jeza

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by jeza 13y ago
I find retargeting creepy to the point that I installed an adblocker. The first time I noticed it, was when I booked a holiday to New Zealand and paid a deposit to hire a camper van online. Suddenly started noticing ads for that company eve
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by jeza 13y ago
You can set passwords for guest/root, so I think they might run mkisofs on the fly as you download. I'm sure they could cache the ISOs for more popular options without passwords though.
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by jeza 13y ago
You can't claim that the Euro isn't a financial instrument just because you don't live in Europe. They are issued by the European Central Bank and national central banks of Eurosystem members, who in turn share the liability
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by jeza 13y ago
The only case that this makes sense for is the case of people borrowing money to access medical services (as per the original article). Though people shouldn't have to get into debt that they have no hope of repaying to access medical
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by jeza 13y ago
Alternatively lenders could just be more responsible by not lending to those who can't afford to pay it back.
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by jeza 13y ago
If you don't do anything physical at work then raking leaves might actually be good for you. It's exercise, fresh air and I find these kind of chores somewhat tranquillising to the mind. Same with other chores, but I'm sure t
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by jeza 13y ago
The four digit pin isn't to be confused with the passphrase that is used to encrypt/decrypt the keychain data. The pin is just an extra measure on top of your iCloud password to release your keychain data, along with SMS confirmat
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by jeza 13y ago
Seems like a genuine joke to me. This is the guy behind it: http://noqqe.de "About Florian Baumann (24). Arbeite bei der GfK SE und interessiere mich für allerhand Dinge unter anderem Debian, BSD, OpenSource, R, Statistik,
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by jeza 13y ago
Everyone's entitled to get out of their contract if the other party agrees to terminate it. Regardless of whether they knew he was a reporter or not, I wonder if they figured they'd already made a buck from this customer (he only
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by jeza 13y ago
Not everyone in Australia has the ability to earn $95K. There are the rare exceptions where you can get an unskilled mining job in a remote area, but that's every bogan's dream. Actually landing such a job is another matter. That
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by jeza 13y ago
This is particularly telling... "In relation to games, for example, the committee has not received any evidence which explains why it is almost invariably cheaper for Australian gamers to purchase and ship physical media from the Unite
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by jeza 13y ago
Sometimed I wish I still had a dumb phone. I used to charge my phone once or twice a week, when it was just a basic GSM phone with voice and SMS. Now I have to charge my iPhone pretty much every night. I could probably get away with chargin
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by jeza 13y ago
If you read the article, it says that the NZ government 'amended the Education Act in 2011 to make it an offence to advertise or provide cheating services'. If it's happening on a large scale isn't it comparable to fraud?
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by jeza 13y ago
On the contrary I found the internet more addictive on dial up. You waited so long for a webpage to load that the reward/payoff of finally getting what you wanted made you want to do it again. Along came broadband and an hours worth of brow
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by jeza 13y ago
With the NBN, the government is just a wholesaler. They just provide a physical medium and end users will still get a retail service from a private company. Besides the government has the same responsibility to adhere to privacy laws as any
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by jeza 14y ago
He doesn't come across as the smartest cookie by any means (making non-strategic comments to the media), though that shouldn't deprive anyone of fair justice.
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by jeza 14y ago
Wages are only part (I've heard 50% before) of the cost of hiring. There are other expenses like training, desk space, insurance, etc. So I can't imagine that it'd be much easier getting an unpaid position as a paid one. At the very least t
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by jeza 14y ago
You could allow invites, then use subsequent content to determine spam vs non-spam. Block content when its spam and notify the user, blacklist the JID where it came from and eventually domains where there is a high proportion of spam. Also
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by jeza 14y ago
Sure the world may get by, but federated IM should be the future of online communications, possibly even more so than email. People love to chat online, SMS, iMessage, etc. But these systems shouldn't be so fragmented into isolated little i
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by jeza 14y ago
Not very useful at all. To accurately measure temperature you really need a Stevenson screen ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson_screen ). But furthermore, this needs to be located in a good location with attributes such as good air ci
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by jeza 14y ago
The barometer gives you better resolution on the Z pos. So it's useful for measuring changes in altitude and the like, provided the weather conditions don't change (resulting in a change in atmospheric pressure). Though without some kind of
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by jeza 14y ago
You can put controls on public monopolies that you can't with private ones, such as making them accountable to the voting public. Even the free market is regulated by the government in an attempt to create a level playing field. When it com
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by jeza 14y ago
Well there's human papilloma virus ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus ) which can result in the development of cervical cancer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_cancer ).
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by jeza 14y ago
Your assessment that it's social conditioning and not an inherent disadvantage is consistent with my own observations. The fact that different countries have vastly different percentage make up of females suggest it is purely a cultural thi
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by jeza 14y ago
This doesn't surprise me. In Europe it's not uncommon to find women in computer science or engineering. In the US it's not unheard of. In Australia it's extremely rare and most of those that you do find were born overseas.
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by jeza 14y ago
This thinking that people should be happy to work at a token wage than not at all worries me a bit. It might be okay for some teenagers who live at home with their parents and have their basic needs covered, but what about people who won't
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by jeza 14y ago
Might be harder to extradite a senator?
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by jeza 14y ago
I live in a metric country so I agree with everything you say, though a metric only tape measure is possibly less important. Actually I have two tape measures handy, one is metric only and the other has metric and imperial units. I think yo
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by jeza 14y ago
I wonder if the Gimli glider incident had anything to do with imperial units being the preferred unit in the US. In any case I think the aviation industry would be well across this issue by now, given they would have to deal with conversion
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by jeza 14y ago
How about 5ft7 vs 170cm. The later seems easier to express to me. If only rough accuracy is required then you only really need to take note of the first two digits. Incidentally converting between the two is quite messy; first you must lear

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