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by jeza 15y ago
Apparently it's more of a copyright issue than the 2-click process. They don't like their logo being used on a locally hosted image. So heise.de made the button more generic and it's all good now.
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by jeza 15y ago
I specifically mentioned Australia. Though I have observed trends for IM market share vary a lot more in different countries. So it's probably true that there is still some country where ICQ dominates. By the way, isn't AOL IM still the mai
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by jeza 15y ago
This was eventually added to ICQ but probably too late.
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by jeza 15y ago
Though in terms of your average joe, no one seems to know about ICQ anymore. Those that do seem to remember it as something of the past (remember those days when we all chatted on ICQ?). Ironically though in Australia it was MSN that took o
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by jeza 15y ago
Easier to do it that way. Just like how it's easier to devalue a currency for a nation rather than give every single individual in the country a pay cut!
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by jeza 15y ago
For $25 a kit, there's no reason why you couldn't give one to each student (or have them buy it as part of their stationary requirements). I'm sure they're not going to destruct their own little project.
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by jeza 15y ago
If someone wants to work in a root shell, I think it's fine provided they understand the damage they can potentially do. It could certainly be possible to habitually prepend commands with sudo, particularly if you need to type many of them.
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by jeza 15y ago
I have generally found the difference between a $ and # prompt sufficient enough. I guess colours can't hurt though.
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by jeza 15y ago
Isn't it unethical to create this scenario in the first place? Charging people more to travel a shorter distance than a longer distance on the same route. It just doesn't seem logical in any sense. Perhaps the coverage in NYT will force the
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by jeza 15y ago
If you want to teach kids about hardware, wouldn't it be better to supply them with something slightly larger where they can install the CPU, RAM, etc. Perhaps supplied as a kit. At least that way they can at least identify the different c
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by jeza 15y ago
It's quite possible she got some useless lawyer representing her through legal aide. So a) they may not be smart enough to think about questioning the absurdity of the $200k b) they may not even care.
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by jeza 15y ago
It sounds to me more like Telstra's standard rip off charging. Their excess usage charge across all plans (I think it's 25c/MB though has been higher in the past) and causes all kinds of problems where people (the ones who don't understand
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by jeza 15y ago
Well evidently it's still occurring in the Middle East, as evidenced evidenced by the attack in Marrakech, Morocco the other day. This also reinforces the point that they don't just kill westerners, they kill muslims as well. Even if it wer
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by jeza 15y ago
Just because a computer is involved, does it really make it computer fraud? Surely if you've been entrusted with information on a computer system, it should be treated in the same way as if you'd been entrusted with information on paper. Th
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by jeza 15y ago
This was back in a time when one guy could be familiar with every single line of code running on a computer, from user space programs right down to the kernel. This level of simplicity surely did wonders for reliability. Not to say you coul
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by jeza 15y ago
Same problem here in Aus, except I think things might be a wee bit more competitive here than NZ (judging from when my mate lived there a few years ago). Still it's not enough to make people want to share their tight quotas.
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by jeza 15y ago
Cut out the cars and he's down to $50k/yr. Though it can be a social disadvantage to varying degrees, it is possibly to live without a car in most urban areas in Australia. Still $20/day per a person is much higher than average. It's possib
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by jeza 15y ago
The point is that the data should be available to the public under a license such as Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 (used for other government data). Governments aren't about making a profit and I doubt Google will pay a cent for this dat
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by jeza 15y ago
In Australia at least, compilation of data is copyrightable, even where the individual sources may not be. Databases which you could argue are just fact but still restricted by copyright include telephone directories (Whitepages) and public
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by jeza 16y ago
> It doesn't go anywhere anyone wants to go, it goes close to where a lot of people want to go. It doesn't know when we want to go so it just picks times and forces us into buckets. That's why you run a network of high frequency service
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by jeza 16y ago
Closer to the US, Toronto and Vancouver manage to run effective public transport systems in American style cities. It's essentially a myth that you need high densities to support rail/bus services.
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by jeza 16y ago
The problem is, the different services could be split across hosts, not just ports. It seems SRV records provide the only option here but they're not supported by browsers. That leaves www as the only viable option to move web serving into
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by jeza 16y ago
Obviously not possible if domain and www.domain point to different hosts where the host for domain does not run a web server. I'm sure there are numerous other reasons.
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by jeza 16y ago
I've been using these records with XMPP servers for some time now and it works quite well. An added benefit is that you can run services on non-standard ports and make this information available via DNS. Of course if the web supported this,
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by jeza 16y ago
There might also be abandoned worthwhile content that we'll never get the chance to see ever again. I'm with those saying Google should transfer the videos automatically across to YouTube.
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by jeza 16y ago
Seems that in many cases you get a choice between security over the wire or security in storage, but not both. By this I mean if you use a challenge response authentication algorithm then you often don't have any choice but to store the pas
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by jeza 16y ago
Scary thing is, I'm sure I read this article nearly ten years ago. I remember creating a few of these PPP over SSH VPNs as well, though mainly for testing so I can't remember if we actually encountered this issue. Fortunately CIPE came alon
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by jeza 16y ago
Sounds like Telstra, formerly Telecom Australia and before that a division of the Postmaster-General's Department ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmaster-General%27s_Departme... ).
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by jeza 16y ago
Similar story here in Australia. Not surprising given the similarity between the two countries (though I note there are also some significant differences as well). Probably the most notable is the relatively small population compared to say
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by jeza 16y ago
Yeah weird way of conducting an interview, though follow the link for his name and it says "CEO & Co-founder of SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee)".

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