RobAley

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Creator of pop-up ads apologizes for inventing ‘internet’s original sin’(rt.com)
3 points by RobAley 10y ago|1 comments
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123-reg accidentally deletes hundreds of websites and backups(scienceoxford.com)
1 points by RobAley 10y ago|0 comments
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by RobAley 10y ago
> Mostly only if they're porn consumers themselves. That's actually a very, very large percentage of people > Plenty of folks don't make the suggestive links for images of this kind. Well, not out loud.
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by RobAley 10y ago
Not necessarily. If the camera and primary subject are in an enclosed room, all you're ever going to get is more wall.
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by RobAley 11y ago
I don't know what it was like back then, but these days (at least here in the UK) banks want personal guarantees from directors/owners etc. for business loans, even to Ltd companies.
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by RobAley 11y ago
But it's not immaterial. When a company becomes aware that its patent should not have been granted and can be invalidated, it is entirely (and legally) pertinent when considering bad faith enforcement actions. In this case, the company
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by RobAley 11y ago
Modern PHP is much more performant than it used to be, and more so than other similar higher level dynamic web languages. Unless you're doing something wrong (like using Wordpress) or something unusual, network, db, file io etc. will d
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by RobAley 11y ago
It's only ended on phones, they're going full steam on TV's, so actually its a fairly smart choice.
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Marc Andreessen in India Colonialism Row(news.sky.com)
2 points by RobAley 11y ago|0 comments
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Create effective CLI scripts using PHP(leanpub.com)
1 points by RobAley 11y ago|0 comments
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by RobAley 11y ago
Or do as Lego did, swoop in and patent key parts, refuse to license them and stifle innovation while executing just well enough in the sector for years to come. When your patent expires, try design patents, trademarks and copyrights to sue
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Adobe caught lying to customers trying to cancel Creative Cloud subscriptions(geek.com)
11 points by RobAley 11y ago|3 comments
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by RobAley 11y ago
I think after a while they will. Wifi chips supporting both current frequency bands cost pennies at the moment, if this standard gets some foothold it won't be too long before it's added in to generic chips.
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by RobAley 11y ago
To be fair, regardless of their actual reason, public bodies like Universities are compelled by law to treat request that amount to, or could be made as, FOIA requests as if they were. I.e. there is no magic incarnation, set of words or sim
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Amazon opens its first real-world bookshop in Seattle(arstechnica.com)
1 points by RobAley 11y ago|0 comments
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Academics sharing paywalled papers with a codeword on Twitter(bbc.co.uk)
234 points by RobAley 11y ago|207 comments
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GCHQ tried to track Web visits of “every visible user on Internet”(arstechnica.com)
1 points by RobAley 11y ago|0 comments
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by RobAley 11y ago
If they're savvy, they'll have locked in long-term maximum pricing. Something along the lines of "prices will at most be the minimum of this discount price, or x% above the standard retail price".
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by RobAley 11y ago
> its a right of a SOFTWARE mostly company to protect its software They also have a duty of care to their clients > open source is not always the solution No one saying it is. Plenty of other proprietary software vendors protect their
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Windows 10 upgrade resets your default browser to Edge; Mozilla is very unhappy(arstechnica.com)
30 points by RobAley 11y ago|10 comments
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EU law that could make UK Internet porn filters illegal is heading for a vote(ibtimes.co.uk)
1 points by RobAley 11y ago|0 comments
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Commodore PET returns as a 5.5-inch, nostalgia-powered smartphone(engadget.com)
4 points by RobAley 11y ago|0 comments
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Images of modern buildings must remain on Wikipedia(meta.wikimedia.org)
3 points by RobAley 11y ago|2 comments
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by RobAley 11y ago
The permanent one is grey in daylight, so not transparent like the temporary one.
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by RobAley 11y ago
Well that's the problem, no body has studied it so no body knows. And with DNA matching now available, there's little point wasting time and money studying it now. Future cases can use DNA matching, as can historical cases (and if
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by RobAley 11y ago
Yes it would, capacity is created to match expected occupancy, increases in sentences pre-empt the contracting of greater capacity for the expected increase in occupancy. All but the smallest increases in sentencing duration equate to addit
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Digital Ocean: Thank You Rasmus for 20 Years of PHP(twitter.com)
1 points by RobAley 11y ago|0 comments
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Stingray-Style Fake Mobile Phone Towers Operating in the UK(uk.news.yahoo.com)
1 points by RobAley 11y ago|0 comments
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by RobAley 11y ago
A common, although often derogatory, term here in the UK is "half cast" for people (kids in particular) of mixed race.
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A beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself(bbc.co.uk)
72 points by RobAley 11y ago|57 comments

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