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by ernesth 8y ago
Where is this definition coming from? Merriam-Webster says "software designed to interfere with a computer's normal functioning". Wiktionary: "Software which has been designed to operate in a malicious, undesirable manne
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by ernesth 8y ago
Great work :) So all in all, the only teams for which the prediction was more than 1/2 were teams out in groups. That is a little underwhelming. Ah, for Croatia, I believe, it should read 1.5%.
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by ernesth 8y ago
Japan went out in Round_16 Croatia went out in Finals And I do not understand what the last column means (except for France and teams out in group phase)
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by ernesth 8y ago
> "The Hacker began breathing more heavily." Obviously this is fiction. Romance or thriller?
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by ernesth 8y ago
If the content you use is written by you rather than the linked site, you are not concerned by this article. So paraphrasing the article or using an automatic summarization should keep you clear.
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by ernesth 8y ago
No. According to the so called link-tax article, it is not linking but putting content that makes a platform liable. So this HN post would not be illegal because of the link, but maybe because of the title that was "stolen" from t
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by ernesth 8y ago
> They replied that they do not have any data on me. How could they transmit that info? They at least have stored your mail address.
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by ernesth 8y ago
So why do Samsung android phones put the "back button" on the right contrary to the other android devices? In latin and germanic languages, left means back, cancel, undo, bad whereas right means continue, progress, right!
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by ernesth 8y ago
Is it supposed to be enough to be compliant with the GDPR? If you have harvested data from Europe, you are not allowed to sell/transmit it without informing the concerned party. I feel that to become GDPR compliant this way, you also h
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by ernesth 9y ago
> Their product isn't only the stuff you buy. It's the ease of the process and the quickness of delivery. I find Amazon to be very bad on ease of the process/quickness of delivery/price: Their dark patterns to sell p
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by ernesth 9y ago
I just checked my contacts privacy settings and 10 apps have permission while 29 do not. Contacts, Mail, Agenda, Messages legitimately want contacts. All google apps ask for contacts (Photos, Keyboard, Maps, Docs, Keep, Play Store...), all
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by ernesth 9y ago
To me, windows Phone was a nightmare. I previously had a symbian and every interaction with windows phone made me regret it. Windows Phone was so locked and worse than symbian! You could not install another web browser (on symbian I was usi
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by ernesth 9y ago
Please use the original announcement https://marc.info/?l=git&m=152270220826214&w=2 (or change the title to something else such as "Some interesting new features of git 2.17")
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by ernesth 9y ago
Activating a card usually involves using it in a machine reading the chip and asking the pin (typically an ATM).
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by ernesth 9y ago
> Lockdown on content (from distributors to theaters) has been around a long time, this is nothing new. Not in France. A seller (here distributor) has no right to choose its clients (here theater).
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by ernesth 9y ago
Another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24srQXX81Oc (7 years ago)
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by ernesth 9y ago
>> In France for instance if you accept credit cards, it is illegal to add a fee for accepting it. > Are you sure, that it is by law? It is: Article L112-12 from the Code monétaire et financier. "Le bénéficiaire ne peut appli
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by ernesth 9y ago
> Another problem with inline quoting is that people are often lazy and quote everything, which means you need to scroll down a lot to hunt down for the new content. The problem with top posting is that people systematically quote everyt
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by ernesth 10y ago
Not being a native english speaker, I'm probably wrong, but it seems clear to me that were the sense of this sentence to be "...storing, distribution of (...), or packing for shipment", "distributing" would have bee
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by ernesth 11y ago
Blaming Amazon is totally pointing the finger at the culprit: Amazon has been threatening publishers that if they choose no drm, their books won't benefit from text-to-speech, and various other possibilities of the kindle, including fu
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by ernesth 12y ago
Finland has chosen to not teach handwriting anymore, teaching typing instead. http://thelearnersway.net/ideas/2014/12/12/handwriting-vs-ty... It is not just cursive versus block letters (which is not ver
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by ernesth 12y ago
>> Exponential backoff (forcing attackers to try again after 1, 2, 4, 8, 16.. seconds) is useful as well. > Just open a spreadsheet and determine how long it would take to test 1500 passwords. 5.557 * 10^443 average Gregorian years
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by ernesth 12y ago
16. Hyphenation in your language is context dependent. English, your rules for deciding how to hyphen words are JUST HORRIBLY BROKEN! Hyphenation should at most depend on the word to be hyphenated, not on the semantics of the whole sentence
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by ernesth 13y ago
> Anything else I omitted? * Meego, Maemo, Mer (or did you count them under SailfishOS or Tizen?) * Openmoko
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by ernesth 13y ago
Opera 12 is the latest version on Linux.
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by ernesth 13y ago
> what you use for my other cases. For local searches, I use my GPS. Google often errors by 100 kilometers when trying to localise me, so local search is a pity. Otherwise, I use pagesjaunes.fr which does not work in your country. I don&
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by ernesth 13y ago
Pocketbook Touch Lux and Bookeen Cybook Odyssey Frontlight are comparable to Kindle Paperwhite 1 and do have physical buttons for turning pages. Unfortunately, price is the same as that of a kindle paperwhite, not double the price.
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by ernesth 13y ago
France is battling Europe's notion of what electronic books are. At the moment, contrary to Europe's advice, France taxes ebooks as books (5.5% in France) while Europes wants ebooks to be taxed as services (20% in France). This la
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by ernesth 13y ago
This law is supposed to take effect after the 2015/1/1 on which day VAT in Europe will be collected according to the country of the buyer while at the moment it is collected according to the country of the seller.
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by ernesth 13y ago
Didn't Siemens sell its mobile subsidiary to taiwanese benq and its network subsidiary to finnish nokia?

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