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Tech conference rescinds requirement for chipped, unremovable bracelets(boingboing.net)
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I've been working with the AWS Textract, it scans image files and returns the coordinates of the scanned text. The coordinates are percentages of the width/height of the image where one edge is 0.0 and the opposite edge is 1.0. Th
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There is nothing wrong with touch screens when they are horizontal like a tablet. Vertical touch screens like on laptops or desktops are not ergonomic, and especially so for the elderly.
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This is a moot point as Capital One and GitHub have both stated that no personal information from the hack was stored on GitHub's servers.
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Ooops, that's my misread of the forum posting from the AutoTrader team. They have 2 sites, one public, the other is a portal for car dealers to post cars in which they stated does not serve ads. The problem they were having though is t
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The thing is is that AutoTrader is a website that advertises cars, they don't even have any other advertising on their site. And because EasyList doesn't like a word in their URL, the website breaks through no fault of their own.
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Here's the forum thread in question. The suggested fix from EasyList was to rename a folder on AT's server from /advert/. As AT explained this folder was part of the URL for hundreds of thousands of cars and that the URL
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What's the difference between saving money for a year and buying on interest free credit, with the "saved" money going to payments for that year?
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Why would Apple be angry?
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Data privacy startups cashing in on GDPR(venturebeat.com)
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Interesting that her lawyer makes the argument that occupational licensing boards act as though the First Amendment doesn't apply to them. Wonder what his response would be if someone wanted to dispense lawyerly advice without a licens
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InCountry Raises $15M to Help Multinationals Comply with Data Regulations(venturebeat.com)
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Because the main ingredient of the injection cocktail, sodium thiopental is no longer manufactured in the US. The EU has also banned the drug. So states are now trying to "score" an alternative, pentobarbital which works similarly
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This press release from the British Antarctic Survey says about that incident that a coolant leak caused the generator to overheat and shutdown. https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/update-power-down-at-britis...
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Apple has had a battery replacement option for quite a few years. Apple Store employees don't work on commission, so a customer coming in with a battery problem would most likely be offered the battery replacement option before being s
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In addition, users can run applications from a CDROM or a read only USB stick, where the app would not be able to write anything.
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Mac OS is a multi-user operating system. Most applications that are installed are global to the system although each user also has their own Applications folder. The Application Support folder resides in the user's Library folder and c
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The beachfront Arizona joke is usually not about rising sea levels but rather about earthquakes in California causing that state to break off from the continent.
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Record and book stores as well.
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Funny because McDonald’s is now featuring items here in the US that are popular overseas. Currently they are featuring a Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger from Spain and a Stroopwaffel McFlurry from the Netherlands.
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PBS/NOVA ran a documentary a couple of years ago talking about safer nuclear reactor designs. This included lessons learned from Fukushima. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDCEjWNGv6Y
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The reason was that legal briefs needed to be certain lengths with word count maximums. MS Word did not count words in footnotes for the overall word count, WP did.
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Payments Will Be Facebook's Regulatory Waterloo(entrepreneur.com)
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Amtrak offers 25% off fares on Cascades if you book more than 14 days in advance. Children are also discounted at 50%, infants are free.
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Back in 1980, Kirkpatrick Sale wrote a great book called "Human Scale" about how things (government, business, infrastructure) in society are built beyond what humans can comprehend and manage. He pointed to studies that found tha
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It was a tongue in cheek statement about the fact that Mac users have long ago sworn off using Flash on their systems. It's a bloated CPU-intensive piece of crapware.
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> The disk images are disguised as Adobe Flash Player installers, which is one of the most common ways malware creators trick Mac users into installing malware. Most Mac users know that Flash is a piece of malware itself and would never
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With Apple's Do Not Disturb, callers in different groups (Contacts, Favorites or a specific group) can ring through if you allow it.
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No, they were able to hack accounts by knowing personal details about celebrities and guessing the passwords.
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SwiftUI is not just for iOS, it's for MacOS, tvOS, iPadOS and WatchOS as well. That covers well over a billion devices with all kinds of apps.

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