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by glimmung 11y ago
"Attached is a picture of the device that shows it was suspicious in nature." Nope, it shows no such thing - I see bare electronics, that's all. I really do think that the idea that that is intrinsically "suspicious&quot
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by glimmung 11y ago
Sure - but Google chose that mantra themselves. As you suggest, it may not be something we can reasonably expect, all things being equal. However, that's not the case here - in this case the commenter is comparing their actual behaviou
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by glimmung 11y ago
I'm astonished that their response to this was to boot him off because this is "becoming a PR issue", and mystified as to why only 7 days notice was given. On the PR issue side, this would seem to have generated quite a bit o
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by glimmung 11y ago
The original requirement was for sites to obtain "prior informed consent", and this is essentially impossible - you cannot educate a user about the implications of cookies in a pop-up. Further, the ICO here in the UK refused to pr
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by glimmung 11y ago
> Maybe those countries gained access to OPM data via the Snowden data? How? What on earth in the Snowden data could have fuelled the OPM breach? Aside from anything else, given the reportedly atrocious state of IT and security at OPM, i
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by glimmung 11y ago
Yes, the scattergun "Russia and China" line seems to be over-egging it a bit.
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by glimmung 11y ago
The timing of this seems a little convenient, coming as it does after a week in which a huge data breach has occurred. Also, it seems that when Greenwalds partner was detained the UK could not decrypt what he was carrying, so the suggestion
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by glimmung 11y ago
Horrifying. These guys could do worse than read some Terry Pratchett - his Sam Vimes character had a fine appreciation of the difference between a soldier and a policeman.
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by glimmung 11y ago
There are some points in there worth exploring, but the fact that he misstates so much about the lean start-up concept and processes makes it hard to engage with, and profoundly irritating to read. This could have been the first draft of so
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by glimmung 12y ago
I'd be interested how credible such a claim would be to a US ear? To my (UK) ears, it's just utterly loopy that anyone should spout such poppycock, so I'm fascinated as to where these assertions originate and how they propaga
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by glimmung 12y ago
Was a cheerfully enthusiastic social drinker until I had a bit of a "long dark teatime of the soul" (unrelated to drinking) three months or so ago, at which point I gave up everything but coffee while I needed to focus. Am surpris
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by glimmung 12y ago
Sure - and I've used many of those facilities (still am, in fact), and I appreciate them. My intended point was really their miscommunication here - they exclude well over 99% of the organisations that consider themselves start-ups, an
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by glimmung 12y ago
Offering a very large freebie to a relatively very small no. of "qualifying" start-ups all of whom already have a degree of mentoring and investment sends an interesting message about Google's world-view and objectives. If th
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by glimmung 12y ago
I know it's only test data, but "biometric" ID that suggests that the person's height is 6.5M doesn't inspire confidence!
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by glimmung 12y ago
The idea that the regime in East Germany was an example of Socialism is simply preposterous.
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by glimmung 12y ago
...and now the links says it's up again - but it's still down for me.
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by glimmung 12y ago
That links says it's down! (and it's down for me, here in Yorkshire)
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by glimmung 12y ago
Ta - but I felt that 25 seconds gave a little context that helped me appreciate the rest of it.
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by glimmung 12y ago
2008?
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by glimmung 12y ago
The tutorial project that you get to once you sign up - or maybe a video of it - needs to be front and centre before the sign-up. I wasn't clear before I got to that, but now I've seen that I'm motivated to dig deeper...
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by glimmung 12y ago
I operate a spam trap. If you do this: - "Camouflage: Mimicking subject lines that the recipient is already used to seeing is an easy way to get a message opened. This is a way to catch them off-guard and force them to opening your ema
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by glimmung 12y ago
Since we are talking in general terms, I am not persuaded by an argument based on a single individual's experience.. However well it works for you, there are any number of sad, frightened little men like George Zimmerman who will shoot
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by glimmung 12y ago
I don't really understand in what way people working in government are not also fellow citizens. You're dead wrong about the second amendment, or at least you are if you read it in its entirety.
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by glimmung 12y ago
It's a valid statement, but not a valid argument. Guns make people more afraid, and frightened people with guns shoot people.
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by glimmung 12y ago
Is that really the choice - death or "daily verbal and physical abuse from guards and inmates"? Nope, there is another problem here - the US prison system is an utter disgrace.
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by glimmung 13y ago
I'd have thought that was the date of the image capture - surely it takes an immense amount of time to process that volume of imagery in order to pick out such a thing?
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by glimmung 13y ago
I hope nothing negative happens to the subject of this piece. I hope something thoroughly educational happens to the author of this piece. Cheesy and ill-considered.
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by glimmung 13y ago
I think "scam" is a bit strong then - that implies intentional deception. More to the point, these sorts of pre-authorised and/or recurring transactions are also an issue with credit cards - it's not particular to Paypal
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by glimmung 13y ago
No, I did mean the Greeks - but neither country is a great argument for the "fiat currency good, Bitcoin bad" argument. Re. non-Cypriots, I'm sure that you're right - but the subject was the state's management of it
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by glimmung 13y ago
I'm not quite sure how one "closes" a country, but they have abdicated responsibility for many of the core functions of government, and to the individual citizens who are affected I'm sure the government seems "clos

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