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by ahje 8y ago
It is not a hoax/joke. For the record, the article is older than that. The CSA press release is over two weeks old.
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by ahje 8y ago
As a home owner I wouldn't be able to go outside without my multi-tool (which includes a 7 cm foldable blade). I use it on a daily basis, and always keep it in my pocket even when going somewhere. Only reaction I ever got was from a se
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by ahje 8y ago
It's an incentive for improving machine translation, no?
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by ahje 8y ago
<?php header('Content-type: text/plain'); var_dump($_POST);
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by ahje 8y ago
That's a nice checklist. I'd like to add "Test with a console browser" too. If the site is usable in Links2/Lynx/w3m then it will most likely work for everyone.
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by ahje 8y ago
> education in politic/economics/&c That doesn't magically make a person competent in other matters. On the contrary, many politicians with a background in economics or law show a frightening lack of insight in many ot
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by ahje 8y ago
Why should we expect random politicians to know better? After all, a stupid decision taken by uninformed politicians isn't necessarily better than a stupid decision made by the people.
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by ahje 8y ago
You should try working at an abuse desk for an business providing email services at some point. :) You are, of course, absolutely right re. spam and rightfully so. On the other hand, I regularly get spam reports re. 100% legitimate mails, o
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by ahje 8y ago
> I don't think this will fly when the relevant authorities finds out I've seen public entities switch to Office 365 in order to "get rid of spam" and thereby losing a lot of incoming legitimate mails in the same proc
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by ahje 8y ago
Alas, history tells us that the people with "rational" opinions are no better to rule than the ones with "irrational" ones. At least not in the long run. As a fellow EU-citizen I am absolutely horrified by the chaos curr
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by ahje 8y ago
Copenhagen traffic is a nightmare. Yes, the city is fairly bicycle friendly, but when it's faster to ride a bike 10 km to work instead of taking the subway* then there's a serious public transportation issue no matter how you put
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by ahje 8y ago
Related: My wife's hooked on watching me play DF as long as there's a tileset enabled. This is a god-send! :D
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by ahje 8y ago
I've seen plenty of web sites running 10+ year-old code written by someone's neigbor's kid with an ancient PHP handbook in hand. Luckily, deprecating the mysql extension in PHP in favor of the mysqli extension has broken a _l
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by ahje 8y ago
That put a smile on my face on a bad day. Thank you! :D
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by ahje 8y ago
Blocking user agents does not provide security, but it does increase the cost of attack which is perfectly acceptable as a part of a larger defence strategy. It's like moving SSH to another port -- it won't stop anyone who knows w
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by ahje 8y ago
Ditto. I moved, and explained I'd love to stay at the company but that the condition was that I work remotely. They accepted.
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by ahje 8y ago
Narh, it's extremely common to see stuff like Firefox 34 for Linux trying to log into WordPress sites a few hundred times per hour. I guess it's old malware that lives on in hacked web sites that the owners abandoned.
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by ahje 8y ago
It's quite common for extremely dumb bots to fake impossible UA's for various brute-force attack. Usually, something in the line of Microsoft Edge for PPC Linux or something equally silly. In such cases it's easy to get a WAF
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by ahje 8y ago
Honest question here: How do you guys get the time/focus to listen to podcasts? I can't focus on people talking while doing something else so I either have to put down whatever I am doing in order to listen, or I'll miss most
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by ahje 8y ago
Indeed, but which is preferable? Genetic vaccination against malaria or extinction of an entire species who are also a victim of the same parasite? Both can potentially have unintended and disastrous consequences hundreds of years into the
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by ahje 8y ago
No worries. I learnt the concept at school, I guess? Mid or late 90's? :D My definition is the same: Free from government meddling, although most markets obviously have some regulations on certain products and services and that they ob
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by ahje 8y ago
> definition of "free market"? Basic supply/demand. Many people believe that a demand for something will result in someone deciding to make money by providing the sought-after good/service.
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by ahje 8y ago
Don't forget tax evasion!
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by ahje 8y ago
It's not a joke. I think most of the people behind this are simply so naive that they can't believe the free market won't fix this.
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by ahje 8y ago
It is indeed horrible, and it is fantastic that so many resources are dedicated to find a solution to this travesty! Eliminating entire species deliberately, on the other hand, isn't really better. Yes, there is the us vs. them dilemma
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by ahje 8y ago
The first sentence of the article mentions the saplings have been taken from multiple sources (five different stumps), which means there's probably some genetic variation amongst the saplings.
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by ahje 8y ago
Bold statement, especially since it depends entirely of the job in question. :)
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by ahje 8y ago
Grouping similar languages together like that would mean the Sami and the Finns speak the same language anyway. Problem solved, right?
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by ahje 8y ago
In the EU airlines have to compensate passengers who are denied boarding if the reason is that the flight is overbooked: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right... The same applies for fl
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by ahje 8y ago
Once you have a few regular customers that pay on time, things are usually nice. Until you reach that point, however, things are shaky at best.

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