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by SEMW 13y ago
> whatever anti-EU crap The Guardian produces this month (Some newspapers in UK don't like EU, they write nonsense about legislation... The point is a good one, but you may be confusing the Guardian with e.g. the Daily Mail or the T
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by SEMW 13y ago
> I wonder how can he be violating any law with respect to distribution of copyrighted content when he is not distributing anything Anton Vickerman didn't host anything either. His site (surfthechannel) was also just a collection of
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by SEMW 13y ago
> perfect choice for non-professional programmer (even woman) It's 2013. Could we please leave 'so easy even a woman could use it' levels of sexism behind us? (Not to mention - it's a little silly to single out web
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by SEMW 13y ago
it 'is the season to be jolly' do expect(☃ + ☀).to eq(♨) end ;)
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by SEMW 13y ago
Alt-space gives the window menu. Close: alt-space, c Minimise: alt-space, n Maximise: alt-space, x etc. Works in every version of windows since 95ish, as well as every popular Linux DE I've ever tried (inc. gnome, xfce, kde, cinnamon).
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by SEMW 13y ago
> The site(s) you're downloading it from are committing copyright violations and are subject to a DMCA takedown. Yes, that is technically true. But in practice, it's not like Google just haven't noticed yet and are likely
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by SEMW 13y ago
From the only theme you offer: > Features: Glyphicons Pro Icons (Worth $ 59) From the Glyphicons license page: > This license is... non-sublicensable. ... Reselling of the icons is prohibited. The license is non transferable and it is
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by SEMW 13y ago
This is a good point. In Linux Mint, Unity is in the repositories, but not mandatory - there are plenty of supported DEs. Wheras in Ubuntu, Unity is in the repositories, but not mandatory - there are plenty of supported DEs. So that's
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by SEMW 13y ago
True, but it's worth remembering that the EWCA appeal was at least partly applying a ruling by the CJEU about the same dispute (C-406/10 SAS v WPL), which applies EU-wide.
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by SEMW 13y ago
This decision was interpreting the Software Directive and the Information Society Directive. Databases are protected under their own directive ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_Directive ).
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by SEMW 13y ago
Correct link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income . GMI is different.
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by SEMW 13y ago
Distribution based on need (means-testing) seems to scale poorly. You need a system to determine means, which at governmental scales is inevitably bureaucratic, resource-intensive, and prone to cheating. Point is, it is always possible to t
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by SEMW 13y ago
> But this will always be a positive number, therefore in some finite number of seconds, the ant will cover 100% of the distance. Correct result, but that reasoning is dodgy. It's easy to imagine a different problem where an ant alw
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by SEMW 13y ago
There's a good discussion of 'what if Linus gets hit by a bus?' in the comments of http://lwn.net/Articles/393694/ [On the scalability of Linus].
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by SEMW 13y ago
If your goal is to eliminate information that can be used to identify and track you, being the only person on the internet with an empty useragent string may be somewhat less than ideal... https://panopticlick.eff.org/self-d
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by SEMW 13y ago
> I wonder how long it will take until someone finds a security exploit of this "feature" I'm not sure what exactly crafting a 16-bit installer file to exploit some bug in the bundled installshield to get it to execute cod
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by SEMW 13y ago
> So... that's looking like a wise investment. Article claims it was "the first real-world bitcoin transaction". Without those first few transactions from enthusiasts, bitcoin may well not have taking off. And those 10,000
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by SEMW 13y ago
> without putting really any effort or taking any risks He sunk $27 into an investment that (from his knowledge at the time) had a high chance of ending up completely worthless, and a low chance of exploding in value (if bitcoin took off
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by SEMW 13y ago
This is from 2005. And even then it was wrong: http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/brothel.asp
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by SEMW 13y ago
Article feels slightly silly, like looking at a collapsed building and asking why they didn't use a better interior designer. IIRC from past HN threads, the vast majority of the CGI Federal contract cost was on the business logic (the
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by SEMW 13y ago
> making python 2. as default may bring issues. Who's suggesting that you change the system default? If you want to make your python scripts run on a certain python version, set their shebang accordingly. Changing the default interp
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by SEMW 13y ago
> In their defence, the technology is open, and the only reason Mozilla/Google etc aren't implementing support for HLS... Android, for one example, does support http live streaming (since Honeycomb). Try it: Apple's own
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by SEMW 13y ago
Slightly off-topic, but: anyone round here know if there's a good reason why are batteries quoted in units of charge (mAh), instead of a unit of energy like Wh or kJ? Seems like it just makes it hard to compare capacities of batteries
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by SEMW 13y ago
No. Mozilla's plan for flash is to replace it with a javascript flash runtime, shumway.js, in the same way they discouraged adobe's acrobat plugin by bundling pdf.js. But shumway's not finished yet. See: https://lw
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by SEMW 13y ago
Ted Ts'o (maintainer of /dev/random)'s initial thoughts on the paper, in the comments on Bruce Schneier's blog: [1], [2]. (TLDR: " What the authors of this paper seem to be worried about is not even close to th
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by SEMW 13y ago
> A quick Google search shows many Windows laptops with equivalent or better battery life. I don't want to state the obvious, but different laptops have different capacity batteries. Atwood was comparing the 11" MBA to the Surf
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by SEMW 13y ago
> You're assuming that list was recently changed by Microsoft for the purpose of what - ruining customer's experiences of using Windows 8.1? Tarnish Google's reputation? I'm not assuming that, and I haven't concl
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by SEMW 13y ago
The "action by Google" of maliciously adding themselves to a quirks-mode list[1] maintained solely by Microsoft, that Google had no access to or ability to add themselves to, when their website works perfectly well in IE11 if that
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by SEMW 13y ago
Thanks, but Xfce's startup applications list (which is just a frontend for ~/.config/autostart) is already executed after the X server starts, and after .xinitrc. (Apologies if me saying 'runs at startup' was mislea
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by SEMW 13y ago
IIRC I didn't finding any easy way of making xmodmap settings persist over reboot, so I just took had a script that runs "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" run at startup. (Of course then I switched to xfce on my laptop, which seems

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