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by m0nty 10y ago
> This series of articles is fictitious and designed purely to explore possible futures, challenge and stimulate strategic thinking. Careful with the comments folks ;)
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by m0nty 10y ago
So Uber are on course to make a huge (multi-billion dollar) loss this year, and on top of that they choose a course of action which could lead to jail-time, might kill someone, and result in massive civil liability. They also make autonomou
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by m0nty 10y ago
> Etsy maybe Charge you to list stuff, whether or not it sells. Would not use again.
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by m0nty 10y ago
> cuteness triggers we have for (human) babies - big eyes (relative to head), big head (relative to body) Known as "the baby schema". Is adaptive in the evolutionary sense - cute baby will be more attractive to adults, hence be
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by m0nty 10y ago
It was my slightly flippant example. I'm sure everyone knows that.
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by m0nty 10y ago
Presumably the non-https assets which get pulled in when the main request is fulfilled could also act as a "fingerprint" of the page you are visiting?
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by m0nty 10y ago
> If you're not going to see what people did on a site, what's the point? Because you are not a unique and special snowflake. If you regularly go to /r/The_Donald, it says something specific about your politics (proba
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by m0nty 10y ago
> implement that load of bollocks They are retrospectively making legal things which have been going on for years. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/gchq-mass-su...
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by m0nty 10y ago
Colorize according to votes. Purple = off-topic. Red = troll. Orange = weird and scary. You could blend colors too. Reddish-purple = off-topic troll. Dark orange = weird and scary troll. etc.
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by m0nty 10y ago
A lot in here about Defender/Microsoft Security Essentials. > [MSE] doesn’t have: parental control, built-in VPN, webcam protection, password manager, backups, exploit protection, protection for online banking and online shopping,
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by m0nty 10y ago
> without having to play the development workflow game with the daily standups and so on? It never used to be like this. I think management has reacted to the traits they perceive in programmers - get distracted too easily, work on thi
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by m0nty 10y ago
You need to read more closely. At no point did I say the BBC is devoid of high-quality content.
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by m0nty 10y ago
> The series is worthy of being on the BBC I think much youtube content is better than the output of the BBC, which shows an unfortunate tendency to "jazz up" its shows to make them more "accessible" and "fun&q
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The joy of steps: why humans are built to get a high from being on the move(theguardian.com)
3 points by m0nty 10y ago|0 comments
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by m0nty 10y ago
Have you used the current Duolingo app? It really is good. I'm also using it for French, I've been stuck on "basic French" for too long now so I'm making a concerted effort to raise my game. They also just release s
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Can a chatbot teach you a foreign language? Duolingo thinks so(theguardian.com)
24 points by m0nty 10y ago|10 comments
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by m0nty 10y ago
> Per the article Not quite, it says "If the attacker has a bigger fire hose of data than the defender has, the attacker wins" and "the size and scale of these probes—and especially their persistence—points to state actors
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by m0nty 10y ago
> Blaming China or Russia is lazy writing It's what the author is being told by the people he has spoken too. Maybe a lazy assumption on their part, but it's not lazy writing. And your point is directly addressed in TFA: &quo
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by m0nty 10y ago
> is also a very bad user experience I think I'll be the judge of that, given that I'm the "user" in this "experience" ;) It works just fine for me.
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by m0nty 10y ago
Also, look at blocking DNS as an alternative to in-browser blocking: http://www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman
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by m0nty 10y ago
I once had to (try to) explain to a colleague why he couldn't have a Windows username corresponding to his preferred initials - "PRN" (he settled for "PN"). I imagine someone with the initials "CON" would
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by m0nty 10y ago
> a clean way to do it would to be a call for elections Absolutely, but the weakness of the opposition Labour party and the near-annihilation of the Liberal Democrats at the last election mean (as things stand) it's mostly a forego
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by m0nty 10y ago
Nothing's actually happened yet. It's a "phony war" until Article 50 is invoked.
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by m0nty 10y ago
It isn't legally binding, and although the Prime Minister said she doesn't intend to consult parliament about it, parliament will still need to repeal the European Communities Act which took us into the EU in the first place. So
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by m0nty 10y ago
> I have some issues with this sort of doxxing. Or "investigative journalism", as it used to be known. This is what the press is for. If they're wrong, I don't doubt it will end in litigation.
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by m0nty 10y ago
They just won't learn, will they? If they've been compromised but still don't want to do the right thing ...
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by m0nty 10y ago
Another "rule of security" is that taking one step forward is better than nothing at all. So theoretically, a proprietary password manager could have a backdoor which could be used by the vendor or security services. But that&#x27
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by m0nty 10y ago
I once issued an order to our service desk that qwerty123 was no longer to be given to users as a "temporary" password. They (the users) always said they would change it, but they never did. At another workplace, I took Bruce Schn
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by m0nty 10y ago
We just use "c0mp4nyn4m3" everywhere, unless we just use "companyname". Or the same passwords on multiple servers, or a few well-known passwords which are used again and again. I've tried and failed to change this c
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by m0nty 10y ago
> Resilio Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) Good job they changed their name. Couldn't get the product adopted in a corporate environment because of all the cries of "Witch! Witch!" when the suits saw the word Bittorrent in

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