Tomdarkness

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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
Yes you can, and a whole lot more.
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
Or you could actually use something designed for indexing data and searches, like Elasticsearch or Solr. Either solution would have no problem indexing all their data, rather than having to limit it to a subset to fit in a in-memory table.
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
Some uploads just use a random file name now making it impossible for MPAA, RIAA, etc. to just simply search usenet posts for their content. If you don't have the NZB then it's unlikely you'll find it. Also if you use the eur
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
It seems that every time I selected the correct one was because the bot-generated title did not make sense or had some other obvious error, for example: > Apache releases first major new version of cancer drug or > "Algorithm&quo
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
While I don't agree with the comment you've replied to, I equally don't agree with your comment. Why should someone not comment on HN if their opinion is not representative of the majority of users on HN? They should be free
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
Quick and simple solution. If you are only using key based logins then just disable password SSH logins, add: ChallengeResponseAuthentication no PasswordAuthentication no UsePAM no To your sshd config and then you don't need
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
In the UK at least this is not true. The bank have to demonstrate you did not take reasonable care to protect your PIN (e.g you left it written down in your wallet). See some of the following case studies by the FOS that support the fact th
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
Does this also escape the Android Application Sandbox? It makes not mention of this, only escaping the protection offered by Chrome. If not, then it is obviously still bad because Chrome has fairly extensive permissions but it is not "
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
I think this highlights how insecure cards are that just rely on magnetic strip information rather than something like EMV (chip & pin). It should not be possible, or at least extremely difficult, to clone a card. I'm from the UK a
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
I know it is not designed for people like me, else I'd be asking where the Linux options are ;) I don't work with a company that has a large IT deployment anymore but when I did their processes was not that different. They had a s
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
How powerful is the 1 vCPU? If it is anything like 1 EC2 compute unit then I don't see this being useful for anything more than basic office work (i.e MS Office). Plus if I already need a computer running OS X or Windows then why would
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
Firstly they have to be charged VAT to reclaim it, you can't just claim money back from HMRC that was never paid to HMRC in the first place. Assuming you found a company selling Bitcoins and charged VAT you'd pay £1.20 but claim 2
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
This is correct. They are also not singling out Bitcoins either. It has been in the news recently with banks closing accounts of money transfer businesses [1] due to the risk of money laundering. Therefore if money transfer businesses deali
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
Would not perusing it be an admission that they did in fact subject Apple to some kind of gag order?
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
You've missed the point. If they are enabled by default or display a message elsewhere is irrelevant, the fact is they don't display a watermark when the user is using the less secure option. Also I specifically referred to the bu
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
DEP, UAC, Security related updates not installed, using built in administrator (technically enabling rather than disabling), or even having your anti-virus disabled. All those help prevent a situation where the boot up sequence is somehow c
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
Actually, I'd agree. This would seem a better place than the "View basic information about your computer".
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
There are plenty of other security features, that I'd argue are more important than secure boot, which don't result in a watermark being displayed when disabled. In any case the most likely group of people who will see this messag
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Windows 8.1: Not Using Secure Boot? Don't Worry We'll Let You Know(tom-pryor.co.uk)
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
I'm not sure what the point of this blog post is? I don't think anyone expects that the upgrade will be problem free for 100% of users, especially considering the numerous different hardware configurations. Also, if you look on th
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
This is one area where the US seems to be behind compared to the UK. I am from the UK and that service would look quite poor if it launched over here. We have a system called faster payments service that offers instant (although in some cas
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
Had Google actually taken action against anyone hosting a server? I guess this is more of a T&C clarification than anything else, i.e they would of not actually taken action against non-commercial servers anyway.
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
I've never understood why consoles continue to use P2P for multiplayer games (okay I lie, there is obviously a economical advantage), especially when customers are paying for a online gaming service. Just from a technical standpoint it
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
How do you know Reddit forced Google to remove it? What was your correspondence from Google?
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
There is no application, it is a kernel patch.
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
You can't just allow anyone to setup a mobile phone network. There needs to be some central organisation and control of spectrum allocation because otherwise it is all too easy to tread on peoples toes and interfere with other transmis
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
That is not how the power saving works. It does not vary the BCLK rather it alters the multiplier. If it varied the BCLK by such large amounts to achieve typical low power frequency levels then you'd likely run into some catastrophic s
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
You modify the BCLK regularly whilst booted into Windows on the different Win 8 machines you handle? Even when overclocking you'd normally not mess with the BCLK unless you are really wanting to push your overclock.
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
There won't be a batch 2: "The Ubuntu Edge is an exclusive production run, available only through Indiegogo."
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by Tomdarkness 13y ago
But they both are displayed in the promotions tab so how does paying for an ad in the promotions tab that looks like a email solve the problem of a marketing email being displayed in the promotions tab?

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