, I believe. You have to pay full price if you finish the meal, because it is assumed you must have thought it was worth the money - otherwise you would have stopped earlier.
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by NLips 14y ago
Were it a photo, that would only depend on the focal length of the lens i.e. a super-wide-angle lens could make the front even wider relative to the screen.
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by NLips 14y ago
Yes, it's a flaw that you can get into someone's account. I was just saying that the credit card information being that available is not a big problem in my mind. Amazon clearly think the credit card should be kept more secure than the ac
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by NLips 14y ago
They aren't giving up enough information for anyone to use the credit card (which is your card provider's and Amazon's concern). They are only giving up information which Apple foolishly accepts as top-secret. The final four digits are pr
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by NLips 14y ago
Other way round - When I'm talking to you, I can imply and you can infer.
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by NLips 14y ago
(I have string opinions on gun law, but have tried to keep this post only based upon reasoning, without conclusions.) "Should <killer item> be banned" should be calculated against benefit of item, not only the lives ended. Even fewe
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by NLips 14y ago
I don't think that copyright for photographs would be covered by the Craigslist claim though: 'Clicking "Continue" confirms that craigslist is the exclusive licensee of this content, with the exclusive right to enforce copyrights against an
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by NLips 14y ago
The only word I see is "encrypt", but regardless, this IS cryptography - converting to a code. You can encrypt with a Ceaser cipher, though it's not terribly secure.
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by NLips 14y ago
FTA: "Wu and co make no claims about its potential security but there is clearly room for further exploration here. "
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by NLips 14y ago
The parent comment is pointing out that a $6M payout is equivalent to 60 years of 100k salary, for no further work.
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by NLips 14y ago
The screens are at the wrong angle for a standing customer, so customers will tilt the screen further back, starting the 'hands on' experience. Th reps re-set them when they aren't otherwise occupied.
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by NLips 14y ago
PRC's product isn't as good for this family as the software they currently use.
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by NLips 14y ago
There is a particular issue with software though. A software patent for the one-click-buy is more like a patent for explosive powder, rather than the exact composition of gunpowder. It is more like a drug to reduce brain swelling, which w
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by NLips 14y ago
I was addressing your experiences with HR and legal departments. The Gender Gap Index does not measure harassment - "The Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria" (from the 2011 repo
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by NLips 14y ago
Partly because it just is. Partly it is because with a debit card you would have to fight to get your money back whereas with a credit card the provider would have to fight either you or the retailer to get their money back if there is a d
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by NLips 14y ago
Where is the inequality? Vulnerability? The vulnerability has been caused by something else, which is the inappropriate behaviour. Minority? Irrelevant - (at least) one sex will always be in the minority if there are an odd number of empl
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by NLips 14y ago
If the other employee isn't your manager or managee, are you really suggesting that "Do you want to go the the pictures tonight?" is in any way related to sexual inequality?
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Facebook releases IP addresses of cyberbullies following High Court order(independent.co.uk)
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by NLips 14y ago
When does a car become self-driving? I imagine that distance control is legal (i.e. cruise control where the car will brake and accelerate to maintain distance behind the car in front, up to a maximum speed), and this is a further extensio
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by NLips 14y ago
How often you stop for gas is surely better covered by a "range" measurement for the car? Maybe it's different in the states, but all the cars I've ever been in show your remaining fuel as a fraction of a tank. In that case, volume of fue
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by NLips 14y ago
If you're using the odometer as a fuel gauge, surely volume becomes irrelevant for judging your range (excluding the tuning purposes)? e.g. My tank lasts 200 miles => I've gone 100 miles => I can go another 100 (top) before refillin
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by NLips 14y ago
A typical two-stroke engine uses fuel that has lubricant mixed in. Tetraethyllead used to be added to petrol to allow higher compression ratios, increasing fuel efficiency. The fuel metaphor is perfectly valid.
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by NLips 14y ago
Surely the only sensible cost of the data is the lost business (assuming they would be using all the storage for other purposes). No one can access the data, so power consumption - the main cost of big data centres - should be zero. Have I
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by NLips 14y ago
The article makes no sense: You may as well say "Racist cultures are useful because they show us who's racist." If the racism isn't there, neither are the racists*.
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by NLips 14y ago
On the other hand, pipe-organs are not outdated, whereas floppy disks are (for most of us).

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