TheGrumpyBrit

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   by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

   I have no interest in Golang, but if the mods feel strongly enough that they want to leave Reddit, that is absolutely their choice and completely understandable. But as moderators, I feel that they've accepted a moral responsibility to
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   by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

   Alternative product idea: An open wifi hotspot that replaces the User-Agent and other client-identifying headers for each session with consistent values, regardless of who is connected. Anybody looking can still see what "your connecti
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   by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

   I have lots to hide, and I have plenty to fear from the current government. I sincerely doubt that there's anybody out there who doesn't. I'm not going to worry too much about GCHQ and other Security Services, because I serio
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   by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

   Nobody wants to sign the list of "People whose internet history we should look at first"
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   by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

   I wouldn't say it is. Look at the Games or Mobile sections, and it says "Pay what you want" for the cheapest tier. At those tiers, you can pay $0.01 and have them make a loss to provide the content, if you're OK with doi
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   by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

   When HB was new, they did exactly this. The minimum $1 has presumably come about because the people who buy at $0.01 are only there fore free stuff - they don't actually want the content, so why make a loss for them? Edit: In fact, the
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   by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

   The law as written protects you against this: RIPA S49(2) ( http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/part/III/crosshe... ): If any person with the appropriate permission under Schedule 2 believes,
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   by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

   > the people who are left committing the vast majority of crime do so in part because they're not good at long term planning. Maybe. But your data could well be flawed. You've only got to watch any of these police shows on TV,
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   by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

   People don't care. They don't think anybody else is going to be interested in watching their cameras, and it doesn't even cross their mind that a camera could be vulnerable to an exploit. They don't even know what an exp
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    This is the bit that really gets me. $2,495 for a domain I can understand. If somebody is willing to pay that, more power to them. But once they've bought that domain, pricing should be at the registrars listed rates. It's unconsc
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    They not only allowed it to pass, a disturbing number support it. The "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" line has been rolled out in force, and if you express concern in public about this bill, you get suspicious looks. What sites
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    That's exactly it. Brand protection companies like MarkMonitor will buy these up as a matter of course to protect their clients, and they'll do so at the inflated Early Access rates to boot. By the time the domains are released to
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    I was keeping a close eye on .family for quite a while - I'm getting married next year, so mysurname.family would have been a good domain to have both for wedding planning and personal email accounts. When it finally came out, I eagerl
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    Humans have a bit of an advantage on two levels here. First, we know what a cat looks like. Not a video or a picture or a drawing, but an actual cat. That gives us a solid frame of reference. "That is definitely a cat. That drawing loo
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    I have a DigitalOcean droplet running Postfix, which provides edge security and a private IP, but no storage. All my mail is routed through this droplet across a VPN to my home Exchange server. Exchange backups are encrypted and stored on A
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    Certainly in my experience of working with vendors, that deal would not only be sweetened, but we wouldn't even consider entertaining the idea of paying anything for such a trial. It would be considered a proof of concept and we'd
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    Reading between the lines, it sounds like the Navy insisted that the phone-home mechanism was removed, either for confidentiality/DLP concerns, or because it can be a bit of a challenge to perform an online activation from the middle o
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    There are definitely legitimate use cases for autoplaying media. Youtube would be annoying if you had to click play on every page. I think Facebook's implementation strikes just the right balance. The video autoplays when it's in
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    That's one way to look at it, but for context, what other firms were offering work to the homeless?
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    That is at least consistent with any other taxi/private hire service though, at least in the UK. I'm not aware of any taxi firms that operate on a standard hourly wage. Drivers pay a fee to the base to be registered with them, and
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    I feel like the perfect compromise would be to separate the definition and engine/UI components and allow some interoperability between the two. So if I want to, I can use Kaspersky/McAfee's definitions (probably on some kind
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    I think the same mistake was made in both Brexit and this election. The people at the top looked around them, and they assumed the people they saw were a representative sample of the population. Because usually, they're more or less ri
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    by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago

    If the UK is in as much trouble as the naysayers seem to think, that 3% counts for more than ever, since cash will be tight.