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by m0nty 13y ago
> If you are ever arrested, don't say a word especially if you are innocent. In the UK (which is where the OA is set) we don't really have that option. The police will warn you when arrested: "You do not have to say anything. But it may
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by m0nty 13y ago
I'm just pleased I'm not the only one here who remembers when this stuff came out. I also had no idea it wasn't computer animated, but (given the feebleness of the hardware available at the time) it comes as no great surprise.
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by m0nty 13y ago
It depends on the number of users, but I found it was very affordable for my network. I think it's less than $200 for the year. Beats using GPOs via Active Directory, visiting each machine in turn, or relying on users to do it (which is lar
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by m0nty 13y ago
As a sys admin in a school, Ninite is awesome. I really don't want installers and updaters popping up in front of small children and (often, technically illiterate) staff, and Ninite facilitates this. At the same time, it makes it easy for
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by m0nty 14y ago
> It's not a rich city, like New York or San Francisco, with cash to dump into sprawling bike lanes ... It's great that New York can install ... high-end bike-sharing programs. But ... Bike lanes can bestow great economic benefits, from
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by m0nty 14y ago
Browser fingerprinting? https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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by m0nty 14y ago
> they hack you brain and make you to buy things you problably don't need This a thousand times. I dumped my TV in 2006 and since I use AdBlock I don't see many ads - maybe when I go to the shops or at a friend's house. Thing is, I just
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by m0nty 14y ago
Police officers could wear them to ensure good behaviour from the police and public alike. You could modify them to include a range-finder so surveyors could look at a building or room and measure it, just by being there. You could use them
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by m0nty 14y ago
> They are a 100% guarantee that you won't even get laid That's a killer point. Thanks for the pespective ;)
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by m0nty 14y ago
I work in a school. These devices will inevitably be banned in such places. It's already a bit risky to take photos of children - it has been suggested (albeit by an especially neurotic, paedophile-obsessed parent) that one of my colleagues
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by m0nty 14y ago
Looks like the forecast for new year's held out. I'll be able to get back on my bike for the first time in three weeks (flu + weather).
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by m0nty 14y ago
I've been riding seriously for 18+ months, in rural and urban environments in the South of England. I get nervous when I think about the accidents I read or hear about in the news, but I have never had any problems with deliberate harassmen
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by m0nty 14y ago
They don't mention that in many crowded cities (many of those in China I would imagine) a bicycle is faster than a car.
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by m0nty 14y ago
"OK, but to be honest we just don't have that money available at the moment. Is there anything else we could do? We don't want to lose you, but we have to be realistic."
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by m0nty 14y ago
Yes, they are insecure. One of my pet hates is when they go on about how I'm a "genius" or a "miracle worker" when mostly I do basic stuff they could do themselves. It's both an excuse for them not to do it, and a way to flatter me into doi
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by m0nty 14y ago
I have always found that helping people does not make you more popular: they just start treating you like their bitch, and get angry when they ask yet another favour and you eventually say "no". Also, they will not reciprocate - why should
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by m0nty 14y ago
It's about the psychology. One thing I've learned from consulting gigs etc is that clients are irrational and you have to learn to deal with it. If you can do the same amount of work but get more kudos for it, why waste energy on the low-re
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Scientists guilty of manslaughter for failing to predict severity of earthquake(telegraph.co.uk)
6 points by m0nty 14y ago|1 comments
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by m0nty 14y ago
I'd heard about Vancouver. It seems like a kludgy solution when (for example) the "Boris Bike" hire scheme in London (UK) has 15M journeys with no fatalities or serious injuries. So you could just not have helmets for bike-hire riders and d
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by m0nty 14y ago
I have a bike helmet but only wear it for some rides - i.e. the long-distance or fast ones. When I ride into town for shopping, I don't wear it. I hope it will always remain my personal choice. Anyway, the arguments are: a) Mandatory bike
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Teenager floats £30 camera into space to capture curvature of Earth(telegraph.co.uk)
7 points by m0nty 14y ago|0 comments
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Armando Iannucci turns satirical eye on Silicon Valley(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by m0nty 14y ago|0 comments
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by m0nty 14y ago
> He could feel sudden hostility from everybody in the room at the time. Sounds like he made a good call here. With a professional interviewer, the worst you might get is "perhaps you could help us by explaining why you feel that way?"
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by m0nty 14y ago
A more in-depth obituary: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/15/harry-harrison
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by m0nty 14y ago
Ooooh! Delayed interstitial. Out of there.
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by m0nty 14y ago
> It must be clear to the user which app each ad is associated with or implemented in. I was infuriated to be presented with a popup ad offering me (gasp!) the chance to win a free iPad recently. This was using vanilla Opera so I was pu
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by m0nty 14y ago
I suppose it's more effective still, given small-scale production, to upgrade components on existing fire-arms rather than try to manufacture one from scratch.
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by m0nty 14y ago
> I don't see how a DIY drone is any different from using an off the shelf RC plane and a wireless camera. It isn't, except in as much as you can program it to follow a flight-path and then clear off. Given that you don't need to be in
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by m0nty 14y ago
Just wait until you can download a handgun. Just wait until someone attaches explosives to a DIY drone and sends it into a shopping mall. Just wait until someone hacks the firmware on your self-driving car. It's going to get ugly.
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Acta down, but not out, as Europe votes against controversial treaty(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by m0nty 14y ago|0 comments

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