ZoFreX

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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I thought it was amusing that he went on to say "Much of Fog Creek uses the Microsoft Stack. I can’t even spell ASP.NET and they’d still hire me." - Joel Spolsky wrote a great article on the value of knowing a language in depth: http://ww
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
If it's feeding a database, it ain't a 2 day tape loop!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> Yes it is owned by the likes of shopkeepers, but all of it is accessible by the state on demand Yes, if they walk into the shop with a warrant and ask to see their tapes. They can't track us all walking around in realtime, which is a
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
The blue cameras on main roads are for congestion tracking.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Why not use the RFID tags to "swipe" in and out (e.g. just have a reader at the entrance), rather than tracking their exact location across the whole campus?
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell." - Buddhist proverb, via Richard Feynman
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
"Should" is the important word in that sentence - there doesn't seem to be any guarantee, here. I totally agree re: data storage, for serious crimes at least.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Note to anyone planning on using Opera's client: it's terrible, out of spec, and banned on many bittorrent sites. I don't think the complexity and user experience issues are completely intrinsic to the protocol - BitTornado (sadly, another
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I would guess that they seized all of the computers in the house. Where I live (the UK), that seems to be SOP for crimes involving computers - they take your computers, gaming consoles, ipods... Oh, and you don't get them back.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I took a quick look at the spec: > The navigator.onLine attribute must return false if the user agent will not contact the network when the user follows links or when a script requests a remote page (or knows that such an attempt would
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
32-bit processes can get 4GB of memory on 64-bit Windows: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36... I thought the limit was 2GB, which Firefox is getting dangerously close to. 4GB gives a lot more wiggle room, but I
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
No, but many, many YouTube videos that are songs (either music videos or slideshow + song) have been re-uploaded and/or re-encoded many times, so often they don't have a high quality option, or if they do you're watching a 360p re-encoded i
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> I think the gay community, despite their ongoing struggle, has at least managed to make it almost impossible to receive a similar kind of media report that consists of nothing but stereotypes. Are you kidding? Yeah, I get where you're
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
You come off a teensy bit ignorant and offensive at the end, there.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Sadly in this case he'd probably immediately say yes. Congratulations, you just bought $4 of terrible skin "care" products for $25!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> even the hotel Hotels are one service that I've found you can always haggle over the price, wherever you are. You're wasting money if you don't try!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
What is really dumb though is that it still uses a shortener, even though the functionality is now built in. Show me the damn link!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> Are you seriously arguing that it is acceptable to allow your government to censor and (even more) trivially monitor your internet connection for, well, any possible reason, let alone one in support of a policy that wouldn't be partic
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Just a continual procession of major security issues, never with a proper response or analysis from them.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Can someone with a greater understanding of quantum physics chime in here - is this correct?
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Thirty years ago, the most advanced multi-million dollar laboratory in the world would not have been able to understand or tinker with the computer you're sat at currently.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I use Opera on my netbook (Atom 1.6Ghz, very slow). Chrome is actually faster at rendering or interacting with pages - which is what benchmarks generally measure. What they don't measure is how responsive the browser is. For me, Opera is fa
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Tangentially related - if anyone is using native wifi tethering on their Android with their Mac and having issues, try tethering over Bluetooth instead - I found it to be much more reliable.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
They have really advanced toilet seats in some public bathrooms, though! Totally different angle to the Japanese - some of the toilets I used in Germany rotated the entire seat 360 degrees through a cleaning mechanism. Very hygienic!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Has the HTML/CSS inspector been updated at all?
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I'm old enough to remember when hotplugging even a USB device was a massive pain in Linux, but didn't really think until now how far it has come along. > being able to swap out everything including memory and CPUs without major kernel p
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
No site can force you to set their cookies - you can simply turn that option off in your browser. You can even whitelist just the sites you trust, or blacklist just the sites you don't trust. Not that you can really tell, anyway - it's impo
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I'm not upset at all. Fines seem to have very little effect on companies, especially as in the UK they are frequently embarrassingly small. One thing I really like about the USA is that when they fine a company, they don't mess around. But
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> Try and pay a court fine with bins full of loose change and see what happens. That actually comes under the letter of the law: http://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/policies-and-guidelines/leg... Not to detract from your overall point th
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
It's not the only symbol font that does this, and I like it - it provides a decent fallback if the font fails to load or isn't supported in your browser, and the symbols will be readable to screen readers.

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