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by hobbes 13y ago
This is ironic. Snowden is able to pass through Russian territory because, according to the law of Russia, it is allowed. This, says Mr Kerry, is deeply troubling. However, blanket monitoring of internet activity, which according to the law
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by hobbes 13y ago
> I'm not going to change much of what I do online. I'm not a violent revolutionary The problem with this whole scenario is not how you view yourself, but how the government views you. They define if we are a threat, not oursel
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by hobbes 13y ago
It is a major thing but, as someone who's worked on it, how about addressing the parent's point?
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by hobbes 13y ago
Since rDNS is one of the simplest things to fix, and absent or inconsistent rDNS one of the most obvious signs of spam, I'm with AOL on that one. If fact, every email server setup I've seen explicitly rejects emails simply due to absent or
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by hobbes 13y ago
I think you'll find a whole lot more wouldn't work if the speed of light were infinite. Life, for example. "Were there an infinite value for the speed of light, light itself would not exist at all." http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl
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by hobbes 13y ago
<quote>I haven’t read the British legislation, but what it apparently does is...</quote> I wonder if this admission might suggest both the cause of this controversy and a way to resolve it?
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Disney: new Star Wars film every year from 2015(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by hobbes 13y ago|0 comments
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by hobbes 14y ago
Definition of kid (noun): 1. informal a child or young person http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/kid?q=kid
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by hobbes 14y ago
Thankfully, the last sentence of the article states: "Then I'm going to the beach with my partner to 'do nothing' for an evening." Just to add, it's not mererly a lack of "doing" something, but valuing the "being" part of ourselves: Father,
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by hobbes 14y ago
Your desk, computer, guitars, etc, are not "shit" but "stuff", to use the the terms as definined in the blog. Stuff is fine. Shit needs to be got rid of. Some of us can fit our stuff into a suitcase. Others need a 4 bedroom house to store o
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by hobbes 14y ago
"So then why didn’t Google shut down Google Plus if it was purportedly such a colossal flop?" Because failure wasn't an option, considering the landscape of social networking and the consquencies of failing.
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by hobbes 14y ago
You would enjoy rural Uganda then (and, I presume, other similar areas). It's a little uncomfortable being watched by 15 kids when called by nature. Some of them have never seen a mzungu go to the toilet, I guess. The hand-washing bit is a
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by hobbes 14y ago
I find this kind of issue with conferences generally, in many subject areas. I find that I can get more detailed and expansive information from a book for a vastly smaller price compared with attending a conference on the subject. Also, man
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Idiot gurus and moronic buzzwords: British tech conferences(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by hobbes 14y ago|2 comments
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by hobbes 14y ago
The former. There was no mechanism to allow someone to leave the Euro - it just was never an option and the "coherence" of the system depends on this not happening. So, once you permit a member to do so, the whole Euro system becomes precar
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by hobbes 14y ago
From what I have read on the fastmail.fm blog, etc, they tend to do some very good stuff on the back-end, particularly(open source) contributions to the Cyrus IMAP server. These, I understand, have improved the failover and resilience of th
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by hobbes 14y ago
You can backup your purchases using copy-and-paste to your hard drive. Or do you mean "remove DRM"? I agree with your second paragraph.
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by hobbes 14y ago
Agreed. But, we've yet to establish if indeed they do take away rights that the law provides. I would have thought HN would have uncovered such a law by now. A cursory glance at the Wikipedia article on DRM suggests the law is favourable to
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by hobbes 14y ago
The kindle license agreement is relatively short and perfectly understandable. The moral of this story is: if you give a website some money, find out what you are getting for your money.
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by hobbes 14y ago
Trouble is, you are bound by the license agreement, not by the text on the buttons, as the Conditions of Use and Sale makes clear, which is linked to on every page of Amazon's site.
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by hobbes 14y ago
Well, good luck with the "1-click" button defense. heh. I agree that Amazon could be a LOT more open and clear about what it is that changes hands (ie some "rights") when we pay "applicable fees". But, it took me the best part of 10 seconds
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by hobbes 14y ago
And, how, pray tell, will you convince the judge of that? You didn't purchase a book, as the T&C's make clear - the contents of which you agreed to by entering into the said agreement. You paid applicable fees to enter into an agreement
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by hobbes 14y ago
You did read the Terms and Conditions before you "bought" the books, didn't you? If you bought the books, you agreed [in the eyes of the law] to this kind of eventuality.. I'm as guilty of this kind of thing as well. We tend to assume an im
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by hobbes 14y ago
Have you seen the film "The King's Speech"? King George VI must have led a deprived and impoverished life to be so insecure and inarticulate in public. ;) In a smaller arena, some of the CEO's I have worked under have shown signs in insecur
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by hobbes 14y ago
So, the only difference between the anti-English banter I experience and racism is that I don't get offended? You had better hope I don't start being offended, then! :) And, yes, this argument also applies to Scots living in England, or any
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by hobbes 14y ago
So, what criteria must hold for "banter" to be classed as racism towards an Englishman in Scotland?
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by hobbes 14y ago
So, based on the context you have described, it is impossible for me to experience racism in Scotland under the veil of "banter". It can only be just a joke?
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by hobbes 14y ago
English guy here, living in Scotland. I personally don't take offence at the anti-English banter. But, I challenge you to engage in the same kind of banter with Asians, blacks, or homosexuals, etc, and let me know how that pans out for you.
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by hobbes 14y ago
Still having the sames issues with the pre-prepared welcome email.
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by hobbes 14y ago
I like the simplicity. However, i think there might be a few bugs left. I got my temporary email address, but when I click on the email from "team@receiveee.com" in the inbox, I get "Sorry we where looking hard, but could not find that mail

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