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A Call for Opening Up Web Access at Schools(nytimes.com)
1 points by andyking 15y ago|0 comments
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by andyking 15y ago
That's interesting. I work at a radio station in a small town, and in the past week, two colleagues have said they're giving up Facebook (and have moved over to Twitter, rather than Google+). It's the first time I've seen non-tech people co
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by andyking 15y ago
Excellent post. I did this recently when I redecorated my room. It used to be filled with all manner of electronic gadgetry - there was a computer, an FM radio, a DAB radio, mobile phone chargers protruding from every wall, it was like slee
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by andyking 15y ago
I agree. The local newspaper here recently redesigned its website[1] with "social" rubbish baked right in, to the point where the paper's own news feed is now interspersed with the random ramblings of website users, Tweets, rants and ads di
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by andyking 15y ago
I just get the webmail control panel for the web host OVH, asking me to choose between Squirrelmail, Roundcube, Horde etc.
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by andyking 15y ago
As someone currently on month three of an interminable wait for a US bureaucrat (perhaps named Mr Godot) to decide whether I can marry my fiancée there or not, I wholeheartedly agree. The system's creaking as it is.
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by andyking 15y ago
Won't the second-hand price of this particular book be pushed up by the numbers of people after it for the free Stanford AI class that uses it?
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by andyking 15y ago
It is option-4. But I almost went and bought a new keyboard before I discovered that.
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by andyking 15y ago
Jordan Blackshaw's event was entitled "Smash Down in Northwich Town" and included an invitation for something called the "Mob Hill Massive Northwich Lootin'" to meet behind the McDonald's in the town centre at 1pm. It also included the word
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by andyking 15y ago
This was a crown court case, which is even more concerning. Crown court is used for serious offences which require a punishment of more than six months in prison, so for a case such as this to get from arrest to multi-year crown court sente
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by andyking 15y ago
The paywall is ludicrously easy to circumvent - clearing cookies, Chrome's incognito window, deleting the &gwh=stuff from the end of each page URL where you hit the wall. But after a couple months of doing this, I paid for access. I'm n
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by andyking 15y ago
I have a couple of domains registered with 123-reg. To prevent unauthorised access to your account your password must contain 8 characters. Wait, what? They're right, too. You can't have 7 characters and you can't have 9.
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by andyking 15y ago
I'd love one for Ask HNs as well. I posted one the other day which got no upvotes and one comment, and they're one of my favourite parts of the site generally, so keeping them all in one place would mean those of us interested in that side
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by andyking 15y ago
I think nazgulnarsil was talking figuratively rather than literally "nothing at all," meaning the children at poorer schools go to school and don't learn a great deal during their time there.
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by andyking 15y ago
It was the same for me at secondary school in the late 90s and early 00s. They hadn't moved on. ICT education at GCSE consisted solely of being taught how to use a computer in an office environment, and mostly how to use Microsoft Office. T
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by andyking 15y ago
Exactly the same for me! Not surprised that they picked up on radio, it's what I do for work and I browse relevant websites a lot, but lower down the list is dogs (don't have one, no interest in them) and geology. It also thinks I live in S
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by andyking 15y ago
I once got followed by a new local radio station that was launching in my area (I work in radio and they seemed to be following every radio person in the region). I thought, fair enough, and followed them back. A few weeks later, after they
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by andyking 15y ago
http://forargyll.com/ is a brilliant example of this--they were originally a group set up to launch a community radio station for a remote part of Scotland. This was unsuccessful for a variety of (mainly technical) reasons, so they turned
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by andyking 15y ago
The local press here in the UK seems to attract the same sort of vitriol - there was a fairly humdrum story in my local paper the other day about nuisance pigeons in the town centre being culled. It took about twenty minutes for the first c
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by andyking 15y ago
I love the way the guy had to take us at great length through how the vending machine actually worked--as if us mere mortals who work at places that aren't tech giants have never bought a Mars bar!
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by andyking 15y ago
The Sun in the UK (don't blame me, I work on a radio station and we get it there!) had LulzSec on the front page, I think twice this week. Once when someone got arrested (headline "HACK THE LAD"), and once an 'exposé' about the arrested tee
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by andyking 15y ago
A system like this of sorts is already in place in the UK at theyworkforyou.com. Each MP has a page like this http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/edward_balls/morley_and_out... - which shows their voting record, most recent appearances in pu
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by andyking 15y ago
Where's the ad? It's the BBC website.
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by andyking 15y ago
There's a page on the Be User Group website about their proxying of the various file-storage sites, with workarounds. I'm with O2, and have found the messages about "failed the captcha too many times" or "you may only download one file at a
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by andyking 16y ago
I work for a small non-profit radio station where we've got a couple of Ubuntu boxes (running 10.10, or whatever the latest version with standard GNOME 2 is). I've only done it because we recently expanded our volunteer base and didn't have
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by andyking 16y ago
Kiss 100's breakfast show in London is sponsored by RIM - and they give out their BBM PIN as a way of contacting the studio. Other stations I've heard, outside London, also give out BBM PINs - Radio City 96.7's dance music programming in Li
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by andyking 16y ago
Thanks for this - my account was linked with Clickpass before and it was a bit of a pain to log in - going through three or four different pages on a mobile isn't fun. I didn't know I could just use this and change it to a normal username/p
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by andyking 16y ago
I've got a friend visiting me in the UK from the US, where she's on Verizon, which is incompatible with the GSM/UMTS networks we use here. I've got her one of these to use while she's over here - http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/mo
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by andyking 16y ago
This is a real positive. My cell phone, my GPS and my in-car DAB radio all power from USB - I can charge and use them all with just one lead, instead of having a glovebox full of a Spaghetti Junction of different cables and connectors. It a
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Russian engineers plan to extend Internet to space(blogs.rnw.nl)
22 points by andyking 16y ago|5 comments

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