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601.
by estel 15y ago
As massively anti-competitive as it sounds, it'll take an incredibly brilliant news service and a fantastically cheap price for me to move away from the BBC as my main source of online news. Relatively clean presentation, ad-free, and a gen
602.
by estel 15y ago
Well, given the other restrictions that Spotify imposed this month on the Free Spotify accounts, I can't see myself limiting myself to those restrictions any time soon, hence why I'm Premium.
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by estel 16y ago
Yeh, that was Fit Finder, which had a great growth immediately after release, but was pulled after UCL threatened the developer's degree as it apparently bought the University into disrepute. He's come back with Floxx now that he's graduate
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by estel 16y ago
They only posted two vacancies for these two more junior roles a month ago: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=1526321
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by estel 16y ago
This is in addition to 'free software'. Lots of people seem to be complaining about this outlined package, but I'm not sure what more Sony could do other than offer direct cash rewards to ever member; and even then they'd have huge issues c
606.
by estel 16y ago
To me it sounds like lawyer-speak for "We don't think they do but we're covering our arses"
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by estel 16y ago
Giant Bomb is reporting that passwords are supposedly secure (of course, "no way" is clearly false), so I'm guessing there's at least a decent salted hash: http://www.giantbomb.com/news/good-news-psn-back-maybe-withi...
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Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN(blog.us.playstation.com)
1074 points by estel 16y ago|279 comments
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by estel 16y ago
I really don't understand why this is an app. Out of interest, what process led you to developing it as one?
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by estel 16y ago
Surely that's no different to what we have now: the most "popular" comments / submissions are, with the application of some secret sauce, the most visible and promoted to the top of the thread. The fact that we can't see the underlying numb
611.
by estel 16y ago
But that doesn't negate the value in seeing which side of the debate was most widely agreed upon at the time. Edit: of course, this argument would be satisfied by no more than making comment scores visible on discussions older than n days.
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by estel 16y ago
No, their particular brand of hateful racism is only acceptable if they can portray as despicable another group even more hatefully racist than them.
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by estel 16y ago
I guess I meant PETA-levels of extremism. Like this: http://blog.peta.org.uk/2011/01/peta-takes-meat-warning-to-c...
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by estel 16y ago
If the spokesperson for the Vegetarian Society was trying to persuade others to become vegetarian by branding all farmers "murderers" and engaging in ridiculous rhetoric, I think other vegetarians might be concerned that their message wasn'
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by estel 16y ago
What I feel, and what I suspect many others feel also, is that however much this might be true, it's the way that RMS presents these views to the public that instantly marginalises him and the FSF. Were he to choose not to mention 9/11 cons
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by estel 16y ago
The headline figure of 22 million "bugs" can be reduced somewhat by eliminating jQuery, which brings it down to 3% of this (600,000). Plus one.
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Playstation Network outage - "possibility of targeted behaviour"(blog.eu.playstation.com)
1 points by estel 16y ago|0 comments
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by estel 16y ago
You can't?
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by estel 16y ago
In fairness, I've not even found this to be the case with my UK Kindle. It's very rare that, when an e-book copy is available in the first place, it costs more than the paperback on Amazon.
620.
by estel 16y ago
You might as well? Isn't that at least two orders of magnitude less awesome?
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by estel 16y ago
Presumably you're excluding higher courts such as the ECHR? Not that I think the vastly expanded role the ECHR currently fulfils is a good thing (it handles orders of magnitude more cases than it ought).
622.
by estel 16y ago
I've had to stop using this now because the indents seem completely broken and all over the place. Replies appear threaded in a completely incorrect order.
623.
by estel 16y ago
Is there an effective difference between storing it in plaintext and with storing it with a trivially reversible algorithm?
624.
by estel 16y ago
Sorry, I didn't clarify: they showed in plaintext the password that I supplied and emailed my password back to me.
625.
by estel 16y ago
The worst offender I can recall was Wordpress.com. Not only do they email you your password back, but show it to both you and whoever might be sitting within a few metres in LARGE LETTERS in the webpage immediately after activating your acc
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by estel 16y ago
This story dates from June 2009, but taking into account the article counts from this date (2.9 million, 13.6 million for English / all respectively) doesn't account for the disparity in numbers.
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by estel 16y ago
Considering how massively pre-alpha the software undoubtedly is, I'm not about to leap to conclusions.
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by estel 16y ago
I'd love for Microsoft to have the nerve to make a fresh start. Windows 7 is brilliant for anyone that wants it to continue to use: Windows 8 can be rebuilt from scratch as a new operating system without any concerns for backwards compatibi
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by estel 16y ago
At least we have Loser Pays, so it feels unlikely that the license fee payer will actually lose out. As Top Gear is a big winner for BBC Worldwide (commercial, not-license fee funded), it's been frequently the case in the past that they wil
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by estel 16y ago
I genuinely didn't feel as though the piece on Tesla was particularly biased though? Sure, they pointed out the flaws inherit to the car (recharge time) and filmed the car being pushed in for entertainment, but overall the piece still came

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