jrabone

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by jrabone 13y ago
Yes, I do think it's wrong. I disagree with filtering in the first place, but also I'm on a contract which if I were a child I couldn't have legally signed. It's certainly possible to opt out but only by providing ANOTHE
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by jrabone 13y ago
If the filtering applied by mobile phone operators is anything to go by, this will be completely obtrusive. For example, Reddit appears to be filtered by default by Vodafone. Soon it'll be time to vote with your feet, or setup that VPN
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by jrabone 13y ago
I love the way that the various ISP blocks on The Pirate Bay have resulted in people apparently using Google search as an abstraction layer over the DNS. How long before the search equivalent of DNSSEC?
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by jrabone 13y ago
Quite. Encyclopædia Brittanica, and the 5% rule for photocopying. Later it was CD encyclopædias like Microsoft Encarta - the use case that persuaded my parents to buy a new-fangled "sound card", as opposed to the ulterior use case
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by jrabone 13y ago
Pigs and humans can share a wide variety of parasites, intestinal worms etc. Even now, you're advised not to cook pork rare (as opposed to, say, a beef fillet 'en-bleu').
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by jrabone 13y ago
I guess part of the one-off nature is that post-op sterilization isn't cost effective; perhaps you simply can't remove the bits of the previous patient from the tool cheaply enough or without degrading it in some way) to justify not just op
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by jrabone 13y ago
I discovered a couple of years ago (when my phone, er, met with a nasty firmware accident) that you cannot buy a phone in the UK over the counter without also buying a Pay-As-You-Go SIM with a traceable means of payment (ie. card). They sim
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by jrabone 13y ago
Doesn't Reddit's meme caption bot actually do this, or is it in fact a human? SFW example: http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1f8ld3/worked... EDIT: ah, no, it just scrapes QuickMeme's UI for the entered text. Oh well...
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by jrabone 13y ago
Broken on the desktop too, if you run Ghostery / ABP - endless loading spinner. Readability Redux for Chrome to the rescue!
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by jrabone 13y ago
I'll take that over the wasted hours spent blacklisting idiots, looking up ASNs for ISPs that don't give a shit, filling in abuse forms, maintaining and testing DKIM & ADSP policies, etc. etc. If I want you to have my email address I'll
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by jrabone 13y ago
I think ISPs should firewall SMTP by default, and if they don't provide you with static IP they absolutely should add their dynamic IP blocks to the DUL / PBL etc. Almost all of the spam rejects from my mail server are from dynamic IPs. The
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by jrabone 13y ago
Who gives real information as answers to security questions? The approach I took is to use a hardware device with limited login attempts to generate store most of my (random, 16 character) passwords (an IronKey, in my case). IronKey have a
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by jrabone 13y ago
Maybe, but it seems to me the trick is not to end up developing type 2 diabetes by repeatedly spiking blood sugar to the point the pancreas gives up.
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by jrabone 13y ago
Not true for Java. Docs even say: \d A digit: [0-9] \p{Digit} A decimal digit: [0-9] which is actually somewhat depressing. I'd expect the named class to include the full Unicode digit set. It's surprising to see: ab12
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by jrabone 13y ago
No, don't just make it pleasant, make it easy for me, the customer, to control. Three levels is probably the most you need: 3) Trivia / social spam, 2) Announcements, 1) Security / billing / account maintenance; three little checkboxes, thr
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Were the Victorians cleverer than us?(sciencedirect.com)
14 points by jrabone 13y ago|13 comments
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by jrabone 13y ago
A release of Android 4.3 for the Nexus 4 fixing the Bluetooth bugs and the WiFi bugs and the battery bugs and the IPSEC VPN bugs would be nice, because frankly my previous Galaxy S2 worked a lot better, even with Gingerbread 2.3.5. Wish I
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by jrabone 13y ago
Actually it's my proxy server that failed, didn't realise it was an animated GIF and I have it set to deanimate images by default. Ooops!
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by jrabone 13y ago
Fails miserably on Chrome / Android 4.2 / Nexus 7 ...
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by jrabone 13y ago
It's the http://www.arcadebliss.com/game/russian-roulette.htm of its decade...
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by jrabone 13y ago
It's quite a bit quicker, unless you're lucky with your selection of tolerance and amounts to expand / contract / feather the resulting selection.
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by jrabone 13y ago
Cars can be very tricky - the lines need to be very sharp, so there's no tolerance for blur. I used to mask and recolour car bodywork in Photoshop as a freelance job, and hand-drawn spline paths with the pen tool were the only acceptable so
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by jrabone 13y ago
Certainly do!
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by jrabone 13y ago
I read that as the original article OP, not the person posting on HN; whose point are you defending here? OT: wouldn't it be great if software like HN made it trivially easy to indicate WHO was being talked about? OP is apparently confusing
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British smartphone users paying for just one in 10 apps(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by jrabone 13y ago|0 comments
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by jrabone 13y ago
Really? I think it's more subtle - fraud detection is big business (Palantir et al) and presumably companies have to find a cost / benefit compromise between building their own solutions vs. contracting it out to experts. It might well end
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by jrabone 13y ago
Yes, this is exactly the situation I find myself in. I'm not really much of a designer, but I bought Creative Suite when it was called Design Collection when I started my first company, did my own flyers and booklets in InDesign, business c
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by jrabone 13y ago
long random passwords that no user would create on their own Really? You see the ones my IronKey comes up with... I have about 140 of them. IMO anyone using a password manager is pretty likely to be generating long, random passwords, or t
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by jrabone 13y ago
I probably do, but it would be on DEC Rainbow 5.25" floppies; gave up trying to find PC software and drive that could read them long ago (they're pretty non-standard) and the real hardware has been skipped. Some DEC archive somewhere probab
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by jrabone 13y ago
That's not a board...

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