RobAley

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Ballmer: Dropbox "a fine little startup" with a "pretty small number" of users(gizmodo.com)
4 points by RobAley 14y ago|0 comments
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Whatsapp rebuked over stored contacts privacy policy(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by RobAley 14y ago|0 comments
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by RobAley 14y ago
I disagree about the ordering (i.e. for me, for certain queries, it was objectively better first, before the other criteria played a part). However, you're saying that the only thing (or the best thing) that will make the world better is be
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by RobAley 14y ago
The metric system is equivalent to web standards, which (almost) everyone agrees is good. His argument is like saying "we should only have one set of weighing scales or one type of tape-measure to measure metric things".
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Sex, lies and videotapes: A year in Chinese microblogs(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by RobAley 14y ago|0 comments
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by RobAley 14y ago
"His MAC address, which is meant to be specific to a machine" The article (which I tend to agree with) tends to argue that a MAC address is exactly NOT that, especially in a technical sense (thus a technical user may indeed have more reason
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by RobAley 14y ago
Linus addresses this in a comment further down below his post : "oh, I'm sure that it's "true" that in private talks they were very much not seeking the maximum penalty. That's how the whole plea bargain thing works. But there's no question
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by RobAley 14y ago
"you should know" and "you did know beyond reasonable doubt" are two different things, particularly when it comes to prosecution. Running open networks without explicitly communicating and agreeing terms of use with your users really does m
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by RobAley 14y ago
The courts can and do, particularly when a particular crime specifies that you violate a specific placed prohibition. In Arrons case (without knowing precisely what went on), it may very well be possible to argue that he thought the banning
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by RobAley 14y ago
No. It's not a deal thats "made" per-se, there are no conditions to be haggled over, its simply that Judges will automatically award the reduced penalty at the sentencing stage if the defendant pleads guilty.
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by RobAley 14y ago
The retort would be : If you want to be able to address me, you don't have to have an open network, you can require registration and/or other physical verification first. You have chosen to run a network where you can't identify or talk to
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by RobAley 14y ago
For reference, here in the UK people (typically) get 33% off their sentence if they plead guilty. There was a push in 2011 to make it 50%, but that was rejected. However the people being prosecuted don't know in advance what sentence they w
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UK regulator starts compulsory strike-off action to dissolve Twitter's TweetDeck(news.sky.com)
3 points by RobAley 14y ago|0 comments
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by RobAley 14y ago
I think it has a lot to do with these words and the sentiment behind them. The childen of that era (like the author) have grown up, and through their experiences and determination helped to shape a world where we can learn, explore, develop
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by RobAley 14y ago
> To this day I still come across PHP code that is vulnerable to serious, immediate SQL injection vulnerabilities and it isn't always old code. I'm not so sure that the PHP community is so quick in learning from its mistakes. Do you not
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by RobAley 14y ago
We did indeed have a drought in 2011, and there were no ill-effects on this system. That's the point. Water shortages in the UK tend to affect the southern end, and most of these hydro buffers are up north, where they wish it would stop rai
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by RobAley 14y ago
It hasn't happened in the past 30-40 years that this system has been running, about the only thing you can count on in those parts of the UK where the hydro is based is rain...! I think the investment needed for such a remote possibility is
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by RobAley 14y ago
The existing system works perfectly, with very little increase in costs (the major engineering works were done years ago, Tea after TV has long been part of British life!), so there is no need for a compromise like load shedding.
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by RobAley 14y ago
I'm sure Cloudflare will comment, but it seems a little different to that. Rather than suck the original bits in at a server close to the origin, it looks like it takes the compressed (delta) bits direct from the origin itself.
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Steve Jobs' €100m white yacht impounded for unpaid bills(news.sky.com)
1 points by RobAley 14y ago|0 comments
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by RobAley 14y ago
Thats the downfall of systems like this. The algorithms don't (yet) have the intuition that humans do, a human creating that book would instinctively know that the market needs that data segmented by the zodiac sign of the fabric company ow
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by RobAley 14y ago
High-speed internet (and better internet access in general) is a win-win for communication & education, leading to a more open society and encouraging and facilitating change like marriage equality.
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by RobAley 14y ago
Having previously lived near there, I believe that the correct version of events goes something like as follows: When the motorway was being built, a (non-compulsory) offer was made to purchase the land. When this offer was turned down, a C
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by RobAley 14y ago
Nothing, that's what the article is about, "uses for a message queue". The inherent attributes of a queue are what make a queue useful.
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by RobAley 14y ago
Currently getting "500. That’s an error. " page. Seems like even the bug has crashed too...!
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by RobAley 14y ago
At a guess, the "working to move it" sentence probably implies that they are trying to get those agreements retrospectively, or re-writing any code that was contributed where they can't. As I understand it, the majority of code was written
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by RobAley 14y ago
For anyone considering it, some MS clients (and a few others) show something like : myemail@gmail.com on behalf of Rob Aley [me@mydomain.co.uk] It maybe looks a little unprofessional, but as long as your gmail account isn't something like o
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by RobAley 14y ago
I think his point was that the actual search results refer to a particular page on each site, but your's only show a reference to the site as a whole. Thus, where you show 4 facebook icons (and so the results appear to be repeated), the act
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by RobAley 14y ago
It is not empty. I've refused a job I was head-hunted for (IT at a morally questionable firm) on a moral basis, even though pay and conditions would have been better than what I have now. If my current job started requiring me to do somethi
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by RobAley 14y ago
> instead said they would only block sites related to child abuse Thats how we started here in the UK. It may sound better, but it's simply putting you a bit higher up the slippery slope. We'll see you at the bottom!

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