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T-Mobile owner battles dataJAR over magenta logo(bbc.co.uk)
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Official announcement at 32:50 in the Google I/O Developer Keynote. https://youtu.be/flU42CTF3MQ?t=1970
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> It doesn't make sense to say watts per hour. Perhaps, but that doesn't change the fact that Plasma TVs are generally more expensive to run than modern LCD or OLED TVs. [1] Pioneer's 9th generation Kuro KRP-600A had an op
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Isn't that due to the very high energy consumption [1] than refresh rate? Who would want a TV that consumes ~300-600 watts per hour? [1] https://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/plasma-tvs-suck-electrici...
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> banking software means something written in COBOL, RPG400 etc. These languages are pretty old and hence, finding talent for these is like trying to find needle in a haystack. It's really interesting to see which of the new UK and
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> It involves using rw-everything and looking at SLIC table version. There's a much easier method that automates all of that for you: the Multi-OEM/Retail Project (MRP) [1]. This queries the SLIC or MSDM tables for you during
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> fairly certain you can't use Microsoft downloaded iso for an oem ISOs downloaded through Microsoft's Windows Media Creation Tool [1] will read the product key from the BIOS of OEM PCs that were sold with Windows 10 and will a
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has previously supported MPEG-2 and VC-1 hardware-based decoding by selling additional licenses in their online store [1][2]. By making the licenses optional they didn't need to increase the cost of all Rasp
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Does siftrss do anything like Full-Text RSS [1] to transform partial web feeds into full feeds? Quite a few of the websites I subscribe to only show summaries of the articles. [1] http://fivefilters.org/content-only/
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HGST won't be with us for much longer either due to the recent WD rebranding [1][2]. As part of the unification of our new Western Digital brand, the Ultrastar DC HC320 is being introduced under the Western Digital Data Center (DC) se
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Also worth mentioning is the Temporary Containers add-on [1] [2] which works in conjunction with Multi-Account Containers. If you browse the Internet in default Tabs or in a specific Container you still collect Cookies, Storage and Cache i
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> One way is to print to postscript and convert back to pdf, but then you can't copy text from it. If you use the following GhostScript command it's still possible to select the text in the unprotected PDF. "%Program
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> be great if they were more modular to a standard There is actually. The Open Pluggable Specification [1] which is primarily used for digital signage screens. It's a shame consumer TVs don't use this standard (or something sim
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> All I did recently was to reset the OS because it felt very sluggish on iOS 11 and after the reset it got a lot better. Apparently general sluggishness is not caused by the battery, but by some rogue iOS system process (which a reset f
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> I should probably just figure out how to write a keepass plugin KeepassXC already has this feature [1][2]. It can also store and generate OTP codes and works with YubiKeys (similar to Bitwarden Premium). There's also a popular Pyt
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Try this bookmarklet instead... javascript:location.href='https://facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href) It successfully bypassed the paywall for me.
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Run this from an elevated Command Prompt... REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinHttpAutoProxySvc /v Start /t REG_DWORD /d 4 /f
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It's a shame so few registrars support hardware tokens [1] since those would be better still. [1] https://twofactorauth.org/#domains
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Monzo [1], Starling [2], Atom [3] and Tandem [4] all manage to have HTTPS landing pages. If they can, there isn't any excuse for the more established banks not to as well. Hopefully their mobile apps use HTTPS for everything too? Appar
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> Push notifications require an app An app isn't required if you use a browser that supports push notifications. https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/ https://developers.google
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> Even worse is Google’s policy of prohibiting the installation of 3rd party web browsers on Chrome OS devices. Firefox simply can’t be installed on any Chromebook. The Android version of Firefox can be installed on Chrome OS though.
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The first ARM-based Windows 10 PCs are due to be released soon. https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/31/15711334/microsoft-window... http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-on-arm-hps-lea
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> If you use the USB/Lightning to AUX, you can't charge your phone at the same time. There's now a dongle that enables you to do both... https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/1&#x2F
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> I see lots of Deliveroo bikes around where I live in the centre of London, but they are basically non-existent when I go to other towns and cities. Whenever I visit Oxford I always see lots of Deliveroo bikes driving around the city ce
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> Who told you packages are not checked? Of course they are. Could you ship it in a large crate? Based on the video below these don't appear to be checked. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbTOHITC_xY
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> I searched and came across a list on Tom's Hardware of the best ad blockers of 2017 For some reason Tom's article is missing Pi-Hole [1] and AdGuard [2] which are network and computer-level ad blockers respectively. Both are
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No new Mac minis? [1] With the lacklustre performance of the Late 2014 models [2] it has effectively been 1774 days (4 years, 10 months, 9 days) since they were last updated. [1] https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac_Mini
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> If I get a new computer or am using someone else's even, it's easy for me to install what I need as I need it and get going out of the box. Mackup [1] might also be worth considering. It symlinks all of your config files to a
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> Imagine, Facebook asking you to upload your passport before you do a live stream. When I created an account with AirBnB I had to upload government-issued ID documents and a photo of myself [1]. Their Android app even asked me to scan t
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Google also have a perpetual Chrome Enterprise license that costs $150 per device. [1] For education and non-profits the same license is $30. [2] $50/device/year does seem like a lot of money especially when Google expect a device

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