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by UVB-76 12y ago
Hypothetical plot twist: The actual number of people driving under the influence has not declined, but as police resources are diverted to Uber-related incidents — e.g. drivers (allegedly) assaulting [1] or kidnapping [2] passengers, or the
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by UVB-76 12y ago
Alas, this is a fool's errand. The keyboard is a broken interface, but this isn't an improvement. Suppose I am the user identified in the video. I have a tablet—maybe not a Microsoft Surface, but a tablet nonetheless—and I current
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by UVB-76 12y ago
I wouldn't say that's the case with iOS (and now OS X Yosemite) translucency. This isn't like the Vista Aero catastrophe.
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From what I understand, Delaware is just a corporate tax haven. Around half of all public corporations are incorporated in the state [1] [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/business/how-delaware-thri...
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by UVB-76 12y ago
> The element that does not square with any theories that suggest benevolent intent behind the change is the recommendation that users switch to Bitlocker. I realize we are firmly in conspiracy theory territory here, but perhaps the su
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by UVB-76 12y ago
Suspicion this could be related to the NBC News Snowden interview to be aired tonight?
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by UVB-76 12y ago
Although Kenn White, who wrote that message, has no idea what's going on [1] > .@FiloSottile @matthew_d_green no idea. It's doing a 301 perm to a static pg @ SF, now blocked. Possibly compromised. pic.twitter.com/g5tSFUuXz
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by UVB-76 12y ago
8 hours ago on the IndieGoGo TrueCrypt Audit page [1] > p.s. We hope to have some big announcements this week, so stay tuned. [1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-truecrypt-audit#activ...
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by UVB-76 12y ago
Not sure on the etymology, but #YesAllWomen is a trending hashtag in the wake of the recent—apparently sexually-motivated—mass murder in California.
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by UVB-76 12y ago
Please tell me this is a typo, and "dating" has not become an acceptable shortening of "data mining"
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> Although we like Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery and similar products (in fact Privacy Badger is based on the ABP code!), none of them are exactly what we were looking for. In our testing, all of them required some custom configurat
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by UVB-76 12y ago
Historically, Football DataCo claimed rights to football fixtures in the UK, on grounds of copyright and sui generis database rights, and extracted licensing fees from those wishing to publish them. That practice ended with the March 2012 r
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by UVB-76 12y ago
Indeed, my primary email address sits on a personal domain, is only used on 'respectable' websites, and historically has received very little spam. The last few months have seen a substantial increase. Presumably linked to the eBa
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by UVB-76 12y ago
Remember a couple of months ago when Icahn described eBay as the worst-run company he'd ever seen? [1] Seems rather prescient now. Their incompetence has just cost us all our personal information. [1] http://www.cnbc.com&#x2
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by UVB-76 12y ago
> This is nonsense. An ERP has to run your business and operations. It has to be extremely reliable. Users couldn't care less about it's UX [...] Indeed. When a person's livelihood depends on using your software, they ha
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by UVB-76 12y ago
Wayback Machine link for those in the UK: https://web.archive.org/web/20140514231517/http://www.bbc.co...
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> The problem is not with the quote marks, but with the BBC using its own programs as a source of news. I don't see anything wrong with that. Although separate from BBC News, much of the work done by the BBC Watchdog team constitute
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by UVB-76 12y ago
The use of quotation marks is grammatically and journalistically correct. An impartial news organization should not report the accusations of third parties as fact; it should present them for what they are. You will see the same thing in co
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by UVB-76 12y ago
Is there not a legitimate public interest in knowing the source of enormous contributions to charities and political causes? The scale of these contributions mean they have the potential to significantly distort markets, and reorder societa
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by UVB-76 12y ago
If there are a few that you frequently access, you could set the URLs as 'search engines' with the hostname as the keyword, or even a shorthand keyword Even fewer keystrokes.
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Net Neutrality: Regulating the Internet | n+1 (nplusonemag.com)
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by UVB-76 12y ago
> (e.g. in London my experience is that you'll get a positive response from pretty much any random stranger on the street unless you come across as representing a charity; in England there's a word for people collecting for ch
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by UVB-76 12y ago
Also tangentially related, the New York Times "One in 8 Million" feature from 2009 adopts a similar principle [1] A different person each week, just telling their story, accompanied by striking black and white photography from Tod
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by UVB-76 13y ago
Doesn't the Citymapper app [1] do this for New Yorkers? Does all this and more for Londoners. [1] https://citymapper.com/nyc/
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by UVB-76 13y ago
According to the New York Post, who originally broke the story, Kochanski often replaced trial dialogue with the phrase "I hate my job" or other gibberish [1] [1] http://nypost.com/2014/04/03/alcohol
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Stenographer, Fired Over Drinking Problem, Left Headaches for Appellate Courts(nytimes.com)
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I did not say Jimmy Carr admitted criminal wrongdoing. I am well aware of the distinction between tax avoidance and tax evasion, but in many jurisdictions (including the UK) there is legislation that also renders tax avoidance schemes illeg
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by UVB-76 13y ago
The source of all the data will be Companies House. You can get (presumably unlimited) access to all annual returns for £17.5k pa [1] I can't imagine the government make enormous sums of money through the sale of such data, and I think
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by UVB-76 13y ago
I don't think there's anything special about what DueDil are doing. Basic company information is public domain, and available to download in bulk [1] or via URI [2] Companies House also offer a free app for iOS and Android [3] pro
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by UVB-76 13y ago
I'd rather an all or nothing approach to these kind of information sharing arrangements. If information is to be shared, it should be made freely available to all, not just to corporations that are able to shell out large sums for it.

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