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by epo 16y ago
Perhaps because the police are supposed to be impartial and serve all equally. The BNP is overtly racist and advocates explicit discrimination against and persecution of minorities. A member of the BNP is by definition not a proper person t
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by epo 16y ago
Tables are good for tabular data, they are also quick, easy and very cross-platform, the semantic zealots seem to overlook this. Using tables to lay out images or for a faux column effect is sloppy but really the whole table-hate thing is
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Android Data Stealing Vulnerability(thomascannon.net)
3 points by epo 16y ago|0 comments
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by epo 16y ago
And as lots of people have already pointed out, an ad-free version would be pirated instantly. This way they make some money out of the Android user base. Personally I suspect that once the hive mind gets to work even ads will stop working
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by epo 16y ago
Metadata searches are cool though I haven't found a comprehensive description, e.g. type name:foo to find all objects with foo in the name, kind:pdf wil find all PDFs. These may be combined, e.g. name:foo kind:pdf has the expected result.
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by epo 16y ago
My CS degree was a sandwich course (UK), I did 2 years at college, a full year working for an employer (of my choice, the college had the power of veto) and a final year back at college, I did a postgrad after. The industrial training year
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by epo 16y ago
I have always assumed it was related to how the typical person's eye scanned a page. Is this even affected by handedness or just for example the fact that we write left to right in the English language? (the web was after all first written
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by epo 16y ago
Yes, the BBC have a better headline with "Police seek powers ..."
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by epo 16y ago
Pay off all debts first, interest on debts is always higher than interest on deposits. Put enough into a short notice emergency fund to cover, erm, emergencies. Divide the rest between safe and risky investments depending on how confident o
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by epo 16y ago
The article headline is misleading (I copied it verbatim), these powers are speculative at the moment.
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(UK) Police to get major new powers to seize domains(thinq.co.uk)
17 points by epo 16y ago|6 comments
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by epo 16y ago
Driving is good, why not drive while drunk? The fact that you pose the question in that way indicates you have not thought about this at all which makes me wonder if you are even old enough to drink. BTW the answer as to why not code when d
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by epo 16y ago
I'll bet Salesforce would have given them all sorts of freebies and concessions just for this publicity.
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by epo 16y ago
yet more spam
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by epo 16y ago
When you've been around for a little while longer you will realise that pretty much all recreational drugs are harmful if you don't exercise moderation. Just because you can't detect damage now doesn't mean it isn't there. Anyway, by your r
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How not to suck at powerpoint(lifehacker.com)
4 points by epo 16y ago|0 comments
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by epo 16y ago
Then again, for security he might want to use something else. Is it only me who is amused by the irony of someone using a system with such a poor security track record to talk about ssh which is intended to provide secure connections?
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(UK) Commissioner issues first Data Protection Act fines(bbc.co.uk)
13 points by epo 16y ago|11 comments
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by epo 16y ago
Excellent example of how to write about technical subjects for a general audience.
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by epo 16y ago
This "original purpose" ("charter" perhaps?) is new to me, is it written down anywhere? Don't communities evolve? Aren't they supposed to? Or are people perhaps bemoaning the current state of HN just like so many old folks complaining that
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by epo 16y ago
This sentiment, which I would caricature as "the hoi-polloi are polluting our elite discussions" is risible. Enlightenment and insight comes from listening to a variety of sources, not all of them agreeable. Set up your own invite-only comm
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by epo 16y ago
Supposedly sell it in Spar too.
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Dell tweaks its logo just subtly enough for nobody to notice(engadget.com)
2 points by epo 16y ago|0 comments
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by epo 16y ago
I don't understand this. Clearly a search may be necessary to detect smuggled contraband, but that is the job of Customs. What grounds are there for the TSA to search someone not boarding a flight? If there is a worry about carrying conceal
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by epo 16y ago
That is simply nonsense, 10 years there was little practical security on domestic US flights. That was the soft underbelly that the 9/11 hijackers exploited. Security on international flights was also lacking compared to e.g. the UK. The TS
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by epo 16y ago
Look at the rest of the world, they've been doing airport security in a reasonably civilised manner since the Palestinians and Cubans started hijacking back in the 60s(?)
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by epo 16y ago
One man's "obvious" is another man's "stunning discovery". Perhaps the "this is old hat" people are just saying they only heard of it themselves yesterday or perhaps - as is very common - something is indeed obvious after you've heard it fo
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The "Router" in Your Head—a Bottleneck of Processing(discovermagazine.com)
1 points by epo 16y ago|0 comments
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by epo 16y ago
The principal difference in this regard is that Scotland makes no distinction between the two forms of defamation that the English call libel ('written') and slander ('spoken'). The money is in libel.
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by epo 16y ago
Granted, the original claim of irony was still incorrect. EDIT: no, actualy I still disagree. Mere 'repurposing' in the "black is white" sense is not enough, there has to be contradiction.

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