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by m0nty 18y ago
"With your permission of course." Not my comparison, so go ahead. The PDF I linked to was interesting because I'd always wondered if carbon trading (in all its forms) helped much, and the answer seems to be "no".
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by m0nty 18y ago
I used to have a domain which had its URL included in a completely unrelated spam. A blacklisting organisation (voluntary, I think) contacted my ISP to tell them I was going on their list unless I could explain what had happened. I spent a
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by m0nty 18y ago
WRT your third paragraph, you seem to be lumping a whole load of very diverse opinions together then criticising them as a whole, when in fact many environmentalists don't want the measures which governments are advocating. Governments and
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by m0nty 18y ago
I think there's some info in here: http://www.carbontradewatch.org/pubs/carbon_neutral_myth.pdf It's been a while since I read it through but their basic point is that carbon credits are to the environment what indulgences were to the med
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by m0nty 18y ago
I wish people wouldn't say 23,000% when it would be more comprehensible to say 230 x. It's a bit like those submissions to other news sites where they would say 23,000.00% to make the number look even bigger. /hobby horse
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Given the ability to block them means they would receive less downvotes and make articles that a lot of people dont want to read" Errr ... downvote comments I understand, but downvote articles? It's unpossible! Personally, I'd like to be a
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by m0nty 18y ago
In that specific case, I was. It was very strange... I mean, there were about three or four business plans, each of which centred on the Internet. When I finally left for a contract at double the money, the boss held another secret meeting
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by m0nty 18y ago
My own experience of working in a startup (Bubble 1.0) was that (as techies) the web designer and I were completely ignored and counted out of the decision-making processes, even for deeply technical matters. I think this stemmed from the i
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by m0nty 18y ago
I didn't say it was good humour ;)
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Do the Mac and Windows guys say that at present?" You seem to be suffering from a sense-of-humour failure. No, the Mac and Windows guys don't say it. But in my ironic alternative universe, the Mac guy would say something like: "Hi, I'm the
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by m0nty 18y ago
"you need to be picky about which hardware you run me on - or I might not work" ... "Perhaps you should be pickier about your hardware" ;-)
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by m0nty 18y ago
"It's actually pretty cool to get criticism IMHO, It shows people care." As Oscar Wilde said it: "There's only one thing worse than being talked about, and that's not being talked about."
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by m0nty 18y ago
It's not meant to be a nasty comment (I've been using Linux since 1994) but I've never liked using Linux as a desktop system. Personally I think there's more entertainment to be had from spoofing all these "Hi, I'm [brand name]" videos than
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by m0nty 18y ago
"Hi, I'm Linux. Lots of stuff will almost work, but not quite, and that's all part of the fun. I can sometimes do WPA but frankly it's going to be easier on both of us if you use WEP. I like to pretend I'm easy-to-use, but you need to be pi
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by m0nty 18y ago
Indeed it is better than incrementals, being close to the behaviour of rsync which can also symlink to previous backups. Surprisingly, tarsnap is much easier to use than rsync: my perl script to work out what rsync should be doing is abou
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by m0nty 18y ago
Just my tuppence worth here: I started using tarsnap a couple of weeks ago and it's been superb. I needed a way to create encrypted, offsite, incremental backups and I'm not aware of a service similar to Colin's -- usually you get to choose
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by m0nty 18y ago
"I do find it hard to believe this sort of thing isn't done already." I showed a similar article to my wife (has worked in healthcare for 20+ years) and she said "Oh yes, we do that all the time. Everything has a check-list." So if it makes
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by m0nty 18y ago
To get back a hosed screen, also try: stty sane ^j (That's Ctrl-j there.) You might be flying blind, but just do it and you might get your screen back. You probably know this, but to rescue a hosed system with Knoppix or similar live-cd: -
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by m0nty 18y ago
> I just don't understand why there is almost no pessimism in main-stream media. Read any articles about the economy recently? Plenty of pessimism. Now, if you're talking about cynicism - I love cynicism, at least when it's done well. M
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by m0nty 18y ago
> We’re a community of top Gen Y thought leaders Wow! Me too! That's just so spooky. I also drive a bat mobile.
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by m0nty 18y ago
"since the buckling spring" I am the proud owner of an IBM Model M keyboard. Way superior to modern alternatives.
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by m0nty 18y ago
So this is the letsfreckle.com site? Looks really good, must be fun :) If I was still freelancing it looks like something I'd actually use, unlike 90% of webapps out there.
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by m0nty 18y ago
Everything exept the price-point is good. Netbooks = the Big Mac 'n' Fries of the PC world; this is like going into a restaurant and ordering a super-classy burger, which kind of misses the point of a burger.
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by m0nty 18y ago
One example of what I'm thinking of is the tarsnap website. Nothing fancy, and Colin mentioned in a blog post he'd rather get the code for his product right first (and from what I've seen it's good stuff) then work on the website. So sure,
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by m0nty 18y ago
I've always been a "kitchen sink" programmer because that's the way I was taught to do it, and it's part of the fun of the job: anticipating everything which might go wrong and pre-empting it. Unfortunately, I noticed that I am a mere morta
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by m0nty 18y ago
I notice you edited your initial response to remove that rather imperious "hm?" from the end of it. "I think you are reading too much into my comment, hm?"
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by m0nty 18y ago
More of a Bladerunner kind of guy ;)
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by m0nty 18y ago
Also, wearable computers with VR goggles in 1984? I find that hard to believe, unless it was so primitive as to be almost useless. I suppose you could have used a TRS-80 with a B&W LCD display, but the resolution would have been really
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by m0nty 18y ago
I use a laptop all the time, so I was wondering if they had any other ways to physically bug a keyboard?
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by m0nty 18y ago
Unfortunately, people have forgotten what the thin end of a wedge looks like. Example: the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 provided that security personnel at the level of "Chief Inspector of Police" or above could provide autho

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