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by adwf 12y ago
I've always assumed that this is how government agencies would try and interpret the situation, but I also assume that this will go all the way to the top to be properly decided. Edit: Not to mention that other countries may disagree w
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by adwf 13y ago
I've had a bit of luck with Amazon Basics branded cables recently. They've got quite a chunky connector/cable that's lasted a lot longer than my default phone cables have.
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by adwf 13y ago
Normally true, but if Amazon trade in high enough volume (which they do), turning up the price by pennies across the board will generate quite a large bump in profit. And whilst they are definitely in the low margin, price sensitive busine
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by adwf 13y ago
The funny thing for me is that everyone has always said that Amazon's share price is justified because eventually "they'll turn on the profit tap" and up their margins once the market is captive. Yet, how do you tell whe
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by adwf 13y ago
No I mean I already have two physically separate servers; one with the web service (Apache/Nginx + Rails/PHP/whatever), one with the database. The webserver handles the hashing of passwords as they come in, then sends it to
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by adwf 13y ago
Hence why I mentioned separate servers. Even if you did screw up the database permissions and allow an injection attack to have more than just read permissions, they'd still only have access to the DB server filesystem. Unless there i
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by adwf 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a large proportion of database hacks are still SQL injection attacks. If you assume that the password handling code is on a webserver and the database is on a separate server, there is no reason to
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by adwf 13y ago
There are places that got rid of lead much later than others, they also showed a corresponding later decline in crime levels. What's even more interesting is that the decline occurs regardless of criminal policy (eg. zero tolerance or
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by adwf 13y ago
I think part of the problem is that Lisp is an incredibly broad language in terms of its capabilities. The macro system can be extremely powerful and when abused, is a nightmare to decipher. But. In the real world, I've rarely ever en
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by adwf 13y ago
I'd be more tempted to attribute FM2014's hours played to the style of game that it is. It's very much a "spreadsheet" game in many regards - you can leave it running in the background while it plays through the si
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by adwf 13y ago
Ah, the good old days of feudalism. When the only rich people were the ones with private soldiery to protect their assets. Everyone was better off when we all had our freedom, eh? Or at least, some people were better off, the vast majori
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by adwf 13y ago
The most important - and most forgotten/ignored - part of a good backup practice, is actually checking that you can restore the backup successfully. Ok, it's slightly less important than actually backing up at all in the first
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by adwf 13y ago
Did he say he was on gmail? Maybe I didn't catch that part. That's an interesting decision for a security-minded person to make though. Do I use gmail as they'll have broad statistical analysis of attack vectors? Or do I u
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by adwf 13y ago
Unions are very political in the UK don't forget. They have direct, open ties to the Labour party (eg. funding, getting to pick candidates, etc). This may not bother someone who is already a Labour voter, but if you were a Conservati
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by adwf 13y ago
I've posted this elsewhere, but in one of the many dupes that got buried, so I'll repost it here: I really think it was inevitable once people started complaining about his political background. The whole appointment had become ab
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by adwf 13y ago
I think you're confusing the respect we should have for a persons right to a view, with respect for the actual view itself. The former I have, the latter I do not.
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by adwf 13y ago
I really think it was inevitable once people started complaining about his political background. The whole appointment had become about the gay rights issue rather than about where he would lead Mozilla in the future. No one really thought
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by adwf 13y ago
I remember a comment I heard along similar lines about Obama when he was running for president. Some people were saying that he's not actually black, etc... The simple rebuttal is: In 1950s America, which water fountain would he be m
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by adwf 13y ago
On a technical sidenote, 65226 people were in the study. Who wants to bet that the count was limited by the number of rows that fit in an old excel spreadsheet?
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by adwf 13y ago
It is about gay rights. It's about human rights in general. By giving some people less rights because of their skin color, you are treating them as sub-human. Somehow not deserving of the same human rights us Straight/White/
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by adwf 13y ago
One man's feature creep is another man's Agile iterative development. Started with an MVP and iterated onwards :P
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by adwf 13y ago
The main thing that springs to mind is that the only way to get a half decent desktop is through extensions. I installed a whole load of useful ones about a year ago, but currently only about 1/5th of them are still working due to gno
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah, the extensions have really helped. The main problem there is that the extensions keep on falling out of compatibility. I have half a dozen extensions that used to work well and provided critical functionality, now they don't.
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by adwf 13y ago
At the risk of starting a flamewar, is Gnome 3/Shell really any better? I've never felt quite so unproductive as when I use Gnome nowadays.
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah I was going to say that the round pricing rule here is one of the more controversial ones. It's been proven time and time again that prices set at .99 will outsell their rounded competition by quite a way. It doesn't even h
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by adwf 13y ago
Every android device I've owned has been freely rootable. Maybe there are some that are more restrictive, but all I've had to do is change a setting in a menu. Whereas the Win8/secure boot ecosystem is an active pain to dual
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by adwf 13y ago
Except in the case of Win8 secure boot on tablets, which can't be rooted and dual-booted. Unlike Android.
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by adwf 13y ago
One point to note is that you don't necessarily need to explicitly ask their budget, you can ask questions about the size of their operation instead. eg. For an IT sale, ask about number of employees in the IT department, number of des
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah, for a website with 2 seconds or more load time, instantclick will probably only help remove 100-200ms. Still worth it, but not a huge improvement. There will be lower hanging fruit. Where this library shines is if you already have a
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by adwf 13y ago
I second Bristol as a recommendation. Great city, good university, decent rents and a long history of great engineering. They could call it Silicon Hill...

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