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   Csiro scientists: Humans have a “natural” lifespan of around 38 years(theconversation.com)

   6 points by lysp 7y ago|3 comments
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   by lysp 7y ago

   There is a similar problem with FOI requests in Australia. It's not there to get information, it's there to give the appearance that they give information. The most used excuse here is it will take "too many resources".
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   S11 Uses 1/1.33" 108MP Samsung Custom Sensor Superior to Isocell Bright HMX(twitter.com)

   1 points by lysp 7y ago|0 comments
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   HP Warns That Some SSD Drives Will Fail at 32,768 Hours of Use(bleepingcomputer.com)

   4 points by lysp 7y ago|0 comments
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   by lysp 7y ago

   That happens with taxis too in Australia. Unauthorised drivers who don't match their picture ID driving.
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   Breakthrough boosts performance of sodium-sulfur batteries(uow.edu.au)

   2 points by lysp 7y ago|0 comments
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   by lysp 7y ago

   Not proper as it only allows a single key.
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   Police used Google location data to find bank robber. He says that's illegal(nbcnews.com)

   2 points by lysp 7y ago|0 comments
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   by lysp 7y ago

   > So he still gets almost another full year in a UK jail. My thought was the judge gave him a year to give him a chance to fight the extradition. Without that - he possibly would have been snapped up pretty quickly.
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    Nine-year-old child genius to graduate Belgium university(cnn.com)

    2 points by lysp 7y ago|0 comments
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    by lysp 7y ago

    Aussie here, I get the odd one on mobile, but get a couple a week on my land line numbers. Land line numbers are also registered with Do Not Call, but doesn't make any difference. Answer the call and there will be either: 1) a few seco
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    Google Australia sued by consumer watchdog over collection/use of location data(itnews.com.au)

    1 points by lysp 7y ago|0 comments
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    Water rats cut toads open with 'surgical precision' to feast on their hearts(theguardian.com)

    2 points by lysp 7y ago|0 comments
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    by lysp 7y ago

    If I was getting 50% of 50% of 50% of 50% of 50% of the going rate to conduct a job - I wouldn't do it either.
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    by lysp 7y ago

    And not just the gag order, there is limited reporting so you don't even know if the laws are or are not being used.
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    by lysp 7y ago

    DisplayFusion is one I've used for years for splitting screens into virtual displays. Plus altering what elements show on the taskbar for those screens. (Commercial product).
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    by lysp 7y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904
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    Google slams Aussie threat to 'directly intervene' on Android app defaults(itnews.com.au)

    2 points by lysp 7y ago|0 comments
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    by lysp 7y ago

    In Australia one of the major Telcos got taken to court by the competition watchdog. They were advertising plans as "unlimited" with shaping. The court found that the advertising was misleading and were unable to continue advertis
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    Oracle Cloud Gets an Always Free Tier(servethehome.com)

    3 points by lysp 7y ago|1 comments
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    by lysp 7y ago

    It's ok, they've already moved all their billions away. Their fortune is safe.
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    by lysp 7y ago

    Also in AU it's not often used to avoid copycats. Generally news reports state "there were no suspicious circumstances" followed by a footer with phone numbers to crisis / help lines.
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    by lysp 7y ago

    I assume DoH will not be logged at all. Or just many connections logged to "one.one.one.one". Difference being if I connected to ISP ABC's DoH server - communication between will be encrypted, but the actual requests will be
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    by lysp 7y ago

    Also certain countries (eg. Australia), have a metadata retention law. That means that the ISP dns will 100% be logging all requests made. The risk of Cloudflare doing it is far outweighed by ISPs legally being required to do it, at least i
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    by lysp 7y ago

    I use Display Fusion - and it's virtual window manager. I have Monitor 1 full width, but monitor 2 split as 2 virtual monitors 60% | 40%.
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    by lysp 7y ago

    A tool I couldn't live without is ZTreeWin: * https://www.ztree.com/html/ztreewin.htm If anyone ever used xtree gold back in the day - it's the exact same thing, but works with modern windows. Because it&#x27
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    by lysp 7y ago

    I didn't realise there was a competitor. I wasn't promoting one over the other - just unaware alternatives existed. Also didn't know it had ads, because all ads are blocked in my browser.
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    by lysp 7y ago

    What I notice in Australia is when police want to pull someone over will often follow behind a car with their lights turned off until there is a safe area to pull over - then will turn on their lights. This might be a few minutes down the r
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    by lysp 7y ago

    I'm in Australia so got it from a local supplier during a 20% off eBay deal. I initially never got one due to the expense and thought they were overpriced and overhyped. I still think they are overpriced. I would get one now knowing ho
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    by lysp 7y ago

    I purely use it at home. When I'm staying elsewhere I'll just deal with a slightly less efficient sleep.