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by excuse-me 14y ago
Damn averages. By moving to a city with a lot of S.E. Asian people I'm suddenly above average BMI - I need to move back to Texas. On the other hand, all those little old Japanese women mean that the average life expectancy here is among the
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by excuse-me 14y ago
No it's not a police-state where they are actively targeting dissidents. It's a TSA-state where there is a massive over-reaction to bureaucratic automated scanning of communications. Post some SMS/Tweet/facebook update with a quote that sou
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by excuse-me 14y ago
That operating system you are using violates 27 of my company's patents, but I'm not telling you which ones. Reading that book outloud to your children violates the T&C You do calculate and pay local sales tax on anything you order from
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Hence the slightly raised English eyebrow when American politicians - especially a Kennedy at a St Patricks Day parade in Boston - talk about supporting terrorism.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Not a developer - I'm a project manager in a high tech industry. A lot of my time is dealing with reports and projects where somebody decided that they didn't quite like how a title of a table was formatted and so made their own "fixes" whi
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Not necessarily, it stopped Apple developing their own - and you can always "embrace and extend" so the next version of Exchange onyl works fully with Windows phone
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Microsoft have never needed to appeal to a retail customer. So long as you can say to corporates: you want your staff to have access to your MS email system on their phones? Then they just need Windows Phone with Windows Phone corporate Ema
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Does your city council's housing dept really need any WP functionality that wasn't in Wordpad or Windows 3.1 Write?
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by excuse-me 14y ago
So is having to retrain them on the Office Ribbon, or on Win8. the nice thing about FOSS is that you update when you want to - not when Redmond decide you going to. Also the majority of users only use the basic functionality. If you have 10
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Yes but remarkably after 100years of bombings and assassinations by the IRA the response was to carry on as normal, don't give in to them. The only visible sign was removing litter bins from railway stations and some checkpoints on vehicles
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Which they use to misspell defencetech
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Martha Stewart is a witch? I suppose that explains the eye of newt in the recipes.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Not sure you can commit perjury if you are the accused !
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by excuse-me 14y ago
“A diploma is worth actual money, whereas an education is not.” Don't developing countries grow up so fast these days. It's taken a century of cynicism for most American colleges to recognize this and the Chinese have reached the point in
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by excuse-me 14y ago
The original UK phrasing of the law was even sillier. They had taken into account codes as well as cyphers. You could be forced to explain the meaning of any other messages such as "the geese fly south for the winter" . But the wording was
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by excuse-me 14y ago
No it's very easy. You claim the "key" is a one time pad, ie an XOR of the encrypted data - then you simply take the encrypted data and generate a "key" which XORs it into "the home secretary is a wonderful person and i support him"
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by excuse-me 14y ago
It was being discussed well before this, in the early 90s i went to a computer lab seminar about this and we asked - we have Tb of data in our detector system that is either truely random (ie part of a Monte Carlo sim) or is essentially ran
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by excuse-me 14y ago
So a law which you have to prove yourself innocent and can be applied to anyone - but the police get to decide who to apply it to. nope, can't see any problem with that.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
That wasn't a victory - they withdrew their suit after he had spent 250,000 defending himself. And since it never went to trial, there is nothing to stop them suing him again tomorrow, or picking on a less well defended or less public figur
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Hopefully these days you couldn't be because nobody should care. But if you were running say a local paper and you went out of your way to consistently describe a local politician or school teacher/principal as "the homosexual Mr Smith" an
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by excuse-me 14y ago
The legal system should probably get involved when there is an imbalance of power. Yes if an anon user on HN says another anon user on HN is a vi user instead of an emacs user - so what? But if the NYT runs a front cover accusing me of some
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by excuse-me 14y ago
On the other hand they were very lucky. Foreign "crank" defending himself - VS - one of the oldest and most prestigous science journals now owned by a huge publishing company. Now imagine the next case is a multinational drug company suing
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Similarly truth isn't an absolute defence. If I stated a particular politician was gay or had an abortion, every time my publication mentioned them - even if that was true - then if it was done purely malicously, ie. it had nothing to do wi
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by excuse-me 14y ago
You don't have to mathematically prove your case - just that you had reasonable grounds for stating it.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
>burden is on the person being defamed to prove his case, including that the stated facts are unjust So if I say you are a child molester - you have to prove that you aren't ! How exactly were you intending to do that?
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Wikipedia is great as an information resource. But what does its format do that Gutenberg didn't do 400years ago? It has color pictures - that's all that separates it from a woodblock print encyclopedia. It's running on a ####ing computer
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by excuse-me 14y ago
That's possibly a little more unethical. You're about to ship some big project, a key person says; I'm leaving, there are no docs and I'm not training a replacement - call me if you want any help at 10x my salary. That could be regarded as
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by excuse-me 14y ago
But when did people really start using more than the 16bit unicode chars?
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Internally it can store them as 16bit so strings have a fixed length
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by excuse-me 14y ago
It's a myth that the pilot can "turn up" the amount of oxygen. But the ratio of fresh air that the airline has selected depends on how much fuel that they want to waste heating the -50C fresh air to cabin temperature, and how much humidity

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