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by davb 12y ago
Agreed. There was something universal, almost magical, about ROM BASIC. For me it was Commodore BASIC on the C64. I turn the machine on, and instantly there's a little flashing prompt inviting me to give it some input. Having to enter
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by davb 12y ago
Perhaps someone should make a list of applications or services which are hostile towards rooted/jailbroken devices. Maybe effect some change.
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by davb 12y ago
And Sky Go. Which is frustrating. I want both an open device I control (as much as possible) and to pay for my media legitimately. Stopping me accessing media I've paid for on my rooted device makes me more likely to seek it out else
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by davb 12y ago
I think the difference here is that the Bolt web browser was discontinued in 2011 (according to the Wikipedia article you linked), whereas the OPs "Bolt" voice/SMS service is very much an active project.
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by davb 12y ago
And the Open Source distribution of Cloud9 has always been a complete nightmare to install (in my experience). It's always felt like the OSS part was for show ("hey, use our cloud service - it's also (sort of) OSS").
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by davb 12y ago
The classic logo is often on the can/bottle near the nutritional information: http://imgur.com/OHinuge (from a can of Diet Coke in the UK, taken today. The can was part of a large multi-pack case). There's a littl
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by davb 12y ago
Consider online opinion polls around the Scottish independence debate. Whichever side you support, it's easy to recognise the political and democratic ramifications of an opinion poll being altered to reflect the current government&#x2
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by davb 12y ago
Consider installing the Symbola font [1]. Where Unicode fallback works correctly, missing glyphs from the regular site font will be taken from Symbola. It's the most comprehensive freely available emoji font I could find (although it d
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by davb 12y ago
I admire the work of the Open Rights Group, but it bothers me that they try to funnel you towards making Direct Debit (recurring, straight from your bank account) contributions and make it difficult to find the one-off donation button. Six
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by davb 12y ago
Caused my browser to completely freeze shortly after loading the page and seeing what looked like some interaction heatmaps appear. I'm using Firefox 31.0 x64 on Debian 7 (Wheezy) with kernel 3.15.0-rc4. All plugins are click to play o
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by davb 12y ago
I don't live in the US, but it wouldn't surprise me if my activities have, at some point, contradicted US tax laws. I understand it's even more complex and ambiguous than that of the UK.
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by davb 12y ago
I don't know if I'd say that's a good solution. If travelling for pleasure, that would mean wiping my personal data from my device - contacts, messages, emails. It would also mean logging out of all network services. Or jus
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by davb 12y ago
Absolutely. However I'm less well versed in international privacy laws than those of the UK. With RIPA, the mere act of protecting your data while transiting through the UK can be seen as incriminatory, with failure to decrypt data a s
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by davb 12y ago
I would add that I'd be worried that if we weren't one step ahead, the discover of such digital forensics counter-measures would be used as evidence of wrong-doing. RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000) has set a pre
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by davb 12y ago
I would install such a firmware in a heartbeat if I had confidence that there were a team of freedom-fighting hackers staying one step ahead of the authorities. I don't keep anything incriminating or illegal on my phone (hell, I don&#x
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by davb 12y ago
Generally, each base station within range receives all messages from your phone. Even if you were to address different messages (with different response delays) to each station, they would all still "see" the other messages. They
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by davb 12y ago
I wondered if Google's internal development infrastructure looks like or hooks into Google Code, making it easy to release code publicly on Google Code.
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by davb 12y ago
I absolutely agree in the long term , but can you say a little about how much those servers cost initially? I tend to favour dedicated servers which I own over VPS but for small businesses with extremely constrained budgets ("prove we
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by davb 12y ago
When I was first learning about computing and networks (late 90's), I always knew "hackers" as part of the H/P/V/C/A scene (Hacking/Phreaking/Virus Writing/Cracking/Anarchy) as used in
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by davb 12y ago
By the late 90s this is exactly how I understood the terms. Even now I don't hear many people in the local tech community (Scotland) refer to hackers as we mean here (unless it's prefixed with something, for example "Python h
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by davb 12y ago
I agree. I think the generally accepted meaning has evolved over time. Hacker, to most people, now means cracker/intruder. Perhaps a more positive way to approach this is to popularise a different term for what we mean by hacker (tinke
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by davb 12y ago
This really shocked me when I visited SF last year. We have issues with homelessness, drug abuse and lack of support in some of Scotland's bigger cities, but SF was on a whole other level. We seen people throw themselves in front of ca
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by davb 12y ago
And if anyone's wondering - the revolutionary audio engine the author mentions was the Beatnik Audio Engine (BAE), open sourced as the Mini Beatnik Audio Engine (miniBAE) [1]. [1] http://www.minibae.org/
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by davb 12y ago
I had the opposite issue. T-Mobile coverage in my city in Scotland was great at the time (aside: it was also marketed as the T-Mobile Sidekick here, not the Danger Hiptop). My real issue was that we missed out on a lot of the value added fe
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by davb 12y ago
Ah. I don't see that. I see the new front screen (with large HTML5 video background) but when I log in I've got a rather dated interface http://imgur.com/KVSREgH This doesn't let me paste, giving the aforemen
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by davb 12y ago
I tried this around an hour ago and can't paste, it's being explicitly blocked. Perhaps my region (UK) still uses the old password change page? For clarification, I'm using the change password function once logged in and not
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by davb 12y ago
You're right. It seems to be working now. When I first tried, I could paste into any field but the change password fields. However on PayPal, when pasting I received a little tooltip-style popup saying something along the lines of &quo
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by davb 12y ago
And neither eBay nor PayPal allow me to paste a secure password from KeePassX. sigh Edit: I can now paste on eBay (not sure what went wrong the first time) but PayPal is still actively preventing pasting a new password.
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by davb 12y ago
This concerns me. Amazon Prime Instant Video requires HDCP via Silverlight. Support for this is pretty much non-existent in Linux drivers, so watching Prime video via Pipelight is limited to standard definition (no HD). I worry that with EM
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by davb 12y ago
It varies widely. The O'Reilly eBook versions are very consistent. I really rely on the reviews on Amazon for the Kindle versions (there are often complaints of layout issues in code examples and diagrams). O'Reilly is by far my f

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