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by flipbrad 9y ago
Duplicity is pretty easy to use with Backblaze B2 as a cloud storage backend - that's what I use to backup my NAS.
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by flipbrad 10y ago
Lots of good fixes there. I've found pfsense rock solid and excellent to use, over more than half a decade, both: - for a 250+ device network balancing loads across two consumer broadband connections, and - as my home router and firew
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by flipbrad 10y ago
Regulators and civil society groups have taken the GDPR's predecessor (the Data Protection Directive) to court plenty of times, usually very successfully. The most famous regulator-brought court case is probably the Google Spain/
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by flipbrad 10y ago
It's not in force yet, but will be from May 2018. Then, like its predecessor the Data Protection Directive, it'll be enforced by over >30 regulators EEA-wide, with a brand new "consistency" mechanism to help multiple
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by flipbrad 13y ago
I instinctively reached for the 'share' button. Glad I read TFA just before I shared this, because there is no way the source says that Cameron's Net Nanny is being used to block extremist sites. All it says is that extremist
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by flipbrad 14y ago
This appears to be the situation in the UK, too.
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by flipbrad 14y ago
the ramifications of this judgement are interesting for many reasons, and this is one; it's hard to see Apple being compelled to take positive action each time you sell your copy of software, but on the other hand, if you did and the licenc
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by flipbrad 14y ago
If DRM is standing in the way of lawful use, there is an (apparently never used) remedy in English law: complaining about it. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/296ZE
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by flipbrad 14y ago
I think you're spot on. Every mall in the developed world could have easy to use 3D maps and offer/advert displays - that's a huge market right there, whether or not the desktop ends up being one.
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by flipbrad 15y ago
We're getting way off topic but I'd be interested to see a source for that claim. I imagine that the costs associated with a prostitute (food, shelter) would be significantly higher than those associated with a stock of inert crystalline po
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by flipbrad 15y ago
drug trafficking, illegal immigration don't serve as counterpoints; you're putting the cart before the horse The drugs trade is the flow of narcotics from source to sink. Stopping them at a national border is one approach; stopping them els
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by flipbrad 15y ago
To be honest, I don't see why national borders are so strongly part of the equation. I suppose that depends on your worldview. I live within the Schengen Area, and to me it seem patently obvious that most 'bad things' in the world are hardl
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by flipbrad 15y ago
why is that such a good thing? plenty of people don't give a crap whether something they just typed is copyrighted or not. They just don't bother going to find the right creative commons licence. I doubt you want all those rights over your
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by flipbrad 15y ago
One fantastic presentation given at HomeCamp 4 last month was by Moxia. Their angle on this is retrofitting homes to use DC sockets rather than AC (via USB ports and convertible DC cables, so you don't have to carry the brick around with yo
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Totally, totally irrelevant - not only did greece benefit from a free handout because this happened (the Marshall Plan), or that it received 4.4 billion euros in reparations for the war from Germany, or that the number of relevant deaths li
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Let's even accept your implicit contention, which is that Apple is the origin of features used by Android (and ignore all the points to the contrary given by others in this thread). What about Android's millions of satisfied users, who I su
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by flipbrad 15y ago
it's not unique on the Web: http://www.google.co.uk/search?gcx=c&ie=UTF-8&q=%22I...
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by flipbrad 15y ago
To the extent that browsing a website is a restricted act under the law of copyright (see NLA v Meltwater for a ridiculous UK holding along those lines), I suppose you have copyright infringement if you engage in a restricted act without
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Isn't that point confirming what I said, albeit confusing redundancy (availability of other systems as backup when GPS fails) with accuracy?
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by flipbrad 15y ago
I'm wondering whether it actually matters to people whether their GPS device has 2, 4 or 7m accuracy. Anything with lower resolution than about 5 cm is going to be largely useless for robotic driving, etc, particularly anything worse than 2
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Given Ubuntu already has that functionality built in (Ubuntu One), and offers Win, Android and iOS 3.1+ clients, we're really not so far off from that being the case already.
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by flipbrad 15y ago
the london hackspace is trying its hand at PCR and algal biodiesel
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Ryanair flights are packed so tight to the aisle (which sees so much traffic by Ryanair's cart-pushing peddlers) that aisle seats are simply a guarantee of getting your shoulders or feet barged, not extra comfort. Fool's gold. The benefits
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by flipbrad 15y ago
I'd add many, many others, for example: don't book priority boarding with ryanair if you're a solo traveller; just get on last (this also means you get to keep your legs stretched as long as possible) and sit between the people at the front
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Apple has plenty interest in nobbling the Amazon Kindle, though. If that move would deliver value for shareholders, they'd be remiss to not use the patent aggressively over its lifetime. Maybe the attempt to patent this is just to draw out
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by flipbrad 15y ago
Some extracts from the judgement to summarise what happened (sorry it's still long, but the judgement is 22 pages). Short comments in line, overall comments below. ---- 23. This case is by no means unique as an example of a computer imp
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Software patent (designing drill bits) approved in UK(ipkitten.blogspot.com)
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by flipbrad 15y ago
I suppose whoever matched their bet is going to whatever lengths they consider necessary to find out who they are so they don't offer them any new shorts!
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by flipbrad 15y ago
I was the poster of 'pics or it didn't happen'. I am not a conspiracy theorist, raging internet commenter, etc. I was actually fairly upset by the reaction to my post. I found the replies, and the downvoting, for the most part failed to tak
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by flipbrad 15y ago
I'm sorry, I stand by my statement: this is puff piece journalism. It's advanced, well-written churnalism.

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