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by crottypeter 7y ago
> Why is this a problem? Because when the light goes green zombie drivers looking at their phone move forward without checking that it is safe to do so. You need to be aware of your surroundings ... including the (motor)bike who has just
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by crottypeter 8y ago
Believe it or not, Joe public hasn't heard of f-droid. Google Play is the app store for most android users (at least in the west).
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by crottypeter 8y ago
Average Joe has a facebook account with a network of friends. They do not have a twitter account let alone any followers (Facebook DAU: 1.5 billion; Twitter DAU: 126 million)
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by crottypeter 8y ago
> Weird, your source says the opposite. No, it doesn't. Your quote truncates a sentence that supports GP's point.
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by crottypeter 8y ago
You seem to be missing the point. The boss does not have to enquire if the information is already public!
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by crottypeter 8y ago
Assuming Canada is like the UK, competition in the mortgage market means a bank hiking the rates will lose your business. Of course you can be unlucky if interest rates are unusually high at the time your fixed rate deal is up for renewal.
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by crottypeter 8y ago
But Poland have the złoty, not the Euro.
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by crottypeter 8y ago
> Maybe that's beneficial due to the risk 'it could be something bad'. I would assume it's detrimental because it results in doctors' waiting rooms full of people with colds (making it a dangerous place for anyon
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by crottypeter 8y ago
Also it's very hard to debug... A friend on iOS think he has sent you a (SMS) text message. You don't get it on your (non-apple) phone. You don't get it on your (non-apple) work computer. Three weeks later you log on to your
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by crottypeter 8y ago
> (This ignores other reasons not to vote that aren't really a choice. eg. you can't get off work or don't have time or something) This is why postal votes exist. Not being able to guarantee availability on several arbitra
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by crottypeter 8y ago
Psst...put it in your password manager.
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by crottypeter 8y ago
> The only reason people store so much hand luggage is that the airlines charge for checked baggage. I don't think this is true. Frequent flyers always tell me the purpose of a large carry-on is so you don't waste time at the b
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by crottypeter 8y ago
From my reading of it, they are saying that all passwords saved in the browser (potentially all users of the home PC or mobile phone) get associated with the google account but not that all users of the school system can see each others p
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by crottypeter 8y ago
Yes, that is the pop-up and upon reading it, it is pretty clear to me that you want to start a new chrome profile to proceed (or else your home passwords will get sync'd to the controlled account). The trouble is that this is not cle
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by crottypeter 8y ago
Re the special-snowflake usecase: there was a Simpson's episode about this where Homer helped create a terrible car: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Homer
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by crottypeter 8y ago
I thought the individual having control (and choosing to use Theranos) was a bad thing, no? When you're buying one blood test you won't be able to tell what it missed. If you're a medical practitioner, ordering hundreds of bl
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by crottypeter 8y ago
Perhaps your google account has been compromised?
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by crottypeter 8y ago
False positives are certainly possible. My office has an hour allotted to gaming on Friday afternoons. There have been occasions when TF2 kicked all players connecting from Linux clients (approx 50% of us).
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by crottypeter 8y ago
This is true but they are often long and complicated and aren't always conducive to quick solutions or refreshing memories of a useful combination of arguments. It is good to have both.
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by crottypeter 8y ago
Indeed, I had trouble getting any way near enough vowels
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by crottypeter 8y ago
An example of this in London is the Cornhill Devils. Supposedly the architect of the building on which they appear fell out with the Vicar of the adjacent St Peter's Church. http://hidden-london.com/the-guide/cornh
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by crottypeter 8y ago
If someone chops open your padlock you find out about it next time you see it. The vulnerabilities in the article might go unnoticed, so the user keeps locking gates, chains, whatever with the bad lock and the crooks can come again and agai
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by crottypeter 8y ago
This is brilliant. Very useful and quick. especially when i want to look at a couple of options.
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by crottypeter 8y ago
I'm guessing jnichols35 does IT support in a large-ish office?
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by crottypeter 8y ago
> This is cute, but with what we now know about CTE, I can't help but find boxing, American football (handegg), etc disgusting. FTFY Seriously the rest of the world calls 'Soccer': 'football'
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by crottypeter 8y ago
Yeah, plus maybe GGP has never _seen_ a Windows mobile :)
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by crottypeter 8y ago
https://youtu.be/T8G8tLsl_A4
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by crottypeter 9y ago
I want to say Anker but even they made a mistake and had to recall faulty cables https://lifehacker.com/some-anker-usb-c-cables-are-getting-r... Although at least they did the recall and presumably will be careful not to ma
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by crottypeter 9y ago
Hang on ... mechanic shop is different to oil change place? Is this a USA-only thing?
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by crottypeter 9y ago
You need stands or ramps as well as a jack. It is very dangerous to go beneath a car held only by a jack!

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