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by m0nty 12y ago
> John Lewis argued that because I had not opted-out of receiving their emails, I had automatically opted-in. I phoned a company which spammed me a few years ago. I had a long conversation with an annoying man in marketing who assured me
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by m0nty 12y ago
> The comments here are rather disappointing. Most of them remind me of Clifford Stoll's famous rant: http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva... "This new thing isn't like the old thin
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by m0nty 12y ago
"is as strange as its title suggests. It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between! Probably the former, but I'm hedging my bets." -- Richard Dawkins
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by m0nty 12y ago
Email sent, I hope.
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Actually, it was very rewarding, which surprised me immensely. I'm not too surprised she didn't thank me - as k-mcgrady says, she was busy with the police by that time. But equally, we shouldn't be that surprised that peopl
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by m0nty 12y ago
I could send you info by email if you like - my email is in my profile. Our stores have a server on-site, and various printers and till receipt printers, not all of them attached to tills. The proprietary app we use creates a PDF, which the
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by m0nty 12y ago
I use these things every day (I work retail). We use Star TSP700 [Mk I or Mk II] printers with CUPS. The PPD files are available for download from the Star Micronics website. Some of my time is spent hacking the PPDs to adjust paper sizes,
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by m0nty 12y ago
> If I helped someone the only thing I'd expect in return would be that if the person I helped is ever in a situation where they can provide help to someone else, they'll remember the time they were helped by a stranger and tak
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by m0nty 12y ago
A few weeks ago, I was pedalling to work in the rain when I saw something which briefly made me well up with rage: a car parked diagonally across the cycle lane, driver clearly on the phone - a new level of "f*ck you" from a motor
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by m0nty 12y ago
Thanks for that :) It's a great community but some of its flaws grew a bit tiring. I genuinely hope it can come through its current crisis and keep right on going.
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by m0nty 12y ago
That's the reason I stopped visiting. I once asked a tech-support type question and was told to "man up and grow a pair", and tell my users they would just have to live with the problem (no attempt to answer the actual questi
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by m0nty 12y ago
> like salt. It's a great flavor enhancer I wish there were a way to get my food unsalted. > Now that they have the platform they need, they're pushing social integration into all of their features, literally pushing people
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by m0nty 12y ago
I've just started using Chocolatey and it's been a mixed experience. Overall, a speedy way to install software (no clicking, just type) but sometimes the packages are broken, so don't install, or don't include (for examp
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DuckDuckGo: the plucky upstart taking on Google with secure searches(theguardian.com)
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by m0nty 13y ago
> But the three week (zero-work) period was a scary phase. That is freelancing, more-or-less. It's one reason you can get so much more than being an employee - you cover taxes, insurance (including professional indemnity), pension
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by m0nty 13y ago
After a period of malnutrition, you need to start taking small amounts of relatively low-calorie food and building up from there. It is a well-known phenomenon that eating too much calorie-packed food can be fatal. In his book The Forgotten
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by m0nty 13y ago
Could you explain the reference? Cultural gap obscures meaning.
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by m0nty 13y ago
Yes, but this is fair comment and nicely put: > question is now closed, I think 528 "answers" is probably enough, no? :) – Jeff Atwood It is annoying, though, how so many useful SO questions get closed for various reasons whe
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by m0nty 13y ago
The cynic in me says "of course they want us to trust their flawed encryption standards, otherwise there's no point back-dooring them in the first place." I suspect, however, that this has more to do with high-profile busines
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by m0nty 13y ago
But people don't change them unless forced to. Another place I worked, half the passwords were qwerty123 because the tech set them up in the expectation they would be changed. Another place, the passwords were usually "password&qu
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by m0nty 13y ago
On my current contract, we go to great trouble to install whole-disk, multiuser encryption on all laptops. And then we use a trivial default password, as in one of the first few you would try if you were guessing passwords. Tech-savvy peopl
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by m0nty 13y ago
But given that my keepass file is encrypted and has a secure password - as I said, no issues.
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by m0nty 13y ago
I use keepass on PC and Android, and sychronise using bittorrent sync. No issues.
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by m0nty 13y ago
> I've often wondered how the American people who seem so intelligent on the one hand fall for this each and every time. I think the same thing is true for Britain as well. We have a largely docile population in the face of grotesqu
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by m0nty 13y ago
It's free verse, from the living, beating heart of the Internet. All those support tickets have developed a special kind of pathos: How long before any meaningful development. Until mandatory functional requirements to develo
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by m0nty 13y ago
Yes, I probably want a more democratic economy. A more democratic everything , in fact.
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by m0nty 13y ago
> THOSE FAT LAZY SLOBS WHO WON'T DO ANYTHING To the people who hold that view (not you, clearly) I would say, I have never met anyone who doesn't do anything; the hopelessly unemployable people I've met have usually been a
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by m0nty 13y ago
I don't want to be "that guy", but this exact article was posted here earlier this week, from the same author but a different website: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130609225334-1
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by m0nty 13y ago
No, I'm not. Those pictures are sexually explicit and should be censored. The text I quoted is not suitable for children and should be removed.
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by m0nty 13y ago
> all pornography should be behind a paywall You mean this? http://uploads0.wikipaintings.org/images/henri-de-toulouse-l... Or this? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Gustav_Kl... This is particularly naughty, ought

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