jamesbrownuhh

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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that - as with all matters pertaining to agreed broadcast standards, the demo is sending data in the correct format but in a way which you would be unlikely to see in 'normal' use, hence the c
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Basic minimum income is a BRILLIANT idea. Problem: it doesn't work as planned(theregister.co.uk)
5 points by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
To be fair, this is what BBC News call their "Magazine" section, which tend to be even less rigorous than the already paper-thin reporting of the main news site. But it's no coincidence that Magazine stories are treated as pa
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
So perhaps the CTIA would welcome FCC intervention to prevent the spoofing of caller ID as well? :)
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Chess game in 487 bytes – new record(pouet.net)
177 points by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago|51 comments
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Comes to something when a major food producer is (a) worried at the effect on their business of people importing chocolate bars from another country, and (b) considers this niche activity such a threat that, instead of, for example, you kno
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
You can already opt out now. When you sign with any major ISP the first question it asks you on connection is, basically, parental controls, yes or no. You say no and get on with your life. The single and only thing that Sky have done today
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Yes, most certainly - but turning off this filter is literally a two-click job. And unless you're a new customer to this ISP today, chances are that you were already asked "Do you want Broadband Shield? Yes or no" (that'
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
I'd disagree with that - most other large ISPs have similar parental control services but they are not all exactly the same and differ widely in technology and scope.
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Optional, different blocks. Every single British Internet service provider gives you an unfiltered Internet connection if you elect not to turn on (or choose to turn off) the offered content filtering. (With the exception of the 'Clean
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Who admins one , optional firewall used by customers of one British Internet service provider. (And not even a very good one at that.)
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
I found that article really interesting. One question that stuck out in my mind was that Andy mentioned having gone to the efforts to licence the music from the original publishers, for the 8-bit cover versions. But then having gone through
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Patient's 3D printed kidney model used in operation(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
What might be most interesting about the USB3 connector will be the opportunity for compromising such machines. People might be cautious about plugging in unknown or unexpected hardware and flash drives to their machines, etc, but they&#x27
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Is that what you meant to say? AirPlay isn't restricted to special Apple routers either.
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
I can certainly outline why that's different, because those cameras would be in a private place and would be collecting /evidence/ in the form of moving pictures, which would need human review - and hence an invasion of priva
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Very interesting article. I've been thinking about this more often recently (perhaps it's watching the 31C3 talks that do it) and I find that I'm becoming increasingly conflicted over the whole issue of surveillance. On one l
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
So many great talks at 31C3 this year, but particularly looking forward to this one, especially given the previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829357 It does look like some of the talks at 31C3 are b
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Automatically subtitling the 31C3(events.ccc.de)
2 points by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago|1 comments
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Unvetted ad networks considered harmful.
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Adsense could also try enforcing their policies once in a while too. I remember complaining about a series of shady "Download Now" ads earlier in the year, including full URL trails, etc, as required by the complaint process. Need
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Gocomics.com is a particularly good example - I find it surprising that they appear to accept such low quality (one weird old tip) and shady (download now/you have 1 new messages/etc) ads.
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
The nature of the Internet is that many resources will be used globally. It should not be surprising that a few well-known open proxies would be used by bad actors of any nationality - the fact that (Nation State X) was accused of using (gl
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
But according to this, all the phone home addresses are generic open proxies that have been well publicised across the Internet and already abused for quite some time. None of the proxies listed appear to be in NK, and (to date) no evidence
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
What's the betting that the FBI's "similarities in specific lines of code" is similarly weak and so generic as to be rather less than the smoking gun that they seem to think it is?
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Absolute classic. The transcript of one such discussion gets quite amusing near the end. :)
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Of course 30 years ago there was "1K Chess" for the Sinclair ZX81 (Timex/Sinclair 1000 for US readers) - which, despite the name, was actually just 672 bytes of code. (The program had to run in a machine with 1K of memory _to
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Also, am I blind or can ZDnet honestly not tell the difference between their headline saying that Amazon denied AWS was being used by Sony in a DDOS, and Amazon's actual statement saying that such an attack was "not currently happ
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
There was a time when an article of that length would be thoroughly researched before publication. Now, it seems acceptable to fill such articles with "going on a journey" narrative - e.g. "I personally, the reporter, sometim
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
OK, but if you apply filters to your internet then any blocking is something that you've done yourself, not "UK ISPs". It's a bit like putting a bag over your head and then claiming that "UK Authorities" have b

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