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by davweb 8y ago
> Out of your friend’s window, which overlooks the opposite side of the graveyard, she can see eight. It could be clearer, but it is in the description that your friend is looking in a different direction to you and so presumably at diff
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Oscilloscope Games Console(mrdictionary.net)
1 points by davweb 8y ago|0 comments
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by davweb 9y ago
Nintendo have been doing exactly this for years [1], albeit only on their own hardware and not on smartphones. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Console
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by davweb 9y ago
That's more or less what was already happening; which is why the EU told the Irish government they had to stop giving Apple a preferential tax rate unavailable to other companies. Ireland didn't want to collect this money.
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Barclays Bank in UK stops offering Kaspersky Antivirus to its customers(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by davweb 9y ago|0 comments
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by davweb 9y ago
If you're doing manual updates to a production DB, using START TRANSACTION and then checking the outcome of your changes before you use COMMIT stops typos becoming catastrophes.
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Google faces UK legal action for bypassing iPhone privacy settings to target ads(bbc.co.uk)
193 points by davweb 9y ago|68 comments
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Amazon Key’s camera can be disabled by a third party(theverge.com)
2 points by davweb 9y ago|0 comments
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by davweb 9y ago
So it does. It seems that the iPhone is better at recognising faces than me at least.
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by davweb 9y ago
It's conspicuous that the real face of the user of the iPhone isn't shown in the video or in photos on the site.
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by davweb 9y ago
Conversion Rate Optimization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_rate_optimization
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by davweb 10y ago
There's a page on the site telling you how to spot counterfeits. http://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/counterfeit-one-p...
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Uber faces UK court battle with drivers over employment status(theguardian.com)
3 points by davweb 10y ago|0 comments
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by davweb 10y ago
This isn't completely true. You can use it for free commercially as long as you install it yourself. The Licensing FAQ [1] says: > Also, if you install it on your work PC at some large company, this is still personal use. However,
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Facebook Privacy Basics(facebook.com)
12 points by davweb 12y ago|8 comments
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by davweb 12y ago
I don't know about the iOS version, but on Swiftkey on Android swiping your finger from right to left across the whole keyboard deletes the previous word. I'm using the ordinary typing mode though. I don't know if this works
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Escape from XP(escapefromxp.azurewebsites.net)
3 points by davweb 12y ago|0 comments
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by davweb 13y ago
One of the reasons I went for a Synology is that you can run the CrashPlan client on the Synology itself. It's unsupported, but easy to do and has worked well for me. http://pcloadletter.co.uk/2012/01/30/crashplan-syno-package/
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by davweb 14y ago
If you click the "International" option under Shipping a Country field appears.
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by davweb 14y ago
It seems like an excellent idea. However, reading the other comments it seems that the execution is somewhat lacking.
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by davweb 14y ago
This is almost certainly due to trademark protection. I'm surprised this isn't mentioned in the original article. If "Google" as a verb becomes a genericized trademark[1] then they lose a lot of their trademark protection. [1]: http://en.
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Things a text editor must do(theregister.co.uk)
45 points by davweb 14y ago|39 comments
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by davweb 14y ago
My guess is that in a good fighting game all the characters need to be reasonably different to each other but also well balanced against all the others. The balance will require a lot of play testing and tuning, so each character you add w
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by davweb 14y ago
Apparently someone has had a reply to an email sent to Tim Cook promising a bigger upgrade to the Mac Pros next year. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/11/david-pogue-new-imacs-an...
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by davweb 14y ago
Since the first example given is about wearing a T-shirt with the Dutch flag on it and getting Gmail adds about Holland, I think this is a offhand post about coincidences rather than something suggesting Google is monitoring voice calls to
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by davweb 14y ago
There's a nice article about this on the AgileBits blog [1]. In summary they say it's a net gain for security because trying variations on a supplied password doesn't help an attack much and reducing the number of password resets is a posi
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by davweb 15y ago
With PayPal you can send money to any email address. If that address isn't associated with a PayPal account an email is sent telling the recipient to sign up to PayPal and claim their money. [1] I don't see why giftdish couldn't work the s
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by davweb 15y ago
The UK is a signatory of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), Article 10 of which guarantees freedom of expression. This became law in the UK with the 1998 Human Rights Act. The text of the ECHR does explicitly mention "duties a
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by davweb 15y ago
This is the key difference. Stack Overflow has said all along that it would always be free and the CC license helps ensure this. If Stack Overflow decides to put up a paywall anyone could simply put up the all existing content, perhaps usi
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by davweb 15y ago
The "collective management organisations" set up to manage this will be paying royalties to authors, something they wouldn't get if their books were made public domain. Similarly, an author can assert their rights and ask for a republished

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